granular, practical, well organized info here:
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granular, practical, well organized info here:
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Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024
UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M.
HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Screenshot of Boston Globe headline reading: Senator Markey, public health officials condemn new HHS child vaccine recommendations
The Make America Sick Agenda will cost lives. RFK Jr. must resign now.
"If this is 'the greatest economy in the history of our country,' as Donald Trump recently insisted, why has job growth slowed to a 16-year low?"
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
@jamesgdyke.info ✅
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @kevinclimate.bsky.social relevant to you, I think...
@whitehouse.senate.gov please have a look
Again, the essay is here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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I didn't unequivocally love the book, for reasons I get into in the review, but I think if there's one book that every earth-system scientist and everyone in the climate movement should read (along with folks like @chrislhayes.bsky.social), it's this one.
5/n
*Overshoot* give a full accounting of those assets, which I've tried to summarize in my essay, and — along with *The Long Heat*, coming in October — shows how CDR, solar geo-engineering, and "adaptation" contribute to their protection.
It was a tough read for me, emotionally. But necessary.
4/n
The horrors we're seeing from the fossil fascists — but also the quasi-religious technophilia we see in the Abundance faction and in the majority of IPCC mitigation scenarios (!) — are about protecting those assets from stranding. Full stop.
3/n
Rather, the political conflict of climate change is centered on *assets*, namely the trillions in assets that would be utterly devalued if we really did phase out fossil fuels.
2/n
This book has transformed the way I think about climate change. The problem, and its solutions, is centered not on prices, nor even on profits (although, as @brettchristophers.bsky.social has shown, profits are important). Rather...
1/n
After Paris, the IPCC justified the expansion of the fossil-fuel system by implicitly promising that we could "overshoot” 1.5C yet ultimately meet the target anyway.
What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot*
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Summary for Policymakers B.5.3 If the annual CO, emissions between 2020-2030 stayed, on average, at the same level as 2019, the resulting cumulative emissions would almost exhaust the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C (50%), and deplete more than a third of the remaining carbon budget for 2°C (67%). Estimates of future CO, emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructures without additional abatement already exceed the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5°C (50%) (high confidence). Projected cumulative future COz emissions over the lifetime of existing and planned fossil fuel infrastructure, if historical operating patterns are maintained and without additional abatement 3 , are approximately equal to the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 2°C with a likelihood of 83%4 (high confidence). {2.3.1, 3.3.1, Figure 3.5}
*My* preferred timeline? Whose timeline is this? The IPCC's timeline: "Projected cumulative future CO2 emissions over the lifetime of existing and planned fossil fuel infrastructure...are approximately equal to the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 2°C with a likelihood of 83%"
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Yes, Princeton confers some authority, but, again, the implications of this statement are just ... inaccurate.
Would you please weigh in @jessedjenkins.com?
4/4
Again, I totally understand why politicians make this argument. But it is kind of terrifying that a climate person still makes it in the year of our lord 2025 — especially a climate person advising Ezra Klein and Democratic politicians.
3/n
Carbon Budgets and Net Zero Emissions Limiting human-caused global warming requires net zero CO2 emissions. Cumulative carbon emissions until the time of reaching net-zero CO2 emissions and the level of greenhouse gas emission reductions this decade largely determine whether warming can be limited to 1.5°C or 2°C (high confidence). Projected CO2 emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure without additional abatement would exceed the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C (50%) (high confidence). 12.3, 3.1, 3.3, Table 3.1}
Summary for Policymakers B.5.3 If the annual CO, emissions between 2020-2030 stayed, on average, at the same level as 2019, the resulting cumulative emissions would almost exhaust the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C (50%), and deplete more than a third of the remaining carbon budget for 2°C (67%). Estimates of future CO, emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructures without additional abatement already exceed the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5°C (50%) (high confidence). Projected cumulative future COz emissions over the lifetime of existing and planned fossil fuel infrastructure, if historical operating patterns are maintained and without additional abatements , are approximately equal to the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 2°C with a likelihood of 83%4 (high confidence). {2.3.1, 3.3.1, Figure 3.5}
And to be clear, the meaning of "it's one thing to argue X, but they are going far beyond X" is that "X" is reasonable or acceptable.
But the @ipcc.bsky.social said in 2023 that we already have too much fossil fuel to halt heating at 2C. So how is an all-of-the-above strategy reasonable?
2/n
"It's one thing to argue that American energy dominance supersedes climate concerns, or that we need an all-of-the-above energy strategy that doesn't pick clean energy sources as favorites," said Jesse Jenkins, a Princeton University professor and climate modeler, in an email. "But the Trump Administration and Secretary Burgum are going far beyond that. They are actively blocking cost-competitive, ready-to-deploy American energy resources to suit their own political or ideological predilections."
Wait, why is it ok "to argue that American energy dominance supersedes climate concerns, or that we need an all-of-the-above energy strategy that doesn't pick clean energy sources as favorites"?
I mean, I understand why right-wing politicians argue these things, but why does a climate modeler?
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1997: the president was born in 1946
2007: the president was born in 1946
2017: the president was born in 1946
2027: we’ll see
Screenshot of MassLive headline reading: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ kills thousands of Mass. jobs (Viewpoint)
As the Trump admin slashes federal funding and wreaks havoc on local economies, creating and protecting high-wage, safe, career-building union jobs is more important than ever. This Labor Day, Massachusetts Building Trades Unions President Frank Callahan & I are demanding better for working people.
On Thursday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. ET, ProPublica reporter @hannahallam.bsky.social will lead a panel of extremism and political violence experts to discuss how the federal government’s retreat from counter-extremism efforts is reshaping the landscape of domestic security.
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Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations.
(Published June)
Wow imagine that
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
In America’s vaunted system of checks and balances, “We, the people, have always been the real check, the most important balance,” Frank Bruni writes. “But we must recognize what’s happening, sit with the alarm of it and rouse ourselves to push back.”
