The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...
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The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
BREAKING - @Carbonbrief has worked with dozens of climate scientists and uncovered 100 false or misleading statements in the infamous DoE report, which, eg, claims that “CO2-induced warming might be less damaging economically than commonly believed”
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Alternative to “The clean energy revolution is unstoppable.” The clean energy revolution is unstoppable, but right now it’s being slowed down significantly by a handful of corrupt assholes....
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Why climate research is important and how we lost a grant with the recent cuts.
It happened. Trump and Elon cut our Dept of Defense grant on climate, adaptation, migration, and conflict.
Imagine if the CEO of Purdue Pharma went on TV and said there were “pluses” to opioid addiction
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
