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  IMHO, attribution science, which connects specific extreme weather events to climate change, is the most important area of climate science. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opinion/oil-companies-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlE.qxRX.hiyBCfMWY7xj&smid=url-share

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  The Trump regime’s border wall construction damaged the Las Playas Intaglio, a 6,500-7,300-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona. https://www.gadgetreview.com/trumps-border-wall-construction-destroys-6500-year-old-arizona-geoglyph-older-than-stonehenge

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  The world is a slightly better place today. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/obituaries/dennis-hastert-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVE.Iav-.-5rFDpMttc6M&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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  CRANE, a UK cybersecurity research network, used AI to desk-reject 50% of proposals before human review, including one on the risks of trusting AI models in voice analysis from Lancaster University forensic linguist Claire Hardaker. This seems like AI doing the right thing in protecting itself. 🙃 This is a joke. It’s horrifying. https://www.science.org/content/article/u-k-funder-uses-ai-triage-reject-grant-proposals-leaving-researchers-dismayed?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.science.org%2Fconten...

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  Small victory https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/climate/after-outcry-monitors-the-trump-administration-tried-to-scrap-return-to-sea.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFE.AZo3.3C9Gr42lWrnc&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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  Thanks to our fossil fuel overlords, the weather we’re used to no longer exists. https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/03/showers-and-storms-across-spain-this-weekend-floods-kill-102-year-old-woman

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  This is how AI will kill us all https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-grok-venezuela

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  I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/politics/national-science-foundation-research-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.adOl.I5OvE-oZxF24&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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  When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.

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  I appreciate The New York Times for bringing Kelvin Waves into the vernacular. It's a concept that even those in Earth and environmental sciences (besides physical oceanographers) struggle to grasp, but everyone should be exposed to real scientific explanations. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/climate/el-nino-storm-flooding-kelvin-waves.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlE.3czz.vTzTJ4i2x4io&smid=url-share

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  A Democratic-led coalition of cities and states, including Hawaiʻi, is suing the Trump regime for repealing rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/us-states-cities-trump-epa-climate-emissions?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env

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  Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/30/worlds-seas-warmed-23-zettajoules-2025

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  I saw the smoke from Ecole Normale Supérieure today, and thought that if what’s happening in the US was happening in France, everything would be ablaze. https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/french-teens-clash-police-school-095106298.html

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  Free access to museums is one of the most spectacular things about the UK. This is a great decision. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/29/uk-decides-against-charging-foreigners-for-museums_6758074_4.html

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  Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐 https://wapo.st/4d6dwxB

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  Indeed

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  Here’s another way climate change will kill us: the expansion of mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry. In Paris, the invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), an aggressive, day-biting nuisance, is now everywhere. So excited to get Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in Paris. https://to.pbs.org/4ihm3ks

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  One of my favorite cycle paths in Paris.

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  I just went downstairs, walked three minutes to a boulangerie, and got a warm baguette. Tell me again why 15-minute cities are bad.

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  In the cost-benefit analysis of mitigation and adaptation, do you think French bureaucrats are saying to themselves, "Well, that's a few thousand pensioners that we no longer have to pay"? It's as good an explanation as any for the lack of action. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/09/16/french-health-authority-reports-almost-8-000-excess-deaths-over-heatwave-struck-summer_6757604_7.html?srsltid=AU7gw4Uevi6-ViaL2A-eoT-Gxl86GGQYNv4ruFLV3JwfO-LrqnskyaGd

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  The way AI will kill people is by making climate change worse. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000140/jensen-huang-nvidia-ai-energy-climate-change-supervillain

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  The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/fossil-fuels-trump-donations?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env

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  Abolish ICE https://electrek.co/2026/09/22/volkswagens-new-evs-so-popular-cutting-ice-shifts/

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  America Intelligence was right there https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998816/donald-trump-ai-super-intelligence

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  Everyone is counting on pardons. It’d be funny if he died before that happened.

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  Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.

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  Gross https://www.science.org/content/article/dolphin-chased-fish-until-it-puked-then-ate-vomit

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  TIL that a male crossing guard is called a lollipop man. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/horrified-children-look-lollipop-man-34633048

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  It’s weird how these companies try to one-up one another by confessing to crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technology/google-gemini-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVE.aFbZ.c3yFuoPEl6Ci&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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  PFAS in the blood of 97% of Americans https://fortune.com/2026/09/18/data-centers-ai-compute-pfas-forever-chemicals-water/