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❤️ California. Grew up in Cupertino. Became an earth scientist at Stanford University. Settled in the Central Valley. Adding my two cents on X, Don Nelson

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California Lowdown
California Lowdown@CAlowdown·
𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 Imagine a time later this year, after California elects a new governor, when NetZero ideology will be rejected by future political appointees of all of California’s agencies. Imagine $ billions and $ billions of taxpayer dollars 💰in subsidies for EV’s, solar, wind, and batteries which have had no impact on rising global atmospheric CO2 levels being redirected to climate adaptation. Imagine adapting to the changing climate by building new infrastructure to store water and protect people from floods. Imagine expanded forest management and wildfire prevention to prevent wildfires and protect people from toxic wildfire smoke. Imagine safeguarding California’s Giant Sequoias from wildfires. Imagine lower energy costs.
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JOSE GEFAELL@ChGefaell

Si el Acuerdo de Paris y las cumbres COP hubieran tenido algún efecto en la reducción del CO2 atmosférico o en la temperatura, por mínimo que fuera, podríamos considerar que tienen sentido insistir en esos acuerdos. Entrevista completa aquí: youtube.com/watch?v=cYeSu0… Pero después de 35 años de retórica apocalíptica sobre el cambio climático y más de 12 billones de dólares invertidos en combatirlo solo desde 2004 (Bloomberg, enero 2026), y de los billones de impuestos cargados a los contribuyentes (solo en España la carga impositiva y otros costes directos es de 30.000 millones de euros anuales), no se ha conseguido: - Ni un 0,1 °C de reducción del calentamiento. - Ni un 0,0001% (una parte por millón) de CO₂ atmosférico evitado. Según el informe McKinsey la inversión necesaria para alcanzar el net zero en 2050 será de 275 billones de dólares (aproximadamente 2,5 veces el PIB anual mundial). Es de locos seguir haciendo lo mismo y esperar resultados distintos. A no ser que el objetivo sea otro... Porque la curva ascendente del CO2 atmosférico ha mantenido la misma pendiente desde los años 60 y ninguna de las medidas adoptadas en París o en las distintas COPs, ni los billones de dólares invertidos en la lucha contra el cambio climático han tenído el más mínimo efecto. Ni siquiera durante el drástico parón de la humanidad en 2020 por el COVID, la concentración del CO2 en la atmósfera dejó de crecer con la misma pendiente. Exactamente 10 años después del Acuerdo de París de 2015, que buscaba limitar el calentamiento global a menos de 2.0°C (idealmente a 1.5°C), la COP30 de 2025 celebrada en Brasil ha marcado un punto de inflexión en esa ambición irracional e irrealizable. El objetivo principal de la COP30 era esbozar al menos el calendario para el abandono de los combustibles fósiles. Sin embargo, 80 países se negaron a firmar nada al respecto. Las propuestas para incluir un mínimo "mapa de ruta" para reducir gradualmente el uso de combustibles fósiles fueron rechazadas de plano por esos 80 países que representan el 78% de los habitantes del planeta, entre ellos China (y EEUU, que ni siquiera asistió a la cumbre). En su lugar, el acuerdo final se centró en medidas de “Adaptación al cambio climático” (construcción de infraestructuras paliativas frente a eventos extremos, especialmente en las áreas inundables que ahora están urbanizadas, etc.]. Parafraseando a Churchill, que los países de la UE, el Reino Unido y unos pocos más quieran salvar el planeta luchando contra el cambio climático no provocado por el hombre con molinos de viento, como una especie de Don Quijote pero al revés, instalando más molinos, es para mí un acertijo envuelto en un misterio dentro de un enigma…, basado en una correlación (la del CO2 y la temperatura) inexistente.

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Seneca Scott
Seneca Scott@SenecaSpeaks21·
First Reported by "AV News Crew" In March 2026, two significant crises converged for the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF): a detailed whistleblower and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former employee Ruth Sanchez, and a historic public allegation of sexual abuse by Dolores Huerta against the late labor icon César Chávez. The Ruth Sanchez Lawsuit Filed in September 2025 (Sanchez v. Dolores C. Huerta Foundation), the complaint alleges multiple labor violations, including wage theft, retaliation, and disability discrimination, following a dispute over a city grant. The lawsuit involves allegations of mismanagement and nepotism within the organization. A jury trial is scheduled for early 2028. Timing of Allegations Against César Chávez In March 2026, roughly two weeks after a key hearing in the Sanchez case, Huerta publicly accused Chávez of sexual assault in the 1960s. These claims followed a New York Times report exploring allegations against the labor leader. Critics have suggested the timing of the announcement served to redirect attention away from the ongoing legal challenges facing the DHF. Ruth Sanchez’s Lawsuit Against the Dolores Huerta Foundation & the Odd Timing of Huerta’s Allegations Against César Chávez The recent emergence of sexual abuse allegations against César Chávez by Dolores Huerta has coincided with an active whistleblower and wrongful termination lawsuit against her own organization, the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). Ruth Sanchez’s Lawsuit Against DHF Filed on September 29, 2025, the case Sanchez v. Dolores C. Huerta Foundation (25STCV28384) is currently pending in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Ruth Sanchez, a former Community Organizer and Resource Center Manager, alleges 11 causes of action against the foundation, including: Whistleblower Retaliation: Sanchez claims she was retaliated against after reporting the misuse of a $95,000 grant from the City of Los Angeles and the falsification of canvassing records. Labor Violations: She alleges she worked 60-hour weeks without meal or rest breaks and was pressured into unpaid labor. Nepotism: The complaint states that family members of DHF leadership were promoted into roles they were allegedly incompetent to perform, and that Sanchez was required to train them. Unreimbursed Expenses: Sanchez alleges she spent between $7,000 and $10,000 of her own money on foundation equipment and supplies without reimbursement. The case is moving toward a jury trial scheduled for January 24, 2028. The Timing of Huerta’s Allegations Against Chávez On March 18, 2026, Dolores Huerta publicly alleged that César Chávez sexually abused her in the 1960s, resulting in two secret pregnancies. This disclosure came shortly after a New York Times investigation detailed broader patterns of sexual misconduct by Chávez. Observers have noted a specific timeline regarding the litigation: September 2025: Ruth Sanchez files her lawsuit. March 4, 2026: The court holds a demurrer hearing for the Sanchez case. March 18, 2026: Exactly two weeks after the hearing, Huerta breaks her 60-year silence to accuse Chávez. Critics suggest the timing may serve to shift public attention away from the foundation’s internal labor practices, alleged grant misuse, and the looming civil trial. Huerta maintains she spoke out to support other survivors identified in recent reporting. Partial Credit Adina Flores This is very interesting in many ways...
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Steve Hilton
Steve Hilton@SteveHiltonx·
“I can’t figure out what’s going on with Eric Swalwell...He obviously has no interest in his current job, because he missed more votes than a member of Congress who died...no real interest in California either, because he lives in another state.” nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-…
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Ashley Zavala
Ashley Zavala@ZavalaA·
Tom Steyer has big plans for corporate taxes and new California spending if elected, but how will he protect taxpayer money against waste & fraud? TS: I'm the cheapest guy you've ever met AZ: Give me an example He says he has one pair of sneaks and a "cheap" car:
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I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
🚨BREAKING: California Post has learned that anti-police LA City Council member Eunisses Hernandez, who voted against LAPD funding, spent over $134K in taxpayer dollars on armed police officers for just one event she hosted. “It should come as no surprise that some politicians act like hypocrites, but Eunisses Hernandez takes the cake,” the LA Police Protective League board of directors said in a statement.
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California Lowdown@CAlowdown·
@CAL_FIRE Need more fuel reduction. CO2 is plant food. Wildfire smoke is toxic. Make wildfire prevention a top budget priority for California.
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CAL FIRE@CAL_FIRE·
This remotely controlled brush-shredding robot is helping the CAL FIRE SanDiego Unit fuels crews build and maintain fuel breaks, clear roadside vegetation, and prepare plots for prescribed burns. This is another example of CAL FIRE's fuel-reduction efforts to reduce the severity of future wildfires. #FuelReduction #Innovation #CALFIRE #SanDiego #GoodFire
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California Lowdown@CAlowdown·
Californians becoming dependent on a secure supply chain from South Korea for gasoline ⛽️ . Too bad Newsom’s ‘War on Oil’ continues to destroy oil production and oil refining capacity in California. 😕
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad

I’ve been accused of being too soft on @SecWar. Fine. Problem is his performance has been exceptional. But here’s where I’m livid: no serious DoW pressure on Newsom and the California Coastal Commission which are both getting massive support from China. Oil is more important to the military than oxygen. We can’t even fight from space without fuel for our rockets. Shutting refineries right after Biden closed Hawaii’s strategic military fuel reserves is a deathblow to Pacific readiness. RIGHT NOW we are exporting crude to South Korea to refine gasoline, diesel and jet fuel to ship back to California. If Hormuz teaches us anything it MUST be that oil tankers are sitting ducks for drone and missiles. There is zero chance California, home to our most important Naval Base, will be able to receive shipments from South Korea in the event of war with China. If war broke out right now California would grind to a halt without these imports but our military could still function. With these new closures, our military would need serious rationing too. The DoW needs to drop the hammer on this ASAP or our refueling planes and fleet oilers will be stuck at home during the next war. And we need a lot more than 8 🇺🇸 tankers in the US Merchant Marine tanker security program and those tankers must have CWIS or other defensive systems or else Hawaii is screwed. As Hormuz is teaching us, foreign seafarers aboard supertankers simply refuse to follow Navy directives. Seizing ships doesn’t work either because, as we saw in Venezuela, operationally it’s easy to do but we don’t have enough US Merchant Mariners to sail them home. And Congress refuses to pass the SHIPs Act so there is zero chance of training more. The full force and weight of the DoW MUST be applied to this issue. @SecWar’s current grade on fuel and oil security in the Pacific is sadly an F. P.S. if you are liberal don’t dare tell me this is necessary to stop climate change. The Pacific is the largest ocean and oil tankers sailing to and from South Korea are emitting metric sh!ttons of CO2.

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California Department of Water Resources
Happy World Water Day from DWR! 🌍💦 Water is essential for our communities, ecosystems, and economy. As California faces a changing climate, DWR remains committed to strengthening water resilience through innovative planning, maintaining and modernizing infrastructure, and partnerships across the state. Together, we’re working to secure a safe, reliable, and sustainable water future. #WorldWaterDay #WorldWaterDay2026 #Water #Sustainability #CAWater
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California Lowdown@CAlowdown·
@PeterDClack In a geology class at Stanford University, Professor Bob Compton taught us about the significance of deep, long/1000-year cycle ocean currents in relation to climate variability. Link to Bob’s textbook. archive.org/details/interp…
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Peter Clack
Peter Clack@PeterDClack·
The entire heat capacity of the atmosphere is equal to the top 3.5 meters of the oceans. The remaining 3,700m of the abyss is Earth’s true thermal vault. The truth is, the Earth is a water planet and oceans cover 71% of the surface to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Ocean currents carry warm water from the mid tropics to the northern hemisphere, then the currents return after a round trip of 1,000 years. Without these currents northern Europe would look like Greenland. Warm waters from the Roman warm period (240BC to 400AD) are still just returning to the mid latitudes. The atmosphere by comparison is a gaseous envelope that retains almost no thermal energy, hardly any CO2 and is largely controlled by ocean dynamics. The deep Pacific itself is so massive that it is only now receiving the cold waters from the Little Ice Age. We aren't starting from scratch, we are mid-cycle in a 4.6-billion-year-old machine. We’ve also reinvented the climate. Once, it was a word for the local weather of robins and sparrows. Now it's a global ideological abstraction. We’ve lost our admiration for the natural world. We count CO2 in ppm while ignoring the satellite-proven greening of the Sahara. It’s time to move past the light breezes and offshore winds and look into the deep. Ask yourself, is the 1.4°C warming since 1850 really an unprecedented crisis? The physics says the ocean runs the game.
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William Shatner
William Shatner@WilliamShatner·
At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝 I’ve learned two things: Never waste a good cigar. Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻
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Cernovich@Cernovich·
California has installed speed cameras all over Los Angeles. People are already getting tickets. Law abiding are tracked meticulously, while druggies rule the streets. We are entering a dystopian surveillance future.
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Ralph Schoellhammer
Ralph Schoellhammer@Raphfel·
The data is clear, Europe's industrial base is disappearing. No anecdote to the contrary can change this overall trend.
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California Lowdown@CAlowdown·
@emissionite True. California is home of the two richest oil sedimentary basins in the world: ▪️Los Angeles basin ▪️San Joaquin basin
California Lowdown@CAlowdown

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗶𝗹 Map of California. Conceptual, 10 million years ago. From USGS PP 1713, Chapter 14. The North American plate is stationary on the east side of the San Andreas fault. The Pacific Plate is sliding to the northwest on the west side of the San Andreas fault. The Monterey and Santa Cruz areas have not yet emerged from the sea floor. The San Joaquin Valley is submerged and connected to the Pacific Ocean. Diatoms and other plankton are flourishing as photosynthesis, powered by sunlight, combines carbon dioxide and water, storing energy as carbohydrates in the plankton. Dead plankton are continuously accumulating on the sea floor through pelagic deposition, heated and compressed within the Monterey Shale deep in the Earth. The buried carbohydrate is converted to kerogen through diagenesis, breaking down and losing oxygen and hydrogen as it is concentrated. After longer time and deeper burial, the kerogen converts to oil through catagenesis with further loss of oxygen and rearrangement of hydrogen and carbon into energy dense oil. Finally, the hydrocarbons migrate through buoyancy and accumulate in oil fields across California where traps exist that stop the upward migration. Based on the low cost and high density of the stored energy, oil-based products flourish across the globe as transportation fuels.

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California Lowdown@CAlowdown·
@MayorOfLA How about increasing fines and enforcing the laws to prevent illegal dumping in the first place? Why make taxpayers pay for a cleanup crew department to cleanup after other people who ignore the law? youtu.be/OsK-jN-aaQE?si…
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Mayor Karen Bass
Mayor Karen Bass@MayorOfLA·
Every fourth Saturday of the month, Shine LA brings Angelenos together from across the city to beautify our neighborhoods through collective action.
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