Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️

Solutions abound when you switch from yelling #climatecrisis to focusing on cutting climate risk. Full #climlifebergen @UiB_IF talk at: revkin.substack.com/p/how-to-defea…

As record heat bakes the western U.S. this week, NOAA’s GOES West satellite tracked the atmospheric setup for this extreme heatwave. In this water vapor imagery from March 18, you can see how the satellite captures the deep moisture (shades of blue) surging northward as a large area of high pressure settles into the Southwest.  In the Northern Hemisphere, areas of high pressure rotate clockwise, with sinking air that compresses and warms as it descends to Earth’s surface. When an area of persistent high pressure occurs over a location, it can trap heat close to the ground for a prolonged period—causing a “heat dome” that drives record-breaking temperatures.  According to the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, “Numerous and widespread daily and March monthly record highs are likely [this week], with some locations in California already breaking their March monthly records on Tuesday. Many locations across the Desert Southwest are expected to see their earliest 100+ degree day on record.” On Tuesday, March 18, several cities set new records: Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport reached 101 degrees F at 2:59 pm MST, setting a new record high temperature for the month of March. Flagstaff, Ariz., with an elevation of more than 6,800 ft., hit a March record high of 76 degrees. Las Vegas sweltered under an all-time March record high temperature of 94 degrees, as downtown Los Angeles baked under a daily record high of 95 degrees.

What that record-breaking heat dome looks like from above. via @NOAA 1/2

CBS News is now a disgrace: a poll designed to boost GOP propaganda that the SAVE Act is about voter ID. It is not. It is about allowing the federal govt to purge millions of voters and making sure millions more are unable to prove their citizenship between now and November.

@atrupar @ewong You simply cannot make this up. Iran was such an imminent threat that Trump launched a billion-dollar-day war, so let’s let it sell its oil. And of course Putin.

Bessent: "We unsanctioned Russian oil ... in the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water"

Nexstar has already begun cutting newsrooms throughout the country. As these billion-dollar companies grow even larger, their increased negotiating leverage will drive up fees that translate into higher monthly bills for those families who can least afford them.

I’m speechless. If only I could tell you how heartbreaking it is to read such news while being in Ukraine, in a city that was struck several times today by russian drones.

Hegseth is correct: it's terrible when a government driven by a radical ideology invests in weapons instead of its people. The Trump Administration spent $12 Billion to bomb Iran, and The Pentagon asked for a supplemental *$200 Billion* for the Iran regime change war. Remember, 20 million Americans saw their health care premiums double because Trump didn’t want to spend $30 billion.

Do it! For all the reasons @AriFleischer articulates.

"The cost of replacing the first four days' worth of munitions would be $20bn-26bn. The problem, however, is more to do with scarcity than cost. America is thought to have used more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the opening days of the war, but the Pentagon had planned to buy just 57 new ones in the current fiscal year. There have been no deliveries of THAAD interceptors since 2023 and the Pentagon has not placed any new orders this year. A puny 39 interceptors are slated for delivery in 2027—six years after they were ordered." economist.com/briefing/2026/…

My point of agreement with @BjornLomborg here is on @GavinNewsom's too-frequent and over-distilled proclamations centering on the climate change component in fire dynamics and impacts and skirting far more substantial factors like fuel burden after a century of fire suppression and built vulnerability (the Palisades Fire being a sadly classic example of the latter revkin.substack.com/p/a-wildfire-r…)

@Revkin @WSJopinion @BjornLomborg @GavinNewsom @JerryBrownGov This has been discussed extensively. “Global burned area” is not very meaningful hides important details around agriculture, as well as savannah and grassland burning, which is different than closed canopy forests.

Global fires are dramatically declining in extent, emissions, pollution death risk and intensity. Gavin Newsom’s rhetoric may energize his supporters, but Americans deserve evidence-based policies, not cherry-picked alarm, writes @BjornLomborg on.wsj.com/3Pv9aqF

In the Internet age, it's ridiculous for publications like the @wsj (or @nytopinion etc) not to include links to supporting content - particularly cited in opinion pieces. Could it be that they don't want to lose "time on site"?

Maine news coverage of #TSAshutdown and spiking gas prices: Some TSA workers are sleeping at airports to avoid the gasoline cost of commuting as partial shutdown hits one month 1/2 video below

Glad to see @arthurbrooks focus a book on the “arrival fallacy” - a syndrome I wrote a song about without knowing the term. “When you’ve won, when the race is all run, where will you be when you’ve won? You spend all your days caught up in the game, but where will you be when you’ve won? open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p/m…

Let me tell you something: Fame won’t make you happy. Most people think fame will make them happy. But according to Arthur C. Brooks, fame often creates the opposite effect. Watch the full episode on my YouTube channel to understand the real science of happiness.

@tunguz @AlanEyre1 @anneapplebaum Yes to this. Thanks to @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @LeaderJohnThune @SpeakerJohnson

@AlanEyre1 @anneapplebaum The problem is not that he does or doesn’t do all of those things. The problem is that he can get away with all of it.

spot-on, from @anneapplebaum Money quote: "Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places." "He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

Makes the occasional blackout seem tolerable.

@margbrennan And meanwhile the national debt…. fortune.com/2026/03/18/how…

Four days ago on Face the Nation, WH eco adviser Kevin Hassett said the Pentagon had spent $12B in first 16 days of war that was estimated to last 4-6 weeks; he said at that time that the administration was "not necessarily going to need any kind of supplemental." He said Vought will look into it....

The president is angrier at NATO allies for not wanting to send their navies to do escort duty in the Persian Gulf than he is at Putin for helping the Iranians target their missiles. | @jimgeraghty nationalreview.com/corner/preside…

@RepMikeLevin @thomaschattwill Trump’s court broadsides are not just unhinged; they are dangerous, painting a 🎯 for MAGA’s extremists on federal judges he attacks. politico.com/news/2026/03/1…

This is unhinged. The President of the United States went on a late-night rant, making clear he believes the Supreme Court justices he appointed owe him their loyalty and should always rule in his favor. The President of the United States is openly attacking the independence of the judiciary, the very institution that stands between every American and unchecked executive power. Courts don’t work for the President. They work for the Constitution. And a president attacking the judiciary for doing its job is telling you he believes he is above the law.