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…

@nytimes I abhor Trump's energy moves, but the @nytimes headline and story seem wrong. The Bloomberg @business headline is right. This is a return of nearly $1 billion that @TotalEnergies paid to the US for offshore rights, not "a transfer of taxpayer dollars"?

Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast. nyti.ms/4lNat07

The snowpack in the Western U.S. is all but gone. It is supposed to be at it's annual peak this week.

Aviation journalist @milesobrien on the fatal collision of a landing jet and crossing fire truck at LGA: "[A]viation safety has always been written in blood. And this morning, at LaGuardia, the system delivered another warning. The question is whether we finally listen."

the @milesobrien take milesobrien.substack.com/p/the-warning-…

The video (warning; it's horrifying to listen) youtube.com/watch?v=X8guQV…

Air and ground traffic control at many US airports was under profound stress even before Trump cuts (setting aside the TSA DHS budget crisis). The fatal crash of a landing commuter jet and fire truck at #lga LaGuardia Airport is a wrenching indicator. @milesobrien is on the case (see thread for link to this horrifying ATC radar/air traffic replay and his post that led me to it). Condolences to the families of the two pilots who died and best wishes for swift healing to injured passengers and crew (and the firefighters).

@ianbremmer Meanwhile…. From @IRMilitaryMedia

it takes two (three if you count israel) to taco, strait still likely to remain disrupted...

Governing focused on petty vendettas. A perfect description of where we’re at. Same thing with the effort to dismantle NCAR.. and so many other examples..

How might the Iran War Reshape World Order. My take: The war proves once again that the US remains the world’s preeminent military power, especially when it comes to inflicting massive damage on a distant adversary. At the same time, the war has demonstrated that America’s overall global military superiority does not guarantee success in attaining political objectives in complex regional conflicts against large nations with well-entrenched governments—authoritarian or not—backed by strong religious or ideological beliefs. The war totally lacks legitimacy under international norms and law. It cannot be legally justified as “preemptive war” since there was no credible threat of an imminent attack from Iran against the U.S. or its Gulf allies. Nor can it be accepted as a “preventive war,” since Iran already indicated verifiable curbs on its uranium enrichment program necessary to become a nuclear weapons state.   Even if Trump declares victory to end the war, it will be a pyrrhic victory for the U.S. (meaning a success that inflicts such devastating costs on the victor—often in lives, resources, or reputation—that it is tantamount to defeat). The war is more likely to produce regime change in Washington than in Tehran. Unlike the U.S.-led victory in Iraq in 1991, which produced a “unipolar moment,” this war in the short term ushers in what I have called in Foreign Policy’s January 2026 cover story as  “the world-minus-one moment,” or the near total isolation of the U.S. on the world stage. This is already demonstrated in the negative international response to Trump’s call for joint naval operations to clear the Strait of Hormuz. The war further shows that aligning with the U.S. is a fatal attraction for countries that had depended on the U.S. for military protection and economic benefit. Even the certified allies or partners of the U.S., like Canada and nations of Western Europe, have been bullied, tariffed and made to feel acutely insecure. The war benefits America’s adversaries—Russia and China—and profoundly alienates Global South nations that were in a neutral or hedging mode against U.S.–China or U.S.–Russia rivalry. In the longer term, unless, the U.S. reverses the course set by Trump, the war will speed up the end of the U.S.-dominated world order and help the emergence of a “multiplex world” in which U.S. dominance gives way to a complex framework in which not only other great powers but also middle powers and regional powers and Global South nations will play a more important role. Despite its vast military power, America will be distrusted and have to settle for a less prominent role in the global political, economic, and diplomatic scene than has been the case since World War II.  - Amitav Acharya, author of the recent book, The Once and Future World Order (2025)  american.edu/sis/news/20260…

@LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump Just stop using the word WE when you talk about who took Iwo Jima or who is flying into danger in the Gulf. x.com/revkin/status/…

I truly believe 2026 can be the year of ending a 2,000 year-long conflict. Peace is only possible because of the courage of our men and women in uniform and the leadership of President @realDonaldTrump.

This is not a simple story of the Trump admin spoiling a perfect system—the nuclear regulatory apparatus is ripe for reform (& several recent reform efforts have drawn bipartisan support). But even some of the nuclear’s biggest backers are worried about the Trump approach.

Our Untethered Rogue President is the Top Danger on the Planet - more true than ever (building on ⁦@EurasiaGroup⁩ ⁦@ianbremmer⁩ )

@NWSCaribou More slow steady snow in Lamoine Maine #mewx

@NWSCaribou As forecast, about a half inch an hour of snow falling in Hancock County Maine. (Lamoine) Rosie staking squirrels. #mewx

Snow will overspread central and southern areas around midday today and continue into this evening. Snow will taper off around midnight tonight. Snow possible across the north with snow changing to rain over the south late Thursday into Thursday night.

An Alarming Report on the Trump-Driven Surge to Autocracy, American Style revkin.substack.com/p/an-alarming-…

I thought the 2025 V-Dem Project report on the global shift toward autocracy was depressing but this year's is worse. (Worse than the 1930s.... ) Post and full video 1/2

@StoryfulNews Yes I shot it in Lamoine Maine late this morning local time. You have my permission (Andrew Revkin credit)

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@atrupar The abuse of the word WE in war talk by old men is so utterly infuriating.

Lindsey Graham on Kharg Island: "We did Iwo Jima. We can do this."