Richard Heede

"The bill for extreme weather damages will continue to rise until the world slashes greenhouse gas emissions and phases out fossil fuels." Not all understand: it will rise disproportionately as resilience limits of infrastructure are increasingly exceeded. theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…

Right-wing climate lunacy: Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science nature.com/articles/d4158…

and there it is

We will not be bullied into silence. We shall overcome. We marched in Selma, and we demonstrated in North Dakota.

Thoughts from the US "In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; … the game’s afoot.”

Read Auden Schendler’ incisive new book: Why this longtime Aspen ski executive thinks corporate sustainability is a scam cpr.org/2025/01/12/aud…

How long will it take for Trumpites to sense voters' remorse. Days? Months?

With hours left for the President to act on my pardon, I find it amazing how our support keeps growing. Chicago Mayor Brandon James just wrote Mr. Biden to ask that he grant my request. 🙏⤵️

“Here we provide statistical significance and data-driven estimators for the time of tipping. We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions.” nature.com/articles/s4146…

Wow. If you are to watch one video this morning, watch this. Pete Buttigieg perfectly explains why Billionaires in Silicon Valley now support Trump and why J.D. Vance has flip flopped to liking Trump.

As if we didn't see where this was all headed...

Martin Wolf in FT: "A hundred years from now, people are likely to remember our era as the time when we knowingly bequeathed a destabilised climate. The market will not fix this global market failure." ft.com/content/b2b6fb…

👀 One of the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage projects is floundering. “The project’s estimated cost has risen from $1.4 to $2 billion.” Construction delayed. North Dakota’s Project Tundra: Major coal CCS project hits delays, cost spikes eenews.net/articles/major…

Yes, half of all historical fossil fuel CO2 since 1994. Now we have thirty years (max) to get to zero. Zero.

A man who decades ago understood the perils of where we find ourselves today. Farewell GMW.

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@cmuffett1 Oh dear Dan so sorry to hear of your passing. You have blazed an important path. We shall carry on.

Oh, this is such terrible news. Dan was such an incredible reporter, researcher, investigator, and journalist. He was an enormous asset to the field. And to the planet.

The monster under humanity’s bed