Todd Walters

James Hansen's original paper from Dec 2022 and the peer reviewed version. "Eventual global warming due to today’s GHG forcing alone – after slow feedbacks operate – is about 10°C." "decline of aerosol emissions since 2010 should increase the 1970–2010 global warming rate of 0.18°C per decade to a post-2010 rate of at least 0.27°C per decade." These sentences represent the absolute and complete finality of our situation. None of the other thousands of words in these papers matter. None of the caveats, the policy ideas, the "solutions" etc mean anything. Even when presented with the unambiguous truth, so many people get distracted by this or that and will not or cannot recognise it for what it is. Even James Hansen himself apparently can't grasp the appalling meaning of his own research, which speaks volumes as to how susceptible people are to optimism biases. For these people, there *must* be a way out. If it doesn't exist then it has to be fabricated. It's enough to just imagine it. At all costs, reality is rejected. This is today's denialism and it's everywhere. All humanity has left is an attempt to prepare to survive the onslaught as long as possible and reduce suffering. It's all that's left, yet it's everything. This affects me as much as anyone. It's profoundly depressing. But this is the situation we are in and nothing can change it. We're dealing with brutal physics. This really is it. Humanity's luck has finally run out.

Bill would have been proud to be a part of Jaylen’s inspiration. Standing on the shoulders of giants one can accomplish great things. Grateful my favorite person who plays basketball will remain with my favorite team, and continue to amplify his impact in our community.

The waves of lake sebago lulling me to sleep under a billion stars

Days after the #IPCCC report published by world’s leading climate scientists states there can be no new expansion of fossil fuels & humanity needs to wind down existing use ASAP, Biden green lights the Arctic drilling #WillowProject & now #GulfOfMexico drilling leases.

If I’m Brad & Wyk (cc @BCCoachStevens @Wyc_Grousbeck) I endow the #Celtics Shamrock Foundation @InfoShamrock with a Bill Russell Social Activism Fund; and I partner with @FCHWPO’s 7uice Foundation to multiply the impact of both their platforms shared missions (+no trade clause)

Cut off the bank financing of fossil fuel projects and you phase out the fossil fuel industry.

Los Angeles voted 12-0 to ban new drilling and to close all 5,000 existing oil and gas wells in the city. This is a historic victory by @STAND_LA and all citizens over the oil industry and environmental racism. IT CAN BE DONE! Who's next? #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

sunrise was a fireball that snuck above the horizon only to ascend into the clouds and disappear

heard today: “if you think your free, then you can’t escape” and my mind can’t stop thinking about the psychological manipulation required to think you are a “freedom fighter” when you are actually the tool of the oppressor preventing freedom for others. Authoritarian playbook101

one day apart

While you were robbed blind at the pump this year (and GOP blamed Biden), Exxon made $55,700,000,000 in profits. Over $1 billion per week. $152,600,000 per day. $1,766.24 per *second.* Congress should heed POTUS’s call and pass my bill to claw back Big Oil’s excess profits.

You need to win every single election against fascists because if you lose just once, it could be the last election.

in the frozen marshlands, the moment the sun finds a tear in the low hanging cumulus is also the moment the raptor releases their perch with a single minded focus leaving a gently swaying branch vacant in the new sunlight

@NASAEarth snow on the Saharan desert in Morocco

Ready for a puzzler? This satellite image shows a place on our planet. Tell us where this is, what we’re looking at, and why it’s interesting. (And, no, it’s not a close up of powdered donuts.) 🧩: go.nasa.gov/4077EvS

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the world we are consciously choosing to leave to our children

Fossil Fuels: Sun → Photosynthesis → Plants → Decay over millions of years → Drill → Transport → Refine → Transport → Burn → Energy Solar Energy: Sun → Solar Panel → Energy

but you’ve been paying attention, so you knew this 👇, right? right?

❄️?❄️question for snow plow drivers: what goes through your head when you see a person shoveling the last corner of their driveway as you plow all the snow from the road into said driveway? remorse? glee? schadenfreude? desire to apologize?

about time. remove the tree of evil by its’ very root.