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…

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.

Here’s how Sky News UK reported. Tulsi Gabbard’s assessment of the imminent nuclear threat to the U.S. The reason this is important is it speaks to why the British and European public do not believe a word Trump says and have absolutely DO NOT support European offensive participation in this illegal war. Trump is now facing a quagmire and instead of admitting his mistake, he’s considering committing US ground forces. This would be a suicide mission. At what point is someone going to intervene? 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNR9X81xV/

Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…

@samstein @BulwarkOnline And meanwhile Iran is widening its assault on energy targets (and markets) aljazeera.com/amp/news/liveb…

every one of these posts is now a gut-wrenching journey, in which you read on to discover if some international alliance is teetering or some mass casualty event is being threatened or if our global energy market is about to come undone

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#EnergyPoverty is a big threat in Maine and while communities are doing their best to help neighbors, as with the great firewood banks in Hancock County, the kind of help offered in this legislation is vital.

Gen. Petraeus with @jimsciutto at #nolabookfest The future of warfare is Ukraine producing 7 million drones per year right now. This past year they produced 3.5 million. That enabled them basically to use 9 to 10,000 drones per day. We've seen Iran shoot a couple thousand so far. And by the way, when we get to autonomous warfare, these are still remotely piloted. So the limit is on how many pilots you have in launch teams. When you get autonomous systems, and that's coming, they're already starting to feed it in at the end of missions. Then you're going to have drone swarms. And that is really really hard because you you you're taking these down one at a time. Now you have to have high-owered microwave or something... youtube.com/watch?v=4mb5tu…