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Please follow Climate Desk on Bluesky climatedesk.bsky.social and repost this short thread widely! We are 16 news orgs exploring the human, environmental, economic, and political impacts of our changing climate, and sharing our work. Partners (w/ Bluesky handles) include: (1/4)
Our friends at @voxdotcom have a great explainer about the brutal, brutal air pollution now plaguing India and Pakistan. Super toxic, and per one official, "a national disaster." vox.com/climate/387135/india…
And finally: @guardian @GuardianUS @guardianeco @atlasobscura All coming soon to Bluesky, we hope! Because our planet needs good journalism in a nontoxic setting, and we only have one, despite what Elon says. Thanks for following. (4/4)
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Climate Desk, a collaboration of more than a dozen great newsrooms exploring all the impacts—human, economic, political, and environmental—of our warming world, is now on Bluesky. Please follow and share this post. Our handle: (at)climatedesk.bsky.social
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Drain the swamp? Yeah, right. Donald Trump just assigned another fox to guard the henhouse—a fox that happens to be the top pick of one of Trump's oil billionaire donors, Harold Hamm. Wrote it up for @MotherJones motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Climate Desk, a collaboration of more than a dozen great newsrooms exploring all the impacts—human, economic, political, and environmental—of our warming world, is now on Bluesky. Please follow and share this post. Our handle: (at)climatedesk.bsky.social
Climate Desk, a collaboration of more than a dozen great newsrooms exploring all the impacts—human, economic, political, and environmental—of our warming world, is now on Bluesky. Please follow and share this post. Our handle: (at)climatedesk.bsky.social
Donald Trump wants do Drill, Baby, Drill, but the thing is, the world is already doing that, and it really needs to stop. theguardian.com/environment/…
"What God has given us is a spirit of power, which is a bit of an old-fashioned way to say that we should be empowered, because research shows that when people are overwhelmed with fear it will paralyze us, and that’s the last thing we need right now." insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
"We all live with drought, extreme heat, and fire now — and our relationship to water is connected to just how bad things could get," writes @voxdotcom Climate Editor @PaigeBlank. vox.com/climate/384323/droug…
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At an event late last week in Arizona, anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. said he’d fire and replace 600 people from the National Institutes of Health on “day one” of a second Trump term. motherjones.com/politics/202…
This is nuts: "The researchers found that passengers in larger private jets caused more CO2 emissions in an hour than the average person did in a year." Also, some 900,000 of the trips studied were <50 km (31 miles). Story via @dpcarrington @guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/n…
Trump's victory won't stop global climate progress, but it could certainly put a wrench in things. theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
What really got our attention here: There are private high schools with billion-dollar endowments? Holy Plutocracy, Batman! @guardianeco theguardian.com/environment/…
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“What’s the result of all this fossil fuel industry money in commission elections?” said Daniel Tait of @EnergyandPolicy, a utility watchdog. “Very little renewable energy, and in some cases, like Alabama and Mississippi, overt hostility” to renewables. ow.ly/wJ9g50TYRhc
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What the Senate contest says about the unexpected shift in Western politics.
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