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Forester, environmental and ecological consultant, HS Envi Sci teacher, climate change tocsin clanger, Rowan and Daphne’s “grandalph”, #noPlanetB

Norfolk
Joined April 2009
Can’t wait to see this latest and greatest work by Alex Gibney and team. Brilliant film maker and insightful patriot. Sock it to ‘im!
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WTAF?
Honeybees pollinate roughly $150 billion worth of crops annually. About 1.6 million colonies died across the U.S. between June 2024 and March 2025. The administration's response? Close the lab that diagnosed the cause. This is not efficiency. It is willful abdication of the government's stewardship obligation to American agriculture.
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Love the bog reference by Jesse!
Good books make readers think in a new way about something. My purpose is to bring you down into the bog kicking and screaming.
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Talk about grandstanding! Fake empathy all the way. Sorry for your loss Ms Morin.
Donald Trump murdered Abrego Garcia, & many others, by wrongfully sending them to an extermination camp… and he plans on doing the same to US citizens. Meeting with Patty Morin is nothing more than pushing the great replacement theory. This is Nazi propaganda.
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Can’t say I blame them one bit. Hope they get a good price.
Relatives just listed an AZ home they had for over 12 years… as American ‘neighbours’ were repeatedly & rudely chiding them with 51st state comments. Indicating it was imminent. MAGA🤢 - Canadians are cashing out their American vacation homes - Apple News apple.news/Amixl9qoiQh243DZY…
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Not if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Currents aka AMOC shuts down before then as scientists project. UK will be locked in snow and ice much of the year which will not be conducive to Mediterranean grape varieties thriving. Get real. #ClimateBreakdown
“By 2100, Hull could be known for its cabernet sauvignon with warmer temperatures & sunshine allowing the grape variety to grow in England.” Who’s gonna be drinking it? Cockroaches? Journalists. Wake. The. Fuck. Up. Our. Civilization. Is. Heading. For. Collapse.
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This is exactly my reaction to the Trump admins back pedaling, lame brained excuses! They continue to prevaricate,obfuscate, and defecate on our collective Constitutional rights. #ConstitutionalCrisis
Replying to @nytmike
How do you accidentally send a letter that combative? Aren’t Republicans big on having “merit” in order to be hired? Everyone in this administration seemingly has no merit, all dumb + incompetent
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What happened to all these former GOP stalwarts? They’ve been reduced to bootlicking sycophants who bend their knees to tyranny and oligarchs. Really shocking to be living through this ethical morass. Liz Cheney was so right all along.
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Nice work Li’l Marco. You must really love your Orange master. Are your knees sore yet!!!
Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵
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This brilliant young scientist @Zlabe has been my oracle and early warning sensor with his knowledgeable fingers on the pulse of our planetary climate systems. I grieve for him and so many others who were simply trying to steer our global community to a better future. #sad
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected. My job was to strengthen NOAA's use of machine learning and AI for subseasonal-to-decadal weather and climate prediction
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We are going to be f**ed over by the same fool who as POTUS said the “Wuhan flu” (SARS Covid 19) would be gone in a matter of weeks. @realDonaldTrump has no concern whatsoever for the health & well being of American citizens. Zero. ARB on the rise in health facilities everywhere.
🛑JUST CANCELLED—Trump HHS has just cancelled key meetings of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) & CDC’s Environmental Public Health Threats meeting—➡️all because of Trump WH’s new blackout of all HHS external comms. My god.
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And sadly, the massive wind storm bearing down on the Emerald Isle may uproot a large percentage of these magnificent old trees. #holdfirm
Even in Winter when it's leaves have all finally fallen this Oak and the others around it still maintain a commanding presence Even Oaks like this one, maybe just one or two hundred years old, remember and store the history of the generations of people that have walked by them. Walked by them and delighted in their presence. If you use your imagination you can see stories written in the Irish Ogham or the Norse Futhark runes telling stories in their bark Unfortunately, their are few ancient Oaks left in Ireland, but, given time and a little care there can be many more for future generations and hopefully those generations will appreciate them as much as our ancestors did🌳❄️
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Glad to see that the Fraternal Order of the Police Union has come to their senses, too little, too late, alas.
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JUST IN: The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the U.S. that endorsed Trump in the last election, has issued a statement condemning his pardon of the violent January 6 rioters. “Crimes against law enforcement are not just attacks on individuals or public safety —they are attacks on society and undermine the rule of law. Allowing those convicted of these crimes to be released early diminishes accountability and devalues the sacrifices made by courageous law enforcement officers and their families. When perpetrators of crimes, especially serious crimes, are not held fully accountable, it sends a dangerous message that the consequences for attacking law enforcement are not severe, potentially emboldening others to commit similar acts of violence.”
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How are his eyes still blue? By all measures they should be brown as the BS he spews. @JDVance
JD Vance on Los Angeles Fires: Some of these reservoirs have been dry for 15, 20 years. The fire hydrants are being reported as going dry while the firefighters are trying to put out the fires. There was a serious lack of competent governance in CA. It’s part of the reason why these fires have gotten so bad
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Replying to @JohnVaillant
@JohnVaillant has written the preeminent exposée on our relationship with fire and what our legacy of fossil fuel emissions have done to our planetary atmosphere. This is but a preamble to that work of nonfiction. We knew this was coming…#WUI
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And a majority of voters supposedly elected the man who claimed over and over that he could shoot someone on Fifth Ave in NYC and get away with it ! Hello!
Corporate media tries to put the genie released by Luigi Mangione back in the bottle — with @AbbyMartin & @TaylorLorenz
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An excellent thread of solid scientific waypoints that does not bode well for the Earth by midcentury. Read it and weep.
🚨There is so much #Climate news that it is often hard to zoom-out & see the bigger picture. But every now & then you read a report that brings it all together & stops you in your tracks! 'Collision Course' by @djspratt is one such report. Here are its 10 key take aways: 🧵1/n
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Replying to @laurenboebert
@laurenboebert How much more stupid can this person be if this quote is at all based in reality. We know she is dumber than a box of rocks but this is beyond the pale…
Lauren Boebert: “Because of the political instability in the Middle East, it’s important to buy the Panama Canal from Egypt.”
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“all buildings at the coast itself, they’re subsiding,” Falk Amelung, a geophysicist at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science and the study’s senior author, told the Miami Herald. “It’s a lot. And it’s not slowing down either”
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