Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️
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#SustainWhat webcaster & 40 years of prize-winning 🌎 journalism, mainly @nytimes https://t.co/J6oq9DfxYw Social, books, songs: https://t.co/hspsXMSCoB
Lamoine, ME, Wabanaki land
Joined December 2007
Solutions abound when you switch from yelling #climatecrisis to focusing on cutting climate risk. Full #climlifebergen @UiB_IF talk at:
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Imagine an Atlantic sturgeon *twice* as long as this seven footer. They used to be common in the Hudson before the species was fished toward extinction. They're coming back.
Sturgeon on Hudson. This is a mere 7-footer. See the tweet above to learn about the 14-footer spotted in the river last June using side-scan sonar!
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I wrote for the @nytimes for more than 20 years and never saw headline lunacy like this (of course I was there before the company disbanded its copy desk). See below. .
This arrangement and editorial gloss may stand for, capture the journalism about the entire campaign
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Study: Ideology strongly shapes view of science consensus (climate, nuclear, gun stats): http://j.mp/SciViews More: http://j.mp/PerfInfo.
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@RussellEngland @paulisci @bothness Press coverage of CO2 climate influence actually goes back much further.
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Hmm, I wonder what it is about France (70% nuclear) and Sweden (40% hydro 40% nuclear ) that keeps them in the green nearly nonstop?.
As is the tradition, here's the year 2019 as seen on @electricityMap. Not all countries are green 24/7!
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Fine report on snow crab collapse off Alaska has me recalling our 2005 "Big Melt" series for @nytimes, when the crabs were shifting into Russian side of Bering Sea as sea-ice patterns changed. Update from @USNavy: (ht @weatherprof)
Less 🦀 also throws the ecosystem off balance. Scientists are investigating what this historic loss could mean for the health of the entire Arctic. #ClimateCrisis.
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It would be too simple to tag @benshapiro's decision to move his family and business out of California as simply a function of politics. Several non-political people we love have come to the same decision with similar reasoning.
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As @realDonaldTrump flew to #ArmyNavyGame, Wisc. Supreme Court's @judgekarofsky blasted (~1hr34min): "In this state, we accept the will of the voters & they spoke. What you want is for us to overturn this election so that your king can stay in power."
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Stunning. .
Eid Mubarak all✨. Especially to this Ikea branch in Germany. Local Muslims asked if they can use the car park for prayers in order to maintain distancing per regulations. And Ikea said yes
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@DeL2000 Preparedness pays (the backpack shovel)! And such a lovely coda (from over on Instagram, via @arlanwashere)
@jeffnesbit Agreed. Preparedness pays. (The backpack shovel!) And such a great coda, from over on IG
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"We have burned more fossil fuels since the UN established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) than in all of the centuries before – so we have done more damage knowingly than we ever managed in ignorance." @dwallacewells.
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.@EPA staffers “coming to work in tears” grappling with balancing job security and concerns for issues. #TrumpEffect.
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Journalist Andrew Revkin to Head New @earthinstitute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability I'd love your take on critical frontiers in making information matter in this noisy, but super-connected, #anthropocene moment. Seeking #sustcomm.
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Still in the game.
yolo Biden in Philadelphia: "And Trump calls that a hellscape? He talks about America being a failed nation. Where the hell is he from? No I'm serious, think about it: A president calling America a failed nation. It makes me angry. I say America is winning . the only loser I
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Tim O'Brien (@obrienillustration Instagram) has created perhaps the ultimate visual on #AlternativeFacts.
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@MikeSington There's a song to go with this ⤴️, written by a retired seaweed farmer in Downeast Maine:
Carl Karush is a Downeast Maine seaweed farmer (and jack of other trades) and also a songwriter who is fed up with Trump's hold on some otherwise reasonable people. He wrote this song hoping to peel away a few votes, asked me to record him, and gave me the okay to post. Lyrics
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Sorry but I have to share a bit more of this morning’s Downeast Maine meteorology magic, with 15F overnight chill clashing with far warmer sea temperatures, creating an astonishing frost crystal cloak on marsh grasses and drifting sea mist.
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I'm a fan of @GretaThunberg's #climatechange activism. The voice of the generations that will inherit the climate that's been shaped by the baby boom generation (me) deserves amplification. But she also deserves a cheer today simply for crossing a big ocean in a small boat.
Hey New Yorkers. If time, try a celebratory #climatemarch to North Cove Marina to greet #teammalizia & @GretaThunberg some time after 2:45pm. (updates via skipper @borisherrmann #UnitedBehindTheScience #FridaysForFuture
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For the first time in a decade, a Florida Senate committee scheduled a meeting Monday to discuss the impact of #climatechange on the peninsula state. What did senators learn? “We lost a decade,’’ said Sen. Tom Lee. Republican who chairs the Committee on Infrastructure & Security.
Florida GOP leaders finally utter ‘sea level rise,’ lament ‘lost decade’:
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@mattyglesias Yikes, a generation weaned on influencers hawking magic. I hate sounding like a grumpy old man, but that’s what I’m becoming.
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Sweden considers 'local lockdowns' in shift in coronavirus strategy
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Carl Karush is a Downeast Maine seaweed farmer (and jack of other trades) and also a songwriter who is fed up with Trump's hold on some otherwise reasonable people. He wrote this song hoping to peel away a few votes, asked me to record him, and gave me the okay to post. Lyrics
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Sturgeon on Hudson. This is a mere 7-footer. See the tweet above to learn about the 14-footer spotted in the river last June using side-scan sonar!
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"They will kill you because they're wired that way. ".
A Politico analysis of more than 20 of Trump’s rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them. A shocking supercut of a racist bigot running for President:
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Forget elections, wars! "This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern Illinois Brood [~ a trillion cicadas], are set to appear at the same time, in what is known as a dual
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@JuddLegum Democracy dies in darkness? Sheesh. Imagine if the same approach were taken to every line in a Trump ramble. The resulting “fact check” would consume more electricity than Bitcoin.
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Blown away as @ymalhi explores the metabolism of the living Earth (& the current #anthropocene component). This animation of seasonal/global land primary productivity is stunning (@worldmapper) Will add more thoughts below. @earthinstitute 1/ #sustcomm
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@sunrisemvmt How can those outside Brazil help defend the Amazon? . Boost the #guardianship capacity of indigenous and local conservation-focused communities on the ground. Thrilled to have helped target a new @insidenatgeo grant track at precisely this goal: #sustcomm.
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Is this earliest English-language news item on CO2-driven climate change? 1912, N.Z. ht> @do_you_cli_fi_
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As a proportion of Chile's population of 18 million, this million-person march would be akin to 18 million of America's 327 million citizens in the streets.
#MarchaCooperativa Un mar de gente: Imponente sobrevuelo muestra la convocatoria a #LaMarchaMasGrandeDeChile, desde Alameda hasta Providencia, pasando por Plaza Italia. (Fuente: Ministerio de Defensa)
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@drvolts The unshittified nature of @Wikipedia comes from the hard work of communities engaged voluntarily to help sustain entries on key issues. Explored back in 2020 on my #sustainwhat session with @sadads @cdknetwork & more on how to be climate wikipedian:
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What an extraordinary living planet - and technological capacity to observe this.
Its migration season! Birds are heading south! Dry weather made for a great bird-watching night on our radar. Thousands of birds heading towards their wintering grounds. #flwx #KeyWest #FloridaKeys #birds
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@DanRather @GlobalEcoGuy One ray of hope.
The America we want:.Flint sheriff took his riot gear off and marched with protesters instead.
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Some quick thoughts on @BretStephensNYT take on climate science, policy, & implications of @deepuncertainty:
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@propublica @SenatorBurr The chutzpah level of @senatorburr and his press team, building a long string attacking @NPR @timkmak around 6:30 p.m. Will they do the same for this astounding @derekwillis @propublica stock selloff revelation?
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Does this mean everyone in the US infected with #SARSCoV2 can go to @WalterReedArmy for free, cutting-edge treatment now?
Yeah, that's the public-health message here. .
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What accountability journalism looks like.
A contractor with zero experience got a $34.5 million contract to supply the VA with masks and other medical supplies. He flew around the country on a private jet trying to track everything down. He ultimately did not deliver a single mask to the VA.
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A potent @Laurie_Garrett story in the @newrepublic builds a powerful case against Xi and Trump as the prime forces allowing a novel virus to sweep the planet and disrupt everything.
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Does anyone else see a journalism problem with a story like this blaring 5 million annual excess deaths a year from temperature extremes and not mentioning that 4.59 million of those are from cold and 489,000 from heat? Same with @nytclimate coverage of the current heat wave.
@Mindcite_US @WMO So now I’m reading the @guardian 2021 story on the @TheLancetPlanet paper above and it never mentions the stark difference between cold and heat death tallies, offering this diversion: “The study found more people had died of cold than heat over the two-decade period. [4.59
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#TrumpEffect wiped #GreenhouseEffect from @WhiteHouse web. Possible legal issue if tried at @NASAClimate: #climate
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A key reason car dealers hate carrying electric vehicles is probably a key reason you want one. They have 20 percent of the parts of an internal combustion car, far less maintenance. Oy. .
Maintenance is nearly half a car dealers' revenue. So what's great for car owners is awful for car sellers. 2/2
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From a front-line South Dakota ER nurse: a chilling portrait of the power of denial and tribal allegiance in #COVID19 patients screaming at health-care workers that they must have some other illness, that this can't be COVID-19, yelling until they end up having to be intubated.
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Enough with calling hurricanes "natural" disasters. Kerry Emanuel:
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Family just confirmed the passing of #WallyBroecker, the extraordinary @Columbia earth/ocean/climate scientist who hated being called the "godfather of #globalwarming" for first using that term in a 1975 research paper. 1/
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Beyond unspeakable. @SenatorBurr, @gopsenate chair of the Senate select committee on intelligence, warned @GOP donors of a 1918-scale pandemic, sat silent as @realdonaldtrump said no big deal, and dumped >$1.5 million in stock before the market plunged.
@SenatorBurr Lordy, there is a tape!. Insider trading is a crime!.
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Fantastic interactive. This is far truer for a baby boomer like me than most (born 1956), but we are all experiencing the end of stationarity for sure:. #Climatechange means the childhood you remember no longer exists via @ABCNews #scicomm #sustcomm.
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This was a conscious, knowing business decision to endorse and repeat and broadcast these lies in order to keep its viewership,” said attorney Justin Nelson, of Susman Godfrey LLC.
BREAKING: Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company rigged the 2020 election.
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I stand with @mark_lynas, who writes: Activists against Golden Rice are ignoring decades of scientific peer-reviewed research which shows conclusively that genetically-engineered crops and foods are safe. Still, they continue to spread myths and misinformation, claiming that GM.
Greenpeace and its allies just won a court case in the Philippines blocking Golden Rice from reaching millions of vitamin A-deficient young children. If this isn't a crime against humanity, I don't know what is. Avoidable deaths could total 100,000s. More:
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Life moments. Sobering second Saturday spent with siblings and spouse emptying our parents' managed-care apartment a week after our father has followed our mother to the great beyond. Earlier times fondly recalled.
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Wouldn't it be neat to open @googlemaps on #indigenouspeoplesday (or have a clickable layer there *any* day) and see something like this - as a reminder of the stolen geography that preceded modern life? @nativelandnet Teacher's guide:
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When changes in what meteorologists call the "climate normal" show we're in a climate abnormal: @nytclimate
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More on #socialdistancing as privilege - particularly in India: Millions of Indians live in crowded slums and work in informal sector jobs. How are they supposed to shelter in place? via @cpuja in @slate.
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@VoteMarsha @realDonaldTrump When you see @CommunityNotes adding excellent context to fabrications like this one, make sure to rate the community note.
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Chomsky on the #climatecrisis: "With regard to being hopeful, we have two choices. We can either give up hope and help ensure that the worst will happen, as it will, or we can grasp the opportunities that exist and pursue them, and maybe we can make it a better world." 1/2.
In this @columbiaclimate brainstorm on confronting the #climatecrisis, I sought Chomsky's reaction to what the scientist Walter Munk said at the Vatican in '16: "This will take a miracle of love & unselfishness." His response on hope and the alternative resonates ahead of #cop26.
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@soledadobrien Not to mention this "nut foreigner" @chefjoseandres is an American citizen who has employed hundreds of Americans and fed tens of thousands of suffering people in disaster zones around the world and USA, and, and, and.
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Some rocks make you just want to start over and become a geologist.
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A super sobering thread on significant warning signs around #DeltaVariant, in the US and elsewhere. This is just one nugget of many. Please don't use past tense describing this #pandemic.
12) UK hospitalizations soaring. So how did UK miss the damn #DeltaVariant sneak up up on them without reacting? Politics aside, it was ignoring the data because the deceptive drop in Alpha mixed with rise of #DeltaVariant - to create temporary appearance of flattening— see video.
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Seeing this as a friend in Boulder reports his teenage son tested positive for #COVID19 and he (the dad) woke up feeling sick.
Key takeaways from Dr. Fauci's interview on @MSNBC interview this morning:. 😷 We know that masks help protect others, but new research shows they play a key role in protecting ourselves
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@davidlei And sadly Flaco is literally one of hundreds of millions of birds who die by striking buildings.
Here’s the official word from @TheWCS on the death of Eurasian eagle owl Flaco from an apparent collision with a building in Manhattan: Hundreds of millions of North American birds die this way each year. More from @FLAPCanada @eyeonthefly:
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Imagine that. Science in the foreground.
Biden: "You're going to be hearing a lot more from Dr. Fauci again, not from the president but from the real genuine experts and scientists."
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@SenTomCotton I’m no fan of TikTok but do wonder why @SenTomCotton saw the need to badger a Singaporean about membership in the Chinese Communist Party.
Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?". TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!". Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?". Chew: "No, Senator. Again, I'm Singaporean!"
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@LFFriedman Trump mania to undo anything Obama did continues. A decade ago, @ckrausss & I wrote in depth on industry leaders profitably cutting methane leaks. Leaders saw keeping gas in pipelines as a business opportunity. @BP particularly:.
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Here’s the official word from @TheWCS on the death of Eurasian eagle owl Flaco from an apparent collision with a building in Manhattan: Hundreds of millions of North American birds die this way each year. More from @FLAPCanada @eyeonthefly:
@emilybell Awful news about the death of the owl Flaco, particularly from a building collision. Glass walls are such a peril for so many birds.
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@jeffnesbit Agreed. Preparedness pays. (The backpack shovel!) And such a great coda, from over on IG
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I love the @nytimes (21 years of my life). But if the parent company is flush enough to hold this plush event at #cop26 it can afford to stop getting paid by fossil giants to make @TBrandStudio ads like these: 1/2
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Wait, but I thought @realDonaldTrump @JDVance said everything’s horrible.
*US 2Q HOUSEHOLD NET WORTH RISES $2.760T. Wealth effect fueling consumer spending. Parlayed with government deficit topping everything off.
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With only nine or so vaquitas left in Mexican waters with little control on deadly nets set for a black-market fish, silence is replacing this tiny porpoise's vocalizations. Extinction looms. But the next 6 weeks can make a real difference. Read. Share: 1/
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@DavidCayJ @nytimes Here’s the story link - Red Dawn without paratroopers as Russia invades the United States via fake news operations. @stevenleemyers @nytimes Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names
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Mesmerized by the flow of water leaving rain-swollen Catfish pond.
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Just in case you doubted these have been momentous months.
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You need this Frontier flight attendant's description of having to duct tape a recalcitrant passenger to his seat. You really need this.
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From now on, any time I start to think parenting is hard, I'll replay this clip from tonight's #bigbeareaglecam drama as the #socalblizzard rages:
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Ads that resemble pull quotes take things to a new level - The @washingtonpost Crosses a Line with Climate Stories Featuring Excerpt-Style Exxon "Ads"
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So there's this #SixthExinction thing going on: vaquita, #insectageddon, amphibian die-off. And there's this #climatechange thing. Some scientists looked at media coverage of biodiversity loss (green) & climate (brown). I'd love your thoughts on the gap?
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