Jeff Nesbit
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Personal account. Former NSF, FDA, SSA & WH comms, now HHS; Climate Nexus founder; author/27 books; former NYT, Time, US News & Axios contributor/columnist
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“This is an engrossing tale—thoughtful, worldly, and deeply entertaining. A gripping novel that vividly captures the dark cosmos of financial malfeasance.”
#kirkusreviews
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Kevin McCarthy: With “George Santos in New York…we have the largest Jewish caucus in 24 years.”
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Mitt Romney recalling the basis of Trump's impeachment trial - withholding military aid to Ukraine as a quid pro quo attempt. Not sure many in America remember because so much water has flowed under the bridge.
Romney on Trump's impeachment for withholding military aide to Ukraine: "It was wrong. It was in violation of a president's responsibility to defend our nation and defend the cause of freedom."
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I feel sorry for everyone who got snookered by this guy. He seems to genuinely believe he could 1) hide this story for 10 years and 2) defuse it once the New Yorker found out about it by telling it this way to Roseanne Barr.
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As the former public affairs chief for two federal agencies (in two GOP administrations), I can tell you that this is an INSANE amount of money for any federal agency head to spend on travel and security measures. Off the charts.
That seems like a lot. Anyone with experience with this kinda thing at an agency want to argue otherwise?
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Peter Thiel would love to dismantle Social Security. His vassal is now Trump’s running mate. So…how many 65+ voters know that this is front and center on their GOP political “to do” list?
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CLIMATE TODAY: A lot going on. Three iconic lakes at their lowest levels EVER. The West gearing up for round 2 of the HeatDome games. The biggest wildfires in 13 states doubling. The Pentagon (maybe) stops tracking wildfires. And the salmon CA wipeout. A thread. /1
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Interesting take from BELLINGCAT’s founder:
“….communities who believe in conspiracy theories (don’t) generally believe they’re conspiracy theorists. They believe they’re truth seekers fighting against some source of authority that is betraying us all.”
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“He pretends the virus will go away. He pretends the economy will come back like a “rocket.” He pretends climate change is a hoax.”
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Sarkozy proposes carbon tax on US goods if Trump walks away from Paris climate accord. The trade wars games begin.
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I feel so very, very, very sorry for Rep. Massie’s constituents. The level of mindless incompetency he displays here is almost beyond comprehension.
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OMG, this guy is a hero. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video this intense.
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Forget the candidates for just a second. You know what gets OFF THE CHARTS support among Dem voters in Iowa?
New taxes on the uber-wealthy (assets above 150M) and a clean energy economy with millions of new jobs (a Green New Deal). 85% support for both.
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Jakarta is the first. It will not be the last.
And, hey,
@CNN
. Climate change, climate change, climate change. And...climate change.
Climate scientists have been reporting for years that Jakarta would need to adapt. Report it.
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One of Trump’s former national security advisors wondered whether he was in Russia’s pocket. Now, a second says Trump is “aiding and abetting” Russia’s disinformation efforts. Why are no Republican leaders worried about this? It’s a serious question.
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@JimVandeHei
“Torches”? That’s the word that comes to mind for you? Of course he’s trying to run away from it. But he’s doing what he always does - throw up propaganda chaff and hope people fall for it. The project is run by his own former team.
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@SpeakerJohnson
This had nothing to do with the Last Supper. It’s an interpretation of the Feast of Dionysus. That’s what you’re focused on while your party’s presidential ticket is threatening democratic norms? I know you’d like America to become a reactionary theocracy. It’s not going to
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If bipartisanship is done, which might be the case, then the 2020 agenda for Dems:
Win the WH.
Flip the Senate.
Add 2 seats to the SC.
Get rid of the filibuster.
Make Puerto Rico and DC states.
Pass climate, health, wage, equity and tuition bills.
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So many folks (including journalists and TV news debate moderators) are falling deeply into the “personal sacrifice” trap laid out by industry and ideological groups opposed to any sort of climate action that it’s time for a reality check. Thread. /1
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10 minutes.
That's how much airtime climate change has gotten in the last 22 presidential debates.
10 minutes since 1988.
While the world literally burned.
It needs to change.
@FoxNewsSunday
#AskAboutClimate
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Not surprising, but still sobering. Networks covered Clinton's emails 3 times as much as policy. Climate never stood a chance. Nothing did.
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I'm not sure everyone quite appreciates what global OCEAN warming means. This chart is shocking; and the new study by
@MichaelEMann
and other scientists is a serious, serious wake up call.
The heat isn't going to remain trapped in our world's oceans forever. And then...
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An extraordinary, moving opening statement from
@GretaThunberg
as she arrives in America.
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When ExxonMobil, BP or Chevron runs an ad promoting its "environmental stewardship," Twitter does not consider it political. But when a climate group tries to run an ad to respond to that narrative, it's banned because climate change is "political."
@jack
, what gives?
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Ever wondered who created the "carbon footprint" idea that shifts blame from industry to consumers? The answer won't surprise you. But the link to Big Tobacco's playbook might.
@NaomiOreskes
@GeoffreySupran
@MichaelEMann
@EricHolthaus
@amywestervelt
@KHayhoe
@emilyhholden
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I wish TV and large newspapers had a climate section, where you could see the climate picture on a daily basis. We have context for evolving political, financial, medical & sports narratives. But historic lows on the Colorado River where 40M get their water? Nope. /end
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@Jim_Jordan
Rep. Jordan, you do realize that plankton are vital to oxygen in our oceans? And that we study plankton to make sure we understand perhaps the most important ecosystem on the planet for thousands of species (including us)? You understand that, right?
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The tropics might be largely uninhabitable just 30 years from now, thanks to global warming. Here's why.
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Lots of people assume they know the full story behind football and brain damage.
They don't.
This is an obvious example of that.
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This report on the PBS broadcast is damning - that Trump is calling Netanyahu and telling him not to agree to a ceasefire because it might help his political opponent. This is sickening from Trump. But also not surprising.
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~30 GW of coal- and gas-fired power off the grid in TX.
But, sure, talk about wind and solar power, which is performing pretty much as expected.
We live in two countries - one real and the other make believe.
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The hottest month in the history of the world as we, the human species, know it. We’re responsible for it.
The question, as it has been for two decades, is what we will do about it.
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Hard to be shocked these days. But the First Lady saying “who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff” and millions of conservative, evangelical Christians still lining up to vote for her husband as their political savior? I’m beyond mystified at this point.
The First Lady said, "who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff?"
So, wait, wasn't the liberals who were waging a war or Christmas or something?
#MelaniaTapes
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NEW: 82% of registered U.S. voters say achieving 100% clean energy should be the primary goal of U.S. energy policy. See what other opinions U.S. voters have on gas and climate change in a new poll from
@ClimateNexus
,
@YaleClimateComm
&
@Mason4C
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Time machine alert. If the grandfather is denied entry to the US on a merit system...
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: Your grandfather came to America at the age of 16, did not speak English well, was poor, and started off as a barber. So yes, I will support a merit system based on the same criteria that allowed your grandfather to immigrate to America.
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School's solar panel savings give every teacher up to $15,000 raises - CBS News
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@tbonier
@Jemsinger
This is happening everywhere. It’s not the sort of thing that shows up in polling. But it absolutely matters in November.
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This (quite depressing) thread.
One note: us climate “alarmists” would like to welcome the public health “alarmists” Mr. Trump has decided to attack. Jump in. The water’s nice and warm.
COVID Update May 6: Like many countries we picked a strategy to beat COVID-19. We just decided not to stick to it. 1/
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We should be scared of the status quo, not climate solutions. Those oppose to climate action want you to think climate solutions involve huge personal sacrifices that are worse than the status quo. /8
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Trump Commerce secretary doesn't divest in an LNG company, and then leads trade deal talks to enrich himself.
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Here’s the reality. Americans are already making sacrifices because of climate impacts, like flooding or wildfire damage to homes, life- and health-threatening heat waves or farmers struggling with reduced crop yields. /6
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Ben Carson says no one can produce the overwhelming science on climate change for him. Gov. Jerry Brown just did.
http://t.co/8RuJPaEHRs
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California is burning. Don't look away. Don't ignore it.
And then do something about it.
#VoteEarly
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Listen to this podcast and learn why a “head on a pike” is so much more than just turn of phrase - and why Republican senators were so disturbed when it made its way to the Senate floor during the impeachment trial.
"People discuss the impeachment trial as a matter of law, but it's really a matter of power. It's a loyalty test for Republicans. It's a test of whether they'll openly declare fealty to a criminal syndicate." --
@gaslitnation
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I still remember the day Lonnie Thompson briefed the National Science Board and predicted that the glaciers would soon disappear from Mt. Kilimanjaro. There were gasps in the room. Now...it's essentially happened.
Climate change is here, now.
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Mr. Trump is wrong. Mr. Biden is right.
These are, in fact
#climatefires
.
Scientists know it. We all see it for ourselves.
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The Biden WH just announced the most ambitious federal sustainability plan in US history: 24/7 carbon-free electricity, zero-emission federal fleets (& more), meant to spur efforts in the private sector. Might not seem sexy or cool – but it’s gonna be transformative.
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Climate change has finally been replaced as the most partisan, polarized issue in America. Only 10% of Republicans now trust the media, compared to 73% of Democrats. That’s an historic 63-point gap.
So where do GOP voters get fact- and science-based information now? Anywhere?
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What happens at the ends of the Earth affects us all. Right now - not in some far off, dystopian future.
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Well, this is interesting. In its own way, the GOP platform from the convention delivered roughly the same message. Not on tape, but still.
Trump is on the tape Page played in Moscow. Possibly also on original tape discussing plan to play this in Moscow
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The long, long road of cynical, deliberately manufactured climate science denial in one astounding graphic.
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Frank Luntz, Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro and others keep trying, trying, trying, trying to coach Trump from the sidelines through TV interviews and social media. It. Is. Not. Going. To. Work.
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This is an important story.
This is what climate impacts look like in the American West, right now.
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The ”personal sacrifice” frame will come up again and again this cycle, whenever climate Qs are asked in debates; and in stories about Dem climate plans and GOP efforts to ridicule those efforts by exaggerating the amount of sacrifice consumers will suffer. It’s a trap. /END
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Long past time to flip the climate “cost” narrative. The costs of doing nothing are exponentially greater than the current status quo.
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But that’s just not true: Electric cars are not only cleaner than gas-fueled cars, they are better performing. A diet that features responsibly sourced fruits, vegetables, and grains, with sustainably raised meat, benefits the climate and food security – but also our health. /9
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@SimonWDC
Seems inevitable that he’ll spend billions to bend the 2024 race to his will. It should scare everyone. He has hundreds of billions at his disposal, and zero guardrails to keep him from getting his way in the race. He’s already burned 44B to make X an in-kind asset to the GOP.
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C’mon
@NewYorker
. This sort of “climate doomism” is as much a trap as “personal sacrifice” is. Both are clever narrative plots by forces opposed to any real action on climate. Do better.
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Climate change is real. It’s here, now. And this is what it looks like.
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This is not a picture of the Donner summit on the way to Lake Tahoe. It’s a video, with cars taillights blinking on and off.
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Why does this matter? Here’s why:
“Michael Flynn, who was pardoned by Trump, had suggested in an Oval Office meeting that the President should invoke martial law as part of the effort to overturn the election.”
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The NRA’s era is over. This proves it.
NRA spokeswoman: "Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it... Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you..."
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@elonmusk
Yes, except: 1. The extinction rate on earth is now 100X normal background. 2. Half of all species are experiencing local extinctions right now. 3. We (human bearings) are largely responsible for that. There’s still time to do something about it - on Earth.
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10%. One fire. Climate change is here, now.
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@mcuban
I hope you all get a chance to listen to this interview. Donald Trump has “severe memory issues.” Right now, according to the co EiC of Variety who’s spent a considerable amount of time with him.
"I got to know Donald Trump post-presidency... and Trump had severe memory issues. As the journalist who spent the most time with him, he couldn't remember things, he couldn't even remember me."
—
@RaminSetoodeh
on interviewing Trump for his book, 'Apprentice in Wonderland'
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Just look at the fires out west. They’re everywhere, thanks in part to climate change. And it isn’t ACTUALLY the start of the wildfire season yet.
TV can cover this. And call it what it is: climate change.
#EndClimateSilence
@WeatherProf
@MichaelEMann
@EndClimtSilence
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The entire agriculture sector only produces around 11% of global emissions, while energy consumption for electricity, transportation, industry and other purposes is responsible for 72% of emissions. /12
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There are ~ 100 or so companies and state actors responsible for most of the CO2 emissions driving our planet to the brink.
Executives at them cheer wildly (if silently) when pieces like this show up about personal responsibility for the climate crisis.
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2020 was one for the record books - and not in a good way.
It wasn't just the year the pandemic upended our lives.
It was also the year that climate impacts crashed into our lives almost non-stop.
It's time to
#ActonClimate
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Record-breaking heat waves made CA rivers too warm to sustain migrating chinook salmon. Virtually all of the salmon in the Sacramento River have died – or will soon – before they lay their eggs to reproduce. A generation of the rare Chinook salmon is virtually gone. /7
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“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something...my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference."
You did, President Carter, you did.
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Shame on
@USAToday
. It's obscene that a modern newspaper in America would allow electrons to be used for such tripe.
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Lake Powell’s capacity fell to just 33% yesterday – in large part due to climate change driving a vicious drought. It’s the lowest level on record for the reservoir – the country’s second largest, which provides water to more than 40 million people. /2
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NOAA's new top scientist deletes evidence of his climate views - HEATED
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Actually, we do have an energy transition plan that leads to much greater reliance on renewable energy in the very near future. It’s been readily apparent now for years. The oil, coal and gas sectors just don’t like it.
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“There is a direct correlation between climate change and the burned area.”
@WeatherProf
is so incredibly good at this.
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So right. Three deputy chiefs of staff and Trump’s own guy at the agency.
I just really am amazed that EPA public affairs would say this about agency employees. Five of them, one if whom came from Trump campaign, others who have worked at EPA for decades.
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There were excellent questions from the audience, but some questions from moderators echoed narratives driven by climate deniers and industry. These questions framed the debate as one about “personal sacrifice” verses big picture change. /5
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What is now apparent is this. The Koch political network that has deep control of Mr. Trump’s administration will tolerate any level of corruption as long as the willing accomplice destroys EPA. It’s the only reason Scott Pruitt is still there.
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And more efficient light bulbs and appliances reduce emissions, but they also save money on electricity bills. /10
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Exactly. Based entirely on nothing. It mischaracterizes positions of both
@MichaelEMann
and
@GretaThunberg
- two of the issue’s best champions. Gee, I wonder why.
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The 7-hour CNN climate town hall shows, beyond any doubt, it’s now impossible to deny that climate change has captured a central role in the Dem presidential primary in 2020. That's a major shift in the politics of this issue & an opportunity for the climate movement. /2
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@KBeds
Yeah, that’s what he was trying to say. Everything is about him. That’s why millions are joyfully jumping on the Harris bandwagon. It’s literally the American people vs. a weird, conspiratorial narcisisst. I’ll go with the people.
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I was an anonymous source for a Woodward book. I spent hours going over details with him. He was deliberate & checked everything I told him against multiple other sources. If he says Mattis said it, then he almost certainly did. His statement looks like orchestrated CYA TPs.
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On Day 1, Trump uses a fake front group study to make stuff up about energy and climate.
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Inaction on climate has caused thousands to sacrifice their homes, crops, livestock, and even lives. /7
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We are now in upside down world. Money for climate related disasters, which the president doesn’t believe is real, would be illegally used for a national emergency that’s fake (but which the president says is real).
AP: White House has directed Army Corps of Engineers to look at using emergency funds Congress approved for disaster relief to build the border wall. Congressional aide says $13.9B allocated but not yet obligated for projects in Calif., Fla., Texas & Puerto Rico could go to wall.
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