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Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social |
4502 followers 777 following 430 posts
Award-winning investigative climate reporter, audio & print. Run Drilled, Critical Frequency, former co-host of Hot Take (RIP), contribute to The Intercept, The Guardian, The Nation & more. she/her/ella
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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actually worse than a grant because it's a tax credit so completely not transparent, not verifiable, no way to determine any actual climate benefit and it's uncapped so here goes gazillions of dollars to something that mostly helps oil companies get more oil.
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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also can someone please explain to me how the biggest grant ever to the oil and gas industry made its way into the biggest climate bill ever? was there just not anyone working on that thing who dug into the details of CCS? because fucking yikes.
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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I have been working on a story about carbon capture for like three months because I keep thinking "it cannot possibly be THIS much of an absolute shit show" and figuring I must be missing something or misunderstanding something and then every new expert I talk to tells me it's even worse
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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I don't know what Democrats should do about their presumptive nominee but this column gets at who Dem voters should be mad at: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - hint: it's not strangers on the internets.
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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I had this reaction (only to myself though, I don’t know what good it does to voice it publicly!) because it’s all stuff they’ve been writing down, saying, and doing for a decade+ so I wasn’t sure why this particular iteration made people pay attention. Doesn’t make it any less scary tho!
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news.
I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies:
‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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This @theausinstitute.bsky.social survey illustrates kind of perfectly why the fossil fuel industry spends so much marketing spend talking about jobs, economics and how dependent government revenue is on fossil fuels.
australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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This figure illustrates how record warm ocean temperatures fueled Hurricane Beryl, causing it to intensify faster, reach greater strength, maintain that strength for longer, and likely dump more rain than it would have otherwise. Source: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Peter Gleick
@petergleick.bsky.social
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The fossil-fuel industry will build massive seawalls to protect their investments from the climate changes and sea level rise they're causing.
The rest of us are on our own.
climatechange
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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Spending 4th of July feeling jealous of the Brits. COOL
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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How every new federal rule making will go from now on. *FTC BAN ON WORKER NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS DELAYED BY JUDGE
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Elle
@elleisanisland.bsky.social
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases
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Puff the Magic Hater
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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Some thoughts on how to navigate this moment.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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pretty weird to think that the usa which just had a king appointed is gonna celebrate no king day tomorrow and the country theyre celebrating the bye bye king from will have their king tell us who will run that country for the next 5 years
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isaac
@sevier.io
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"The question is, will we care and mourn haplessly, in isolation, as people’s lives, lands, and freedoms are lost, or will we build strong networks of community members who can take bold actions in defense of one another when people are under threat?"
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Ada Palmer
@adapalmer.bsky.social
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first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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ryan cooper
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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The Heritage Foundation is absolutely making overt terrorist threats and everyone you know needs to be aware of this.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Whoever is the Democratic nominee, I hope that people are aware that there are going to be MAJOR protests at the Dem Convention in Chicago. People are going to be protesting US ongoing support of genocide and much more. I hope this doesn't lead to more social media freaking out.
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Amy Westervelt
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I know there are at least a dozen things in the past 6 months we could say that about. This one felt particularly nail in the coffin for me.
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Amy Westervelt
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Woah this presidential immunity ruling is game over for U.S. democracy.
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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Ooh! Thank you!
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Amy Westervelt
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extremely relatable
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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I know I'm being a crotchety old, but jfc I am sick of people on social media telling me shit I already know. Like... I don't post about shit unless I already know a fuckton about it. I guess we're all just used to people spouting off about things they don't know now, but it would never be me, folks
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Amy Westervelt
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yes, lots of people use that terminology (delay is the new denial, discourses of delay, etc, etc. I know! This is what I cover!)
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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The discussion around climate disinformation is often limited to climate science denial, or arguments about the relative urgency of the climate crisis, but the fossil fuel industry is busily pushing a whole raft of new climate problems disguised as "solutions." drilled.media/investigatio...
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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if they don’t release something Chutkan and Smith should restart the trial
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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I can't express strongly enough what a CRISIS NYPL is in right now and that means that vulnerable people are also in even more crisis. PLEASE find a way to voice your support of our public libraries in concrete ways. Please.
gothamist.com/news/after-b...
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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I’m sorry to add salt to the wound but best concert I ever went to, hands down
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s. e. smith
@sesmith.bsky.social
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Fuck, and I cannot say this robustly enough, this.
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isaac
@sevier.io
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This is the most money spent in a House primary, ever.
"...the spending could not only have a chilling effect on Democrats willing to speak out against the war [on Gaza], but also offer a replicable strategy for other wealthy interests in both parties."
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/n...
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i've emailed latimer's team to ask what he meant by "ethnic benefit"
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Because of heat waves & extreme weather amplified by climate change are a health & security issue, Congress should pass & the President should sign, an emergency resilience supplement bill. This should have an immediate schedule of cooling down cities, investing in the power grid, & deploying A/Cs.
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Amy Westervelt
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Someone actually said to me last week, in the year of our lord 2024: “the Supreme Court would never reverse that precedent” 🤯
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Prisonculture
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I truly don't understand the people who are still like: "That's blatantly unconstitutional." Are you alive in 2024 with the current Supreme Court?
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The Onion
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“New satellite data confirms that every corner of the earth has the incorrect quantity of water,” the report read in part, noting that even though the total amount of water on the planet seemed to be about right, the distribution of that water across the globe was “way off.”
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Akshat Rathi
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
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Oh wow. Telstra was consistently one of the biggest buyers of cheap, junk offsets in our analyses. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Taniel
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Hundreds of thousands of people are marching against the far-right in France today, as the far-right has never been so close to power. Images from Paris’s March, where a lot of signs are focusing on demanding that left leaders stay united to counter the far-right:
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John TImmer
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This is an excellent description of the editorial failure behind The NY Times' decision to run Alina Chan's lab leak article. What's the value proposition to the readership of presenting a one-sided argument that most scientists find lacking? Did no editor bother to ask that question?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Across Alabama, around 800,000 people—about 20 percent of the state’s population—rely on private water supplies...In rural Marion County, where around 94 percent of residents are white, connections, money and power often determine where the water flows"
insideclimatenews.org/news/1006202...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Anyone unionizing your journalism workplace, make sure you’re organizing every single eligible worker, not just the journalists
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evacide
@evacide.bsky.social
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"The longer a woman works at Apple, the larger the gap in compensation she receives compared to similarly situated men," the proposed class action alleged.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The Sandy Hook parents should get whatever punishment they want from Alex Jones, period. If one of my kids had been massacred in kindergarten and some braying jackass in the media not only called it all fake but made millions off doing so, I wouldn’t stop punching his face until they tased me
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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Women are five times more likely to be killed by an abusive partner when their abuser has access to a gun
But according to originalism, the state didn’t try to stop people from hurting women in the past, so it can’t try to stop people from hurting women in the present
lithub.com/historical-f...
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Emily Grubert
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This, from @amywestervelt.bsky.social, is so spot on:
drilled.ghost.io/why-do-ameri...
A particular way I think this manifests is "our" (American, white, elite, etc.) entitlement to having other people join if "we" bothered to invite "them." Whose table should everyone have a seat at?
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Some more work we’ve done:
- EV good, heavy EV no good www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- E-bus good pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
- E-drone good, e-cargo bike better: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
- if robocar, share it www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Uber no good pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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