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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD

@anauc.bsky.social
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Personal account of a DC climate scientist, policy wonk, politico, mom, cat servant & occasional poet ❤️🧑‍🧑‍🧒🐈📚⚽️🦉🌲🏔️🌎

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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 6h
Commentary on the permitting deal?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?
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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 9h
It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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The Nerd Reich
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ...
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 04/10/2026
The scariest straight line you'll see all day, via @financialtimes.com no less
Global sea level rise has a accelerated during the past decade
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 13h
"Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs."
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Fuel Price Shock Pushes Global Gas Car Sales Below 50% for First Time | OilPrice.com
The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 14h
Read this while you wait for the Supreme Court climate case to start this morning
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 17h
Vol. 3, no. 2 of CO2 Newsletter, is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials & deeply-researched articles. “Accelerating sea level rise is attributed to climate change” allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/9
CO2 Newsletter vol. 3 no. 3 page 1
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The US role in Brazil's election is criminally under-discussed in the US, though obviously front and center of the conversation in Brazil." - @ishaantharoor.bsky.social US has done Lawfare & Economic Warfare against Brazil & the continent and it is shocking how few americans know/care about it
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Couldn’t have happened to a better senator…
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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I haven't read the permitting reform bill yet (seems like there's some good stuff), but I want to once again suggest to fellow clean energy advocates that saying or implying that biodiversity, endangered species, & other non-climate environmental issues do not matter is both detrimental & incorrect
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putting Bryan on the weekend play list www.billboard.com/music/countr...
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Zach Bryan Wears ‘Free Palestine’ Shirt at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium
Zach Bryan wore a ‘Free Palestine’ shirt at Gillette Stadium, weeks after Robert Kraft helped get Macklemore removed from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 02/10/2026
I mean, I’ve been fanning for the Spurs since the 90s, and Wemby is my favorite player in the league right now, but this is the cherry on top 
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2026
Regulations for cybersecurity at AI labs must be careful, precise, and practical, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social told @kqednews.kqed.org, as well as flexible enough to evolve with the tech. Tying new mandates to evidence-backed security protocols also protects the public without impeding AI development.
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Experts Urge Federal Lawmakers to Regulate AI. Will Anyone Heed Their Alarm? | KQED
At a Senate subcommittee hearing, safety advocates decried the lack of federal action to protect Americans from fast-evolving AI-enabled threats.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Check out my latest for @progressivereform.bsky.social: State courts have always been about holding irresponsible businesses accountable. The Supreme Court could use Suncor to give Big Oil a free pass. progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/cli...
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Climate Change Is Already Expensive. The Supreme Court May Stick You with the Bill. - Center for Progressive Reform
This past summer, the United States endured a string of climate change-linked heat waves, contributing to an estimated 70 deaths and wrecking food production at farms and ranches across the country. W...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 02/10/2026
This is a big deal. In the coming days, a huge pulse of ocean energy from El Niño is set to reach San Diego and move north. It will raise sea levels here by half a foot or more, and they could stay high for months. It comes just as our tides hit their peak and storm season picks up.
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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The climate crisis we face today wasn't inevitable, and we have the receipts.
The cover for a new report from the Center for Climate Integrity, "Climate Fraud 101: Big Oil's Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents, 1957-2026"
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The anniversary of the death of two important climate scientists
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s astonishing how far ahead the 2026 El Niño is. The red line is 2026. The other warmest El Niños are the colored lines. It’s not even playing in the same league. Some of this is of course due to this natural El Niño cycle on top of long-term ocean warming… 1/
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
JUST IN: Today El Niño Broke its Record Hottest Temperature Ever! 🥵 Today the El Niño region surpassed 2015 for the highest temp ever measured in the El Niño (3.4) region. It comes 2 months earlier than typical peak (late Nov/ Dec)…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We can make more jobs and drop the price of electricity while solving the climate crisis, too.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 25/09/2026
"If the Supreme Court takes an aggressive stance in support of the oil industry, it will indicate something troubling about how the Supreme Court is thinking about its role in our constitutional system," said Chris Winter of the University of Colorado Law School.
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A landmark Boulder climate case is heading to SCOTUS. What's at stake?
Can state courts decide who pays for damage from climate change? As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider the question, an environmental law expert
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On day in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first National Monument in the United States!
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big #batteries fed on a diet of excess #wind and #solar are increasingly muscling out fossil fuels from the lucrative evening peak. reneweconomy.com.au/chart-of-the...
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Chart of the Day: Big batteries are muscling out fossil fuels and gas – not coal – is the "biggest loser"
Neat chart offers new snapshot on how big batteries fed on a diet of excess wind and solar are increasingly muscling out fossil fuels from the lucrative evening peak.
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy #Dolly Day! I hope you enjoy a good book and some good music in her honor! lithub.com/long-live-do...
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Long Live Dolly Parton, Giver of Books
I signed my first baby up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library when she was one week old, at the advice of her pediatrician. It was May 2020, and the pandemic was just beginning to close its fist…
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The deep state strikes… up the band? These 🤡s deserve it www.snopes.com/news/2026/09...
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Did Denmark play 'Send in the Clowns' when Rubio arrived at Greenland deal ceremony?
A spokesperson for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, "Denmark was not involved in selecting the music for the signing ceremony."
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bad news for Republicans on Texas ballots
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/09/2026
My grandparents came to this country from Mexico as children with little money, little formal education, and limited English. They worked hard, built a successful business, and sent all five of their daughters, including my mom, to college. Now their grandson serves in the United States Congress.
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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Renewable projects need local voices. ☀️🌬️ If you support clean energy in your community, show up, speak up and make sure decision-makers hear from you too. The energy transition happens locally. #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy www.canarymedia.com/articles/gui...
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How to stick up for renewable energy projects near you
Showing up at local government hearings to support a proposed wind, solar, or battery project could be the most effective climate action you ever take.
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine if we had taken seriously the threat of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere & the subsequent climate change impacts since 1955
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Al Gore in July 1981. "It is difficult to come to grips with this issue. Quite frankly, my first reaction to it several years ago was one of disbelief. Since then I have been waiting patiently for it to go away but it has not gone away. The evidence continues to indicate that this nation..."
Picture of Al Gore and then text from Congressional hearings, 31 July 1981, , published in the C02 newsletter Vol 3 no 1.
"[Hon. Albert] GORE: . . . It is difficult to come to grips with this issue. Quite frankly, my first reaction to it several years ago was one of disbelief. Since then I have been waiting patiently for it to go away, but it has not gone away. The evidence continues to indicate that this na- tion may be on the way to a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions.

"The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.. . has the potential to radically alter our climate, upset our agriculture, and change the economic base of our society in fundamental ways. Ironically, though, the Greeks might call it the result of our civilization's hubris, that this effect should be caused by the flowering of our industrial society.

"In a very direct way we may be heading for a clash between human desires and the forces of nature, a clash that will finally require us to come to grips with the interaction between ourselves and the environment. But we are not helpless. There is still time to understand the im- plications of this change in our atmosphere and still time to make the kinds of energy choices that could forestall energy problems. At the most basic level, we need to understand more completely the effect of carbon dioxide creep in the atmosphere...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22/09/2026
The return of a giant anteater to Argentina’s Gran Chaco shows how passive restoration and removing hunting & fishing, can help ecosystems heal. While experts call for monitoring to see if it’s a full recovery, the sighting offers hope for biodiversity. Sean Mowbray reports for #Mongabay.
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A giant anteater’s return in Argentina offers a case for letting nature restore itself
In 2025, a giant anteater returned to the Alma Guaraní reserve in Argentina’s Corrientes province. It marked the first sighting of this vulnerable and emblematic mammal in the region since 1986. That…
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s official, the 2026 El Niño has broken a record for the highest ocean anomaly in 170+ years… Incredibly reaching that threshold a full 2 months ahead of 2015’s record of +3.02C set on Nov 18th. See that red line? That’s 2026. Every other bold line are the strongest El Niño’s on record. 1/
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
September 21, 1958, LA Times runs a Greenhouse Cartoon allouryesterdays.info/2024/09/20/s...
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September 21, 1958, LA Times runs a Greenhouse Cartoon - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty six years ago, on this day, September 21st, 1958, the Los Angeles Times ran a truncated version of the full Spilhaus cartoon on the greenhouse effect. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lebron's life will not be noticeably different for doing these ads in any respect but one: a lot of people who respected him will think less of him now. His legacy is cheapened.
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lies, damn lies & statistics
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s really that simple. His ego and megalomania tie everything together—the war, the tariffs, the economy, affordability, the grift, the corruption, and his attempts to glorify himself with shiny objects large and small.
Terry Moran: The reason Republicans are looking at a grim midterms is because the president clearly doesn’t give a damn about the real problems people are facing across the country, across the great political divide.

All he cares about is himself, his money, and his own glorification.
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Ana Unruh Cohen, PhD @anauc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Smells like desperation. They have also tried to play the national security card in the offshore wind lawsuits. The courts didn’t buy it on those and they won’t buy it here.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*this is a sub-epistle*
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026
New rule. No mansplaining on Sundays. Just give us one day off.
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