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Chris Holliman

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Nostalgic for the Holocene. Born in 335 ppm

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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are so f*cked.
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The dark implications of the "medium" climate scenario here seem to be the buried lede of this 🌎 report. We are on a very bad path. "We are unlikely to see +4C by 2100" is a bit like saying that the conveyor belt carrying you towards a blast furnace probably won't get you fully in today.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“We need data centers to stay ahead of China” seems to be a common belief of AI supporters. Why can’t we ever want to stay “ahead of China” when it comes to high-speed rail or EVs or low cost of living or public safety?
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“2026 is just the beginning. It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.” ’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
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Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is a Reckoning for Europe on Climate
The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
At risk of sounding arrogant, the #FOTW contains urgent info about where our climate, our world, and our society are headed, which everyone needs to hear But it is getting very little traction 😞 Please help share and promote 🙂 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @jporritt.bsky.social @anthonyhorowitz.com
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 25/03/2026
The E Street Band is coming your way!
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/02/2026
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding
The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
All this suffering is so painful and all this harm is so dangerous and so prone to propagate because we are so utterly interconnected to each other and the living Earth. That same feature (it's not a bug) could be the source of our joy and healing.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“Coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off.” As the coral reefs go…so do many other species. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30
Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise. #climate www.newscientist.com/article/2498...
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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 04/09/2025
This is not a particularly new finding; as Susan Soloman and colleagues put it in their groundbreaking 2009 paper, "the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop" www.pnas.org/doi/10....
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Overpumping of groundwater accounts for 44‰ of global sea level rise—versus 37% from Greenland + 19% from Antarctica. Because after water is put to human use, it escapes into the ocean. And groundwater is a finite resource. In some areas, so much has already been drained, aquifers have collapsed
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Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise
Overuse of groundwater has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheets.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our efforts to lock in as much heat as possible for future generations continue unabated.
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EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act
The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The earth is big. Water is powerful. Fire too. Also viruses. Exponential growth can take things from tiny warnings to unmanageable problems pretty darn quick. The human is tiny and 100% dependent on the living planet.
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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
There’s a thing in wargames and strategic sims where you can tell from the jump where an opponent is going land their first blows, and there’s fuck all you can do to prevent it, and the trick is to stay focused and not let despair become an opposing force multiplier.
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Noah Garfinkel @noahgarfinkel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Shout out to Rome for having a long decline that was almost imperceptible moment to moment. What a dream.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We are rapidly moving our biosphere—for corruption and profit for a tiny percent of humanity—outside the climate envelope in which our species H. sapiens has existed. apnews.com/article/clim... we are now hotter than the last 10k years in which global human civ has developed
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Last decade was Earth's hottest ever as CO2 levels reach an 800,000-year high, says UN report
Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest levels in the last 800,000 years, a...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is the gold standard measure of atmospheric carbon, the one you see in almost every chart that tracks emissions.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
He wasn’t a very good president the first time
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 21/12/2024
Brilliant work. Courstesy of @atkinsopht.bsky.social "This presentation was created for my fellow inmates in assisted living. It comprises thirty-five 'slides' of which 15, 16, 17, and 18 are the most informative as to how we got into the climate crisis and how we will not get out unscathed."
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The Climate Crisis This presentation was created for my fellow inmates in assisted living. It comprises thirty-five “slides” of which 15, 16, 17, and 18 are the most informative as to h…
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The grief of our times arises from our impoverished collective narrative of mandated economic growth and consumption that leaves so many isolated and broken.
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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Richard Heinberg’s latest article paints a grim picture: environmental collapse and political instability are accelerating, feeding off one another. The systems designed to address them are failing. Here's a summary of the key points. 1/7 #overshoot #collapse www.resilience.org/stories/2024...
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Environmental-Political Collapse Accelerates
In this article, we’ll see why cascading disruptions of environmental and political systems are entangled and mutually reinforcing. We’ll also try to identify the next stages of global collapse, and e...
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And this is just the beginning of species killing heat waves. So much more to come.
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Scientists just confirmed the largest bird-killing event in modern history
A marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean killed some 4 million common murres in Alaska, researchers say — the largest die-off of any bird species ever recorded in the modern era.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Is there a climate scientist alive who actually believes that we can limit the world to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century?
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
“In recent decades, young men have regressed educationally, emotionally and culturally.”
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Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone
What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Is this a blip? Or an acceleration of warming?
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Why a two-year surge in global warmth is worrying scientists
Instead, global temperatures remain at near-record levels.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Arctic has been frozen for 3 million years. In the next few decades, human activity will unfreeze it for the first time. This seems not to trouble many people.
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Lisa Ravelo @oakntyme.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Even if we can pull carbon out of the air with engineering magic, how do get it out of the oceans? Because it’s doing just as much damage there.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
All the Dems are depressed or resigned, but I wouldn’t get too down. Power will swing back and forth due to the nature of a dopamine addicted electorate looking for a quick fix to issues that aren’t paramount.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Humans evolved during a remarkably stable climate period when C02 hovered between 200 to 280 ppm. We are now north of 400 ppm with no end in sight and why isn’t this fact dominating every political conversation?
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The augmented reality of the near future is going to be even more addictive than the technology we already have. Are we destined to be a dopamine addicted species?
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I’m in my mid 40’s. So much of my worldview has been shaped by post-war, unipolar stability of the US in the 80’s-90’s. I struggle to adapt to today’s chaotic scene, in which everyone is fighting over everything, wrecking institutions, tribalizing, and wounding themselves.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When I hear my neighbors lawn crew cranking leaf blowers at 8am in the back stretch of November, 3 months into a drought I think to myself this country will not survive and maybe that’s not such a bad thing after all.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Carbon dioxide driven global warming is a scenario that earth has run several times in the past. The only difference now is that instead of volcanoes loading up the atmosphere with CO2, it’s a species of higher primate.
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology. PS. - Douglas Preston,  Brimstone
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Mmm, nothing like a lungful of car exhaust while sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic to remind you of how ‘free’ we are.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The only “answer” to our bio-physical crisis is decreased use of energy and materials and restoration of habitat. The rest is clinging on to ‘business as usual’ and the myth of ‘progress.’ We need a species level conversation on moving away from economic growth as our raison d’etre.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Does greater inputs of energy and materials equate to higher levels of human well being? Clearly not above a certain point. Beyond that, we are degrading the biosphere to satisfy a dopamine addiction and to allay fears of personal status reduction. What a waste. What a trap.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Dark triad temperaments are characterized by high levels of narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Seems like America has the dark triad these days. Perhaps this was always so.
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Dr. Jarret Ruminski @thedevilhistory.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I highly recommend playing "The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild" with the aid of a nice cannabis capsule. I just want to get lost in Hyrule for a while, because Ganon's evil seems far more extinguishable than what we're dealing with in real life.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 14/11/2024
Trump promise to repeal Biden climate policies could cost US billions, report finds #Climate
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Trump promise to repeal Biden climate policies could cost US billions, report finds
Trump could stop in its tracks US’s emergence as clean energy superpower and forfeit billions in investment
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Still cannot process how fragile the United States and its democracy turned out to be Straight-up porcelain
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If you learn anything today, it should be this: We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked. To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The irony of ancient life that perished in the Ordovician and Devonian extinctions, turns into fossil fuels that powers our own extinction event. And around we go.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A climate denier leading the EPA. It beggars the imagination the extent to which we are burdening successive generations of humans with suffering. Why? So we can stream, and scroll, and have just-in-time landfill-bound crap delivered to our doorstep to satisfy our dopamine addled brains.
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Chris Holliman @chrisholliman.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I went to Harpers Ferry, WV yesterday because visiting a site where someone made a stand against systemic cruelty felt pretty apt after last week.
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