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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Planted some fall Kernza (perennial wheat) and mulched with the comfrey that grows like a weed all over the farm.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power."

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If college women started boycotting fraternity parties FP would surely also throw a fit about that. I didn't read the article but maybe @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social will do it for us.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If all yield tradeoffs are off limits, we will never build the world we want. We need to be able to give up some biofuel production! This, from @globalecoguy.bsky.social, is the better model.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Making such predictions usually 'involves so many untestable claims that you just end up with a conversation that is really more like faith than something scientific or empirical', says Vermeer. This makes basing any course of action on these conversations difficult, he adds."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good piece that gets at something that's been nagging at me about what @himself.bsky.social terms "the Machine God metaphor": Buying into it cuts off other types of questions, lines of inquiry, and approaches to knowledge. And I can't help but notice which way of thinking empowers tech companies.

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I support a Manhattan Project-type push because we're gonna need large scale CO2 removal. But imagine the allies deciding in 1940 that they didn't need to fight the Nazis with tanks/troops/etc. because any day now the Manhattan Project would develop an atomic bomb and they could just fight with that

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Their view is not only "this tech could kill us, but we have to make it anyway..." ...it's "this tech could kill us, but we have to get rich making it anyway."

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The AI doomsday scenarios seem to assume indefinite exponential growth in the tech’s capacity. Do we have any precedent for other technologies behaving like this? Computer chips maybe? Sincere question.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Late to this, but: trees that produce food.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just found my vision for my life’s work vividly depicted in a… Chobani ad?

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Dear Alice

YouTube video by THE LINE

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Absolutely a real-world pokemon

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Found a bird’s nest tucked in the row of grapes at the farm. Not sure we ultimately want it there long-term, but it’s nice to be able to provide a little bit of habitat for now <3

Bird nest nestled among grapes and grape leaves

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

These pitfalls are important to point out. But can't UPF still be a useful analytical concept even if it elides precise definition? Can it not still describe a meaningful constellation of traits, even if none of those traits are strictly essential? An example... (cc @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Apples at the farm looking quite nice…

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cincinnati has released a plan for how the city will prepare for climate migrants. Denser housing, more public transit, fewer fossil fuels… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/c...

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A City With a Plan

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Backyard grapes are coming along...

Ripening purple and green grapes hanging from our back deck railing

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The study estimates that more than 10% of opioid overdose deaths occurred because of floods. Proximate causes like loss of job, loss of home, inability to access care.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A while ago we booked ourselves a getaway for this weekend at a cottage in rural Wisconsin. We envisioned lots of hiking and sun. Instead, we’re largely cooped up inside because of heat and smoke...

Green Wisconsin forest in wildfire haze.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social really nails it here. Quite possible that the worst impacts of climate change will be the curveballs we didn't anticipate.

To summarize, wildfire smoke did not appear in our economic simulations of climate change. As recently as a few years ago, we did not really know that days like today — or June 7, 2023; or September 15, 2020; or September 9, 2020 — could occur. Then they happened. And happened again. And then we studied them and discovered that, in fact, they may be more expensive for the U.S. economy than we once thought climate change itself would be.

That worries me. Now we know these smoke-out days can happen; now they are fast becoming a rare but predictable feature of summer life. But until recently they were unimaginable. What other ignominies, what other tail risks and airborne surprises, are lurking in the uncontrolled experiment we’re running on the biosphere? What else — unforecast, unmodeled, unstudied, unthought of — lies ahead? After 10 years of covering the climate system, I am not someone who lies sleepless fretting about atmospheric CO2. But I do wonder what else we don’t know enough about to ask.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Even running a HEPA unit indoors when the AQI is in the Hazardous range outside may not improve your indoor AQI to the "Good" range. My colleague @wisconsam.bsky.social improved their AQI from Purple (borderline Very Unhealthy) to Orange (Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups) by running HEPA in the room.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A hedge fund thinks that markets are underestimating El Niño risks to food supply. They’re planning to invest $500 million in impacted markets and crops. www.moneycontrol.com/news/busines...

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We typically try to understand climate impacts on food systems by modeling how corn grows under higher temperatures. We don't usually consider the effects of, say, heatwaves breaking grocery store fridges. Virtually impossible to anticipate all of warming's second-order effects.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Where will global food systems be after a year at 1.6C of warming? My gut take on the range of possibilities:

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Get ready for a taste of 2035

How will the global food system fare under 1.6°C of warming?

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

SLOW CLAP "AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China" Congratulations to US AI Tech Oligarchs www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2026

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Easy to miss here that the chart is *annual additions* and not the cumulative total

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Two of the deadliest weather-related disasters globally in the 21st century have been droughts in Somalia. The current drought may join this list: "Somalia’s worst-ever drought leaves millions starving as Trump’s aid cuts and Iran war deepen hunger crisis" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Meat consumption in China has skyrocketed, underpinned by imported American and Brazilian soybeans for animal feed. How would the global food system change if China were to wean off its dependence on imports?

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Chartbook 445: Is a "China shock" coming for the "big ag" food regime?

China’s integration into the world economy is the most dramatic development of modern economic history.

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I would not have guessed that we didn't reach racial parity in voter registration until *2010*

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I've said it before. But I continue to be amazed that the American medical system makes it impossible for doctors to answer the question "how much will this cost?"

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And with the other half, we could feed 7.2 billion people...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Looks like a fun event Let’s be careful not to shift burdens to individuals - change the system! I’d say: 1) vote 2) join an org working on env issues 3) the energy-focused personal actions are well covered For food, 4) minimize food waste 5) eat more plants/less meat and especially less beef

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Chris Lewis @chrislewis.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"During the past two decades, Gulf monarchies such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have come to occupy a far more central place in the global food economy than is often recognised." www.ft.com/content/3634...

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The coming global food crisis

Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

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NBER @nber.org · 16/04/2026

When the expanded CTC expired in 2022, each $1,000 in lost benefits reduced consumer sentiment by 1.7 points—with effects lasting nearly two years—long after the checks stopped, from @jacobbastian.bsky.social and Melody Harvey www.nber.org/papers/w35059

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Folks who argue that AI is pointless or useless aren't being particularly fair-minded or really engaging with the reality. But ... companies sure are making it easy to think that.

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