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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ezra Klein is reasonably well informed on climate, but I was pretty shocked by his failure to press Jensen Huang on why exactly the need for more data centers justifies building a lot more fossil fuel infrastructure. He makes a very silly surgical metaphor that Klein didn't challenge.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We've started in on what's likely to be something like a year-long period (associated with strong El Niño) during which every day will be, globally averaged, the hottest day ever observed on that date.
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Climate Reanalyzer
Climate and weather data visualizations
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@leahstokes.bsky.social has written brilliantly about the power and political dynamics of the electric grid - I learned a ton from her book "Short Circuiting Policy". This new one looks great! open.substack.com/pub/electric...
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How big can you make your carbon wave? (I wrote a book!)
Let’s ditch the “carbon footprint” and work together to build waves that change the system instead.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is the first time in a few months I've seen the CFSv2 look like it's backing off its forecast of the El Niño peak strength (the recent runs have NINO3.4 closer to 3.5 C at peak vs 4 in the previous runs). Are the other models also backing off a bit? www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CFS...
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is a really terrific accomplishment, and I’d think that doing this routinely would improve hurricane intensity forecasting significantly.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Katie Martin should definitely get an Oscar, but maybe time for new leadership at Interior? “President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who fixed the Reflecting Pool permanently before deranged people vandalized it,” Katie Martin, an Interior Department spokeswoman, said earlier this month.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Yes, please!
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Leah Stokes (@leahstokes)
After weeks of heat waves and fires, I think one thing is clear: politicians should be talking about climate change. And the fact is, they will net votes by doing this. Going silent is a dumb politica...
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'm very pleased to announce the publication of this (open-access) paper on the impact of climate change on the frequency of extended periods of low wind and solar generation in Europe. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Characterising European Low Renewable Availability Events in Present and Future Climate Model Data
Low renewable power events are an increasing concern for European electricity systems. Energy-climate datasets provide a credible basis to explore these events, though care is needed in data hand...
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
So proud!
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Between the Covers is always worth listening too, but if you only listen to one episode this year, make it this one. The conversation in the last third about the real lessons of the split left of the 1930s is so much deeper than the usual gloss.
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Very excited to share today's conversation with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social about her latest book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-... @oneworldbooks.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social
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Molly Crabapple : Here Where We Live Is Our Country : The Story of the Jewish Bund | Milkweed Editions
One of the elements that makes Molly Crabapple’s latest book so remarkable is, not only the remarkable stories it unearths and retells, but more specifically how she tells these stories, these erased ...
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 30/01/2026
@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154... #SaveNCAR
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Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
@martinmosquera.bsky.social loved your piece on Argentine history in @newleftreview.bsky.social . Beautifully written, very helpful! newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
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Martín Mosquera, The Meaning of Milei, NLR 155, September–October 2025
With Latin America in Trump’s cross-hairs, a report from Buenos Aires on the social stalemate that allowed far-right firebrand Javier Milei to impose the harshest shock therapy in Argentina’s history....
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Read through Cresswell-Clay's fascinating paper, probably too quickly ( agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... ). Anyone have a good explanation for how the ocean know to warm up in the spring (NH) and cool down in the fall?
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A Deep Learning Earth System Model for Efficient Simulation of the Observed Climate
The coupled atmosphere-ocean Deep Learning Earth System Model (DLESyM) simulates 1,000 years of equilibrium climate in less than 12 hr While only trained to optimize MSE over 24 hr in the atmosph...
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
One of the many great things about The Power Broker is the history of objections to car-oriented development. Already in the late 1940s people were saying it would be cheaper and better to build more transit in NYC.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
So proud of my son‘s terrific Labor reporting here: open.substack.com/pub/twinciti...
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Twin Cities Labor Report 6/23
Nurses to hold strike votes, Push Week for state unions, Free Geek unionizes
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It was a pleasure and a privilege working with James Wilczak, Hannah Bloomfield, Justin Sharp, and Cameron Bracken on this paper. We reviewed the literature on #Dunkelflaute, and approaches to managing them in renewables-dominated electrical grids. pubs.aip.org/aip/jrse/art...
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Wind and solar energy droughts: Potential impacts on energy system dynamics and research needs
This Perspective article provides a brief overview of the topic of wind and solar energy droughts (henceforth WSDs). It does not attempt to provide a complete l
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Catastrophic vandalism.
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
XKCD for the win. xkcd.com/3073/
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Tariffs
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Nailed it.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Particularly exciting report today!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/04/2025
welp www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.
The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/04/2025
By the way, these links came to me via @billmckibben.bsky.social's excellent newsletter, to which I assume you are all already subscribed.
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Hands off...the future
So many ways to wreck an economy, and Trump is trying them all
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oddfellows local 151 @oddfellows151.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hello Bluesky!! I am going to be posting here more often. For those who don't know me, I am a meat cutter and union steward with UFCW Local 663 here in Mpls. I write a local labor newsletter called the Twin Cities Labor Report, available at twincitieslaborreport.substack.com . Let's talk union!
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Twin Cities Labor Report | Paul | Substack
Weekly updates on the state of the labor movement in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. Click to read Twin Cities Labor Report, by Paul, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Paul's started a labor newsletter for the Twin Cities - check it out here: twincitieslaborreport.substack.com?r=2duai&utm_...
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Twin Cities Labor Report | Paul | Substack
Weekly updates on the state of the labor movement in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. Click to read Twin Cities Labor Report, by Paul, a Substack publication. Launched 15 hours ago.
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dankd.bsky.social @dankd.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Turns out last night was a really unusual night for Aurora! Less than once a year, even in a really strong year for geomagnetic activity. Data from www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/g...
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