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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱

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Using science to restore coastal ecosystems and limit and adapt to climate change. Emeritus Prof. @umces.bsky.social, Annapolis, Maryland, USA

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Ask not what Trump can do for you. Ask what you can do for Trump" -- John N. Kennedy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump says Democratic concerns about AI are a hoax like global warming 🥴
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After sitting there chewing his cud, LA Senator John N. Kennedy gets up to hold the sign that erroneously claimed that Jack Smith was in Atlanta at a Hawks game. He was actually in College Park watching a Iowa Hawkeyes game. 🏀 🏀
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I knew Senator John N. Kennedy 35 years ago, back when he was actually smart and not embarrassing.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Patriots Foundation came after my emails as well. Unsuccessfully.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Similarly, Trump is attacking the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. science across the board. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 24/09/2026
Happening now: UN high-level meeting on sea-level rise
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(Part 1) High-level Plenary Meeting to Address the Existential Threats Posed by Sea-level Rise - General Assembly, 81st session
The High-Level Meeting on Sea Level Rise will convene global leaders, experts, and other stakeholders to address the urgent and escalating threat of rising sea levels. This meeting will focus on build...
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Tim Jesper Suhrhoff @climatejesper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For a century, we’ve essentially been running an Enhanced Weathering field trial. In our Nature paper out yesterday, we show that agricultural liming in the Mississippi River Basin acted as a net CO₂ sink—while offering a rare century-scale analogue for EW. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to my dear friends and coastal algal bloom heroes, Pat Glibert and Bob Howarth, for their election as AGU Fellows for 2026. @profbobhowarth.bsky.social email.agu.org/OTg3LUlHVC01...
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And at its base, La Zone Morte!
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another fine homage to my dear friend and colleague Walter Boynton. I was delighted to collaborate with him in his last scientific paper on why and how we can finally achieve clean water goals for the Chesapeake. Thanks @adampwillis.bsky.social.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"staying below 1.5 °C may require governments and companies not only to cease licensing and development of new fields and mines, but also to prematurely decommission a significant portion of those already developed."
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Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C, Trout, Kelly, Muttitt, Greg, Lafleur, Dimitri, Van de Graaf, Thijs, Mendelevitch, Roman, Mei, Lan, Meinshausen, Malte
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Literally, up shit creek.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 21/09/2026
In parallel with NY Climate Week, Rutgers is running its first ever climate week. As part of Rutgers Climate Week, the Executive Director of the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) introduces our mission here (video appearance from me)
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#rutgers #climateweek #climateweek #coastalhub #climateresilience | Lisa Auermuller
The Rutgers-led Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) Connects Research to Reality To elevate #Rutgers #ClimateWeek, we’re highlighting the Rutgers-led Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation ...
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Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) @bjerknes.uib.no · 21/09/2026
While CO2 increases, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere decreases. Fossile fuels are behind both changes. While visiting the Bjerknes Centre, professor Ralph Keeling from @scrippsocean.bsky.social explained why. bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/tell...
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Counting his years in CO2
The year Ralph Keeling was born, his father set up a CO2 monitoring station on the volcano Mauna Loa. Almost seventy years later he can read off his age…
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As a student on October 21, 1967, I marched with 50,000 others across Memorial Bridge, around Memorial Circle, toward the Pentagon in a peaceful protest against the Viet Nam War. Imagine this egomonument in the circle, with lots of snipers and unlimited ammo. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers (Gift Article)
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Brooke Lierman @brookelierman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Chesapeake Bay is part of who we are as Marylanders. I’ll keep fighting to protect it.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
We made the mistake of accepting “ambitions” instead of actions (like making polluters pay as they should) and we’re now paying the price for that. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Why States Are Cutting Back on Their Climate Goals
Ambitious aims have given way to political anxiety over prices as many states’ 2030 emissions targets appear increasingly out of reach.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20/09/2026
We will ensure Trump’s efforts to sabotage the Chesapeake Bay clean up don’t jeopardize the $90+ million in federal funds that are essential to protecting the Bay.  A healthy Bay is an economic & environmental lifeline for those in the watershed. We won't stop fighting for it.
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White House rolls back Chesapeake Bay restoration order
The Trump administration has revoked a 2009 executive order that coordinated efforts to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay.
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Piper Hutchinson @piperhutch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new, far-reaching law that dramatically increases surveillance of researchers. #lalege #lagov #laed
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New Louisiana security council puts foreign researchers under microscope • Louisiana Illuminator
Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new law
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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 17/09/2026
Yesterday, alongside Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, I introduced the Environmental Health Restoration Act to restore a commitment to science-based environmental protection at the EPA. Read more: casten.house.gov/media/press-...
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Casten, Whitehouse Introduce Legislation to Restore EPA’s Core Mission | U.S. Congressman Sean Casten
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation @chesapeakebayfdn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Trump Administration issued an executive order repealing a 2009 order that established a framework for federal coordination on Chesapeake Bay restoration. This could weaken the federal-state partnership behind decades of Bay restoration progress. Read more below.
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Trump Executive Order Takes Aim at Chesapeake Bay Restoration • Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Trump Administration today issued an executive order on the Chesapeake Bay that repeals Executive Order 13508.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was just waiting for when he got around to us, Trump issues executive order repealing a 2009 executive order coordinating federal agency efforts in Chesapeake Bay restoration. All because of pique that a few local governments impose a "rain tax" for stormwater. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Providing Meaningful Water Quality Improvements Through Collaboration and Oversight of Federal Support
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in furtherance of the purposes of the Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home wh...
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Andy Harris goes off the rails when called for advocating for suspension of gas tax (because of soaring prices due the Trump-induced blockade) when it was something he vigorously opposed under Biden. Marylanders, approve the redistricting amendment, so that we can get rid of this fiend.
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Robin, Our Birdie of Perpetual Expletives @rockinredbirdie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maryland may have the most visually appealing gradient. I love how orderly it is.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sen. Kennedy often asked good questions but in the end always goes along with Trump. www.nola.com/opinions/ste...
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Stephanie Grace: John Kennedy speaks boldly, but carries small stick
No matter how tough U.S. Sen. Kennedy talks, columnist Stephanie Grace writes, you pretty much know what he’s going to do when it comes to staking out independence from President Donald Trump: nothing...
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The White House Effect is a great documentary and stark wakeup to the Trump and Republicans ignorant and evil delusion in promoting fossil fuels as Earth rapidly warms and catastrophes proliferate.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great article on conflicts in development of offshore aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico by @mikejsmith504.bsky.social, part of @nolanews.bsky.social Sea of Troubles series. Features my high-school classmate, seafood dealer Harlon Pearce. Where y'at, man. Gift link: www.nola.com/news/busines...
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Are fish farms the future of Gulf seafood? The stakes are high for Louisiana.
Aquaculture experiments are emerging in the Gulf and prompting intense debate. For Louisiana and its seafood industry and culture, the stakes are enormous.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great recounting of the marvelous career of my @umces.bsky.social colleague and collaborator Walter Boynton, estuarine ecologist extraordinaire. www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/my...
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My Clean Water Story: Walter Boynton
Boynton’s early research at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory helped shape the Bay’s recovery plan
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Aside from the blatant illegality here, you’ll get this right after your tariff dividend, your freedom dividend, Trump’s health care plan, and your $2 gas
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The three cardinal rules of communication: If it’s important, say it simply, repeat it (at every opportunity), and ask as many other trusted people as you can to also repeat it. This is what works. Trust me on this…I’m a communication scientist. Seriously.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good! www.thebanner.com/culture/food...
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Maryland is probably never getting a Buc‑ee’s
Maryland’s liberal-leaning ways may have gotten it placed on the do not expand list at Buc‑ee’s, the convenience store chain, with a cult-like following.
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation @chesapeakebayfdn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Virginia’s agricultural cost-share program helps improve water quality and reduce pollution reaching the Chesapeake Bay. However, a new JLARC report found the program could prioritize more cost-effective practices to get the most from state funding. Read more about it with the link below.
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Virginia Panel Highlights Need to Modernize Vital Agricultural Cost-Share Program • Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Virginia’s popular agricultural cost-share program has contributed significantly to improving local water quality in the Commonwealth and cutting pollution that ultimately flows into the Chesapeake Ba...
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Do better @nytimes.com! From a start at $60 dollars per barrel to $100 per barrel is a 67 percent rise, not 40 percent. Don't use Trump math. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Oil Hits $100 a Barrel as Turmoil Intensifies in Middle East (Gift Article)
The cost of crude has risen 40 percent since the start of the war in Iran, pushing up the price of gasoline, diesel and other refined fuels.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You are a raindrop falling on Minnesota's Hill of Three Waters, with no idea which of three seas you'll reach: the Gulf via the Mississippi, the Atlantic via Lake Superior, or Hudson Bay via the Red River. You clueless little raindrop... Source: buff.ly/bx7KIuW
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He's got it!
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fixed it for you #Google
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Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The U.S. loses 390–540 GW of wind, solar, and storage over the next decade under current policy. This will result in an average utility bill increase of $230/year by 2035. 🔌💡 @nrdc.org www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
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NRDC Report: How Trump’s Actions Are Hiking Utility Bills and Destroying Investments
The full suite of President Trump’s actions is set to destroy a massive $700 billion in new power investments over the next decade, leading utility bills to spike by an average of $230 a year, while o...
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
People are often surprised when I tell them I was born and raised in New Orleans, asking why I don't have a southern accent. Well, although I have toned it down, I spoke the 9th Ward Yat dialect. Listen to the video to appreciate it. www.nola.com/entertainmen...
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The distinctive ‘Yat’ accent is fading away. What might New Orleans lose with it?
Less “dis” and “dat.” Fewer “ersters.” Far too few people asking about “ya mamma n’em.” Regulars at Rocky and Carlo’s are keeping the Yat dialect alive over plates of macaroni and red gravy-- for now....
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maybe it will start a trend? Change Lake Erie to Lake Buffalo, Lake Huron to Lake Michigan, Lake Michigan to Lake Wisconsin, and Lake Superior to Lake Inferior.
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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On the afternoon of August 28, 2005, Hurricane #Katrina reached its lifetime maximum intensity of 175 mph, a Category 5 hurricane, and a very large one at that. [1/2]
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The worst energy policy in the world" - fossil fuel subsidies #climatecrisis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The worst energy policy in the world
The Iran war could serve as a turning point in accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels: Every additional day that oil and gas prices are high and future supplies are uncertain, wind ...
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What an embarrassment for our nation this huckster is. apnews.com/article/lake...
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Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' in the United States
President Donald Trump says he's renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 26/08/2026
Here’s the underlying technical note, presumably written by mirror-USGCRP director and zircon geochronologist Matt Wielicki, and definitely in the voice of a LLM. www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
Pangram report: 100% of this text is AI
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Started 40 years ago after we at @lumcon.bsky.social put the new R/V Pelican into service, surveying the notorious Gulf Dead Zone has been continued annually by 2 indefatigable women scientists. Unfortunately, we have not done much to reduce the pollution causing it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/s...
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Mapping America’s Largest ‘Dead Zone’ (Gift Article)
In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
OMG! The senator from Louisiana, Dr. Bill “Umbrella” Cassidy, once again has “strong concerns” about a Trump nominee! CACO www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Panel Chairman Raises ‘Strong Concerns’ Over F.D.A. Nominee
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 18/08/2026
AGU is documenting the real-world impacts of recent U.S. Administration actions that have resulted in cuts, delays, and disruptions at NSF and other science agencies. Take the AGU Survey today. Responses before 31 August are most immediately helpful. 🔗 spklr.io/63325ERlCv
AGU: Advancing Earth and Space Sciences logo.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If having Jeff Landry, Mike Johnson & Bill Cassidy as your elected officials wasn't bad enough, as a native of Louisiana I am appalled by this anti-vax, MAHA surgeon general in a state with just about the worst public health. J'sis tellement chagrin, cher. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
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How Louisiana’s New Surgeon General Wants to Transform Public Health (Gift Article)
Dr. Evelyn Griffin is pushing for more emphasis on wellness and prevention. She has also aligned with the MAHA movement in fighting government mandates and questioning the safety of some vaccines.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 17/08/2026
Members of Congress are speaking out against a proposal to put Big Oil above the law. 👏 Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to give fossil fuel companies sweeping immunity from any laws or lawsuits that could hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis.
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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Rhine, Danube, Elbe, Po and other great European rivers run dry because of climate change, disrupting commerce, agriculture and energy. How unusual is it? Mammoth remains were uncovered in Bulgaria. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/o...
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Opinion | Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock. (Gift Article)
Climate change is beginning to tear up the old map of Europe’s power and wealth.
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