Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas 311071216
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenKees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn. 7621121247
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 17/09/2026A vessel speeding through the water so fast it crushes endangered whales against its prow, a developer clearcutting a forest and killing the endangered bats who live there — these deaths may no longer be considered illegal if the Trump administration gets its way. Please help us fight back ⬇️bit.lyGive Now to Save the WildJoin the fight to protect wildlife and wild places with a gift to the Center for Biological Diversity. 37551
Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Several people have commented that they are glad I am hopeful. But I wouldn’t describe my feeling as hope. It’s that I believe in appreciate the moment and what we have even though is changing fast . substack.com/@eamonka/not...substack.comSpiritually Reckoning with Climate Change in the Sierra, Part OneIt’s been a long, hot summer. 010
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenJef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026Six years ago today. Photo taken at high noon. Atmospheric CO2 then: 411.75 ppm Atmospheric CO2 today: 426.57 ppm Got to keep driving while the world burns down because of driving. #OrangeSkyDay 011331
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Same AI. Same productivity gains. Very different outcomes for workers. The difference is who owns it. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 1022360
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAbu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Never forgive never forget 04713
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAndrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 10/08/2026*Record-breaking*: July 2026 displaced the Dust Bowl-era July of 1936 as well as July of 2012 to take the title of the US' hottest month on record since NOAA's record-keeping began in 1895. www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...cnn.comJuly was the hottest month in the US since records began in 1895 | CNNJuly was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 38859
Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026When I wrote about the Iran war’s economic distortions back in April this is the kind of thing I was talking about. tcf.org/content/comm... 000
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850. 9035121735
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A dangerous wind shift (visible on radar imagery) has just occurred in #Spokane, WA, where major wildfire disaster is currently unfolding. Three separate major fires (circled) near or within city limits have already caused major structure loss & chaotic, expanding evacs. #WAwx 10452211
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026US defeat in Iran isn't just real. It's quantifiable. And it can get a whole lot worse.forever-wars.comThe Math Behind The U.S. Defeat in IranMissile-interceptor stocks are dwindling after only five months. That Memorandum of Understanding is looking pretty enticing! 524486
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Incredible story: With the help of AI, U.S. officials created a map that mislabeled every country in Africa. www.reuters.com/world/africa...reuters.comUS government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen... 34728195
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Israel keeps moving the ‘yellow line’ deeper into Gaza, forcing more civilians out each time. Palestinian territory has shrunk by more than a quarter since Trump’s pseudo-ceasefire came into effect last year. Nidal al-Mughrabi & Ebrahim Hajjaj, @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/middle...reuters.comIsrael's yellow line, a shifting edge of war pushing Gazans from homeOn a road in Gaza City's Zeitoun district, Palestinian resident Assem Dawla loaded mattresses and bags onto a truck as concrete yellow blocks marking the edge of Israel's expanding military zone stoo... 13623
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026What’s wild is that only a few years ago, “prediction markets” had a whole different name and you used to have to go to Reno or Atlantic City to participate, otherwise it was a crime. Now we can’t even regulate them. 81210306
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"After analyzing federal and industry records, including never-before-examined data on vehicle dimensions, we found that the rise of large pickups and S.U.V.s is an important factor." i'm sorry but how the fuck is this correlation just coming to light now?nytimes.comThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found. 1101932348
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better. 630790
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenKate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Sure but they‘re really stupid questions 35735136
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenEric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 18/05/2026The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President. 2197113
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026Trump just stole $1.8B. He’s going to give it to his business, his kids, and people like Flynn, Eastman, Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers. He’s doing this without court approval or Congress. This is a crime, but there’s no one to prosecute it because the DoJ is in on it. 29539831776
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenSam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 16/05/2026My new @foreignpolicy.com piece on these U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks as an exercise in humiliation for the United States' would-be Lebanese partners: foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/15/t...foreignpolicy.comTrump’s Lebanon Negotiations Are Breaking the CountryRather than acting as a good-faith mediator, Trump is humiliating the Lebanese government. 032
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenThanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social · 12/05/2026America started a war it couldn’t win. How does the world look without a dominant superpower? @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social previews our new era of asymmetric finance, trade, and warfare on Order from Ashes @centuryintl.bsky.social 2187
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenStephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Pete Hegseth told Congress the Iran War has cost $25 billion. Hegseth lied — the US has spent at least $72 billion. My latest for @popular.info: popular.info/p/the-real-c... 10316138
Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Climate change is an affordability issue. Most of us will experience it as an increase in the cost of living paired with a commensurate erosion of its standards. 000
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenOrder from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Since Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on March 2, Western hawks have revived colonial-era schemes to build pipelines from the Gulf to Israel. These fantastical proposals won’t work, and cannot solve the growing energy crisis. New report from CI fellow Zack Cuyler. 123
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenOrder from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026America’s war economy helps no one. Short term: ends lives, undermines democracy, makes daily life unaffordable. Long term, even worse: pitches world into recession and dystopia. New Order from Ashes episode from @eamonka.bsky.social and @tcambanis.bsky.social youtube.com/playlist?lis... 111
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/04/2026The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.sfchronicle.comTrump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxideOPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes. 9617281
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenDr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich 15560842142
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenOrder from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The pain that consumers are feeling from the Iran war is real, and likely to get worse. But those short-term costs are only the tip of the economic iceberg, writes CI editor-in-chief @eamonka.bsky.social in a new commentary. 111
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenSam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 02/04/2026@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @eamonka.bsky.social lays out how Trump's war on Iran – in addition to being monstrous and wrong – will also incur all kinds of second-order economic costs, making Americans' lives materially worse: tcf.org/content/comm...tcf.orgThe Iran War’s Forever Costs Will Far Exceed the Immediate Pain for ConsumersThe most headline-grabbing economic effects of the Iran war are immediate, directly felt in consumers’ daily life: Pump prices are up 35 percent, and the 032
Eamon Kircher-Allen @eamonka.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Got to stretch my econ muscles and explain just how bad the Iran war is for the US economy—and it goes way beyond inflation. New commentary for @centuryintl.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...tcf.orgThe Iran War’s Forever Costs Will Far Exceed the Immediate Pain for ConsumersThe most headline-grabbing economic effects of the Iran war are immediate, directly felt in consumers’ daily life: Pump prices are up 35 percent, and the 000
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenThanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Runaway war spending disfigures every aspect of the economy. Americans will be paying the costs of Trump’s reckless war on Iran for generations. @eamonka.bsky.social for @centuryintl.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm... 022
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAnthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The @cssl.bsky.social is reporting zero snow water equivalent this morning, with just a little snow left around the property. It’s the earliest melt out of the lab’s snowpack since 2015. Median March 30 snow water equivalent is 34 inches. #CAwx 76726
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them 5180292143
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/03/2026Unless there's a sudden shift in weather conditions, preliminary estimates show that 2026 set another new record low maximum extent for #Arctic sea ice. This follows very closely with last year, which previously set the record. Not good! Download graphic at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 5243105
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenMichael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 22/03/2026There are so many ways in which this war can still escalate much further. 520914
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenEdward Russell @byerussell.com · 20/03/2026“Bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removal” 10/10 hed, no notes. #bikedcwashingtonpost.comBike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removalAfter the 15th Street bike lanes were constructed, bicycle injury crashes decreased by 91 percent, according to the District Department of Transportation. 633085
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I dunno, man. I really just do not know what to say at this point. 1022714
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/03/2026...And, again today, a huge swath of the continental United States clear across from the Pacific Coast to Mississippi River is experiencing all-time March monthly record heat. Some locations are so hot that they are actually exceeding *April* all-time record highs. Incredible. 1020891
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAnthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I'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. 812643964
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenMichael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 17/03/2026This is true but also a very problematic framing that has been adopted by too many. The issue isn’t simply a lack of strategy, it is a lack of justification for launching the war in the first place. 3389
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/03/2026I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n... 13140792066
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenMichael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 08/03/2026A rebooted global version of the neoconservative fervor of March 2003. 1507
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenSam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 06/03/2026The U.S. and Israel – whose war of aggression you co-signed – are working to turn a vast swathe of the region into an ungoverned waste, from which millions of new refugees will flee to Europe You absolute doofus x.com/clashreport/... 4299
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenOrder from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The "forever war" paradigm doesn't really describe the Iran war, writes @abujamajem.com. This U.S.–Israeli attack is something more acute, and immediate—this is a war of aggression, chaotic and wild. 1124
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenOrder from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Hezbollah escalated a war with Israel that had never ended, despite a nominal ceasefire. Renewed fighting will punish Lebanese civilians, but will probably also further weaken Hezbollah. @abujamajem.com in new roundtable tcf.org/content/comm... 063
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/03/2026Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more." 8041340315
Reposted by Eamon Kircher-AllenSaikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 28/02/2026NO! Wednesday or Thursday is too late. You do not need to be briefed before voting on this. Troops should stop all military action now. 33610