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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/08/2026

The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Met the indefatigable Jane Fonda and heard about her PAC to elect climate champions!

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The “collapse” of the “AMOC” circulation (a confusing term first used in the 2000s) has become a source of confusion and hype for years. This is a good overview of the science, without hype, and shows that it may far more resilient than some say. An important read. www.science.org/content/arti...

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The ocean current that warms Europe may be more resilient than feared

Studies of the Atlantic's circulation find signs of both weakening and unexpected stability in the face of global warming

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2026

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Amidst hantavirus & Ebola outbreaks, the world has not paid much attention to this devastating (and totally preventable) outbreak of measles in Bangladesh Since mid-March, the country has seen more than 60,000 suspected cases and 528 suspected measles-related deaths!! www.npr.org/2026/05/24/g...

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Today, we published the @ember_energy Global Electricity Review 2026. That also means 2025 electricity generation data for over 100 countries and regions is now LIVE on our data explorer, data downloads and API. Open electricity data for everyone! ember-energy.org/data/electri...

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I had a real pleasure to moderate this panel with Gina McCarthy and Bob Inglis. Two people, with very different backgrounds, who enjoy a true friendship and desire to protect our planet. I think there's a lot to learn here. Check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaR...

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Climate change: Seeking bipartisan solutions during turbulent times

YouTube video by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The 2025 Harvard #Climate Action Week is underway and FXB Faculty Affiliate @gaurabbasu.bsky.social and his team have been working towards organizing and empowering health professionals to advance solutions. Read more on @aamc.org ➡️ tinyurl.com/58ch48s5 This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Make COP 30's big announcement - solar for everyone

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The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health @docsforclimate.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

How can one climate event impact families’ health, economic security, and well-being? Health professionals see the effects firsthand. Their stories show us the reality of how these disasters destroy lives and livelihoods. Explore them in our new report. bit.ly/OneClimateEv...

One Climate Event Away: Stories of Climate Change From the Frontlines of Health

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 16/08/2025

UK's End of Coal: "Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour. Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We are very excited to launch a new fellowship teaching community organizing and advocacy to global climate and health scholars. And it'll be in beautiful Nafplio Greece! Please share with anyone who might be interested. fxb.harvard.edu/global-coach/

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Global Community Organizing and Advocacy for Climate and Health (Global COACH) Scholars

An FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Course Co-sponsored by the Global Climate and Health Alliance, Stanley Center for Peace and Security, Health Care Without Harm, CHA Cente...

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Good morning with good news: US solar surges 26.3% in May 2025 to 39.9 TWh, up from 30.6 TWh in May 2024. Solar nearly tripled from 13.9 TWh in May 2020. Solar May Share of Total Electricity: May 2025: 11.2% May 2024: 8.65% May 2023: 7.31% May 2022: 6.14% May 2020: 4.51% May 2015: 1.21% #energysky

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Bill Weir @billweircnn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A couple entries for the baby book, just to mark the era.

Bar chart showing how the Republicans's Big Beautiful Bill will spend nearly $5 trillion on extended tax breaks for the wealthy while saving far less with steep cuts to Medicaid and green energy and the environment.

Alongside is a long list of proposed budget cuts including "Rescission of funding to address air pollution" and "Rescission of funding to address air pollution at schools."

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Call these 2 critical votes to vote no on the federal bill Lisa Murkowski - 202 224-6665 Susan Collins - 202 224-2523

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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Excited for the WBUR festival in Boston later this month! I’ll be speaking with Harvard Medical’s @gaurabbasu.bsky.social about health in the climate era. Tickets still available!

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 13/05/2025

Rhodium Group on the House budget bill: Will raise energy costs as much as 7% in 2035, stifle energy technology innovation, increase pollution, and put half a trillion dollars of new manufacturing, industrial, and clean electricity investments across the country at risk. rhg.com/research/way...

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Ways and Means Brings the Hammer Down on Energy Credits

The House Ways and Means Committee issued its proposed language for inclusion in Congress’s massive budget reconciliation package. It’s the opening attempt to reduce spending in order to partially…

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Harvard Chan Environmental Health @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Listen to @gaurabbasu.bsky.social on the Frontiers in Health & Happiness podcast from the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness! Dr. Basu shared, “Climate change, ecological degradation, air pollution, it basically impacts all parts of our health."

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Climate Change and Well-being with Dr. Gaurab Basu

In the first episode of our new "Environments for Health and Happiness" series, we sit down with Dr. Gaurab Basu, a leading expert in the intersection of cli...

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very honored to speak at the @wbur.org festival among some legendary folks. Buy ticks and join us! www.wburfestival.org/lineup

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Lineup | The WBUR Festival

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Celebrating earth day at National Academy of Medicine. We continue to stand for climate and health.

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Rewiring America @rewiringamerica.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

American households could save an average of $2,240 a year on their energy bills if we keep 2 very important renewable energy tax credits: 25D (think solar and storage) and 25C (think heat pumps and insulation). Why is this so important?

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Courage is contagious. From Harvard Yard to every inch of the country.

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"In California, solar generation could finally surpass gas this year." Actually, the probability that solar surpasses gas in 2025 is high! Gas fell from 50% of CA's electricity in January 2024 to 40% in January 2025, and solar rose from 20% to 28%. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #energysky

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hands off our planet. Hands off our health. Hands off our democracy. A packed Boston Commons. Spring is upon us.

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

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Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

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Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle

Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it

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Silvio Marcacci @silviomarcacci.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

790,000 lost jobs, $32 billion in higher household energy bills, $160 billion lost GDP Shocking economic damage will hit America if Trump and Congressional Republicans repeal the Inflation Reduction Act - and GOP states will be hardest hit www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

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790,000 Jobs, $160 Billion GDP: Shocking Costs Of Inflation Reduction Act Repeal

Inflation Reduction Act repeal would harm America's economy, costing 790,000 jobs, cutting $160 billion in GDP, and forcing families to pay $32 billion in energy costs

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Good climate news this week 1 Germany anchors net zero by 2045 goal in constitution 2 Emissions from global construction sector stop rising 3 BYD unveils new EV tech to charge a vehicle enough for 400km in just 5 minutes 1/

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/03/2025

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

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Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution

The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In Kenya parents who took their sick children to get tested for TB the day before Trump was inaugurated are still waiting to hear if their children are infected. People with drug-resistant TB are not being treated. A global health risk, delivered by the aid freeze www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

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Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally (Gift Article)

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

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Dr. Gaurab Basu @gaurabbasu.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Happy to share that I've started a new clinical role at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity. I'll continue my faculty roles at Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

WELP. They sent everyone home, and now they've just reopened the series and put the bill back on the floor. Members had left Capitol Hill for the night, now they are turning around and driving back, I've never seen this happen before in 10+ years working here

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Amazing scenes. There’s a reason Trump/Elon love the executive orders and the king routine, and part of it is: they don’t have the votes to do it constitutionally.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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