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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why did Ken Paxton run an ad during the 1pm Eagles-Rams game in the Philly media market??

Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Despite climate hushing, concern about the climate crisis is the second highest it’s ever been among Democrats. And very close to the all-time high among Independents.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Grotesque

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In Boston and ran along the river. If you’re on the path along the river and want to cross the BU bridge, you can’t b/c the stairs up to the bridge are on the other side of a very busy road w no crossing. Stairs on that side of the road would be a simple but big improvement! @wutrain.bsky.social

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

www.planetizen.com/news/2026/08... "Living in a tree-lined city brings numerous benefits for its residents: they cool streets by up to two degrees Fahrenheit, improve air quality, better residents mental health and even decrease heat-related illnesses and deaths."

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NYC will add nearly 10,000 acres of ‘urban forest’ by 2040

The city aims to increase canopy tree coverage by nearly 30% to cool streets and decrease heat-related illness.

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thinking about the Da Vinci quote I saw in the Da Vinci museum in Rome that the human body being the most sophisticated machine he ever saw.

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Der einzige Weg ist weg von Einwegplastik zu kommen.

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea... Electric heat pumps for industrial use saving this cheesemaker $94,000 per year by cutting electricity use in half. Highly efficient technology. More and more often, climate solutions are just better technology, regardless of their crucial emissions reductions.

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World’s oldest cheddar-maker slashes energy bills with novel heat…

Innovative tech from U.K.-based Arkaya Energy cools fresh milk and redirects the resulting heat, saving Barber’s Farmhouse Cheesemakers more than $90,000…

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We need more of this! Climate policy that improves peoples live directly. Wir brauchen mehr davon! Klimapolitische Maßnahmen, die das Leben von Leuten konkret verbessern.

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FALTER. Die Wochenzeitung aus Wien @falter.at · 06/08/2026

Die Dürre sorgt für zunehmende Probleme im Osten Österreichs. Am Mittwoch brach ein Großbrand in der Lobau aus, trotz Probleme mit der Wasserversorgung konnte das Feuer gebändigt werden. Welche Folgen das trockene Klima auf Landwirtschaft, Stromversorgung und Pflanzen hat ↓

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Hitzewelle: Die Lobau brannte und das ist nur eine Folge der Dürre

Waldbrände, Ernteausfälle, Probleme bei der Energieversorgung: Die Dürre stellt die Stadt vor Herausforderungen >>…

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Waldbrände, Dürre, Wasserknappheit, Extremtemperaturen. Ist keine Übertreibung: Heimatschutz = Klimaschutz Unserer Lebensstil, unsere Gesundheit, unsere Traditionen, unsere Wirtschaft stehen alle im Gefahr.

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Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com

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The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms

“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🚨NEW from me: leading climate scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social tells me of his anger after witnessing firsthand the devastating Gironde wildfires - which he ties directly to politicians' inaction on fossil fuels.

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Climate Scientist Fleeing Wildfires: ‘We’re In A Race Against Time’

Professor Stefan Rahmstorf escapes out-of-control wildfires in France, and warns fossil fuel inaction is supercharging climate disasters.

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Run On Climate @runonclimate.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Check out Your Guide to Climate Action: How to Move Beyond Your Footprint and Make a BIG Impact by Run On Climate supporter Ryan Hagen. For the next two weeks, Ryan will donate $10 from every book sold to Run On Climate.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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doew.at @doew.at · 23/07/2026

Wir haben unsere Unterlassungsklage gegen die FPÖ vor dem OGH gewonnen. Unsere Stellungnahme zu dem juristischen Erfolg findet sich auf www.doew.at/neues/doew-g...

DÖW gewinnt vor OGH gegen die FPÖ

Der Oberste Gerichtshof sieht „keine, auch keine ‚schmale‘ Tatsachengrundlage“ in der Behauptung der FPÖ, das DÖW sei pseudowissenschaftlich. Außerdem stehe fest, dass das Personal des DÖW aus anerkannten Expert*innen bestehe. Die FPÖ muss ihre Behauptung widerrufen und künftig unterlassen. Nähere Informationen zu dem Urteil finden sich auf doew.at

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Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I've seen enough! In City Hall, I'm working on transit improvements and decarbonization buildings right now. We know that gas in buildings and oil from cars and trucks are the two biggest sources of carbon pollution. Transit and electrification of buildings are our way out.

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Run On Climate @runonclimate.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Senior Policy Associate, Peter Jarka-Sellers, has seen that growth firsthand over the past 14 months as our policy team has expanded its capacity to aid communities with new and bold climate policy. Here's to five years of growth and looking forward to the next five. 💚

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/06/2026

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program

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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

SCOOP: Memo by Rubio Approved Detention of Immigrant Who Criticized Trump Ally www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

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Memo by Rubio Approved Detention of Immigrant Who Criticized Trump Ally

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Quitting Carbon Media @quittingcarbon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

California is installing zero-emission electric appliances and energy-saving upgrades at no cost to low-income households under @calenergy.bsky.social's Equitable Building Decarbonization Program: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/california-i... 🔌💡

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California is investing a half-billion dollars to decarbonize homes for low-income households

California is installing zero-emission electric appliances and energy-saving upgrades at no cost to low-income households across the state under the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program.

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Dr. Ismail Küpeli @ismail-kuepeli.de · 07/06/2026

"Die öffentliche Demütigung gab es schon mal. Von 1933 bis 1945 wurden etwa Sinti und Roma oder Juden auch gezwungen, vor der Haustür zu kehren und dann wurden sie deportiert. Die Botschaft lautet: 'Ihr seid nirgendwo sicher"

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Max Miller @maxmiller.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Bovino empfahl der AfD, bei Zwangsmigration auf erprobte, deutsche "Kreativität" zu setzen. "The germans are very good at this. If you put that kind of creativity and innovation into mass remigration, you will be very successful and very quickly successful."

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Secretary Haaland (my former boss) will be a great next Governor of New Mexico! She lead on climate, clean energy, and justice for Native people at the Department of the Interior and will certainly continue that work as Governor.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 14/05/2026

This fall, the high court will hear arguments from Big Oil companies seeking to escape accountability for their climate lies. Despite holding significant investments in the oil and gas industry, Justice Alito hasn't recused—an "indefensible breach of ethical boundaries," say gov't watchdogs.

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Watchdog groups urge Senate to investigate Samuel Alito over oil stock conflicts

Groups say supreme court justice, who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating ethics codes by participating in certain cases

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Sue AnderBois @sueanderbois.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In contrast to earlier post - the City’s push to decarbonize - including the Carbon Neutral Buildings ordinance that I authored and passed and the Building Energy Reporting Ordinance I sponsored - is saving us real money in our budget. pvdeye.org/providence-g...

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Amid Energy Crisis, Smiley Budget Cuts City Spending on Utilities. How? Municipal Decarbonization. - The Providence Eye

Officials project that Providence’s municipal utility costs will fall by nearly $2 million dollars this year while, at the same time, cutting emissions. At a time when the Trump administration is figh...

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Coal use for electricity generation in India is down due in large part to significant and accelerating increases in clean power, especially solar! www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/ap... #energysky

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Run On Climate @runonclimate.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Local climate action is real when it reaches the buildings we live in. Vermont’s geothermal projects are a reminder that cutting emissions can also mean more resilient, affordable, neighborhood-scale solutions. 🏘️#LocalAction

canarymedia.com

Vermont’s first neighborhood geothermal project prepares to break…

The gas utility and affordable housing developers building the system are pressing on with their plan despite the Trump administration’s funding clawbacks.

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Here at the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels! The momentum here for a binding treaty to ditch fossil fuels is amazing. We need to keep building that momentum back home, demand a treaty, and demand that our national/state/city governments move beyond fossil fuels for good.

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you're going to be in Santa Marta, I'd love to connect there! Wenn du in Santa Marta sein wirst, lass uns gerne treffen!

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference was planned before the Iran war. … energy crisis has greatly raised the stakes.” techxplore.com/news/2026-04...

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The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout

US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as "drill, baby, drill." Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global ...

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you're going to be in Santa Marta, I'd love to connect there! Wenn du in Santa Marta sein wirst, lass uns gerne treffen!

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Join me at SF Climate Week for a virtual panel discussion I'm moderating! 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 w/ @runonclimate.bsky.social I'll talk with three Bay Area city councilors, George Lu, @d4sanjose.bsky.social, & Matthew Solomon. Register here: luma.com/vjdt53vh

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Looking Towards Zero Emission Cities w/ Run On Climate · Luma

Can you imagine a fully zero emission, climate friendly city? This is where we need to get as fast as possible. This event features a conversation with three…

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

So gewinnt man einfach nicht. Statt implizit die falschen Argumente der anderen anzunehmen, muss man eine klare Gegenvision haben und selbstbewusst sagen, wie die Erneuerbaren günstigere Energie bedeuten.

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

He needs to be impeached and removed before he does even more damage. His presidency is a destructive, steadily unfolding disaster. I know impeachment is politically dead on arrival but it’s still important to say clearly that it is the solution this moment demands.

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Babcock & Peale @pealebabcock.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Write your own verse. Share with #OBeautifulFor @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa... - and see the power generation future of #India: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief

Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

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Building Decarbonization Coalition @buildingdecarb.org · 12/03/2026

🚨 Register now for the “Thermal Energy Networks in Minnesota: Where should we build them?” webinar tomorrow at 2 pm ET / 1 pm CT, where authors of the Minnesota #ThermalEnergyNetwork Site Suitability Study will discuss the study's findings. #EnergySky #Geothermal #BuildingDecarb bit.ly/4rs8P5f

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Thermal Energy Networks in Minnesota: Where should we build them?

In this webinar, Building The Future’s Chris Conroy will facilitate a discussion with some of the report’s authors—Noah Cordoba of the Building Decarbonization Coalition, Laura Helmke-Long of Slipstre...

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Congestion pricing has been a wild success thehill.com/opinion/ener...

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Peter Jarka-Sellers @pjarkasellers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Huge bike growth in San Diego after making it safer to ride! Annual bike trips jumped 50k to 115k after the lane was installed in 2021. By 2025, 132k. “The lesson is straightforward: when people feel safe, they ride.” www.planetizen.com/news/2026/02...

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After San Diego Installed a Protected Bike Lane, Ridership More Than Doubled — and Hasn’t Stopped Growing.

“When people feel safe, they ride.”

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