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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here’s one of my favorite Red Bank NJ landmarks this morning. This storm brought “major coastal flooding”. Historic storms w more water = Irene (2011), Dec ‘92 (1992), Donna (1960), & Sandy (2012). Plus maybe 4 other pre-1965 storms that were before my time. Photo via Monmouth Boat Club on FB.

Photo of the Monmouth Boat Club main building, flooded in 9/26/26 nor’easter.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NJ light tonight has been amazing. I couldn’t quite capture it.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s worth remembering that a lot of people in the northeast (esp. Maine, NH, VT) use oil to heat their homes. Heating oil is approx diesel fuel, is at a historic high price, and is more than double the price of a year ago. 😞 (This data is from 2020 census.)

Map of US showing census data on primary source of home heat. Most of New England uses fuel oil.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A major problem w the NESE pipeline is that its installation will disturb centuries of highly polluted muck on the bottom of Raritan Bay, creating lots of pollution for the bay and the NY Bight in general…just as the water is getting cleaner. Cleaner water = more whales in Raritan Bay each year. 🐋

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You can’t tell from my Bsky feed, but my top priority is: building political will for climate action at the US federal level. My personal outreach this past year: - 32 calls & emails to my Members of Congress (MoCs) on climate-related policy - 5 lobby meetings w MoC staff H/t @cclusa.org 🔌⚡️

Photo of >800 volunteer citizen lobbyists gathered in Washington DC in July 2026

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It looks like a July thunderstorm took out my rooftop solar inverter. 😞 Prob 2 weeks to get a new one. The only silver lining is that the current inverter is still under warranty, and the new inverter will probably have many fancy new features. Nonetheless, I am a bit sad. #rooftopsolar

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wrt paper maps and “turn at the broken sign” directions, you bet. For long trips, big maps and a AAA TripTik were the way to go. 🙂 I’m surprised to learn you can still get the spiral-bound, paper, personalized AAA TripTiks. 👍

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

You know Nicole Kelner’s picture? It’s my favorite. Heat pumps are magic. 🪄

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Timeline cleanse: The solar eclipse from two years ago, viewed from Shaker Heights, Ohio. 😁

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Yay. I’m headed out to Tinton Falls soon. “Our solution to climate change? Democracy.” - CCL

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“Candles flickered on the back bar and the building was shakin' with the wind” - James McMurtry in “Hurricane Party”. Yes, inspired by current events, I am listening to my climate disaster & protest playlist today.

Picture of James McMurtry’s album, “Live in Europe”.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

At first I wrote: ”I’m kinda attached to all three of them, but in different ways.” Upon reflection, I realize I’m a Longwell person. I now need the merch.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

“Where’s my $10,000?” - Justin Wolfers

Graph from Wolfers’ talk showing that in the last year US stocks are up 16% and the developed nations are up >35%.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I hope y’all had a contemplative MLK Jr Day. Here’s a good quote:

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Waiting for the sun to come back. 🔌💡

Bar graph of rooftop solar production in 2025 by month, low =<0.5MWh in December & hi = ~1.5MWh in July.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I hope @jamellebouie.net gives his current thoughts. I am a bit leery of the “ok, let’s let ourselves touch the stove” theory, bc I’m afraid of who gets burned. But I find his remarks last year compelling, esp the quote below. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/o...

If a political party wins multiple and overlapping electoral majorities on its platform, if it manages to build an actual legislative package, if it can move that package through two chambers of Congress…then that party deserves a chance to vote on its program without needing to assemble a super majority just to act. And if the voters don’t like it, they can vote them out. That is democracy. - Jamelle Boie 2024

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

It was a pleasure to be back on campus in Ithaca at Cornell this week. One of the topics at the meeting I attended was GenAI in the classroom. The most disturbing thing I heard is that the profs think students work in study groups less often now bc they have GenAI to lean on. 😔

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Red Bank NJ had a good turnout today. #NoKings My favorite sign = “I usually don’t go to protests, but WTF?!?”

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

and civilization will end in the next 20 years. Other than that, lots of kids made “clean energy bracelets” with me. The youth are our best hope. 2/2

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My @cclusa.org chapter did a tabling event today in central NJ. As it happened, our spot was right across the street from the local GOP. I went and talked to them, and I’m still processing. One convo was w a guy who repeated Secy. Chris Wright’s talking points almost vebatim. 1/

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I’m working on a music playlist for Sun Day. #sunday (I’ll put a good list I found in the replies.) I also looked for EV songs. Amazingly, Apple Music has a couple dozen songs called “Electric Car”. All obscure. But obvs EVs are an evocative idea. 🔌💡 P.S. There r very few songs called “Heat Pump”.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

At last, I’m reading John Vaillant’s “Fire Weather”. It’s straight-up good storytelling, alongside thoughtful explorations of questions like “why are humans so bad at imagining new catastrophic events, even when all the info is right in front of us?”. Highly recommended. #books #NewWord = petrocene

Image from the Audible edition of the book “Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World” by John Vaillant

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I think we all need a good sunset. Have a good weekend. And don’t forget to #TalkAboutClimate.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Anybody got a gift link to Greg Ip’s piece in the WSJ today?

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

At a time when our democracy is at risk, I volunteer for an organization whose slogan is "Our solution to climate change? Democracy." So when the going gets tough, the tough go to Capitol Hill and remind Congress that it's their job to fight the climate crisis. @cclusa.org #GrassrootsClimate

Photo of 850+ volunteer lobbyists from Citizens' Climate Lobby standing on the steps of the Capitol on a beautiful summer morning with an American flag and the Capitol dome in the background.

Photo of Citizens' Climate volunteers outside the office of Senator Kim, NJ, with staff members.

Photo of Citizens' Climate volunteers standing outside the office of Senator Booker, NJ, with staff.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Today is @cclusa.org Lobby Day on Capitol Hill. I couldn’t be there this year, but our CCL chapter is represented along w hundreds of other CCLers! I must say, our team is giving off a bit of a MIB vibe this morning. #GrasrootsClimate 1/

Photo of four citizen lobbyists from central NJ on Capitol Hill for CCL Lobby Day 2025.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The article talks a bit about the equipment.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🤷🏻‍♀️ NYTimes reporting says rather energetic warnings came at 5:30 am. But our systems for acting on them clearly are bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/w...

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

OTOH It’s nice that the solar has been cranking today.

Graph showing today’s rooftop solar generation at poster’s home, with a peak of >6kW and a total of >50kWhr.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Good point. I flew it regularly after 9/11. Maybe it’s time to get it out again.

Image of the Gadsdenflag: coiled rattlesnake on a golden yellow background w words “don’t tread on me.”

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

NCAA Lacrosse Final today in Massachusetts. Cornell vs. Maryland. Let’s Go Red! (On ESPN.) I’d be there w the band, but the last time I played the cymbals for two hours, I couldn’t move my arms for a week. #IAmOld And I would have missed my fave local Memorial Day event.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

“Optimism is a political act. … Cynicism is obedience.” - Alex Steffen

“Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.” - Alex Steffen, 2010

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

any one of a dozen other national disasters in US foreign & domestic policy. But thank you, @JessePeltan over on Twitter today for this fabulous graph & its label: fusion ☀️ beat fission 🏭 today. 👏 This made me smile. #solar #GrassrootsClimate #ClimateHope 2/2

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Good piece (tho I don’t really get the last sentence.) These observations caught my eye:

“The iShares Global Clean Energy ETF is up 0.8% so far this year, while the Strive US Energy ETF … is down by 8.4%.”

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Charging along interstates is v good. I prefer charging in rest areas, but full svc rest areas don’t seem to exist down south, so I’m happy to get fast chargers 2-5 min off the highway. And yes, I’m not selling my Tesla yet. I’ve got the bumper sticker tho. 😁 2/2

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A propos of nothing… #NewWord = “Square Grouper” It seems to date from the 1970s or 1980s, and it is a term, possibly coined by law enforcement, for a bale of grass etc pulled out of the ocean off the FL coast. 😁

Picture of neon sign that says “square grouper” from the Square Grouper restaurant in Jupiter FL.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is my favorite sign today: “I have ebooks with more spine than the GOP.” #HandsOff in Red Bank, NJ.

A handwritten sign at a #HandsOff protest that says “I have e-books with more spine than the than the GOP.”

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Red Bank, NJ today. #HandsOff Great signs. Good crowd. Nasty weather.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Nice!!! Here’s Red Bank NJ today. Cold & rainy but people came. #HandsOff

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Flying back to NJ from visiting family in CA, I was blessed w clear skies over south-central IL. I got this photo of a big wind farm from 37,000 ft. #wind Maybe it’s part of Twin Groves Wind Farm. 🔌💡 (Yes, I am #flyingless, but sometimes I gotta go see my mom.)

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This chart from the paper puts the fuel fee in context of other Canadian GHG reduction policies thru 2030. 🤔 #carbonpricing #CA climateinstitute.ca/news/industr...

Chart showing projection of GHG reductions from various Canadian policies. Fuel carbon price has one third the impact of the industrial carbon price.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’m always rooting for Antora. (And for others in this space.) #LTES #storage

Diagram that shows Antora’s thermal battery receiving “intermittent, low cost” electricity, storing it as heat, and then disbursing energy as industrial heat or electricity (via a proprietary “thermophotovoltaic heat engine”)

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

AFAICT corporate carbon taxes continue, but coverage in US media has been spotty too, so 🤷🏻‍♀️. (We have a lot going on.)

Political cartoon by Will Santino showing a machine spitting out lemons at a person who is trying to make lemonade, but he simply cannot keep up: there are too many lemons.

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

FYI. Historical power plan development times from SEIA. This is not considering current supply chain issues for nat gas. 🔌💡

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Sarah T. Fischell @sfischell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Read Roald Dahl’s piece below. Check out the CDC description of measles. Make sure your kids are vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/measles/sign...

Measles encephalitis is very serious complication of measles. And there’s no good treatment. 1 to 3 out of 1000 children w measles die.

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