Shame on Brazil…

…for making us look feckless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/americas/bolsonaro-convicted-coup-attempt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.wkUP.mQKJS_co2VdC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

We knew this would happen before the election, but the price of eggs! The damage to the climate will last for decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/10/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Americans need to learn from the French about how to protest.

https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-protests-police-block-everything-208295b789e06106f408acf56148b6c6

Barnard College and Columbia University rank last in the annual College Free Speech Rankings. 🧐

https://www.thefire.org/news/2026-college-free-speech-rankings-americas-colleges-get-f-poor-free-speech-climate

The “school shooting industry” is one of the most depressing terms I’ve ever heard.

https://n.pr/42gMe1N

I went to the American embassy today to get a passport card that I could carry in my wallet to show my citizenship in case masked men try to kidnap me when I’m in the US. Seriously.

Is it too controversial to say that the leader of an organization shouldn't have romantic relationships with employees?

https://on.ft.com/47zSg18

I have an old bike jersey whose zipper needs repair. The quote for the repair is more than the cost of a new jersey, but I'm going to repair it because I want to live in a world where we repair things.

Climate change is going to make everything terrible.

https://apnews.com/article/tick-lyme-invasive-climate-426b062f99ca67150e4812113205e721

An aquifer under the sea? Let’s use it to water alfalfa for feeding cows.

https://apnews.com/article/freshwater-expedition-ai-501-cape-cod-5d62cae0f040d369b16d8400202f0a88

It’s not enough. They should pay the $150k fine per book.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j08.b0YP._5uXeaGwmX_L&smid=bs-share

The problem with conspiracy theorists is that they don’t care about facts. It’s fine for society when it’s just your reclusive crazy relatives who you see once a year at Thanksgiving, but it’s extremely dangerous when you put them in charge of millions of people’s lives.

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/rfk-jr-hhs-to-link-autism-to-tylenol-use-in-pregnancy-and-folate-deficiencies-e3acbb4c?st=dRW4Ub&reflink=article_copyURL_share

The governor of Hawaiʻi is a medical doctor, and it’s not surprising that we’ve joined the West Coast Health Alliance formed by California, Oregon, and Washington to coordinate public health guidelines and vaccine recommendations.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/05/hawaii-joins-state-alliance-coordinate-public-health-guidelines/

The amount of carbon that forests can take up is much lower than previous estimates. If we don't reduce CO₂ emissions rapidly, we can say goodbye to the Paris climate targets forever.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj6841

Early climate models by Suki Manabe of NOAA/GFDL in the 1960s and 1970s provided a foundation for modern climate science. They accurately predicted several key aspects of global warming, including the relationship to CO₂, stratospheric cooling, Arctic amplification, land-ocean temperature contrast, and delayed Southern Ocean warming.

https://theconversation.com/5-forecasts-early-climate-models-got-right-the-evidence-is-all-around-you-263248

Whether we aim to reduce atmospheric CO₂ by carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) or CO₂ removal (CDR), we must store the carbon somewhere durably. This new study shows that global geologic carbon storage capacity is 10 times less than previous estimates. Not good.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09423-y

Move to a blue state if you want to live.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/09/03/colorado-covid-vaccination-prescription-order/