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Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.
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Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter
It has long been convenient for people opposed to any given protest movement to characterize it as being far more violent and lawless than it actually is. It's just that usually we can be relatively sure that the people doing the characterizing know that they are lying.
The (Rest of the) World is Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind
For the first time, renewable energy generated more electricity globally than coal. We're not going back.
What Even Is a Trump Presidential Library?
That's what the "library" will be in this case: a legal-on-its-face way for a lifetime scam artist to continue scamming the American public even after he, hopefully, leaves office.
Breaking: HHS, Commerce, Probably Other Agencies Send Entire Staff Email Blaming Democrats for Shutdown
A Commerce Department employee called it a "wild" message to come from agency leadership. "It's crazy."
What Do These Ghouls Even Want
Every week there is some cabinet member or other official or striving red state governor laying bare their grotesque yearnings to the world, or more likely to the television they hope the big guy is currently watching.
"Shut It All Down": Largely Kept in the Dark, Many Federal Employees Are Itching For a Fight
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe below! On Thursday morning, one part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration held an "emergency" all-hands meeting. The gist, according to a source who attended, was more or less that leadership had
A Collection of Responses to the "Dangerously Irresponsible" White House Press Conference on Tylenol and Autism
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! It was genuinely hard to watch without starting to smash things. The press conference delivered on Monday by the president, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and various other walking Dunning-Kruger demonstrations was so filled
Companies Keep Buying Future Fusion Power That Definitely, For Sure, Absolutely Will Exist
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! The Italian oil and gas giant Eni announced an agreement on Monday to buy electricity "worth more than $1 billion" from a power plant that has not been built but totally, definitely, no-question-about-it
Why Is the DOJ Telling NIH Staff They Can't Attend a Public Health Conference?
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone On Wednesday, employees at various parts of the National Institutes of Health received an odd email. Shared with me by multiple sources, the messages informed them that they should not
Robert Redford, Environmentalism, and the Most Prescient Movie Ever Made
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone Robert Redford died on Tuesday, at 89. You can head literally anywhere else to read full obituaries about one of Hollywood's best and most beautiful leading men — we&
The Attempted Murder of Offshore Wind Power
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone On Friday, the Trump administration filed a motion in the US District Court in Baltimore requesting that the court revoke government approval for the Maryland Offshore Wind Project. The government
HHS Foists Halucination Machine on Entire Department
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! On Tuesday morning, leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services sent an email to its entire tens of thousands of staff. Shared with me by a source inside HHS, it proudly announced that
'The Walls Are Collapsing': The View From Inside NIH as Shutdown Looms
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! The public and Congressional attention focused on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in recent weeks is, obviously, understandable. There is an immediacy to an assault on the country's premier public health
Mississippi, Florida, and the Coming Vaccine Apocalypse
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! Subscribe to Gravity Is Gone Consider Mississippi. According to a memo from the state's Department of Health in March of this year, "There have been no reported cases of measles in Mississippi
Government abandons climate science, but climate scientists won't abandon government
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! It is an uphill battle, of course, when faced with such clear-eyed farce. There is a sense of bringing a powerpoint presentation to a food fight — a collection of more than 85 climate scientists have
What can be done with RFK Jr.'s aggressive ignorance?
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! There is no shortage of absurdities at the periodic debasement competitions that are Trump Cabinet meetings. At this week's version, one could find the Labor Secretary encouraging the president to go look at
'A lot of folks are terrified': FEMA joins EPA in retaliation against dissenting staff
The result of all that is an obvious chilling of the federal workforce's speech.
Gravity Relaunched
The media industry: great fun forever. Last week, I was laid off from my role as deputy editor of Splinter, where I spent about a year and a half covering — among other things — climate change, science, public health, and their intersection with politics and policy. Over the seven months of
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A low-gravity Happy New Year
As you might have (almost certainly didn’t) noticed, it’s been quiet around the Gravity Is Gone hallways the last year-plus. Just to catch you up, that’s because after spending the bulk of my career as a freelancer, I have now been on staff as a climate reporter
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The Climate Left and Deference to Moderation
Over at his Slow Boring site, Matt Yglesias has a bit of a screed against the “climate left.” He argues, basically, that the activist groups (like the Sunrise Movement) pushing for transformational action on climate change are ignoring political realities, are muddling up too many other issues along with climate,
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Knowns and Exxons and Unknowns
Two decades of climate inaction and the two damning quotes that bookend them.
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Rolling With Sheldon
With climate change, there is no single corner to turn.