The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
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In Mangling CDC Vaccine Pages, RFK Jr. Is Laughing In All of Our Faces
It's a schoolyard friend saying "I promise not to tell anyone your secret" and then shouting it from on top of the jungle gym, claiming he didn't tell "anyone," he told "the sky."
New NCI Director Says Administration Overtly Hostile to Cancer Research Is "Not Backing Away" From Cancer Research
A recording of the new director's first town hall reveals how he is trying to walk a difficult line between optimism and clear-eyed realism.
What Good Are UN Climate Talks Knee-Deep in Oil?
Some new analysis from activists sheds some light on just how deep into the international climate negotiations process Big Oil has managed to burrow.
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
The Long Tail of Hurricane Death Will Be Even Longer in Jamaica
A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mechanisms for years.
A Climate-Centric Analysis of the Latest Left-Punching Screed
The fact is, more people care about this than the authors suggest. More people will care even more as the years pass because the problem is not only not going away but actively getting worse.
Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
What Is the Biggest Hole Trump Has Ripped in the Walls?
A reasonable accounting of the major policies enacted in one way or another in the nine months of the Trump administration resembles, essentially, a series of weeping voids in the sides of various figurative edifices, now given corporeal form within view of the Treasury building.
'I Wanted My Body to Be Counted': Furloughed Federal Employees Join Enormous Day of Protest
"I can't just sit back and watch things fall apart."
Fossil Fuel Boosters Will Keep Trying to Speak Their Version of the Future Into Existence
The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.
Climate Tipping Points Don't Face in Just One Direction
Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.
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&