@kevinrns Here's a Hank Green video you might find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj_JYfY7Mf4Basically private oil companies like exxon are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to petroleum extraction, with state companies being the rest of it. Which would explain why states do nothing to stop exxon.

Just a reminder: #climate heating is still only at its beginning. It'll get much stronger, quickly, over the next decades - during the lifetime of most people alive today.Then, everybody will be surprised. But "we told you so!" won't feel very satisfying. Temperatures will change in the mean. That will shift weather patterns, such as the frequency, duration and location of extremes, alter seasons, produce hugely problematic ecological shifts, Earth feedbacks.And yes ... we told you so.

@greenpeace The profits of multinational corporations -- and everybody else -- DEPEND on the future of life on Earth.Just sayin

tl/dr: only suckers would buy batteries from the US or Europe (based on price), and China produces almost 10x as many

This is apparently quite racist...American Journal of Public Health:“A Widespread Superstition”: The Purported Invulnerability of Workers of Color to Occupational Heat StressThis study explores the history of the denial of the vulnerability of non-White workers to risks of heat illness. Defenders of chattel slavery argued for the capacity of workers of African descent to tolerate extreme environmental temperatures. In Hawai‘i, advocates of racial segregation emphasized the perils to Whites of strenuous work in tropical climates and the advantages of using Chinese immigrants. Growing reliance on Mexican immigrants in agriculture and other outdoor employment in the early 20th century brought forth claims of their natural suitability for unhealthful working conditions.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6727288/#racism #heatstroke #heat

@Akshay #ClimateCrisis

4-Jun-2026Global #mangroveForests rebound, offering hopeful sign for #climate and #coastal #resilience https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130248 #science #mangroves #ecology #environment #climateCatastrophe

When the bees go, so does civilization!South Korean beekeeper Park Gyeong-je who has tended beehives for nearly 50 years is now fighting to survive as climate change disrupts flower blooms, threatens the future of beekeeping and raises concern over how crops will be pollinated. @reuters.com#Bees #Climate #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

@jd I've been overusing this gif lately

Trump Administration to Dismantle #Ocean Monitoring System$368M network of instruments collecting data in #Atlantic & #Pacific has been critical to #climate and ocean research#CraigMcLean, acting chief scientist at #NOAA during first Trump term, said “This reflects the further lack of understanding that the current administration has of scientific value and scientific merit. By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.htmlhttps://archive.ph/fZ9CN