An excerpt of Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, was published at TIME (and is the subject of my TED talk that’s being recorded later this month)
For anyone interested in the book, you can order it here:
If you are at University of Arizona and need an in-person class to handle this ICE rule, we can do an in-person (outside and while at least 6 feet away from each other) independent study if that helps the situation. I hope my colleagues who can do so join me in this offer.
A 🧵about the
#ProudBoys
in DC last night. Without counterprotesters to bait or anyone to beat up, they apparently turned on one another (and here's the video).
Dear
@AOC
, I've gotten so many inane and idiotic tweets since mentioning you and your efforts re
#ClimateChange
today. I can only imagine what you face--i have developed a new level of
#respect
. Keep up the good work!
The transcript does not do the clip justice. Note that Fauci was prepared with the specific paper in hand and a clear understanding of the review process.
RAND PAUL: Knowing it's a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement where you said the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan?
FAUCI: I've never lied before Congress & I don't retract that statement ... you don't know what you're talking about
Trump quietly canceled the rest of his campaign rallies yesterday. He’ll cancel the debates as well. In both, he would just embarrass himself, and he knows it. Until then, he’ll hide in the bunker while Americans are sick and dying, watching cable tv and tweeting crap. 124 days.
Short thread of Capitol police 'response' to the violence outside the
#USCapitol
yesterday. I've studied
#protest
for over 20 years and have NEVER seen such a bland and accommodating police response inside or outside the US.
ICYMI:
@JohnKerry
praises Rep
@AOC
efforts to combat
#climatechange
as opposed to
#PresidentTrump
who refuses to lead on this issue. “Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has in fact offered more leadership in one day or in one week than
#PresidentTrump
has in his lifetime on this. "
Treat the mid-terms like a presidential election. Everyone: work your tails off to elect a Congress that will restrain him and hold him accountable. That’s the only viable solution that we have any control over.
Trump humper Michael Knowles just called Greta Thunberg a "mentally ill Swedish child" and
@ChristopherHahn
tore him a new asshole.
"Maybe on your podcast you get away with saying whatever you want because no one is listening." 🤣
#HowDareYou
@ThePlumLineGS
@KevinMKruse
My school district was making masks mandatory... then the crazy crazies showd up at a school board meeting and did what they do. Now the district has reversed course and masks are no longer mandatory.
YES. Keeping the
#Senate
from voting on bills that have passed the House and have a chance of passing is a clear ACT of collaboration with
@realDonaldTrump
#Shutdown
We need to make this clearer.
In refusing votes on Dem bills reopening govt, Mitch McConnell isn't merely sitting on sidelines.
He's *actively shielding* Trump from having to veto them once they pass.
This, even though he *knows* Trump has no endgame:
My colleagues over at
@crowdcounting
tell me that 100,000 people marched in DC yesterday for
#WomensMarch2019
--that's BIGGER than last year! In terms of WHY they marched, there is remarkable consistency between this year's participants and last year
#THREAD
Just got a notice that our newly accepted paper is embargoed for 36 months--yes, that's THREE YEARS--and we wonder why academic work doesn't get out into the world while it's relevant. SMH.
Local activist groups (including
@ShutDown_DC
and
@DMVBlackLives
) worked tirelessly to encourage hotels to shut their doors to hate and it's great to see the results of their efforts play out in real(ish) time last night!
I'm hiring a PostDoc to work with me at the Center for
#Environment
, Community, & Equity at American University. If you are interested in building interdisciplinary teams to study and solve environmental problems, have a PhD, and can work in DC, APPLY!
Today, voters are mobilizing at 75+ rallies across the country in support of bold climate action that will create millions of good-paying jobs and lower costs for middle-class families.
It’s time for Congress to pass
@POTUS
' Build Back Better Plan. It's time to
#SealTheDeal
"We've got young people tuning in for the first times in their lives...this is their first exposure to American politics. The president of the U.S. is such a raving bigot that he likes stuff that cannot be shown to them on television. There's something wrong with that."
@AC360
In a disappointing break with tradition, Melania Trump will become the first modern first lady not to invite the woman who will replace her to the White House for a walk-through of the private living quarters on the second and third floors.
Remember that the term
#AlternativeFacts
(which has evolved into
#TheBigLie
) was first used by
#KellyannConway
2 days after Trump's Inauguration (in response to unflattering numbers of people attending the event)
Media who give a damn about truth after what Trump and his enablers have done to this country, should be ashamed of themselves to put Kellyanne Conway on the air, or to quote her in any way.
Giving her a platform makes YOU the problem.
@BuntyKritty
@Will_Bunch
This is what happens when folks assemble to be aggressive and there's no one but the police around to fight. I'm really impressed with how local activist groups have handled the situation. The city has provided a stage for everyone to watch the pro-Trump
#movement
self destruct
Democrat Jon Ossoff's blistering attack on GOP Sen. David Perdue at the Georgia debate has been watched and devoured over 5 million times. Voters cannot get enough of Ossoff’s truth-talking takedown of that cocky old crook.
Vote your
@ossoff
Trump just now: "The safety of the American people is my highest and absolute priority, we have to unify & send a clear message that acts of political violence have no place in US."
Also, Trump:
#MAGABomber
#wednesdaywisdom
Saturday, August 22 show up to
#savethepostoffice
. Pledge to join:
At 11 a.m. (local time), we will show up at local post offices across the country to save the post office from Trump and declare that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy must resign.
Join
@MoveOn
& many others on President’s this MONDAY AT NOON LOCAL TIME for nationwide protests against Trump's illegal fake national emergency power grab to build his racist wall. Pledge to attend here: .
#FakeTrumpEmergency
To everyone who keep asking me how confrontational
#climate
#activism
can work if it's unpopular, here are
#DATA
from the civil rights movement to provide historical context (thanks to
@ToBeThatGuy_
for posting)! I discuss in detail in my new book,
#SavingOurselves
(out soon!)
@mbaram
@DecEmergency
Nothing new about that:
"Only 22% of Americans supported the Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement, and only 28% Sit-ins at lunch counters. 60% had "uncomfortable" feelings during the March on Washington, in 1963 Martin Luther King was the most hated man in America."
Yesterday, working with a team of 15 researchers, we collected data from the participants at the
#MarchOnWashington
. In the end, we collected data from 277 participants who were randomly sampled in the crowd a
#thread
🧵 (photo by
@stsumej
)
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: As public servants, we help people because it is the right thing to do, not because we want to be praised for it. Also, the US President should never wish for Americans to be locked up in a foreign jail.
Anyone who has been discussing how the
#insurgency
on
#January6th
will affect
#protest
in America generally, here's a start with
#climate
-related examples: as predicted, it is leading to more repression of all sorts. (ICYMI
@ryangrim
)
In the U.S., the oil industry is exploiting the Capitol riots to push draconian 10-year prison sentences for protesters who target oil production sites.
“Shock Doctrine” in action.
@NaomiAKlein
Interesting point from Gabe Sterling of Ga. SoS: The reason GOP signatures were rejected at higher rates than Dem signatures is bc Dems had a cure program. They chased voters whose ballots were rejected and got them to fix as allowed under the law. GOP was slow to that game.
Update: i tested negative for
#covid19
. It took less than 24 hours to get the result. Sadly, i still feel like my head is being cracked open. Hopefully the meds will work by tomorrow.
#StaySafe
Morning everyone (i just woke up). Thank you All for sending your kind messages. It has been amazing reading them -- Clearly supports the idea that tweeting in the middle of the night on morphine is NOT a terrible idea! I'll share news when I have it.
In an
@NPR
newscast just now,
@KorvaColemanNPR
gave a simple fact, in her calm newscaster's voice: "President Trump continues to lie, saying he won the election." Not a criticism; just a fact. Which is one thing you do in journalism. Just report what people are doing.
Great to see a summary of my new paper on
#AnthroShift
in a Warming World in
@RealHotTake
by
@amywestervelt
Worth noting that we need 12 million
#climate
activists in the US alone (and so very many more elsewhere) to get to the level of transformational change that is needed.
Last year, we participated in the biggest student led walkout this country as ever seen. While senate debates on whether to pass life saving legislation, we walk out again.
Join us, March 14 in DC. This is not a moment. This is a movement.
New, from
@TheAtlantic
: Trump skipped a visit to an American military cemetery in France after calling the dead "losers" for getting killed: Full story here:
Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president. He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power.
Saturday, August 15, 8:00 am. Protect the US Postal Service!
@ShutDown_DC
will wake up Postmaster General (and Trump donor) Louis DeJoy at his Kalorama condo.
Washington, DC
#DCprotest
#DCprotests
Conservative election conspiracies explained…
"illegal voters" = people of color voting
"bussing people in" = carpooling
"there are reports of" = I made this up
"dead voters" = turnout higher than expected
"it was rigged" = I can't get over that we lost
In its new statement on climate change, the American Physical Society indicates that the greatest remaining uncertainties in the science pertain to solutions.
"The report, launched as leaders gather at a UN climate action summit in NYC on Monday, says current plans would lead to a rise in average global temperatures of between 2.9C and 3.4C by 2100, a shift likely to bring catastrophic change across the globe."
@sandibachom
Of course they did, it was all over social. The only surprise was the weak response by law enforcement (in terms of
#s
deployed, preparedness, and backup)
Just look at this angry mob of Democrats!!!
Oh, wait.
These are people who literally camped out overnight to vote in Florida.
And there wasn't even a Beyonce concert or an iPhone! release And it wasn't Black Friday, either.
#WeAreTheMob
and
#WeWillVote
.
My reseach backs up the claims made by
@LeonSimons8
in this piece:
#climate
shocks and the disasters that they cause will motivate more
#socialchange
and
#climateaction
than any one new paper (or a bigger scientific assessment for that matter).