Happy Election Day. We've had two pro-billionaire parties in America my entire life; this leads to fascism. My latest Substack post:
climatehuman.substack.com/p/were-not-pol…

Trump still thinks cold weather means climate change is a "hoax." Here's my response
substack.com/@climatehuman/…

Here is my latest post over on Substack. This platform doesn't work for me anymore, so please follow me over there!
open.substack.com/pub/climatehum…

My writing is now #3 rising over at Substack! Sadly, after Musk bought twitter, my account here was algorithmically torpedoed somehow and became useless. After a nice break from social media I've finally started using Bluesky and Substack. Please join me there!

There's a short film about my first arrest free to view today at the Peace Film Festival
globalpeacefilms.com/2024-free-for-…

This will become increasingly common and increasingly severe. It is caused by the fossil fuel industry, whose executives and lobbyists have been lying and bribing for decades to stop any meaningful action.

conservatives now see their chance to destroy everything and are seizing that chance every which way - our capitalist society is sooooo deeply fucking stupid and so are all the people in power

No, every little bit does not help. We need radical systems change, and continuing to do the same things while trying just a little harder gets in the way of radical systems change.

End the fossil fuel industry. End the single-use plastics industry. Rein in corporate greed.

Wow crazy how twitter keeps framing climate change as a "debate." I seldom log on here anymore but when I do I consistently see stuff like this. What a shit site

So once again we are standing up against the money pipeline in a sustained campaign in New York by coalition of climate groups. Please join us: summerofheat.org

Just now heard that Alexei Navalny has finally been murdered by Putin, and I feel sick. Navalny was a courageous and selfless soul, truly a shining light. If each of us could be a tenth as courageous as Navalny, fascism would become impossible and it would be a beautiful world.

Two days after COP28... so can we all please finally agree that COP28 was a complete failure so we can start doing something better

A group of climate scientists are trying to push @theAGU to do better and to encourage scientists to speak out. Here's our programming at #AGU23 starting with a Town Hall the AGU's practice of accepting fossil fuel money! @UltraCricket @ilanabana

The world needs to know what a sick and dangerous joke the United Nations climate summits have become, so we can have a chance to fix them.
And also fuck the fossil fuel industry and its execs. Such insanely evil people.
My latest op ed:
newsweek.com/climate-summit…

And of course... their official response: "In general, the institute encourages its staff to travel climate-friendly. When flights are unavoidable, we pay to offset flight emissions."

The usual greenwash 🤮
theguardian.com/environment/20…

As a scientist who hasn't flown since 2012 due to conscientious objection to unnecessary and effectively irreversible planet-heating emissions, ratcheting up the planet's deadly heat, I find @kielinstitute's response disgusting. They're part of the problem
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

basically accurate unfortunately 😞

This is the problem right here. Garbage neoliberal climate events with billionaires and celebrities. No scientists or folks from marginalized and oppressed communities. It will pose no real challenge at all to the status quo that’s killing us

Action fomenting at Zuccotti Park. Raining hard - but spirits are high and wills are resolute

we are estimating 75k to 100k here

This march to #EndFossilFuels is warming my heart ❤️

I'll be part of the March to #EndFossilFuels tomorrow in NYC, because we all must show up and push, together, for Biden to end fossil fuel expansion and declare a climate emergency. For godssake. To find a march near you: fightfossilfuels.net

Artist: Luz Pacheca

Monday in NYC: A short film about my first climate arrest, protesting fossil fuel financing, followed by a discussion and Q&A with @billmckibben and myself. It will be fun - I hope to meet you there! Tickets: arrestingsciencenyc.eventbrite.com

The six activists who blocked the Mountain Valley Pipeline in WV early this morning have been released! Misdemeanor charges @UltraCricket @ScientistRebel1 @ThirdActOrg

Those photos were from an action this morning. The riskers stopped work and were charged with misdemeanors. The cops harassed the supporters as well. Actions like this are happening frequently and AAP needs more help

Calling all activists: Come to the Mountain Valley Pipeline and let's come together to stop it. Here is all the info you need for joining: aapsolidarity.org @stopthemvp

I am at the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We must stop this pipeline.

The most important meme ever to be created

I feel this, I hate heatwaves...... :(

My op-ed urging Biden to declare a climate emergency led to a question at the White House press briefing. The answer was barely coherent. We are obviously in a climate emergency... why won't they formally declare it?
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Comments like this are everywhere on twitter. The human brain turns out to be good at creating extractive technology, but bad at avoiding tribal/religious stupidity. Sadly, many brains choose tribal stupidity even over what they can see and feel directly.

It's worth remembering MLK's wise words written from inside the Birmingham jail; they also apply to the struggle for climate justice. Climate moderates are those who say climate breakdown is a problem but who refuse to challenge the fossil fuel industry

Here is the fire and smoke map
fire.airnow.gov

Smoke from hundreds of climate-intensified fires currently burning out of control across Canada is covering much of North America. It's insanity that Biden is still expanding fossil fuels instead of declaring a climate emergency. Climate damage is effectively irreversible.

This sort of ignorance is stunning to me, and this site is infested with tweets like this. As a scientist it is like staring into the abyss. We could stop Earth breakdown quickly if we collectively choose to, but the deep and widespread ignorance argues we will not

We must join together and force elected officials to act. Their ignorant inaction degrades Earth's livability and it's irreversible. NO NEW FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE @ScientistRebel1 @XRBoston
wgbh.org/news/politics/…

CNN Brunch disrupted! Media tell the truth - fossil fueled global heating is a planetary emergency! Your downplaying acts as a shield for the fossil fuel industry

We are at the Hilton - correspondents in black tie are pushing past to go to their dinner. The media has massively failed us all on climate. This MUST change

We are in the right side of history. Biden is on the wrong side of history

A sickening photo. We know not what we do

I could not agree more

I can't believe we still haven't ended government subsidies to these guys

Lies. Still completely full of lies.
#ExxonKnew
nytimes.com/2023/01/12/cli…

Here is my comment on Rose's op ed, fwiw.

We need to shift into climate emergency mode. Soon, everyone will desperately wish that we had. Those who think there is no problem or that we are handling it sufficiently are fools.

Activism works, keep going!! ♥️

Just sharing our climate grief with each other at #AGU22 and being harassed by police

This seems like a "world," but in reality it's an intricate spaceship and the global rich are degrading and breaking its life support systems in real time.

NYT just trolling those of us fighting for a livable Earth at this point

Climate journalists, stop saying we're at 1.1°C of global heating, we're actually closer today to 1.3°C above the 1850-1900 mean. On track to pass 1.5°C in about 10 years.

Today officially marks 8 billion humans on Earth. Meanwhile humanity has wiped out 70% of wild animal populations since 1970. We don't live outside of nature.

People will keep trying to spin each COP as "not a complete failure." But the burden of proof is on them to show:
1. That COP no longer allows in the fossil fuel industry, which is obviously there to block action.
2. How the COP is different from all the previous ones 👇

The colors provide an approximate indicator of global mean surface temperature anomaly over the time period. Deepest reds correspond to where we are today (about 1.3°C above pre-industrial). For the actual temp. anomaly plot, here's Berkeley Earth
berkeleyearth.org/global-tempera….

The colors provide an approximate indicator of global mean surface temperature anomaly over the time period. The deepest reds correspond to where we are today (about 1.3°C above pre-industrial). If you want the actual temp. anomaly plot, here's Berkeley Earth

So far, 27 years of COP meetings have been a complete failure; you can't argue with physics. Anyone saying otherwise has fossil fuels or books to sell. #EmergencyMode

Here's a photo from right after I got out of jail yesterday. This morning I super glued it and it's doing well. We had quite a bit of superglue around! This is part of why the whole action felt really messy to me. We're doing our best, but climate civil disobedience isn't easy.

Climate activists that were chained to the terminal, including scientist Peter Kalmus, have been arrested.
#BanPrivateJets
#LetTheEarthBreathe
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

More police arrive at scene as they direct protesters off the property.
#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Indigenous activist providing a song to soothe in times of stress

#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Police have asked protesters to leave the premise in 5 minutes
#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Peter gives a speech urging for action

#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Police have arrived and communicating with protesters
#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Protesters chanting asking for the end of Fossil Fuels
#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Protesters are chained up on a gate entrance.

#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Protesters locked up at a private jet field in Charlotte, NC
#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Peter giving a speech while locked up at a private jet terminal
#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Peter is locking up at a private jet airport.
#BanPrivateJets
#EmergencyMode
-Nathan, Peter’s friend

Cafe car is the best part of the train

If you want to help get out the vote today, one good choice would be to mobilize climate voters (who, for whatever reason, tend to vote less than average) with @Enviro_Voter. environmentalvoter.org/get-involved

Musk making it hard to share Mastodon links. Childish

Reading the NYT these days is surreal. These are all from just now. This society is still in such deep denial, and if it were going to come out of it, it should have done so by now.

Sorry to inform you it will soon be your "cause" too

My colleagues at @ScientistRebel1 are currently glued to a famous Porsche showroom in Germany. They called me to ask if I would formally be the "responsible person" for the action. I said yes in solidarity. I will support scientist riskers anywhere in the world as much as I can👊

Like many climate voices, I get a constant stream of nastiness and threats from right-wing deniers. Everything I do is out of love, in an attempt to save as many lives as possible on this planet going forward. You won't always agree with me on details, but that's my intention.

The fact that Coca Cola is sponsoring COP27 makes me want to scream. We are beyond out of time. The people who will suffer first and worst and die do not deserve this. Fuck all the rich corporate ghouls and their parasites who are taking down this life-giving Earth for all of us.

Also, the hopium at the end of the article is misplaced. We cannot count on lucky future cold periods. This is an ongoing trend caused by burning fossil fuels: Earth is heating EVERY YEAR and this WILL continue so long as we burn fossil fuels, ergo we must stop.

One thing good activism does is reveal the disgusting currents hiding just underneath the masks. It needs a light shining on it before any real progress can be made.

I'd like to think Vincent himself would have loved this action and cheered on the activists. It was punk, full of life, and in tune with this vibrantly beautiful Earth, just like he was. There is no art on a dead planet.