Peter Aldhous

I'm good with my guitar, thanks ...

#H5N1 #Birdflu detected in northern Elephant Seals along CA coast. UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz found in 7 pups at Ano Nuevo. Story to come.

Thread from author of a global history of mass detention camps

It’s an intervention

My website has officially entered 2026
www.peteraldhous.com/recent.html

If you want to see some rousing volcanic activity, just check out the current live feed from Kīlauea. 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

As the Trump EPA Prepares to Revoke Key Legal Finding on Climate Change, What Happens Next? - Inside Climate News Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme weather and more intense wildfires, t...

What happens next?
insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...

‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding - Inside Climate News The Trump administration repealed the EPA’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gases are a pollutant, an important legal foundation for their regulation.

‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding
insideclimatenews.org/news/1202202...

Customs and Border Protection Said to Have Fired Anti-Drone Laser That Triggered Airspace Closure

... at a party balloon. Well done everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

The Guadalupe River flooded catastrophically in 1998. This was before the fracking boom put hundreds of massive oil tanks in its floodplains in the Eagle Ford Shale. Now, locals worry a repeat could trigger an environmental disaster.

Making it possible

Vinyl and amplifier are the same vintage, comfortably 40+ years old.

Anything under 15 minutes doesn’t do it justice

Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference Content warning: This story contains discussion of pedophilia, sexual assault, harassment, rape and suicide. A former UT Classics professor requested over $10,000 from Jeffrey Epstein’s charitable org...

Strong student reporting from the Epstein files
thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

National Lab of the Rockies, formerly NREL, lays off more than 130 employees The cuts impacted staffers engaged in both research and operations at the lab.

NEW: There's been another round of layoffs at the lab formerly known as NREL.

Weeks after scrubbing “renewable energy” from its name, the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden has cut 134 staffers.

www.cpr.org/2026/02/09/n...

Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, Texas reporter Dylan Baddour and data journalist Peter Aldhous as they discuss ICN’s new investigation into how the fracking boom put an ...

You gotta appreciate a reporter who gets a tip from ... a nun.
Hear @dylanbaddour.bsky.social explain his tipster and his latest data-rich investigation about the effect on fracking on Texas floodplains. He and @peteraldhous.com are on ICN's Sunday Morning: insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

The Guadalupe has flooded before. Now, oil tanks sit in its floodplain. Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

Also published @expressnews.com
www.expressnews.com/business/art...

Fracking boom put oil field in Texas river’s floodplain Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

Here's @texastribune.org with our @insideclimatenews.org story on flood hazards to tank batteries and other oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River Basin. w/ @dylanbaddour.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/09/t...

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

ICYMI at the weekend: @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I on flood hazards to oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River floodplains insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, Texas reporter Dylan Baddour and data journalist Peter Aldhous as they discuss ICN’s new investigation into how the fracking boom put an ...

EXTRA: @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I were interviewed about our story on flood hazards for oil infrastructure in the Guadalupe River basin by @jsmithhopkins.bsky.social for the @insideclimatenews.org Sunday Morning video:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

GitHub - InsideClimateNews/2026-02-guadalupe-flood-hazard: Analysis of flood hazards to tank batteries and other oil and gas industry infrastructure in the Guadaupe River Basin. Analysis of flood hazards to tank batteries and other oil and gas industry infrastructure in the Guadaupe River Basin. - InsideClimateNews/2026-02-guadalupe-flood-hazard

Here are the methods, data and code behind the analysis
github.com/InsideClimat...

NEW from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I for @insideclimatenews.org
‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain
insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

One small mercy in all of this mess is that to my knowledge we have been spared Lawrence Krauss's planned book on #MeToo

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

Synthesis of the murky world of Epstein, Tech Bros, Science Bros, Edge/Brockman Bros. Glad to see the extensive links, including to my reporting from 2018-19.
www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

It's a conundrum ...

(Background: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete...)

1/3) To add to @danvergano.bsky.social's reporting: In 2014-15, Epstein ($250K) & Leon Black ($2M) were funding L. Krauss' Origins Project as a strategy to gain influence [via @peteraldhous.com)
buzzfeednews.com/article/pete.... SciAm EIC @mdichristina.bsky.social was Origins board member at time.

Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show

Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism

Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show

www.scientificamerican.com/article/epst...

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Thanks for sending. Quite a bit of JE / LK correspondence across the various releases