Saul Elbein

I think Yarvin was the midwit?

Honestly, morning v night people seems like a more intuitive way to polarize the country

I look forward to the civil war between the based defenders of standard time and the woke lovers of mornings

This country rules

Gonna start using this

just a normal idiocy fanboy

”world historic midwit” is a good insult

Really hard to understate the damage done by “science” being the dominant mode of communication and climate, as opposed to “crime”

blatant attempt at distraction but also when it comes to knowing about The Aliens we are all one America

Really pulling out all the "look over there" stops but also this rules

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This is, uh, really something

Undead Chemicals Saul interviews neuoscientist Dr. Andrea Gore about the severe, near-Lovecraftian effects of "forever chemicals."

"The thing you have to understand about PFAS, or forever chemicals, is that they go against nature. Not morally — but functionally. That's why they're so dangerous."

Today in Heat Death: why these zombie chemicals are so popular and powerful and will f you up

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Tim Snyder calls this the “Auschwitz paradox” — because people who went to Auschwitz were much more likely to survive than people who went to Treblinka, it paradoxically became the synechdoche for the Holocaust, rather than the pure death camps

This is a really interesting approach: go after fossil fuels as a criminal racket that used their market power to quash cheaper competitors.

What’s crazy is how pervasive this language is

Blue is the warmest color

There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Do we have a list of names? Might be in a position to get some of these guys some work soon.

It’s worth noting that there’s really no other industry that gets to do this. You don’t get to build a house and leave all the trash in the backyard. Restaurants don’t dump. They’re spent cooking oil in the gutters. If somebody paints your house, they don’t get to dump the extra paint on your floor

Cf: benzene, micro plastics, CO2, waste pits, landfarms, methane, orphaned wells, PFAS, etc etc

The way to think about the endangerment finding, like the story I published yesterday about the school built on fracking waste, is that the principle saga of American economic life is the oil and gas industry going to greater and greater lengths to avoid cleaning up or even acknowledging its mess

Want to come on Heat Death, the magazine I run with @asherelbein.bsky.social

Link me?

I don’t think I connected until you put this here that the DDT is an oil derivative — oil > chlorobenzene > DDT

I really appreciate that! I’m most curious about places where you see potential for more research on this or people working on similar lines. I’ve been pretty staggered by delta between the scale of the possible problem versus what we actually know.

At the risk of asking a stupid question… is there PFAS in the animal waste?

Actually, I do know how to do this In retrospect, paying attention to polluters may be one of the best ways to understand what’s currently happening in the United States.

"That money helped entrench a political movement openly hostile to democratic norms. This was not an accident. Authoritarians are better for fossil fuel business...The fossil fuel industry...[i]s actively underwriting democratic decay." - @emorwee.bsky.social

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One thing to add here: in Texas particularly, fracking cash — spent by new-money paleocon oilmen like Tim Dunn — explicitly underwrote the rise of the far right. It really is a different beast than, and funded even harsher politics, than prior “Big Oil” donors

Wider lens, sharper focus How HEATED will cover the second Trump era.

PSA for freelance climate journalists: I'm taking pitches for HEATED

These are the types of stories I'm interested in.

Particularly looking for stories in categories 2 and 3.

Christopher, when you say “this national enviro catastrophe,” do you mean Landfarming?