Dr. Kenneth A. Gould

Because the war contractors need us to increase our war budget.

The oligarchs have the means of shaping consciousness.

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

A member of the chat, William Bejerano posted a block of text calling for dozens of acts of extreme violence against Black people, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting people. ‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

Fever dream: Australia sweltered through one of the hottest summers on record, with little relief at night Data shows that some locations stayed well above 30C through the night during a heatwave in late January

Scientists warned us for years that extreme weather events will intensify as the climate crisis advances. We don’t lack warnings; we lack action.

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections There are fewer than 380 right whales left in the world, with roughly 70 females capable of bearing young.

🐋 #whale #rightwhale

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections | Maine Public share.google/lZJnbsYNF0tY...

We are losing stars one streetlight, one neon sign, one suburb at a time For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that...

“You understand your place in the universe very quickly when you look at something 1 billion light-years away … and realise that those photons, they predate dinosaurs, they predate humans, they predate the continents,”
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And we should discuss the “war budget” and how our tax dollars go to “war contractors” and the political influence of the “war industry”.

Occasional reminder that oil and weapons are the stuff our ruling class is made of.

In fairness, Reagan only invaded Grenada to distract from getting 241 Marines killed in Lebanon.

The academic freedom fight has entered the classroom From public syllabi to surveillance, universities across the country are embracing unprecedented policies that professors say are undermining their academic freedom.

"From public syllabi to surveillance, universities across the country are embracing unprecedented policies that professors say are undermining their academic freedom. And North Carolina is front and center."
www.wunc.org/podcast/the-... | @wunc.org

The Winter Kremlin

Exclusive | U.S. Power-Plant Pollution Rose Sharply in 2025 The increase was a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity.

Pollution from U.S. oil, gas, and coal power plants rose last year, a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend. Rising emissions coincide with the Trump administration’s push for coal use and the rollback of Biden-era climate regulations.
www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

"Some climate disaster responses can lead to ‘perverse adaptation’ by increasing population densities on climate vulnerable coasts."
✍️ Kenneth A. Gould & Tammy L. Lewis (@brooklyncollege.bsky.social) on #ClimateAdaption in coastal cities
🔗 t.co/2F7EkeTP17 #Environment #Ecology #News

Launching Reckoning Science We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.

Exciting news! The incomparable @naomioreskes.bsky.social and Alexander Kaurov have started a substack called "Reckoning Science." We need this content more than ever. I've just subscribed--hope you will too. reckoningscience.org/launching-re...

Read Read chapter Front Matter: The scientific community has been studying the question of how human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting the cli...

The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups.

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists."

theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

A black and white photo of an older woman with dark curly hair standing outside near a creek or small river, wearing a dark jacket over a white blouse. She is holding and examining a jar containing water and other material from the creek.

Conservationist, marine biologist, and science writer Rachel Carson was born #OTD in 1907.

Carson challenged the widespread use of pesticides in her book “Silent Spring,” and testified before Congress on environmental policy and human health. 🧪 👩‍🔬

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Republican House bill guts laws protecting US consumers from toxic chemicals

Bill limits type of science used to determine health risks and gives industry major role in chemical review process

A Campaign to Revoke the Endangerment Finding Appears Near ‘Total Victory’ A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.

A group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts are now paying off.

The EPA is expected to revoke the endangerment finding, which has underpinned the government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009.

Exclusive | Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback The move would reverse a legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

You can repeal an endangerment finding.

You can’t repeal the endangerment.

US judiciary scraps climate chapter from scientific evidence manual The U.S. federal judiciary has withdrawn a chapter from the newest edition of its reference manual on scientific evidence that addressed climate change after Republican state attorneys general argued ...

US Judiciary deletes a chapter on law and #climate science because apparently science is a left-leaning concept and MAGAs complained.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

College sociology textbook specially written to placate Florida censors, omits any mention of systemic inequality. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.

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Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For those commenting on the agents' surnames.

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

Sociology faculty at Florida International University are outraged that their department is requiring them to use a sanitized state-approved textbook to teach an introductory course as part of the university’s general education curriculum. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...