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Jun 7, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
It's been a big week for climate politics. Hundreds of you have been begging me to make a thread. Fine, twist my arm! Here we go:

@JoeBiden released a climate plan, and it's not bad. Wow! Joe really pulled it off--oh wait, parts of it are plagiarized. grist.org/article/claims…
Biden, who was the Democratic frontrunner long before he announced, also made a pretty significant pledge this week: the #nofossilfuelmoney pledge. That's a big deal. The Democratic nominee in 2008, Obama, received more than $1 million from oil and gas. grist.org/article/joe-bi…
Not to be outdone by Biden's plan, which has an international component, @JayInslee released ANOTHER climate plan this week. It charts a course for how to recommit to the Paris agreement. I wrote about why that's significant. grist.org/article/can-th…
And THEN, on top of it all, the @DNC called Inslee up (according to his campaign) and told him a climate debate ain't gonna happen. To no one's surprise, the governor is not happy with the committee's decision. grist.org/article/dnc-ja…
The DNC also told Inslee that if he participates in any non-DNC-affiliated climate debates, he won't be invited to future DNC-sanctioned debates. @rebleber has a good story on what the Governor's next steps could be: motherjones.com/environment/20…
LEST WE FORGET: The indefatigable @ewarren came out with another climate plan this week, too (her 3rd, I believe). The equally indefatigable @AlexCKaufman has the details: huffpost.com/entry/elizabet…
That's all for now. But next week should be a big one, too. Welcome to the brand new world of people actually giving a shit about climate change!

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May 30
Major climate reports often say that climate change is especially damaging to women and children. But why?

Today, @grist, @voxdotcom, and @19thnews copublished a series on how climate change affects the reproductive cycle. The takeaways may surprise you.
grist.org/health/expecti…
@grist @voxdotcom @19thnews There are four features in this series - each a snapshot of an individual, a doctor, or a researcher trying to cope with the repercussions of climate change on menstruation, fertility, conception, and birth.

Co-reporters: @jkutzie, @MahadiAlHasnat, and @VirginiaGewin
@grist @voxdotcom @19thnews @jkutzie @MahadiAlHasnat @VirginiaGewin The first story in the series, reported with @MahadiAlHasnat, focuses on how saltwater intrusion affects women's health in Bangladesh's coastal zones. Drinking water there has grown saltier over time as seas rise and cyclones intensify. grist.org/health/fertili…
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Jul 18, 2023
Today, the @AP and @grist launched a series on climate change and human health -- an overlap scientists all over the world are sounding alarm bells about.

Climate change threatens to undo 50 years of public health gains. It is the health story of our time.projects.apnews.com/features/2023/…
Every piece in this package, which will drop over the course of the summer, is based on climate and disease data. The first piece, an explainer on how climate change breeds disease, is an absolute feat. It's gorgeous, interactive, and worth your time. projects.apnews.com/features/2023/…
Coming up: zoomed in vignettes on specific diseases, including tick-borne encephalitis, candida auris, and cholera. Then: a feature on the global rise of the "climate doctor." You can find all of this on the Grist or AP websites, where the series will be planted all summer long.
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Apr 8, 2022
For decades, climate scientists thought that, if the science was strong enough and the probability was high enough, the world would act on climate. A new IPCC chapter on social science finally calls out politics & vested interests for getting in the way.grist.org/politics/scien…
We have the technological, scientific, & much of the engineering prowess we need to set the planet on a safer path. & the report points out that making greener lifestyle choices can slash emissions across ALL sectors 40-70% by 2050. What’s missing? Policy.grist.org/politics/scien…
But the full scope of the report’s findings on the forces blocking action didn’t make it into the Summary for Policymakers. Politics got in the way of the top line messaging for a report that talks about how politics is getting in the way of climate action.grist.org/politics/scien…
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Jul 19, 2021
More than a decade ago, researchers artificially exposed poison ivy plants to CO2 and found that they grew bigger, faster, and itchier. Poison ivy, they hypothesized, would get worse as the planet warmed. I called one of those researchers last week for an update:
Poison ivy HAS gotten bigger and itchier. But there's more: A new experiment in the Harvard Forest shows warming soil temperatures, not just CO2, may have an effect on poison ivy. Soil warmed 5 degrees Celsius made poison ivy grow 149% faster. The leaves grew bigger, too.
"So far, poison ivy benefits from CO2, and it benefits from warmer conditions, and gosh only knows what happens when we do them both,” the researcher said. You can read the piece here: grist.org/climate/climat…
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Sep 30, 2020
Anyone else totally waylaid by a series of rapid-fire questions on climate change from Wallace? That was wild. grist.org/politics/trump…
I'm not even sure what the main story tonight was but climate def wasnt it. Still, it's not often that we get Trump talking about this stuff on stage. “For the first time, President Trump acknowledged that human activity has, at least in part, caused climate change,”@ACC_National
Here's a clip of the 10-minute segment on climate (the whole clip is embedded in the post above). It was one of the only times Trump actually let Biden talk.
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Sep 11, 2020
If you're wondering how the nation's more than 10,000 wildland firefighters are faring right now -- as an unprecedented wildfire season converges with an unprecedented pandemic -- I wrote a story on that scary overlap earlier this year. grist.org/climate/corona…
When I called around to various state and federal agencies a few months later to find out how many firefighters had contracted COVID-19, some of them didn't know. Others didn't respond at all. grist.org/climate/how-ma…
I've been calling my friend who's a wildland firefighter periodically since April to see how he's holding up (he's quoted in the above pieces). Each time, I'd ask if things were really bad yet and he'd say no. "When shit really hits the fan, you'll know," he said.
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