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Aug 5

I criticized some of @ClimateDefiance's targets and tactics in the past (as they tried to press Biden to move farther left when he was so threatened from the right).

But I recognize that #responsediversity is inevitable (you don't want society to move in lockstep facing a complicated threat).

And I have to say they picked a clever target disrupting a Lee Zeldin Hamptons breakfast days after his EPA moved to undermine its own climate regulations. And what a lunatic response from some of the congregation (particularly the guy named Simon assaulting a protestor with a chair).

And here's the thing. The New York Times obsessively covers the Hamptons, and climate, but ran zilch about the protest? In fact, the only coverage I've found is The The East Hampton Star and Common Dreams. Anyone else? The Instagram link and story links are in thread.

.@ClimateDefiance video of their @epaleezeldin protest. Any Hamptons folks recognize chair-wielding Simon?instagram.com/reel/DMqQanpPf…

East Hampton Star story on the Zeldin protest in the Hamptons. easthamptonstar.com/government/202…

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Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️

@Revkin

Jul 11

1. I actually don't think there's as much disagreement here as it might seem. Clearly @MatthewCappucci is not blaming the girls or their counselors. But - clearly - the multi-million-dollar for-profit camp will own a substantial part of the responsibility for the scope of human losses. As the @Nytimes vividly reported, the $5-million expansion of the camp along Cypress Creek did not include relocating vulnerable cabins along the Guadalupe (there's way more from @AndrewRumbach and others on this elsewhere revkin.substack.com/i/167764976/ca…). ⤵️

2. Boosting community resilience to natural - and unnatural - hazards) is, like so many issues today, a systems challenge, as @oldscarf1stweek says. But it's clear in disaster-risk-reduction circles that, particularly for hyperlocal threats like this kind of flood or tornadoes, the "last mile" is, too often, where the gap between warning and response exists. @oldscarf1stweek is spot on that more must always be done by professionals (#EMG professionals, @NWS community outreach staff (those unfilled positions...), local meteorologists and media, social media and telecomm folks, and of course local elected officials). But that includes property owners too. ⤵️

3. As for when accountability should be explored, there's a longstanding debate. It'd be great if the country had a National Disaster Review Board, as I and others have long argued. But we don't, meaning the press and experts like Matt have to dive in, and - yes - sometimes doing so when audiences outside of a particular disaster zone are tuned in. @paulkrugman just wrote a piece worth reaading on this (I think the headline is flawed because it's not *just* about politics, but the issues are well described): "When it comes to disasters, accountability delayed is accountability denied." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/should-we-po… ⤵️

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@Revkin

Jul 10

“It’s like pitching a tent in the highway... It’s going to happen, sooner or later — a car is going to come, or a big flood is going to come.” - Anna Serra Llobet, quoted in a powerful @nytimes deconstruct of the built vulnerability at Camp Mystic. Story link below. 1/

She's been at this a long while. See below.

2. Camp Mystic Cabins Stood in an ‘Extremely Hazardous’ Floodway - @ByMikeBaker @merlerker @harrys_stevens @TmarcoH in @nytimes nytimes.com/interactive/20…

3. More on #sustainwhat from a few days ago: revkin.substack.com/p/closing-the-…

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Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️

@Revkin

Jun 5

Surreal but real report from @HannahAllam at @propublica recalls my '06 reporting showing that 24-year-old Bush appointee George Deutsch was trying to muffle @NASAGISS climate scientist @DrJamesEHansen. (Fugate Instagram reel). But the @DHSgov move is potentially way more consequential. (And don't miss the part where Team Trump has cut the CP3 office from 80 downt to 20 people.) 1/

Here's the 2006 outcome: George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted. nytimes.com/2006/02/08/pol… 2/

Subsequent 2007 hearing on Political Influence on Climate Change Research (don't count on any oversight this time around) c-span.org/program/house-…

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Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️

@Revkin

Jun 3

☕ Case study in how to read coverage of new science on perennial issues (nutrition, climate change, pandemic, etc...) and avoid the #whiplasheffect.

Stick to the basics and avoid the media #singlestudysyndrome habit of snagging your attention with a new study (new science is almost *always* tentative). 🧵

Example: That Cup of Coffee May Have a Longer-Term Perk / A new study of over 47,000 women found links between coffee drinking and healthy aging. Here’s what we know. by @alicegcallahan @nytimes
nytimes.com/2025/06/02/wel… 1. Not peer reviewed (peer review isn't a gold standard but is a valuable barometer). Of course, we journalists are in a bind. Embargoed press releases are dangled, papers are presented at meetings you're attending. Someone else will write it if you don't. Alice does a good job...

My 2008 @nytimes story on the #whiplasheffect in frontier science - and media coverage: When science is testing new ideas, the result is often a two-papers-forward-one-paper-back intellectual tussle among competing research teams. nytimes.com/2008/07/29/sci…

When the work touches on issues that worry the public, affect the economy or polarize politics, the news media and advocates of all stripes dive in. Under nonstop scrutiny, conflicting findings can make news coverage veer from one extreme to another, resulting in a kind of journalistic whiplash for the public.

This has been true for decades in health coverage. But lately the phenomenon has been glaringly apparent on the global warming beat.

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Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️

@Revkin

Mar 19

Just learned from reliable source that a small but effective unit helping boost capacity for resilient development has been X-ed by Musk/Trump (and the university: @ccb_boulder at @INSTAAR at @CUBoulder. 1/

The Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) 2/ccb-boulder.org/about/

This work at the interface of climate / weather science and place-based behavioral / social science was always tough to sustain. Way back, when @MickeyGlantz was at @NCAR_Science, his job was X-ed. My coverage of that cut in 2008 helped get Mickey and his initiative moved to @CUBoulder. He was poised to retire at age 85, but many young researchers are now facing grim futures. gift link: nytimes.com/2008/08/07/sci… 3/3

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