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Climate info & tools for immersive learning. We rely on creativity, science, & community, just like NYC. https://t.co/HeDf8rsPgh #PlayEnergetic Tweets: R Reiss
Jan 5, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
I can imagine winning the Nobel Prize, for example
nymag.com/intelligencer/… @jgkoomey @EricLevitz @jgkoomey @EricLevitz Otherwise, these points are well made. It's why we made a game.
#PlayEnergetic
Jan 4, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
Gripping 6000 words on the fate of California from @lizweil. The more we normalize how rapid our transition is the better. As @steffen has been explaining for a long time.
nytimes.com/2022/01/03/mag… Some extra thoughts... Image @lizweil @steffen Because the legacy Mediterranean climate that indigenous people once safely managed is also disappearing, an equilibrium produced by better fire policy and careful rebuilding may not last for long. A parallel on the East Coast is coastlines.
Jul 4, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Jun 29, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read
Climate as a way to learn about wet bulb temperatures. TL;DR version -- humidity with a heatwave is much more dangerous than a dry heatwave How dangerous? In a few locations, already this dangerous:
advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/e…
Feb 6, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Feb 4, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
If you were, say, brothers that were MIT grads running a global petrochemical business with 120,000 employees... ...you'd be remiss not to take advantage of America's cultural heritage.
Feb 3, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
nytimes.com/2021/02/03/opi… GOP donor class: "Sounds great, when can we start"
nytimes.com/2021/02/03/opi…
Feb 2, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
If she were applying for a job at Politico, the person doing the interview wouldn't write 'controversial' on their assessment, they'd write 'unhinged.' In other words, Politico doesn't agree with Politico, which is an everyday example of a deep current.
politico.com/news/2021/02/0… View this as a transcript of American society, 2020, because of the types of players and their roles:
axios.com/trump-oval-off…
Jan 27, 2021 21 tweets 8 min read
Jan 6, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
I'm not able to do anything productive right now so I want to drill something home: this front page took decades. It is an outcome of us: @harvard, @yale, @stanford, @princeton, @MIT, and more, as much as it is anything. Recognize it & rebuilding is possible; bandaids won't work. Recognize it.
Jan 4, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
#PlayEnergetic
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1… Image Bonus points for sticking an Alfa Romeo ad in the middle of an article about how to help people understand what's happening to them.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1… @DoctorVive Image
Nov 26, 2020 10 tweets 5 min read
How is this not obvious? Having bought into Trump, who would want to return to 2016 but this time without Trump? He's been the best experience in their lives, politically.
rand.org/blog/2016/01/r…
Nov 25, 2020 16 tweets 9 min read
We're dealing with layers of denial here, and it's worth looking at the full picture.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv… Why write this, @yayitsrob? theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Sep 23, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Chomsky pointing out the obvious
vox.com/energy-and-env… Distant tweet memory
Sep 21, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
oxfam.org/en/press-relea… Image What's interesting about that stat is that the richest 1% are also the best-educated 1%.
Sep 20, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
Saturday Image Also, newsflash: most bright people in America work for a corporation. (One or the other.) Most corporations would gladly support a QAnon candidate. Does this mean most bright Americans support QAnon? 🤔
Sep 18, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
We're advocates for education, but not whatever the sort of education was that Mark Zuckerberg got.
We could disassociate his belief system from his education, but I'm not sure that's accurate. The president of his university is on the right:
chronicle.com/article/larry-…
Sep 12, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
I would say, with respect, that @NIHDirector doesn't get either the elites or the ordinary folk that are served by not wearing masks, and their drives are just as natural as his. For much of Western history, if you were rich, government was either something you controlled or, if you faced the risk of not controlling it, attempted to destroy in order to remove the threat to your wealth.
Sep 10, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
harvardpolitics.com/harvard/the-dr… Image Work hard, stay in school, and you may have the chance to go to Harvard and do something not actively bad
Sep 10, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
You know what would be an incredibly cheap way to solve climate change
science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65… Image Setting aside one percent
Sep 9, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
The UK's citizens' climate assembly report comes out tomorrow; here's an overview. Let's do this in NYC as soon as possible.
carbonbrief.org/qa-how-the-cli… @Costa4NY @kallos @XR_NYC @CarlinaRivera @JustinBrannan @bradlander Image There is a ton of info in it. This is what wrestling with climate change looks like. All of these decisions will come to the US.
carbonbrief.org/qa-how-the-cli…