David Ho

Climate scientist researching the ocean carbon cycle and marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.; Visiting Faculty at School of Ocean Futures, Arizona State University; Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; co-founder, [C]Worthy.

Website: https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/faculty/ho/
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2026-10-27 18:29:11 UTC

Preventing methane leaks is in my top five climate solutions. This is very stupid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/climate/trump-methane-rules-epa-greenhouse-gas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.z5jG.PZOg8NpQXZ1N&smid=bs-share

2026-10-22 13:03:15 UTC

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

2026-10-21 15:51:57 UTC

If we were to cut emissions by 18% in four years, that’s about the same rate of decrease as in 2020 during COVID-19 when the whole world shut down. 🫠
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/21/world-cut-emissions-un-climate-crisis?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1792595368-1

2026-10-21 15:33:29 UTC

Heat storms, massive heat waves covering at least 1% of the globe for five consecutive days, have become increasingly frequent and severe. These storms were rare in the 1960s, but now average 102 per year, causing widespread heat-related deaths, wildfires, and droughts.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-heatstorms-science/

2026-10-20 17:29:23 UTC

Insanity
https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/nsf-witholds-one-billion-dollars/104/web/2026/10

2026-10-20 11:58:13 UTC

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

2026-10-20 09:40:22 UTC

Thomas Piketty explains why French high school students are big mad.
https://thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/high-schoolers-students-the-twilight-of-macronism/

2026-10-19 23:01:15 UTC

New way climate change makes life suck more just dropped.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/19/tap-water-no-longer-drinkable-norwegian-town-climate-related-thawing-heavy-metals-arctic-longyearbyen-svalbard

2026-10-16 14:27:06 UTC

Just as fossil fuel companies and their cronies sow doubt about scientific knowledge on climate change in order to prevent the development of non-fossil fuel resources, they’re doing the same thing now to climate attribution science to avoid accountability for climate damage. Pay attention!

2026-10-14 22:45:29 UTC

We live in a very stupid time. If anyone wants to experience machine vs. human violence, just try cycling around cars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/technology/human-robot-cage-fights-california-rek.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IlE._oq2.c4E0JC3uK7i2&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-10-14 19:51:40 UTC

It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/10/14/i25-wildlife-overpass-collisions-drop/

2026-10-14 09:32:34 UTC

Is there something scarier than climate change? Maybe it’s an uncontrolled solar geoengineering arms race between nations distrustful of who controls the global thermostat.
https://www.wired.com/story/they-war-gamed-dimming-the-sun-it-went-even-worse-than-you-think/

2026-10-10 06:53:10 UTC

Turns out the Flockers don’t like to be Flocked.
https://gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops-paid-him-a-visit-after-he-built-flock-style-camera-to-track-cops-2000824306

2026-10-09 06:31:43 UTC

Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/books/anne-carson-nobel-prize-princeton-university-tenure-denied.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.h0nZ.bAjwq_pjmYiS&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-10-07 15:16:31 UTC

We need to be less hysterical about potential AMOC collapse in 2100 and way more hysterical about the actual mega El Niño in 2027.
https://www.politico.eu/article/climate-change-europe-amoc-temperature/

2026-10-06 10:07:22 UTC

IMHO, attribution science, which connects specific extreme weather events to climate change, is the most important area of climate science.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opinion/oil-companies-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlE.qxRX.hiyBCfMWY7xj&smid=url-share

2026-10-05 17:53:04 UTC

The Trump regime’s border wall construction damaged the Las Playas Intaglio, a 6,500-7,300-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/trumps-border-wall-construction-destroys-6500-year-old-arizona-geoglyph-older-than-stonehenge

2026-10-05 14:21:49 UTC

The world is a slightly better place today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/obituaries/dennis-hastert-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVE.Iav-.-5rFDpMttc6M&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-10-05 06:54:24 UTC

CRANE, a UK cybersecurity research network, used AI to desk-reject 50% of proposals before human review, including one on the risks of trusting AI models in voice analysis from Lancaster University forensic linguist Claire Hardaker.
This seems like AI doing the right thing in protecting itself. 🙃
This is a joke. It’s horrifying.
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-k-funder-uses-ai-triage-reject-grant-proposals-leaving-researchers-dismayed?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.science.org%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2Fu-k-funder-uses-ai-triage-reject-grant-proposals-leaving-researchers-dismayed%3Freferrer%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fgo.bsky.app%252F

2026-10-04 20:32:23 UTC

Small victory
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/climate/after-outcry-monitors-the-trump-administration-tried-to-scrap-return-to-sea.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFE.AZo3.3C9Gr42lWrnc&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-10-04 13:18:39 UTC

Thanks to our fossil fuel overlords, the weather we’re used to no longer exists.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/03/showers-and-storms-across-spain-this-weekend-floods-kill-102-year-old-woman

2026-10-04 07:56:17 UTC

This is how AI will kill us all
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-grok-venezuela

2026-10-03 05:55:15 UTC

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science:
For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/politics/national-science-foundation-research-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.adOl.I5OvE-oZxF24&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-10-02 18:26:45 UTC

When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.

2026-10-02 07:29:55 UTC

I appreciate The New York Times for bringing Kelvin Waves into the vernacular. It's a concept that even those in Earth and environmental sciences (besides physical oceanographers) struggle to grasp, but everyone should be exposed to real scientific explanations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/climate/el-nino-storm-flooding-kelvin-waves.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlE.3czz.vTzTJ4i2x4io&smid=url-share

2026-10-01 22:43:19 UTC

A Democratic-led coalition of cities and states, including Hawaiʻi, is suing the Trump regime for repealing rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/us-states-cities-trump-epa-climate-emissions?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env

2026-09-30 21:42:53 UTC

Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake.
The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity.
It’s not going to end well.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/30/worlds-seas-warmed-23-zettajoules-2025

2026-09-29 21:14:09 UTC

I saw the smoke from Ecole Normale Supérieure today, and thought that if what’s happening in the US was happening in France, everything would be ablaze.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/french-teens-clash-police-school-095106298.html

2026-09-29 14:03:03 UTC

Free access to museums is one of the most spectacular things about the UK. This is a great decision.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/29/uk-decides-against-charging-foreigners-for-museums_6758074_4.html

2026-09-28 10:06:55 UTC

Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐
https://wapo.st/4d6dwxB

2026-09-27 16:06:10 UTC

Indeed
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/117/343/846/449/983/294/original/4c27998306f548ee.jpeg

2026-09-27 08:42:02 UTC

Here’s another way climate change will kill us: the expansion of mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry.
In Paris, the invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), an aggressive, day-biting nuisance, is now everywhere. So excited to get Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in Paris.
https://to.pbs.org/4ihm3ks

2026-09-26 13:41:54 UTC

One of my favorite cycle paths in Paris.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/117/337/616/521/973/056/original/bdae2db9e00a8b85.jpeg

2026-09-25 18:15:43 UTC

I just went downstairs, walked three minutes to a boulangerie, and got a warm baguette. Tell me again why 15-minute cities are bad.

2026-09-25 09:11:39 UTC

In the cost-benefit analysis of mitigation and adaptation, do you think French bureaucrats are saying to themselves, "Well, that's a few thousand pensioners that we no longer have to pay"?
It's as good an explanation as any for the lack of action.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/09/16/french-health-authority-reports-almost-8-000-excess-deaths-over-heatwave-struck-summer_6757604_7.html?srsltid=AU7gw4Uevi6-ViaL2A-eoT-Gxl86GGQYNv4ruFLV3JwfO-LrqnskyaGd

2026-09-25 06:20:13 UTC

The way AI will kill people is by making climate change worse.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000140/jensen-huang-nvidia-ai-energy-climate-change-supervillain

2026-09-24 12:38:35 UTC

The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/fossil-fuels-trump-donations?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env

2026-09-23 17:09:23 UTC

Abolish ICE
https://electrek.co/2026/09/22/volkswagens-new-evs-so-popular-cutting-ice-shifts/

2026-09-23 03:42:12 UTC

America Intelligence was right there
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998816/donald-trump-ai-super-intelligence

2026-09-22 18:14:47 UTC

Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.

2026-09-19 19:49:48 UTC

It’s weird how these companies try to one-up one another by confessing to crimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technology/google-gemini-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVE.aFbZ.c3yFuoPEl6Ci&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-09-18 19:46:08 UTC

PFAS in the blood of 97% of Americans
https://fortune.com/2026/09/18/data-centers-ai-compute-pfas-forever-chemicals-water/

2026-09-17 10:20:37 UTC

Nature is healing: A poacher hunting rhinos was ambushed by a herd of elephants and trampled to death.
https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/15/poacher-sneaking-rhinos-ambushed-trampled-death-elephants-29611175/

2026-09-17 06:50:55 UTC

The water will come…
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/satellites-show-earth-lost-12-trillion-tons-ice-greenland-antarctica-rcna598084

2026-09-16 22:52:14 UTC

The Trump regime is redefining the Endangered Species Act to consider only the intentional killing of endangered animals to be illegal, removing accountability for incidental harm caused by economic activities. Psychopaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/climate/endangered-species-act-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlE.ORbG.pN_yHVBPyy6E&smid=url-share

2026-09-15 10:08:50 UTC

Yes!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/indias-unstoppable-electric-tuktuk-revolution/

2026-09-13 15:53:25 UTC

Your car is collecting a staggering amount of data about you and selling them. Your bike won’t do that to you.
https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data

2026-09-12 10:43:40 UTC

The way I explained the suppression of Atlantic hurricane activity to my students is that El Niño chops off the heads of hurricanes by altering global atmospheric circulation, generating strong upper-level westerly winds across the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cwyzq4538j3o

2026-09-11 22:06:46 UTC

It’s a good time to retire as a US scientist.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02892-9?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=63678636

2026-09-10 15:45:57 UTC

Climeworks said its Mammoth facility in Iceland removed 675 tonnes of CO₂ in the first half of this year, almost 6x as much as a year earlier. If they keep it up, that'll be 1350 tonnes a year.
That's a time machine that takes us back 1 second in a year! 🙄
Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/carbon-removal-pioneer-climeworks-increases-co2-capture-sixfold

2026-09-08 14:23:42 UTC

If we, as a society, are serious about encouraging more bike transportation, we'd build more secure bike parking instead of putting the onus on people whose bikes are stolen.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/07/bike-theft-university-stolen-lock-insurance

2026-09-07 04:46:48 UTC

Tragic, but weirdly, the headline writers don’t refer to this as a car crash, unlike how they call it a bike crash when a driver hits a cyclist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/us/miami-plane-crash-what-we-know.html?unlocked_article_code=1._VA.B7xI.cdwt3BPr1ebF&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-09-06 07:40:04 UTC

Summers in the US are getting hotter. 2026 will be the hottest and most humid in the contiguous US since records began in 1895. This is a result of human-caused climate change. We need investments in clean energy, updates to permitting systems, and help for communities to adapt to climate hazards.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/05/opinion/editorials/extreme-heat-summer.html?unlocked_article_code=1._FA.60F0.7EHEFtzqXYv2&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-09-01 12:35:16 UTC

A whistleblower report alleges that the US Postal Service is implementing a new digital system for mail ballots despite a court order blocking it, and the rushed implementation could lead to a “catastrophic failure” in the mail ballot system, potentially disenfranchising millions of voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.kwS3.DUcieRYbgOZw&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-08-31 23:10:14 UTC

Nepal is seeking $5 billion in aid from the UN’s climate-disaster recovery fund after devastating floods. The fund, established in 2023, has received $820 million in pledges but faces a significant financing gap because wealthy nations, including the US, haven't been willing to contribute.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/climate/nepal-disaster-cost-climate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.NtwY.rn8_psSUPtvb&smid=url-share

2026-08-28 12:06:27 UTC

An estimated 15 million people around the world are threatened by floods from glacial lakes, and the danger is growing as Earth heats up due to our continued burning of fossil fuels.
Check out this report from NPR from a few years ago.
https://apps.npr.org/arctic-ice-melting-climate-change/nepal-rolwaling-river-glacier.html

2026-08-27 19:56:21 UTC

Who could have predicted this? 🤷🏻‍♂️
https://www.newsweek.com/measles-linked-deaths-since-rfk-jr-took-office-surpass-previous-20-years-12376290

2026-08-27 04:18:46 UTC

Republican lawmakers have quietly cut funding for Dolly Parton’s children’s book charity, Imagination Library, which sends free books to children across the world.
https://www.rawstory.com/dolly-parton-and-republicans/

2026-08-26 23:18:45 UTC

Simon Weckert used AI to design a shirt that uses a combination of bright colours and patterns to disrupt AI's ability to detect a person. 🤔
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/25/digital-camouflage-shirt-ai-video-surveillance-simon-weckert/

2026-08-24 21:20:02 UTC

I can beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter record on my bicycle. Should you be impressed?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/asia/chinese-robot-100-meter-usain-bolt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.Ak_q.-cl0sRFvK0xm&smid=url-share

2026-08-24 19:26:43 UTC

Project 2025 says to kill wild horses and Trump is doing just that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.L9dP.rZBUgOTbW1E2&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-08-22 04:55:55 UTC

I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027:
Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record
Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war
End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024
AI bubble bursting
Continued rise of fascism

2026-08-22 01:34:34 UTC

Oh look, one of the largest fish anyone has ever seen…so we killed it.
https://apnews.com/article/record-blue-marlin-fish-new-england-6903fbb5fbb2c7cd110ff00a86776eef?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a88fba2f7c24d00010fae31&utm_campaign=trueAnthem_manual&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=Bluesky

2026-08-21 23:21:24 UTC

Normal behavior in a democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/pentagon-fires-stars-stripes-editor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7FA.JEln.t6ouSyTe80RR&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-08-21 20:22:08 UTC

A South African vineyard has been using flightless, long-necked, Indian Runner ducks for pest control for 40 years.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/duck-run-pest-control-catching-152135334.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

2026-08-20 04:45:50 UTC

JFC! This is not a car crash! This is a driver killing and injuring people on bikes with a car.
https://apnews.com/article/milligan-university-cyclists-killed-tennessee-e75912c4663e6d76b8e571dc7cd0a62a?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a8682cec69d29000181aa62&utm_campaign=trueAnthem_manual&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=Bluesky

2026-08-19 16:46:34 UTC

Hey, a species has come back from the brink of extinction. Let’s kill it!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/first-bluefin-tunas-caught-off-yorkshire-since-1960s-success-story-for-marine-conservation

2026-08-18 19:49:06 UTC

The scientists really honed their investigative skills and pierced the mystery of the narwhal tusk in this study.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75689-z

2026-08-18 18:48:00 UTC

Another way they're trying to criminalize not having a house.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/08/honolulu-considers-fining-jailing-homeless-over-shopping-carts/

2026-08-18 14:20:00 UTC

The rate of air-sea gas exchange is significantly lower in nearshore environments, and using open ocean gas exchange parameterizations could drastically overestimate carbon dioxide removal potential.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03931-z

2026-08-17 09:39:12 UTC

Virgin Trains has been granted track access to run up to 20 daily return services between London and Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam starting in 2030. 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/17/virgin-trains-services-to-europe-eurostar?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

2026-08-17 06:21:02 UTC

Oh no, my face!
“Brent Jindra, a tech salesman, voted for President Trump three times, drawn by his aggressive immigration agenda. He never imagined the crackdown would ensnare his own wife.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/us/trump-immigration-crackdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6FA.OP9U.d0dkGHQh7QzO&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-08-15 05:01:42 UTC

Microsoft significantly reduced its carbon removal purchases by 80% in the first half of 2026. Microsoft bought 93% of all the carbon removal credits globally last year. This is absurd, and no way to determine which method might actually work and scale. Carbon dioxide removal research and development should be government-funded and government-led.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-cuts-purchases-of-carbon-removals-by-80-amid-ai-push/

2026-08-12 12:22:37 UTC

“The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that Donald Trump's bid to overhaul child vaccination in the United States went against ‘decades of evidence’”
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260812-who-says-trump-vaccine-shake-up-goes-against-evidence

2026-08-12 10:35:25 UTC

Nothing shocking about this story
https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252

2026-08-11 13:08:35 UTC

Someone’s grandma’s getting her phone records subpoenaed for this story about Trump hiding in a catering container like a coward.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-plane-ruse.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4lA.9e_b.F-SNbt0F5Hvc&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-08-11 11:00:15 UTC

Maybe this will finally get politicians to care about climate change:
“The brutally hot summer is set to cost the EU economy €180 billion this year — that’s equivalent to roughly 1 percent of GDP, which is all the growth the bloc was expected to generate in 2026, according to new analysis.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-scorching-summer-could-erase-blocs-2026-growth/

2026-08-11 10:28:08 UTC

The joke candidate goes up against the bin this Thursday!
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260811-farage-vs-count-binface-what-to-know-about-uk-snap-poll

2026-08-10 04:04:13 UTC

The ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the heat from global warming. Is anyone surprised that ocean temperatures are higher than ever recorded?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/global-seas-hottest-temperature-july-scientists?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

2026-08-09 08:17:52 UTC

Occidental Petroleum will begin operating the world’s largest carbon removal facility, Stratos, at the end of 2026. The facility is designed to remove up to 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere annually.
If it works, that's a time machine that will take us back by about 6 minutes each year.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/08/07/worlds-largest-carbon-removal-plant-to-open-at-the-end-of-2026-cw-01027407

2026-08-09 05:36:55 UTC

We wrote a review paper about bubbles in the ocean, and then the lead author wrote a summary about the paper. Give it a read if you want to know how bubbles affect the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and the ocean.
https://eos.org/editors-vox/how-bubbles-reshape-air-sea-gas-exchange

2026-08-08 22:52:30 UTC

Eat the rich
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-rise-of-the-100-hot-dog-2ac6f322?st=6Lxtye

2026-08-08 06:17:55 UTC

The process by which atmospheric CO₂ is taken up by the ocean is studied by only a handful of people worldwide. I talk about that important process in this podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carbon-i-air-sea-co2-exchange-david-ho/id6796141291?i=1000780337538

2026-08-07 21:15:59 UTC

Human flesh-eating screwworms brought to you in 2026 by Elon Musk and the Trump regime.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/flesh-eating-screwworms-feast-on-humans-in-mexico-human-cases-top-500/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social

2026-08-07 18:12:32 UTC

A Smithsonian study traced the genetic relationships among Hawaiʻi's honeycreepers, revealing rapid diversification from a single ancestor about 3 million years ago. Once there were more than 60 species, but only 17 remain today because of disease, predators, and climate change. 🪶
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/08/07/scientists-trace-dna-evolutionary-history-hawaiis-endangered-honeycreepers/

2026-08-06 22:43:16 UTC

Nuclear and fossil fuel power plants have a problem that wind and solar don't:
Heatwaves across Europe have forced power plant shutdowns in six countries due to low river levels and high water temperatures.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/08/07/heatwave-forces-power-plant-shutdowns-across-europe-putting-electricity-grid-under-strain_6756235_19.html

2026-08-06 14:13:08 UTC

Bogotá, Colombia, aims to achieve gender parity in cycling by 2039, as women currently account for only 28% of daily bicycle trips. The city is addressing barriers such as safety concerns and lack of cycling skills by building more protected bike lanes and offering cycling lessons.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/06/bikes-city-of-cycling-gender-barriers-colombias-capital-bogota-emissions?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1786023844

2026-08-06 08:35:41 UTC

😢
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/science/dolphin-mother-dead-calf.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.HoKO.urFjMQfFMB1W&smid=url-share

2026-08-06 08:32:07 UTC

Scientists have validated Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that Saxifraga candelabrum, a plant with sticky hairs, is carnivorous.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/science/darwin-was-right-these-plants-are-carnivores.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.XA4U.pMSH5o6H_YxR&smid=url-share

2026-08-06 08:23:06 UTC

I declare climate change to be over.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/business/bessent-wage-gap.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.0BMS.AHL17Y3H3vT9&smid=url-share

2026-08-05 23:32:01 UTC

The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/08/trump-administration-lawyers-admit-hawaii-funding-cuts-were-partisan/

2026-08-05 21:20:21 UTC

😂🤣😂 But why?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/trump-bbc-lawsuit-financial-records?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

2026-08-04 22:03:48 UTC

Hey France…
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/117/039/490/349/652/192/original/eb07215c172f1dba.jpeg

2026-08-04 18:54:29 UTC

Nature Climate Change has an online collection of reviews, opinion pieces, and research on climate change communication.
https://www.nature.com/collections/gcieichigi

2026-08-02 23:18:04 UTC

Are we all in agreement that Trump made billions of dollars from crypto, not because it's a good way for everyone to make money and he's just smarter about it, but because it's a good way for him to scam his witless followers and accept bribes legally?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9iZ10yIRwM

2026-08-01 23:43:58 UTC

File under war crimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/middleeast/us-iran-bomb-mk84-qeshm-island.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2FA.zse5.tVoq4WF-QmBE&smid=url-share

2026-08-01 17:44:07 UTC

This seems very very illegal
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/01/nx-s1-5912219/trump-truth-social-access-insider-trading

2026-07-31 15:01:16 UTC

In this context, fundraising = soliciting bribes.
Trump has accepted over $800 million in bribes since returning to office. 🎁🔗
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-donations-company-fundraising-1e34a78f?st=3TZDee

2026-07-29 22:41:34 UTC

Replace your gas stoves with electric, preferably induction.
The Trump regime canceled a $18 million EPA grant to study the impact of replacing gas stoves in 1,200 homes of asthma sufferers. The researchers published the results from 85 homes anyway, showing significant asthma relief for participants and highlighting the health impacts of gas stoves.
https://wapo.st/4yQXZeg

2026-07-29 04:08:57 UTC

If that's really true, the conclusion shouldn't be to keep more chickens in cages, but to consume fewer eggs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/29/organic-eggs-climate-caged-chickens-carbon-emissions-environment?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env