Brutkey

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

Nothing like Black Friday and Giving Tuesday to make me think those "unsubscribe" links don't work.

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.

https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-coal-dead

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

A wonderful and extremely personal review of the state of climate science 30 years on by one of the world's leading #climate scientists.

https://thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-climate-scientist-reflects-on-30-years-fighting-the-forces-of-unreason/

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

"Climate breakdown can be seen in the data"

Large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#water
#climate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/climate-crisis-depleting-europe-groundwater-reserves-analysis

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

It seems we're about to find out which US senior military officers are willing to sacrifice their commands to uphold their oaths to refuse illegal orders.

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

Killing unarmed civilians is the same war crime for which Lieutenant Calley was convicted during the Vietnam war.

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

Fossil fuels are fine unless you use them for anything.

Stop burning #fossilfuels. Stop turning them into plastics.
Leave them in the ground.

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

Interested in the past, present, and future of #water? Read "The Three Ages of Water"!

Elizabeth Kolbert calls this book "authoritative, far-ranging, and fascinating."
Greta Thunberg says "What a wonderful book!"
Jerry Brown calls it "timely and magisterial."

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-three-ages-of-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-a-hope-for-the-future-peter-gleick/34011e23365bb3b7

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

In a world of MAGA decay, dishonesty, and deceit, just doing the right thing is an act of resistance.

Peter Gleick
@petergleick@fediscience.org

Found this little cutie in the folds of a garden umbrella.
I think it's the appropriately named Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus).
🦇