Peter Gleick
Peter GleickTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy calls for a ban on all rainbows, saying any rainstorms that produce rainbows will be immediately arrested and sent to Alligator Auschwitz and dried out, along with any meteorologists that report on them.
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/07/sean-duffy-rainbow-crosswalks-ban
Peter GleickNY Times headline writers strike again.
The term isn't "transforming," it's "eviscerating."
Stop normalizing or justifying the destruction of government services and responsibilities.
Peter GleickIt's a bit hard to know which of the Trump sycophants and cultists is going to kill the most people and destroy the most science, but RFK Jr. has got to be close to the top.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/rfk-jr-pulls-funding-for-vaccines-being-developed-to-fight-respiratory-viruses
Peter GleickThere are many ways of destroying the integrity of #science. But one of the most critical is deleting data, or failing to collect data, or firing the people or destroying the instruments that collect the data that contradicts your preconceived notions.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened
Peter GleickA fawn eating a windfall apple just because you needed to see this.
Peter GleickHey all, I'm afraid that if you're on mastodon.social server and were following me, you've been accidently deleted from my list.
If you want to follow me, you'll have to refollow. Thanks. 🚨
Peter GleickThis is one of my favorite climate graphs (I like the graph, though not what it tells us).
It shows ~800,000 years of natural variability of global atmospheric carbon dioxide (from the Vostok ice core data), plus the last few decades, when CO2 levels have skyrocketed from human activity.
It shows definitively how humans are driving current climate changes, far outside natural variability.
Peter GleickI've switched instances, so a new #introduction.
I'm a #climate and #water scientist, co-founder and Senior Fellow at the Pacific Institute in Oakland.
I'm interested in all things sustainability, but also birds, mandolin, and random other things. Politics too.
I'm a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and various professional scientific organizations.
Most of my publications and musings are at www.gleick.com.