#Climate and #water scientist and communicator. Interested in including #birds, mandolin, politics. You can find me at www.gleick.com. Author of many scientific papers, the 9 volumes of The World's Water (Island Press); Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water (Island Press); A 21st Century US Water Policy (Oxford); and "The Three Ages of Water.'" My new book "When the Well is Dry" will be released in November 2026. Email me at pgleick (at) gmail.
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Last Notes npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Nine pick-up bluegrass bands just raised $131,000 for the Movement Voter Project for voter drives in November and played a concert at Ashkenaz, Berkeley. Our band played Round the Horn and Liberty. If you couldn't make the concert, here's our contribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLlO9g0OGY npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick You are here. We've breached 430 ppm CO2. #climatechange https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/110/930/212/374/260/original/1f78343e6942f9d6.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Donald Trump reminds us every day that he's a miserable, corrupt, fascist, ignorant strongman. I guess today he wanted to remind us that he's also a racist. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Is there nothing the NY Times won't allow Trump to weasel out of? "Appears to"??? https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/934/387/402/750/652/original/4fb5d98df1e59608.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Here's a Hairy Woodpecker in my back yard today. Also had a Downy and Nuttall's. Woodpecker hat trick. #birds 🐦⬛🪶 https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/930/561/139/832/769/original/0d4779a7559c5f77.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Imagine knowing your political leader is mentally unstable, dangerous, and corrupt and refusing to admit it or do anything about it. Now meet all GOP representatives and senators. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Trump to America https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/891/860/412/930/437/original/086838600098aa9b.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Using this logic, any country could invade Israel, capture Netanyahu, and bring him to the Hague to face his indictments by the International Criminal Court. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/833/527/610/455/071/original/968fe686edbf2da0.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Let me be explicit. Here at the end of 2025, if you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you. Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewableenergy is cheaper now. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick If someone wanted to destroy the US automobile industry and tremendously strengthen the Chinese automobile industry, they wouldn't be doing anything differently than what Trump is doing now. China is now producing smarter, cheaper, cleaner cars than the US. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-02/trump-to-dial-back-fuel-economy-rules-in-nod-to-rising-car-prices npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 million years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Duh. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-white-house-ballroom-after-officials/story?id=126843455 npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick "Thousands" WTF is wrong with the press. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy7ekv3m2lmo npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Section 5114(b), Title 31, US Code restricts whose portrait may be printed on US currency: "Only the portrait of deceased individuals may appear on United States currency and securities." Politico was apparently too lazy to look up the law in this fawning article. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/treasury-department-trump-dollar-coin-00593368 npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The entire Trump Administration is like a circus where the animals are abused, the acrobats can't figure out how the high-wire and trapeze work, and the clowns are not at all funny. But we're not allowed to leave the tent. Oh, and they're angry we're not clapping. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick “No more climate change worship... We are done with that shit.” Hegseth announces he's going to ignore 40+ years of US defense and intelligence assessments on the real threat of #climatechange for international security and military operations and bases. Look here. https://www.gleick.com/blog/climate-change-water-the-environment-and-national-security-an-annotated npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Hegseth to US generals: Screw the Constitution, screw rules of engagement, screw morals and ethics. You're now the enforcers of the Republican party against all internal dissent and free speech. If this isn't a five-alarm fire to every media outlet in the country... npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Dear US Military, Remember your training on US and international laws, the Constitution, your legal and moral responsibilities, and the codes of conduct under military rules? It's time to review those notes. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Every single time this guy opens his mouth, he proves he's completely unfit and unqualified to be Secretary of Energy. Much less have anything to do with energy. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlz5p314z0o npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick 🚨🚨🚨 In the worst tradition of the McCarthy-era anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, the GOP House Oversight Committee has just launch a massive, grotesque, ad hominem, partisan assault on the US National Academy of Sciences. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/National-Academies-of-Sciences-President-McNutt-re-Endangerment-Finding-Letter-09032025.pdf npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Cult MAGAs (and the official White House spokeswoman) desperately trying to pretend Trump isn't a pedophile and sexual predator, when he's already a convicted sexual predator and everyone KNOWS it, is pathetic and sickening. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Yes, some of us "old guard" are on the front lines because we cut our teeth on the Vietnam war and that earlier corrupt Republican president, Richard Nixon. https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/09/retired-berkeley-residents-advocate-for-immigrants-rights npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick A new WSJ op-ed by a climate denier argues the inaccurate, misleading, and grossly incomplete DoE report being used to try to overturn vital federal climate regulations offers "clarity" on climate. The only clarity it offers is to make clear #climate deniers will do and say anything to mislead the public and policymakers. I'm not linking to the WSJ piece because you really don't need to ruin your day like it ruined mine. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/175/553/760/525/908/original/ad8568b60cfc23a2.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Yes, President Trump is an international war criminal, an expert in international law explains. But of course, he's also already a convicted criminal in the US. https://www.salon.com/2025/09/07/expert-us-obliteration-of-caribbean-boat-was-a-clear-violation-of-international-law_partner/ npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick This, by Musk, is the height of stupidity and ego. The idea that X is a source of news so we don't need actual media and reporters is like saying we don't need weather satellites, climate scientists, and weather models because your phone has the weather on it. The stupid, it burns. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/165/695/437/749/893/original/fecbc9a48e258af2.jpeg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The most important modern improvement in public health has been the provision of safe #water and sanitation. The second most important is the development and roll out of vaccines. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate change. https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/862270/lake-urmia-has-become-part-of-history-report-declares-as-nasa-images-confirm-complete-disappearance npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The CDC doesn't understand disease control. The EPA doesn't understand environmental protection. Now it's clear the Dept of Energy doesn't understand energy. This administration is populated by imbeciles. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/159/555/757/205/405/original/529f41f107dd7109.jpeg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Yes, we already live in a fascist country. The President is mobilizing the US military against US citizens. The Vice President admits to the government committing war crimes and doesn't care. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/158/480/848/573/299/original/a2707dbc0d91c2e6.jpeg https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/158/481/003/278/208/original/d527951dbb072aee.jpeg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The full name is Trump's Department of War Crimes https://theintercept.com/2025/09/05/pentagon-official-trump-boat-strike-was-a-criminal-attack-on-civilians npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Apropos Trump trying to rename DOD to the Dept of War, in 1982, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior James Watt changed the department's logo from a left-facing bison to a right-facing bison. That didn't last long either. These are petty, childish, trivial people. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Department of War? Let's do them all. Dept of Agribusiness Dept of Ignorance Dept of Industry Dept of Fossil Fuels Dept of Human Disease Homeland Gestapo Dept of Private Parks Dept of Unpaid Labor Dept of State Control Dept of SUVs & Trucks Dept of Bankrupt Treasury Dept of Veterans Abuse Center for Disease npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Dear Nobel Peace Prize committee, It now appears likely that one of the people nominated for your prize just committed a war crime. Thought you should take that into consideration. https://www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal-issues-military-attack-carribean/ npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The graph shows what happened when the #polio vaccine became available. Deaths and illness stopped. People begged to get it when it became available. Reversing this is what Florida just announced it intends to do. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/143/209/632/104/098/original/525b79d59a255f5e.jpg https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/143/210/173/267/260/original/3827a15a2f8eee1b.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick You realize the only reason Donald Trump held a major news conference just to announce he was moving the Space Force command to Alabama was to try to prove he wasn't dead. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick If they can no longer use Alligator Auschwitz as a concentration camp, maybe they can use it for the iron lung facility after polio returns to Florida. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/142/721/433/562/348/original/3dfecb50dc6a6c28.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick This is unconscionable -- an action that will explicitly kill and injure thousands of children (and adults) and contribute to explosive disease outbreaks across the country. [And I wonder what's going thru the head of this guy, in the back right of this picture.] https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/141/661/244/597/874/original/7a3ebe6a3370c34c.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick This would unambiguously and undeniably kill children in Florida. "Florida to end #vaccine mandates for children" https://www.theguardian.com/us- news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Donald Trump trying to confirm that he's still alive is the funniest thing happening today. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/125/608/310/085/158/original/d8968ac9af8792fc.jpeg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change. https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-practice-and-assessment-of-science-five-foundational-flaws-in-the-department-of-energys-2025-climate-report npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Absolutely no deviations from the strict party line of Trump and RFK Jr. will be allowed, science-be-damned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/27/susan-monarez-cdc-director-ousted/ npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick This claim about windfarms and whales is 100% bull****. Either RFK Jr. actually believes this, in which case he's insane, or he doesn't and he's saying it to suck up to Trump, in which case he's an a**-kissing quisling. https://youtu.be/hanKluuJV3A npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Breaking. Trump signs Executive Order saying he can do things the Constitution and Supreme Court says he can't. Also an Executive Order saying people aren't allowed to do things the Constitution and the Supreme Court says we can. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-trump-signs-order-aimed-at-flag-burning npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Trump's "Gold Standard Science" turns out to be a mixture of bull**** and pyrite. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick My moment of zen. Yours too if you want it. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/081/954/752/115/914/original/26c1da2d7bd5c70b.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick @nprofile…4lh8 Virtually all the water taken from groundwater aquifers ends up in the oceans, adding to sea level rise. Climate change is, yes, adding water to the atmosphere, but much less. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Another #water fact. This one isn't fun, however. As much as a third of all food production today comes from unsustainable groundwater extraction —where groundwater is being used faster than it's being replenished. That cannot continue, but where is the replacement water going to come from?? npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Sure. So she wasn't in the room? And remember, she's in jail precisely because what she considers "appropriate sexual behavior" is illegal. Also, she lies under oath. "Ghislaine Maxwell denied to the DOJ witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump." https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-told-doj-she-did-not-see-trump-act-in-inappropriate-way-read-the-interview-transcripts npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick My family (and likely yours) alone paid more in federal tax in 2023 than these corporations, each of which reported more than a billion dollars in income. Tesla, Airbnb, Aptiv, PG&E, Palo Alto Networks, FMC, Pfizer, Gen Digital, & certainly many others. And Trump/the GOP raised your taxes and cut corporate #taxes. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick No dissenting voices, no upsetting facts or data or numbers or science, no different versions of truth can be allowed if they conflict with Dear Leader's distorted reality. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/hegseth-fires-general-whose-agencys-intel-assessment-of-u-s-strikes-on-iran-angered-trump npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Here are the classified files found in Bolton's bathroom. Oh, wait. That's Trump's bathroom. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/073/784/561/212/234/original/fe5b0f5ec2df74d6.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick How bad is the Trump administration? So bad it's made me care even a little bit about what happens to John Bolton. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Want to learn something about #water and #climate change? A simple approximation is that for every degree C of warming, the atmosphere holds 7% more water. That's one factor behind the growing number of extreme flooding events. And climate scientists have been predicting these impacts for literally a half century or more. The Trump administration's efforts to hide these kinds of basic scientific truths are just fossil-fuel industry propaganda. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Screw you, Stephen Miller. Elderly white hippies helped end the Vietnam War and get another criminal president tossed out of office. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/20/stephen-miller-jd-vance-stupid-white-hippies-dc/85744097007/ npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Trump: the first president to bring both guilt and gilt to the White House. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/057/048/693/578/447/original/243d54e4a2f85565.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The Confederate States always hoped they could occupy Washington D.C. Now Trump is making it happen. Also, Ohio (wtf). https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5459043-states-send-troops-trump-dc/ npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick If Sam Altman and the AI industry's vision for the future requires data centers everywhere operated by fusion power plants, it's not a vision. It's a hallucinatory fantasy. https://interestingengineering.com/culture/sam-altman-ai-nuclear-fusion npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick I hope it's clear to everyone that if Trump had been president in 1941, Philip K. Dick's novel "The Man in the High Tower" would be fact, not fiction, with the Nazis in control of the East Coast and the Japanese in control of the West Coast. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick I found a quote from Abraham Lincoln but simply couldn't find where it was from. So I asked an AI for the attribution. It named a speech, but I looked and it wasn't there. Then 3 different Lincoln letters it wasn't in. Then an address to Congress it wasn't in. Turns out Lincoln never said it. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Trump and America got nothing from Putin. But the question is what did Putin get from Trump? Do we know? npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick I just don't understand the basic idea that Trump and Putin can EVER come to any kind of "peace" deal that doesn't include Ukraine's agreement. Why is the media acting as though this makes sense? npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Do not trust AI or #chatgpt5 to do the most basic things like labeling a picture of the hydrologic cycle. Here's the gobbledygook it gave me. (Evaporation arrow pointing into the ground. Both surface water and the "ocean" labels underground. No "groundwater." No ice/glacier stock. Transpiration arrow coming from the #water surface, not plants, no mention of condensation...] https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/034/344/446/702/547/original/779a77cbb5525244.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick I'm not a fan of Gavin Newsom but heaven knows he's doing and saying things the rest of the democratic party should be doing and saying. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Copied from a post on Bluesky for all authors. "If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ Attorney form: https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/ (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.) npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Well, you won't see jellyfish shutting down solar plants or wind farms. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx299eyg7qko npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Our political cartoonists know the score. (Clay Bennett for the Chattanooga Times Free Press) https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/012/555/445/845/391/original/8f27778f0a1fb363.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick What would the media reaction have been if Biden had said he was going to Russia when he was really going to Alaska? npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick There's absolutely a crime wave going on in DC and we all know which particular building it's centered in and which particular person is responsible. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick I joked a couple of days ago that Trump was meeting Putin in Alaska because he didn't know it was part of the United States but maybe it wasn't a joke. Today he just said "You know, I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday." npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick I just do not understand why you would choose to make a TV series supposedly based on (and named the same as) a beloved set of books and then completely rewrite the plot, characters, and storyline into something almost unrecognizably different. #Foundation npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick This attack and murder seems like a direct result of vaccine misinformation spread by anti-vaxxers and now by RFK Jr. and his appointees who misrepresent facts about vaccine effectiveness and risks. https://apnews.com/article/cdc-suspect-covid-vaccine-georgia-officer-dead-0c6018d2f7caf7a2702bc09f9f3568ba npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Ah, you know fall is coming in the Bay Area when the Toxicodendron pubescens begins to change colors. Lovely. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/006/247/834/288/741/original/d16e49d5f5372934.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Hey, there's a brand new tune by a new band called Buffalo Springfield that's relevant for the situation this country is in. 😉 It's called For What It's Worth. Check out the lyrics. https://youtu.be/80_39eAx3z8?si=Nt1QC16OiXJ0YZ5t npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Richard Nixon resigned August 9, 1974... An era when there were consequences for presidents being corrupt criminals. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/000/874/781/602/966/original/3472d79fd9a2072b.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick When Putin comes to Alaska, he will be the second world leader to visit Trump with an outstanding International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest for war crimes. The other is Netanyahu. Wonder why Trump hasn't turned them over, as international law requires... npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Putin and Trump agreed to meet in Alaska because Trump doesn't know it's part of the United States and Putin is going to try to buy it back. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The destruction and politicization of US science continues to accelerate as another critical database is destroyed by Trump and his cult. #climate https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/climate/epa-database-useeio-greenhouse-gases.html npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Trump also announced plans to re-edit the Bible, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address to correct their wokenesses and mistakes. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick @nprofile…4dwe Seriously? npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The Trump administration has not only deleted all previous National #Climate Assessment reports from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next iteration, but now say they're going to go back and rewrite the previous reports, all of which were written by real scientists and independently reviewed. This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of accepted history and science. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick JD Vance had the #water level of a lake manipulated to accommodate his vacation plans. It's not always the big corruption stories that rankle. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick "Le rapport du département de l’énergie est utilisé pour renverser la régulation des gaz délétères pour le climat, mais ce n’est pas un rapport scientifique, prévient l’hydrologue et climatologue américain Peter Gleick, membre de l’Académie des sciences américaine. C’est un document politique et pseudo-scientifique farci de fausses références, de données judicieusement sélectionnées, de présentations trompeuses des faits et d’affirmations erronées." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/08/06/scientists-outraged-by-climate-skeptic-report-commissioned-by-trump-administration_6744121_114.html npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Transportation 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 npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick NY Times headline writers strike again. The term isn't "transforming," it's "eviscerating." Stop normalizing or justifying the destruction of government services and responsibilities. https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/982/928/907/447/798/original/321953a10beeea46.png npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work? The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize. And they've saved literally millions of lives already. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/rfk-jr-pulls-funding-for-vaccines-being-developed-to-fight-respiratory-viruses npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick It'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 npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick There 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 npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The bottom line on EPA's effort to overturn the #endangerment finding? It's purely a political argument cloaked in false, misleading, dishonest scientific language, because actual #climate science unambiguously supports the conclusion greenhouse gases are dangerous to the climate and society. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Despicable pure EPA propaganda -- they've collected statements supporting their efforts to stop regulating #climate destroying pollutants from the most extreme climate deniers, MAGA sycophants & cultists, right-wing thinktanks, & major fossil-fuel interests. Odd they left out the statements from climate scientists who are reporting the EPA "scientific" justification is completely fraudulent, & any comments from the public and vulnerable communities. Serious "all praise the great leader" vibe here. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/what-they-are-saying-leaders-praise-epa-launching-largest-deregulatory-action-us npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick That thing where some Republicans express "concern" over something Trump has done? It's pure b*******. They're still voting completely in lockstep for all of his proposals, nominees, illegal and immoral bills. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Muppet plant. #bloomscrolling https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/961/711/785/087/448/original/4e4b3427bd20f742.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick A dahlia and a bee. #bloomscrolling https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/961/701/900/384/543/original/8002e38ca5cf6fbf.jpg npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Firing the person responsible for reporting job numbers just makes the jobs numbers one worse. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Is "shooting the messenger" trending yet? This is political and scientific corruption of the worst order. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/trump-job-report-number-fire npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick Miserable jobs report issued. Trump: threaten nuclear war with Russia. npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick If any so-called tariff "deal" that Trump negotiates can be modified on his whim for political purposes, it's not a "deal," it's a ransom demand or a blackmail request. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-palestine-canada-trade-deal-b2799408.html npub1f6p27fcenvph4dlg3p43tnfwq5dzvw8ayhzzlp078csjennq2vrskdygnk Peter Gleick The "scientific" arguments put forward by the EPA to eliminate the greenhouse gas "endangerment finding" directly violate Trump's "Gold Standard" Executive Order, since those arguments are total crap, based on misinformation, disinformation, long-debunked pseudoscience, and old, tired climate denial talking points.