John Ryan

Do you work for the federal government in Washington state? KUOW wants to hear from you. (If your work involves environment/energy/climate here, *I* want to hear from you.)

Raise your hand if you are an Arab scientist. 👋🏽 I say this with all the disrespect intended. Fuck you.

More than a thousand years ago, Al-Khwarizmi was the father of algebra. Ibn Sina/Avicenna wrote the leading medical text. Al-Biruni made original contributions to geodesy/astronomy. Nobel Prizes: Naguib Mahfouz Ahmed Zewail Moungi Bawendi Ardem Patapoutian Wolf Prize: Ahmed Zewail Omar Yaghi

the racist dog whistles are long done. The Trump administration is proudly carnival barking racism

NYT & WaPo haven't covered it (yet?), but here's Miami Herald's Julie Brown: "The report mentions 11 women, five of whom said in interviews with newspapers, a lawsuit, or directly to the Committee that Trump either raped or sexually assaulted them." www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Sunny day flooding in San Francisco amid the city’s highest October tide on record.

“They would hear capitulation more than anything.” — Will Dahlberg, former general manager of WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama, on his resistance to changing the station’s language from Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

You or someone you know probably believes misinformation about natural gas; polling shows HALF of likely voters think it’s a clean fuel. We made this episode to try and debunk some of that misinformation, but also to explore the decades-long propaganda campaign fueling it. Pls like/share!

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff. n.pr/48eAvU9

If you care about fighting climate change, salvaging the Amazon rainforest and maintaining its capacity to positively influence Earth's weather systems, it's difficult to overstate just how significant a bullet the planet just dodged.

Their ding dong Premier called a snap election two years ahead of schedule and is getting the boot as a result. Incredible.

El Niño is everywhere in the headlines, but ultimately human-caused climate change is the key reason for the record global warmth. 📈 Curious about how these two climate stories relate? Learn more in our latest report: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

The Trump Regime continues to block wind turbine permits this way, even after losing in court. Not one no-hazard determination or approval in the past 30 days for wind turbines, even as every other kind of structure routinely gets them. oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/oe3a/m...

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A disturbing trend for U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector: www.utilitydive.com/news/fossil-...

As climate change fuels hotter summers, some Britons are moving north in search of cooler weather. Could a similar shift be on the horizon in the United States? n.pr/4dSywrV

The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns the planet is on track for catastrophic warming. n.pr/4zb8sRp

War criminal is humanitarian. Day is night.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

"The increase in the United States of America (133 megatons of CO2 equivalent) far exceeded that of all other countries, and was driven by increased electricity demand and a rebound of coal power generation."

For more than 40 years, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has advised Congress and the president on what to study in the far north. Trump appointed a venture capitalist and MAGA influencer with no formal science background — and ties to Russia — as its chair.

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

"If that slid, the cruise ship is toast." A story covering cruise ships taking thousands of people, daily, to steep-sided icy fiords. By KHNS in Haines, Alaska, 16 Oct 2026. Title: "Landslide tsunami risk is intensifying in busy Alaska fjords, with no plan in place". khns.org/landslide-ts...

Oof, no thank you

San Diego and Los Angeles could finish October with more rain than Seattle. Monthly rainfall through Oct. 19: Seattle: 0.13” Los Angeles: 0.09” San Diego: 1.04” Forecast rainfall through Oct. 26: Seattle: 0.29” Los Angeles: 1.58” San Diego: 0.62”

As the burning of fossil fuels continues pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching the Earth @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigates...

The fact that a private citizen has the power to do this is mind boggling.

This is straight-up illegal (bypassing Congress) THEFT of funds awarded to scientists for important work to benefit the American people (and global wellbeing) that has been put on pause to further an extremist political agenda — zero doubt.

Canada's province of Alberta has rejected a plan to hold a binding independence referendum, results show, a setback for separatists backed by allies of US President Donald Trump u.afp.com/SCah

Science, schmience

We finally found the paid protesters Trump keeps talking about

"Heat waves have evolved from sporadic, isolated episodes to massive, cascading weather events that can blanket vast swaths of the planet for months or even years at a time."

Reader, Russia invaded Ukraine. Invaded.

This is a pretty funny chart

Also, the trees in east Potomac Park aren't exactly huge Doug fir, sequoias, or pondos. TLDR: The Secretary of the Interior's appeal to hazard trees is bullshit. 22/22

TLDR: - Individuals do not take as much climate action as they can (it makes a difference, though we also need to push for systemic change). - People don’t realize how much taking actions can increase quality of life. - Talking about climate = more likely to act. So let’s talk about climate more!

I have eaten the candy I bought At CVS And which I was planning To give out On Halloween Forgive me There’s an election So bleak And so close

yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive

Trump oligarch Mark Zuckerberg has suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the national day of action.

In competitive authoritarian countries, regime allies limit and control mainstream media visibility to opposition figures and media. We're not there yet, but this is what it looks like.