Neelima Vallangi

Bjorn Lomborg is writing about India in Indian newspapers?!!!! This is really bad because we have a nascent climate ecosystem outside of the research circles, with no major public-facing experts speaking on the topic, and the potential for disinformation is so huge here. Ugh.

This is a heist. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

wait...what????

The Guardian will stream NAZA on its website for free >>> www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I remember exactly where I was on 9/11. What class I was in, what we were learning at the time, where I was sitting and who was next to me. But my memories are impossible. My transcript clearly shows that I took that class in 2002, not 2001. This is apparently a common phenomenon 🧪

During grad school, we’d say that climate change is happening, but we can’t definitively say it’s due to humans (even though we were pretty sure it was). It might be technically correct to say that we can’t definitively say what happened in Nepal/Tibet is due to climate change, but really, we can.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Call me old-fashioned, but I do think we could be losing our sense of proportion. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Not just Europe, everyone’s productivity everywhere! I have air con at home and I work from home, but still, the Indian summer has been most unproductive for me.

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

NEW – Prof Detlef van Vuuren is the climate scientist most cited by the IPCC, according to an analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database. Read his full interview with Carbon Brief’s @leohickman.carbonbrief.org here ⬇️ bit.ly/4uRxguM

When looking at the full global picture it becomes obvious that we are now living in a much changed climate. In summer 1976, north-west Europe was a lonely hot spot in a sea of cooler temperatures. In summer 2025, the world is bright red. The climate is unrecognisable compared to 50 years ago.

Glaciologists, which would be the lowest altitude glacier in the world? (Outside of Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica)

'Like the Guardian list, we hope this Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 will spark both discovery and dissent. Let’s all read more books, from more places, from more writers.' www.anzliterature.com/feature/the-...

Four years ago today. @geocron.bsky.social, Jeff Bond, Jackson Bodtker, and Holly Basiuk had the most incredible scientific experience any of us will ever have. Thread below. 🧪⚒️ #Solstice #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay #NunChoGa

Happy #JuneSolstice! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! 🙂 Understanding seasons - a look at the hourly incoming sunlight during the two solstices (23.5°N/S). I've added a red marker for ease of viewing. Graphic can be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Shaming people for having air conditioning is stupid.

Latest essay from @70sbachchan.bsky.social and me on one of the things that really affects everything else: CHINESE MANUFACTURING phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

I was today years old when I learned there's CORN that makes SNOT so bacteria in the snot can fix nitrogen And it's just like, these big snotty things hanging off the corn. Thanks @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social I am a better person for knowing this www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

This line from the WMO State of the Climate in Asia 2025 report baffles me: "During 1991–2025, Asia warmed more rapidly than the global land-and-ocean average" Isn't this true for any landmass? Land will be warmer than the global average, so why is it significant? wmo.int/news/media-c...

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold it to a data center developer for $10 million

When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms.

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

if this is how it is going to go, it'll be game over for us in India.

This is not “very strange” but a very shouty WTF! 🧵 Temps should below freezing -mean air temp Esperanza for June about -11°C, not +15°C 😱 Conditions should be frigid!!!! 🥶 It’s approaching midwinter ffs! Days are very short this far north in the Antarctic Peninsula ( ~5 hrs) 1/

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n... City of Portland, Ore., has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for 150 low-income families. The city has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioning units to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves.

Let's see how this works on Bsky: I am looking for a scientist by the name of Spice to write a Shugar & Spice paper. 🧪⚒️

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

Iran war has made Laos cut EV registration fee by 30% and increase ICE registration fee by 30%. Goal: cut petrol/diesel use. Govt agencies has stopped purchase of all ICE vehicles. www.eco-business.com/news/laos-sl...

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

A team of academics looked into the environmental & climate claims of the meat & dairy industry from 2021-2024, to try to determine what percentage of those claims qualified as "greenwashing." The good news: it wasn't 100%! The bad news: it was, uh, 98%.

The people behind this all need to go to jail for a long time www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...