Jeff Spencer

Why are our efforts to mitigate the impacts of #ClimateChange so hard? According the Genevieve Gunther, it’s because too many elites have too much invested in the status quo (and the status quo is a fossil fueled economy). A thread.

<- And yes, fossil-fuel phaseout would help to mitigate global income inequality (no more private jets and white boats, for one thing).”

Why are our efforts to mitigate the impacts of #ClimateChange so hard? According the Genevieve Gunther, it’s because too many elites have too much invested in the status quo (and the status quo is a fossil fueled economy). A thread.

<- In a decarbonized and electrified net-zero economy—quite aside from avoided costs of worse heat waves, droughts, floods, storms, diseases, and so on—we would be paying much less for electricity, heating, and transportation, currently a huge chunk of people’s monthly bills. ->

Why are our efforts to mitigate the impacts of #ClimateChange so hard? According the Genevieve Gunther, it’s because too many elites have too much invested in the status quo (and the status quo is a fossil fueled economy). A thread.

I just posted (on my blog) how I’ve voting on the candidates. If you’re curios, check it out. jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/10/25/h...

For those of us who live in California, it looks like it’s going to be a very stormy, wet winter.

The El Niño in the Pacific Ocean “will become the strongest, and also easternmost-centered, event on record (if it isn’t already), [making] this year’s tilt in the odds toward wet and stormy conditions in California will be profoundly unsubtle.”

There’s a nasty drought in Afghanistan. It’s so bad families are feeling pressured to sell off their very young daughters as brides.

We know that droughts are exacerbated by #ClimateChange, so as far as I’m concerned, this is one more reason to join the effort to reduce and eventually stop heat-trapping air pollution. Get involved. Join 350.org or Third Act or Climate Hope Affiliates or ->

There’s a nasty drought in Afghanistan. It’s so bad families are feeling pressured to sell off their very young daughters as brides.

“In Badghis, 95% of the population relies on rain-fed agriculture and livestock to live. But droughts, made more frequent and extreme by climate breakdown, have robbed people of their incomes.

At least we in California are still paying attention to the science. The news about #ClimateChange is grim. The New York Times reports on the latest California Climate Assessment. Summers last 50% longer than they used to. Snowpack disappearing, which means summer water supplies disappearing.

The need for all of us to join the effort to reduce and eventually stop heat trapping air pollution could not be clearer. Join the effort! Get involved. Join 350.org or Third Act or Climate Hope Affiliates or Citizens’ Climate Lobby or some other organization that’s pushing politicians ->

At least we in California are still paying attention to the science. The news about #ClimateChange is grim. The New York Times reports on the latest California Climate Assessment. Summers last 50% longer than they used to. Snowpack disappearing, which means summer water supplies disappearing.

“The Framers of the [United States] Constitution thought they had designed a system that would prevent the rise of a tyrant. They believed U.S. representatives would be so fearful of a leader’s abuse of power that they would impeach any president who overstepped his authority, -> 1/

<- stand aside as a president and his appointees captured the prerogatives of the Senate.” Yet, here we are. Republicans in both Houses “stand aside as Trump trashes the post–World War II system of global security in order to ally the United States with a Russian dictator.” 3/

“The Framers of the [United States] Constitution thought they had designed a system that would prevent the rise of a tyrant. They believed U.S. representatives would be so fearful of a leader’s abuse of power that they would impeach any president who overstepped his authority, -> 1/

Does it really take twenty heavily armed federal agents to arrest one grandfather in pajamas? The news about the feds arresting 28 people in California for allegedly registering to vote when they aren’t eligible to do so has absolutely nothing to do with arresting these 28 people.

That’s why this post doesn’t have any photo attached. The raids are the message and I don’t want to amplify that anti-democracy message.

Does it really take twenty heavily armed federal agents to arrest one grandfather in pajamas? The news about the feds arresting 28 people in California for allegedly registering to vote when they aren’t eligible to do so has absolutely nothing to do with arresting these 28 people.

It was a very hot summer in the northern hemisphere. High temperatures are stressful enough on plants and animals (including humans)—heat kills. And it’s more than simply the heat. It impacts water availability, energy systems, transport, whole ecosystems. 1/3

And, of course, hot weather and widespread drought help wildfires run rampant (as we saw this summer). 2/3

The super El Niño that brewing in the Pacific Ocean will have real impacts. For instance, UNICEF expects 347 million children in nearly 100 countries will be exposed to flooding or drought because of it. www.unicef.org/press-releas... 1/4

The thing that’s making this El Niño such a monster is #ClimateChange. That’s why our work to reduce and eventually stop heat trapping air pollution is so important. Join the effort! Get involved. 3/4

The super El Niño that brewing in the Pacific Ocean will have real impacts. For instance, UNICEF expects 347 million children in nearly 100 countries will be exposed to flooding or drought because of it. www.unicef.org/press-releas... 1/4