Michael E. Mann

It was us climate scientists. We can geoengineer record heat waves with our space lasers but a trillion tons of carbon pollution from two centuries of fossil fuel burning can't warm the atmosphere

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

OK, who was it? Come clean.

Well...
bsky.app/profile/mich...

Fixed it for you, @thetimes.com!

My explanation of how climate change is amplifying these wildfires ended up entirely on the @npr.org cutting room floor.

Instead they included an extremely misleading of the supposed role of fire suppression and human alteration (expertly debunked here: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... )

The wildfires in Ontario and Minnesota are a direct consequence of the high temperatures and low rainfall resulting from a major July heat dome event.

A year ago we showed that these events had tripled in frequency due to human-caused warming: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

Summer 2023 called. It wants its apocalyptic haze back... www.independent.co.uk/us/voices/ai...

Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal | Michael E. Mann

The current wildfires are a preview of far worse things to come, write climate experts, Susan Joy Hassol and Professor Michael E. Mann

The most corrupt President in U.S. history calling in a favor from the most corrupt President of the most corrupt sports organization in the world. Surprising the whole planet wasn't sucked into this singularity of corruption.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

The NYT reports that Trump personally called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review Team USA’s Folarin Balogun’s World Cup suspension after his red card Days later, FIFA reversed the suspension It’s the first time since 1962 that FIFA has overturned a World Cup red-card suspension

"Gianni, I need you to find 4 points"
-- Donald

#Spain (pro-E.U. and multilateralism) defeats #Argentina (right-wing Trump-aligned President)
#WorldCup

Wow--that's a scary looking bacterium! The stuff on the right looks bad too.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social

A Meta data center in Wyoming has infected the local water system with a rare bacterium known as cupriavidus gilardii.

Shameful

Reply to @michaelemann.bsky.social

It is also worth pointing out that human-caused climate change is now the dominant contributor to the increase of wildfire risk in the western U.S.: cpo.noaa.gov/study-shows-...

Study Shows That Climate Change is the Main Driver of Increasing Fire Weather in the Western United States - Climate Program Office

A new study, part of NOAA's Drought Task Force IV research, shows the leading cause of the rapid increase of wildfires over the western U.S. is the rapid increase of surface air vapor pressure deficit...

Oh, the "foundation" met with Epstein

The Guardian @theguardian.com

Bill Gates foundation met with Jeffrey Epstein about 30 times, external review finds

Bill Gates foundation met with Jeffrey Epstein about 30 times, external review finds

Staff ‘raised on multiple occasions’ risks of tech mogul’s philanthropic body associating with disgraced financier A new external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation has found that there were “roughly 30 meetings” between Jeffrey Epstein and foundation leaders and staff – including Bill Gates – between 2011 and 2014, even as foundation staff “raised on multiple occasions the risks of associating with Epstein because of his prior conviction”. The Gates foundation commissioned the review in March, following the justice department’s release earlier this year of millions of documents related to Epstein. The files included numerous references to Gates, several photographs of him, and records showing that he met with Epstein on multiple occasions, which prompted renewed scrutiny of Gates’s past ties to the disgraced financier. Continue reading...

"What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"

-- the late, great Sherry Rowland

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

A reminder that the observed warming of the planet is consistent with what models have predicted given ongoing carbon emissions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So long everyone. And thanks for all the fish!

The Onion @theonion.com

Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity

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A reminder that the observed warming of the planet is consistent with what models have predicted given ongoing carbon emissions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

"Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists" by Eric Roston for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming

Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.

And with this, The Onion goes bankrupt.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting

He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.

Trump is questionably even sentient at this point.

Make no mistake. This action is being taken by the polluters and plutocrats who put him in power:
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Trump calls for review related to scientific manual used by judges

U.S. President Donald Trump called for a review related to the Federal Judicial Center's ​scientific reference manual in cases involving climate change, writing ‌in a Truth Social post on Sunday that ...

p.s. the idea that the increasingly widespread and damaging wildfires can be explained away by "fire suppression" practices etc. is an old denialist frame advanced by Trump and GOP: www.newsweek.com/lies-climate...

After Australia, Reading the Lies About West Coast Fires Feels Like Deja Vu

Public awareness of the dangers of climate change threatens business as usual. So the bad faith actors are on the move yet again.

That ignores the role of climate change.
Both are contributing factors.

‘Extreme weather phenomenon’ forces cancellation of many semiquincentennial events -- Expert says it’s tied to climate change | My interview earlier today with @kywnewsradio.bsky.social Philadelphia: www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

‘Extreme weather phenomenon’ forces cancellation of many semiquincentennial events

The Philadelphia area is not alone in losing holiday weekend events to sweltering heat. The entire East Coast is under a heat dome. Penn professor Michael Mann said such phenomena have tripled in the ...

But they did get a photo of him, shown below: www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...

CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country

MAHA.

That deserves an excerpt from my recent commentary for China Daily: www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202606/08/...

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for new wind and solar projects” So dumb

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My comments on the new @nationalacademies.org report on climate change & extreme weather attribution.
The TLDR statement: If anything, the academy understates the strength of the science linking increasingly extreme weather events to climate change:
michaelmann.net/comments-on-...

Comments on National Academy of Sciences Report on Climate Change & Extreme Weather Event Attribution | Michael E. Mann

The National Academy of Sciences has put out a new report assessing the state of understanding of the science of extreme weather attribution, an area of […]

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