Co-founder Climate Science Rapid Response Team & Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, craft beer/whiskey fan, #FactsMatter
Long Island, NY
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Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.
Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.
Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.
Now here's what you're "saving":
Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.
Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.
99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.
That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.
And the human cost of what you're "saving"?
460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)
All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
Audits in Utah, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, and Georgia found a few dozen possible noncitizen registrants out of millions—and virtually no voting. Trump’s claim that noncitizens are swinging elections is false, says Cato’s @stephen_richer.
ow.ly/1LXL50YewC6
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
It’s just sad that @elonmusk, who started the world biggest EV company and one of the largest solar companies in an effort to fight climate change, is now spending his time amplifying voices that attack clean energy and dismiss climate science.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
Stunning visuals show how wildlife is disappearing around the world, in the oceans and on land. Humans are taking over too much of the planet and climate change make survival harder. Read more: #COP15 nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
One of the underappreciated aspects of renewable energy is that it improves your national, economic, and energy security. Europe found out this the hard way with regards to Russian gas.
iea.org/news/renewable-power…
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
Climate denial is a serious problem on most social media channels. Every semester, I ask my students to take a side and argue: do the benefits of social media outweigh the drawbacks?
These days, I'm not sure.
More here: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
Hugely important paper!
"Global greening" since the 1980s actually reversed around the year 2000
The trend turned to "browning" in 90% of vegetated area due to climates becoming too hot and dry in many places
Chen et al 2021 (including @ciais_philippe)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
If you disagree with scientists about science, it’s not really a disagreement. You’re actually just incorrect. Science is not truth, it’s the process of finding the truth. When science evolves, it didn’t lie to you, it learned more.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
World Can Still Meet Climate Targets With Action Now, new @BloombergNEF report describes. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
💡All these can be true at same time:
CDC director sucks.
CDC scientists save lives.
Elon Musk is half-ruining Twitter.
Tesla makes good cars.
EVs can catch fire—but less than ICE cars.
SpaceX saved taxpayers $40 bil via 🚀costs -85%.
SpaceX’s Dragon saves us from begging Putin.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
Marjorie Taylor Green, Paul Gosar, and Wendy Rogers spoke at Nick Fuentes' white nationalist conference earlier this year. They didn't apologize for it. GOP didn't punish them. Media completely moved on. You normalize hate, what do you think happens? It gets a Trump invite.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3VmVXhj
ALT Cop car in a Walmart parking lot.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
If more guns and fewer gun laws made us safer, America would be the safest nation in the world.
But 400,000,000 guns in the hands of civilians coupled with weak gun laws have given us a 25 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation.
It’s the fucking guns.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
I wrote about the surge in U.S. renewable generation, which is set to overtake coal and nuclear this year.
scientificamerican.com/artic…
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
“The outcome of COP27 will likely not be ambitious enough. But that’s not a reason to give up. It’s a reason for each of us to do everything we can to close the action gap.” - @AliJSheridan
#COP27 is scheduled to close in 24 hours - and negotiators remain divided on a number of significant issues.
I urge them to act - and act quickly.
The world is watching and has a simple message: stand and deliver.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
#BuffaloBills stadium on left.
@UBuffalo stadium on right.
One is south of town, one is north of town. Major difference.
#buffalo #nywx #snow #LakeEffectSnow
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
New @pewresearch study reveals climate silence in U.S. religious communities.
If we don’t talk about it, why would we care? And if we don’t care, why would we act? This is why I’m convinced that the #1 most impt thing each of us can do about climate change is TALK ABOUT IT!
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
A 🧵 on the need for rare minerals for renewable energy and the Ehrlich-Simon bet:
I was talking to group of libertarians a few weeks ago and someone asked me if we would be able to produce enough rare minerals to build out a renewable energy system.
Scott A Mandia 🇺🇦 retweeted
All #scicomm people know @MaibachEd's 10 words to describe the climate problem (it's real, it's us, ... there's hope). I've used those a lot, but given that climate science denial is fading away, a better set may be:
* this is a serious problem
* this is a solvable problem
