Really honored to be recognized as a finalist for the NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for my book GASLIGHT. And humbled to even be considered alongside these other authors. This kind of journalism has never been more important. I'm grateful to @nypl for recognizing this work.

RT @jonmingle: Really honored to be recognized as a finalist for the NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for my book GASLIGHT. And humbled to….

Here's @bentarnoff brilliantly diagnosing our political moment in @nybooks. And channeling St Exupery, too:. “To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery.”. ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars.

RT @RARohde: Following Trump's first-term, the share of academic papers written about Earth Science topics hit a 20-year low in the USA. T….

RT @volcaholic1: Valencia ♥️.

RT @DKThomp: For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jb….

RT @allymutnick: There will be two Black women serving together in the Senate for the first time in US history. Angela Alsobrooks in Maryla….

RT @jonathanchait: Have the Russian bomb threats targeted any Republican-majority polling places? or only Democratic ones?.

RT @joshtpm: this 10,000 percent. right in the open. treated as a given now that trump/gops just accept the help. dog bites man.

RT @TristanSnell: BREAKING - Over 40 different fake bomb threats have now been called into Democratic-leaning polling places. And they're c….

RT @LiamFromBoston: The biggest story of the night is Russia calling multiple bomb threats into Democratic strongholds across the country.….

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RT @vtdigger: BREAKING: Vermont Gov. Phil Scott votes for Kamala Harris for president #vtpoli #election2024

Yeah well this reinforcing feedback scenario has been keeping me up at night for roughly last 5 years, since I first wrote about the methane spike. (Occupational hazard of being a climate reporter.). Which is why I had to get it off my chest in final pages of my book GASLIGHT:

Election Day self-care strategy: . Step 1: eat jalapeno cheddar muffin from the bake sale at my town hall polling place (after voting). Step 2: read this feel-good story on a new solar electric school bus pilot project in Brooklyn from @CanaryMediaInc .

RT @propublica: Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarri….

If you want a (not at all soothing) break from the electoral map, here's one for you. 48 out of 50 states in drought last month. Never happened before. Climate change in a landslide.

RT @zteirstein: Experts wondered whether voter turnout would slump in the two swing states battered by Hurricane Helene. The opposite is ha….

RT @DaniFraLa: Barcelona ahora

RT @WeatherProf: Spain is under climate siege.