"Hmm" Trump thinks to himself, "What else can I do to destroy the US tourism industry?"

"Foreigners allowed to travel to the U.S. without a visa could soon face new social media screening"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/foreigners-allowed-to-travel-to-the-u-s-without-a-visa-could-soon-face-new-social-media-screening

The threats by Trump against the International Criminal Court in The Hague are a clear indication that he KNOWS he and members of his administration are violating international law, committing war crimes, and vulnerable to prosecution.
Commit crimes? Threaten judges. He does it here in the US too.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/

I'm not sure this story is getting the attention it deserves.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/21/october-inflation-report-cancelled-fed-rate

My piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the rapid and widespread increase in violence over #water resources in the past several years.
Record levels reported in 2024.

Violence over water resources reaches record levels

The number of violent events over water resources reported in 2024 was nearly 20 percent higher than 2023 and nearly 80 percent higher than 2022.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)

Yes, it's a cult of personality.

Visitors to 116 national parks can no longer get in for free on MLK Day or Juneteenth, federal holidays celebrating Black history (June 19 marks the end of slavery).
They will, however, now get in free on Trump’s birthday, which he just added to the list.

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/national-parks-change-prioritizes-trump-birthday-21219336.php

A short summary and interview with me discussing the growing trend of water-related violence worldwide, based on the new data just released by the Pacific Institute.

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/12/water-conflicts-surge-globally-a-conversation-on-rising-threats/

If someone wanted to destroy the US automobile industry and tremendously strengthen the Chinese automobile industry, they wouldn't be doing anything differently than what Trump is doing now. China is now producing smarter, cheaper, cleaner cars than the US.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-02/trump-to-dial-back-fuel-economy-rules-in-nod-to-rising-car-prices

Nothing like Black Friday and Giving Tuesday to make me think those "unsubscribe" links don't work.

The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.

https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-coal-dead

A wonderful and extremely personal review of the state of climate science 30 years on by one of the world's leading #climate scientists.

https://thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-climate-scientist-reflects-on-30-years-fighting-the-forces-of-unreason/

"Climate breakdown can be seen in the data"

Large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#water
#climate

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown

Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

It seems we're about to find out which US senior military officers are willing to sacrifice their commands to uphold their oaths to refuse illegal orders.

Killing unarmed civilians is the same war crime for which Lieutenant Calley was convicted during the Vietnam war.

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/

Fossil fuels are fine unless you use them for anything.

Stop burning #fossilfuels. Stop turning them into plastics.
Leave them in the ground.

Interested in the past, present, and future of #water? Read "The Three Ages of Water"!

Elizabeth Kolbert calls this book "authoritative, far-ranging, and fascinating."
Greta Thunberg says "What a wonderful book!"
Jerry Brown calls it "timely and magisterial."

Just a moment...

(bookshop.org)

In a world of MAGA decay, dishonesty, and deceit, just doing the right thing is an act of resistance.

Found this little cutie in the folds of a garden umbrella.
I think it's the appropriately named Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus).

More detailed science showing that so much of the damage from future #climate changes come from #water.
If carbon emissions don't peak until 2080, daily extreme precipitation over land could increase by 37% by 2100.

Just a moment...

(www.science.org)

When Trump says only the Democrats are in the Epstein files, remember two things.
First he always lies.
Second, he used to be a Democrat.

Got to get to paragraph 6 before they mention the big drop in Texas vaccination rates.

Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Texas, quadrupling last year's numbers

Texas is currently seeing four times the number of whooping cough cases compared to the same time last year.

ABC News (abcnews.go.com)