Peter Gleick

· 6h ago

Check out this amazing story (to me, anyway) of a 1000-mile-long cloud that consistently forms and disappears on #Mars. As a climate and water scientist, this fascinates me. https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/1-000-mile-long-cloud-that-forms-and-vanishes-on-mars-every-day-obeys-exotic-physics-never-seen-on-earth

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· 3d ago

The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6127666-florida-dengue-outbreak-record/

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· 6d ago

Boosted by @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

Vote like it may be your last chance to vote.

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· 1w ago

Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was released on this day 62 years ago. I have a first edition & come back to it often, including this paragraph in the chapter "Obligation to Endure." It's worth reading. "We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts."

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· 1w ago

Posting this from another platform via Mrs. Betty Bowers. The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8SyndC10

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· 2w ago

Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) #vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was. RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.

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· 1w ago

So Trump has inadvertently launched a government funded and supported real-time fact checker for his own lies at America.gov. Any over/under on how long this lasts before he shuts it down completely? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/trump-america-gov-ai-chatbot

· 1mo ago

Just a reminder of what Trump Tariffs do:

They take your money.
When declared illegal, they're paid back to corporations, not you.
They alienate our allies.

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· 1mo ago

Israel completely destroyed Gaza's #water and #wastewater systems and now raw sewage is pouring into the Mediterranean, worsening an algal bloom that has forced the shutdown of 5 of 6 Israeli desalination plants. The unintended water-related consequences of war. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2026-09-04/ty-article-opinion/sewage-backfire-israel-is-paying-the-price-for-gazas-ruin/000001a0-68e1-de5c-a1e3-7fe714180000

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· 5d ago

Is this front page news everywhere, the way it would have been if Biden was president? https://apnews.com/article/jobs-unemployment-economy-ai-hiring-44b99f9ccbff863888af99402ddf535e

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· 1mo ago

The next president's very first executive order: literally everything Trump renamed is hereby now put back to its original name, and all monuments built to Trump or by Trump are to be immediately demolished.

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· 1mo ago

August 9th: Happy Richard Nixon Resignation Day. When there were at least some consequences for corrupt, criminal presidents.

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· 2w ago

You know what? If Trump et al. really cared about #nationalsecurity, they would be working hard to slow #climate change, which hundreds of defense and intelligence agency assessments (pre-Trump) have acknowledged are actual security threats. I document them here: https://www.gleick.com/blog/climate-change-water-the-environment-and-national-security-an-annotated

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Climate Change, Water, the Environment and National Sec...

· 1mo ago

This isn't getting enough attention. The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983. Why? Trump and the GOP have been selling it off to try to keep oil prices low and artificially hide the real impact of the Iran War.

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· 2w ago

We're losing the generation of great scientists that developed the first tools to understand how we're changing the #climate & then warned us about the consequences. Remembering them & building on their work is our responsibility to their legacy. RIP Dr. Robert E. Dickinson https://fromtheprow.agu.org/robert-e-dickinson-obituary/

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· 1w ago

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren

Congresswoman Lofgren asks OSTP Director Kratsios to remove Matthew Wielicki from his position as leader of the US Global Change Research Program for his efforts to destroy the next National Climate Assessment. Unlikely, since that's exactly why he was appointed... https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/ranking-member-lofgren-urges-removal-wielicki-leader-climate-research-office

Ranking Member Lofgren Urges Removal of Wielicki as Leader of Climate Research Office

(Washington, DC) – Yesterday, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) Director, Michael Kratsios, urging him to remove Dr. Matthew Wielicki from his position as leader of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).

· 2mo ago

Measles up. Explosive diarrhea worsening. Salmonella in millions of eggs Cancer research cut. Disease monitoring stopped. Vaccine efforts devastated. Pseudoscience and snake oil medicine proliferating. Parasitic flesh-eating screwworm in Texas. But Fauci.

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· 2mo ago

Boosted by @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social

This kind of Muskian grotesque, ignorant, aggressive, hubris is why corporations are willing to literally destroy the Earth, ecosystems, and #climate in return for a short-term, fleeting, profit.

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· 1w ago

The desecration, commercialization, and sell-off of the nation's precious environmental jewels is a Republican party platform. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/09/26/trump-officials-weigh-mlb-game-grand-teton-national-park/

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· 6d ago

Classic Trump sleight-of-hand and misdirection. Xi Jinping & Donald Trump agreed for China to buy 10m tonnes of US #coal in 2027 and 2028. BUT in 2024, we exported 12m tonnes to China. When Trump put tariffs on China, they stopped buying it and it dropped to zero. So Trump breaks something and then claims success when he seems to fix it. And 10m tonnes is about 2% of US coal production, so this is no boost to the dying US coal industry. https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-1-october-2026-xi-trump-summit-trade-war-plea-strongest-el-nino

Carbon Brief

China Briefing 1 October 2026: Xi-Trump summit | ‘Trade war’ plea | ‘Strongest’ El Niño - Carbon Brief

The summit between Chinese president and US yielded an agreement on buying coal, and more news related to climate change and China from this fortnight.

· 1mo ago

Ok, enough of that. Here's a picture I took this weekend.

· 2w ago

You know what? If someone has $1 billion in assets subject to California's Prop 40 tax of 5%, at the end of the day, they'll still have $950 million. Tax the (really) rich.

· 2mo ago

The speed of #climate change has accelerated dramatically in the last decade, from 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015 to 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years. And politicians still fiddle while we burn. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm

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· 3w ago

Fight the Houthis? Maybe people don't know that Saudi Arabia, several of the Gulf countries and the United States have been fighting the Houthis in Yemen for years, with no apparent success.

· 3w ago

Climate changes are killing California's gray whales. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray-whales-are-washing-up-dead-on-the-west-coast-the-reason-is-alarming/

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· 1mo ago

Boosted by @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange

Your periodic reminder that one in 300 Americans died of COVID, and mostly because they didn't get the miracle vaccine our scientists produced in record time.

· 2mo ago

Trump's CBP has been stealing #water from New Mexico to build more of his Wall, without permission from the state. At least eight wells to pump #groundwater along the U.S.-Mexico border were drilled without state permits. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/08/05/border-wall-water-new-mexico

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· 3w ago

Great job: If you're a member of Congress/Senate you can be sick or incapacitated as long as you want and still get full health care and salary; AND if a difficult or embarrassing thing comes up at work, you can just go home and not deal with it. Cowards. https://newrepublic.com/post/215490/house-cancels-votes-avoid-embarrassment-hegseth-impeachment

House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment

The New Republic

House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment

Republicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

· 3w ago

Then we have a serious problem, don't we.

· 1mo ago

#Drought, water rationing and dry #rivers: Our #water crisis is here. It doesn’t have to be this way. We know what needs to be done. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/11/drought-water-climate-crisis

· 4w ago

Two conflicting stories highlight how different communities think about #water & fundamental rights: A US court just ruled: there is no constitutional right to clean water.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/mississippi-clean-water-case-constitutional-right An all female-led group of the Cherokee Nation just recognized the inherent rights of the Longperson waterway. https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/cherokee-girls-win-legal-rights-for-waterway-in-first-all-female-u-s-effort/

· 2mo ago

This from RFKJr's CDC is the classic "burden of proof fallacy" and a gross abuse of science. In science (and law) the burden of proof rests on the person making a positive claim ("vaccines cause autism") to provide supporting evidence, NOT the job of the opposition to disprove it.

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· 2w ago

Do you know when the first #water war was? Or why Machiavelli and Leonardo conspired to divert a river? Or how many times the LA Aqueduct was dynamited by angry farmers? These are some of the stories I tell in my new book, "When the Well is Dry." Pre-order now! https://thenewpress.org/books/when-the-well-is-dry/

· 2mo ago

There is nothing at all on the CDC website about the wildfire smoke and how to protect yourself from it. Total abdication of responsibility. https://www.cdc.gov/index.html

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Of course Trump is threatening the International Criminal Court. Even though the US has never recognized the authority of the ICC, it is the one international organization with some power to force accountability of the Trump administration for war crimes and violations of international law. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/marco-rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court

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· 4w ago

Are we still allowed to ask if Mitch McConnell is alive and sentient?

· 2mo ago

This is explicitly a war crime under all definitions of international law. Either no one told Trump and Hegseth, or they don't care.

· 2mo ago

Today is the deadline for calling a special election in Kentucky. Expect the announcement that McConnell is either dead or never returning to the Senate to happen after today.

· 3w ago

Ice melt and sea-level rise are accelerating due to #climatechange and impacts of flooding are worsening. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/satellites-show-earth-lost-12-trillion-tons-ice-greenland-antarctica-rcna598084

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· 2mo ago

Donald Trump says we can't afford to let China have all the data centers ("this incredible new Technology"), yet he's caused the US to abandon EVs and renewable energy technology to China -- actual technologies that benefit humanity.

· 3w ago

Kind words for my new book from author/writer David Owen. "Steadily worsening conflicts over access to fresh water increasingly shape the world. No one has studied this subject more thoughtfully than Peter Gleick. This is an urgently important book." Pre-order here! https://thenewpress.org/books/when-the-well-is-dry/

· 2mo ago

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/politics-cm931oj8z/-/a--h3wAPfuQgmgN0qDXRP8bg%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0 As we all knew would happen. False arrest, based on lies from Trump's DOI to Trump's DOJ based on lies from Trump directly. The damage was, of course, from "contractor error".

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· 2mo ago

Trump accuses Canada of "willful negligence" over the #wildfires and smoke blanketing Canada and the US. It's willful negligence all right, but on the part of Trump and every other politician who has ignored the threat of #climate change for decades.

· 2mo ago

Dear Hegseth and Trump, What happens when Iran has depleted our shrinking stockpile of very expensive missiles and air-defenses but still hasn't run out of their stockpile of very cheap missiles and drones? Any plans?

· 2mo ago

Advance praise for my new book! "We finally have a comprehensive account of the building #water crisis that we've long needed, and that it comes with workable ideas for addressing it is a great bonus. Peter Gleick speaks with utter authority here." --Bill McKibben "Few experts have done more than Peter Gleick to illuminate the critical role of water in both conflict and cooperation. He brings unmatched expertise and compelling storytelling to one of the defining challenges of our time. 'When the Well is Dry' is an essential guide to understanding how water—our most precious resource—can drive violence, inspire cooperation, and shape a more secure and peaceful future." --Sherri Goodman (Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) Pre-order it now for 30% off. https://thenewpress.org/books/when-the-well-is-dry/

· 2mo ago

You know what's sad and funny at the same time? Trump just lashed out at a National Academy of Sciences #climate report but attacked the wrong one. He was probably told to attack a new report showing the strong links between human activities and climate impacts (on climate attribution) but got addled and attacked an old study on climate evidence for judges. He, and people around him, are morons. BTW, both NAS studies are excellent.

· 2mo ago

When is Pete Hegseth going to break out the ruler?

· 2mo ago

More kind words for my new book: "An immaculately documented account--complete with fascinating stories--of the threat of violence, terrorism, and war to our already endangered global water heritage. But it is also a path forward, where water can be the bridge from conflict to conservation and from war to peace. A powerful, timely, and seminal book for our time." --Maude Barlow, board chair of Food and Water Watch, and author of Blue Gold https://thenewpress.org/books/when-the-well-is-dry/

· 2mo ago

Not once has the Wall Street Journal published an editorial on #climatechange that acknowledged the definitive science that humans are changing the #climate, while publishing countless editorials rejecting, ignoring, or misrepresenting that science. This is just one more of those.

· 1mo ago

My new op-ed in The Guardian is up today. Drought, #water rationing and dry rivers: our water crisis is here | Peter Gleick | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/11/drought-water-climate-crisis