Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com

Writing about the Trump > Vought assault on open scientific inquiry funded by Congress on #sustainwhat right now. A bit of artwork. Building on this webcast: revkin.substack.com/p/meet-resea...

One of the toughest realities facing those like Pope Leo XIV eager to rein in AI to integrate societal needs has nothing to do with tech bros and everything to do with Putin and Russia’s international criminal enterprises. - Brad Allenby at ASU.

LIVE now on Pope Leo's AI disarmament call and Chris Olah of Anthropic stating at the Vatican: “I will be honest, we keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling.” Viewing links in post: revkin.substack.com/p/what-to-th...

RIP Rafe Pomerance, a lifelong campaigner for a better planet with a livable climate. Lung cancer took him at 79, but not before he said this at a meeting of the West Virginina Highlands Conservancy last November - quoting Joe Hill: "Don't mourn. Organize." (1/2)

This is a key problems (not related to the scenario creators): the escape of the emission scenarios into other arenas using them as forecasts more than what-ifs. Discussed with @hausfath.bsky.social @thehonestbroker.bsky.social @richardtol.bsky.social Matt Burgess revkin.substack.com/p/burgess-ha...

Here's Roger saying that unless there's an inflection point in the long curve of decarbonization of the economy there's no way to identify a policy influence. revkin.substack.com/p/burgess-ha... 🌏🪛

Burgess, Hausfather, Pielke, Tol on the overdue end to the worst-case RCP8.5 climate scenario. Here's @hausfath.bsky.social noting agreement that this worst-case emissions track was implausible and asserting recent clean-energy progress made it even more so. revkin.substack.com/p/burgess-ha... 🌏🪛 1/

I am in awe of the vocal and instrumental finesse of wonderful musicians like songwriter Eli West. This was from a guitar and songwriting workshop he gave today here in Down East Maine.

Man, I know Chicago Ohare #ord is insanely busy, but this is the first time I realized you can have three planes landing simultaneously side-by-side. (Thinking of @jfallows.bsky.social )

Here's the opener to Skeptic in Heaven - my playful thought experiment exploring what happens when an agnostic ends up in Heaven. From my new album, Wake Me up Martha. #songwriting (art was done cutting pasting on Powerpoint - NOT AI). The post below has all ways to stream or download.

At a StarTalk event long ago @neildegrassetyson.com said this as I sang my song Liberated Carbon with @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social: “50 years ago your counterparts were singing about Vietnam. Now we need a folk-song movement about carbon. It starts here!... Putting science in the rhyme.” Higher rez ⤵️

Peter Raven - gone but unforgettable. #botany #biodiversity #conservation revkin.substack.com/p/rememberin... "Talking about making American great again is a form of saying push the poor people farther into their holes..." 🧪

#cultivatedmeat is poised for its 1908 moment, says Bruce Friedrich of @gfi.org - in China (unless the US ramps up government focus and investment). #food #agriculture 1/2

How Shifting Perceptions of What's Normal Imperil Ecosystems - and Democracy - @sheril.bsky.social and Randy Olson. If you haven’t seen Randy’s hilariously sad videos of "shifting baselines” of fisheries decline, you’re missing something great. 🧪🐟🎣🌊

I'm sure there's some carefully calculated geopolitical psych-out at play in Trump's latest Iran bluster coming alongside a bunny at the White House Monday Easter event. #notfake!

Key point about the factors limiting the potential for AI to serve public needs as distinct from those of tech-bros from @andrewmaynard.net Full #sustainwhat show below.

Album number 2 is nigh.. My song Wake Me up Martha is the title tune on my first album since A Very Fine Line. Learned that lots of folk deejays still prefer physical CDs so here goes.. @cdbaby.com has a wild tool to visualize your disk in 3D. Nothing like that in 2013! See below for details. 1/

Here's Meg Odell describing the genesis of Hold On at the Ellsworth Maine #nokings rally. And here's the Rise Up Singing entry: www.riseupsinging.org/songs/hold-h...

A magical group sing of "Hold On" led by Meg ODell of Songweavers, at the Ellsworth #NoKings rally. "Hold on. Hold On. My dear ones here comes the dawn." Learn more about this profound song, written by Heidi Wilson, which helped Minneapolis navigate the awful surge, below. #musicmatters #folkmusic

Here's more #nokings spirit from Ellsworth Maine. The #hopeful sign is such a fantastic element here. #election2026

Fabulous update to Woody Guthrie's All You Fascists Bound to Lose anthem from @therealbettemidler.bsky.social! “To hell with all the cowards who hide behind their masks. We’re gonna win the midterms, we’re coming for his ass! He knows it too, that bastard’s bound to lose..." #nokings

#nokings, Downeast Maine style (Ellsworth).

Human caused climate change is almost assuredly involved in this off-charts heat and, at the same time, I’m happy we settled in Downeast Maine four years ago. Today’s spring snow (although deer ticks were on the move a couple days ago as well)

Wisdom from sustainability-focused physicist @adamfrank4.bsky.social for folks paralyzed by dread: “You’re only given so many hours on this planet. So spending every moment of it in terror, you’re not helping anybody. You’re not helping the future by being freaked out 99.9 percent of the time.” 1/