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David Wallace-Wells

@dwallacewells

Writer @nytopinion and columnist @NYTmag. Newsletter on climate and the messy future (tinyurl.com/dwwnyt). Author of The Uninhabitable Earth.

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linkhttps://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/david-wallace-wells calendar_today03-03-2011 23:39:17

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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2
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EXCLUSIVE: among all national politicians in elected office today, Bernie Sanders stands alone as the only one voters have a net positive opinion of. For the first time, Data for Progress asked voters what they think sets him apart from liberals they dislike. ettingermentum.news/p/exclusive-wh…

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“The dangerous 32C heat that will be endured by people in the south-east of England on Saturday will have been made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis, scientists have calculated.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

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“although Dems developed grander ambitions for social spending over the past decade, they simultaneously grew more averse to raising taxes on anyone but the super-rich…Dems like social welfare programs. But they like low taxes on the upper middle class even more.” Eric Levitz

“although Dems developed grander ambitions for social spending over the past decade, they simultaneously grew more averse to raising taxes on anyone but the super-rich…Dems like social welfare programs. But they like low taxes on the upper middle class even more.” 

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"I see what MAHA is offering. It’s not really about making America healthy. It’s about giving people the illusion of agency in a complicated and scary world." nytimes.com/2025/06/20/opi…

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Illegal immigrant population in decline? Our preliminary estimate is that there are 14.8m illegal immigrants in the country in May 2025, one million fewer than we estimated in January of this year. cis.org/Report/Illegal…

(((Harry Enten))) (@forecasterenten) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Polling shows that Trump's lost the political battle over the LA protests, even as immigration had been his best issue. His net approval on LA (-15 pt & with indies -24 pt) is way underwater. Further, ICE's popularity has fallen with -9 pt net approval on more workplace raids.

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“Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of books purged from Tennessee school libraries.” pen.org/magic-tree-hou…

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This is a key point in Kate Marvel's new book exploring nine emotions around #climatechange: ~ So there's all this stuff that physics gives us to be afraid of, right? These big monsters that are coming for us in the future. But the thing that scares me the most is that climate

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Absolutely wild recounting of an Australian citizen who landed in LA, and was then detained and deported back to Australia because he covered the pro-Palestine protests as a student journalist.

Absolutely wild recounting of an Australian citizen who landed in LA, and was then detained and deported back to Australia because he covered the pro-Palestine protests as a student journalist.
Sharon Parrott (@parrottcbpp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Misunderstood sleeper issue in OBBB cld mean the end of #SNAP as a national food assistance program available in all states. The cost-shift drafting means a state that can’t pay its share of benefits loses ALL fed $; a state that can only pay ½ has to cut enrollment by about ½.

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 (@josephpolitano) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Incredibly amazing chart by Jess Remington with an important point about American housing—NY/CA build nothing, TX/AZ sprawl, but only a few American cities like Seattle, Atlanta, (& DC) are actually building lots of new dense housing in their core neighborhoods (full article below)

Incredibly amazing chart by <a href="/jessrems/">Jess Remington</a> with an important point about American housing—NY/CA build nothing, TX/AZ sprawl, but only a few American cities like Seattle, Atlanta, (&amp; DC) are actually building lots of new dense housing in their core neighborhoods (full article below)
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Researchers say GLP-1 agonists significantly reduced migraine frequency in participants who were obese. trib.al/Pcm05wh

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“Under a medium-high emission scenario, many regions worldwide transition from chiefly experiencing a given category of hazard or impact in isolation to routinely experiencing compound hazard or impact occurrences.” agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

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“Here I will point out that Customs and Border Protection offers monthly data on the number of assaults on its officers. The year-to-date total is 20 percent lower than it was in 2024.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

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“Americans are angry not because America is failing but because our current system does not feel fair.” nytimes.com/2025/06/20/opi…

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“A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe form of type 1 diabetes. One year later, these 10 patients no longer need insulin. The other two patients need much lower doses.” nytimes.com/2025/06/20/hea…