Peter Gleick

@petergleick.bsky.social

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Climate, water, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023) and When the Well Runs Dry (2026). Email me at pgleick (at) gmail.

AI-generated image posted by Trump on Truth Social of himself in military uniform (four star general) with multiple medals and honors, in between General Patton and General MacArthur, with tanks and burning landscape behind them.
A tweet from Musk: "You don't seem to understand that SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if we accomplish our goals"
Politico headline: "Cancer doesn't care what party you belong to: Poisoned water is turning this rural state bluer."
Headline from The Daily Beast Elon musk melts down at celebrity chef after car crash interview. Describing how Musk insults chef Josè Andrès, one of the world's truly wonderful, decent human beings.
Back-To-Back news feeds about the tens of thousands fleeing wildfires in France and Spain and the strongest El Niño in recorded history.
NY Times headline" Trump Threatens Retaliation Against Civilian Targets if Iran Strikes in the Strait."
Wall Street journal opinion piece attacking the new report from the National Academy of Sciences that shows clearly that wildfires, floods, droughts and storms are being worsened by human-caused climate change.
Dangerous levels of air quality throughout the north and eastern United States from Canadian wildfires, as shown on the Purple Air map.
The Purple Air air-quality map of eastern North America showing the air quality index and massive air pollution from burning Canadian wildfires with extremely dangerous air quality throughout the northern tier of the United States sweeping toward the East Coast.
Humorous image of two farmers in a field hitting each other with shovels over a caption "Discussing Water Rights, a Western Pastime"
White House July 4th social media post: "You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both."
A series of headlines reporting that David Hearn, Olympian, has been indicted on felony charges of vandalizing Trump's failed Reflecting Pool fix.
BBC headline asks "Why has Trump stayed away from the World Cup?"
Two graphs: the first shows projections of rapidly growing carbon capture capacity with zero actual capacity; the second shows projections of solar power production, and actual projection greatly exceeding projections. The graphs come from this ProPublica article: https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/
Washington, D.C., during the Bicentennial Celebration, 1976; image from Pinterest.)
Yahoo headline: "Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than..."
Lit up church at dusk with apricot sunset in a small village outside of Amsterdam.
Picture of the Red-bellied Woodpecker, with a red head and totally white belly
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The tarp covering up the removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy Center.
Washington Post headline: "He's studied procrastination for 40 years. Here's what he's learned."
The growing green algal contamination at the recently painted Reflecting Pool.
Workers began removing Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in an overnight operation from behind a massive tarp after spending several hours constructing scaffolding to reach the president’s letters
Massive granite boulder in the Sierra Nevada with a straight line crack top to bottom.
One seeded pussypaw
High Sierra granite
Photo of Trump falling asleep in the Oval Office again.
Photo by Kevin Dietsch. The construction of the giant circus cage for Trump's wrestling event on the left; the devastation of the East Wing on the right.
Headline from the NY Times: "Trump's $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Will Benefit Criminals and the President Himself."