David Sacerdote
Software engineer.
Mostly talk climate and related politics.
- Reposted by David SacerdoteOne of the craziest things about this order is that it relies on the govt position that climate change isn't real. Just think about the implications of that for a moment — not just for climate but for all of US governance, based on fully apparent lying. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/c...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteThis week we released the season finale of our The Real Free Speech Threat season, about the growing global crackdown on climate protest. It's a belter, on the role the U.S. military has played in that trend, from @alleenbrown.bsky.social : drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteMy piece in morning's New York Times about the unlikely activists who are fighting to turn off the tap on forever chemicals— and making serious headway, even as the Trump camp is dismantling environmental regulations. #PFAS @crownpublishing.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteHoly shit I am so excited to see @bengoldfarb.bsky.social, one of the best environmental writers working, putting in a piece on my favorite website. I must insist you all read this, so here's a gift link, just in case: defector.com/an-abundance...
- "This is a vision of America’s future that has hardly a word to say about forests, oceans, fresh water, ecosystems, or wild animals—about anything that isn’t made by and for humans." defector.com/an-abundance...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteFrom EPA's EJScreen to FEMA's Future Risk Index, here are six environmental mapping tools that Trump's White House doesn't want you to see My latest @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteJust quickly going to add here that we'd also be interested in hearing from professors and dept heads who have had to cut the number of new graduate students they can accept, or from people who were hoping to start an advanced degree in a climate-related field but can't because acceptances are down
- Are you a graduate student in a climate-related field whose research/work/livelihood has been or may be impacted by Trump admin cuts? The @thebulletin.org has a reporter working on a story about this and would love to hear from you. Email me jmckenzie@thebulletin.org and I can put you in touch.
- Reposted by David SacerdoteThe WH scrubbed these online enviro mapping tools. So volunteers tried creating them. EPA EJScreen: pedp-ejscreen.azurewebsites.net CEQ CJEST: edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/... FEMA Future Risk Index: fulton-ring.github.io/nri-future-r... My story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteThis is what worries me about the carbon bubble bursting - cleaning up all the uncapped wellls and other abandoned fossil fuel infrastructure will be mind-bogglingly expensive, and the fossil fuel companies need to be made to pay for it before they go bust
- "Abandoned coalmines and oil and gas wells are now one of the biggest sources of the powerful greenhouse gas methane" - what a wonderful world it would be if big business was forced to clean up its own filth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteSo that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.
- On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
- Reposted by David SacerdoteNew from us: The halt to U.S. embassy air quality data sharing means that 6 countries lost AQ monitoring entirely; 28 lost high-grade monitoring and 16 lost publicly accessible high-grade monitoring data. The affected cities and countries, as well as donors, need to step up. 🧵
- 🌍 🚨 NEW | US embassy AQ data halt: On 4 Mar, the AirNow website reporting data from #AirQuality monitors at US embassies worldwide halted data sharing 🏛️ CREA calls on reliant countries to ramp up local monitoring to fill the gap👇
