For religious Christian warriors in the Pentagon - please consider that two of the “deadly sins” are Avarice and Pride. For Jewish brethren also noting that Pride is mentioned in Proverbs 6:16–19 as one the “the things the Lord hates most.” Thank you for you attention to this matter

Threat to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure violates proportionality principle of Geneva Conventions on norms of war which USA signed - Even if a power plant has military value,attack is illegal if it causes excessive harm to civilians compared to military benefit. Cc: @petergleick.bsky.social

@lise31.bsky.social no blocking from me - happy to engage

War and the Environment: Military Responsibility and Peacebuilding Governments need to raise alarm about the environmental impact of war — and also use data on impacts as a motivation for more rapid peace-making.

High time @unep.org push for international norms against targeting energy infrastructure in war. The ecological damage is multifold - wastage of precious resources, toxic pollution and carbon emissions. Revisiting my article for @forbes.com cc: @katharinehayhoe.com www.forbes.com/sites/saleem...

The Arctic and the Geopolitics of Strategic Minerals Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

Thanks to @upenn.edu for inviting me to speak on the #Arctic #Greenland and #criticalminerals and #deepdeamining in their #podcast linked below kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/commentary/p...

The Iran War Is Creating a Public Health and Environmental Crisis The World Health Organization warns the black rain resulting from attacks on oil facilities is a "danger for the population"

"The Iran War Is Creating a Public Health and Environmental Crisis" by @thorbenson.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com (via @yahoonews.com): uk.news.yahoo.com/iran-war-cre...

Could America or Israel Nuke Iran? With a suicidal regime the escalation trap can perilously lead to the use of nuclear weapons as was the case with Japan in World War II

Analysis of how this worst case scenario could play out and why we all must urge American and Israeli elected officials to prevent it from happening open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants Abstract. Numerous polls demonstrate that U.S. public approval of President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has declined significantly since 1945. Many schol...

There is serious concern that US may use nuclear weapons in Iran having fallen into escalation trap. Sad statistic that 85% of Americans approved use of nukes on Japan in 1945. direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

Global majority countries must embed critical minerals into AI governance Over the past decade, an increasing number of Global Majority countries—broadly characterized as economically developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and O...

Global majority countries must embed critical minerals into #AI governance | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Illegal miners have forced Peru’s oldest environmental research station to suspend work Staff at the Panguana biological research station have received death threats

Illegal miners have forced #Peru’s oldest environmental research station to suspend work | Science | AAAS cc: @deepseadawn.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Just cancelled my subscription to Chat GPT in protest of their shameful subservience to the demands from the administration on surveillance and AI weapons

The Path to Peace between India and Pakistan goes through Washington Despite the stale narrative on bilateralism, there should be little doubt of the need for U.S. mediation in moving towards a comprehensive peace treaty between the two nuclear foes

The Path to Peace between #India and #Pakistan goes through Washington open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

Someone needs to analyze the amount of extra fossil fuel being expended due to suboptimal flight reroutings due to war in Ukraine for 4 years and now the conflict in Iran cc: @katharinehayhoe.com

#Overheard - Trader Joe’s is the perfect store for the over-educated but underpaid consumer 🤭

When did common sense AI policy become radical? How do you make a technology safe when nobody seems particularly interested in regulating it – and what might happen if we don’t?

🧵 I recently spoke with Taylor Owen @theglobeandmail.com Machines Like Us podcast about an urgent question: How do you make a technology safe when the political will to govern it has evaporated? And what happens if we don't? www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/mac...

Great to receive a complementary copy of this commemorative book from one of my alma maters @yaleenvironment.bsky.social - thanks to the amazing Dean Indy Burke

Pakistan’s Climate Security Nexus A turbulent nuclear power presents vulnerabilities as well as opportunities in the face of global environmental change

Suggested speech text that I was asked to write on #climatesecurity for delivery by the Prime Minister of #Pakistan at the Munich Security Conference but his panel got cancelled for unknown reasons at last minute cc: @katharinehayhoe.com open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

Bangladesh and Pakistan: Healing the Wounds of History The remarkable reproachment between these two South Asian countries should be extended to the subcontinent as a whole

Ultimately, South Asia as a region, needs to embrace narratives of #peace rather than languishing in divisive diatribes of the past. #Bangladesh #Pakistan open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

63. What is the full cost of the energy transition? (Saleem Ali) January 2026

Discussion on the tradeoffs inherent in the #cleanenergy transition on this #podcast www.case4conservation.com/post/63-what...

Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University's geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia and wider institutional po

Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for providing this entire book open source -- "Let #Geography Die" tells the sad story of how #Harvard dissolved its department because of errant leadership decisions and prejudice cc: @geographers.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects

Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects, www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/c...

#LawSky

The Vice and Virtue of Conspiracy Theories As the Epstein files are finally released, let us consider the strategic and substantive significance of suspicion in our lives

As the sordid #EpsteinFiles are finally released let us consider the broader value of conspiracy theories open.substack.com/pub/saleemha...

The Diversity Dilemma in American Universities Consensus on reconciling domestic and international diversity, and allowing space for constructive confrontation is needed in academia

Revisiting my article on THE DIVERSITY DILEMMA IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES from 2021 - as there has been some judicial movement on cases emanating from executive orders. We are still going to face tough questions in academia @katharinehayhoe.com saleemhali.medium.com/the-diversit...

EV charging keeps expanding despite Trump The U.S. added a record number of public electric-vehicle fast chargers last year, keeping up with demand from growing number of EV owners.

Surprising good news: "The nation’s public fast-charging network expanded by 30% over the course of 2025...Reliability scores, which Paren measures as the share of charging sessions that are successfully completed, ticked up in 2025 too, averaging 93%." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...

“Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops.” Albert Einstein

I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. — Michael Crichton

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” — Nobel laureate Richard Feynman on religious OR scientific orthodoxy and groupthink

Georgia swears in its youngest state representative Akbar Ali, 21, was sworn in as the youngest member of the Georgia State House of Representatives on Thursday.

America’s strength
Comes from such amazing stories - a 21 year old Pakistani-American wins an election in small town Georgia www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

thank you, Dr West! #gischat

Why Is Trump So Intent on Acquiring Greenland? President Donald Trump has for years had his eyes set on the island, which he has repeatedly threatened to annex. Why?

Thanks to TIME for quoting me in this article on #Greenland time.com/7344877/trum...