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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Thiebaud & Climate Change [1]

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Date: 2025-06-19

Heading into the city next week to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit at the Legion of Honor.

Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021) became famous for his colorful paintings of American confections and buffets. He was also a self-described art “thief,” who openly drew ideas from and reinterpreted old and new European and American artworks. An influential teacher at Sacramento Junior College and the University of California, Davis, Thiebaud never stopped learning. He believed that art history is a continuum that connects artists of the past, present, and future. Highlighting work from across the beloved artist’s six-decade career, this exhibition features Thiebaud’s inventive reinterpretations and direct copies of famous artworks, as well as objects from his personal art collection that inspired him. Approximately 65 quintessential works by Thiebaud — including paintings of people (alone and together); still lives of cakes, tabletops, and other ordinary objects; cityscapes featuring soaring buildings; and mountain landscapes — offer an in-depth exploration of one of the most important and overlooked aspects of his creative practice: his passionate engagement with art history. www.famsf.org/...

Climate Change

Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn

The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. That's the stark warning from more than 60 of the world's leading climate scientists in the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming. Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above levels of the late 1800s in a landmark agreement in 2015, with the aim of avoiding some of the worst impacts of climate change. But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril.

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?

… in Vienna, sustainable buildings like Schublach's aren't just affordable, they're widespread. Schublach's apartment is what the Viennese call "social housing" — housing that's built or supported by the government. Now this social housing is a key driver of Vienna's ambitious climate action.

How Trump’s assault on science is blinding America to climate change

President Donald Trump long ago decided climate change was a “hoax.” Now his administration is trying to silence government research that proves him wrong. Since Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has fired or let go hundreds of climate and weather scientists — and cut ties to hundreds more who work in academia or the private sector. His team has eliminated major climate programs, frozen or cut grants for climate research and moved to shutter EPA’s greenhouse gas reporting program. The Trump administration has slow-walked climate-related contracts — including one for the upkeep of two polar weather satellites. And it’s begun to wall off the United States from international climate cooperation.

x Trump suggests that the fact it didn’t rain on his military parade is a refutation of climate change



[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) June 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM

x Specifically because of climate change! Are y'all getting this? — Roy Edroso (@edroso.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T21:37:54.718Z

x Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price. — Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T21:44:45.251Z

x #ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication released a new report on Americans' view of climate change. Most registered voters of both parties think climate change and clean energy should be high government priorities. climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/u... — Shooti (@bambooshooti.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T23:59:57.523Z

x ICYMI: Here's my introductory piece on Climate Change. youtu.be/UnXMtOWi-QY — Machine Pun Kelly (@kellyscaletta.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T22:20:15.510Z

Kristof on USAID Cuts

FIFA

x As the countdown to the 2026 World Cup advances, FIFA must do more than claim "the world is welcome in America"—when all the evidence is to the contrary.



[image or embed] — Human Rights Watch (@hrw.org) June 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM

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