Which national governments have done best on a) informing people about the climate/habitat destruction/planetary boundary crises, and b) suggesting/nudging appropriate action, which other countries can learn from, in your opinion?

"Which climate scientists think that what you are 1) doing, and 2) telling the public, and 3) suggesting the public do, are adequate?" is perhaps a useful type of question to governments.

Is a global bank collapse coming soon? youtu.be/DaM3c5ybj-w?... A banking collapse is coming, and the cause isn’t speculation. It’s climate change. Uninsurable homes mean worthless mortgages, and worthless mortgages mean broken banks. Unless governments act now society itself is at risk.

A sensible response to the climate/habitat destruction/environment crises by governments would seem to me to include a big effort on creative ways to help people realise that their lives can be more fulfilling without overconsumption.

Perhaps there are concepts which can usefully replace the idea of "climate" anyway, for some purposes. To a large extent people are concerned about more-chaotic weather. People may see the word "weather" and think of the situation and risks as less stable and predictable than "climate".

Perhaps it's eaier to understand climate risks through the idea of "weather disruption".

As with climate disturbance, uncertainty provides a good argument to take more action, not less.

Shouldn't there be a system where all academic papers include one or more links to web pages for post-publication review comments, to reduce the rewards from inadequate statistical and other methods?

Let's think of other ways to conceptualise this. "Unlimited irresponsibility" "Unlimited damage potential" "Unlimited recklessness" "Limited liability" concerns the welfare of the offender, rather than others.

It's the 'Scientists Responsibility Summit' today. Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵

So exhausting..

Agreed. Incentivising the wrong behaviour is already a risk if people look at, for example, Retraction Watch without also looking at other sources for possible problems in unretracted work (eg PubPeer) or seeing retractions in a proper context of what's known about common research defects.

Species living in the same places tend to have similar heat tolerances, so when certain warming thresholds are passed, catastrophic losses of biodiversity may be likely, writes Dr @josephwilliamson.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/shared-heat-...

Politician: Voters won't let me do what I think is right/science says on animal welfare/climate/environment/refugees. Journalist can ask: Are you not experienced in persuasion? Are you not paid to be a leader? Are you giving voters the relevant facts?

Precise or definite-sounding climate predictions intended to alert people, obscuring the uncertainty, may paradoxically reassure people into doing less because they do not understand the real inadequacy of science to predict complex systems.

Let's take a little time to consider what Trump and his allies may be doing behind the scenes, in the form for instance of instructions to agencies on surveillance.

When someone gives you statistics, consider the words.

It would never be sensible to give a peace prize to someone where there is reasonable suspicion that: a) the relevant behaviour has been significantly due to the desire to get one, and b) there is significant risk that afterwards they would feel freer to engage in unjustified violence.

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, all governments should commit to moving away from coercive mental healthcare practices. Human Rights Watch has documented coercive mental healthcare practices, including shackling people with mental health conditions, in more than 60 countries across the world.

A proposal for Animal welfare including human health Climate Environment Biodiversity Economy Governments provide free nutritional supplements (eg B12, DHA, EPA) and/or mandate fortification of foods - to improve health and reduce cravings when people reduce/eliminate animal products from diet.

It would never be sensible to give a peace prize to someone where there is reasonable suspicion that: a) the relevant behaviour has been significantly due to the desire to get one, and b) there is significant risk that afterwards they would feel freer to engage in unjustified violence.

What has the Israeli government done with the aid for Gazans which it seized from the flotillas?

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

Interesting-looking article on how technological developments are used as a "technofix" is used to delay real action to reduce emissions in the aviation sector doi.org/10.1080/2158...

Politician: Voters won't let me do what I think is right/science says on animal welfare/climate/environment/refugees. Journalist can ask: Are you not experienced in persuasion? Are you not paid to be a leader? Are you giving voters the relevant facts?

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe in climate change. Your insurer does."

I'm not suggesting this is a convenient fiction but rather that constitutional principles can be expressed in many legitimate ways & take many legitimate forms. Accountability for abuse of power is a core constitutional function & value, so imposing it via novel mechanisms is constitutional fidelity

Which national governments have done best on a) informing people about the climate/habitat destruction/planetary boundary crises, and b) suggesting/nudging appropriate action, which other countries can learn from, in your opinion?

When someone gives you statistics, consider the words.

Or at least, please put "AI" in quotation marks.

This summary of the EAT-Lancet report reads as if humans are the only sentient beings. What is the scientific basis for such a moral framework? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I suggest the word "killstock" instead of "livestock" where the intention is killing.

And governments encouraging cultural shifts towards attitudes and actions which increase fulfilment with less material/services consumption - including appreciation of nature, and creativity?

This summary of the EAT-Lancet report reads as if humans are the only sentient beings. What is the scientific basis for such a moral framework? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Just because the research was published doesn’t mean its scientific pursuit is over. Science is a method, and an ongoing process, not a finished product."

If you refer to "artificial intelligence" or "AI", please explain in what way or ways you mean it is intelligent.

Proposal: Academic journals require plain-language summaries for non-specialists - at least attempting to explain like the readers are four years old.

“The future isn’t something that happens to us, it’s something we build together. By choosing to act wisely today, we can navigate uncertainty and emerge stronger tomorrow.” - @laurielaybourn.bsky.social, @climate-risk.bsky.social youtu.be/IkjsAQeomtQ

Air pollution gets ignored in #UNGA80 noncommunicable disease declaration www.devex.com/news/air-pol... by @cathedavison.bsky.social

Important new report on criminalization of land and environment defenders in Asia - repressive governments are trying a multitude of tactics to keep people from protesting illegal land grabs and other inequities gw.hacdn.io/media/docume...

ICYMI Now we know why 6 billion sea stars in the Pacific turned to slime, and, as one can surmise, it's likely that global warming and ocean heatwaves played a big role. If we kill the oceans, things will NOT go well for us.

We don't know because we don't want to know. Active not knowing. 🚬 = 🚗 🥩 ✈️

Some ideas for people to consider: Be like water. Treat those who were conned, or who it seems may have been conned, with respect. Don't get negative, get curious. Avoid insults.

Should future EU money come with a provision that if misused for military purposes, a very large amount should be paid, not just the original amount?

En ce jour de rentrée pour les jeunes Français,cette chromolithographie imaginant la transmission en l'an 2000. Elle date de 1910,Jean-Marc Côté, dessinateur présumé ; Villemard, lithographe BnF(Gallica)

@davidallengreen.bsky.social We might ask: How can something be an "executive order" when it's on a *legislative* matter? The phrase "purported executive order" makes sense. How is it justifiable for journalists or anyone else to call a piece of paper an "executive order" when it clearly isn't?

"No wonder so many of us resist the shift to a more accurate emerging paradigm of climate breakdown and radical uncertainty, requiring in its wake deep precaution and a new (and, in truth, also old) humility."

How can something be an "executive order" when it's on a *legislative* matter? The phrase "purported executive order" makes sense. How is it justifiable for journalists or anyone else to call a piece of paper an "executive order" when it clearly isn't?

I just voted against proscribing Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group, as a terrorist organisation. But I'm furious that in doing so, the government forced me and others to vote against proscribing two other clearly terrorist groups. Cynical and dangerous from govt.