Brilliant piece: The only people who have been sent to prison [for climate change] are those who have protested against it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

During the Pliocene epoch, around 3 million years ago, there was likely a permanent El Nino state - known as El Padre Looks like we are on our way back there www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“I came off air and I cried.” With the UK facing experiencing another heatwave, watch ITV meteorologist Laura Tobin speak to climate scientist Prof Fredi Otto about forecasting record-breaking heat as the impacts of #climatechange accelerate in the UK and around the world.

Both democratic erosion and climate inaction depend on societies gradually accepting the unacceptable as business as usual. As @michaelemann.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com have long argued, confronting climate change is not only about understanding the science, it is also about resisting

Miklós Horthy did it. Benito Mussolini did it. Adolf Hitler did it. Francisco Franco did it. Augusto Pinochet did it. Jorge Rafael Videla did it. Now Donald Trump does it. Did what? Used the threat of Communism to justify a dictatorship.

There is a certain historical irony here. The country that built unprecedented wealth and global power on fossil fuels is now increasingly confronting the consequences of its fossil-fuel (in)dependence. On the 250th anniversary of its independence, climate change by supercharging extreme weather

Premier Smith wants to build a $35 billion pipeline to B.C.'s West Coast. 🤦‍♀️ Annddd, there isn’t an energy company committed to paying for it, meaning the public purse could be on the hook. 💰 This is a climate & economic disaster waiting to happen. 🗣️ Take action: https://stnd.ly/nopipelines

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

Thirteen years ago, @billmckibben.bsky.social suggested 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬. Today, as Europe bakes under another record-breaking heat dome, it sounds almost... overdue. 🧵

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

15 March reminder: a country, #Hungary, that fought repeatedly to push Russian power out now has a government working to bring it back, even acting as Putin’s Trojan horse inside the EU. HU deserves better than an illiberal, corrupt system looking toward the Kremlin. More to read: lnkd.in/dS75TwDV

15 March reminder: a country, #Hungary, that fought repeatedly to push Russian power out now has a government working to bring it back, even acting as Putin’s Trojan horse inside the EU. HU deserves better than an illiberal, corrupt system looking toward the Kremlin. More to read: lnkd.in/dS75TwDV

Don’t miss the sharp and sobering ‘Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist’ article by @michaelemann.bsky.social & Bob Ward about Trump trying to eliminate NCAR. Climate science is being treated as political dissent, science as an Enemy of the State 👇

The "Institute of Economic Affairs" banked £640,000 in past donations from oil giants BP and Shell, and from Rupert Murdoch - investigation by @desmog.com reveals how IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms #climatecrisis www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...

if anyone still believed that climate diplomacy is a smooth, orderly ritual, #COP30 delivered a sharp reality check.The final plenary was suspended because one delegation - a courageous and razor-sharp Colombian negotiator -refused to let the “Truth COP” end with a procedural sweep-under-the-carpet

In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf

The same for journalists. If a politician or business leader spits out 1.5C or net zero, ask them how fast emissions need to drop to reach net zero in 2050, and how fast they are dropping today. Point out the contradiction. Make them explain it.

And just to be complete, in case you need verified NOAA data, yes, as of October, 2025, it's official, a new record was set for the 36-month mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth: Feb., 2019: 7.826 ppm per 36 months. Oct., 2025: 7.874 ppm per 36 months. Winning!

A message to #COP30 negotiators as 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝟔-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐎𝟐 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 - while you negotiate at #COP30 Brazil, the atmosphere has delivered an unambiguous verdict: a new record for the fastest 36-month rate of CO2 growth ever measured in the last 66 years.

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

🇷🇺🤖 Russia proudly unveiled its first AI humanoid robot this week and within seconds, it collapsed on stage. You couldn’t script a better metaphor if you tried. It was perfectly Putin-esque: rigid posture, inflated self-importance, and then --- boom --- straight to the floor.

This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP... www.iea.org/commentaries...

𝐔𝐍 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧? I read the Financial Times’ latest take - “𝐔𝐍 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝” - on Article 6 with equal parts disbelief and déjà vu. It somehow manages to misdiagnose nearly every root cause of the mechanism’s slow rollout

Join us tomorrow to discuss whether the EU can LEGALLY adopt Omnibuses as the privileged legislative technique to pursue its 'simplification agenda'. Date: Wednesday, 12 November Time: 4:30 – 5:30 pm Venue: Online webinar, Zoom Register thegoodlobby.eu/is-omnibus-i... #Omnibus #CSRD #CSDDD

🌍 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: look closer 👀 of the European Union’s proposed* 2040 climate target of −90% net (vs. 1990 levels) . You will find that its treatment of land-based carbon sinks is deeply troubling.

As climate-change-supercharged #HurricaneMelissa slams into Jamaica, Bill Gates publishes a controversial essay & immediately sparks debate. “There is no greater threat to developing nations than the climate crisis,” said @michaelemann.bsky.social “He’s got this all backwards.” When billionaires

So this is what passes for ‘innovation’ now: 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝. When data centres can’t get grid access for years, instead of fixing the infrastructure or accelerating renewables, we strap Boeing 747 engines to concrete pads and call it progress.

Congrats to @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and colleagues for this important new paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

📢 Save the Date! 🗓️ We are glad to present: "Please Look Up: What does our energy & climate future look like?" 🌍💡 Join us and 8 EU projects in October to explore ways to achieve an #Efficient, #Resilient, #Fair, & #Smart energy future in Europe! Register now: ieecp.org/events/save-...

Do you believe that the EU-US Energy Agreement can lower costs to consumers? In our IEECP article @ieecp.bsky.social we argue that if the same amounts would be spent on #EnergyEfficiency for consumers, the #LNG agreement would not be a cost-efficient solution. diplomacy.berlin/efficiency-f...

Farewell, @alkaliearth.bsky.social  -  and What It Means for the Future of Carbon Removal (CDR). It’s a gut punch to the engineered CDR field and a bright red warning sign for what happens when real science collides with broken business models and a policy vacuum. www.linkedin.com/posts/zsolt-...

In our Newsletter we highlight 15 thought-provoking LinkedIn posts offering insights into the evolving climate conversation - from law to lending, from biodiversity credits to fashion supply chains. The themes? Legal clarity, fiscal realism, financial reform, and moral urgency. * lnkd.in/eC5DmkCb

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart. A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Climate #Food #Agriculture #USDA #Farms #Seaweed

Listen to @michaelemann.bsky.social on EPA’s attempt to revoking the very foundation of U.S. climate policy, the CO2 endangerment finding: “Reaching this absurd point at which they are literally trying to deny that human caused climate change uh represents a danger when we can all see

RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?

Our latest 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 dives into the unmistakable reality of climate change - Earth’s energy imbalance doubling, Arctic ice on the brink, and regional warming outpacing predictions. We’re talking systemic risks, policy gridlock, & an insurance industry sounding the alarm🧵

Electro-thermal energy storage could unlock huge potential for industrial electrification. It combines electrified heat with storage for flexible, continuous heat supply, cutting costs and boosting system services. Check out this @regassistproj.bsky.social report. www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...

A reforestation project that integrated local communities and their ecological knowledge in Nepal is showing the fruits of success, almost one decade since the completion of the project.

Wealthy countries have handed over less than half of what they promised to the loss and damage fund for victims of climate change buff.ly/8bvsk5x

There is a huge amount of ambient and waste heat available. Using it with heat pumps in buildings and industry is multiple times more efficient than burning fossil fuels. It makes the problem we try to solve significantly smaller and allows us to use free pre-existing heat.

As the latest UK heatwave starts, it's very warm (5-6°C above normal) across the most of the country. Watch how things change hour-by-hour: istheukhotrightnow.com Website by @roostweather.bsky.social.

"Solar power was the European Union's largest source of electricity for the first time in June, overtaking nuclear and wind while coal's contribution fell to an all-time low." ☀️💪

"Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas' More Common — And More Intense" by Li Zhou for @huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/extrem...

A far greater concern are the climate change-driven extreme weather events that we're witnessing, which are indicative of the pattern of worsening impacts we'll see as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels. It's a reason for urgent action but not doomism and defeatism.

And this is the corrected version which they published today after I asked them about the contradictions between the paper and the press release: www.icm.csic.es/en/news/chan...

🚨 Weekend Must-Read: Mad Machines & Mad Men 🚨 As the planet burns and democracy limps, the richest man builds cars that hallucinate stop signs and accelerate toward pedestrians - and the most powerful man threatening global chaos on a whim. 🧵

The unimaginable human loss last night is set against the backdrop of increasingly frequent flash floods. These are not isolated events, but distressing symptoms of compounding crises: the climate crisis intensified by political denial / neglect. www.linkedin.com/posts/zsolt-...

The unimaginable human loss last night* is set against the backdrop of increasingly frequent flash floods. These are not isolated events, but distressing symptoms of compounding crises: the climate crisis intensified by political denial / neglect. * www.linkedin.com/posts/zsolt-...

This morning I gave the keynote at the International Retrofit Conference in Manchester. A key message from me was that 1️⃣ Buildings are contributing 1/3 to energy demand and emissions globally. 2️⃣ We're not decarbonising fast enough.