Two amazing threads on the politics and culture behind Bad Bunny's superbowl performance. bsky.app/profile/beck...

These are the people that should be wearing masks, not the thugs from ICE.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A cat 2 cyclone (hurricane) heading for an Australian capital city with 2.4M people 😳. Even as it looses energy crossing the coast, as the last floods were only a few years ago, the capacity for direct and cumulative impact is large. My heart goes out to the people + ecosystems of sth QLD & Nth NSW🫂

Essentially all inhabited places on the planet were warmer in 2024 than the recent baseline. Most of the ocean area too. About 1/3 of the planet experienced record high temperatures. We know why. And we know how to fix it. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

All surface temperature products for 2024 are now live. All show 2024 is the warmest year (very clearly). The estimates of the change since the pre-industrial (1850-1900) are more uncertain but range from 1.46 to 1.62ºC. It is therefore *likely* this was the first year that exceeded 1.5ºC.

I have a new analysis over at The Climate Brink exploring how rates of warming have changed over the past century. Post-1970, GHGs (CO2, CH4, etc.) would have led to just under 0.2C per decade, but falling aerosols (SO2) have increased that rate to 0.25C. www.theclimatebrink....

COP29 is wrapping up this week and people are (finally) calling for the process to be overhauled to *maybe* reduce oil industry influence over it. New documents we uncovered reveal they used a little known UN org to infiltrate from jump. First of three stories: drilled.media/news/IPIECA1

Have greenhouse gas emissions finally peaked? Not quite yet, but experts think it will be soon. It'll be a momentous turning point, but also just the start of a new phase of the critical journey to net-zero: www.npr.org/2024/11/13/n... 🔌💡

Extremely cool event in DC next month! Join @cplusc.bsky.social for a conversation ft @jbozuwa.bsky.social @advaitarun.bsky.social & Kate Aronoff with Sandeep Vaheesan on his new book, Democracy in Power on the history and future of public power. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-to...

This new social media thing is extra painful for freelance journalists who don’t have a built-in promo team. Here’s a starter pack of freelance environmental reporters. Follow us — then hire us? (And lmk who I’m missing!) go.bsky.app/LEwiBCr

Did the thing 😎 AHEM: I’m an independent investigative reporter who writes about how environmental crises intersect with criminalization. I’m also a senior editor at Drilled I’ve also got a newsletter called Eco Files, which you can subscribe to, here: alleenbrown.ghost.io

Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!) go.bsky.app/1ivUnG

UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals | @hausfath.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3YmS9zR

The conventional wisdom is that the rich world will be asked to receive climate refugees from the Global South as the planet heats up and the climate breaks down, but if Europe and the UK turn into northern Norway from AMOC collapse, won't at least some of those Global North people need to move?

“Emissions reductions haven’t happened as planned. If you still want to get to 1.5°C, you need overshoot.” The overconfidence with overshoot is that people think it is possible to get to 1.5°C without overshoot? Pick your variable, this is CH4... www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 1/

An incredible 3 to nearly 4 feet of rain estimated by Doppler radar over the last 3 days on the peaks of the mountains near #Asheville North Carolina from #Helene #Hurricane Helene Results in the worst flooding there in memory.

Latin America is burning so agrobusiness can produce soy and beef in a system that contributes to climate change and prevents global food sovereignty. For us in the Global South, tackling land redistribution is key to get there. I recently wrote about this: www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT: The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from Nat Bullard and data from Ember.

New from @jmijin.bsky.social & me: we can & should nationalize the Powder River Basin coal mines for managed decline. Right now, US coal policy takes 2 contradictory paths that could lead to chaos given mine/plant mismatches: use more (CCS) or use less (close). PRB could be a key governance demo.

To argue that we can safely overshoot 1.5°C, or any amount of warming, is saying the quiet bit out loud: we don’t care about the increasing suffering and deaths that will be caused while the recovery is worked on. theconversation.com/the-overshoo...

NEW: In WIREs Climate Change today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows fossil fuel companies have systematically infiltrated academia, threatening to bias research and undermine meaningful climate action. THREAD. 📄 Open access: bit.ly/FossilFUniv

We could have the best climate science in the world: but without action, solutions won’t happen; and solutions won't help, if they don’t make the world a better place. That's why my new starter pack features 101 experts in climate policy, law, economics, strategy--and justice. Check it out! 🌏🧪

More Bad Ice News: a new study finds that Greenland ice sheet loss has been underestimated by as much 20%. An area bigger than Rhode Island disappeared and we didn't account for it before.

OPEC's leaked goal to “proactively reject any [#COP28] text...that targets...fossil fuels, rather than emissions” is, I think, the first *explicit* admission of Big Oil's strategy to shift climate responsibility from supply/fossil fuels to demand/emissions. 1/n www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy to have my work included in this report by Desmog about the fossil fuel money that is supporting many of the US electeds who have traveled to COP28. Fossil fuel has always shown up for the climate negotiations, but they are saying the quiet part out loud now. www.desmog.com/2023/12/08/u...

Advance warning: I'm almost finished writing a book and will be talking about it pretty much nonstop for the rest of my life, apologies to all

I think we’ve learned an important lesson today, which is: If you ever run a media company, do not ever create a situation where your poetry editor might have cause to write a resignation letter, because it will scorch you from the face of the earth.

On The Climate Brink, I explain the scariest climate plot in the world. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-scarie...

Global temperatures in October smashed the prior monthly record by 0.4C, and were ~1.7C above preindustrial levels. It wasn't quite as gobsmacking as September, but still comes in as the second most anomalous month in what has been an exceptionally hot year already.

There's more happening to weather extremes now than can be explained by thermodynamics, i.e. everything getting warmer, evaporation increasing, the atmosphere holding more energy and water. Also changing: jet stream, polar vortex, planetary waves & Atlantic ocean circulation. buff.ly/3QBapCG

“I think these findings should really serve as an urgent warning for us." Hurricanes are intensifying. Here's everything you need to know:

Translating historical extreme weather events into a warmer world Blog post discussing new approach to extreme weather event attribution using a case study of a windstorm that occurred in 1903 climatelabbook.substack.com/p/translatin...

"As clean energy expands & fossil fuel demand declines in the NZE Scenario, there is no need for investment in new coal, oil, & natural gas" says @IEA Clean energy is growing👇, but that does not mean the coal, oil, & gas decline without strong policy. www.iea.org/reports/net-...

There is increasing evidence that the world has warmed faster over the past 15 years than it has since the 1970s. Surface records, ocean heat content, and the Earth's energy imbalance all support an acceleration of warming, as I argue in today's @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/o...

🚨 Obviously, last month was the hottest September on record globally. I won't try to outdo others for coming up with words to describe this new record. It was a historic month, and you've never experienced a year like it before... Graphic/summary at: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🧪⚒️

Here are monthly absolute temperatures (compared to anomalies). This September would not have been out of place as a typical July this decade in terms of global temperatures.

The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was – in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.7C to 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.

During this June to September period (summer), global average temperatures have been about 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the time of year. BUT... this is not equivalent to it being a typical summer in a 1.5°C world... 🧵

Oh look, another absurd climate graph from this summer - sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic for every August since 1854... 🥴 Data available from NOAA ERSSTv5: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded... 🧪⚒️

Climate denier: 2000 years is not enough to see a trend! Also climate denier: There's been no warming for 5 years!

On The Climate Brink, @hausfath.bsky.social shows exactly how hot this summer has been. It's staggering. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizin...

On The Climate Brink, and ode to unions and why, if you care about climate, you should support the strikes that are going on now. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/i-stand-wi...

I spoke to Calla Wahlquist for Full Story about preparing for bushfire season. As a recent 'treechanger', i am terrified www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The changes in September #Arctic sea ice thickness by decade... 🧪⚒️ [Data simulated by PIOMAS at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

So, the IEA is declaring that demand for oil, gas and coal will ALL peak before 2030. www.ft.com/content/f615...

"Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August" This always made sense for Bitcoin miners, as a business model. Their net impact remains an extremely negative one, and then they get paid to greenwash with slight reductions www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/t...