🔥 The never-ending narrative… This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry. Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

Schrijnend. vrtnws.be/p.LNx815m91

www.theguardian.com/environment/... - our latest E3G report showing that with policy reform, running a heat pump could be half the price of running a gas boiler. The future is electric !

Sluiten. Genoeg subsidies in gestopt. Beter voor leefbaarheid buurt en milieu. vrtnws.be/p.APby3yo6k

Hoe ‘haalbaar en betaalbaar’ zouden bosbranden zijn? In oktober terug klimaatmars. Be there ✊ vrtnws.be/p.oLlX7eDBo

Terechte vraag van 11.11.11. vrtnws.be/p.mRvXKYnKN

The media often highlights individual cases of dissatisfaction with heat pumps, implying a broader problem. However, even the Daily Mail, previously very critical of heat pumps, now reports that 94% of households are satisfied with theirs, surpassing satisfaction rates for gas boilers.

Breathtaking ruling from the ICJ. Will this single handedly solve the climate crisis? Of course not. But it's a valuable new tool in the task of pushing major polluters to change their ways. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/w...

Israel hasn't stopped gunning down the Palestinians they're starving, as those Palestinians try to feed themselves There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable

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Destroying Harvard University (and then the entire Ivy League) has been the dream of the libertarian plutocrats running the Trump administration for decades They don't want free thinkers. In fact, they don't want thinkers at all.

Misdadig. Geen ander woord voor. vrtnws.be/p.pA1mK1ApM

New publication alert: Cooperating for circularity? Perspectives of citizen energy cooperative members on circular solar business models 🌞🔄 #CircularEconomy #EnergyCooperatives #Solar #Sustainability @vito-research.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Denmark is our NATO ally. They're also an incredibly tiny country — 7 million citizens. So this is classic bullying behavior, singling out the smallest in the yard for attack. It's also a signal to Putin that NATO is dead.

The Germans press is not having as much trouble discerning what happened as the American press. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Zo moet dat 👌

De vervuiler betaalt. Logisch toch? #pfas www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20250...

Greta Thunberg is right: the approach of aggressive, unchecked and almost panicked expansionism for fossil fuel supply ultimately serves as a self-fulfilling prophecy of more fossil fuels being burned Supply isn't neutral or humble. Supply is a mad, huge monster that needs chains and sedatives.

"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world" Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Na lang wikken en wegen en de juiste flow zoeken, ziehier onze terugblik op 2024 met de 100 mooiste DUYSTER. nummers van het afgelopen jaar. Van MJ Lenderman tot Public Service Broadcasting en 98 songs daar tussenin. Cheers! 🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/3w4...

Haal het geld waar het zit.

Nog 40 minuten en ik mag terug naar school fietsen om dochter af te halen met dit beest.🎉 Zonder overdrijven mijn lievelingsfiets. Zoals je ziet, ook goed voor bezoekjes aan recyclageparken.

Ook iets voor België. #betaaldklimaatverlof

I see that a lot of people still need to look at this infographic about the difference between carbon removal (CDR) and carbon capture (CCS). carbon180.org/blog/the-dif...

Yes heat pumps work in very old buildings. Here's an 11th century Norman church in Lympne, Kent that has been fitted with a heat pump. More on why heat pumps work in old buildings in my piece for @carbonbrief.org here 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

Bitcoin power demand this year is miles ahead of any previous year. Will it end 2024 consuming as much as Sweden? Or as Pakistan? Pakistan has a population of 236m. Such a perfect illustration of toxic demand (also see: generative AI) ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci ember-climate.org/insights/res...

In a historic step in climate action, Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh has officially banned advertisements for high-carbon products and services— from cruise lines and airlines to oil and gas companies. #FossilFuelAdsMakeMeSick #greensky #climatesky

This isn’t getting as much traction as it should but the flooding in south Brazil is horrific. Over 600,000 people homeless, entire cities have disappeared under water because we’ve been harming the environment so much and this will get worse as more rain hits the region

RIP the Gaza aid pier. It didn't last long, it didn't accomplish anything, and it was always just a PR stunt to pull attention away from the government's support of a genocide, but at least it cost more money than the federal government spends on addiction treatment programs

After spinning for under 2 years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power plants: new peer-reviewed study in J. of the Royal Society of New Zealand cc @katharinehayhoe.com ecomagazine.com/news/industr...

The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.

Zeer inzichtelijk draadje over status globale energietransitie.

Car companies are making EVs that are more expensive to buy, more expensive to run, require more energy and critical minerals to manufacture, and are harder to use. They're actively deciding to slow walk climate action for their own gain. They are not our friends.

What if we just stopped burning fossil fuels instead?

“Much like destroying forests, scraping up the sea floor causes irreparable harm to the climate, society and wildlife.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When people think of heat pumps they typically think of little grey boxes with a fan. But there are also gigantic industrial scale heat pumps like this one in Denmark replacing coal heating with heat from the seawater providing heat for 25,000 homes. www.pv-magazine.com/2023/06/06/m...

Norway cares about nature that we can see on our hikes. If it's oil drilling or deep-sea dredging, or if it's climate impacts in other, browner countries, we don't care at all. Currently, we're a country that sees onshore wind as too destructive to allow to continue, but that fully supports this:

Its now official: 2023 was the warmest year on record in the JRA-55 dataset, at 1.43C above preindustrial levels. It beat the prior record set in 2016 by 0.14C, and continues a rapid warming trend thats seen global temperatures rise around 1C since 1970.

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Conference of Petrostates (COP)

"...this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word."

Misdadig. Misdadig. vrtnws.be/p.0YwJAm4Gl

"Our [Jean-Pascal van Ypersele & my] Letter, on Behalf of the Climate System, to #COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber" via michaelmann.net: michaelmann.net/content/our-...

BREAKING: Climate case WIN in Belgian Climate Case -- just out! Government ORDERED to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 (compared w. 47% target under EU framework) Very significant globally: Govt ordered to INCREASE AMBITION of GHG target. Congrats to all at Klimaatzaak twitter.com/Klimaatzaak/...

Beste nieuws van de dag: Klimaatzaak heeft in beroep opnieuw gelijk gehaald. Deze keer met een reductiedoelstelling in het vonnis. Belgische overheden moeten meer doen om klimaatverandering aan te pakken. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

In een boek over creatieve fotografie uit de bib vond dit insect ooit de dood. Geslaagde compositie?

Het aantal salariswagens in België is meer dan verdubbeld tussen 2007 en 2023. Vandaag heeft al 14% van de werknemers een salariswagen. Omdat het vijftien jaar geleden politiek wat moeilijk lag om van dat onzalige systeem af te komen, hebben we het ons ondertussen quasi onmogelijk gemaakt.

This cover absolutely rules