“Promoting new fossil fuel projects is nation burning, not nation building” 👇👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/29/n...

🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings. The public is not being informed of the danger posed. The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯 #EndClimateSilence

The devil is always in the details.. and this is a big detail. 👇👇👇

At risk of oversimplifying a complex negotiation, my initial reaction is that you don’t back down when something seems to be working. If Ontario blinks, Trump will keep pulling these stunts even more often, & increase his tantrums rhetoric… if that’s even possible. www.thestar.com/business/ont...

Really important paper led by my @iiasa.ac.at colleague Alex Nauels www.nature.com/articles/s41... “The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏

Fair analysis. @mark-carney.bsky.social credentials led many to believe that he would advance climate policies. Instead, he is dismantling them. Right now climate action is no longer a clear distinction between major political parties in Canada. Sorry kids... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"If we fail to protect permafrost ecosystems, the consequences for human rights, biosphere integrity, and global #climate will be severe. The policy implications are clear: the faster we reduce human emissions and draw down atmospheric CO2, the more of the permafrost domain we can save."

This is the key problem: Regulatory Capture. This doesn’t mean that if you address it solutions will be easy; they still will be darn hard. Trade-offs & difficult decisions will still be made, but fair examination of evidence will be behind them. At last govs will be acting in the public interest.

Interesting perspective by @maxfawcett.bsky.social about the future of oil & gas in Canada, and the political poker game that is being played around it. Danielle Smith’s pipeline still doesn’t have a business case www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...

Surprise, surprise... Danielle Smith dodges climate science in parliament www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/n...

“Multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a ‘dangerous tool’ that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science.” A plea for thoughtful models by @kauspurg.bsky.social #MetaSci

"Crossing the first global tipping point should not be an excuse to lock in geoengineering, with its empty promises & spiralling risks. Instead, it should be the moment we pivot towards a fundamental shift in thinking & action about our societies, economies & politics."

Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This made me laugh more than I care to admit 🤣🤣

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible". Turns out that's wrong. Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it. Every tonne of CO2 matters. @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @minderoo.bsky.social #climatechange www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Really insightful (and fun) conversation on what AI is and the risks (and benefits) that come with it. Worth a listen. 👇👇👇 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

"Carney is avoiding answering whether Canada will meet its 2030 Paris Agreement target. His attendance at the upcoming COP30... has not been confirmed, & he unexpectedly withdrew from the UN Secretary General’s recent climate summit — all of which suggests he’s not prioritizing #climate action"

CBC Radio's science show 'Quirks & Quarks' celebrated its 50-year anniversary in a fun episode that invited experts to discuss the last 50 years of research in cosmology, genetics, climate, computers, agriculture and speculate on the next 50 years! 🧪 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #SciComm #Science

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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

Gabriel Batistuta was unstoppable.

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Another fair take by @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social & Leila Beaudoin on where Newfoundland and Labrador parties stand on fisheries & ocean conservation issues as we head into the provincial election next week. Interesting read on what is said... and not said... 👇👇 theindependent.ca/commentary/s...

An interesting read on both the history of Imperial Oil, but mostly on what its demise may tell us about the future (or lack thereof) of the oil & gas industry in Canada. 👇👇 The fall of a Canadian giant www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/a...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

"Our study reveals how the present-day Southern Ocean state impacts future climate change and suggests that previous constraints based on warming trends over recent decades have underestimated future warming and ocean heat uptake."

This is a rather niche piece that needs some knowledge of Newfoundland and Labrador history and politics to truly enjoy and appreciate, but is too good not to share with the broader world. @drewfoundland.bsky.social pieces are always a delight. theindependent.ca/commentary/a...

Good analysis by @aaronwherry.bsky.social on what the pipeline-shaped political wedge Premier Smith is building means and implies. 👇👇 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

In the dark, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

You can agree or disagree with Lori Lee Oates here, but the premise of looking at politics as a class issue more than a left-right continuum one is something we should be applying and talking about much more often. 👇👇 theindependent.ca/commentary/a...

The world’s oceans face triple planetary crisis: Report

"A new climate analysis — presented for the first time here — projects how humidity and heat will collide to form 'wet bulb' temperatures that will disrupt the norms of daily existence."

Presidents address the United Nations, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

It seems we are really on a hurry to see what is the worst climate change can do… 👇👇👇

Trump’s statement at the UN that climate change is “the biggest con job ever perpetrated against the world” sounds like projection to me. If you have spent your entire life pulling con jobs, everything you look at, you look at it through that lens. It tells more about him than about climate change.

Why are we so damn determined to answer Fermi’s paradox experimentally? We have proven the point already, let’s just dial back now… please

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"

Haven’t read this in detail to have an informed opinion about this specific paper, but what strikes me is that the more we look at these problems, the conclusions seem to be fairly consistent. We are not heading in a good direction…and we are doing little about it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The BBNJ is now international law. It provides a framework for conservation and resource sharing, but like all things related to the high seas, enforcement is limited. And of course, the US hasn't ratified it (nor do I expect that it will).

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

🧪 New National Academies report concludes that rising greenhouse gas levels imperil public health and the 2009 endangerment finding “has stood the test of time.” Game on. Gift link: Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

"the #climate movement’s top priority must be the destruction of fossil capital. To the extent that hype around geoengineering or carbon removal distracts from this central task, it is making our predicament worse"

From things I've seen recently, I think many people would benefit from reading this. It's short, and it's free. 👉 rdcu.be/dbFbB

🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨

The premise is that geoengineering buys us time, but these proposals fail to see the obvious. Our lack of time is not because of lack of effective solutions but because of lack of political will to act at the scale and speed required, and geoengineering cannot fix that. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

"I just look at it and say, 'Why are we choosing to prioritize this sort of project when there's so many better projects in front of us?'" That is a very good question… www.cbc.ca/news/science...

I guess @mark-carney.bsky.social is starting to show Canadians were his government stands on climate action... or lack thereof. I was naively hoping for something... sigh 👇👇 www.thestar.com/politics/fed...