Spain approves $8 billion in aid for storm-battered regions reut.rs/4qEYC5i

New advice from the @esabcc.bsky.social urges the EU to urgently strengthen its adaptation framework. With rising loss of life, damages and ecosystem harm, coordinated adaptation, alongside rapid mitigation, is crucial to address climate risks and protect EU's priorities: tinyurl.com/yc4dxw9r

The EU's aviation climate rules won't cause the dramatic business losses that legacy carriers are claiming. The problem of carbon leakage does exist, but airlines are exaggerating the risk as an excuse to weaken climate rules. Our reply in today's @financialtimes.com 👇 bit.ly/40aGcOW

🌍 Today on Global Tourism Resilience Day, we celebrate Europe's commitment to sustainable travel. Popular European destinations are reimagining tourism for a better, more resilient future. Across the continent, innovation is driving change.

Sharp increase in battery-electric car sales in Thailand in January. 🚗End of the EV3 incentive scheme aimed at manufacturers and importers. 🚗Reduction in vehicle tax for BEVs from 8% to 2%. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

New Zealand:

Adaptation is 100% necessary Most adaptation plans are way behind schedule This is all coming at us faster than expected We are completely unprepared And there is also this ALL adaptation has limits At 3ºC most of life on earth will be hitting those limits #ClimateCrisis

The US in 2026.

🔔🚨 New Publication Alert! Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element. We found: it’s not one — it’s many. 📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... Tread below 🧵👇

We are officially in the Age of Climate Chaos at ~1.5ºC At the current decadal heating trajectory we will reach 2ºC in the next ~12 years. We are completely and UTTERLY unprepared. #ClimateCrisis

“Portugal still handles land-use planning thinking about the 19th century or the first half of the 20th century climate. We have to understand what the climate is like now and what it will be like in the future. Otherwise, we’re going to have a problem”—Pedro Soares

First the Washington Post gutted its climate desk. Now its editorial board is cheerleading for Trump’s biggest and most dangerous climate rollback. My latest for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/jeff-bezos...

Hey everybody! It's mid-month global mean surface temperature snapshot time! And yes, that's right, do not adjust your television: at the height of the current La Nina, 2026 year-to-date is more than 1.51°C over the pre-industrial baseline.

Cities produce 70% of global emissions, but they’re also full of solutions. In Johannesburg, solar-powered homes, urban farming & recycling are transforming lives and reducing emissions. Explore more about these initiatives that work #ForPeopleForPlanet: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Update on #Gezani impact on Mozambique

A South African Department of Water & Sanitation dashboard giving an overview of the Knysna water system appeared yesterday. It is the first time we have a full view of the system. My analysis: peterdutoit.com/for-...

This is a *critical* conversation to have as we sail through 1.5°C “Hardly any country has comprehensive national frameworks for planned relocation; many lack the political will, resources, capacities and knowledge to design relocation.” Source: www.swp-berlin.org/p... #ClimateCrisis

Read this carefully. “Seven [7] Democrats in the state Senate joined with Republicans to kill the bill.” US politicians from both parties are in total denial about the cause of the unfolding global climate chaos and who one of the largest contributors are. The modern day US on full display.

The latest #CopernicusAtmosphere forecasts show a Saharan dust episode that will affect south-east Europe over the weekend. The animation below shows the plume in our Aerosol Alert, based on the forecasts. Explore more at the link: aerosol-alerts.atmosphere.copernicus.eu

The US continuing with its planet destroying behaviour. Data: www.eia.gov/todayine...

“Our existing economic system, capitalism, is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@ecmwf.int I know you may not be able to provide exact info on this but is there an ETA for when web-services may be restored?

NY State is on the wrong path on climate goals & energy affordability, ignoring our CLCPA climate law, promoting nuclear power, & planning to continue to rely on natural gas far into the future. Read my statement here: www.howarthlab.org/docs/Climate...

“How can you go from science which was very, very strong in 2009 and is only stronger now in 2026 to saying science isn't strong enough to support it. You cannot. That's not a scientific judgment. That's a political judgment.” My statement in Time. time.com/7377810/trum...

Reminder! The vast majority of US politicians are owned by Big Oil.

Even though #Gezani is forecast to brush the Mozambique coast it is an intense tropical cyclone and can drop a huge amount of rain as it does so.

“The addition of Powell McCormick to Meta's management team arrived amid wider efforts from California-based Meta to boost its ties with Trump, who was once banned from Facebook.” Tells you *everything* you need to know about Facebook.

NEW from CPC (Feb 12) "A transition from La Niña to ENSO-neutral is expected in February-April 2026 (60% chance), with ENSO-neutral likely persisting through the Northern Hemisphere summer (56% chance in June-August 2026)" Update here: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

What horrors will be unleashed on the planet today as the US continues to commit to more atmospheric pollution?

These storms are becoming more violent as we continue to heat and it is so often those who contributed the least to the 425 ppm CO2 currently in the atmosphere, who suffer the most dire consequences. www.dailymaverick.co... #Gezani #Madagascar

One million Europeans are employed in clean tech value chains. Including batteries, bioenergy, geothermal, hydro, heat pumps, solar and wind. Jobs are doubled compared with 2010. The data are not available, but EV and nuclear jobs would push this even higher.

Analysis of #CopernicusAtmosphere fire emissions data clearly highlights the extreme nature of the recent devastating fires in Argentina/Chile with total estimated emissions for 2026 so far (1 Jan-10 Feb) exceeding all annual totals since 2003 for Chubut province🇦🇷 & most years for Biobío province🇨🇱

Patagonian wildfires show how denying climate change & pushing environmental destruction make the reality of climate change much worse. Threatening the destruction of trees that have been alive when the bronze age collapsed. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

This headline should anger everyone as the largest CO2 polluter is set to solidify its position as such and torpedo efforts to cut emissions. We are racing through 1.5ºC of heating and will likely cross 2ºC in the late 2030's at current heating rates. This is a crime against all life on earth!

🚆 Rail is one of Europe’s strongest climate solutions — yet road transport still dominates. Transport is the only major #EU sector where greenhouse gas emissions have risen since 1990. In 2023, road transport was responsible for nearly three quarters of transport emissions, [...]

NEW from JMA (Jan 10) “It is equally likely (50%) that El Niño conditions will develop, or ENSO-neutral conditions will persist in spring. And it is more likely (60%) that El Niño conditions will develop by summer than ENSO-neutral conditions will persist (40%).” Source: ds.data.jma.go.jp/tc...

🌡️ The latest #C3S Climate Bulletin reports the fifth-warmest January globally, with an average surface air temperature 1.47°C above pre-industrial level. Global average sea surface temperature 4th-highest on record for the month. Details: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... #CopernicusClimate

The people behind Project 2025, the 70 plus million who voted for this and the millions who stayed at home during the last election are directly responsible for the climate chaos that these decisions will unleash GLOBALLY.

These issues around Substack have been know for sometime now, like with X just get off it already!

South Africa’s mineral and petroleum resources minister - a science denier - continues to champion coal. This despite the fact that we are set to pass 2°C in the 2030’s, which will have catastrophic consequences for SA. These people are a threat to all life on earth

USA 2026 Global heating is crossing ~1.5°C and accelerating. CO2 concentrations to date are at ~427 ppm The US is the largest contributor to atmospheric CO2 concentrations. They are driving global destruction.

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury. See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

Electrostate China.

The modern day USA

And despite this, the average for the first 3 days of Feb 2026 above preindustrial is +1.59ºC (ERA5) What is going to happen when the RONI turns positive later in the year? #ClimateCrisis

ICYMI: “It appears W is launching with a fork of Bluesky's social-app client and account hosting on their own PDS.” 👏🏻

The fossil fuel burning destruction of life on earth continues unabated. This suffering and loss was all avoidable. What did the creatures we share this planet with do to deserve this?

NEW: The EU’s reversal of the 2035 car CO2 target will create huge uncertainty in the EV market and could cause EV market share to fall between 50-95% by 2035 instead of 100%. The proposal would also push car CO2 emissions 10% higher than under the current target. A breakdown of T&E’s analysis 🧵