See this from Steve Keen who has been highlighting the failure of these economic models for years youtu.be/fdaFyJ-K_6g?...

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Actuaries actually need to understand risk, so they did their homework on the impacts of climate change, definitely worth reading www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The whole "Trump can't rig the elections" thing strikes me somewhat the same way as "climate change isn't going to drive human beings extinct" thing. Like ... sure. OK. But there's a whole lot of bad shit that stops well short of that!

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)

Because these things are fractal, a question for reflection: how is the regime's treatment of women similar to its treatment of water similar to its treatment of immigrants similar to its treatment of the climate similar to its treatment of public health similar to its treatment of children ...

It is weird how every plea to pivot away from climate to energy affordability actually ends up just agreeing entirely with the goals of climate. First it was the way renewables ended up helping reduce power bills, now it's clear opposing massive unchecked gas export build-out does the same

Lots going on right now, but this is worth repeating: the planet will keep heating up and the climate will keep breaking down until we phase out fossil fuels. We should all want to phase out fossil fuels as soon as possible, I think!

Food is not the only thing that determines your health. You also need healthy soil, clean water, and a livable climate. If the entire nation increases its consumption of meat and dairy, we will not have any of those latter three things.

Trump just said what it is all about. The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.

Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

Look at what we are doing partly, if not largely, because of oil. So you’ll forgive me if I think the demand we support oil and gas is not only patently absurd but deeply morally offensive. No one calling for continued oil and gas use should be referred to as a climate advocate. Ever.

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Corey Doctorow makes a good point here, Trump trashed trade agreements so govt should roll back the legislation that disadvantages their local tech sector media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...

I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.

I think the greatest gift that being part of our Ethics Initiative this year has given me is the scholarly framework to talk about how failing to phase out fossil fuels is ethically wrong. We can talk feasibility til our ears bleed but there’s an obvious moral aspect that doesn’t need cost analyses

Good morning. How about 2000 words about the state of the US oil industry? "Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."

Let me be explicit. If you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you. Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.

I am SO late to this but this @emdashsanders.bsky.social piece (edited by @emorwee.bsky.social) is great: a deep dive into Exxon's use of dodgy CCS promises to justify fossil gas fuelled power stations to run data centres A set of keywords that makes me click so hard my mouse shatters into pieces 💥

The contradiction of conservatives is that by trying to conserve a way of life reliant on fossil fuels instead of conserving planetary health, they are driving enormous changes that will upend our societies… and the fossil fuels will run out anyway.

The contradiction of conservatives is that by trying to conserve a way of life reliant on fossil fuels instead of conserving planetary health, they are driving enormous changes that will upend our societies… and the fossil fuels will run out anyway.

This is a stunning piece of work by Global Witness laying out how Musk's chatbot software actively helps spread climate denial and disinformation. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

"AI could invent free renewable energy." Or, y'know, we could deploy the stuff that works and is already cheaper than the fossil alternative, while doing the hard political work of figuring out how to pass the savings on to households, balancing the interests of shareholders and ratepayers.

See what happens when government policy creates incentives? More of this please! www.aemc.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Reading Less is More for the third time. #degrowth for the win

Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never. If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.

Imagine how fast global emissions could be falling if having an economy that centred human wellbeing rather than constant growth was allowed 🫠 (also a fair few of these countries have stagnant rather than falling emissions.....) robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.

Damn I missed this is part 😔

Here's the other problem: as @climateactiontracker.org point out in the report Gates' staffers either didn't read or chose to ignore - the shifting projections from 'bad' to 'less bad' STOPPED SHIFTING after covid and MIGHT BE SHIFTING BACK TOWARDS MORE BAD climateactiontracker.org/documents/12...

How about we shift from centre-right dweebs dishonestly trying to reframe our intentions and towards actually being honest with people about how renewable energy only makes your bills cheaper, cuts air pollution and cuts greenhouse gases if politicians actually directly tackle corporate power

- Anti-wind group uses slopbot for disinfo inquiry sub: creates an extra new wind farm - Academic uses fake slop detector for the story - Guardian itself has a "partnership" with OpenAI - More and more climate groups themselves using GenAI to write submissions www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread. As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT archive.ph/grTVe

Arguing that ppl should stay on X to 'be part of the conversation' or whatever is precisely equivalent to all the Very Serious centrist nerds arguing we should lean into right-wing framing for climate advocacy bc the movement is losing momentum. In both cases: it only helps the shift rightwards

We will never know the true economic value of the environment; it's a fool's errand. Nature's most important values are priceless, they can never be measured in dollars and cents, but they must be conserved.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.

The planet doesn’t care about where we take CO₂ out of the air, but it does care how we do it. Tree planting or forest restoration should not be used to offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions because it doesn't work.

Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...

A new International Energy Agency (IEA) assessment of the lifecycle emissions of coal vs LNG shows that LNG only offers a pitiful reduction in emissions compared to coal Gas talking points present themselves as a 'climate solution', but they're a climate cause www.iea.org/reports/asse...

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study - Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And @albomp.bsky.social and the Minister 'for' the Environment, Senator Watt, just approved a climate and culture destroying bomb. Well-played Labor, well-played Labor voters...

Veerrryyy good @megcevans.bsky.social piece here - the core function of Australia's carbon offsetting industry is providing cheap simulated climate action to create permission for fossil fuel expansion. Seeing offset-bros reacting to M is amazing www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/06/l... @crikey.com.au

⚠️"global investors continue to be misled by investment consultants that high levels of warming will see lower impacts to pension funds... The outcomes for society& institutional investors are likely to be catastrophic, unless such advice to investors is urgently withdrawn" @carbontracker.bsky.social

There's a @financialtimes.com mini business school case study where my talk came from: the 3½ solutions to cement decarb. 1️⃣ Use less clinker 2️⃣ Use feedstock other than limestone 3️⃣ Use alternative feedstock and electrochemistry the ½ solution: CCUS gwagner.com/ft-cement