The accumulated waste of generations of mass consumption is decaying in landfill, + the chemicals those goods were drenched in - lead, mercury, cadmium, PFAS, PCBs - are seeping slowly back out into water, soil + air. Our report with @investigate-europe.eu: euobserver.com/eu-political...

At #COP30, the failed economic orthodoxies embedded in the financial architecture got little attention. Embracing the role of the state and industrial policy are 🗝️ to scaling up climate action, as explained in this @the-breakdown.bsky.social piece: www.break-down.org/real-constra...

From the regulator's report: Why add more coal-fired capacity when the existing capacity is under-utilised?

"While many developed countries, China and India have obtained net forest gains domestically, they have also increased the deforestation embodied in their imports […]. Consumption patterns of G7 countries drive an average loss of 3.9 trees per person per year". via @esavakkilainen.bsky.social

I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.

Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl. vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...

I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.

[9/10] Fabienne Barataud insiste sur la valeur des expérimentations locales, même limitées. Elles n’inversent pas seules le système global, mais elles nourrissent des imaginaires collectifs indispensables à une transformation écologique. #geography #prospective #food #agriculture

📢 New paper on the impacts of AMOC collapse on European hydroclimate. 🌊 We find an AMOC collapse would exacerbate drought conditions across Europe, linked to reduced precipitation. In combination with climate change droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe. doi.org/10.5194/hess...

"The amount of heat transported to the north Atlantic is huge. […] It’s enough to warm the entire region by 4.5°C on average which means that I’m cutting the grass in November rather than shovelling snow." drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake... by @drtomharris.bsky.social #AMOC #climateChange

Working in research at [large financial institution] I see the same thing. There's no appetite to question the fundamentals because the AI trade has been hugely profitable. So people's jobs seem to have become finding reasons for investors to keep believing. It's a bit disheartening.

The hierarchy is clear: 75–85% of emission reductions through 2050 come from using less fossil fuel. CCS plays a role, but it is strictly secondary, contributing a median of just 15–25%. Technological neutrality is a political concept, not a scientific one. 2/3

As I argue in The Language of Climate Politics: we are stuck not because climate politics are polarized, but because they’re UNIFIED (across the right and center-left) on the lie that we can keep using oil and gas but still deal with climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that discourse.

Wrote up a piece of the betrayed promises of the green transition and what Britain’s experience can tell us about the USA and the future of climate politics

The Problem With COP30’s Big Rainforest Initiative. “The TFFF isn’t a climate proposal, but it’s another false solution to the planetary crises of biodiversity loss, forest loss and climate collapse.” www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

Had the number of scenarios from different models or studies in the IPCC scenarios database been different, headline IPCC mitigation findings could have been different. Statistical findings are, not surprisingly, impacted by the distribution of models and studies.

New assessment on the biophysical potential of forestation to sequester carbon. As expected, we found just a fraction of what other assessments found, because we considered the obvious no-nos, such as risk to biodiversity, excess water use, and regional warming. theconversation.com/the-climate-...

We also confirm mechanisms of the Amazon dieback in terms of climate drivers, ecological processes and land-use change effects

The fresh surface of new concrete absorbs CO₂ fairly quickly, but the process slows down as diffusion to deeper layers takes longer. Demolition exposes new surfaces, so leads to a new increase in uptake.

"While many developed countries, China and India have obtained net forest gains domestically, they have also increased the deforestation embodied in their imports […]. Consumption patterns of G7 countries drive an average loss of 3.9 trees per person per year". via @esavakkilainen.bsky.social

Most of the damage that Europe does is not in Europe. We need to reduce meat & dairy to protect nature. www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

Indigenous Peoples are the primary experts on lands, waters, and governance in their territories. Yet 1/3 of defenders killed or disappeared in 2024 were Indigenous or Afro-descendant, with Brazil among the top 5 countries where these attacks occurred. 👀👉 globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

B.C. has a new policy for staking mineral claims, after a 2023 court ruling the province had breached its duty to consult with First Nations. Critics say the new policy is flawed: “two steps forward, one step back” in recognizing Indigenous Rights. thenarwhal.ca/bc-mineral-c...

B.C. old-growth data ‘misleading’ public on remaining ancient forest: independent report Government touts 13 million hectares of province's forests are old growth, but ecologists found only 35,000 hectares support the largest trees thenarwhal.ca/b-c-old-grow...

By region: • China: flat, don’t call it a peak • USA: up, weather & gas prices • India: low growth, early monsoon • EU: flat, mainly weather • Japan: down, continuation of trend • Shipping: flat • Aviation: up, above pre-COVID • Rest of the world: up 4/

We found that applied sciences show the highest levels of techno-optimism and humanities the lowest. Interestingly, levels did not differ based on whether scientists work on climate change. Scientists on the political right were more likely to be techno-optimists.

🚨🌊 New highlight paper out today in Earth System Dynamics! We find an observational constraint implying more future global ocean heat uptake, cloud feedback, and warming than the CMIP6 mean. This contrasts with previous estimates based on past warming trends. 🔗 esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

The case for hydrogen is really the case for decarbonization, specifically hard to abate activities. These include ammonia production, steel manufacturing, synthetic aviation fuel, methanol production, renewable natural gas, trucking, shipping, and freight trains.

"I would want to see emissions going down for several years before I would stand up on a building top and shout that emissions have peaked" Please take note of my wise words... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 great critical piece www.science.org/content/arti...

End fossil fuels now or destroy the world. That's the choice. Report here: wmo.int/news/media-c... 3/3

Sultana draws on documentary video content from the 'Voices from the Global South' project, produced by the Open University, @rgsibg.bsky.social & @igu-ugi.bsky.social, to illustrate the arguments in her paper. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14... Immediate Impact of Rewetting on Carbon Dynamics in a Degraded Irish Raised Bog 3-year period at a former domestic peat extraction site...study demonstrates that rewetting led to immediate carbon reduction, and can deliver immediate climate mitigation benefits.

Such an exceptional article by Erica Gies @ericagies.bsky.social, exploring the connections between trees, water cycles, and climate. “Planting one trillion trees is wrong,” [...] Instead, the goal should be to restore ecosystem functionality. ~ Anastassia Makarieva, atmospheric physicist.

In yesterday's Nature Briefing, we considered a Perspective by @lisgilmore.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and colleagues about the use of the climate ‘tipping point’ framing. An interesting read! #ScienceSky 🧪 us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...

Enabling climate acceleration are economic sectors such as land use, China coal, Saudi Aramco, Coal India, Gazprom (Russia), National Iranian Oil — in that order. Study: data.yt/projections/... #China #coal #footprint #GHG #CO2 #carbon #economy #industry #energy #emissions #climateChange