NEW: How can we make electric cars even cleaner? By using green aluminium. Switching automotive production to low-carbon aluminum could cost just €25 extra per car by 2040. Read our new study 👇 bit.ly/4qRohZI

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

"...10yrs ago, the app estimated that the global temp was already 0.98°C above pre-industrial ave. & would breach the 1.5°C threshold in 2045. Today, the same tool estimates that we have reached a global ave. of 1.25°C & will be at 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels in May 2029" #FasterThanExpected

📈Climate change intensified Typhoons Kalmaegi and Fung-wong, increasing economic damages by up to 42% ow.ly/exnw50XrAv4 #COP30

Didn’t see this coming… “Global Mean Sea Level Rise promotes stronger & more frequent extreme cold events… is expected to strengthen in coming century…This effect is attributed to weakened mid-high latitude westerly winds and increased occurrence of blocking events” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Germany cut in half its plans to build 20 gigawatts of new gas-fired power plants in a compromise deal between proponents of fossil fuels and clean energy in the country’s coalition government

"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...

"The @climateactiontracker.org has downgraded Canada's overall rating to ‘Highly Insufficient,’ primarily due to weakened policy ambition, slow implementation, and a widening gap between current emissions levels and Canada’s 2030 target" climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca... #Canada 🇨🇦

So.....did no one else notice that Pennsylvania just dropped RGGI?

"Without action, the signal from scientists will be drowned out in the marketing noise from oil companies"

Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.

Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒 Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all #COP30 delegations except Brazil, report says - One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Passenger growth at Europe’s major airports is projected to skyrocket in the coming years. But this will likely bring little to no additional benefits to the economy – and in some cases may have negative effects. It’s time to rethink how we see the role of airports. Our report ➡️ bit.ly/47y7q5e

Prime Minister Mark Carney simply does not get the climate crisis.

AP News: Relentless rise in carbon pollution from fossil fuels slightly dampens climate-fighting hopes apnews.com/article/emis...

I collected this specimen of the Arran granite intruding the Dalradian schists ten years ago, and finally got round to cutting it. Really happy with how it’s come out. Half going to National Museum, half to Arran Geopark.

"65% of Americans say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends' #EndClimateSilence Have a #climate conversation with the people around you. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

Get your fill of Global Carbon Budget 2025 figures and associated data here, released today: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

1/2 We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies). Read the highlights in a short article: theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...

NEW: Air traffic growth is not a guarantee of economic growth, despite industry claims. These claims, often echoed by governments to justify airport expansion, are undermined by new research. 🧵⤵️

This year: 133 people, 102 organisations, 21 countries, with thousands contributing indirectly. Lots of material available: • ESSD: essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... • Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... • Website: globalcarbonbudget.org • Figures: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/ 14/14

📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢 Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength. The key findings are covered in two reports this year: * ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... * Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels. While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...

A new report by the Climate Transition Centre on “net-zero” banking found that *not a single major bank* is willing to stop funding new oil, gas, or coal projects. Zero. Across 36 banks, the average climate score was just 18%. They’re literally banking on collapse and calling it sustainability.

You’ve probably heard this claim: Climate’s always changing! It's true, Earth’s climate has changed before. But not this fast, and not for this reason. Introducing Cold Facts, Hot Takes: my new series of evidence-based replies to common troll takes 🔥 Want the whole episode? Links below ⬇️

A new independent report found that, despite provincial commitments to protect old growth and change course in forest stewardship, endangered forests in BC are now even closer to the brink. ➡️ See the key findings of the "State of the forest in BC in 2025" report: sierraclub.bc.ca/stories-even...

Take a moment to consider the 250 million people who have been forcibly displaced by climate disasters over the past 10 years…70,000 per day, on average. If you aren’t one of these unfortunate people, I invite you to consider what you can do to help one or more of them. They need us.

"we investigate how often five basic #climate facts are conveyed in @nytimes.com news articles covering climate change from 1980 to 2018. With only one exception, the frequencies with which these facts appear in news articles today are vanishingly small" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

State of the Cryosphere Report 2025 "Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social iccinet.org/statecryo25/

"The Hague’s fossil-fuel advertising ban is more than a policy- it’s a signal. By rejecting the normalization of fossil fuel promotion, the decision to implement a ban locally can challenge entrenched norms globally... FF advertising bans present a compelling opportunity for governments to act"

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it" It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says! politiken.dk/klima/art106...

WTH 😮 Extra nitrogen provided by cyanobacteria growing on the algae Main driver of Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic Ocean revealed phys.org/news/2025-11...

Europe’s EV surge rolls on — Sept 2025 was the 2nd-best month ever with ~399k plug-ins sold, +11% YoY (21% BEV + 11% PHEV), only behind Dec 2022’s record. Fossil fuels keep fading fast — petrol -8% YoY & diesel -16% YoY, now under a third of new cars sold. #EV #Europe #EnergyTransition #Lithium #LFP

The speed of light visualized on a world map. Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

In Alberta, landowners can’t deny oil and gas wells on their properties, but they’re entitled to compensation. Some companies fail to pay those bills — and rural Albertans are tired of waiting. They're also tired of that repayment, eventually, coming from taxpayers. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...

Created with an image issued by NOAA November 2, 2025, showing hourly methane averages recorded at the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory (BRW), a NOAA facility located near Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, at 71.32 degrees North latitude. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Extinction of Pizol Glacier 1969 | 2025 Declared extinct in 2022, Pizol Glacier had lost 98% of its volume during the last 18 years 🧊✝️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

The press doesn’t get away unscathed: “The legacy media is apparently more interested in the climate musings of an erstwhile PC mogul than a sober assessment by the world’s leading climate scientists.”

Yeah. It’s Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida

Bill Gates must have misread my book "The #NewClimateWar" (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...) as a how-to-guide rather than a cautionary tale.

Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...

In my 30 years being a professional meteorologist, I can't say I have ever seen a #Hurricane with better/ more textbook structure than #Melissa in the Atlantic. It's been a Cat 5 all day long with no signs of getting any weaker. That's a rare run! Here's more...

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

Now a hurricane, #Melissa is poised to rapidly intensify into a potentially catastrophic major hurricane by Sunday. The latest from @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/hurr...

British Colombians are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita. @bsaxifrage.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com

Recommended piece here by @bsaxifrage.bsky.social. Not the kind of analysis that should make BCers proud: "British Columbians are aiming to shoot past even the Saudis in CO2 extraction per person." The CO2 extractors: BC is among world's most aggressive www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/a...