Climate change is the world's most pressing issue because it makes everything else worse. It enables dictators, it drives inflation, it makes survival harder for the poorest people in the world. And the new data are clear: the rate of climate change is accelerating.

Rapid intensification is an increase in a cyclone’s max sustained winds by 35 mph in 24 hrs With Melissa, its wind speeds of 70 mph doubled in just 18 hrs "We are now pushing the limits of extreme rapid intensification" said Bernadette Woods Placky in a webinar hosted by @coveringclimatenow.org

"When a storm can explosively intensify from 70 to 185 mph in less than 3 days over ocean waters that are ~ 1.5°C warmer than normal, we are witnessing the dangerous new reality of our warming world" said Jayaka Campbell of University of the West Indies in Jamaica www.sierraclub.org/sierra/hurri...

Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The fossil fuel industry & its state sponsors have argued for decades that human development requires fossil fuels. But we know that under the guise of economic growth, they have instead served greed and profits..." said @amnesty.org's Agnès Callamard www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster - “Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP" says Simon Stiell #COP30 #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Exxon lawyer: "We are not going to lose this fight." The US Supreme Court, he said, needs to step in to shut the door on this litigation once and for all #SCOTUS will soon decide whether to take up Exxon's petition in Boulder's climate deception case www.eenews.net/articles/exx...

By me: ‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will/should the ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When most people think of solar energy, they think of rows of photovoltaic (PV) panels on rooftops or vast solar farms out in the desert. But portable plug-in solar devices small enough to generate power right off a balcony could be coming to an area near you.

President Lula 🇧🇷 said that #COP30 will be the "COP of truth" But huge gaps remain between world leaders' climate pledges & rhetoric, & their actions (there is also a considerable gap in truth on this matter) 3 truths on climate according to the science (🧵) www.oneearthnow.org/p/the-cop-of...

A new @climateanalytics.org report has come out today, with a profoundly hopeful message: even though the world is on track to exceed 1.5°C of global warming, we can peak at 1.7°C and get temperatures back down well below 1.5°C by end of century. But.... only if we phase out fossil fuels, fast. 🧵

The court agreed that the Trump admin is harming youth by exacerbating climate change, calling it a "children's health emergency." But it still dismissed the @youthvgov.bsky.social case "We need action, not sympathy" said plaintiff Taleah www.climateinthecourts.com/a-federal-co...

Survivors of Typhoon Odette are poised to sue Shell over climate damage Pakistani farmers are taking similar action against 2 German carbon majors This is reflective "of the growing impatience with the injustice of the climate crisis" @ciel.org's Nikki Reisch insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

In the latest State of the Climate report, scientists @williamripple.bsky.social et al warn we are "in beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth" At this point, every fraction of a degree of warming avoided is critical And fossil fuel phaseout is needed www.oneearthnow.org/p/halloween-...

With ten feet of sea level rise, you can say goodbye to London and Miami and Bangkok and virtually every other coastal city in the world. 👇 A highly-respected polar ice scientist explains the latest research on the accelerated decline, and coming collapse, of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

"Humanity faces a potentially catastrophic, irreversible outcome" with crossing of multiple Earth system tipping points, a recent scientific assessment warns There is still time to prevent this outcome, but that window is "rapidly closing" #ClimateEmergency www.oneearthnow.org/p/halloween-...

As catastrophic #HurricaneMelissa slams Jamaica, a new climate damages case was just announced against #CarbonMajors, brought by Pakistanis who suffered in the horrific 2022 floods Last week, Survivors of Typhoon Odette in 🇵🇭 announced they plan to sue Shell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is draft legislation in Congress that #BigOil has been lobbying on "related to state efforts to impose liability on the oil and gas industry" Meanwhile, 103 House Republicans filed an amicus brief to #SCOUTS urging it to intervene to stop climate suits insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...

The oil company's statements around being a major player in the energy transition & aspiring to reach net zero emissions by 2050 (while it plans to expand hydrocarbon production) were unlawful, a court ruled #climatelitigation #greenwashing www.climateinthecourts.com/totalenergie...

In the hydrocarbon capital of the US, solar, wind, & batteries are working effectively and increasingly meeting surging electric demand. Meanwhile, gas-fired generation, while still the largest electricity source in the region, has remained relatively flat since 2023 www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

BREAKING: New climate case has been initiated against Shell, aiming to hold the oil major liable for damages associated with super typhoon Odette, which ravaged the Philippines in 2021 #climatelitigation #Philippines #climateaccountability www.oneearthnow.org/p/philippine...

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 are the costliest ever on record in US, a resurrected tracker that was axed by the Trump administration has found www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The US Energy Secretary (along w/ Qatar's energy minister) urging the EU here to get rid of its Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive entirely or otherwise remove its most meaningful provisions, claiming it hurts LNG export competitiveness

No Kings demonstration (round 2) in Pittsfield, MA Gotta keep showing up

#NoKings #NoKingsinAmerica

BOSTON… (those are people, not ants) #NoKingsInAmerica 🇺🇸

Lawyers for plaintiffs say they will pursue an expedited appeal to the 9th Circuit - the same court that shut the courthouse doors to youth in Juliana v. US But Lighthiser v. Trump "is a different case" says @youthvgov.bsky.social's Julia Olson insideclimatenews.org/news/1610202...

BREAKING: A federal district judge in Montana has dismissed the youth constitutional climate case challenging Trump's fossil fuel executive orders. The court found the orders are (plausibly) harming children, but "reluctantly" concludes it cannot grant relief Lawyers for youth say they will appeal

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating - CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening @wmo-global.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is the "first time that this tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly" If similar shifts were observed in other rainforests, climate projections may underestimate future global warming

This seems to have flown under the news radar, but last month a report came out providing the first comprehensive global overview of the health impacts of fossil fuels from cradle to grave More on the report, by @gchalliance.bsky.social, here www.oneearthnow.org/p/a-public-h...

Every state supreme court that has reviewed climate deception claims so far has allowed them to proceed It remains to be seen whether the top court in Maryland will follow that pattern. The court heard oral arguments today More here www.climateinthecourts.com/maryland-sup...

"We’re pretty sick and tired of people making bajillions of dollars & then we have to clean up their messes. That’s what this bill does" - state Rep Tricia Farley-Bouvier @350ma.bsky.social @thebeatnews.bsky.social @hvatoday.bsky.social @polluterspay.bsky.social theberkshireedge.com/climate-acti...

Yesterday, Russ Vought tweeted out that DOE is canceling nearly $8 billion in clean energy funding. Today, @latitudemedia.bsky.social @maeveallsup.bsky.social obtained the list of all 321 projects that are having their awards pulled. 🔌💡 www.latitudemedia.com/news/scoop-t...

"We see his reporting, and his advocacy on behalf of people who are being savaged by an overheating Earth, as fitting squarely into the arc of history representing the best of what journalism can do." @coveringclimatenow.org on @billmckibben.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. US have petitioned an international tribunal, accusing the US of human rights violations over its fossil fuel energy policies "What the government has been doing for 5 decades is illegal"- @youthvgov.bsky.social's Kelly Matheson insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

"Five or ten years from now, if we’re going to give a climate hero award…President Trump is going to win that award" said Energy Secretary Chris Wright moments ago during a press briefing You can't make this shit up

"The fossil fuel industry has captured everything, from politics, to the media, and general discourse... Eventually the day of reckoning will come for the US, and sooner or later something has to change" - Vanuatu minister Ralph Regenvanu www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

"Donald Trump in his speech today is incorrect" - Piers Forster, one of the world's leading climate scientists, speaking now during @climateanalytics.org's #ClimateWeekNYC event

Since the whole carbon footprint thing was something the fossil fuel industry came up with to deflect responsibility onto individual consumers, this quote might be the one correct thing he's said.

Trump speaking at the UN right now just called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world"

"Countries are now collectively planning even more fossil fuel production than two years ago" said SEI's Derik Broekhoff, a lead author of the Production Gap report And the gap may be even wider, as US projections do not yet reflect Trump's moves on fossil fuels www.sierraclub.org/sierra/gap-b...

BREAKING: Construction on Revolution Wind will resume after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction today against the Trump administration

🚨 Breaking news from the #UNGA sidelines: 🇨🇴 Colombia will host the 1st International Conference on the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026 Read our press release to learn more: fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-conference #FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutSummit #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateJustice #UNGA

Nothing like a solar-powered bookstore if you’re an environmental writer! #SunDayofAction

TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

"The world is making this transition from a resource that’s only available in a few places to one that’s available to everyone everywhere,” @billmckibben.bsky.social says. “This is one of the few concrete ways to begin to erode [authoritarians’] power.” #SunDay ☀️ www.oneearthnow.org/p/surge-in-s...