I initially thought this was from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social.

❔| #TTP: Has Europe Given Up its Leadership on Climate Change? ➡️ COP30 takes place amidst increased pessimism about the world’s commitment to climate action. Beset by a host of other challenges, can Europe still maintain a leading role? carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

My answer to this question was to remind everyone that even if Europe was leading, its actions are grossly insufficient to limit warming to well below 2°C. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

<rubs hand together excitedly>

Avoiding geoengineering havoc requires a scientifically informed, globally-coordinated, internationally agreed strategy say Royal Society, lasting for centuries whilst CO2 was removed from the atmosphere When we can't even organise an intl carbon tax on shipping www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district. #ice #chicago

Priestley Centre members, Professor Ken Carslaw FRS - School of Earth and Environment, Co-Chief Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; and Professor Amanda Maycock, Professor of Climate Dynamics, were part of the working group on this new briefing - well worth a read!

Un 90% de reducción de emisiones, pero un 10% deducible con créditos de carbono. Es buen momento para recomendar el texto de @jamesgdyke.info: 'El mercado de la fantasía'. Dejo el enlace en un segundo post.

New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope. According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

We're building a greener world on a house of cards. Could a solar storm or a global food crisis collapse it overnight? Would that finally force us to transform, or would it push sustainability to the back burner forever? My mate's @jamesgdyke.info post: www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems. The world took his theory as gospel. 1/n

If you're a UK Dr or Prof in any science field, please sign using this form. Link to open letter in the form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

OK, so I just did that. I watched the glacier video on a loop with the sound off, and Zimmer's Time playing from that cue point. I stopped when I realised I was crying. So perhaps don't do that. Or perhaps you are having a better day than I am.

This is a very good visualisation. Not sure about the music. Vivaldi is very nice, but doesn't fit (my) mood. I would prefer some ominously building Hans Zimmer. Something like youtu.be/c56t7upa8Bk?...

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

Great article @jamesgdyke.info! We absolutely must turn off the fossil fuels spigot. The best chance right now is to make sure the govt doesn't approve Rosebank. It's oil & gas would produce 254 million tonnes of CO2Eeq when burned. Would you write a blog about that? (I've emailed you too)

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks. www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

Great to see 'Activating Academia for an Era of Colliding Crises' is now available as a FREE eBook📖 Thanks again to Dr. Alison Green, @swaziadam.bsky.social and @jamesgdyke.info for expertly shepherding this collection into this fantastic volume Available here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

"We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. In fact, the warmer it gets, the more important our actions become."

Saying a single year exceeding 1.5°C warming doesn't mean the Paris Agreement has failed provides as much reassurance as the captain of the Titanic telling passengers that there is an important difference between 'sinking' and 'sunk'. www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

“Derailment can result from climate impacts, like how worsening disasters…sap resources [for adaptation]…lead[ing] to more expensive disasters. Derailment can also result from the consequences of climate action, like how the impacts of green policies can be exploited…to drive a political backlash.”

Please take a moment to appreciate this uppercut of authoritative fury from James.

The annual 10 new insights in climate science are here! Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper. 10insightsclimate.science#explore

We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks. www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing. This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed. Find and send your MP’s invite: #neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

There’s been some good coverage of the government’s new climate plan this morning, but nothing troubling the front pages or top of the bulletins. Again, this is one of the most ambitious and consequential economic plans in modern history.

“The prevailing assumption is that the world has closed off pathways above 3°C warming – but in fact we could be derailed by vicious cycles in societies & nature. Catastrophic environmental change is still very much on the table“ - @jamesgdyke.info Assistant Director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social

A new study concludes that the construction industry alone will blow through the carbon budget ceilings even if every other source of emissions were reduced to zero. " If current trends continue, the sector can exceed the 2°C per annum carbon budget earliest by 2040.”

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Leave this apartheid nepo bum alone with his MAGA shit throwers. I don't care how many followers you once had, they are all now bots or zombie accounts.

This is just mind-bendingly wrong-headed. ‘Let’s just adapt, tech will save us’ has always been a reckless strategy, but as evidence mounts that natural carbon sinks are failing it really does start to sink into a form of climate denialism. www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...

Getting ready for this evenings derailment risk lunch event at @chathamhouse.org.

On a train. Child around 7 years old asked if it was ok to sit somewhere. I looked at the seat number, it was 67. Parent asked which one? Child said 6, 7. But normally. No inflection, no hands. Just 2 numbers. Perhaps there is some hope?

It's derailment risk report publication day! Read it here: www.scri.org.uk/derailment Chatham House launch event later today (I will be there in person): www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r... Congratulations to @laurielaybourn.bsky.social & @climate-risk.bsky.social.

Great thread. Please read, digest, share and act on. See you somewhere on Nov 15th. #ClimateJustice #COP30 #ClimateJusticeCoalition What does a #JustTransition mean in a world of runaway #ClimateBreakdown?

Carbon offsetting does not work. Not because of implementation details but because there are fundamental issues with the very idea of 'offsetting'. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The US Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, formerly maintained by NOAA, has a new home at @climatecentral.org, with the latest available data through June 2025. Explore the data:

Carbon offsetting does not work. Not because of implementation details but because there are fundamental issues with the very idea of 'offsetting'. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was at the Exeter march today to see the much larger #RefugeesWelcome counterprotest. It was quite a sight. Tonight I'll be showing my film 'Fires and Fascism' at Southernhay church at 6pm. It's about building community and suppressing fascism. @ucu.org.uk #ExeterIsForEveryone 🍉🌿🌈💚 1/3

"we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" I still believe Jo Cox was right. Despite what happened to her, and what I saw today. Which was a group of people, draped in a flag that is just as much mine as theirs, using it to divide us.

Alas, every generation needs to learn how to push back against racism and fascism. But in doing that we can also learn how we are better together. Today's Exeter is for Everyone rally 1/2 exeterisforeveryone.com

Big turnout at the Exeter is For Everyone rally today that was held to oppose the far-right march through the town centre. Music, singing, chanting and a whole lot of love for diversity.

One year’s worth of bread lost in the UK! Floods and droughts have wiped out 4 billion loaves since 2020, and British farmers are breaking under this climate chaos. Meanwhile, the government keeps fuelling it. This is how revolutions begin. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Join us Monday, October 27, 10-12 in Lund for the launch of THE LONG HEAT by @wimcarton.bsky.social & Andreas Malm. I'll be on the panel, along with Alexandra Nikoleris and Mads Barbesgaard. It's a gripping, challenging and important read! www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/boo...

We’ve crossed our first global climate tipping point. New PBS Weathered episode just released and they’re still going despite Trump’s funding cuts - please support them: