So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This is a really good @desmog.com post on this topic btw, featuring a bunch of friendly norwegian fossil fuel people www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

If you’re worried that the world is sliding into solar geoengineering… you might want to read my new article, critiquing the loose use of “risk-risk” claims about climate intervention (#geoengineering). Brief summary and full article link here www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-f...

Strong analysis, but still hoping that impacts will stimulate action. Unfortunately everything so far suggests that growing impacts exacerbate denial to the point that systems are too broken to take action… we need a narrative of social and ecological repair www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you’re worried that the world is sliding into solar geoengineering… you might want to read my new article, critiquing the loose use of “risk-risk” claims about climate intervention (#geoengineering). Brief summary and full article link here www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-f...

happy to profile our research in The Guardian today

Abstracted notions of equality, diversity and inclusion are almost entirely absent in plans developed by deprived communities which are more likely to focus on tangible issues of local importance such as access to affordable housing, health and service provision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oh look, tech company emissions are already up 150%, and the AI data center build out has just gotten started.

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

I don’t know whether this says more about ordinary Brits or about YouGov. Interesting results but poorly selected and framed questions…

A thoughtful analysis of the dangerous ideology behind the #geoengineering advocates of Silver Lining. cleantechnica.com/2025/05/18/s...

Worth the read: A well researched piece from Undark on Stardust Solutions and their secretive approach to promoting #solargeoengineering undark.org/2025/03/17/s...

TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.

“There is extreme danger in launching such field trials into an environment with neither national nor international governance in place.” But well governed research into geoengineering risks would be wise. The key question is why so many SRM advocates resist effective governance for research?

Our latest @CitiesAtTufts episode is here! Listen to "From City to Sink: Urban Carbon Removal as Promise and Practice with Duncan McLaren @duncanmclaren.bsky.social at the link below or where you get your podcasts. shareable.net/cities_tufts... Illustration @jessemilner76

Cities@Tufts and Shareable have put my recent talk on City CDR online - with a cute infographic version too ... www.shareable.net/cities_tufts...

One to post where MAGA can see it:

It was always a mistake to try to sell CDR by promising it could decarbonize oil. People who want oil don't really care whether it's decarbonized or not. Only a real climate politics — the one that actually phases out fossil fuels — will deliver carbon removal, expensive and challenging as it is.

When I wrote in a novel, some years ago, ‘We live in the light that comes to us’ that carried within it, for me, the idea that sometimes there is very little, sometimes there is mostly darkness. It is still our time, we do what we can.

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

Nothing about kids dying from measles is normal. Anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. and the Republicans who enable them are responsible for every single one of these deaths.

"Our streets are now more safe. There has been a 51% decrease in injuries and a 55% decrease in crashes in the congestion relief zone compared to the same period in January 2024."

There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

New paper alert Why explore solar geoengineering? To torture an aging political cliché, surely “It’s the climate, stupid.” resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal... A quick thread ... (in part to explain why sensible people who think solar geoengineering is nuts, still should pay attention)

“Energy Transfer and the fossil fuel industry do not understand the difference between entities and movements. You can’t bankrupt the movement. You can’t silence the movement. There will be a backlash and a price to pay when you pursue these kinds of tactics.”

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

A toxic combination of climate change deniers, anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ Christians and the collected dregs of US and European fascism. The world faces a very real danger from this coalition wrought in Hell. www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Important reminders…

My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...

Elon Musk claims he post's DOGE's actions to their website for full transperency. This is all that is on the website currently: doge.gov

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You can’t “compromise” with an abuser. Any inch they’re given becomes a mile they take. That’s how abusers operate. That’s why in abusive relationships, the danger escalates over time.

I wrote a thing for @srm360.bsky.social about solar geoengineering in the Arctic and how it's not particularly feasible in an increasingly securitised region. I also reflect on the dangers of it becoming a colonial and extractivist project. srm360.org/perspective/....

New paper alert Why explore solar geoengineering? To torture an aging political cliché, surely “It’s the climate, stupid.” resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal... A quick thread ... (in part to explain why sensible people who think solar geoengineering is nuts, still should pay attention)

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

To comply with Trump's executive order on DEI, workers at NOAA have been instructed to deactivate specific agency materials containing the following keywords, per memos I obtained:

The #Finch doctrine strikes again. An important step towards #fossilphaseout www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, everything that led to the Holocaust is in danger of being forgotten. The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

Let's recap the timeline for those of you who haven't been following. Friday: a deportation flight containing 88 Brazilians takes off from American soil. The deportees are handcuffed and bound in leg irons, as is standard practice on such flights. The Americans are flying into a trap.

For four years, the Environmental Protection Agency made environmental justice one of its biggest priorities, working to improve health conditions in heavily-polluted communities often made up largely of Black, Latino and low-income Americans. Now that short-lived era is over.

In a new article in Science this month www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @olafcorry.bsky.social and I argue that the geopolitics of solar radiation modification (SRM) demands prior agreement on non-deployment to make space for well-governed research. (Abridged here, but still a long thread ... 2/33)

Following Trump’s new attacks on sound climate policy, interest in risky high-leverage interventions aka #geoengineering is growing. Learning more about the prospects and pitfalls of such possibilities seems essential whether we see them as a promise or a threat.

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

Following Trump’s new attacks on sound climate policy, interest in risky high-leverage interventions aka #geoengineering is growing. Learning more about the prospects and pitfalls of such possibilities seems essential whether we see them as a promise or a threat.

Worth a read … open.substack.com/pub/fatherna...

It's now 10 years since @duncanmclaren.bsky.social and I published Sharing Cities noting "we deliberately embrace the ambiguity of the verb and adjective of 'sharing'.....we set out a case for understanding cities as shared spaces, and acting to share them fairly." mitpress.mit.edu/978026253371...