1/10. 🔎At the #JuneClimateMeetings in Bonn, Vicente Paolo Yu, Coordinator for the G77 and China (G77) 🌐 speaks to what is expected by the group from the third review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for #LossAndDamage (WIM) 🔥⛈️🌊 and the proposal to mandate a state of #LossAndDamage report 🌡️📋.

The EPA's reasoning to justify repealing greenhouse gas regulations for power plants is so tortured, I feel like my brain has been waterboarded after reading it 🤯 The justification goes like this...🧵(1/8)

We will see what happens in the Senate, but this @zeitlin.bsky.social piece is a good summary of how the IRA's political vision -- that clean energy investment in Repub districts would keep Republicans from repealing tax credits-- seems to have failed. heatmap.news/politics/ira...

Does anyone have a credible list of worlds largest ptx production facilities? Asking because the kassø facility is about to open, producing 42.000 tonnes e methanol annually.

Updated Climate Visuals (1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean (2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024) (3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data) ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

FYI the arson rate in Canada is generally down from two decades ago... [in case you see people blaming increasing wildfire burn area on arson].

Wow! Huge power outage in Spain/Portugal. Just managed to pull this from the Spanish grid operator's website before it timed out. Demand cratered from 25GW to less than 10GW in an instant. 🔌💡

I would like to see a calculation of the mileage cost for offsetting vs full electric

I wonder how much energy will be used for desalination vs AI in the future www.carbonbrief.org/glacier-melt...

On this week's episode of Solving for Climate, we talk with @hausfath.bsky.social about the world of carbon removals. And some other stuff too: he's worked on a lot! open.spotify.com/episode/55Wu...

“The EV is expected to go into production in 2027 with a starting price of 20,000 euros” I bought an eUp in December 2013 - why does 14 years have to pass before a similar EV is made by VW?!? (I know. Profits are bigger, the bigger cars.)

In the next few days, I will be sharing some of our work that I am most proud of from my time at NOAA/GFDL. But I would also like a little normalcy today on my feed, so here's my go-to sea ice data viz update. #Arctic sea ice extent still remains the *lowest* on record for the date (JAXA). Not good

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

Head up: A massive mine waste spill is currently killing virtually everything in one of #Zambia's major rivers. A 🧵: On the 18th of February (1 weeka go) a large mine waste dump (aka tailings dam) began to collapse at the Sino Metals mine in #Chambishi, in Zambia's copperbelt. Huge volumes of...

Amerikansk klimaforsker ved USAs svar på DMI …

France reduces VAT to 5.5% for solar up to 9 kW #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...

Spotted this in the middle of @carbonbrief.org's summary yesterday of China's green bond debut - China is taking note of millennia-long patterns of rainfall and political upheaval. As an archaeologist, I'm glad to see consideration of these data. #ClimateHeritage www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everywhere right now there’s a fascinating yet classic jurisdictional fight ongoing between audit firms and sustainability consultancies looking to control the growing and lucrative sustainability assurance market on.ft.com/4gEa9Nl

185 countries, representing 83% of global emissions and almost 80% of the world’s economy, have missed the Paris Agreement deadline to submit new climate plans.

In a big study the JRC breaks down the EU Green Deal’s broad objectives into 154 sub-targets. This useful! overview showed mixed results: -32 ‘on track’ -64 need acceleration -15 are ‘not progressing’ or ‘regressing’ -for 43 there are no data publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

" each year, the costs of treating historical damage at Stockton coal mine – the largest opencast mine in New Zealand – have outpaced the royalties brought in by exporting coal"

1/ New research @UniLUT doi.org/10.1016/j.rs... analyses the projections of the #IEA’s World Energy Outlook compared to real world developments. Special emphasis is laid on direct and indirect electrification of the energy system reaching high levels of sustainability.

I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful. The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action. The truth is bad enough!

the human cost www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

The Danish government hoped for oil majors to invest in offshore wind … well … it’s gonna be interesting to follow if Europe move towards IRA like regulation to electrify in a time when the US dispense with it www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Where do I find the best discussions on the new James Hansen paper and the call for a faster supplement to IPCC? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In India, we don't have too many conversations around 1.5 degrees or adaptation. Pleased to have this cover story out today in Sunday special of @thehindu.com newspaper, where I asked leading climate scientists to explain what 1.5 degrees of warming means for India. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...

"The president has declared a national “energy emergency” and vowed to cut Americans’ overall energy costs in half." Which national media outlet is going to put up an energy scorecard to track the progress on this promise?

Danish government decides to support hydrogen pipeline to Germany and create 2-3 offshore wind parks with some kind of support (cfd?). This comes after December offshore auction failure www.kefm.dk/aktuelt/nyhe...

Can everyone please stop using Ivanpah as their cover picture on general stories now. It is pretty but it doesn't work very well. www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n...

Sam Altman is just blurting out words now www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Just out: Solar power additions in China in 2024 exceeded expectations, again, with a whopping 277 GW installed in just one year! This was up 28% on the already towering 217 GW added in 2023. Wind power made a new record as well, with 79 GW added to the grid, up 5% on year.

Global temperatures have started 2025 at record-setting levels – above where they were in January 2024 despite the emergence of modest La Nina conditions in the tropical Pacific.

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Thanks to climate change, we're barreling towards an insurance crisis, as I wrote for @climateconnections.bsky.social today. It's not just California and Florida – nobody's insurance rates are safe 🧵(1/13)

Major steelmaker SSAB is pulling out of a federally backed green hydrogen plant, in the middle of funding negotiations with the US government. 😬 www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...

In our new review on 'Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth' led by @weatherwest.bsky.social, we show that global-averaged subseasonal and interannual whiplash have increased substantially in the past and further increases are anticipated with ongoing warming: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Spiralling global temperatures: 2024 edition

Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...

2024 broke the extreme North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature record of 2023:

Does public #trust in scientists suffer or grow when they #advocate for #climate policies? ✊ We tested this during the referendum on the #Swiss Climate Protection Law on 18 June 2023 – which was preceded by a statement by 252 scientists supporting the law 🗳️ Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Orsted is trying to persuade Aarhus municipality to buy the heat from a potential BECCS plant (100-150 MW), but the local politicians wants to minimize biomass use www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide...

Min yngste datter skrev for tre år siden skoleprojekt om ‘kvinden som det andet køn’. Her har de klippet alle navne ud i en avis en tilfældig dag i april.

The #climate cost of #war, and a scimitar tooth kitten from the permafrost. Top #InsideScience from the BBC this week http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002553h Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0k634ky.mp3

"China, the world’s heavyweight oil consumer, has officially hit its peak. According to CNPC’s Economics & Technology Research Institute, the country’s refined oil consumption maxed out in 2023 at 399 million metric tons (roughly 8 million barrels per day) and is set to decline by 1.3% in 2024."

China’s CATL to build $4.3bn battery factory with Stellantis in European expansion Deal for Spanish plant comes despite EU efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese technology www.ft.com/content/b2c4...

A cautionary tale unfolded last week as Denmark failed to attract bids for offshore wind. What can we learn from this? This is a multi-dimensional problem, but the primary lesson I believe is that Denmark wrongly expected developers to take on market risk. 🧵🔌💡1/9 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...