Hard hitting piece by @rupertread.bsky.social on the dangers of “climate optimism” - at least 30 years of failure to take the threat seriously has led to multiplying risks and locked-in harm and suffering @climatemajority.bsky.social

At this rate, the future for these babies when they’re my age is somewhere between a pretty significant risk of 3.6-4.4•C hotter and increasing risk of a turbulent arrival of increasing cold conditions and perilous food security with the weakening of the AMOC. Thanks @andyscollick.bsky.social 🫤

@nickbreeze.genn.cc @operaatioarktis.bsky.social @hughhunt.bsky.social @hpacoalition.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @karenmessier.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org

In a letter to a friend today - a woman who also feels deeply - I decided to link this brief 2024 #film with me by #MichaelRaimondo. "We are human if we can love. And we need to keep hold of that love now more than ever. Everything we know and love is at stake." www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZny...

“The ocean breathes carbon into the atmosphere. The atmosphere weeps rain onto the land. Plants drink light, exhale oxygen. …We’re in church, not a science classroom.” Beautiful, powerful, lyrical speech by @lgraumlich.bsky.social Pass it on. Respond together. open.substack.com/pub/lisagrau...

In my teens I was a wannabe Keith Jarrett or Chick Corea, if without talent. So like almost everyone whose parents had a TV set in the 1970s, I grew up loving Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas. Great version below! Tx @georgewachsmuth.bsky.social

substack.com/@damiani/not... This couldn’t be more true or more important. Build trust. Build community. Make friends. Look out for each other. Discuss, debate, be humans. The simplest, best act of resistance in a world where autocrats want us at each other’s throats. Tx @jessedamiani.bsky.social

Seriously? Well, it works. But really …. #sciencecomms 🧪 www.facebook.com/share/v/1HFz...

How much more clearly can we state this?

As a planetary/biodiversity scientist and longtime strategist against hyperconsumption I always find the consumerist nature of holidays discouraging. Helping countries like #UK with climate adaptation helps everyone focus on preparing positively for the challenges we face ahead. Please sign & share.

“To understand the impact this is having, our team of science editors in the U.S. reached out to their authors to reflect on how 2025 has affected their work. ‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist,’ one explained.” - @theconversation.com theconversationglobal.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tkddhu...

Pass it on. Please. Time’s a-wasting. youtu.be/M0TPq5XRPBg?... @climatemajority.bsky.social @liamkavanagh.ie @rupertread.bsky.social @planetx.bsky.social @clonalantibody.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

My hometown of Mount Vernon, Washington - although I’ve left there for a while - is an outstanding example of local leadership, community collaboration and preparedness. open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p... Thank you Andy @revkin.bsky.social

Remember that we take important decisions for the viability of our future every time we choose to disparage or encourage. Thank you to the always incisive and wonderful #RebeccaSolnit and Elise Buckle ✨ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I came here to post this as I can't believe it doesn't already have 10,000 signatures - please sign and share! So vital and so utterly crazy that this has to be petitioned for. #climatesky

Yes, we need to stop our lazy practice of dismissing progress as not enough and focus on what we are doing and can do, faster, more comprehensively. These are everything-everywhere-all-at-once moments. See for example Emmanuel Macron in France: a paragon. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/f...

“A very public rupture in a long running alliance is of course, a major geopolitical moment. Still, EU institutions dig their own graves when it comes to (new) policies (on food, climate+environment) that would ensure EU’s ability to survive+thrive in the long run.” open.substack.com/pub/thinink/...

This arises from one of the most remarkable national social change movements. And such movements must be near-universal if humanity is to run the gauntlet of the next centuries. Please sign if you’re a UK citizen or resident. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Thanks @clonalantibody.bsky.social

I was about to post about this, but already see a scattering of posts in the last 3 hours. Fantastiskt initiativ, låt det sprida sig vidare. Fantastic initiative. Let it spread far and wide. www.climatenobelprize.org

My small garden in the former old-growth forests of Washington, felled 70-150 years ago to clear land for (colonial) human settlements, had eight giant stumps of trees like these. I kept them there, of course, to honor these "forest ghosts." Beautiful, tragic oases. #STOP www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's astonishing to me still that govts and media so willfully allow lobbyists to erode their responsibilities to people, planet and future. @nebriefing.bsky.social

1. When we first started talking about 'critical national infrastructure' while working at S African National Biodiversity Institute, I thought 'how ugly a term.' But when you think about Nature in all her connections, interdependencies, webs & corridors, she really is a gossamer infrastructure.🧵

Oh, how our hearts ache for this kind of news. Thanks @badgeristbj.bsky.social

Trump et al turn on everyone they don't like, without any knowledge, insight, or even economic data - like Somali Americans (kstp.com/kstp-news/to...). And, being Trump et al, also without reservation, respect for the law or human decency. See donation orgs under @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social 's post

Moral cowardice vs a moral revolution: who actually has agency and pulls the lever of power and history? @rupertread.bsky.social, co-founder of the @climatemajority.bsky.social is among some fascinating historians and writers arguing from very different vantage points. www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

With faith in governments at an all-time low in many nations, it’s tempting to dismiss them entirely. So why is our team focused on helping them govern wisely+collaboratively in unstable times? Because they hold power, budgets, service delivery, armies. Anarchy isn’t fun if you’ve lived through it.

@sei.org working paper lays out a “strategic resilience” approach to climate change adaptation at the heart of society - which also gives government the political muscle to set coherent agendas to confront transboundary risks. Stockholm Environment Institute. doi.org/10.51414/sei...

Thank you Annie for all that you are doing!

Another great write up of the National Emergency Briefing by one of the scientists involved. Includes link to the open letter calling for an urgent televised briefing for the public. (Link below: please sign) theconversation.com/what-we-told...

Political leadership has long failed us on climate and civilisation. UK now has the @nebriefing.bsky.social to wake its MPs up. @kevinclimate.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @angelaisfranc.bsky.social @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social @hughmontgomery.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Having used the Chilean sleeper buses in 2015 on a work trip (with a bit of whitewater rafting and volcano-tobogganing thrown in for good measure), I can highly recommend trying these out if you get a chance. About time Europe gets them as alternatives to planes! www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

I’ve always birded by ear, and when one day I became an ornithologist it became a quantitative fascination. But it didn’t kill my love for the music and drama behind it. @theconversation.com @bethdaley.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛ theconversation.com/birding-by-e...

Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media. #timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis www.nebriefing.org Please share.

If you haven't yet watched #DaveBorlace's great #JustHaveaThink show on the UK #NationalEmergencyBriefing #nebriefing, you'll find that it's one of his very best. Have yourself some intriguing few minutes with it, and *please* act on what he says - sign the letter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...

Exciting speakers from the #UKNationalEmergencyBriefing #nebriefing - those concerned about getting the attention of governments in any country: stay tuned to the momentum building fast in the UK. www.youtube.com/@nebriefing @nickoldridge.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @mpwatch.bsky.social

Unsurprising. Still disturbing. The costs in human and biodiversity terms! I have long been in negotiating halls for the Convention on Biological Diversity when Monsanto lawyers were there in force, in shiny shoes. It was the start of my move to work on systems change www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

Thank goodness for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, standing firm on climate, data, the future, and what Americans really think about climate pollution. And it’s very different from what the other, corrupt White House claims,while ceding final shreds of global leadership to China bsky.app/profile/whit...

Apart from a few public good imperatives, say vaccine development or climate model prediction improvements - if I were god of Earth, would I ‘allow’ the use of such a wasteful, hyperconsumptive and job-busting technology in a world of 8.2bn people? I don’t think so! www.edp24.co.uk/news/2565188...

“If you work in or around the insurance industry, you’re probably already feeling theimpacts of accelerating climate breakdown.Why are so few people talking openly about the true scale of the risks we’re facing or how to respond?” @climatemajority.bsky.social Film: Joseph Harrington, Jack Bernadin

Get outdoors, people! Do it while you're young. Tomorrow never comes. "Some day" never comes. The time to get outdoors and DO THING is now. Today.

Nature is still by far the only real #CDR game in town. If we want a future, science & our documentary series #TheClimateRestorers all confirm we must invest labor& funds massively in Nature conservation, restoration, & education. Why? A five-part 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The waiting game.... Ah, finally, a better idea of why we still await an answer from #ChooseFranceforScience after I submitted my matching grant application in July. Fascinating article on the process I'm seemingly stuck in. Can autotranslate it to English. lexpress.envoy.gift/QX2me3

We do have plenty of good leadership role models for the future. I'm not sure if they're perfect, but they understand their responsibilities to their people, the planet, and the future. #Iceland is proving itself again. #ThankYouIceland @euiniceland.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan...

"We will not be able to control or avoid the simplification ahead, but can cultivate our own ability to adapt+respond." The metacrisis as a foundational moment to cultivate relational intelligence and moral imagination @natehagens.bsky.social @ssweetwater.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF3D...

This is beautiful from Geoffrey Deihl on US Thanksgiving Day at a time when that time of remembrance - already so culturally blind-spotted but still meaningful as a practice, is so at odds with a society and government poisoned by white entitlement and self-pity. open.substack.com/pub/geoffrey...

Over 1000 top #UK #scientists have signed a strongly worded letter to the #UKGovernment calling for attention to tomorrow's #NationalEmergencyBriefing #NEB. Solutions for stopping global heating will make us so much better off. But that's seriously underreported. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter

The reality is: even really dramatic, immediate emissions reduction is no longer enough. Even a decade ago, it was not enough...especially given the nature of governments and self interest. But we can also do much better than this when faced with reality. Everything we know and love is at stake.

I have a small but vitally important dream (if we want a future civilization). And it's that governments can reframe democracy more collaboratively for a planet and global societies in crisis - that we can take decisive action, but that governments can do this in collaboration with civil societies.