Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

OK. Some (mostly negative) thoughts on Bill Gates. With special shoutout to @timinclimate.bsky.social & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for their wise words. youtu.be/9MmqKEkOtwo

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, internal docs show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods When Facebook thinks there is a 90% chance the advertiser is a scammer, it just charges higher ad rates www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Suis-je seule à trouver gênantes les grossières tentatives de récupérations de la victoire de Zohran Mamdani? Les ami·es, ce n’est ni un insoumis, ni un socialiste, ni un écologiste français. C’est un homme de gauche new-yorkais. Sa victoire, pleine d’enseignements, est à étudier. Pas à récupérer.

I hadn't realized Bill Gates is advised by Bjorn Lomborg, but now Gates's nonsense is explicable.

In their celebratory election-night press release, the Democratic National Committee failed to mention Mamdani by name until nearly the final line of the 500-word bulletin. (via @thelever.bsky.social) That's not exactly how you "fuel momentum"... democrats.org/news/breakin...

Politico: Macron is France’s ‘worst’ president, says his old mentor: the president’s narcissism has driven him to make reckless decisions that “imperiled French institutions” and boosted the far right ahead of the 2027 presidential election... www.politico.eu/article/emma...

Alors que la crise climatique s’aggrave rapidement, l’action des Etats ne progresse toujours que très lentement. La poursuite des politiques actuelles conduit la planète vers un réchauffement de 2,8 °C en 2100, selon l'ONU ⤵️ www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

"Of course, what is missing from this picture (of far-right narratives against climate action) is any discussion of the costs of inaction. The economic and environmental consequences of not mitigating climate change and the consideration of externalities remain invisible"...

"Curbing the excessive carbon emissions of the rich through both consumption and investment (is) central to addressing the climate challenge" "Various measures inc. taxation of luxury consumption like private jets and yachts would also raise significant revenues for public investment in mitigation"

Selon un rapport du comité d'experts du G20 dirigé par le prix Nobel Joe Stiglitz : les 1 % les plus riches ont accaparé 41 % des nouvelles richesses créées depuis l'an 2000 tandis que les 50 % les plus pauvres de l'humanité n'ont vu leur richesse augmenter que de 1 %...

⚠️🤝 Les acteurs clés des retraites françaises pactisent avec le champion des investissements dans l’expansion fossile : BlackRock. Pour en savoir plus : reclaimfinance.org/site/2025/11...

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

Où en est la déforestation de l'Amazonie ? Est-elle encore un puits de carbone ? Approche-t-elle d’un point de bascule ? Papier pédago très utile sur la plus grande forêt tropicale du monde, avant la #COP30 www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

just....enjoy this

As we crash through the 1.5C target & head into planetary #overshoot the task before the #climate movement becomes ever clearer, we must focus our efforts on keeping fossil fuels in the ground. I discussed how we can achieve this with @racheldonald.bsky.social on her 'Planet Critical' podcast.

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules “Our negotiators had never seen this before in any international talks. People being summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London — intimidation, threats of cessation of business, threats of family members losing visas”...

this is well worth your time eg, Gates wrote about one unnamed "low-income country that set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers. Farmers’ yields plummeted, there was much less food available, and prices skyrocketed" But climate was NOT among the reasons Sri Lanka tried to do that

More troubling signs from the recent takeover of CBS news -- their climate team has been gutted and their new ED, Bari Weiss, has a long history of downplaying the climate crisis. @sammyroth.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

42 million Americans will lose SNAP benefits tmw, and this is what the dude shares today.

This is typical of the kid gloves treatment of Bill Gates pivot toward Bjorn Lomborg-style climate downplaying that we're seeing from legacy media. The beltway reporters are entirely complicit in what some are rightly terming an ecocidal plutocratic agenda. www.axios.com/2025/10/28/g...

Robert Reich in conversation with Zohran Mamdani open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Roughly three in four Americans believe “if a wealthy donor or corporation gains influence over or access to an elected official, I consider that official to be corrupt,” and agree that unlimited campaign spending makes democracy weaker. "Citizens United" - the name itself is a farce

79% of Americans, inc 74 % of Republicans, disagree with the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which found that unlimited campaign giving does not give rise to corruption or the appearance of it, nor does it cause citizens to lose faith in democracy www.levernews.com/the-montana-...

Not sure what's most worrying: reading this (and in the WSJ), or finding out nobody seems to care Seen from Europe, the US has become a banana republic...

🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings. The public is not being informed of the danger posed. The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯 #EndClimateSilence

Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely: @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social study via @en.afp.com "Adaptation to climate change is vital but it is not a sufficient response to global warming. The emission of greenhouse gases also has to stop." www.barrons.com/news/climate...

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

Alors qu'il préside un parti anti-intellectualiste, il peut sembler étonnant que Jordan Bardella prenne la pose d'un "intello" à lunettes et sorte deux bouquins en moins d'un an. Ces bouquins ne sont toutefois pas destinés à son électorat, ils ne sont que l'occasion d'apparitions médiatiques.

La citation du soir : La compétition est la loi de la jungle, mais la coopération est la loi de la civilisation. Peter Kropotkin

New NBER paper: "Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales b/w Oct 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% because of substitution" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As the UN announces breach of 1.5°C heating, Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica & is headed to Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, & the Cayman Islands. Tracey from Plaktortis, based in Jamaica, shares the impacts of extreme weather events on people with chronic illnesses, disabilities, or other medical needs.

Plus d'un décès par minute dans le monde à cause de la chaleur... déjà

New economic research indicates Canada (and all countries) will see a larger hit to GDP due to climate change. The new method accounts for global weather shocks in addition to local weather, thus taking into account foreign demand and supply chains... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/29/n...

Le financement public de l’adaptation au changement climatique devrait être multiplié par plus de 12 d’ici à 2035 pour répondre aux besoins des pays en développement, estime un rapport de l’ONU, selon lequel les objectifs pour 2025 ne seront pas atteints www.unep.org/resources/ad...

📣 Un changement radical de stratégie est nécessaire. 10 ans après la signature de l’Accord de Paris, le bilan est clair : la démarche basée sur le volontarisme des acteurs financiers privés a prouvé son inefficacité. 👉 Une seule solution : encadrer leurs pratiques. Plus d'informations ⤵️🧵 [1/8]

Derailment shows that adaptation can't be seen as separate or even contradictory to decarbonisation Spiralling climate impacts require more adaptation But this can be done in a way that accelerates decarbonisation, reinforcing climate action even as climate consequences spiral

From Le Monde: “With planning on environmental projects at a standstill since 2023, France's political leaders are only reinforcing the idea that they are unable to think long-term, even when it comes to such crucial issues as climate change and biodiversity collapse." www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

This @royalsociety.org report has not received nearly the attention it deserves. Key finding: "most current approaches to economic assessments of impacts of #climate change do not reflect the severity of consequences that are suggested by the latest physical climate science & evidence on impacts" 😬

Very thorough and useful piece: The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law "Trump is able to dictate his own factual and legal realities, and executive branch lawyers who want to keep their jobs must treat them as settled"... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

This FT columnist "interviewed dozens of figures" in Washington about Trump's "supremacy", and they're in fear "it has felt like trying to report on politics in Turkey or Hungary" "cabinet principals fall over themselves to praise him at his North Korea-style meetings" www.ft.com/content/1377...

NEW – Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300 | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Dr Catia Domingues Read here: buff.ly/Ny3nIaT

Labelling heavy industry like steel as “hard-to-abate” allows them to argue against reducing emissions now, or to justify using CCS or offsets to meet climate goals. But existing tech and demand reduction can cut emissions in these sectors, writes @billhare.bsky.social on @climatechangenews.com

Exactly! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We need dramatic change, but how can we move away from “business as usual” if we keep delivering “education as usual”.

Sheeeet🤯 "when asked “what proportion of climate scientists think that global warming is caused mostly by human activities?” - only 30% of middle-school & 45% of high-school science teachers selected the correct option of “81 to 100%."

🚨 Nous avons identifié de nouveaux soutiens financiers du @credit-agricole.bsky.social à des entreprises du secteur du charbon. La banque française communique pourtant autour de sa “sortie du charbon”, en présentant son soutien au secteur comme de l’histoire ancienne… On vous explique 👇

I fixed this for @theguardian.com When TRAINS are pricier than PLANES... "If trains and planes factored in the social cost of carbon, a train from Barcelona to London would cost just couple more euros, but it would make the flight nearly five times more expensive"

Overconsumption and ruin: before and after images visualise how tech could harm our planet From Venice to the Iguazu Falls, an exhibition in London illustrates the hidden cost of our gadgets and devices www.theguardian.com/environment/...