So companies accept liabilty in case of accidents? "The suit challenges the NRC’s ability to regulate smaller reactors in any capacity, claiming the risk for large-scale disasters is so low that the NRC shouldn’t have any role in rubber-stamping them." www.wired.com/story/valar-...

The government of Iceland now considers this a national security threat. www.arctictoday.com/iceland-sees... And the Foreign Intelligence Service of Germany together with other German institutions published a National Climate Risk Assessment this year. Here is what it says about #AMOC tipping risk.

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping? Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki. Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊 youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

The US defense and intelligence community has long acknowledged that #climatechange is a threat to national security. They still think so. They just can't say it out loud right now. www.gleick.com/blog/censors...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned that 'extremist forces' were spreading lies about climate change for political gain, as he urged fellow leaders at #COP30 to take action against global warming reut.rs/49CDaZB Full coverage ➡️ reut.rs/4qKE2BL

Trump's lawyers are in the Supreme Court right now establishing that, among other things, a future Dem president can declare a climate emergency and tariff the fuck out of whatever he wants.

New UNEP Emissions Gap Report finds that, without immediate aggressive action, the world could be on track for 2.3°C-2.8°C of global warming over the century. www.unep.org/resources/em...

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

“The nuclear powers might have been the most technologically advanced countries in the world, but in hindsight, it’s clear they had little idea of what they were doing, and the health of the local populations was an afterthought, if a thought at all.”

Speaking for every sane person

The president wants to resume nuclear testing. This is a really bad idea - and he can't even get his facts right about why he wants to do it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The US has respected a moratorium on testing nuclear weapons for 33 years. It's been 35 years for Russia. Trump wants to start exploding them again. Where did he have in mind? Nevada? The South Pacific? Trump and the new arms race. But no food aid or health care for Americans.

Climate deniers getting ready to claim that climate change did not make the damage from Hurricane Melissa worse. This is misinformation.

Global emissions may fall 10% by 2035 — but scientists say a 60% drop is needed to keep 1.5°C alive.

CDA & VVD negeerden de Tweede Kamer en maakten Poetin rijk Erkens: "We dachten: we kopen goedkoop Russisch gas. In Duitsland gaan kerncentrales dicht. Iedereen denkt: we importeren het. Als iedereen zo denkt, heb je een probleem. Dat hebben we nu. Daarom moeten we energieonafhankelijker worden."

Met 45.000 demonstranten riepen we in Den Haag de stille meerderheid op om komende woensdag vooral groen te stemmen. Een stabiel klimaat is randvoorwaardelijk voor het duurzaam kunnen oplossen van alle andere Haagse issues www.ad.nl/den-haag/kli...

At the Climate March in The Hague. As the climate crisis deepens, it's not much of a theme in the Dutch election campaign. I heard it's because climate is 'only' the #4 concern of voters. But why not ask questions on #4 in the debates? While immigration is talked up, climate is silenced down.

Kiezers vinden klimaat niet meer belangrijk, dus politici dan ook niet. Het nieuwe normaal: het klimaat kan vast wel even even wachten, tot we een paar andere problemen hebben opgelost. Van alle politici was alleen Esther Ouwehand hier aanwezig. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...

All of this should be obvious. And yet one of the biggest causes of the crisis is that it is still being ignored by far too many people who accept there is a problem but refuse to engage with the scale of what they are facing.

This may be coloured somewhat by the fact I'm recovering from covid, but in 20 years of writing about climate change I think this may be one of the bleakest reports I've ever covered. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

This is not doomerism. It's facing the facts. And it's not a reason to give up, but a call to redouble our efforts. And vote for the climate, in countries where that's possible.

And keeping atmospheric CO2 in check is already becoming harder, as we're running into this: bsky.app/profile/sust...

"There's no shortage of reasons these days to be angry or afraid. But look around you right now and you'll see tens of thousands of reasons to keep the faith and keep going. This is the America we know to be possible." —Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston No Kings Rally 🚫👑 #NoKings

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not. From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

This is a huge shame. Maritime emissions need to be reduced. It has taken years to build proposals to enhance committed clean shipping supporting decarbonisation, ocean health and innovation.

This is the quiet, but slowly getting louder horror story taking place across the northern hemisphere

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors. The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇 👉global-tipping-points.org

“We have more & more evidence for tipping points in all these different systems” warns @pik-potsdam.bsky.social scientist Sina Loriani...“There is an increasing risk that we kick off feedback loops that amplify & accelerate changes in the Earth system” #ClimateEmergency

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ "Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"As US political forces are working against the energy transition, economics are propelling it forward globally. Other countries are pivoting to solar and wind because dramatic price reductions have made them the cheapest options" Should be a no-brainer, but I guess that explains it wapo.st/47a1O15

"there are sobering signs that the world continues to warm, leading to devastating effects for millions of people." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

If you are interested in the climate crisis and how to prepare yourself, you need to be listening to, reading, and following Alex Steffen. This thread is a great place to start. @alexsteffen.bsky.social

The anthropogenic glacier collapse currently underway in the Alps has resulted in the disappearance of >1000 small glaciers! 😱🔥 Following the release of Swiss glacier loss numbers today, let me introduce you the now extinct Vadret da Triazza (Eastern Switzerland) ✝️ Via @matthias-huss.bsky.social

The Montreal Protocol (which regulates HFCs) is a clear example of when govts listened to scientists (despite opposition from industry at the time) and very good things happened as a result. Enter Trump, as usual, to fart in the elevator and tell us it’s perfume.

As usual, no one mentions that fossil fuels are heavly subsidised. Level the playing field my ass. wapo.st/4nPFQqQ

Yet more evidence that corporate backing for net zero remains remarkably robust. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519518...

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

“It’s sobering. And it’s unexpected, not because impacts will be increasing—that is not surprising—but because they will be increasing so much, so fast"

America: Renewable energy doesn't work. China: Hold my baijiu.

What Trump said are the well-worn and often rebutted lies of the fossil fuel lobby, whose lies are the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. If you hear such climate science denial tropes, the answers to all of those can be found at skepticalscience.com

Thanks to the President and Congressional Republicans’ decision to gut the clean energy tax credits I wrote, $14 billion in clean energy projects have already been canceled or delayed. America should be leading the clean energy future, not turning our back to it and ceding leadership to China.

Dozens of scientists today released a rebuttal of the Energy Department's climate report, saying it was riddled with errors.

Scientists breathe new life into #climate website after shutdown under Trump death cult. Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More bad news on AMOC: "I used to say that the chance of Amoc collapsing as a result of global warming was less than 10%”, said Prof @rahmstorf.bsky.social “Now even in a low-emission scenario, sticking to the Paris agreement, it looks like more like 25%." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here is a reminder that already last year 44 experts directed a powerful warning to policy makers about the risk of #AMOC shutdown. What more can we do to get heard? It’s like the saying that every disaster movie starts with scientists warning and being ignored.

The Guardian on our study published today: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The risk of an #AMOC shutdown - explained in 15 minutes at the Arctic Circle in Reykjavik on Saturday. I had the honor of presenting a letter by 44 experts warning of that underestimated risk to the Icelandic 🇮🇸 climate minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson. youtu.be/k0FUZKQhU6U?...

So much for trying to compete with China, keep our economy on track and preserve the planet for our kids. Trump did this, and he didn't do it alone. This Republican Congress is a historic disgrace.

Turns out that everyone in the Netherlands has more PFAS 'forever chemicals' in their blood than the health limit - test on 2016-2017 blood samples. nos.nl/l/2573446