🌳 Bomen koelen je stad, maar alleen onder de juiste omstandigheden. Onze nieuwe studie met Leuven.cool toont aan dat stadsgroen veel minder koelt bij vochtige lucht, intense straling én droge bodems. Bomen planten alleen is niet genoeg: bodembeheer is minstens even belangrijk! 🧵 1/4

‘Stort hij in, dan zal dat een domino-effect teweegbrengen in de gehele West-Antarctische ijskap. Dit kan uiteindelijk leiden tot een zeespiegelstijging van 3,3 meter, die wereldwijd kustlijnen zal veranderen.’ www.newscientist.nl/nieuws/ijspl...

The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).

"We show that 70%–75% of Caribbean reef sites shifted to net-erosional states following the heat stress, driven by widespread loss of branching and plate-forming corals." www.cell.com/current-biol...

😭 www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

Summary of key findings (of obvious relevance to AMOC slowdown/shutdown):

Changes in the Indian monsoon rainfall are associated with the cold blob in the North Atlantic. New paper by Mahendra Nimmakanti, currently at Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). We hope to bring him to Stanford when his visa situation resolves. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

NEW RESEARCH: Up to 90% of industrial energy demand could be electrified with existing & emerging tech. Under high-ambition policy, 51% by 2050 is achievable. 84% under the most enabling assumptions. The technologies exist. The constraint is policy. www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/industr...

Yeah, that's bad. Dumb populism. Think about it this way: If you had a pot of cash to hand out, who would you send it to? I'm guessing you wouldn't say: “Folks who drive a lot are obviously the neediest; that's who deserves my cash.. Also, I would love to subsidize reliance on foreign oil.”

"It gives an estimate of the AMOC slowdown of 51 ± 8% (90% probability), i.e., a weakening ∼ 60% stronger than suggested by the multimodel mean." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

- Increases and prolongs reliance on fossil (so next crisis hurts even more) - Often doesn't pass through to consumers (fossil co's just pocket it) - Benefits enjoyed more by the rich (who drive bigger cars longer distances) - Decreases gov't revenue so you end up paying for it in different ways

The language of climate politics matters, part 10,000.

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification: - a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026 - increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps - 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

"This decline, observed at the western boundary, may serve as an effective indicator of AMOC weakening [...]" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Europe’s EV market is BOOMING. Electric car sales shot up by almost a third in the EU in Q1 2026. There are 2 reasons why – and they don’t include the energy crisis (yet). 🧵⤵️

This is absolutely insane. When does the EU finally realise that the U.S. under Trump is an adversary? Caving in to extortion will make things much, much worse. www.politico.eu/article/fata...

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

‘Very alarming’ winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running www.carbonbrief.org/very-alarmin...

🚨🚨 Grim news: Governments in five EU MS are “consistently and intentionally” eroding the #ruleoflaw, Europe’s leading civil liberties group has warned, while democratic standards are deteriorating in six more, including historically strong democracies. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

“Western car manufacturers are making what one former boss calls a “profound strategic mistake” as they pull back from electric vehicles and refocus on combustion engines as oil prices are soaring once again. Experts say the industry’s future could be on the line” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Of course she has 🙄 The (far) rightwing are jumping on the fallout from Gulf Oil War 3 to call for more oil, more, gas, more greenhouse gas emissions, more global heating, more climate change, more chaos and breakdown, more violence, more oil wars.. Rinse and repeat.

Entering the #EUCO summit, 🇪🇸PM Pedro Sanchez pushes back against Meloni's push to dismantle EU climate law as a solution to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱war on Iran. Countries with more renewables have been more shielded from these price shocks, he says. “This is strategic autonomy, this is defending Europe's interests."

Arriving at his first #EUCO summit, new Dutch PM Rob Jetten also defended #EUETS from Meloni's attacks. "Without the ETS we would be importing billions in fossil fuels," he told reporters. Nordic leaders have also come in defending EU climate policy.

@thecccuk.bsky.social's supplementary analysis of the 7th Carbon Budget is out. It's found that each pound invested in reaching net zero yields between £2.2 and £4.1 in benefits. By 2050, avoiding climate damages is estimated to save between £40bn to £130bn. A smart transition just makes sense.

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The findings raise concerns that much larger glaciers could one day collapse just as quickly." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The EU is undergoing Treaty change. You just weren’t supposed to notice. 5 reforms to EU law-making. No Convention. No ratification. No democratic debate. I call it the Castle Method — and it’s constitutional drift hiding in plain sight. 🔗 verfassungsblog.de/the-castle-method/​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This should be code red. The ETS is the pillar of EU's climate policy. It's under heavy attack from lobby groups and center and far-right politicians. If the ETS falls, this will have enormous negative consequences for Europe and the planet as a whole. www.politico.eu/article/ital...

Climate mitigation costs money. But it ends up avoiding way more costs in the future.

My new video… Methane: The Emergency Brake for Global Heating If we reduced human methane emissions by 45% over the next decade (very doable) then we could shave off 0.3C of warming… youtu.be/cqsEm2XOqKc?...

“We wish to state plainly and unequivocally that, in our informed view, there is no basis in science and no discernible basis in law for [the Minister's] assertion." – Experts' “extreme concern” over the delay in publishing an updated national Climate Action Plan. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

"A first threshold, potentially as low as 1–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, triggers the long-term collapse of ~40% of marine ice volume in West Antarctica." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lets not deny gravity like the US does. If they want to disregard scientific facts, let them pull out and become more and more isolated. www.politico.eu/article/us-t...

The EU's climate targets are completely off track to contain global heating to 1.5°C Every fraction of a degree the world heats, more people will die, lose their homes, lose their livelihoods That means every fraction of a degree of heating we STOP, the more people we save and destruction we avoid

The ETS is the most important and successful climate policy of the EU. It provides a market-based, predictable and stable way to transition to a sustainable economy. If EU truly wants to regain competitiveness, killing the ETS would be the worst thing you could do. www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

EU's von der Leyen defends carbon market after leaders' criticism reut.rs/3MvY9nP

"Here we show that the South Indian Ocean—a vital conduit for interocean exchange—has experienced the strongest freshening in the Southern Hemisphere since the 1960s." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rubio's speech is a toned-down version of what the US institutions have emanated for 12+ mos. A 15 min evocation of the white history of Euro-US relations, Colombo and colonisers get a cheer, 20th c migration cancelled, 21st c "mass" migration demonized. And ofc climate change being called a cult.

"Zo ongeveer de hele energie-intensieve industrie van Europa wil dat de afbouw van CO₂-emissierechten in het emissiehandelssysteem stopt. Dat zou de bodem onder het Europese klimaatbeleid wegslaan, en de pas aangescherpte doelen van de Green Deal onhaalbaar maken.." fd.nl/politiek/158...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Voor iedereen die de sprookjes gelooft dat het allemaal makkelijker wordt als je de #kdw uit de wet haalt en gaat sturen op #natuurkwaliteit. Dit zijn de drukfactoren voor de #n2000 gebieden, gebaseerd op de eerste 70 natuurdoelanalyses. #stikstof en #water. Grotere gebieden én verbinden.

Environmental stressors (food scarcity, heat) combined with pesticide exposure create effects 70x more destructive than pesticides alone, yet regulators ignore this lethal synergy. www.newstarget.com/2026-01-...

This is just criminal. It serves no purpose at all, except for helping his donors destroy the planet. www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-direct-pentagon-buy-coal-revive-industry-bloomberg-news-says-2026-02-11/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=698bf0f0f0b1700001e22762

A new report shows the enormous pressure EU lawmakers are coming under from American big tech giants.

"If the EU bans forever chemicals, the health costs would fall from about €39.5 billion a year in 2024 to roughly €0.5 billion by 2040, under a full phase-out scenario." www.politico.eu/article/fore...