“Information campaigns don’t change behavior,” he said. “But they do lay an important bedrock. If you want behavior to change, it’s important that people know why it should change.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

63 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged. Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.

It is difficult to conceive of how absolutely devastating 3 deg C heating would be. This is a choice.

“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"

MAJOR UPDATE: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification also in the danger zone. Read the new Planetary Healthcheck 2025 report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

It's a spiral of silence. "People don’t hear enough people talking about climate change, so they don’t talk about it themselves." The only way to break it is to talk about it. therevelator.org/talk-about-c...

Good advice. With evidential backing... "climate conversations with friends and family enter people into a proclimate social feedback loop" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Correlation does not equal causation, and they're not even finding correlation: "The researchers found no association between acetaminophen and autism..."

"The problem is that Klein and Thompson misunderstand what really blocks abundance from being a reality, and in doing so head us down a path that would simply give more power to big corporations and more money for the rich."

"Indeed it is already starting, in that the northern Atlantic south of Greenland and west of Britain is the only part of the world that has cooled since the 19th century, while the rest of our planet Earth has warmed. That points to an AMOC slowing underway already." cwrrr.org/interviews/c...

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

A piece in the New York Times brings up a “zombie” proposal to combat climate change — basically using smoke & mirrors to cool the planet. No matter how many times people kill the idea, it seems to come back to the headlines. Don’t let it. It’s not a good idea. globalecoguy.org/solar-geoeng...

So, again, it's worth pointing out that one of the authors of this piece, David Keith, created and then sold the carbon removal company "Carbon Engineering" to Occidental Petroleum, who *VERY EXPLICITLY* intend to use it to expand fossil fuel extraction......... ketanjoshi.co/2023/09/03/c...

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

LNG projects in BC, Canada are on track to receive CAD 3.93 billion in public support by the end of 2030. This money could be better spent accelerating growth of clean industries & helping communities adapt to climate change. 🆕 @IISD_Energy report: www.iisd.org/publications...

Even Jason Bordoff, who runs Columbia's Center for Global Energy Policy — no lefty! — thinks that "climate realism" is bullshit.

Journalists! Join us tomorrow for an editorial meeting to talk about Phase 2 of the 89% Project. Learn all about the project and how your newsroom can participate here: 89percent.org. And join us tomorrow to talk with colleagues from around the world. #the89percent

this is a great piece of research

There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

In the first year alone, covid vaccines are estimated to have delivered between $5 trillion and $38 trillion in global benefits in terms of averted sick days, avoided hospitalisations and prevented deaths 🧪 They cost $69 billion to develop and deliver www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

I’m pleased to join with 20 other movement leaders as a signatory to this open letter calling on Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice, violence and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us... 🧵 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Yes and we need to keep telling people about what reality demands regardless of consequence or outcome.

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

Another conflict of interest! The Investigative Journalism Foundation has found that Vitor Marciano, chief of staff to Alberta's energy minister, is the head of a lobbying company whose CFO is actively lobbying the energy ministry on more than 2 dozen files. theijf.org/alberta-ener... #ABLeg #ABPoli

Amazing plot by LBNL heroes, showing oh-so-clearly that fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) are inefficient clown fuels that no one should ever take seriously. 2/3 losses from primary to useful, Jesus wept.

I know you all read the Guardian anyway but here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently. I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

📣 Email your MP to demand a definition of “national interest” that reflects the values and needs of Canadians today and tomorrow — not those of the fossil fuel industry:

*stares directly into the camera*

Counterpoint: The proposals are so preposterous and impossible that they show we must stop burning fossil fuels or everything's going to be terrible. There's no other way.

With science under attack in all research areas, like climate change, vaccines, & public health, political advocacy is more important than ever. We have free legal resources on how to speak up for science safely & effectively, including our Political Action Toolkit: www.csldf.org/political-ac...

IMO we've sacrificed the 50% 1.5°C commitment at the alter of reckless economic growth &obscene inequalities between &within nations. But even for 2°C we now need emergency measures that are both socially & technologically transformative (& fair). Politically expedient incremental tech won't cut it.

"Scientists and modelers have not merely warned of the #ClimateCrisis - they have also, often unwittingly, contributed to it by reinforcing an uncritical faith in technological salvation & sidelining more structural social transformations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BlueSky is a fantastic place to learn more about climate change — from scientists, analysts, and other experts who generously donate their time. Here are some of my favorites. go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV

Les limites planétaires ne sont pas des opinions, mais des faits mesurables. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee... www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Because this is totally how science is done.

There's a good independent summary of the paper here. Of particular note is that the potential area for afforestation in Africa has been massively over-stated.

Union membership means higher wages, better benefits and a more secure retirement for America’s workers. If we are going to save the middle class, we have got to expand union organizing in this country.

Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city's homeless — plus it's illegal, experts say.

Québec refuse des fonds pour les évaluations de l’incidence de l’origine ethnique www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...

“We are not party to any funding agreement involving Impact of Race and Culture Assessments, as Quebec doesn’t subscribe to the approach on which the funding program is based, namely systemic racism." Because it does not exist in QC... www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Dangerously, President Trump and HHS Sec. Kennedy are wreaking havoc on our already broken and dysfunctional healthcare system. You don’t make America healthy again by throwing 15 million people off of their health care and undermining science. Secretary Kennedy must resign.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

"So it makes perfect sense that fascism and colonialism and billionairism would oppose the collective accumulation of human knowledge, because to accept it is to admits the collective nature of human society..."

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

It's only a single study, this issue is very uncertain with research coming quite thick & fast with a wide range of findings, more observational data is needed, but.... fuck. www.theguardian.com/environment/...