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News about the status of our changing climate and environment and the actions being taken to mitigate the risks of climate change. Main areas of focus are on climate politics, climate data, ecological research and renewable energy. 🇵🇸
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4d
We need Nobel Prizes for Climate

- Nobel Prize for Climate Tech
- Nobel Prize for Climate Journalism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Activism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Infrastructure
- Nobel Prize for Climate Success
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 8d
Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture
Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.
www.bloomberg.com
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 1d
NEW EPISODE: Will we survive climate change?

Join our expert panellists as they answer your questions about curbing rising global temperatures and what life could be like in a warmer world.

Listen on your favourite podcast platform: www.lnk.to/AQOSClimateBB
Panel of speakers with the title ‘Can We Survive Climate Change?’ from BBC Studios and The Francis Crick Institute.
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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 1d
Iron is the limiting nutrient at the very base of the ocean food web. It enables photosynthesis, is essential for all marine life and enables significant carbon capture. Fisheries, whaling and pollution reduce the available iron for these vital processes.
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Paying the Iron Price
Iron is a critical part of life in the oceans. It's a limiting nutrient for primary production which sits at the base of the food chain and absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. Should we be adding more?
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 45m
Just by following some news from Vancouver and British Columbia in general, I am impressed.

Folks don't seem to like the oil pipeline, First Nations are thinking about forests in a new way, and the provincial capital is applying active mobility measures.

That's standing out in North America.

#BC
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1h
In Denmark if you're left-leaning or young, you're much more likely to understand that wolves are positive for ecosystems. If you're right-wing or older, the chances diminish substantially.

Why 40 wolves have shaken Danish politics.
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Why 40 wolves have shaken Danish politics
Even this small number has sparked fierce debates over livestock and public safety in one of Europe's most intensively farmed countries
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 1h
Next confirmation came in that we are heading towards a neurotoxic ocean: highly toxic Pseudo nitschia species are spreading from pole to pole

A neurotoxic ocean means a neurotoxic hydrological cycle

Its as easy as that on a water planet!

First rule on a water planet never fuck the #oceans...
Now the confirmation came in that highly toxic Psuedo nitzschia species are distributed from pole to pole (1). They produce the neurotoxin domoic acid a highly potent neurotoxin which is highly persistent in the water column The danger is that we get a neurotoxic hydrological cycle as these toxins are mixed into the air. For example in one event frogs could have been killed by neurotoxic rain on an Island in the Gulf of Mexico Its an important precondition that we get a neurotoxic ocean with toxic species spreading also across the open oceans. When nutrient deposition events of dust and wildfire soot will increase with marine heatwaves leading to food webs that retain nutrients and particular matter in the upper water column such a development could fuel toxic blooms of Pseudo nitschia across the global oceans (1). Conclusions Our findings confirm that temperature is a key driver of domoic acid (DA) contamination and support the notion that toxin-producing Pseudo-nitzschia species are nearly ubiquitous across global ocean basins. Thus, virtually the entire ocean is potentially at risk if climate change promotes increases in Pseudo-nitzschia growth and toxicity. Global models warn that increasingly prolific and toxic bloom events must be expected under a continuously warming ocean. (1) "Meta-Omics Analysis Reveals Global Distribution of Toxic Pseudo-nitzschia and Enhanced Neurotoxin Production Under Climate Warming"; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naihao-Ye/publication/394026933_Meta-Omics_Analysis_Reveals_Global_Distribution_of_Toxic_Pseudo-nitzschia_and_Enhanced_Neurotoxin_Production_Under_Climate_Warming/links/6885c1574eccfb3f29c58a6b/Meta-Omics-Analysis-Reveals-Global-Distribution-of-Toxic-Pseudo-nitzschia-and-Enhanced-Neurotoxin-Production-Under-Climate-Warming.pdf
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h
We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life.

And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2h
Labour ministers met fossil fuel bribe agents.

We need to stop referring to people who bring and pay bribes to politicians as “lobbyists”.

They’re paying bribes.

Whether this type of corruption is legal or not is irrelevant. It’s grotesque and does not belong in a democracy.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1h
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 5h
At last a local council in the UK is leading where national government is not

Taxing vehicles on weight - and thereby size - is at least some counterweight against vehicle bloat, and the damage that bigger, heavier vehicles inflict on road, pedestrian and cycle space

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff set to impose SUV parking premium after council approval
Owners of large cars such as SUVs would be charged more to encourage switching to smaller vehicles.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 2h
I’ve done a bunch of media interviews about what to expect from #NoKings day this weekend, so I put something together for everyone (I think my captions and images got cut 🤔)
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1h
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2h
Labour ministers met fossil fuel bribe agents.

We need to stop referring to people who bring and pay bribes to politicians as “lobbyists”.

They’re paying bribes.

Whether this type of corruption is legal or not is irrelevant. It’s grotesque and does not belong in a democracy.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2h
Labour ministers met fossil fuel bribe agents.

We need to stop referring to people who bring and pay bribes to politicians as “lobbyists”.

They’re paying bribes.

Whether this type of corruption is legal or not is irrelevant. It’s grotesque and does not belong in a democracy.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2h
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows
Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’
www.theguardian.com
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3h
In case you needed another reminder that bikes are bad-ass.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 1d
London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2h
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Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 9h
Shot + chaser
And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 4h
The inevitable denouement of car culture: lonely guys talking to an AI woman as they sit in soul-crushing traffic on their way to a desk job behind the wheel of a vehicle they thought would make them cool and could survive the apocalypse.
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Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 9h
Shot + chaser
And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 3h
Next confirmation that we trigger now a synchronization of feedbacks and circulation systems

ENSO could undergo a regime shift into an oscillatory regime synchronizing with other climate modes - bahm!

Will likely start to appear in the 30s as warming will now further accelerate...

#climate
Global climate mode resonance due to rapidly intensifying El Niño-Southern Oscillation - Nature Communications
The authors of this study perform simulations with a high-resolution climate model and show that global warming may trigger an abrupt shift in the tropical climate system towards stronger and more pre...
www.nature.com
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2h
Hydro electric dams are extremely destructive and harmful to nature.

They flood natural areas that would capture carbon but now don’t, and also dry out other areas that would have been carbon sinks turning them into carbon sources

And solar PV is much less expensive and much less harmful to nature
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 6h
First edition of Boiling Point since I left the LA Times, and it's a good one. @nohaggerty.bsky.social wrote about the importance of different strategies to limit wildfire damage in NorCal and SoCal: www.latimes.com/environment/...
The state's wildfire policy long overlooked SoCal. Now it's course correcting
State leaders have long understood Northern California's wildfire crisis and are investing resources to solve it. But in Southern California, the problem is more confounding.
www.latimes.com
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 3h
Launching soon: "Climate Colored Goggles" a newsletter about the intersection of climate and culture from @sammyroth.bsky.social. Sammy has been one of the best reporters on climate and energy with his work at the @latimes.com and I'm sure this will be great, too.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
Climate-Colored Goggles | Sammy Roth | Substack
Finding climate solutions in pop culture, media and sports. Click to read Climate-Colored Goggles, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3h
"The richest 10% is responsible for almost half of our carbon pollution. But even more shocking? When you look at just the richest 1%, they're responsible for more pollution than half of Americans. That's about 65 million households."

h/t @cityatlas.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgA0...
How much carbon pollution does it take to create wealth for the richest Americans...a lot!
YouTube video by Jared Starr
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 3h
OK, here we go...

I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.

Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4h
As humans heat the planet, largely by burning fossil fuels, more people are dying in extreme heat. Their deaths are often recorded as accidents or attributed to other conditions that heat exacerbates. This piece tells the tragic stories of people who died preventably in extreme heat in Phoenix, AZ.
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted
www.theguardian.com
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6h
The Greens are surging ahead of Labour.

It's on!

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