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Emanwela @emanwela.bsky.social · 2h

Very happy to share, thank you for your work.

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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 14h

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

STEM Teaching Tool #104

Watch Your Language! Because Words Help Create Socio-Ecological Worlds

Background image includes a range of words of varying sizes and colors including: Rights of Nature, Regenerate, Climate Crisis, Relationally, Just Transition, Degrowth, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Overburden, Kin, and others.

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Emanwela @emanwela.bsky.social · 3h

Disgusting is what they are.

Emanwela @emanwela.bsky.social · 3h

They really are.

JJ @jjfroggy.bsky.social · 3h

youtube.com/shorts/P0vus.... Yes they are😡.

They are everything we told you they were.

YouTube video by Tom Powell Jr

youtube.com

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 5h

Over on twitter we have seen that Russia didn't get defeated in Kiev, we "withdrew to secure peace".

Putin Tsu's art of war. The wise commander wins by not capturing his enemy's capital, he retreats forwards from, maing his enemy flee after him in a panic, laughing at his apparent incompetence.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 7h

Totally normal

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7h

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 1d

I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 1d

[1/8] L'article décrit la situation dramatique du village yup’ik de Nunapitchuk, en #Alaska. Avec un réchauffement quatre fois plus rapide que la moyenne mondiale, le pergélisol fond et la terre se dérobe sous les habitations, forçant la communauté à migrer. #geography #climatechange #permafrost

The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move

The climate crisis is causing the permafrost to melt in Alaska, forcing the village of Nunapitchuk to relocate

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 23h

Always remember "*climate analytics"
The morons predicting temperatures returning below +1.5c

The alarming streak of exceptional temperatures continued in 2025, which is set to be either the second or third warmest year on record

#ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

wmo.int/news/media-c...

2025 set to be second or third warmest year on record, continuing exceptionally high warming trend

wmo.int

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 23h

I'll be joining the panel for a Q&A following a screening of the important new film, Fires and Fascism, by Pete Knapp at Cinema City in Norwich on Nov 19th. Book your tickets now.

www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

Green Screen: Fires and Fascism + Director Q&A | Showtimes and Tickets

Green Screen Presents... Fires & Fascism followed by Q&A with Director Dr Pete Knapp Norwich - Wednesday 19th Nov Brighton - Tuesday 9th Dec Fires and Fascism shows the causes of wildfires in…

www.picturehouses.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23h

What did Bill Gates actually write? What is right and what is bizarre about it? And how was it then distorted by the media?
Climate Adam explains it in his inimitable way. Check it out!https://youtube.com/watch?v=9MmqKEkOtwo

Climate Scientist Responds to Bill Gates

YouTube video by ClimateAdam

youtube.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine, if you will, this headline with the word “Jews” substituted for the word “women”:

“Did Jews Ruin the Workplace?”

Disgusting, right?

Well, it’s just as disgusting that this is an acceptable question to debate about women.

The misogyny is staggering — and so normal.

Still.

The Latest (in New York Times Opinion):
Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
NOVEMBER 6, 2025

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a tease:
Next week we're releasing a major update of the Pacific Institute's Water Conflict Chronology -- the best open-source database on violence over water resources.

The news isn't good.

Any journalists interested in getting embargoed info prior to the release, reach out to me.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 21h

In the 10 years since Paris, we failed to take the actions necessary to hold to 1.5C. We now face the same challenge in the next decade, but for 2C.

But now we also have to also contend with far worse #climate impacts as we try to decarbonise.

The longer we wait, the harder it gets!

#Overshoot

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Nov 29

"So within 5 years, I would say, we'd have wiped out the chance for 2C. Because if we say 1.5C is impossible now, effectively 2C in the early 2030s is in the same position" - @kevinclimate.bsky.social

!!!! 😨

youtu.be/yULdkWpjmM0

Professor Kevin Anderson - "... taking large risks with dire consequences ..." #cop29

YouTube video by Nick Breeze ClimateGenn

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 19h

"Pokrovsk is not the end of the story, but should be a wake-up call. “Russia has gained a sense of courage,” says intelligence source. “It is time for everyone at home + in the West to stop messing around.”
Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/11/06/ukraines-valiant-defence-of-pokrovsk-is-nearing-its-end?giftId=ODEzZjhkOGMtZmUwZS00MzgwLTkxNzMtYzIzMjlmNjZiYmZm&utm_campaign=gifted_article

www.economist.com

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 19h

It is amazing that 60 years ago, scientists were so crystal clear that burning fossil fuels was raising Earth's temperature.

And yet thanks to Big Oil's decades of lies, today 40% in the US still don't believe global warming is human-caused or settled science, and 30% don't think it's happening!

PROBABLE FUTURE CONTENT OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE

We can conclude with fair assurance that at the present time, fossil
fuels are the only source of CO: being added to the ocean-atmosphere-
biosphere system. If this held true throughout the last hundred years,
the quantity of CO: in the air at the beginning of the present decade was
about 7% higher than in the middle of the last century (see Table 3).

Throughout these hundred years, the rate of fossil fuel combustion,
and thus of CO, production, continually increased, on the average about
3.2 percent per year. The amount produced in 1962 was almost 25 times the annual production in the mid-1860's. The rate of increase may be accelerating. During the eight years from 1954 to 1962, the average rate of increase was 5%.

POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ON CLIMATE

One of the most recent discussions of these effects is given by Möller
(1963). He considers the radiation balance at the earth's surface with
an average initial temperature of 15°C (59°F), a relative humidity of
75 percent, and 50% cloudiness. We may compute from his data that
with a 25 percent increase in atmospheric CO, the average temperature
near the earth's surface could increase between 0.6°C and 4°C (1.1°F
to 7°F), depending on the behavior of the atmospheric water vapor
content. The small increase would correspond to a constant absolute
humidity, that is, a constant weight of water in the atmosphere. The
larger increase would correspond to a constant relative humidity, that
is, as the temperature rose, the water vapor content would also rise to
maintain a constant percentage of the saturation value. A doubling of
CO: in the air, which would happen if a little more than half the reserves
of fossil fuels were consumed, would have about three times the effect of a twenty-five percent increase.

$CARBON DIOXIDE FROM FOSSIL FUELS-THE INVISIBLE POLLUTANT Only about one two-thousandth of the atmosphere and one ten- thousandth of the ocean are carbon dioxide. Yet to living creatures, these small fractions are of vital importance. Carbon is the basic build- ing block of organic compounds, and land plants obtain all of their carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide. Marine plants obtain carbon from the dissolved carbon dioxide in sea water, which depends for its concentration on an equilibrium with the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere. Marine and terrestrial animals, including man, procure, either directly or indirectly, the substance of their bodies and the energy for living from the carbon compounds made by plants. All fuels used by man consist of carbon compounds produced by ancient or modern plants. The energy they contain was originally solar energy, transmuted through the biochemical process called photosynthesis. The carbon in every barrel of oil and every lump of coal, as well as in every block of limestone, was once present in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Over the past several billion years, very large quantities of carbon dioxide have entered the atmosphere from volcanoes. The total amount was at least forty thousand times the quantity of carbon dioxide now present in the air. Most of it became combined with calcium or magnesium, freed by the weathering of silicate rocks, and was precipitated on the sea floor as limestone or dolomite. About one-fourth of the total quantity, at least ten thousand times the present atmospheric carbon dioxide, was reduced by plants to organic carbon compounds and became buried as organic matter in the sediments. A small fraction of this organic matter was transformed into the concentrated deposits we call coal, petroleum, oil shales, tar sands, or natural gas. These are the fossil fuels that power the world-wide industrial civilization of our time.$

Throughout most of the half-million years of man's existence on earth,
his fuels consisted of wood and other remains of plants which had grown
only a few years before they were burned. The effect of this burning on
the content of atmospheric carbon dioxide was negligible, because it
only slightly speeded up the natural decay processes that continually re-
cycle carbon from the biosphere to the atmosphere. During the last few centuries, however, man has begun to burn the fossil fuels that were locked in the sedimentary rocks over five hundred million years, and this combustion is measurably increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide.

In the geologic past, the quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
was determined by the equilibrium between rates of weathering and
photosynthesis, and the rate of injection of volcanic carbon dioxide.
on an earthwide average, both weathering and photosynthesis must speed up when the carbon dioxide content of the air is increased, and slow down when it is diminished; consequently, over geologic time the carbon dioxide in the air must have risen when volcanic activity was high, and must have gone down when volcanoes were quiescent.
On a human scale, the times involved are very long.

The present rate of production of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion is about a hundred times the average rate of release of calcium and magnesium from the weathering of silicate rocks. As long as this ratio holds, precipitation of metallic carbonates will be unable to maintain an unchanging content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Within a few short centuries, we are returning to the air a significant part of the carbon that was slowly extracted by plants and buried in the sediments during half a billion years.

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Emanwela @emanwela.bsky.social · 16h

Yes. Stones, beaches, plants, our environment, the biosphere…

Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 18h

We treat corporations like people. Should we treat trees that way, too?

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/does...

Does nature have rights? » Yale Climate Connections

These articles will help you ponder that question.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 18h

I am humbled beyond measure to be receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication from Climate One this year.

drawdown.org/news/climate...

Climate One honors Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., with Schneider Award for climate communication

Award recognizes scientists who go above and beyond in their efforts to communicate climate change

drawdown.org

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17h

Not every month will set a new record, but the warming trend is obvious. This graphic shows #Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through October 2025... 🧪

+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Heat map-style graphic showing monthly air temperature rankings in the Arctic at the 925 hPa level for each month from January 1979 to October 2025. There is a long-term warming trend evident in each month. Blue shading is shown for colder months, and red shading is shown for warmer months. A yellow number is shown for each grid box to display the actual temperature ranking. October 2025 was the 4th warmest October on record.

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Alex Lawson @alaw202.bsky.social · 18h

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC

I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.

I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

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Emanwela @emanwela.bsky.social · 17h

Carbonel

Wizard of Earthsea

Spooks

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Virginie @e-bull.bsky.social · 18h

«Une guerre sans fin nous attend». L'ancien secrétaire général de l'OTAN a appelé à protéger l'🇺🇦 depuis les airs et à lui fournir des missiles Taurus et Tomahawk.
Si l'🇪🇺 ne change pas de stratégie en🇺🇦 et n'intensifie pas radicalement la pression sur la🇷🇺,🧵1

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 21h

FYI. Buses have been free in Chapel Hill and Carrboro North Carolina for over 20 years. See: chapelboro.com/news/news-tr...

Chapel Hill Transit Marks 20th Anniversary of Fare-Free Service - Chapelboro.com

Chapel Hill Transit moved to its fare-free model 20 years ago and continues to explore ways to make transit more accessible and resourceful.

chapelboro.com

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