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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 16h

Do low quality selfish self centred idiots like Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz, Victor Orban and Geert Wilders go into politics because right wing billionaires with huge sums of money convince their tiny masculine brains devoid of any intelligence that they somehow deserve to lead nations?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Ukrainian drones have hit the Bashneft oil refinery complex in Bashkortostan, a whopping 1,400 km from the frontline.

#explodey

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 20h

I bet it wasn't even 5 years ago that the standard belief was that without more transmission there would be no energy transition. Then I started hearing about VPPs. Now there are plenty of amazing real world examples of their success and it is still so early.

VPPs look to be a huge thing.

GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 1d

“Virtual power plants” are one of the cheapest, most equitable ways to make the grid more efficient, making costly infrastructure buildout less necessary.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 24d

11) At the high end of the grid reinforcement cost estimate range, VPPs could reduce grid buildout costs by *$340 billion*. That's our estimate of the "money on the table" for deploying VPPs: The achievable societal value of avoiding poles-and-wires upgrades at the distribution level.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 19h

ANOTHER 38c day in CHINA

Brutal heat day and night continues in this insanely hot October,a month which is rewriting history.
Next days temperatures will increase even further, breaking dozens/hundreds of records again with peaks close to 40C.

Map credit:Jim Jiang

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine.

"The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... "

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

abcnews.go.com

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Forests Forever @forestsforever.bsky.social · 16h

True.

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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 1d

Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Autonomy within limits: Post-growth and social imaginaries of work, education and democracy - Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Mine Islar, Riya Raphael, 2025

Autonomy is central to thinking about democracy and human needs, but the question of how autonomy relates to growth is ambivalent. Is growth necessary to achiev...

journals.sagepub.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 17h

Humanity can survive the climate crisis of its own creation.

Not by sitting there like idle adults scrolling the timeline.

Not by hopefully taking part in picking up garbage in the street.

Focus on the big things. Our democracy has been taken over by fossil fuel
companies.

Fix that.

Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 1d

Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Autonomy within limits: Post-growth and social imaginaries of work, education and democracy - Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Mine Islar, Riya Raphael, 2025

Autonomy is central to thinking about democracy and human needs, but the question of how autonomy relates to growth is ambivalent. Is growth necessary to achiev...

journals.sagepub.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 18h

There should be 5 Nobel prizes focused on the avoidance of the end of civilisation:
- climate tech
- climate infrastructure
- climate communication
- political journalism of climate blackmail by fossil fuel companies
- political journalism of climate bribery by fossil fuel companies

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 1d

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

www.nrk.no

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Isha @ishaav.bsky.social · 17h

Give Halverson a medal:
tinyurl.com/3kyyszcr

The Grab (2022) ⭐ 7.3 | Documentary

1h 42m

tinyurl.com

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 3d

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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Matt Schlegel @climatto.bsky.social · 16h

If you want to preserve democracy
You gotta vote YES ON PROP 50

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

Truly inspirational journalism from these iconic Palest!nian journalists.

Watch, share and vote! And let’s slowly work to restore our humanity.

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 18h

This was the young journalist pulled by the BBC Israel lobby. His colleague was killed. He wants us to join and vote

Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

Truly inspirational journalism from these iconic Palest!nian journalists.

Watch, share and vote! And let’s slowly work to restore our humanity.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 18h

Here is a closer look at the record low #Arctic sea ice around Svalbard currently. This coincides with the record warmth as well (check out my earlier post). Earlier last week temperatures in parts of Svalbard were more similar to July than October.

Graphic produced by cryo.met.no/en/sea-ice-i...

Line graph time series of Svalbard sea ice area for 2025 compared to 2012 2020, and the 1981-2010 average with percentiles shown. There is a large seasonal cycle.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 23h

Timeline cleanser:

Becky Lomax @beckyjlomax.bsky.social · 1d

Fall colors lit up on the Greenstone Trail two weeks ago. Loved wandering amid the reds and oranges between Mt Franklin and Ojibway Lookout!

Isle Royale National Park
#nationalparks #hiking #trails #leafpeeping #parkchat #fall

Fall colors light up the trail where a hiker walks beneath them

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 23h

Tropical Storm Bualoi causes widespread damage across Laos, leaving four dead www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/as... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Storm #Bualoi #Flood #Laos #SoutheastAsia

Tropical Storm Bualoi causes widespread damage across Laos, leaving four dead

Between Sept 28 and 30, Tropical Storm Bualoi, the country's 20th storm of the year, swept across Laos, bringing heavy rains, floods, and flash floods that severely impacted communities nationwide.

www.thestar.com.my

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 22h

Wrote a short on (1 min) it as it is just nuts what they did - its not only clouds:

"How biased models results cuddled us into extinction - sorry for being polemic!"

www.linkedin.com/posts/jan-um...

The importance of stratocumulus clouds for projected warming patterns and circulation changes | Jan Umsonst

How equilibrium climate sensitivity experiments of an instant doubling of CO₂ were conducted via model experiments shocks me all the time An instant doubling of CO₂ would make the whole system go pop...

www.linkedin.com

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 1d

No shit!

"New research warns that modern agricultural methods are placing the global food supply at increasing risk by weakening the natural resilience of the world’s soils."

#climate #earth #food #uöäü1soils

Agricultural practices can threaten soil resilience through changing feedback loops - npj Sustainable Agriculture

npj Sustainable Agriculture - Agricultural practices can threaten soil resilience through changing feedback loops

www.nature.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

For years, this was part of a path through the land, but it's now an impenetrable tangle of gorse and young trees.

As the trees grow, the gorse and other vegetation will be shaded out, and I'll be able to pass again, but through *rainforest*.

Scrub is how natural forest ecosystems form.

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Andy Zahn @andyzahn.bsky.social · 1d

Far too often, scrub/brush is treated as a nuisance, hazard, or eyesore, when in fact it is vital habitat and a key component of natural succession.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

For years, this was part of a path through the land, but it's now an impenetrable tangle of gorse and young trees.

As the trees grow, the gorse and other vegetation will be shaded out, and I'll be able to pass again, but through *rainforest*.

Scrub is how natural forest ecosystems form.

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adamplatform.bsky.social @adamplatform.bsky.social · 1d

Northern #Vietnam has been hit by extreme weather, facing its worst #floods in 60 years and devastating landslides.
📹 The video shows #Nguyencity and the Song Gau River before and after Storm #Matmo, captured by #Copernicus #Sentinel2 on July 31 and October 9. #climateemergency

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent edition of @philipb-h.bsky.social's Countrywide running this morning on the Blackwater fish kill, and how it can be prevented from repeating.

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