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Tom Kompas

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Professor of Biosecurity and Environmental Economics, CEBRA, University of Melbourne; Climate Change Modelling; Eureka Science Prize; FASSA. 🌎😷

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Tom Kompas @tkompas.bsky.social · Dec 16

The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Quentin Grafton @graftonquentin.bsky.social · Dec 20

I, along with 30 co-authors from 20 different countries, just had published a Perspective in Nature Sustainability entitled 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises'. It's available in the link below:

www.nature.com/articles/s41... .

Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises - Nature Sustainability

Efforts to address the water challenges that societies face are hindered by a lack of funding and ineffective implementation, as well as poor understanding of the causes. Adopting a beyond growth fram...

www.nature.com

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Tom Kompas @tkompas.bsky.social · Dec 10

A new Nature Sustainability paper out today. 30 co-authors from 20 different countries. 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises' … url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yliZCXLKNw...

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Tom Kompas @tkompas.bsky.social · Dec 5

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies

Guardian Australia was told firm disclosed its private sector work, but it is not known which clients were listed

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Kompas @tkompas.bsky.social · Nov 23

Sums it up nicely: Bill McGuire: “Smoke and mirrors: 37 bt out of 40 bt tonnes of CO2 emitted in 2023 due to burning FFs, but - like every COP beforehand - @COP29 pretends this isn't happening.”

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Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · Nov 18

Robert is right.

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Tom Kompas @tkompas.bsky.social · Nov 19

Happy to join you here Michael!

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CNN @cnn.com · Nov 14

Tropical Storm Sara has formed and is closing in on Central America where it is set to unleash disastrous flooding rain with "life-threatening" impact.

Tropical Storm Sara forms in the Caribbean and heads toward ‘life-threatening’ impact with Central America | CNN

The National Hurricane Center is also asking residents of the eastern Gulf Coast, including Florida, to monitor the storm closely since it has the potential to reach the US.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Nov 13

Bluesky is seeing a massive influx of activity following the US election results last week. ‣ @siliconrepublic.bsky.social #BlueSky

Bluesky surges past 15m users after US election results

The decentralised social media platform Bluesky now has nearly 15m users, gaining almost 400,000 since yesterday.

www.siliconrepublic.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Nov 13

Instead of rushing the study on the environmental, climate, and national-security impacts of LNG, making the permitting pause permanent before Trump takes office, Biden is spending his time making sure that the sweet, sweet methane keeps flowing smoothly after he's gone.

Catastrophe.

Biden officials ask EU to align methane
rules with US to ease LNG flows

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Nov 13

Combining the slower growth in fossil CO2 emissions & slow decline in LUC emissions, means that total CO2 emissions are close to a plateau over the last decade.

Though, with a rise in fossil emissions & forest fires partly fuelled by El Niño, total emissions are estimated to rise 2% in 2024.

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Tom Kompas @tkompas.bsky.social · Nov 8

Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.

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