Striking new preprint study here on responsibility for climate damages.

The authors have calculated the total damages caused by emissions from 1950-2022, with damages cumulated to 2100.

Interesting schematic showing various discourses of delay, from a new paper "Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays" by Samuel Lloyd and Ekaterina Rhodes (link in next bleet).

Had a delightful chat with @andrewsage.bsky.social about my book, Progress
www.youtube.com/watch?v=95CO...

I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

Three books that everyone should read to understand the climate crisis and energy transition. The first book, by engineer Saul Griffith, is still the best introduction to the technical solutions available (what we could and should be doing to mitigate climate change). There are many little things...

And a reminder that the geoengineered 'dimming' in the atmosphere will do nothing for this.
If SRM enables more emissions, it will actually make ocean acidification worse.

Keep. It. In. The. Ground.

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"This translates to existential risks for billions of people. Not far in the future, but within the next few years for extreme events, and within decades for tipping points"

I will write more about this later, for now just to say our paper has been published today. 10 years after Paris Agreement we can conclusively say we have failed to limit warming to well below 2°C. What next?

www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.

The large increase from 2018-2021 was driven by #Climate activism.

Lesson: The widespread mobilisation of the climate emergency movement ( @fridaysforfuture.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @endegelaende.bsky.social ) was crucial for creating political salience

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

Convince me this is not state-sponsored terrorism.

This is an important point but is widely exaggerated. Need to consider energy transition from a *dynamic net energy* perspective. Need to consider the portion of final energy consumed by energy system itself (ie the upfront energy costs of decarbonization and electrification).

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it