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Prof Phoebe Barnard

@phoebebarnard.bsky.social

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The world doesn't have to be this way. Climate & biodiversity risk, resilience, societal/planetary futures. Prof Univ Washington; research assoc African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UCapeTown, building global research platform in France.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 10d

Many of you, like me, are exasperated that we dither, bicker, and plod thru our daily lives rather than getting on with planning a coherent and pragmatic future of civilizational shift. This will be one of what I hope will be many important forums. I'm not organizing it! srm360.org/event/global...

The Global Heating Emergency

The Healthy Planet Action Coalition is bringing together scientists, policymakers, and concerned citizens for a global online conference.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 1h

3. …stopped at the door, turned and sat down to listen to his whole presentation. Her rapt attention impressed me. S Africa’s Cabinet subsequently announced a commitment to a low-carbon economy. It may not have lasted, but Allen’s was a powerful, tightly-documented talk.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 1h

2. …I hosted @ox.ac.uk Prof Myles Allen as plenary speaker at South Africa’s 1st climate change science conference, which I organized. The conference was opened by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka who instead of leaving, as politicians normally do,…2/3

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 1h

The detection and attribution data cited by @frediotto.bsky.social has been established and peer reviewed science for over 20 years and it’s taken the fossil fuel industry and its media partners that long to mount a defense. In 2005 … 🧵 1/3

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 15h

Update: www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
#RogerPielkeJr #ScienceUnderSiege

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 2h

I think one of the most cheaply cynical, self-serving things I’ve ever read-read was Netanyahu’s statement to Trump about nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. And today (my husband tells me) Fox News is full of justification about why Trump didn’t actually win it, but could next time. 🤢

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

Today is the release day of Gazan physics student Wasim Said's memoir of life under the genocide. 🧪

You should grab a copy. #BookSky

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Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide

I didn’t write this to make you cry.Not for you to tell me: “Poor you.”I write this so I can hang these words around your neck—to make you bear the responsibility of my perspective,the responsibility ...

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve just moved from the USA to France (a mostly vegan pescatarian) and am surrounded by charcuteries, wineries, fromageries. So when @samkass and @ayanaelizabeth get together on the future of food, sometimes it seems a tall order to bring about behaviour change…
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Climate Change vs. Coffee, Wine, and Chocolate ☕️🍷🍫 with Sam Kass

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. A couple of days ago I was told there were more than 500 registrations, but I hope it’ll grow by an order of magnitude, including UNFCCC delegations, climate planners, students, media, and policy advisors to heads of state.

Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 1d

About 15 years ago I started challenging my grad students at University of Cape Town about the development of a post-truth society and politics. At first there was pushback. But after literally two years, everyone started nodding grimly.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 1d

Now *that’s* interesting.

Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know, but I am pretty sure they would. I will recommend it if not. They're running it on a shoestring volunteer budget.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 2d

Well, if you know #QuicoToro of @onepercentbrighter.bsky.social, you might already expect something spicy and tongue in cheek and important. Charlatans? Surely they could never actually run a country. But wait! .... Just #BuyTheBook.

#snakeoilsalesmen
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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 3d

#Women in #climate, #adaptation, #meteorology, #ecosystems, #socialresilience, #governance, #riskreduction, #systemschange - this event still needs many strong women's voices. Please show up! If you'd like to volunteer on an expert panel, pls DM me. I'm not organizing, but helping the organizers

Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 10d

The Global Heating Emergency

The Healthy Planet Action Coalition is bringing together scientists, policymakers, and concerned citizens for a global online conference.

srm360.org

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 3d

How things unravel quickly in a post-truth, anti-science, anti-evidence world.

Thank you @rbreich.bsky.social for keeping the torch high in increasingly dark times.

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Turning out the lights on the economy

How Trump is systematically concealing America from Americans

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 3d

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 3d

Rainforests create their own rain… eroding them destroys that alarmingly fast. They’re not just lungs of the planet, but a biotic pump of moisture, cooling, sustenance, life open.substack.com/pub/climatew...

Follow Alpha Lo of the Climate Water Project ericagies.bsky.social
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An intriguing behavior of global rain

an exercise

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 5d

And these instincts are well harnessed in the service of our civilizational shift. There's much good happening still in European multilateralism, even as those countries face rising populism, racism and economic strain.

Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 5d

I hear you. But there are a number of strategic reasons to do so - I've worked with UN+other global initiatives long enough to see the bright, compassionate, collaborative truth-telling side of several European nations - consistently Scandinavian nations, Netherlands, even France and formerly UK.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 5d

For a number of years I was a an editor of a Royal Society journal and offered to help young and non-English speakers with manuscript editing and preparation before submission. With our metrics of societal success, diversity is too often an afterthought, a blindspot, or institutionalized supremacy.

Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 7d

Tragically, this seems to be a peculiarly Commonwealth mindset. Enslave or employ them when you need them, deport them when they finally have their families with them? And separate them cruelly and often completely without due process? theconversation.com/around-the-w...

Around the world, migrants are being deported at alarming rates – how did this become normalised?

The US, UK and Australia are all expanding efforts to deport non-citizens, reframing the act of seeking asylum from a human right to a criminal act.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 7d

peut-être seulement 2-3 ans 😐

Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 7d

“AI today is like asbestos yesterday. We're putting it everywhere, greedily. Tomorrow, we'll devote crazy sums and infinite efforts to decontaminating the information space.” (Google translate’s version)

Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 7d

L'IA aujourd'hui, c'est comme l'amiante hier. On en met partout, avec gourmandise. On consacrera demain des sommes folles et des efforts infinis pour dépolluer l'espace informationnel.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 7d

“Across land types, urban land comes with the highest #opportunitycosts, followed by arable, pastoral, and forestry land. We envisage this new opportunity cost layer to be particular useful for broad-scale European conservation prioritisation analyses.”

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

Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 7d

Political expediency vs a stable climate and future. Hmm.., which should our leaders choose? 🤔

Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 8d

@theguardian.com’s brief homily is not nearly as rich a commentary on #JaneGoodall as this wonderful account from
2021 by the Templeton Prize Team at the time of her winning the award. Those who do not know her work will be wise to start here. 🌿
www.templetonprize.org/dr-jane-good...

Celebrating a Life of Purpose: Dr. Jane Goodall, Winner of the 2021 Templeton Prize – Templeton Prize

The Templeton Prize Team is thrilled to announce that Dr. Jane Goodall, legendary scientist, conservationist, and activist, is the winner of the 2021 Templeton Prize. Dr. Goodall is known worldwide f...

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 8d

Pouring rain, fog, wind and darkness at the beginning of the day - on windy remote mountain roads, with our nervous loving dogs sensing big changes. Sprinkling rain, sun, hurtling planes at the end. Off to another continent, again. Goodbye, troubled country. Sad to leave so many people here, tho.

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 10d

Doesn't make $ sense either. 20 yrs ago we published global summaries of ecosystem health/trends and their ability to support human health, economies, & wellbeing. Sathirathai+Barbier did this component economics study of Honduran mangroves which I thoroughly recommend. www.millenniumassessment.org

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