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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

New study: xtensive fire-driven degradation in 2024 marks worst Amazon forest disturbance in over 2 decades

- more emissions than Saudi Arabia or Germany

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
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Extensive fire-driven degradation in 2024 marks worst Amazon forest disturbance in over 2 decades

Abstract. The Amazon rainforest, historically fire-resistant, is experiencing an alarming increase in wildfires due to climate extremes and human activity. The 2023–2024 drought, surpassing previous r...

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 1d

'Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story'

Excellent, hard-hitting reporting from @ninalakhani.bsky.social...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are dying from extreme heat

Examination of 100s of autopsy reports reveals tragic stories

They show lives cut short in ordinary, preventable ways

Exceptional reporting by my colleague @ninalakhani.bsky.social

#climatcrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Almost like renewables projects are just one big fig-leaf for fossil fuel companies, isn't it? carbon-pulse.com/443429/

Fossil fuel giants hold just 1.4% of global renewables output -study « Carbon Pulse

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 2d

So we can still call solar 'free electricity' then? www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr...

Energy Dept. tells employees not to use words including 'climate change' and 'green'

The banned words list applies to all work done at the largest federal funder of clean energy technology.

www.vpm.org

Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 4d

Perish the very thought, how dare you suggest such a thing Lucy!

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 4d

China remains way ahead in clean energy growth, adding more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 4d

This storyline is such a perfect metaphor for what humans are doing to the only home we've ever known... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 5d

"But cracking down on migration will cripple what's left of the NHS and open the door to accelerated privatisation!" say a load of people who don't understand that this was always the plan

Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 7d

'Sadly for chocoholics, the health claims for dark chocolate come from wishful thinking and sly marketing, not the findings of science.' www.economist.com/science-and-... 😭

Is dark chocolate actually healthy?

We assess whether that tempting idea is too good to be true

www.economist.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 9d

Pope Leo condemns climate change critics

- "Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor"

Story by @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 9d

The strange paradox remains that, despite it being the great challenge of our era, the number of truly iconic global communicators on conservation and the environment is vanishingly few. And she was one of the absolute best... www.theguardian.com/science/gall...

Jane Goodall – a life in pictures

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 9d

Would be doubly embarrassing if he'd been - I dunno - a professor of macroeconomics or something like that before entering elected office

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9d

Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.”

Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”

Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”

Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”

Meanwhile... in Argentina

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 9d

Slouching towards Bethlehem... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 10d

The US military was a *very* early adopter of climate adaptation for a reason: they rightly recognized it as a threat multiplier for national security.

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 12d

This week on @cleaninguppod.bsky.social, Bryony sat down to talk corals and climate change with veteran and the Great Barrier Reef researcher Katharina Fabricius. Sobering is not the right word: what we're doing is shocking. youtu.be/OPHACNGZP5g?...

Can We Save the Great Barrier Reef? | Ep225: Dr Katharina Fabricius

YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 11d

The PM was right to call Reform's plans to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain racist.

But if we force migrants to meet standards far beyond those who were born here, that is discriminatory too.

Migrants shouldn't have to do a Duke of Edinburgh award to be able to stay in the UK.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 11d

NEW – Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam

Read here: buff.ly/9QmKaqu

Chart showing that Great Britain has been fully powered by clean energy for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date. Number of hours per year when clean-electricity generation was sufficient to cover 100% of demand. Source: Carbon Brief analysis of NESO data.

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 11d

Been trying to explain this to people all week, unsurprisingly @seabrookclimate.bsky.social does a more eloquent job of it... news.sky.com/story/china-...

China does targets differently to the West - and it may be just what the world needs

China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, but is also a clean energy superpower. The regime there will be key to any global effort to tackle climate change.

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Tom Jennings @tomjennings.bsky.social · 12d

Was reminiscing yday about the mothballed oil rigs one encounters in various firths on the east coast of Scotland. Similarly dizzying scale. Much as we need to hasten the end of the fossil fuel era, the scale of some of the industrial architecture it will leave behind is mind-boggling.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 12d

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 12d

attacking Starmer for buying a field so that his disabled mother could watch her beloved donkeys is possibly the dumbest line of inquiry ever

as well summed up by Rob Hutton here: thecritic.co.uk/donkey-work/

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 12d

Good Morning.
There is this mega blast of energy each morning, let's use it.
Renewable Energy + Renewable Materials.

sun rise over a meadow with oak trees. hay drying on the meadow. This can either be food for cattle (which we need less of) or insulation (which we need more of).

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12d

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