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Malte Meinshausen

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The University of Melbourne & Climate Resource

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Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · Sep 10

Podcast in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Feeling the heat: fossil-fuel producers linked to dozens of heatwaves

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 September 2025

www.nature.com

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Aug 27

Simon Holmes à Court pays $15,000 to put climate scientist on ‘mystery flight’ with Sussan Ley

Climate 200 founder beats out at least six other bidders for meeting with opposition leader in charity auction for Parliament’s Midwinter Ball * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court has paid $15,000 to secure a mystery flight with Sussan Ley – and put a climate scientist and a young climate organiser on the plane – winning a charity auction at Parliament’s Midwinter Ball. The flight, and lunch with the opposition leader at a country pub, was offered in the auction organised by the Canberra press gallery for the annual event. Continue reading...

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Jul 1

A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.

Please share!

www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...

This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...

www.ohchr.org

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Malte Meinshausen @meinshausen.bsky.social · Jan 21

Yes, it is painful. And it would be less painful if there were good options of how Tesla drivers could be a pain to Elon.

My attempts to start a discussion about that were banned in 'Tesla owners' facebook forums. Those have remarkable membership numbers (75k in Australia). You know what to do.

Malte Meinshausen @meinshausen.bsky.social · Jan 21

Maybe one can replace "to drive a Tesla" with:
- to not be ashamed driving one
- to not have a bumper sticker expressing that
- to not pledge never to buy one again
- .. etc.

Just asking for a friend .

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Jan 20

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it"
- Hannah Arendt, the origin of totalitarism

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Malte Meinshausen @meinshausen.bsky.social · Nov 27

This bluesky space becomes enjoyable.

Just posted my probably last ever 'X'...

An entry into the competition for best Tesla bumper stickers, now that he is full throttle for fossil fuels and everything else Trump stands for.

LET HIM GO TO MARS.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Nov 24

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku

#COP29

➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · Nov 22

A new paper led by Sebastian Sippel just appeared in Nature arguing that ocean temperature measurements in the early 20th century have a cold bias.

It's a fun story illustrating the process of scientific discovery, so let me talk about it a bit. 🧵

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

Early-twentieth-century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations - Nature

Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...

www.nature.com

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Nov 18

After net zero CO2 emissions do you want to halt or continue global warming?

If you want to halt global warming, the point of getting to net zero emissions, then we better define it correctly!

The key is how “removals” are defined & the role humans play.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Carl Schleussner @carlschleussner.bsky.social · Oct 9

Understanding the consequences of potential overshoot above the 1.5°C warming level has been the focus of the PROVIDE project and the work by a great group of interdisciplinary authors has just been published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Overconfidence in climate overshoot - Nature

Aiming for declining global temperatures can limit long-term climate risks compared with a mere stabilization of global warming, including sea-level rise and cryosphere changes.

www.nature.com

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Oct 2

Wow, didn't realise Germany's coal power output was down by two-thirds in a decade

It's currently on track for a virtual phaseout by 2030!

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Jun 18

Explain it to me like I am a fifth grader...

That was the goal in this article with @meinshausen.bsky.social: "We Are Not on Track: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Higher Than Ever!"

Did we succeed?
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Jun 6

All this, and more, is discussed in a new review & perspective piece in Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), led by @meinshausen.bsky.social

Please read and continue the discussion: geoscientific-model-development.net

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Jun 6

Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs).

They are just one element of a bigger puzzle. Should scenarios start at concentration, or emissions, or socioeconomics? Should they start at temperature and go backwards?

All have advantages...

gmd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · Feb 15

The effective amount of Petroleum Resource Rent Tax collected by the Australian government as a share of oil & gas revenues has collapsed, as we point out in our submission to the Treasury. #Auspol #Auspol2024

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Malte Meinshausen @meinshausen.bsky.social · Dec 11

Coal is the first one to exit, if we want to put ourselves on track to meet the long-term Paris agreement goals. By 2030 or 2035 at the latest. Other fossil fuels to follow swift.

Let's hope that COP28 will have clear wording in the end.

Full briefing here: www.climate-resource.com/tools/ndcs

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Malte Meinshausen @meinshausen.bsky.social · Dec 11

The latest temperature assessments of the NDCs and LT-LEDS pledges by countries - and how they fair against the Paris Agreement temperature goals?

Surprise: We are still quite far off 1.5C.

Here an overview of all the main studies. See more at: climate-resource.com/tools/ndcs

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Malte Meinshausen @meinshausen.bsky.social · Dec 11

Entering the 1.5C world, it's time for a fossil fuel exit.

Phase-in of renewables is key, but only replaces fossil fuel (emissions), if married with strong energy efficiency and dedicated coal, oil and gas phase-out policies.

Full briefing: climate-resource.com/tools/ndcs

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Wolf-Peter Schill @wpschill.bsky.social · Dec 1

1/ Halbzeit für die Ampel! Also, falls sie bis zum Ende durchhält. Wie steht es nach zwei Jahren 🚦 um die Energiewende? @aroth.bsky.social, @adelinegueret.bsky.social, @fsschmidt.bsky.social & ich haben aus diesem Anlass ein kleines Special zum Ampel-Monitor Energiewende des @diw.de veröffentlicht.

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