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Brynn O’Brien
@brynnobrien.bsky.social
leading a team working hard and smart for less climate-induced misery, at ACCR

find us here accr.bsky.social and on web accr.org.au

lawyer, agent of science and urgency, building power with institutional investors to reduce real world emissions
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Tomorrow is the big dance, and as the polls close, you can join us live as we preview the results and explain how it all actually works.

With:
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
@amyremeikis.bsky.social
@ebonybennett.bsky.social

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May 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.
January 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
trans and non-binary friends, people with vulnerable immigration status, others whose lives are singled out for punishment by this grotesque man, i see you

people working hard to prevent climate catastrophe, i see you too

grief is unavoidable. love, community and action will carry us forward
January 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Red team-blue team climate review is coming back. Make no mistake, this is a political process to try to create doubt about climate science in order to slow down policy.
www.eenews.net/artic...
November 20, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Climate action is falling terribly short
Time to bury the 1.5C goal?

Absolutely not - why the 1.5 goal must prevail
(even when global warming exceeds 1.5C)

My opinion for Project Syndicate 👇
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
The 1.5°C Target for Global Warming Must Prevail | by Joeri Rogelj - Project Syndicate
Joeri Rogelj argues that the threshold established by the Paris agreement remains crucial – even if it is breached.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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My latest with Wolfgang Knorr (climate scientist) & Sir Robert Watson (previous chair of IPCC & IPBES) published today by @theconversationuk.bsky.social. Sort of an update of our 2021 “The concept of net zero is a dangerous trap”. theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it is increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
theconversation.com
August 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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A veritable whos-who of the scientists behind our physical climate understanding of net-zero have a new paper in Nature, making the case for "Geological Net Zero" where fossil CO2 can only credibly counterbalanced by permanent removal: www.nature.com/artic...
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
so, the ways in which this was controversial surprised me

there’s a whole lot of denial about the state of things in the investor space, because some people are very invested (sorry) in avoiding grief
November 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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"If you put CCS onto a fossil fuel project, you are delaying the transition, you continue to rely on fossil fuels and you are increasing emissions in the long term." Dimitri Lafleur www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
The carbon capture facility at Chevron's WA project tells a cautionary tale
Amid the spinifex on a remote Western Australian island looms Chevron's troubled carbon capture facility. The role the technology might play in cutting greenhouse gas emissions is likely to get a fres...
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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@carbonbrief.org has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather.
Overall, 83% of the events and trends included in the map were found to have been influenced by human-caused climate change.
Check out the interactive: interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
November 19, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Important thread if you work with actors that are prone to using our current inadequate trajectory to determine what is ‘feasible’, willingly or otherwise neglecting the massive intergenerational harm and carbon debt burden this commits us to.
Emissions continue to rise and so are calls for ‘admitting’ that the temperatures will cross 1.5°C and we should move on E.g. by @glenpeters.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
This is problematic. Scientifically and even more so ethically. Here is why:
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November 15, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Seems fitting to start out with a tweet, from 30/10/2018
November 18, 2024 at 7:26 PM