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News about the status of our changing climate and environment and the actions being taken to mitigate the risks of climate change. Main areas of focus are on climate politics, climate data, ecological research and renewable energy. 🇵🇸
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d
We need Nobel Prizes for Climate

- Nobel Prize for Climate Tech
- Nobel Prize for Climate Journalism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Activism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Infrastructure
- Nobel Prize for Climate Success
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 6d
Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture
Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.
www.bloomberg.com
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d
global warming potential of gypsum drywall, gypsum fiber drywall vs clay board
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gwp for gypsum board (high), gypsum fibre board (higher), clay board (low, almost nothing in comparison) ökobaudat data
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 3h
By all means have your arguments about the right level of taxation, and ideological arguments about public-private.

But my concern, right now, is this: how do we get more trains running on existing infra?

A publicly owned firm *that strives to run as many trains as possible* is one way.
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 3h
To be clear - new pope is pro-climate, anti-inhuman treatment of migrants, and (checks notes) pro press freedom. All of which in 2025 makes him CONTROVERSIAL to *some*.

They kind of tell on themselves by their reactions, don't they?

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 7h
The Pope, the Terminator, and a Wicked Problem walk into a bar.

If you told me 2 yrs ago I'd spend a week in the Vatican w them I'd say you were nuts. But then if 20 years ago you told me the Catholic Church would be standing up for climate science vs denialist freaks I'd have you committed.
Confessions of a Climate Pilgrim at the Vatican
The Pope, the Terminator, and a Podcaster walk into a bar...
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 9h
Not homes.
Not streets.
ENTIRE TOWNS!
Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 8h
#ClimateCrisis

STOP SUBSIDISING & BURNING FOSSIL FUELS ASAP‼️ YOU TOO, AUS ‼️
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 9h
Not homes.
Not streets.
ENTIRE TOWNS!
Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 4h
Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 14, 2025 ~ When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang.

“Efforts to protect forests don’t stand a chance as long as our economic system keeps rewarding quick profits from forest destruction..."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns
Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus
www.theguardian.com
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 17h
Pope Leo just did what Donald Trump never could: defend the press.

He told journalists to reject clickbait and fight for truth — quoting Hannah Arendt’s warning that totalitarianism thrives when people can no longer tell true from false.
You Won’t Believe What Pope Leo Just Told Journalists — and Why He’s Right
In an age of clickbait and “fake news,” the first American pope is calling the press back to its vocation: telling the truth with courage and clarity.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23h
"Geoengineering is inevitable; we better start preparing for it" and "AI is inevitable, we better start preparing for it" seem to both have extremely similar vibes.

In both cases, it *does not matter* whether something is inevitable. What matters is how its controlled, minimised and regulated
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 6d
Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture
Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.
www.bloomberg.com
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 6h
"a quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich."

Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank

How the government keeps you poorer

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
www.theguardian.com
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4h
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4h
Indeed.

All three of those groups have one thing in common: they all enjoy the destruction of nature and abhor science.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 7h
As cheap, plentiful #solar power floods the grid in the middle of the day, hundreds of #battery installations bank the energy and discharge it in the evening when people return home from work and demand — as well as prices — spike.
#climate
ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution
Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power
ig.ft.com
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4h
It is simple first order racism.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4h
“We accidentally started burning the house down. At least we can now start talking about the fire damage but let’s not put out the fire because people voted for the fire 10 years ago” is still utterly incoherent
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 7h
Almost all the external insulation fitted under the Conservative govt’s energy efficiency scheme was installed so poorly it will have to be repaired or replaced
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds
Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp
www.theguardian.com
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4h
That methane gas that you mention is itself going to destroy all that infrastructure.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4h
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 16h
A new study has shown that microplastics can alter gut microbiome, where those changes resemble patterns associated with depression and colorectal cancer.

www.newsweek.com/microplastic...
Microplastics are changing your insides in unexpected ways
The study found microplastics can alter gut microbiome, with changes resembling patterns associated with depression.
www.newsweek.com
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8h
Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 7h
'The US and UK governments’ attack on the integrity of their own #nuclear safety regulators makes no sense. Perhaps because they are unwilling to face up to the conclusion that the problem with nuclear is the technology itself.'
www.newcivilengineer.com/opinion/a-go...
A ‘Golden Age’ of nuclear? | New Civil Engineer
The reason is simple. Nuclear costs are huge and rising and significant delays are the norm. The result is that nuclear power faces the same fundamental
www.newcivilengineer.com
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 4h
It is the incoherence of the Modi, Trump, Netanyahu geopolitical mess that will most certainly unravel in a chaotic fashion.

Evangelical hard right Christian white supremacists, Zionist fascist racists and authoritarian Hindu supremacists cannot coexist in peace.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · Jun 30
None of the Project 2025 have any coherence. None of the nationalistic allies from other religions (Modi, Netanyahu) make any coherent sense.

It’s an Alice in Wonderland meets Black Mirror - only it’s happening in our real lived reality.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 5h
Here's a closer look at the record low sea ice conditions around #Svalbard. The ice edge is still close to the 85°N line of latitude along the Atlantic front. That's a lot of open water into the Barents Sea region! Data from AMSR2.
Graphic showing Arctic sea-ice concentration on 10/13/2025 near Svalbard, Greenland, and Novaya Zemlya. A line of 85°N latitude is also annotated along with the Atlantic Ocean.
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 5h
Eastern Europe had been one of the few occasions where emission reductions happened so sudden that the effect could be nicely measured:

Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland:

"Twomey effect a change in radiative forcing of
about 1.5 W/m 2 from the late 80s to the late 90s."
The indirect aerosol effect over Europe
In order to assess the influence of anthropogenic emissions on cloud albedo over Europe a reprocessed set of satellite measurements from 1985 to 1999 was investigated. Special emphasis was given to t...
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 7h
The Pope, the Terminator, and a Wicked Problem walk into a bar.

If you told me 2 yrs ago I'd spend a week in the Vatican w them I'd say you were nuts. But then if 20 years ago you told me the Catholic Church would be standing up for climate science vs denialist freaks I'd have you committed.
Confessions of a Climate Pilgrim at the Vatican
The Pope, the Terminator, and a Podcaster walk into a bar...
news.wickedproblems.uk
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