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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 9h

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 1d

A new piece, co-produced with health researchers. Key points:
"Climate change is one of the best-recognised global threats to human health and wellbeing" & "The current Government's policies are inadequate to address climate change risks"
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/cli...

Climate change is harming health: The need for urgent action

With mounting evidence of climate change’s health consequences, the case for urgent action is stronger than ever.

www.phcc.org.nz

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 2d

"...deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve." Right - time to stop pissing around and do everything we can to get off fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d

Gardening
(Helping at Home, 1961)
Artist: Harry Wingfield

Two small children help their dad weed and tidy a flower bed on a chilly early autumn day

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 5d

Its a strange world we live in...
open.substack.com/pub/anuncomm...

You know the economy is broken when ...

I often find myself listening to the radio or watching the TV news and thinking, you know the economy is broken when this is allowed to happen in our society.

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, but renewably powered, right...?

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 10d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 12d

Here it comes...
www.thegridartspace.co.nz/destination-...

Destination Earth — The Grid Art Space

Nowadeus awakens artist Tim Christie's larger than life characters in this new creative collaboration with The Grid, inviting us to reflect on the conscious and subconscious paradigms we pay homage to...

www.thegridartspace.co.nz

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 13d

There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

The Quantum Mechanics of Greenhouse Gases | Quanta Magazine

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ef...

www.quantamagazine.org

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 14d

SMH...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/25/y...

You can lead people to data, but you can't make them think

Comment from Auckland University: Scientific evidence for human-induced climate change is beyond dispute, so why is disinformation still so rife?

newsroom.co.nz

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Sep 4

I have a new column out today in The Irish Times: “Why ‘No Additional Warming’ Is a Dangerous Climate Loophole.”

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Why ‘no additional warming’ is a dangerous climate loophole

Carbon budgets should be sent back to the climate council with clear instructions to reassess them against Paris commitments

www.irishtimes.com

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 19d

it's been three months since i got tear gassed by the national guard. how time flies. anyway, as you're aware by now, america is slipping into an authoritarian dictatorship (please RT): www.webworm.co/peoplewantme...

People Want Me Deported

Free speech advocates do not like it when you call Charlie Kirk racist.

www.webworm.co

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 19d

#BirdoftheYear 🇳🇿

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 19d

open.substack.com/pub/subslack...

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 24d

Another wake-up call - let's hope policymakers actually wake up this time. #climateaction
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns

Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C

www.theguardian.com

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Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social · 29d

We are so pleased to have @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social joining our class as guest speaker!

James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 29d

The Dark Times Academy is running a new series of talks on #climateaction, all manner of good people speaking. I'll be speaking on 1 October.
darktimesacademy.co.nz/media-releas...

MEDIA RELEASE: New courses from Dark Times Academy to focus on climate action, practical activism, and creating vision – Dark Times Academy

darktimesacademy.co.nz

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Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social · 27d

Register today!

Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social · Aug 15

Good news everybody!

Dark Times Academy’s September courses are here!

This term's courses are about action and imagination in dark times, focusing on climate action, resistance, and creating vision – with a stellar lineup of guest lecturers.

darktimesacademy.co....

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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 29d

New study in @natwater.nature.com led by @laibaoliu.bsky.social on shortcomings of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). "[I]ncrease of agroecological droughts [...] cannot be symmetrically & fully reversed by removing the same amount of CO2." @michaelgwindisch.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hysteresis and reversibility of agroecological droughts in response to carbon dioxide removal - Nature Water

Using an idealized multi-model experiment and a new hysteresis quantification method, this study shows that equivalent carbon dioxide removal fails to symmetrically reverse CO2-emissions-induced agroe...

www.nature.com

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Antal Wozniak @antalwozniak.bsky.social · 29d

Please consider contributing to our special issue on communicating the climate crisis in an age of rising authoritarian populism. We accept short commentaries and full research papers.

Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am co-editing a special issue ‘Communicating Climate Change in an Age of Rising Authoritarian Populism’ of the Journal of Environmental Media with @antalwozniak.bsky.social and Sibo Chen. We're accepting pitches for commentaries and abstracts for full papers www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-e...

Journal of Environmental Media

Journal of Environmental Media; The Journal of Environmental Media offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies, identity and social justice, and science communication through t...

www.intellectbooks.com

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 29d

The Dark Times Academy is running a new series of talks on #climateaction, all manner of good people speaking. I'll be speaking on 1 October.
darktimesacademy.co.nz/media-releas...

MEDIA RELEASE: New courses from Dark Times Academy to focus on climate action, practical activism, and creating vision – Dark Times Academy

darktimesacademy.co.nz

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Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social · Sep 9

Four inspiring speakers. One course!

@billmckibben.bsky.social‬
@cubaraglanguy.bsky.social‬
@amywestervelt.bsky.social‬
@ketanjoshi.co

It’s time for ‘Making Hope: Climate Action for Dark Times’

17 Sept – 12 Nov 2025

Register TODAY at: makinghope.lilregie.com

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 7

@edhawkins.org is a climate scientist at University of Reading who works on assessing climate risks with historical data. He’s the creator of the most iconic climate communication tool ever, the warming stripes.

A smiling man with short hair, wearing a t-shirt, is positioned in front of a blurred natural background. The image is in black and white.

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Robyn Ramsden @dragonermine.bsky.social · Aug 31

The narrative appears to have changed from denial to hopelessness. We must fight for every point of a degree.

James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · Aug 31

"This is not a fringe issue. Nor is it a hoax or an impossibly expensive challenge, no matter what Silicon Valley social media, Russian bots and Saudi oil money tell us. We need to stick together and keep focusing on real stories, real problems and real people."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Debunking climate misinformation is becoming a full-time job – but you can help defend the facts | Jonathan Watts

The political pushback against positive green progress has been shocking. But as corporations and those in power turn away, the overwhelming majority of people in the world want more ambitious climate...

www.theguardian.com

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