Kristina Maud Bergeron
kristinamaud.bsky.social
Kristina Maud Bergeron
@kristinamaud.bsky.social
Environment & climate | Poli sci & IR | Human rights & Indigenous peoples’ rights | I work as an advisor on community relations in a UNESCO Biosphere region | Based in Montréal
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Le réchauffement au Québec est deux ou trois fois plus rapide que la moyenne mondiale. #climat #environnement
Des exemples des impacts à venir de la crise climatique au Québec
www.ledevoir.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.
essd.copernicus.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza.

We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work.

bit.ly/3S7M0oo
May 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
April 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Jan Mayen is an unpopulated volcanic rock in the Arctic Ocean. It’s Norwegian territory. Once those ungrateful, freeloading migratory seabirds feel these tariffs hit, they’ll know to stop cheating hardworking Americans.
April 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Via Angry Staffer:

I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane
April 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Erdogan is responding to the unprecedented-scale Turkish uprising against him by trying hard to prevent anyone in the world from witnessing it
March 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The details here
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity

"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
March 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Make war crimes great again!
Terrible decision by SecDef.
March 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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This is an attempt to criminalize free speech and suppress dissent. If we don’t take a strong stand against this, it’s the end of our democracy, and not just higher education. Universities are the trial balloon, but it doesn’t end here. Next, it will be employers, cities and towns, and individuals.
March 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Does anyone else feel this is a repeat of a reprehensible time in history when citizens of a certain country began flying a flag to honor one man - that wasn’t the country’s official flag? Does this send a chill down your spine like it does mine? I literally gasped. #trumpflag #Louisiana #chilling
January 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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The #TransformativeChange Report highlights the diverse perspectives of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and demonstrates that their practices and lifestyles are often rooted in knowledge and value systems that promote sustainability.

— Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO DG
January 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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If Trump fulfills his promise to expand the federal death penalty, courts likely won’t do enough to protect the rights of those at the system’s mercy. President Biden has the power to stop potentially unjust executions — he should grant clemency to the 40 people on death row, starting now.
Four Things to Know About the Federal Death Penalty
The cases of those on death row highlight deep concerns about racial disparities, the fairness of the process, and the inhumanity of the punishment.
www.brennancenter.org
December 15, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Amnistie internationale accuse Israël de «commettre un génocide» à Gaza et appelle les démocraties du globe à ne pas rester silencieuses.
Amnistie internationale accuse Israël de mener un génocide à Gaza
L’organisation livre des «conclusions accablantes» et appelle les démocraties du globe à ne pas rester silencieuses.
www.ledevoir.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:54 AM