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Leo Barasi
@leobarasi.bsky.social
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Mostly climate change & public opinion. Book: The Climate Majority http://amzn.to/3h73dfm
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · 12d
🎶 jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled all these things I love so well 🎶
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12d
11 NATO aerial refueling aircraft flying coordinated circuits across Europe today. It’s usually fewer than 6.
Flight Radar showing flight paths
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · 20d
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · 21d
Next time someone says European climate policy just moves pollution abroad - show them this:
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 21d
This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
India to Spend $570 Million to Help Steel Companies Decarbonize
India plans to roll out a 50 billion rupee ($570 million) program to encourage steel producers to cut emissions, a top government official said.
www.bloomberg.com
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · 27d
Wonderful news, congratulations Guy!
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 28d
🧵Agree great thread, This is really interesting research (and always good to do reruns to track trends). But like Steve i’d also suggest zooming out a little bit before assuming climate scepticism is the new normal. Some additional thoughts… (long thread sorry!)
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 29d
Somewhat sensationalist headline here obscures some really interesting research - which tallies with other available tracking data - on shifting attitudes to climate in the UK.

Below are a few quick thoughts on how to understand this, in my view 👇 t.co/gDqlQgQBHn
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 29d
Somewhat sensationalist headline here obscures some really interesting research - which tallies with other available tracking data - on shifting attitudes to climate in the UK.

Below are a few quick thoughts on how to understand this, in my view 👇 t.co/gDqlQgQBHn
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 27
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Susannah Fisher @susannahfisher.bsky.social · Aug 26
Delighted to see my new book Sink or Swim about the hard choices ahead to adapt to the impacts of climate change reviewed in the @financialtimes.com by @pilitaclark.bsky.social along with @billmckibben.bsky.social's brilliant new book on the rise of solar power.
The true cost of the car and a drive for change — new environment books
The history of snow, power of the sun and our motor vehicle addiction
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 14
What’s more, the author @susannahfisher.bsky.social is my wife #proudhusband
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 14
It’s crucial reading to understand what’s coming in the next decades but few people are talking about yet. Well written and meticulously researched.
Sink or Swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate : Fisher, Susannah: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Sink or Swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate : Fisher, Susannah: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 14
These have largely been ignored because institutions and politics don’t want to touch them. But as the book sets out, tackling them properly will become essential, and is possible.
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 14
What will adaptation look like then? The book identifies 16 hard choices the world will have to confront if we are to adapt well to a planet being heated by fossil fuels.
Photo of a hand holding Sink or Swim by Susannah Fisher
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 14
That won’t be enough. Climate change will break systems. Food production will fail in places, water treaties will become obsolete, coastal lands will disappear, other lands will become effectively uninhabitable, and so on.
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 14
It argues that climate adaptation so far has done a lot of good things - and still is chronically underfunded - but has largely stuck to tinkering with existing systems
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 14
What are we really going to have to do to adapt to climate change? It’s the tricky question that a cracking new book, Sink or Swim, grapples with
Sink or Swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate : Fisher, Susannah: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Sink or Swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate : Fisher, Susannah: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · Aug 5
I want to come back properly on this Economist piece that questions Britain's approach to net zero.

It gets three things wrong imo:

1. Ignoring periods of v cheap renewable energy
2. Misdiagnosing the relative costs of renewables
3. Looking backwards, not forwards.
Is Britain’s net-zero push to blame for its high energy prices?
A mighty rise in electricity costs has complicated the drive for clean power
www.economist.com
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 28
In last day: Pakistan flood deaths passed 270, Turkey hit 50C & Tampa 100F for first time, study found climate change will increase UK food prices at least 25% in 25 years. Meanwhile, Tories & Reform planning to scrap climate action.
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 22
It does and they’re foul imv, but only if you buy supermarket ones (made from coconut). Smaller batch cheeses, made from cashew etc, are often v nice, eg I Am Nut Ok
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 15
Quote is from a now-defunct Twitter account but the person who wrote it is here as @magnets.bsky.social. Follow them!
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 15
From @magnets.bsky.social - in their old twitter account
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 15
Best I can tell, a twitter user called @perthshiremags came up with it a few years ago, but account is locked now
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 15
I don’t think it can have come from the LA fires this year - earliest use of the quote I was able to find is July 2022
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 15
Yes - agreed. It’s now locked so I can’t link to the original but lots of people have cited it to them
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 15
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 15
The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Jul 13
For you I can be
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