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Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social•Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social•PI @dependencybonn.de‬•Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social• @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social•she/her/Du•Servant to 4 rescue 🐈‍⬛ •🇸🇪

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 19

Just for the record, a complete 🧵 of my 🧵 on adaptation.
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Part I

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 19

Since COP29 is turning into an adaptation COP, I am bringing some of my past threads on adaptation from another place here.

PART I: A 🧵 on adaptation and development over the years, digging deep back to the 1990s through to current scholarship.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 4h

Day 3- Chemistry: three men, but one born in Jordan. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”

www.nobelprize.org

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely! Although studies have also demonstrated bias in the selection committee…

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

Physics: three men, all based in the US, all from the Global North, all white (at first glance).

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

www.nobelprize

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

Terrifying bunch! 🙃

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

Three winners, one of them a woman. All three from the Global North (2 US, 1 Japan). 2/
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Week is once again upon us! How many women and how many scientists from the Global South will be awarded Prizes this year? Remember that this is typically a set of Prizes dominated by white men from North America (some Europe, some Asia). The first announcement was today: Medicine. 🧵 1/

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I show this in class, I am reminded how good it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfno...

Here’s Why Foreign Aid Is a Scam | Doha Debates

YouTube video by Doha Debates

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

No, eek the title. I cannot get past the firewall on NYT.

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

What good timing. I needed this message right now. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

You can’t just press ‘undo’ on your life. To move forward, you must first feel your grief and rage

Many of us try to reframe our disappointments, to put a happy face on sad circumstances. But the path to growth is paved with difficult emotions, and we have to experience them honestly

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like I may have been infected by the leftist virus when I was young...hope you got it too!

Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 2d

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

'In the [17th, 18th and 19th Cs] glaciers...were considered cursed by the devil in Alpine folklore, their advances linked to spiritual forces as they threatened hamlets and farmland.
...villagers [called] on priests to talk to the spirits of glaciers & get them to move....' bbc.com/news/article...

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes

They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

bbc.com

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

And this is why we should keep doing this work: bsky.app/profile/koja...

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 2d

I'd missed this: An offer to help scientists dealing with the grief caused by researching climate change. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Helping scientists cope in a climate of fear | Letters

Letters: Climate experts need psychological support to help them deal with the work they do and attacks against them, say Kate Adams and Rebecca Nestor

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 4d

Always happy when I find myself on a starter pack that attracts leftie, animal-loving greenies. Welcome 💐🌺

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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 5d

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 6d

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change. What happens next?

Ten years after agreeing to limit global heating to 1.5°C, the world is overshooting

How do we navigate what comes next?

Welcome to Overshoot

Listen to the trailer now 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...

Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 5d

On the subject of overshoot…

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 5d

“Candidly addresses one of the most important issues of our time: why we are failing to meet the Paris target.”

- Sir Bob Watson, Former head of the IPCC

Listen to the trailer on overshootpod.com

Episode 1 coming soon

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 5d

We cannot let this happen. We must stop emitting now!

Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 6d

The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time.

That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 6d

Min gamling har också det men har inte så många tänder kvar och har aldrig riktigt gillat torrfoder ändå…när han måste äta det tittar han upp på oss mellan tuggorna med värsta ’det är så synd om stackars mig’ ögon…

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 6d

Så är det! Vi har en 19-årig katt som begär mat eller godis hela tiden. Pga han också lyckats bli döv med åldern går han runt i huset och gallskriker. Japp, svårt att jobba med sånt. Eftersom han är så smal måste vi hålla koll på att han får i sig tillräckligt, och han påminner oss om detta konstant

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Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 6d

🚨Our new paper introduces the #AirQualityStripes – a visual tool to show how outdoor air pollution (PM2.5) has changed in 🌍 cities since 1850. Inspired by the iconic #WarmingStripes. Led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social
🔗 airqualitystripes.info
📄 doi.org/10.5194/gc-8...
🧵👇

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Rebellmammornasverige @rebellmammornaswe.bsky.social · 6d

Joakim Lindqvist (förbundsjurist på fackförbundet ST) betraktar fallet Marie som en del av en en pågående polarisering och demonisering av klimataktivister i samhället.

"Man försöker utmåla klimatengagerade personer som sabotörer."

Staten yttrar sig i fallet Marie – anser att Energimyndigheten har agerat korrekt

JK lämnar nytt yttrande i fri- och rättighetsmål • Rebellmamman Marie som miste jobbet på Energimyndigheten: ”De har inte mycket kvar att komma med”

www.etc.se

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting. That second point could also be misunderstood as infringement on sovereignty…but I assume it’s not at all what is meant.

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 7d

Unbelievable. 👀

Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 7d

!!! Did he really say that??