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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Dec 22

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · May 14

Your 'moment of doom' for May 14, 2025 ~ Sooner than expected.

“We’re witnessing ice dynamics that simply shouldn’t happen on these timescales. The acceleration pattern suggests we’ve potentially crossed a critical threshold that our models didn’t anticipate until the 2040s.”

Antarctica's ice loss doubles since 2020, what this means for coastal cities

www.journee-mondiale.com

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Apr 15

I kind of think this should be bigger news
Cc @skynews @bbcnews @itvnews @lbc @BBCNewsnight @BBCBreakfast @bbc5live

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Dr Emily Grossman 🧬✍️🎤✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🐱 @dremilygrossman.bsky.social · Apr 7

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‘Scientists are usually restrained by academic dogma but here they talk from the heart about what the planetary emergency means to them as individuals. This collection of essays is deeply moving, inspiring and profoundly important’
- Matthew Todd, Writer & Broadcaster
@matthewtodd.bsky.social

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Apr 8

A reminder that 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded on Earth, and yesterday a group of food industry insiders warned that UK food security is in danger and food shortages are on the way. I imagine the football scores will get more media coverage. news.sky.com/story/march-...

March hottest on record in Europe - with warnings of 'harsher heat waves and wildfires' this summer

March was not just warmer than average, it was a lot warmer, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service has found.

news.sky.com

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Mar 31

All the trans people I know are nothing like the depiction of them in the social/media. Just sayin’ Sending solidarity, support and love
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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Mar 30

Here we go. The establishment are terrified of Gary Stevenson because hes connecting to millions in a way that rarely happens. They'll try and do anything to undermine him and will make stuff up, no doubt. Don't believe the billionaire owned press. They are not your friend.
(dailymailonline:)

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 19

Melting glaciers have caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century alone, a study has revealed.

The world’s glaciers lost an average of 273bn tonnes of ice every year – the equivalent of 30 years of water consumption by the entire global population.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals

Decades-long research shows world’s glaciers collectively lost 6.542tn tonnes of ice between 2000 and 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Dec 31

"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer

Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...

skepticalinquirer.org

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 17

Who do you trust your families lives with on this life and death issue?
Donald Trump and Richard Tice.
Or Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough, Harvard, Oxford, NASA, and every single university on Earth?
Here’s why Tice lies: clue: £$ youtu.be/I32R6Yx9PTI?...

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 7

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate

*CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 6

England has had the second worst harvest on record. This is what erratic weather because of a heating climate does. We are genuinely walking into a calamity beyond comprehension. 40 years of ignored warnings. eciu.net/media/press-...

Confirmed: England has second worst harvest on record with fears…

Data released shows England experienced it’s second worst harvest since 1983 after record breaking wet weather last winter, with recent downpours leaving many farmers unable to drill crops again

eciu.net

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 6

Climate science deniers want you to believe we don’t understand what’s happened in the past.
*They* don’t - but scientists do.
That’s how we know about the Jurassic era and the climates the Earth has experienced. Watch Chris Packhams excellent explainer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Earth

There's nothing else like it. Chris Packham reveals the epic, 4.5-billion-year story of our home - from its dramatic creation to the arrival of human life... and whatever's next.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 6

Breaking 🚨: ‘January 25 hottest January ever recorded.’
Should have demanded action when we had the chance. Hotter than it has been for more than 100,000 years. Most of the public have no understanding about any of this or what it means
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate puzzle persists with unexpectedly warm January

January was expected to be cooler than the same month last year, but was 0.1C warmer, which experts are struggling to explain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 6

‘Dangerous climate breakdown has arrived.’
The President of the USA doesn’t accept it.
The party leading in U.K. polls doesn’t accept it.
The media never treats it like the threat it is.
It barely trends on Twitter etc.
Humanity is not fit for purpose. news.sky.com/story/danger...

'Dangerous climate breakdown' warning as hottest January on record shocks scientists

Temperatures last month were 0.1C above the record set in January 2024. And it comes after a year in which temperatures topped 1.5C, the target for climate negotiations, for the first time.

news.sky.com

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 6

Should have demanded action when we had the chance. We’re now trending significantly over the limit we were meant to do everything not to hit. Hotter than it has been for more than 100,000 years. Most of the public have no understanding about any of this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate puzzle persists with unexpectedly warm January

January was expected to be cooler than the same month last year, but was 0.1C warmer, which experts are struggling to explain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 4

Breaking: The scientist who first warned the world about climate change in 1988, Dr James Hansen, says 2C° target is now dead. The actual target for the Paris climate agreement was 1.5° C. Hansen is now saying 2° C is also unachievable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 4

RECORD BREAKING HEAT IN TEXAS IN FEBRUARY and we’re barely out of January
Climate breakdown inching closer.
We’ve been warned and warned and warned…
#climatecrisis

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Feb 3

I am stunned the world is not reacting to this. I think the more people like me talk about it, the more people write it off.
Seems we are so broken that sliding into unimaginable calamity is the only way people will even look at the situation honestly.
We are lost.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jan 27

This massive and urgent report tells the truth about what is actually happening inside our government now.

The upshot: it is not our government anymore.

Elon Musk’s DOGE—Now the “USDS”—Is a Dangerous Shadow White House

Donald Trump has quietly ended DOGE—as such—but only so he can give Musk far more power over the United States than he would otherwise have had. Musk is now, through the USDS, America’s co-president.

sethabramson.substack.com

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Jan 23

#StormÉowyn is what happens when you pack the climate system with energy. 2024 was the hottest year humans have ever recorded. Scientists say it is likely the hottest year in over 100,000 years

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Jan 22

#princeharry ❤️

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Jan 22

Climate change doesn't just make it hotter and wetter.
It makes extremes more extreme.
It causes climate chaos.
Professor Katherine Hayhoe calls it 'global weirding'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Bd...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 22

This is why political analyses of climate climate have warned of the rise of more authoritarian governments in response to growing societal and economic impacts.

Sista Cate Ruth ♿ @sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social · Jan 22

In times of perceived crisis, people tend to vote further far-right, looking for a "strong" leader to take charge and protect them. They're more likely to willingly give up civil liberties in favour of perceived security. Dutton & his PR exploit this fact. #auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Dutton says ‘strong’ leader needed to heal anxious nation

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Australia has one last chance at the coming election to return to prosperity.

www.smh.com.au

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Jan 21

Keir Starmer doesn’t seem to have any principles or convictions

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