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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Fari Bradley @faribrad.bsky.social · 7d

#ClimateResistance at Labour party conference in #Bristol this week

@climateactiontracker.org @climatemajority.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org @climate.noaa.gov @metoffice.gov.uk @xrstories.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth @foeus.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling like the discourse around around #climate change is broken?

Tune in to this exciting new #podcast documentary, in which @laurielaybourn.bsky.social sets out a new story to make sense of our current moment.

A narrative that can help us nativigate the storm ahead ⛈️

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 2d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

open.spotify.com

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · 2d

Silencing scientists who sound the alarm won’t stop glaciers from melting, droughts from deepening, or crops from failing. That’s not controversial: it’s physics.

Scientifiques en rébellion @scientifiquesenrebellion.fr · 2d

Historique : alors que la COP30 et les dix ans de l'Accord de Paris sur le climat approchent, dix scientifiques passeront en procès en France et en Allemagne cette semaine pour avoir alerté sur la crisé écologie en cours !

Une scientifique en blouse blanche portant une pancarte « Climate crisis = Health Crisis. Scientist Rebellion » encadrée par quatre policiers allemands en uniforme portant la mention « polizei ».

Une douzaine de scientifiques en blouse blanche tenant une banderole « Dire la vérité n'est pas un crime » et des drapeaux Extinction Rebellion dans une salle du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, devant plusieurs squelettes dont un de mammouth.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 12d

"Who is willing to join forces to drag the Overton Window out of the grip of the self-destructive cult of fossil-fuelled lunatics and into the centre of a compassionate, fairer, more reasoned world?" My latest at Technosphere Earth.
www.technosphere.earth/roaming-deat...

Roaming death squads or climate justice - the future will be what we make it

If in 2020 you had said that by 2025 masked agents would be kidnapping thousands of people off US streets, disappearing them into an incarceration system, and then deporting them to countries in Afric...

www.technosphere.earth

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 13d

BREAKING 🌍🌡📈
The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050!

Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 21d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · 21d

TONIGHT:

Q&A with three of the authors of Scientists On Survival at @thecommonpress.bsky.social in Shoreditch, London, 7pm

@omarabooks.bsky.social

Blackboard showing the details of the event as described in the post

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Tristram Wyatt @tristramwyatt.bsky.social · 21d

Tonight, London. @prideinstem.bsky.social

Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · 26d

New date Q&A for our book Scientists on Survival

Theme:
“Taking action as an LGBTQ+ scientist”

London
The Common Press @thecommonpress.bsky.social
Weds 17th September
19:00
118 Bethnal Green Road, E2 6DG

More details: www.outsavvy.com/event/28776/...

@omarabooks.bsky.social

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · 26d

New date Q&A for our book Scientists on Survival

Theme:
“Taking action as an LGBTQ+ scientist”

London
The Common Press @thecommonpress.bsky.social
Weds 17th September
19:00
118 Bethnal Green Road, E2 6DG

More details: www.outsavvy.com/event/28776/...

@omarabooks.bsky.social

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28d

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently.

I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · 28d

What is more shocking?

1. Throwing soup on a glass protecting a Van Gogh’s painting

2. Destroying a Banksy mural

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Destroying political art is on the slippery slope towards fascism. All of them have done it.

They may be saying they need to protect judges, but this isn’t the way.

Banksy artwork of a judge clobbering a protestor with his gavel

A ghostly image left after the mural was scrubbed off the wall

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency.
On 27 Nov, eight leading experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.

An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.
www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

The time for warnings is over. This is a briefing for the age of impacts. Please ask your MP to attend.

www.nebriefing.org

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dr. gianluca grimalda @ggrimalda.bsky.social · Sep 3

I've set off to Bougainville,PNG, for another #NoFly journey. I want to complete my research there. Travelling the ~25,000km distance from Italy by🚢,🚅,&🚌,I'll emit ~10 times less than✈️ (computations to come).Here the long read on my motivations: gianlu777.substack.c... 1/🧵

Map of my no-fly itinerary from Italy to Bougainville, PNG

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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · Sep 5

As debates rage about where the Heathrow third runway will go, help us to remind the government that we shouldn't be expanding airports at all in a climate emergency:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

We need 2,000 more signatures for this to be sent to the government (deadline = 24th Sept)

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK

More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we…

petition.parliament.uk

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Sep 4

The beauty of positive tipping points is that it only takes a small change to make a big difference.

How to help trigger positive tipping points – and speed up climate action

The beauty of positive tipping points is that it only takes a small change to make a big difference.

tcnv.link

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · Sep 4

After a summer of heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, genocide, the relentless rise of Reform, you know you want to do more; to try harder to stop this madness, in whatever way you can, however small.

We are feeling like this too.

Join our monthly call:
Mon 8 Sep 7pm
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Sep 4

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge

The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!

Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

Oil and gas imports are a problem. Labour should rethink its North Sea stance | Nils Pratley

Rachel Reeves could make geopolitical, economic and environmental case for limited boost in production

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Sep 3

This was said this in 1975... it could just as well have been said yesterday!!! 😬😮‍💨

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Sep 2

Governments have pledged vast areas for new forests, but much of this land may be unsuitable.

Trees alone won’t save us: new study says forestation has less potential to fix the climate than hoped

Governments have pledged vast areas for new forests, but much of this land may be unsuitable.

tcnv.link

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Dr Pete Knapp @peteknapp.bsky.social · Aug 28

I gave a speech in Wandsworth High Street about air pollution and the benefits of cycling

Stay to the end to see a list of proposals to make the air cleaner and the community stronger

@wandsworthcycling.bsky.social
@wandsworthlabour.bsky.social
@scientistsforxr.earth
@londoncycling.bsky.social

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · Aug 21

Which is worse? Breathing in granite granules or air pollution from indoor candles!

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · Aug 20

One of our scientists has made a documentary about wildfires and the rise of the far right.

It was made with minimal carbon and on a shoestring crowdfund.

Would your local cinema show it?

If you think so, send the name of the cinema in a reply to Pete’s post.

Dr Pete Knapp @peteknapp.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wildfires are breaking records this year and the far right are also rising.

Are they linked?

I have just finished making a 59-min documentary called Fires and Fascism that explores these links

Would your local cinema be interested in showing it? Reply to this with their name and I’ll message them

Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · Aug 19

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pleased to announce that @tristramwyatt.bsky.social & I have a new article out in @uk.theconversation.com, based on work with colleagues from @scientistsforxr.earth

We outline "How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action"

Here's a thread with some background & key points 🧵

How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action

Collective action on climate is crucial. Scientists play an important role in driving change.

theconversation.com

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · Aug 12

We are deeply honoured that our publisher chose our book as their favourite over the past 40 years of publishing.

💚💚💚

Michael O'Mara Books @omarabooks.bsky.social · Aug 11

To celebrate 40 years of indie publishing, we asked the O'Mara family to tell us their favourite MOM book that has been published over the years 🥳

From our list, Managing Director Lesley O'Mara chose her favourite title as #ScientistsOnSurvival.

buff.ly/TMsDRce

#BookSky @scientistsforxr.earth

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