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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

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John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · Jul 16

Spoke to @katieyoder.bsky.social about the very disturbing development of the Trump administration disappearing climate reports and data, taking climate denial to an unseen level grist.org/language/tru...

Why the federal government is making climate data disappear

Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 22d

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 11d

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... it's always the stupid old #brexiters ruining the future for young people

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 13d

Marking the launch of the 2025 Planetary Health Check, Mongabay speaks with report co-author and renowned Earth system scientist Johan Rockström about how the transgression of planetary boundaries is eroding environmental justice — the right of every human being to life on a stable, healthy planet.

Ocean acidification threatens planetary health: Interview with Johan Rockström

Initiated in 2024, the Planetary Health Check is a comprehensive, science-based global initiative dedicated to measuring and maintaining Earth systems critical to life as we know it. These annual…

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14d

Oceans dangerously acidic from carbon emissions, report warns

Planetary Health Check report says 7 of 9 'boundaries' have now been crossed

www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Oceans have crossed 'safe' acidic threshold, scientists warn | CBC News

The latest Planetary Health Check report says ocean acidification has reached risky territory. Experts say it will reduce our oceans’ ability to absorb the carbon we emit and also weaken the shellfish...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 14d

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

- Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as 7 of 9 planetary boundaries now transgressed

#climatecrisis
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

www.theguardian.com

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · 18d

Large climate demonstration in Berlin today against the planned expansion of gas by the govt. Hint: Renewables and energy storage are cheaper.

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 22d

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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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Sep 3

Trump's fossil fuel lobby group infested admin is called out over on the hellsite:

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hi Angela, Might be of interest if it hasn't already been covered. www.wri.org/insights/glo...

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Sep 3

Trump's fossil fuel lobby group infested admin is called out over on the hellsite:

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Climate.us @climate.us · Aug 28

Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

CNN news story, Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hi Angela, Might be of interest if it hasn't already been covered. www.wri.org/insights/glo...

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Aug 21

Conspiracy theorists, the Trump admin, Secretary Wright and fossil fuel lobby groups are aligned on attempting to hide this:

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Aug 21

*Guardian

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Aug 21

It is getting worse.

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Aug 21

Over on the hell hole that is twitter fossil fuel lobby groups are in a frenzy over a Gaurdian article abiout a temporary arctic sea ice extent loss pause. Maybe someone should teach them about how ice spreads as it thins or the global situation zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 14

The @ametsoc.org State of the Climate Report for 2024 is now published: doi.org/10.1175/2025...

I am happy to have contributed again to this year's issue - see our section in 'The Arctic' chapter: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

Another historic year for Earth's climate... 🚨

Figure from the report of the geographical distribution of selected notable climate anomalies and events in 2024 around the world. This graphic is from NOAA.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 14

NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Aug 14

Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report.

This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 14

NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 14

Truly devastating for Trump's climate report. It just shows once again: if you task a group of "climate skeptics" with a climate report, you get a mass of easily refuted falsehoods, as they simply do not have honest arguments on their side.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 13

The satellite-observed rise relative to the same 1995-2014 baseline of course. And I ignored the acceleration of sea-level rise - which is an observed fact but only a small one for extrapolating from 2025 to 2030. The satellite data are here: sealevel.colorado.edu

welcome | Sea Level Research Group

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 13

I checked the claim of the DOE report that sea level is rising at a lower rate than predicted by IPCC: it is false.
For 2030, the IPCC AR6 predicts a best estimate 9-10 cm relative to 1995-2014 (Table 9.9).
The satellite data show a rise of 74 mm until 2025. At this rate that will be 93 mm by 2030.

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