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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 1d

A brand new must-listen podcast mini series, called «Overshoot», by @planetbproductions.bsky.social .

Meet @amywestervelt.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co, @davidho.bsky.social, @glenpeters.bsky.social, @rahmstorf.bsky.social and plenty other excellent climate and nature communicators.

Just do it!

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C

Vitenskap · In 2015, the world agreed to limit global heating to 1.5°C. Ten years later, temperatures are spiralling beyond this and climate chaos is wreaking havoc across the globe. How did we end ...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 12h

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Culture Unstained @cultureunstained.bsky.social · Jun 11

Culture, education and academic boycott of the Science Museum until Adani & BP are dropped as sponsors!

🎨👩‍🔬✍️ We - writers, academics, performers, artists, scientists, musicians, culture workers - refuse to contribute to Science Museum events and activities and will refuse contracts with the museum…

Neon pink background with No symbol, overlaid with the words Science Museum boycott

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 39m

"Salinity levels in the Shatt al-Arab have reached alarming concentrations, exceeding 30,000 total dissolved solids (TDS), which is approximately half the saltiness of seawater. This severe saltwater intrusion from the Persian Gulf is intensified by #climate change ..."

#Iraq 🇮🇶
#ClimateEmergency

Iraq’s Basra could become unlivable as climate crisis deepens, experts warn - Türkiye Today

Basra is facing increasingly severe heat waves, with extreme temperatures, especially near oil fields, which act as local heat centers and intensify the effects of climate change

www.turkiyetoday.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 46m

“Last year, rainfall was 140 millimeters, while the standard is 260 millimeters. That means rainfall has fallen by about 50 to 60 percent. This year, the situation is just as critical,” Pezeshkian said in a speech

#Iran 🇮🇷
##ClimateEmergency

Water crisis means Iran has no choice but to move capital, Pezeshkian says

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday that Tehran can no longer serve as the country’s capital, citing a worsening water crisis that has depleted key reservoirs serving the metropolis.

www.iranintl.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h

Are carbon suckers the ones who buy carbon credits, or the ones who suck CO₂ out of the atmosphere? Listen to make your own judgment. Allegedly, I say some things in this episode.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 23h

Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

Who’s going to clean up the mess?

We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills...

Listen to episode 2 now:

open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...

Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

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

"Without aggressive and concrete efforts to curb carbon dioxide pollution, most of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will by the end of the century experience temperature levels well beyond those considered safe for humans"

#ClimateEmergency

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

" #India plans to increase its coal power capacity by 46% from 210 GW currently to 307 GW by 2035"

##ClimateEmergency

Indian states sign more coal power deals to meet rising demand

Indian states are signing new long-term deals for coal power. This is to meet rising evening electricity demand. This comes as clean energy capacity grows. States like Uttar Pradesh and Assam are seek...

m.economictimes.com

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 4h

The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, has issued a report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The report highlights the catastrophic impact of the ongoing genocide on healthcare, with hospitals under siege, clinicians working without basic supplies or power, and at least 772

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Polluter and Cyber Elites - A lethal Alignment?

This year's conference explores where the interests of the far right tech bros and major polluters coincide - and what we can do to challenge them!

Join us on Wednesday 15th October, 16:00 - 18:00 BST

www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 10h

The most important data in the world comes from NASA satellites.

Here I plotted both hemispheres.

It shows that the Northern Hemisphere now absorbs more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere and that both Hemispheres absorb more light than they radiate heat to space, leading to faster warming.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats. This is great. Thanks for sharing!

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New Publication Alert🚨

This excellent thread reminded me to announce a new paper, out last week, "What would it mean to win? Envisioning alternative ecopolitical futures with young climate justice activists," featured in a book I co-edited on community-engaged research for climate justice. 1/2

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 14h

"It's highly worrying... If you observe a loss of stability followed by a rapid change, then you are confident that these are early warning signals for an abrupt change"- Dr. Beatriz Arellano Nava, @exeter.ac.uk

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving strangely — and it may be reaching a tipping point

An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 years: one around 1920 and the other from 1950 through present.

www.livescience.com

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Dr Pete Knapp @peteknapp.bsky.social · 16h

Upcoming Oct screening dates of my film 'Fires and Fascism'

10 Oct - Bristol, Bedminster
13 Oct - Cambridge
18 Oct - Nottingham
21 Oct - Bath (TBC)
23 Oct - Falmouth
25 Oct - Exeter (TBC)
28 Oct - Bristol, Cotham

Get tickets here (some not yet available) fires-and-fascism.co.uk#screening-da...
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Film poster: matchbox with wildfires on it and bank notes coming out

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken

They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities

As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist

Good paper! -->>>

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?

This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

www.annualreviews.org

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 17h

Shocked to hear that a populist radical right party is threatening judicial independence in the UK.

If only there were a little academic literature on this topic.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Jenrick waves wig at Tory conference and attacks judges as ‘open borders activists’

Robert Jenrick said judges have spent their entire lives fighting to keep illegal migrants in the UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 17h

Revisiting what bonkers decision it was from the Tories to commit to scrapping the Climate Change Act we find the recent report from @climateoutreach.bsky.social, which finds:

1. People are very worried about climate change harming nature and wildlife
2. This 100% includes Traditional Conservatives

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Eirik Lindebjerg @eiriklindebjerg.bsky.social · 1d

The best way to defend multilateralism is by delivering results. @jenirisallan.bsky.social and Peter Dauvergne points to a practical way forward for countries interested in stopping plastic pollution, in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty

Negotiators again failed to finalize the text for a global plastics treaty in Geneva in August 2025. The talks exposed two harsh truths. Consensus on the treaty text, where no state formally objects, ...

www.science.org

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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 22h

I use hierarchical Bayesian multinomial regression modeling, which allows me to investigate what level of risk perception is different for people with hazard experience.

Importantly, people with hazard experience tend to view climate change as a very serious threat, not just a somewhat serious one!

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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 22h

🔥 Climate hazard paper published!

Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵

Link: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Climate Psychology Alliance @climatepsychol.bsky.social · 17h

Join our team! 4 p/t paid and 1 voluntary role for people who want to help shape the collective response to our worsening climate crisis:
climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/co...
Please share and help spread the word 🙏

#werehiring #charityjobs #climatejobs @innerclimate.bsky.social

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Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 21h

This is great, BUT the year we burned the most coal was 2024 and it's still going up.

Chart from Our World in Data showing coal production steadily increasing, largely led by China.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 19h

EAST ASIA HISTORIC HEAT
MINIMUMS
25.2 Jeju,25.1 Sogwipo
HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT IN KOREAS

Record High max:30.5 Wando

In CHINA Absolute madness
October Record High Minimums:
27.0 Shanghai
27.8 Hangzhou
28.9 Jinhua
28.5 Nanchang
27.2 Fuzhou
Shaoxing, Jiaxing,Ningde...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

a great thread with a mass of resources to help you think through "socio-technical imaginaries" — those contested discursive spaces where powerful interests try to shape how you think about the future

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

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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