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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 32m

This changes everything!

The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.

More:

www.patreon.com/posts/141034...

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 17m

In which I get to talk about the brave and brilliant Rachel Carson on the terrific podcast, Kindred. If you wonder if a single steadfast person can make a difference, she is a shining example. #environment #courage

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring | With Deborah Blum, Science Journalist

In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Deborah Blum, environmental journalist, Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and science columnist. Let me explain why…

www.kindredpodcast.co

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 29m

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 7h

New article!

Fossil complacency: reorienting climate hypocrisy and system change debates, by Otto Snellman & Sakari Säynäjoki.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT
Discourse on hypocrisy is plentiful in the climate politics of the Global North. A specific form of climate hypocrisy critique, the fossil hypocrisy charge, contends that climate activists’ demands for system change and phaseout of fossil fuels are hypocritical because their everyday living is thoroughly based on fossil fuels. The individualistic fossil hypocrisy charge, wielded by climate obstructionists, has been refuted in research. However, a fundamental kernel of truth underlying the charge, and the broader obstructionist ‘narrative of necessity’ of fossil fuels, remains unresolved: Contemporary life is constitutively entangled with fossil fuels. While avoiding individual hypocrisy, we show how researchers and climate advocates might remain subject to an adjacent problem, fossil complacency, if they disregard the kernel in their agendas of system change. By drawing from interdisciplinary energy research, we show how critique of fossil complacency helps in reorienting climate hypocrisy and system change debates to overcome obstructionist ‘climate realism’.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 7h

Event this Friday, 17th Oct!

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy.

Three excellent speakers will talk about their different paths through environmental research.

Online - free - 1 til 2.30pm BST - register!

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 6h

This is an excellent analysis by @dickon.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social star

But it's important we recognise that similar petrocultural dynamics are occurring in societies all around the world and not just in Norway 🇳🇴

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Black Thread, Ep 1 | Meet the Norwegians

open.spotify.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 7h

'rainfall has dropped by nearly 70%, crippling 75% of Syria's rain-fed farmland

"This is the difference between families being able to stay in their communities or being forced to migrate... For rural families, it means the collapse of their livelihoods"'

#Syria 🇸🇾
#ClimateEmergency

Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink

The drought has slashed wheat harvests by 40% in a country where nearly 90% of the population already lives in poverty.

www.bbc.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE ON @drilledmedia.bsky.social

(you may recognise one of the names on a future episode.....)

pca.st/2uawcd8j

My mates @dickon.bsky.social + Klimakultur put this entire series together, and I am so excited to consume it all --->>>

The Black Thread, Ep 1 | Meet the Norwegians

pca.st

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 8h

The IPCC in 2022:

"Lack of #ClimateLiteracy at all levels and limited
availability of information and data pose further constraints to #adaptation planning and implementation."

This series of conversations, which I highly recommend, helps bridge this gap!

Listen now. Seriously.

Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 1d

The third episode of @overshootpod.bsky.social is out now!

We meet the pensioner who looked into her pension fund's due diligence on climate change

What she found was shocking...

Featuring @carbontracker.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and more

Listen now👇
www.overshootpod.com

Overshoot podcast – a world beyond 1.5C

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change. What happens next? In this four-part documentary series, we explore the huge challenges that come from 1.5°C overshoot. We meet the people with ...

www.overshootpod.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 8h

Not to mention...

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

There’s a major climate summit in Christchurch but the minister’s party won’t let him go

Climate Minister Simon Watts had been due to deliver the closing address at the global Adaptation Futures Conference, but National Party whips refused his leave from Parliament.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 9h

It’s ironic that this happens the day after the Luxon Govt announced it will make the climate crisis worse by letting the dairy industry off the hook for its superheating methane emissions.

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 9h

Good Lord!

Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 10h

This is utterly embarrassing.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

There’s a major climate summit in Christchurch but the minister’s party won’t let him go

Climate Minister Simon Watts had been due to deliver the closing address at the global Adaptation Futures Conference, but National Party whips refused his leave from Parliament.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9h

Not directly, no. It's focused on adaptation.
www.akijp.org/wp-content/u...

AI4J website doesn't say much either, but it does say...
"They contribute negligible amounts of carbon & other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere & yet, they are experiencing the most extreme impacts of the climate crisis"

Our Work — Alaska Climate Justice Program | Alaska Institute for Justice

www.alaskaclimatejustice.org

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 22h

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 10h

Love this. ‘Stories are the toolkit’ by @sydney.edu.au instead of a risk reduction toolkit. Check out the vignettes here. www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...

Stories are the toolkit

Join us for Stories are the Toolkit, a six-part podcast series produced by the Sydney Environment Institute, highlighting the diverse, informal, and seemingly spontaneous efforts that have been essent...

www.sydney.edu.au

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10h

"...the frequency & severity of flooding in the low-lying region had increased in recent yrs. The report listed relocation of the community as an urgent need.

Erosion & melting permafrost pose threats to infrastructure & in some cases entire communities in #Alaska... the impacts of #climate change"

1 dead, 2 missing and dozens rescued after remnants of a typhoon lash western Alaska

The remnants of Typhoon Halong have brought hurricane-force winds and ravaging storm surges to western Alaska. Authorities say one person is dead and two remain missing.

apnews.com

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 11h

This year I wrote a book about how Columbus colonized the Caribbean in 1492 - not what is now the US mainland.

My book DARK LABORATORY celebrates Kalinago survivance and the African agrarian x aquatic traditions people like my ancestors, who were enslaved, brought to the region.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 3d

Listened to the first two episodes (only ones available so far) and they were excellent! I’m a big fan now and am looking forward to the last two episodes.

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 3d

Recommended listen: The Strategic Climate Risks Initiative, in partnership with Planet B Productions, has released a four-part podcast series exploring what will happen if global warming exceeds 1.5C.

Overshoot podcast – a world beyond 1.5C

The world missed its goal for tackling climate change. What happens next? In this four-part documentary series, we explore the huge challenges that come from 1.5°C overshoot. We meet the people with…

buff.ly

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 12h

"As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new energy chief – an official from the first Trump administration who is a dedicated champion of natural gas."

Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 22h

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @overshootpod.bsky.social for bringing this urgent issue front and center in their podcast series. It was a pleasure to speak with them.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 1d

📢 episode 3 is out now

We meet the pensioner who looked into her pension fund's due diligence on climate change

What she found was shocking...

Featuring
@carbontracker.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and many more

Listen now: www.overshootpod.com

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 17h

“it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter.”
theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Barbara Ryan @disasterbarb.bsky.social · 17h

Scientists can now quantify the climate effects of specific projects. The data should be incorporated into every development application.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Scientists calculate the cost on climate and human lives of gas project emissions

Fossil fuel companies and governments have argued it’s not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.

www.abc.net.au

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

Absolutely - you make an important point.

The activists expose the failures of those in power, so new laws are brought in to silence them

www.desmog.com/2023/06/29/r...

Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Speaking at Policy Exchange’s summer party on Wednesday (28 June), the...

www.desmog.com

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 21h

Sanity says: “if there is a risk that the AMOC is weakening and heading towards a tipping point, we need to act on that (just like with other major risks). This is not an issue where we can afford to wait until we are certain, or pretend it’s just an academic discussion without major consequences.”

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2d

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

www.realclimate.org

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