Charles Thistlethwaite
@charlest.bsky.social
Environmental Planner
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Mostly #climatechange, #adaptation, and #environmentaljustice.
English/Español
California/Perú
Signal: CharlesT.100
Mostly #climatechange, #adaptation, and #environmentaljustice.
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Experts in climate, food, health, and security have issued an urgent warning about the severe risks of starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest, and wars if action is not taken to limit global warming and preserve nature, emphasizing the interconnectedness of climate and biodiversity crises.
Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts
Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse"
www.newscientist.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Experts in climate, food, health, and security have issued an urgent warning about the severe risks of starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest, and wars if action is not taken to limit global warming and preserve nature, emphasizing the interconnectedness of climate and biodiversity crises.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry has been knighted by King Charles III with the "Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George" in recognition of his efforts to combat #climatechange, including as the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
Former Secretary of State Sen. John Kerry and King Charles have been fighting for the same cause since the 1970s, and now the king has honored him
Kerry was recognized by the crown for his efforts to tackle climate change.
www.masslive.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Former Secretary of State John Kerry has been knighted by King Charles III with the "Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George" in recognition of his efforts to combat #climatechange, including as the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
Despite not being framed as a climate-focused budget, Rachel Reeves' November 26, 2025 statement contained numerous policies with significant implications for the #UK 's emissions trajectory, including the end of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and a new per-mile levy on electric vehicles.
The biggest climate stories often aren’t labelled ‘climate’ – so newsrooms miss them
Budgets are now climate policy. But mainstream media hasn’t caught up.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Despite not being framed as a climate-focused budget, Rachel Reeves' November 26, 2025 statement contained numerous policies with significant implications for the #UK 's emissions trajectory, including the end of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and a new per-mile levy on electric vehicles.
2012's superstorm Sandy shows #climatechange can increase the frequency, intensity, and effects of extreme weather events, which research suggests can lead to psychological and physiologic stress in pregnant individuals — and affect fetal brain development.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Can the Developing Brain Weather Climate Change?
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events and continued rise in global temperatures may affect neurodevelopment in unprecedented ways, research suggests.
www.medscape.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
2012's superstorm Sandy shows #climatechange can increase the frequency, intensity, and effects of extreme weather events, which research suggests can lead to psychological and physiologic stress in pregnant individuals — and affect fetal brain development.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Curious about the carbon footprint of your Thanksgiving turkey? 🦃 Some food and climate activists think you should be.
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
Are Thanksgiving turkeys bad for the environment? Here's the carbon footprint
Turkey produces, in production and post-production, the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Curious about the carbon footprint of your Thanksgiving turkey? 🦃 Some food and climate activists think you should be.
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/26/t...
A new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report, the Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis, emphasizes that climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are increasingly interconnected, necessitating policies that work collaboratively rather than in isolation.
Links between climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution highlight need for policies that work together
Environmental challenges are becoming increasingly interconnected, with climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and resource pressures reinforcing one another in ways that require policies in eac...
www.oecd.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report, the Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis, emphasizes that climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution are increasingly interconnected, necessitating policies that work collaboratively rather than in isolation.
After a six-year campaign, young law students from Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) witnessed the International Court of Justices's delivery of its first-ever advisory opinion on #climatechange in July 2025
rightlivelihood.org/visual-stori...
rightlivelihood.org/visual-stori...
An Inside Look: Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change — From the Shores to the Court - Right Livelihood
rightlivelihood.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
After a six-year campaign, young law students from Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) witnessed the International Court of Justices's delivery of its first-ever advisory opinion on #climatechange in July 2025
rightlivelihood.org/visual-stori...
rightlivelihood.org/visual-stori...
First Nation Australians with connections to the Great Barrier Reef are receiving training while sharing cultural knowledge with scientists to identify areas for a trial reef restoration project.
The trial comes after a fifth mass-bleaching event was recorded across the reef last year.
The trial comes after a fifth mass-bleaching event was recorded across the reef last year.
Ceramic 'seeding' devices and floating pools used in battle to save reef
From growing baby coral in floating pools to using Indigenous cultural knowledge, this trial hopes to regrow the Great Barrier Reef.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
First Nation Australians with connections to the Great Barrier Reef are receiving training while sharing cultural knowledge with scientists to identify areas for a trial reef restoration project.
The trial comes after a fifth mass-bleaching event was recorded across the reef last year.
The trial comes after a fifth mass-bleaching event was recorded across the reef last year.
A study in California found that reported human-wildlife conflicts increase in times of drought and researchers expect such drought-driven human-wildlife interactions will increase in other areas facing water shortages — a growing problem amid #climatechange.
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Drought amplifies human-wildlife conflict, study finds
A recent study from the U.S. state of California finds that the public reported more encounters with wildlife in times of drought. Researchers say they expect such drought-driven human-wildlife intera...
news.mongabay.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A study in California found that reported human-wildlife conflicts increase in times of drought and researchers expect such drought-driven human-wildlife interactions will increase in other areas facing water shortages — a growing problem amid #climatechange.
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Mountain regions are experiencing #climatechange at a faster rate than lowland areas with implications for billions of people through a phenomenon known as elevation-dependent climate change (EDCC).
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Scientists warn mountain climate change is accelerating faster than predicted, putting billions of people at risk
Mountains worldwide are experiencing climate change more intensely than lowland areas, with potentially devastating consequences for billions of people who live in and/or depend on these regions, acco...
phys.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Mountain regions are experiencing #climatechange at a faster rate than lowland areas with implications for billions of people through a phenomenon known as elevation-dependent climate change (EDCC).
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The July 2025 Central Texas floods that claimed the lives of at least 135 people are an example of how fossil-fueled #climatechange increases the intensity of floods, worsening the impacts on public health, the economy, and communities.
www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
How Climate Change Is Fueling More Deadly and Destructive Floods
Fossil-fueled climate change increases the intensity of floods, worsening the impacts on public health, the economy, and communities.
www.americanprogress.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The July 2025 Central Texas floods that claimed the lives of at least 135 people are an example of how fossil-fueled #climatechange increases the intensity of floods, worsening the impacts on public health, the economy, and communities.
www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
Hundreds of hazardous industrial facilities across the Mid-Atlantic region, including over 600 sites along the coast from Virginia to New York, are projected to be at risk of flooding from rising seas and increased storm intensity by the end of the century due to #climatechange.
Report: Climate change imperils toxic sites across Chesapeake Bay region
Hundreds of hazardous industrial facilities are in danger of flooding across the Mid-Atlantic region in coming decades as rising seas pile coastal waters closer to their doorsteps.
www.bayjournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Hundreds of hazardous industrial facilities across the Mid-Atlantic region, including over 600 sites along the coast from Virginia to New York, are projected to be at risk of flooding from rising seas and increased storm intensity by the end of the century due to #climatechange.
Ice-capped peaks in the state of Washington are shrinking due to rising global temperatures. Of the five historically ice-capped summits, only two, Colfax and Liberty Cap, still retain their ice caps, while the other three, including Mount Rainier, now have rock as their highest point.
Ice-capped peaks are shrinking as climate change warms their summits
A collaborative study between USU professor, Dr. Scott Hotaling, and Seattle University professor, Dr. Eric Gilbertson, explores how mountains are changing with the warming of the planet.
www.upr.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Ice-capped peaks in the state of Washington are shrinking due to rising global temperatures. Of the five historically ice-capped summits, only two, Colfax and Liberty Cap, still retain their ice caps, while the other three, including Mount Rainier, now have rock as their highest point.
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), marketed as a balance between environmental consciousness and long-distance travel, are facing scrutiny due to studies indicating they are predominantly used in gasoline mode, leading to higher-than-expected pollution.
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
Drivers aren't charging their plug-in hybrid cars, research suggests | CBC Climate Change News
Plug-in hybrid cars are a compromise for people wanting range with electric capability. But new research finds they’re less green than you think — so how should they fit into a zero-emissions future?
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), marketed as a balance between environmental consciousness and long-distance travel, are facing scrutiny due to studies indicating they are predominantly used in gasoline mode, leading to higher-than-expected pollution.
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
Corporations could face legal risks if the Trump administration rescinds the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding, which established that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The finding currently shields companies from federal common-law lawsuits over their greenhouse gas emissions.
New Memo Outlines How Trump EPA’s Endangerment Finding Rollback Would Expose Utilities, Auto Companies, Other Corporate Polluters to Massive Legal Risk
Washington, DC, Nov. 17, 2025 – A new memo released today by the Sierra Club analyzes the legal risks polluters would be exposed to if Donald Trump and Administrator Lee Zeldin choose to rescind the E...
yubanet.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Corporations could face legal risks if the Trump administration rescinds the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding, which established that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The finding currently shields companies from federal common-law lawsuits over their greenhouse gas emissions.
At the recent #G20 meeting, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that #Africa will suffer "deadly consequences" from climate change, despite contributing very little to its causes, highlighting the continent's disproportionate burden.
www.trtafrika.com/english/arti...
www.trtafrika.com/english/arti...
TRT Afrika - Africa to pay 'deadly price' despite doing 'very little' to cause climate change: UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that Africa will pay a "deadly price" for climate change despite having done "very little" to cause it.
www.trtafrika.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
At the recent #G20 meeting, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that #Africa will suffer "deadly consequences" from climate change, despite contributing very little to its causes, highlighting the continent's disproportionate burden.
www.trtafrika.com/english/arti...
www.trtafrika.com/english/arti...
"Even if all other emissions from fossil fuels halted tomorrow, CO₂ emissions from the global food system alone could eventually push us past 2 degrees Celsius in warming, half a degree higher than the always-aspirational 1.5-degrees-Celsius goal set forth in the 2016 Paris Agreement."
Climate Realism Is a Delusion
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Even if all other emissions from fossil fuels halted tomorrow, CO₂ emissions from the global food system alone could eventually push us past 2 degrees Celsius in warming, half a degree higher than the always-aspirational 1.5-degrees-Celsius goal set forth in the 2016 Paris Agreement."
Some #Oregon farmers are adopting regenerative agriculture practices, which focus on soil health and climate resilience. Advocates say these methods can increase profits and reverse #climatechange by storing carbon in the soil.
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/s...
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/s...
These Oregon farmers say ancient methods are key to a sustainable future
Oregon farmers and ranchers using regenerative agriculture practices are increasing profits while restoring soils and addressing climate change.
www.statesmanjournal.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Some #Oregon farmers are adopting regenerative agriculture practices, which focus on soil health and climate resilience. Advocates say these methods can increase profits and reverse #climatechange by storing carbon in the soil.
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/s...
www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/s...
Amnesty International criticized the lack of transparency and inclusivity in #COP30 negotiations, highlighting how a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists had significant access, while civil society and Indigenous Peoples were largely excluded from decision-making processes.
COP30: Rights trampled, yet people power demonstrates that humanity will win
People power, including by Indigenous Peoples... was instrumental in achieving a commitment to develop a Just Transition mechanism at COP30
www.amnesty.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Amnesty International criticized the lack of transparency and inclusivity in #COP30 negotiations, highlighting how a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists had significant access, while civil society and Indigenous Peoples were largely excluded from decision-making processes.
With the U.S. boycotting, the Group of 20 (G20) leaders adopted a declaration addressing #climatechange and other global challenges in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
With the U.S. boycotting, the Group of 20 (G20) leaders adopted a declaration addressing #climatechange and other global challenges in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#COP30 concluded in Belém, Brazil with a new deal, but faced criticism for lacking specific measures on fossil fuels and deforestation, as well as the absence of major GHG emitters like China and the US.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
What was agreed on climate change at COP30 in Brazil?
Countries have reached a new deal to tackle climate change - but not everyone is happy.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
#COP30 concluded in Belém, Brazil with a new deal, but faced criticism for lacking specific measures on fossil fuels and deforestation, as well as the absence of major GHG emitters like China and the US.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A severe five-year drought, exacerbated by human-induced #climatechange and socio-economic water stressors, has gripped West Asia, particularly Iran and the Euphrates-Tigris basin, leading to critical water scarcity.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/human-induce...
www.worldweatherattribution.org/human-induce...
Human-induced climate change compounded by socio-economic water stressors increased severity of 5-year drought in Iran and Euphrates and Tigris basin – World Weather Attribution
www.worldweatherattribution.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A severe five-year drought, exacerbated by human-induced #climatechange and socio-economic water stressors, has gripped West Asia, particularly Iran and the Euphrates-Tigris basin, leading to critical water scarcity.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/human-induce...
www.worldweatherattribution.org/human-induce...
Researchers have found that the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean are affected by #climatechange and are now warming at a rate too rapid to be explained by geothermal heating.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean
While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part ...
phys.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Researchers have found that the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean are affected by #climatechange and are now warming at a rate too rapid to be explained by geothermal heating.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#COP30, held in the Amazon, has seen a significant focus on the role of the private sector in climate adaptation and resilience finance, despite some doubts about the multilateral process's ability to deliver outcomes required by the Paris Agreement.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
Dispatch from COP30: In the Brazilian jungle, the private sector takes center stage
Throughout COP30, there has been a recognition that the public and private sectors cannot act alone when it comes to climate finance.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
#COP30, held in the Amazon, has seen a significant focus on the role of the private sector in climate adaptation and resilience finance, despite some doubts about the multilateral process's ability to deliver outcomes required by the Paris Agreement.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
Reposted by Charles Thistlethwaite
The memes write themselves:
Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The memes write themselves: