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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 1d

National Geographic had indicated they would buy the exclusive rights to this series, but new owners Disney decided that “climate and environment are no longer priorities for us”.

Thankfully Al Jazeera saw the value in the series and bought it. But …

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 1d

Global Warning now on Al Jazeera.

Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 9h

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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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 9h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 18h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7h

In an era of climate disruption, the central task of government must evolve. In addition to defending fundamental freedoms, a core purpose of government must be to restore balance between humanity, our societies, and fragile Earth systems.

open.substack.com/pub/daveinde...

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 7h

Great this is being noticed but the framing in these stories that centre on Farage's own words rather than the issue itself tells you all you need to know about the appalling coverage of the far right and the role the mainstream media play in enabling its rise and mainstreaming

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 7h

Temperatures were warmer than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average in September 2025 across northern Canada and into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The southern route of the Northwest Passage was ice-free and open for transit this past melt season.

Data freely available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Regional map of the Canadian Arctic showing September 2025 temperature anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average northeast of Hudson Bay. Anomalies are calculated to a 1981-2010 baseline with red being warmer than average, and blue being colder than average.

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

From this piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social

"If you grow an acre of corn, it will produce 900gal of ethanol, which will get you about 25k miles for a Ford F-150 pickup ...But let’s say we put solar on that same acre. It will produce enough electricity every year to drive my Lightning 550k miles”

Forty Acres and a Sense of Hope

Sunshine on a Cloudy Week

billmckibben.substack.com

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

From this piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social

"If you grow an acre of corn, it will produce 900gal of ethanol, which will get you about 25k miles for a Ford F-150 pickup ...But let’s say we put solar on that same acre. It will produce enough electricity every year to drive my Lightning 550k miles”

Forty Acres and a Sense of Hope

Sunshine on a Cloudy Week

billmckibben.substack.com

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Max Boykoff @maxboykoff.bsky.social · 7h

We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Dept of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in energy & environmental policy, and emphases on sustainability & decarbonization. The job ad is here, apply by the Nov 14 deadline! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies

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Planet B @planetbproductions.bsky.social · 8h

*PICK OF THE WEEK*

Our four-part documentary series, @overshootpod.bsky.social is the @theguardian.com podcast 'pick of the week' 💥🎙️

Listen now 👇
overshootpod.com

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 9h

The confidence of the host shows exactly how easy it is to promote bigotry through refusing to accept that the world *is* way more complicated than we know. Sex isn’t a binary, let alone gender. Doubling down to defend oversimplifications designed for school kids is quite a choice for an adult.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21h

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO

If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’

www.nwo.nl

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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 10d

Bit of an awkward coincidence that our paper comes out on the day Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap the UK Climate Change Act, but perhaps provides also a bit of an explanation:

Many UK politicians, and Tories especially, still don't fully grasp the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions!
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 10d

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com

UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.

@tyndallcentre.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social
@climateuea.bsky.social

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Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions

Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...

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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 2d

UK MPs “overwhelmingly overestimate the time period humanity has left to bend the temperature curve”, according to new research published this week.

Is your MP one of these? They need to attend the National Emergency Briefing on 27 November

Go to: www.nebriefing.org to send them an invitation

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Özden Terli @terliwetter.bsky.social · 1d

Maritime Stratocumulus Wolken verschwinden, das ist schlecht, denn sie wirken kühlend. Ist der Ozean wärmer lösen sich die Wolken weiter auf und der Ozean erwärmt sich. Eine gefährliche Kettenreaktion, die sich global auswirkt.

Details im Video. #globaleErhitzung #Klimakatastrophe

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 13h

The approval of new coal and gas follows the UNFCCC “SSP5 - Fossil Fueled Development” scenario. which means *at least* 2.7°C, but more likely ~4°C by 2100
The government’s NCRA has made it clear that even 2°C, let alone 3°C, is disastrous for our environment, society and massively expensive

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 19h

The Climate Council identifies another 38 new or expanded coal projects seeking federal government approval. Collectively, they would produce more than 5.7 billion tonnes of coal over their lifetimes, equivalent to more than 14 years of current production. satpa.pe/EC2PaCk

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

Biofuels are a bad climate solution and a huge waste of land, food and millions in subsidies. Burning crops for fuel only pushes us further away from our climate goals.

But biofuel production is only growing across the planet.
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

By 2030, biofuels are projected to emit 70 MtCO2e more than the fossil fuels they replace.

That’s the same as the emissions from almost 30 million diesel cars.
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20h

"Americans’ views of the public health bureaucracy took a real hit during Covid, and trust in various institutions has become increasingly partisan. Mr. Kennedy positions himself as the bulwark between individual families and the various institutions out to curtail their liberty"

Opinion | Every 100 Years America Produces a Robert Kennedy Jr.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20h

@dwallacewells.bsky.social maps out how the response to the pandemic led to the emergence of :

"A growing health libertarianism [that] insists on bodily autonomy, out of anger about pandemic mitigation and faith that personal behavior can ward off infection and death"

Opinion | How Covid Remade America

It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20h

A case can be made that the rise of MAHA is fallout from COVID-19

"Americans have become more individualistic, more conspiracy-minded, and less committed to collective social effort. This new social Darwinism helped elect Donald Trump—and now it’s being put into practice by RFK Jr. and Elon Musk"

How Covid Sickened the National Psyche

While the US was a troubled nation long before the coronavirus, our failure to treat the pandemic as an enduring emergency helped birth this nasty moment.

www.thenation.com

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus wept, as my mother used to say.

Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 2d

The planet is on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster, but we’ve run out of time to discuss that I’m afraid.

#bbcqt @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Adrian Polglase @adrianpolglase.com · 11d

We've been undercover in the UK's biggest police force revealing evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at Met Police's Charing Cross station. Here's my article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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