Dr. Aaron Thierry
@thierryaaron.bsky.social
Graduate student at Cardiff University - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
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My first comment piece in @theguardian.com is on a topic very close to my heart; the threat that the #ClimateCrisis poses to my local community in South Wales.
Here's a thread with a few extra thoughts from me 🧵
Here's a thread with a few extra thoughts from me 🧵
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“…the IPCC say carbon removal is not…a replacement for reducing emissions. [But some corporations] talk about carbon removal…as a way of undoing their emissions.”
@ketanjoshi.co
Listen now: overshootpod.com
@ketanjoshi.co
Listen now: overshootpod.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“…the IPCC say carbon removal is not…a replacement for reducing emissions. [But some corporations] talk about carbon removal…as a way of undoing their emissions.”
@ketanjoshi.co
Listen now: overshootpod.com
@ketanjoshi.co
Listen now: overshootpod.com
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“…not only do we transfer a huge risk to future generations in terms of climate impacts, but we also burden them with taking CO2 out of the atmosphere…”
- Michael Obersteiner
Listen now: overshootpod.com
- Michael Obersteiner
Listen now: overshootpod.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“…not only do we transfer a huge risk to future generations in terms of climate impacts, but we also burden them with taking CO2 out of the atmosphere…”
- Michael Obersteiner
Listen now: overshootpod.com
- Michael Obersteiner
Listen now: overshootpod.com
"Morocco, which has endured seven years of drought, plans to supply 60% of its drinking water from treated seawater by 2030"
#Morocco 🇲🇦
#ClimateCrisis
#Morocco 🇲🇦
#ClimateCrisis
Drought-hit Morocco turns to desalination to boost drinking water supplies - TRT Afrika English
Droughts have dried up some of Morocco's main water reservoirs and depleted underground resources.
www.trtafrika.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"Morocco, which has endured seven years of drought, plans to supply 60% of its drinking water from treated seawater by 2030"
#Morocco 🇲🇦
#ClimateCrisis
#Morocco 🇲🇦
#ClimateCrisis
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🌊 Serendipity often drives science forward.
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antartica’s melting glaciers
Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us estimate global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🌊 Serendipity often drives science forward.
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.
What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.
theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
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If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️
"The government has just announced it will divert two rivers to provide drinking water for #Athens. Years of low rainfall have left the city nearly dry."
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
Athens runs dry: Years of low rainfall have left Greek capital parched
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"The government has just announced it will divert two rivers to provide drinking water for #Athens. Years of low rainfall have left the city nearly dry."
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
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I will be giving the final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of 2025 "Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems." 10th Dec 2:30pm UK time. You can join remotely👇
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I will be giving the final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of 2025 "Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems." 10th Dec 2:30pm UK time. You can join remotely👇
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
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"I did not resign to make a symbolic point," writes Dr. Debra Houry, former chief medical officer of the CDC. "I resigned because staying silent would have made me complicit." 🛟 🧪 time.com/7338714/dr-d...
I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True
"Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."
time.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"I did not resign to make a symbolic point," writes Dr. Debra Houry, former chief medical officer of the CDC. "I resigned because staying silent would have made me complicit." 🛟 🧪 time.com/7338714/dr-d...
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NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports
Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports
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Nice work @dogwoodbc.bsky.social! Thanks for carrying this message: youtube.com/shorts/TfKMM...
Malaysia Does Not Need Canadian LNG
YouTube video by Dogwood
youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Nice work @dogwoodbc.bsky.social! Thanks for carrying this message: youtube.com/shorts/TfKMM...
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🎙️ Overshoot is now live on YouTube!
Episode 3 — The Minsky Moment 📉
What do the people in charge think is going to happen?
Watch now: youtu.be/0aSIuga9qBw
Episode 3 — The Minsky Moment 📉
What do the people in charge think is going to happen?
Watch now: youtu.be/0aSIuga9qBw
Episode 3: The Minsky Moment
YouTube video by Overshoot Podcast
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🎙️ Overshoot is now live on YouTube!
Episode 3 — The Minsky Moment 📉
What do the people in charge think is going to happen?
Watch now: youtu.be/0aSIuga9qBw
Episode 3 — The Minsky Moment 📉
What do the people in charge think is going to happen?
Watch now: youtu.be/0aSIuga9qBw
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Story for Rolling Stone about climate threats to the Jersey Shore - signals what's ahead for the East Coast: rising risks, shortage of public money to adjust, and built-in incentives to keep the status quo in place. Plus: attachment to a place full of memories. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Story for Rolling Stone about climate threats to the Jersey Shore - signals what's ahead for the East Coast: rising risks, shortage of public money to adjust, and built-in incentives to keep the status quo in place. Plus: attachment to a place full of memories. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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"Across northwestern Africa’s sun-blasted rim, the Maghreb, six years of drought have slashed wheat yields, forcing countries such as #Morocco, #Algeria and #Tunisia to import more grain, even as global prices rise."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region - Inside Climate News
Foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.
insideclimatenews.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Across northwestern Africa’s sun-blasted rim, the Maghreb, six years of drought have slashed wheat yields, forcing countries such as #Morocco, #Algeria and #Tunisia to import more grain, even as global prices rise."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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"Thank God, smoke is rising from the lofty chimeys," 🏭😶🌫️☠️
There have always been those who have foolishly sought to justify pollution as the price of progress.
The argument was as absurd in the 19th century as it is today.
Extract from: "The Burning Earth" point👇
There have always been those who have foolishly sought to justify pollution as the price of progress.
The argument was as absurd in the 19th century as it is today.
Extract from: "The Burning Earth" point👇
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
"Thank God, smoke is rising from the lofty chimeys," 🏭😶🌫️☠️
There have always been those who have foolishly sought to justify pollution as the price of progress.
The argument was as absurd in the 19th century as it is today.
Extract from: "The Burning Earth" point👇
There have always been those who have foolishly sought to justify pollution as the price of progress.
The argument was as absurd in the 19th century as it is today.
Extract from: "The Burning Earth" point👇
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Bonkers stuff in the NSS. It is like a far-right caricature of itself. The Trump admin believes it needs to save Europe from itself by backing far-right forces within Europe.
As State Dept reprograms funding, get ready for the US to be the funders of far-right civil society in Europe.
As State Dept reprograms funding, get ready for the US to be the funders of far-right civil society in Europe.
The new US National Security Strategy makes for scary reading. I wrote about how the US wants to support forces in Europe to tear itself apart back in November 2024, and last May. This NSS confirms that's exactly the US objective for Europe.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Bonkers stuff in the NSS. It is like a far-right caricature of itself. The Trump admin believes it needs to save Europe from itself by backing far-right forces within Europe.
As State Dept reprograms funding, get ready for the US to be the funders of far-right civil society in Europe.
As State Dept reprograms funding, get ready for the US to be the funders of far-right civil society in Europe.
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Hang on, Starmer is implying the Supreme Court ruling *that emissions from burning fossil fuels should be considered as part of the impact of drilling* is 'misguided'? It's not fluffy do-goodery, it's based on hard, inconvenient facts.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
Nooooo! Don't scrap the Finch ruling!
Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.
Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.
2/2 🧵 However, the recommendations include a proposal to scrap the landmark Finch climate ruling and make changes to key green regulations.
What you need to know ⬇️
What you need to know ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hang on, Starmer is implying the Supreme Court ruling *that emissions from burning fossil fuels should be considered as part of the impact of drilling* is 'misguided'? It's not fluffy do-goodery, it's based on hard, inconvenient facts.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
We need environmental protections to protect the irreplaceable.
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This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?
UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
www.chemistryworld.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?
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The new US National Security Strategy mentions climate change once:
"We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The new US National Security Strategy mentions climate change once:
"We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
"As you can see, none of the @who.int guidelines set 4 years ago are even considered as UK targets by 2030. This is not adequate to save lives and will lead to greater numbers of deaths from air pollution than stronger targets would" - Dr. @peteknapp.bsky.social
Government’s air quality Plan puts the economy ahead of health
Dr Peter Knapp – air quality scientist, journalist and filmmaker – provides a damning response to the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan, which was published yesterday. The important and nece...
airqualitynews.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"As you can see, none of the @who.int guidelines set 4 years ago are even considered as UK targets by 2030. This is not adequate to save lives and will lead to greater numbers of deaths from air pollution than stronger targets would" - Dr. @peteknapp.bsky.social
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Why would a government want to scrap juries?
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Why would a government want to scrap juries?
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
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Upcoming screening of 'Fires and Fascism' with me and a panel attending for a discussion afterwards about community and the far right.
Brighton, Tue 9 Dec, 6pm
Dukes at Komedia
£10.85
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@xrbrighton.bsky.social
@brightonnews.bsky.social
@sianberry.bsky.social
Brighton, Tue 9 Dec, 6pm
Dukes at Komedia
£10.85
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@xrbrighton.bsky.social
@brightonnews.bsky.social
@sianberry.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Upcoming screening of 'Fires and Fascism' with me and a panel attending for a discussion afterwards about community and the far right.
Brighton, Tue 9 Dec, 6pm
Dukes at Komedia
£10.85
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@xrbrighton.bsky.social
@brightonnews.bsky.social
@sianberry.bsky.social
Brighton, Tue 9 Dec, 6pm
Dukes at Komedia
£10.85
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@xrbrighton.bsky.social
@brightonnews.bsky.social
@sianberry.bsky.social
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How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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💪 Together, we can fight back against fossil fuel lobbyists. But we need your support.
🗓️ Until 9 Dec every £ you donate to Zero Hour's urgent campaign for climate and nature will be doubled—thanks to the @biggive.bsky.social!
🌍 One donation—double the impact.
👉 donate.biggive.org/donate/a05WS...
🗓️ Until 9 Dec every £ you donate to Zero Hour's urgent campaign for climate and nature will be doubled—thanks to the @biggive.bsky.social!
🌍 One donation—double the impact.
👉 donate.biggive.org/donate/a05WS...
December 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
💪 Together, we can fight back against fossil fuel lobbyists. But we need your support.
🗓️ Until 9 Dec every £ you donate to Zero Hour's urgent campaign for climate and nature will be doubled—thanks to the @biggive.bsky.social!
🌍 One donation—double the impact.
👉 donate.biggive.org/donate/a05WS...
🗓️ Until 9 Dec every £ you donate to Zero Hour's urgent campaign for climate and nature will be doubled—thanks to the @biggive.bsky.social!
🌍 One donation—double the impact.
👉 donate.biggive.org/donate/a05WS...