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Mark Lubell
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Professor Mark Lubell co-directs the UC Davis Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior. Water, agriculture, climate, conservation, social science. Thinkology. Advocate for truth and evidence. https://environmentalpolicy.ucdavis.edu/ .. more

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Erika Wise @wiseclimate.bsky.social · 17h
New paper in ERL led by Feng Wang evaluating gridded daily climate products. Interesting results include: 1) how day-shifting affects the records; 2) Pierce vs Livneh precip data (a surprise!); and 3) differences don’t really matter for tree growth modeling. doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Evaluation of daily gridded climate products using in situ FLUXNET data and tree growth modeling
Evaluation of daily gridded climate products using in situ FLUXNET data and tree growth modeling, Wang, Feng, Wise, Erika K, Anchukaitis, Kevin J, Chang, Qing, Dannenberg, Matthew P
doi.org

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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 17h
Reasons for climate optimism – part 20

In many countries where climate policy is lagging, sub-national actors are taking the lead, helping catalyze progress on the national level (see figure from IPCC AR6 WG3 report).

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Gavin A. Schmidt, Peter Jacobs

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 17h
Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
DOE scientists blasted climate report ordered up by boss
Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five climate contrarians to write about global warming. Department experts pushed back on the findings.
www.eenews.net

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Jonas Geschke @jgeschke.bsky.social · 17h
Stakeholder participation in @ipbes.net: connecting local environmental work with global decision making

📑 doi.org/10.1080/2639...

#IPBES12

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 17h
Whether offering protection from climate change, supporting livelihoods, biodiversity, & more, mangroves benefit us all.

@fao.org & experts have mapped the current state of mangrove forests & how they have changed over time 👉 https://bit.ly/3QdrWRU

#WorldWetlandsDay

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18h
First, communities are rightfully worried that big tech will simple abandon the facility when AI bubble bursts.

Second, data centers are terrible neighbors. Increasing electricity prices, limited job prospects after construction, noise, high water stress, air pollution.

Why would anyone want it?
These Rural Americans Are Trying to Hold Back the Tide of AI
Fearing rising utility costs, job losses and privacy violations, residents have blocked or delayed data-center projects around the country.
www.wsj.com

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Priestley Centre for Climate Futures @priestleycentre.bsky.social · 18h
Access to trees and greenspaces is consistently low across English cities according to a new study led by the Uni of Leeds
Researchers used a recognised 3-part framework for measuring greenspace & found that only 2% of buildings in any city met all rule components
climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/access-...
access to trees and greenspaces in english cities far behind other nations “By aligning new tree and greenspace targets with the baseline identified in this study, we can make sure we improve access to the full range of benefits, from climate mitigation to improved health and wellbeing.” lead author and priestley member elle smith

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 1d
Just in case you didn’t need another parallel between Trump fascism and Nazi germany, enter the Melania movie which would surely be cheered by Leni Riefenstahl www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...
Leni Riefenstahl made movies for Hitler. A new documentary digs through her archives
Adolf Hitler commissioned filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to make propaganda about Nazi Germany. She lived to be 101 years old and denied knowing about the Holocaust.
www.npr.org

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Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · 4d
We need $484 billion/year for nature-based climate solutions by 2030. But how do you convince investors when a single cyclone can erase years of restoration? Jordan Holdorf's new paper shows adaptive timing of investments can make risky projects financially viable.
Adaptive temporal optimization of restoration investments with blue carbon returns and climate risks
This framework provides a tool for conservation scientists to develop adaptive investment plans for restoration projects under climate risk. Using project-specific data, it shows how carbon markets c...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Dan Brockington, Mark Lubell

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 6d
New online! Environmental data justice is key for developing more effective area-based conservation approaches
Environmental data justice is key for developing more effective area-based conservation approaches
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00126-wScientists disagree about area-based conservation’s role in addressing biodiversity loss. This Perspective examines how conservation scientists, land systems scientists and political ecologists approach these debates differently and argues that environmental data justice frameworks can bridge epistemic divides, helping researchers to develop more effective and equitable conservation interventions.
dlvr.it

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 6d
Carbon capture does not reduce emissions - three case studies to prove it. Instead, carbon capture causes more harm than good, and only serves to prolong fossil-fuel industries

Edited excerpts from "Still No Miracles Needed"

www.landclimate.org/ccs-no-mirac... @landclimate.bsky.social
Carbon capture does not reduce emissions: these three case studies prove it - Land and Climate Review
Carbon capture causes more harm than good, and only serves to prolong fossil fuel industries, argues Professor Mark Z. Jacobson.
www.landclimate.org

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Mark Lubell

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 6d
NEW RESEARCH: Climate change on track to slash global crop yields by 24% before 2100.

Like, within the lifespan of your kids.

Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this.

agupdate.com/agriview/mar...
Climate change will devastate crop yields
A sweeping new analysis finds that warming global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops, even after accounting for economic development and adaptation by
agupdate.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6d
“If the 2C threshold is breached, the new dataset indicates the number of people experiencing extreme heat will increase from 1.54 billion people (which was 23% of the world population in 2010) to 3.79 billion (41% of the projected world population in 2050).” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds
Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · 6d
Whenever it floods, the UK media uses images of York. It is meant to look terrible, shocking, scary.

But this is an image of resilience. You can see this scene every few weeks in winter! This is York being flexible, a flood being inconvenient but not damaging. York gets on with it.
Screenshot of BBC News' live coverage of Storm Chandra. Photo shows a part of York flooded.

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · 6d
Avoiding major tipping points in the Climate Emergency requires more ambitious Climate targets which are achieved quickly: insideclimatenews.org/news/2701202...
Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets - Inside Climate News
Researchers say a line has been crossed. For systems like coral reefs and ice sheets, the climate is already past safe.
insideclimatenews.org

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 6d
Snow leopard 1, idiot tourist 0. Sadly snow leopards have a much lower score against humans overall. They better not go after this leopard www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/c...
Snow leopard attacks skier in China’s Xinjiang region | CNN
A tourist was attacked by a rare snow leopard in northwest China on Friday after trying to get closer for a photo, according to authorities and state media.
www.cnn.com

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 6d
The US is now formally out of the Paris Agreement, one year after it triggered the exit process from the climate treaty.

It has subsequently announced it will also withdraw from the UNFCCC and IPCC.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 6d
Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade

- Campaigners @cleancitiescampaign.org say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
www.theguardian.com

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Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · 7d
Curious about source attribution, but only 3 minutes, article or podcast? Here is a summary on how fossil fuels companies have contributed to heatwaves.
Article on The Academic Minute: academicminute.org/yann-quilcal...
Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6hqp...
Yann Quilcalle, ETH Zurich – How Fossil Fuel Companies Have Contributed to Heatwaves
open.spotify.com

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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 7d
I‘m baffled by this piece whether the assault on US 🇺🇸 climate policy will have long-lasting effects.

Sure, executive orders might be reversed by the next administration, but the destruction of social infrastructure and technical capacity for science & governance will last for decades…
Is Trump’s assault on climate and clean energy reversible?
The president’s rollbacks of climate rules and renewable-energy incentives have made headlines, but executive action is much less durable than legislation.
www.canarymedia.com

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 8d
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
heated.world

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 13d
Sarcasm right?

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Bezos deserves to be at the center of the inferno 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 13d
Climate Change May Trigger Fatal Nest Competition Between Two Bird Species

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #behavior #reproduction🪺 #ClimateChange grrlscientist.medium.com/climate-chan...
Climate Change May Trigger Fatal Nest Competition Between Two Bird Species
Because climate change is causing nesting seasons overlap, serious conflicts over nest cavities transform cute little birds into vicious…
grrlscientist.medium.com

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Neil Ward @profneilward.bsky.social · 13d
"Without significant increases in UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food" - says Joint Intelligence Cttee. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#afnnetwork.bsky.social
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
www.theguardian.com

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François Bareille @fbareille.bsky.social · 13d
Promise made, promise kept.
Here’s a short thread on our new Ecological Economics paper (with @mzavalloni.bsky.social ):
"The value of cooperation for biodiversity conservation policies"

👉Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl
e/pii/S0921800925003842

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sciencedirect.com

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 13d
Water bankruptcy. In a world filled good news and peace(not), we might as well pile on. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/20/c...
The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences | CNN
Over-allocation of water, chronic groundwater depletion, pollution and climate change have pushed the world into a drastic situation, a new United Nations report finds.
edition.cnn.com

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NPR @npr.org · 13d
Cheap gasoline, yes. Drill, baby, drill? Not so much. And electricity bills are going up, not down. n.pr/4qz3iKP
Trump promised to cut energy bills in half. One year later, has he delivered?
Cheap gasoline, yes. Drill, baby, drill? Not so much. And electricity bills are going up, not down.
n.pr

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ferracimo.bsky.social @ferracimo.bsky.social · 13d
Worried about the role of science in a world on fire and under rising fascism? Then come to my lunch talk tomorrow, Jan 21 at 12 PM CET, with @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social on Researcher's Desk, where we'll talk about my new book Science in Resistance. Open to all! us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178
Notebook with info about my talk tomorrow, on Jan 21 at 12 PM on zoom Cover of my book Science in Resistance

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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 13d
Job alert! We're recruiting for a #lecturer in marine conservation to direct our new #Marine #Conservation MSc and have the ?pleasure of working with me 'cos I run the Wildlife Conservation MSc. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF022/l... 🧪 We're friendly and you can still buy a house on an academic salary here!
www.jobs.ac.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13d
Antarctic warming from fossil fuel burning is driving the fastest breeding shift ever seen in penguins. Gentoo, Adelie, and Chinstrap penguins are nesting up to 24 days earlier. This increases competition for food and space, helping Gentoos expand but threatening Chinstrap and Adelie.
Penguins bring forward breeding season as Antarctica warms: study
Penguins are bringing forward their breeding season at record rates as Antarctica rapidly warms due to climate change, according to research published by a global team of scientists on Tuesday.
www.rfi.fr