David Tindall
@dbtindall.bsky.social
UBC sociology professor. Environment, social networks, social movements. Tweets on environment, climate change, social and political issues, & some satire.
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For those who might be interested, I have a piece in the Conversation today on AI and climate change at COP 30: theconversation.com/artificial-i...
Artificial intelligence is front and centre at COP30
COP30 is the first conference where AI has been formally integrated as a central theme in the conference agenda.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For those who might be interested, I have a piece in the Conversation today on AI and climate change at COP 30: theconversation.com/artificial-i...
Canada wins the Fossil of the Day at the UN COP 30 meetings!
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Canada wins the Fossil of the Day at the UN COP 30 meetings!
A big protest by Amazonian Indigenous peoples this morning closed down the COP 30 venue for a while.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A big protest by Amazonian Indigenous peoples this morning closed down the COP 30 venue for a while.
Julie Dabrusin, Canada's Minster of Environment and Climate Change giving a speech at an event on the Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, at COP 30, Belem, Brazil.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Julie Dabrusin, Canada's Minster of Environment and Climate Change giving a speech at an event on the Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, at COP 30, Belem, Brazil.
Reposted by David Tindall
You thought the pictures from last night were incredible? Look at this!
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You thought the pictures from last night were incredible? Look at this!
Reposted by David Tindall
This was written after COP29 and it holds true for COP30, where the UNFCCC's outdated technocratic procedures clearly are not a match for this moment in Earth's history.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
COP Climate Talks Could Benefit From More Feminist Values, Less Focus on Tech Solutions, Experts Say - Inside Climate News
Addressing gender equity under existing United Nations initiatives could be one of the best ways to improve outcomes of the annual global climate talks.
insideclimatenews.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This was written after COP29 and it holds true for COP30, where the UNFCCC's outdated technocratic procedures clearly are not a match for this moment in Earth's history.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
Al Gore presenting at COP 23.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Al Gore presenting at COP 23.
Protest against carbon markets outside the COP 30 venue this morning.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Protest against carbon markets outside the COP 30 venue this morning.
Participants marching in to COP 30 in Belém, Brazil.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Participants marching in to COP 30 in Belém, Brazil.
They are not messing around at COP 30
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
They are not messing around at COP 30
The COP 30 arrival tunnel at the airport
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The COP 30 arrival tunnel at the airport
I've arrived in Belem (after three of travel)
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I've arrived in Belem (after three of travel)
Reposted by David Tindall
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget.
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget.
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Reposted by David Tindall
Confused or curious about the Bill Gates climate memo? I've got you covered! TOMORROW at 1:30pm PT, I'm talking with 4 great scientists. Sign up for an important convo w/ @katharinehayhoe.com @kimcobb.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social @weatherwest.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...
The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now
Ahead of this month’s COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that effort to reducing emissions a...
coveringclimatenow.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Confused or curious about the Bill Gates climate memo? I've got you covered! TOMORROW at 1:30pm PT, I'm talking with 4 great scientists. Sign up for an important convo w/ @katharinehayhoe.com @kimcobb.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social @weatherwest.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...
Another take on the Gates essay: time.com/7330386/bill...
There's More Than Meets the Eye in Bill Gates' Climate Memo
In the memo’s first page, Gates dismissed, in his words, the “doomsday view” that climate change would “decimate civilization”
time.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Another take on the Gates essay: time.com/7330386/bill...
This is a pretty good response to the Bill Gates piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
Opinion | Bill Gates Has a Point
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is a pretty good response to the Bill Gates piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...