Matthew McClure
matthewmcclure777.bsky.social
Matthew McClure
@matthewmcclure777.bsky.social
Retired geek. Helped start the WELL, early social media. Also helped start The Farm in Tennessee, a large hippie commune. Now I play with my dog.
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#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight")

Proposed late additions to agenda:

* trade
* finance
* deforestation
* ambition
* reporting

Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!)

This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵

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November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
". . . satellite monitoring shows that this relationship is a two-way street. Climate change itself is increasingly leading to the loss and degradation of forests, grasslands, wetlands, rivers and even farms, creating a dangerous feedback loop."
Land Use Changed the Climate. Now Climate’s Changing the Land
Land-use change has long been recognized as a major contributor to global warming. Deforestation and agriculture alone account for nearly 25% of human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
www.wri.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"... The plan for a global just transition to phase out fossil fuels is gaining momentum in Belém
We stand at a crossroads unlike any other in human history. After 30 COPs and a decade since the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel production continues to rise, pushing the world further into climate chaos."
COP30 — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
fossilfueltreaty.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🆘Hi I’m Bruce & I’m on Euth List
I have 1-2 days b4 I’m murdered unless we find a foster ASAP

4 Potential Rescuers/Adopters:
Trainable: Only 2 y/o
full of life & energy, eager 4 guidance.
Smart/Food-Motivated: Responds 2 treats & will benefit w/ positive, reward training
Luvs playtime
❤️Pls Repost🙏
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Senate Dems who voted to end the shutdown without extending ACA subsidies took in a third of airlines’ PAC-driven election spending last year.
levernews.com/airlines-fav...
Airlines’ Favorite Democrats Just Voted To End The Shutdown
The Senate Dems who voted to end the shutdown without extending ACA subsidies took in a third of airlines’ PAC-driven election spending last year.
levernews.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Facts would like a word.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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PALMIER needs ur REPOSTS 2 find an E coast foster wholl save him from @nycacc.bsky.social a DEATH CAMP 4 DOGS, wholl slaughter this baby too.

Vet, travel, food, training, PD BY RESCUE‼️

NO EXPENSES 4 YOU‼️

🙏REPOST, begging you to help save him🙏

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
BAN KILL SHELTERS
youtube.com/shorts/fXMXS...

I can go on a Starbucks strike too! I can protest TRUMP- I can be your bestest friend if you just save my life! Email [email protected] 4my notes! Pls repost me! Running out of time!
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I dealt with a lot of fossil-fuel propaganda in my book, but the lie that “by doing what we’re already doing we’ve avoided the bad outcomes” has in the past two years turned out to be the most popular and the most pernicious of all the disinformation I discussed.
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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NEW REPORT:
🔥 AMAZONIA IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION 🔥
Every tree that falls brings us closer to the point of no return, where the jungle will stop producing life and begin to die.
🌎 The Amazon cannot wait any longer. We need to protect and restore at least 80% before 2030.
amazonwatch.org/news/2025/11...
Endangered Amazonía | Amazon Watch
This report, a collection of 22 articles from Indigenous organizations, researchers, journalists, and international organizations, shows forest degradation and fires have not only pushed the Amazon be...
amazonwatch.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"A keenly awaited plan to mobilise $1.3 trillion a year in climate finance for developing nations by 2035 could spark a “positive tipping point” that drives an exponential shift in global climate funding, COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago said on Wednesday as the document was unveiled."
Roadmap to $1.3 trillion seeks to tip climate finance scales but way forward unclear
A new report shows how the world could deliver a big funding boost for developing nations by 2035, yet lacks a firm plan to implement its ideas A new report lays out how the world could deliver a big ...
www.climatechangenews.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
". . . Some 17 per cent of the Amazon’s forest cover has vanished in the past 50 years, swallowed up for farmland, logging and mining."
Leaders of world’s biggest polluters are no-shows as heads of state gather for UN climate summit
World leaders descending on the United Nations annual climate summit in Brazil on Thursday will not need to see much more than the view from their airplane window to sense the unfathomable stakes.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable. n.pr/47pRO3G
Could smaller families 'rewild' the planet — and make humans happier?
Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable.
n.pr
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Jaeger still needs a 2-wk temporary foster! His owner found housing for them but needs a temporary foster to save his life! Can you keep reposting him? Can someone pls just open your home 4a short time?
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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HELP🆘‼️
“Cinnamon Spice” is scared as hell as if she knows her fate if no one steps up immediately to save her!
She’s a loyal/loving sweetheart who just needs a caring #Foster to #Rescue her from KILL-Command List

PLEASE REPOST 2 SAVE HER‼️
🌟Transport2your home/Food/Vet Provided!
EAST COAST!
#Dogs
She is now going to be EUTHANIZED! I NEED AN EAST COASTER TO PLEASE SAVE MY Little HERO! Please. REPOST HER! They will kill this precious girl by tomorrow!

Help me save her!
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Two Paws- knocking on deaths door and we must save him! This is my little dude- he’s not in the World Series but he needs you 2b his hero! NY NH NE ME DE DC PA VA VT RI MD -transport/vet/food provided- I’ll be defeated if he’s killed! BEGGING 2save him! HE IS GOING 2die there- pls REPOST HIM!
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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New paper on the much lower cost, even in different climate zones, of 100% renewable microgrids that include heat pumps, battery storage, hydrogen storage with fuel cells, and thermal-energy storage, vs microgrids powered by diesel generators.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Minimizing the multi-decadal cost of islanded renewable-electricity microgrids for different climate zones
The aim of this study is to minimize the cost of developing a renewable energy islanded microgrid that provides reliable electricity and thermal comfo…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Australia overtakes United Kingdom to rank 3rd behind China and the United States in utility-scale battery capacity

Australia 14 GW/37 GWh of projects at / nearing financial close

(Current operating: 8,616 MW / 18,121 MWh)

pv-magazine.com/2025/10/21/a...

ping @mzjacobson.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Just a reminder that the sun shines, the wind blows, the water flows, and the Earth creates heat every day

206 days in 2025 so far with WindWaterSolar exceeding 100% of demand on CA's main grid for part of the day, averaging 3.9 among all 298 days in 2025

And fossil gas is down 37.4% in 2 y
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Why Ethanol for Vehicles, Even With Carbon Capture, Increases CO2 and Pollution and Should be Abandoned

Ethanol damages climate & air quality, raises costs, & requires enormous land vs battery-electric vehicles powered by wind or solar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6E1...
Why Ethanol for Vehicles, Even With Carbon Capture, Increases CO2 & Pollution & Should be Abandoned
YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Clean electricity creating clean air keeps coming

202 of 293 days (69%) in 2025 w/WWS meeting >100% of demand for part of day, including 6 days straight

Gas down 18.4% v '24 & 37.4% v '23

In-state WWS supplying 54.4% of all demand in 2025, plus 58% of 12.63% of imports, so really 61.7% of demand
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM