SSP tweeps: does SSP2-45 have a lot of CCS/BECCS in it? I've looked at the numbers and am shocked at how much there is. But I'd like to verify I'm not doing something dumb. cc: @pfriedling.bsky.social

Adam McKay will join us Climate Chat to talk about this next week! Looking forward to it, @ghostpanther.bsky.social

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 2d ago

Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

Have you been fooled by the lie? Do you think we have more time? Do you think we have 24 years? Don't sit silently inside it, the lie.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 2d ago

Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

"Scientists are still examining the precise mechanics of the Himalayan disaster, but many observe that glaciers and permafrost around the world are being weakened by global heating, caused by the burning of gas, oil and coal." Best mention the entire causation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn

Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe

theguardian.com

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 28, 2026 ~ Taking the Over. "The huge El Niño event that is currently growing could push about 50 million people worldwide into acute hunger before the end of next year due to the impact upon food production..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds

‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year

theguardian.com

These numbers are heartbreaking.  Thirty thousand excess deaths in Europe this summer. Time to move faster on climate. Join us in Amsterdam on Saturday 12 September as we march for action. europeangreens.eu/news/netherl...

1/6 I lean toward the idea that global warming, from burning fossil fuels, may genuinely be shifting ENSO's amplitude and frequency. Not fringe science — a growing, independent body of research points the same way.

Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest 1000-year archive from the Galápagos portends greater weather disruptions from the Pacific climate cycle www.science.org/content/arti...

Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest

1000-year archive from the Galápagos portends greater weather disruptions from the Pacific climate cycle

science.org

I've added a new interactive warming map to my Climate Dashboard, powered by the Berkeley Earth high-res (~25 km resolution) dataset. Click anywhere on the planet to see how temperatures have changed since 1850, and download data for that location in csv form: dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#map

Your daily reminder: "pragmatic" always = "more fossil fuels, even if it isn't actually the pragmatic choice". Constantly blurting out a plea to pragmatism is a modern form of climate delay that journalists should be pushing back on theconversation.com/politicians-...

Sorry for shouting but... THE ENTIRE POINT OF CCS IS TO ENABLE MORE FOSSIL FUEL USE. That it captures jack shit doesn't matter. All fossil fuel interests need to do is claim that the emissions their extraction produces will be removed from the atmosphere. At some point. Somehow.

#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell)@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧵1/ Lobbyists for carbon capture and storage (CCS) are trying to give Andy #Burnham a deceptively neat-looking get-out-of-jail-free card to drill Rosebank and Jackdaw - read more here substack.com/@graceblakel... Or click into the post below for 🧵 that explains its flawed carbon accounting

Wednesday El Niño update - not much change this week in the overall main story. Ocean temperatures in the key monitoring regions are at obvious record high levels, but remember, this is due to both the intensifying El Niño *and* long-term climate change warming of the tropics 🌊 Data: NOAA OISSTv2.1

A few thoughts after reading this Guardian piece: 1. Europe has had a brutal summer: extreme heat, wildfires, record temperatures and deaths linked to the heat. ...and yet you barely hear many political leaders talking about climate change. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

​W​hy are European leaders staying silent after our summer of climate shock?

Lethal temperatures ​and wildfires have exposed a widening gulf between voters demanding ​action and politicians unwilling to confront the long-term choices global heating requires

theguardian.com

A year ago, the Swiss town of Blatter was destroyed by an ice-rock avalanche. Now hundreds are missing Nepal owing to the same kind of disaster. This only going to become more common as the climate warms.

The 2025 Blatten disaster in the Swiss Alps followed exceptional warming and highlights the vulnerability of people and heritage in glaciated landscapes - Communications Earth & Environment

On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic metres of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. In the wake of the warmest decade since at least...

nature.com

A climate tragedy? The immediate trigger appears to have been a catastrophic glacier collapse. But Nepal has lost nearly a third of its ice in just over three decades as the Himalayas warm. The climate connection is potentially real. news.sky.com/video/nepal-...

Nepal floods: Climate change 'bursting' Himalayan glaciers

The Nepalese journalist Surendra Phuyal tells Sky News about the climate change link to 'one of the worst disasters in Nepal.'

news.sky.com

Temperatures in the area of the #Glacier Collapse have been increasing at about 2X the average global warming rate… about 5°F since 1940. While we need further investigation on this particular event, it’s clear glaciers around the World are becoming less stable. 1/

Because we aren’t lowering our carbon emissions, it will only get worse each year and its consequences will be globally devastating for marine life and our climate. Considering that we know how to stop this, it’s just insane that we continue to do nothing about it.

We are proud to release our latest annual update from Project Drawdown -- we are making huge progress to supercharge climate action through science! drawdown.org/publications...

Supercharge: Advancing Science-Based Solutions to Climate Change

We’re making inroads on the climate crisis! Download Project Drawdown’s annual update to read about exciting progress over the past year.

drawdown.org

Indonesia’s rainforests are home to peatland ecosystems which should be naturally resilient to fire...but drainage systems built to clear land for pulp and oil palm plantations have robbed the soil of its natural capacity to retain water… Fires on degraded peatlands are more difficult to control...

‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’

In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert

theguardian.com

It's too late for non-radical futures. A slide from a recent talk by @kevinclimate.bsky.social on the stark choice that faces us. You can view the whole talk here: youtu.be/ABptBPMWitU

August 2026 is on track to be the clear warmest August on record in the ERA5 dataset, which will be the first record setting month so far this year (but definitely not the last given the monster El Nino developing!): dashboard.theclimate...

Source: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work

As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...

projects.propublica.org

People like to talk about the “scenario models” of how we might stop climate change — even though these scenarios are only guesses, with no way to test them against reality. After all, the scenarios are based on assumptions about future technology, economics, policy, and behavior. Not physics.

The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way' “We need to be talking about some of the worst things that can happen” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way'

Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts as long as we continue to use gas, oil and coal at our curre...

independent.co.uk

1/5 I doubt there's an easy mechanism for shifting society toward using less energy — and I don't mean just less fossil energy. Swapping the source without shrinking total throughput runs into real physical limits. This isn't a comfortable priority, and no one just switches it on.

If you read a post like this and feel scared, or numb. That’s ok! Totally understandable. But have courage! Decide who you’ll be in this moment. Then turn your attention to the people or ideas blocking the phaseout of fossil fuels, and use your strengths to fight them and create a new world. 💚

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

The daily global average sea surface temperature has just reached its highest level on record, per C3S. "The timing of the record is particularly notable. Global ocean temperatures are typically highest in March and April, following the austral summer, yet this record has been reached in August."

No, No, No, No, NO! Carbon capture and storage does NOT reduce emissions All it does is lock-in fossil fuel usage and infrastructure, and facilitate business as usual As far as tackling the climate emergency is concerned, it is a con trick www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs

Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price, says economist Michael Jacobs

theguardian.com

Not loving seeing this record broken about 6 months ahead of schedule...

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

The daily global average sea surface temperature has just reached its highest level on record, per C3S. "The timing of the record is particularly notable. Global ocean temperatures are typically highest in March and April, following the austral summer, yet this record has been reached in August."

The Russian ticking climate bomb euvsdisinfo.eu/from-denial-... #ClimateBrawl