"You can't be saying these deals are still compatible with net-zero by 2050. They're not. The deal is not compatible with it. Just be honest with Canadians about this." said @simondonner.bsky.social @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca www.cbc.ca/news/politic... via @cbcnews.ca

'Be honest with Canadians': Ex-member of top climate body criticizes Alberta pipeline deal | CBC News

A former member of Canada's top climate body said the pipeline deal Canada signed with Alberta is incompatible with Carney government's net-zero target.

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Urban Future Walks will start TOMORROW! Haven’t registered yet? Please go to urbanfuturewalks.com to secure your spot! Chances to enter a lottery to win $100CAD, free guided tour experience (walking or virtual), complimentary snacks! Come and join us this summer!

My article about the changes to the summer season in our warming climate was just published in @ca.theconversation.com. It was a fun and rewarding experience to reframe our research for a general audience and to highlight impacts and encourage action. Comment here or there and I might even reply 😊

The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 4mo ago

Summers are getting longer each year, and it isn’t all fun and games

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Six more days of summer every decade. Ted Scott breaks it down across multiple interviews...Keep watching for Australia’s climate change minister's reaction. Study: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Even the @theguardian.com First Dog on the Moon's Brenda knows longer summers are not just fun and games: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Longer summers are not just more time to spend eating watermelon. No! It’s far more sinister! | First Dog on the Moon

We have done so much climate change research, if they made a big pile of it you could climb up to the afternoon sun and tape a sheet over it to cool things down

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Ted Scott @climate-ted.bsky.social analyzed temp data from 1961-2023. The works points to urgent questions: What will earlier spring heat mean for food supply? Do today’s climate models that inform planning and policy fully capture these trends or do they need updating? news.ubc.ca/2026/04/summ...

Do you have the sense that summers feel different than when you were younger? That they start quickly, and remain intense until the fall? You’re not wrong. (thread)

Ah, looks like thankfully there was some climate talk at the MSC afterall

Erin Sikorsky@erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sikorsky said such impacts are already straining security systems worldwide, noting that “militaries around the world (are) deployed to respond to climate disasters,” while competition over food and water resources is intensifying geopolitical tensions. www.turkiyetoday.com/world/climat...

Unfortunate that climate is taking a backseat in Munich when climate change is fueling conflict throughout the globe. A great reminder in this essay!

Chatham House@chathamhouse.org · 6mo ago

At the Munich Security Conference this weekend – long a barometer for global security priorities – climate change is absent. Recent global climate trends offer a warning. https://bit.ly/467M9Q7

For his next trick, Trump's going to spend the rest of the day deleting greenhouse gas absorption bands with a Sharpie! Maybe he can open the atmospheric window wide enough to cool the planet -- thank you for your attention to this matter, Mr. President!

I found the nature commentary provocative and useful in identifying a target metric with positive framing, but this thread makes a strong case for keeping 1.5C alive. Why not use both?

Bill Hare@billhare.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A commentary in @nature.com argues the 1.5°C temperature limit has “outlived its usefulness” because we’re headed towards overshoot and should be replaced by a “clean-energy shift” metric. That’s the wrong diagnosis. Here is why. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I suspect if COPs were switched to a majority voting model instead of consensus we could have seen an actual, substantial, roadmap for phase out.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities. #COP30

The prospects for investment in new Canadian LNG and heavy oil export infrastructure are far from promising, both economically and environmentally, write Kathryn Harrison and Simon Donner. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...

Canada’s proposed oil and gas expansion is a risky bet – for the planet and our economy

Updated pledges before this year’s COP30 meeting in Brazil fell well short of what’s needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Tomorrow should be exciting at #COP30. Cop30: dozens of countries threaten to block resolution unless it contains roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out

Yep, they are ticking all the boxes in this list... What Authoritarian Regimes Do  blog.ucs.org/jennifer-jon...

What Authoritarian Regimes Do

As we speak, the Trump administration is abandoning principles of democracy and dismantling the rule of law. The willful destruction of the federal science apparatus is but one harmful and onerous asp...

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Like many, I also agree that the pace of progress in global climate action is underwhelming and support the idea of majority voting in climate negotiations by the UNFCCC starting with #COP30. For more read this post by @climatechangenews.com www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/22/i...

It's time for majority voting at UN climate summits

The head of Greenpeace argues that the climate crisis demands urgent UN reform to facilitate an accelerated global response

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How do we best address a collective action problem like anthropogenic global warming? Multilaterally! I'm heartened by most of what I heard from leaders outside the USA at this year's United Nations General Assembly #UNGA80. I really appreciated the address by Finland's President Alexander Stubb

🇫🇮 Finland - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA

YouTube video by United Nations

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I appreciate the inclusion of solutions to improve the international climate negotiation process in this post: www.chathamhouse.org/2025/09/un-c...

The UN climate process remains indispensable

But it must evolve to account for an absent US, and to move from pledge-making to delivery.

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We sent a probe hundreds of millions of miles across space, set it on a tiny spinning asteroid, collected samples, flew the probe back, landed the capsule with samples on time and target, analysed the samples and discovered the building blocks of life. Science rules. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples - Nature

Samples from the asteroid (101955) Bennu, returned by the OSIRIS-REx mission, include sodium-bearing phosphates and sodium-rich carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides formed during evaporation ...

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Addressing the climate crisis in my community! I've been appointed to the Whatcom County Climate Impact Advisory Committee to help advise the council on all things climate 💪 tons to learn but it feels great to be in a position to make a difference, guide policy, and use my expertise for good.