Fine Sunday morning rant by the excellent @davidrvetter.bsky.social

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last mo.

Thread. I'm listening with horror to this BBC interview, which is ostensibly about climate change. Liam Young is an Australian architect who saw Blade Runner and decided "that's the vision of the future we need." Wait, what?🧵

Translation: whole new level of shit about to hit the fan.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Rising cost of insuring against climate crisis will have wider knock-on effects for UK economy | Heather Stewart

There's a #heatwave on, you've probably noticed...what you might not have noticed is Reform just voting against a law to reduce carbon emissions and pollution, which is what makes heatwaves hotter and more frequent! A popular policy that deserves to be more widely known #hotterheatwaves

UK Breaking News: Tories and Reform vote for hotter heatwaves!

Stop Rosebank@stopcambo.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING 🚨: June record temperature broken as 35.7C recorded. The same day as we swelter in extreme heat, the Tories and Reform are spending the day in Westminster arguing for new oil and gas fields. You couldn't make it up.

Big Oil's objective is clear: take away the public's right to hold them accountable for anything, ever. “Every elected official who cares about the interests of their constituents more than those of corporate polluters should oppose this disgraceful proposal,” says @govjayinslee.bsky.social.

Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ bills

Climate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate

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1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

If you understand the implications of this, I don’t know how you’re not terrified for our kids.

PIK_climate@pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015, finds news PIK study with @rahmstorf.bsky.social Recent warming: around ~0.35°C per decade. 1970–2015 average: just under 0.2°C per dec. ➡️Current rate is higher than in any decade since records began in 1880. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

If this was tv show the plot would be too crass to commission. One of broligarchy sacking Pulitzer Prize winners to foster misinformation and plain stupidly at the time when our very earth systems are in dire trouble. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team

Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

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Very good thread on climate comms as ever by @thierryaaron.bsky.social

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵

100%!! A must-read editorial by ace climate journalist @emorwee.bsky.social. @mason4c.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social @who.int @climate4health.bsky.social @climatemuseum.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org

It's time to embrace climate conspiracy

Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.

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Literally every US climate scientist is posting about Trump shutting down the NCAR research lab in Boulder. Perhaps it's an even worse idea than the usual merely-very-bad ideas?

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Science Under Siege -- the NCAR Development" | My new commentary: michaelmann.net/science-unde... #ScienceUnderSiege

Clear-eyed reality check from @doctorvive.bsky.social

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four. I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation. 🧵

Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄? Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year. First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵

I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇

Great piece on "tactical frivolity" by @shteyngart.bsky.social in NYT: "Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians". As perfected by Otpor among others. Humor is the antidote! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance

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The fossil fuel industry can only survive by capturing government - and clamping down on people protesting this... insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

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"If geoengineering works well initially & you see this temperature drop, the tempempation to keep going & extracting fossil fuels will be greater than ever, because it will seem that you have a technologically that can cut off the link between temperature rises & fossil fuel combustion."

Overshoot & Climate Breakdown - Wim Carton & Andreas Malm | #39

YouTube video by Jesse Damiani

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Comics who took the Saudi dollar facing a richly-deserved backlash. Not mentioned but also important: Saudi's dastardly role in obstructing climate action for decades... www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

theguardian.com

As the US spirals out of control, let's be clear who the architects of this chaos are. A fossil fuel industry hell-bent on preserving its destructive business. Yet in the UK, their lobbyists roam the palace of Westminster with privileged access to ministers. At what point will we say enough?

Trump and Stalin would have got on nicely www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump fires person behind jobs numbers after they're revised down

The labor market slowed sharply over the past three months amid ongoing concerns over President Donald Trump's tariff policies.

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Climate stooges

Andrew Dessler@andrewdessler.com · last yr.

I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science

Eye-opening (yet unsurprising...) from @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

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A despicable approach to carbon emissions: attempting to destabilise the Green energy market @edmilibandmp.bsky.social we re in your corner. Please share/comment if you agree @mvtfwd.bsky.social @femi-oluwole.bsky.social @philmoorhouse.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Labour MPs challenge Richard Tice over Reform UK’s plan to scrap green projects

Exclusive: Letter signed by 59 MPs criticises party’s deputy leader after his warned energy firms over new contracts

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"From 2019-2024, Reform received more than 90% of its funding, £2.3 million, from individuals and companies linked to polluting industries and climate science denial. "Bringing this information to the attention of voters 'was the only message to significantly reduce willingness to vote for Reform'"

New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform

How to stop Farage...

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Nothing to worry about

WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

Eyewitness video filmed on Monday, July 14 showed floodwater surging onto the platform of New York’s 28th Street Station as passengers watched from a train car. Intense storms and heavy rainfall caused flooding across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with several flash flood warnings issued.

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #10/10: NO HONESTY = NO HOPE There is an ongoing debate in climate communications about doom and gloom vs hope. 🧵 #climatecommunication #climatescience

Awareness doesn't always lead to action. If you don't give a credible account of agency, of how people can affect the dire situation you've just explained, they won't act. 🧵 In the US, it's call or go see your elected representative... #climateaction #climatescience

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Inside The Greenhouse (ITG)@itgreenhouse.bsky.social · last yr.

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #8/10: TIPPING SOCIAL NORMS As Michael Oppenheimer tells David Crosss "we need more people like you". Change comes once social norms tip. 🧵

Climate Science Translated Breakdown #7/10: GRABBING ATTENTION Sadly, most people would rather chew off their own foot than listen to a hefty chunk of the latest climate science. Grabbing their attention is 90% of the battle - this is true of most comms btw. 🧵