Anne Shibata Casselman
@annecasselman.bsky.social
Vancouver-based journalist: Public interest, climate, and science. www.annecasselman.com
I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief
An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...
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Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
Documentary Heritage Communities Program - Canada.ca
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Kelly B@kellyblack.ca · last yr.'Do Archives Matter?' My latest Left Coast Dispatch: buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #BChist #CdnHist #BCpoli #archives
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor. www.wired.com/story/data-c...
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
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"Last month, a report from Clean Energy Canada found a province-wide switch to heat pumps for space heating would cut B.C.’s collective electricity bill by $675 million a year." #bcpoli
B.C. heat pump firm secures US$50M to fuel North American expansion
B.C. start-up Jetson Home will use the money to bring its cost-cutting model to other jurisdictions across Canada and the United States
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Meanwhile @theguardian.com reports today that emissions from coal have fallen in India and China for first time in 50 yrs...
Rhodium Group@rhg.com · 8mo agoNew: We estimate that in 2025, US greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4%, marking a change from the prior two years of decreases in emissions. Emissions also grew faster than the economy in 2025, reversing the decoupling of emissions and economic activity of the prior two years.
New: We estimate that in 2025, US greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4%, marking a change from the prior two years of decreases in emissions. Emissions also grew faster than the economy in 2025, reversing the decoupling of emissions and economic activity of the prior two years.
Just about every type of warning on the NWS map this afternoon...including Blizzard Warnings, High Wind Warnings, Wind Advisories, coastal hazards, and lingering Flood Warnings. I will be LIVE at 4 PM talking about this storm. Stay tuned! #wawx
These subtropical air masses that reach the PNW keep getting warmer and wetter as the climate warms as a whole. Yakima, WA has reached 70 degrees today, the only other 70+ in Dec was 72 on 12/1/2021. The atmospheric water vapor content is near record highs for Dec, increasing rainfall amounts.
Widespread significant river flooding has already developed across western Washington as a series of extremely warm & moist #AtmosphericRivers move slowly across the region. This flooding will further worsen tomorrow as strongest part of AR moves ashore. #WAwx [1/3]
Crazy stuff! #wawx
Scott Sistek@scottseattlewx.bsky.social · 9mo agoLatest Skagit River forecasts are just shocking. The NOAA model now has the river cresting 4-5 FEET over RECORD flood stages there at Monroe and Concrete. A minor saving grace is it seems the river is running a little behind the forecast curve but still :O #wawx
Next time you're at school pick up, look at the grade ones and then think about how any of them would cope with being separated from their caregiver and imprisoned.
claudia irizarry aponte@clauirizarry.bsky.social · 9mo agoA 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
China recognizes that energy storage is completely transformational for the electricity grid & thus for society as a whole. And so it is investing!
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...
November 2025 was the third warmest November on record in ERA5 at 1.54C above preindustrial levels – below only the records set in the prior two years (2023 and 2024):
Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%. Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors. www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77%
Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t
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Hey opinion editor people 👋 call me ☎️ (or actually email me? 📩?) please?
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦@shastingssimon.bsky.social · 10mo agoI guess I should see if someone will let me write up and print a formal version of this.
Thank god climate protesters are indulging their “nostalgic” desire to stabilize the world’s climate to stop our kids’ summers from being even more smoked-out and carcinogenic. And for wanting to keep the climate stable enough to grow food reliably & stop climate-volatility hike food costs. 😤😤😤
Catherine McKenna@cathmckenna.bsky.social · 10mo agoPeople who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson Gotcha. That explains a lot.
As Vancouverites rally around the city's reportedly endangered sustainability dept, a friendly reminder that its work is why "the city has already shaved 17 per cent off its carbon footprint from 2007 levels & now has one of the lowest per-person carbon footprints of any major Cdn city." #vanpoli
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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
Together as One Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk 2025
My letter to the editor has been published in the most recent issue of Maclean's Magazine. You can read it on my Substack. jackiedives.substack.com/p/macleans-m...
Maclean's Magazine Violated My Copyright.
They asked me if they could use my photographs and I said no, so they hired an illustrator.
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Vietnam: Five and a half feet of rain in a day. Smashes previous 24 hour record by two and a half feet. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Vietnam city sets national record with 1.7 m rain in 24 hours
The central Vietnamese city of Hue recorded more than a metre of rain in a 24-hour period, smashing a national record set over two decades ago, the environment ministry said Tuesday.
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💯💯💯 It’s social. It’s spiritual. It’s societal.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
Burnaby, B.C., oil refinery to fall under U.S. control in $9.1B deal
Burnaby, B.C., oil refinery to fall under U.S. control in $9.1B deal
British Columbia’s largest oil refinery is set to fall under U.S. control this week with the expected takeover of Canadian fuel refiner and retailer Parkland Corporation by American fuel giant Sunoco.
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Solar peaks in India are rising as capacity installations come online, pushing coal down during midday. In April 2025, coal ramped down 52 GW in six hours as midday solar reached 60 GW, up 41% compared to the previous April. https://loom.ly/YXrBeIo
