Beach holidays in the climate crisis, France. As an old viral quote said: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”

Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

Meine Erlebnisse in der französischen Waldbrandregion. Um noch viel Schlimmeres zu verhindern, müssen wir schnellstmöglich raus aus fossilen Energien. www.zeit.de/wissenschaft...

Waldbrände in Frankreich: »Die Bademeister hissten die grüne Flagge, vom Himmel rieselte Asche«

Rauch über dem Meer, Asche im Sand, doch am Strand blieb alles erst seltsam normal: Klimaforscher Stefan Rahmstorf geriet im Frankreichurlaub in die schweren Waldbrände.

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Important new study out at Nature Climate Action showing that individual climate actions do not stop people from participating in collective climate action. Instead, they were associated with greater collective engagement and somewhat stronger policy support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence

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Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:

🏭 Cement kilns operate for 40+ years, locking in emissions through 2050. China’s young kilns (avg 18 yrs) risk emissions lock-in, while 70+ yr fleets in the US & Europe face urgent retirement decisions. Dive into our new kiln data: globalenergymonitor.org/article/new-...

Scientists worldwide: We invite you to sign the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Thirty-five years after the first warning, the scientific evidence is even stronger. Please read, sign, and share by going to this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...

Marking World Environment Day, #IPCC’s Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report highlights: Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming. 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s... #NowForClimate

Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in the DRC and Uganda has been declared a PHEIC by the WHO. The highest alert lever it has. This requires swift a and multinational response. Estimated death count is already 80! No vaccine, no rapid diagnostic tests. www.science.org/content/arti...

BREAKING: WHO declares major outbreak of rare Ebola virus species in Congo and Uganda an international emergency

No vaccines or treatments exist for Ebola Bundibugyo, which has caused hundreds of suspected cases and 80 deaths; WHO warns of

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Der Modal Split für die stadt @wien.gv.at 2025 ist endlich da, und jetzt ist auch klar, wieso die Veröffentlichung so lange gedauert hat. Man versuchte wohl fieberhaft, die schlechten Zahlen (Ziel verpasst, Fußverkehr & Öffis sinken, MIV steigt) schönzureden. Ein 🧵 1/

Guardian-Umfrage aus 2024 unter 380 führenden Klimaforschern: Das Ergebnis ist erschütternd. 🌍 77% der Befragten erwarten eine Erwärmung von mindestens 2,5°C. 🌊 Folgen: Hungersnöte, Massenmigration, Konflikte, Städte unter dem Meeresspiegel. 😔 Viele von ihnen leiden unter Depressionen.

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned

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Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Der Mathematiker Rudolf Taschner hätte eine Auszeichnung von der Universität Wien bekommen sollen, die wird ihm nun verwehrt. Die Diskussion darüber reißt nicht ab. Ich versuche hier eine kleine Einordnung aus meiner Sicht. (Thread)

⚒️ Article: Human activities like dredging and land reclamation have pervasively altered the ways in which tides propagate through large estuaries, with negative ecological impacts www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CO₂ footprint of Austrian households by income deciles. An isotype visualization inspired by Marie & Otto Neurath. Made together with @kalf.bsky.social. 🔗 data-science.wifo.ac.at/emissionen-u... #DataViz #Isotype #CarbonFootprint #Inequality

„Brüsseler Abgeordnete & die Kommission wüssten genau,dass viele Chemikalien 🇩🇪 Konzerne – in #Plastik Produkten, Lasuren, Hautcremes, Putzmitteln & Weichmachern –der Gesundheit schaden. „Doch das nehmen alle Verantwortlichen in Kauf, um Deutschland & die EU als führenden Chemiestandort zu sichern.“

CORRECTIV@correctiv.org · 5mo ago

Anfang des Monats berichtete CORRECTIV, dass tausende unbekannte Stoffe aus der Industrie den #Rhein und das #Grundwasser belasten. Aber warum darf die #Industrie sie ungehindert einleiten? Jetzt enthüllt ein Topmanager eines Großkonzerns, wie die Industrie Politiker steuert.

“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.” Should be the top story everyday.

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

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commentary: Godale+ doi.org/10.1038/d415... "Analyses of a Swedish tree-ring archive suggest that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has lowered soil-nitrogen supply, which could cap carbon storage by land ecosystems"

Forest soils are running short of nutrients as CO2 emissions rise

Analyses of a Swedish tree-ring archive suggest that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has lowered soil-nitrogen supply, which could cap carbon storage by land ecosystems.

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Garry Peterson@resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests doi.org/10.1038/s415... "declining N availability in response to rising CO2 will be a more dominant driver of boreal forest C exchange in the future, compared with N enrichment from atmospheric Nr deposition"

Turning on the ‘For You’ algorithm on X may shift users’ political opinions towards more conservative views, reports a paper in Nature. These effects are shown to persist even after users return to a chronological feed. 🧪

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

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Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Gestern hat die 🇺🇸 Regierung das „Endangerment Finding“ zurückgenommen. Aber auch in Österreich 🇦🇹 findet eine schleichende Aushöhlung der Klimapolitik und der Klimaforschung statt - durch Verzögerungen, Budgetkürzungen, Prioritätenverschiebungen und politisches Wegsehen. #WissenSchafftKlimaschutz

Climate Change Centre Austria / CCCA@ccca.ac.at · 6mo ago

660 führende Wissenschaftler:innen in Österreich schlagen Alarm: Klimakompetenz in Österreich gefährdet! 👉 Hier geht es zum vollständigen Appell sowie zur Unterschriftenliste: anmeldung.ccca.ac.at/gefaehrdete-... Teilt den Appell in eurer Community! Bis 17.02. kann er noch unterzeichnet werden. 📣

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.

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For a decade, the Shared Socioeconomics Pathways #SSP are used for scenario research related to climate change mitigation. Now, GDP & population projections were updated by @iiasa.ac.at & the team at the #OECD, and the #ScenarioServices team set up a new interactive app to explore the scenarios!

Shared Socioeconomic Pathways | Scenario Explorer hosted by IIASA

The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are a set of scenarios that describe potential future developments in society, economics, and demographics until the end of the 21st century. This Explorer pre...

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Disastrous consequences: shortcomings of resiliency strategies for coping with accelerating environmental change Allen+ doi.org/10.5751/ES-1... contrasts risks of government focus on resiliency vs. need to also plan and prepare for adaptation and transformation

Ecology & Society: Disastrous consequences: shortcomings of resiliency strategies for coping with accelerating environmental change

Natural disasters driven by climate change have increased in frequency, intensity, and scale. The consequences of these disasters include the loss of human lives, property damage, increased economic ...

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?

Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...

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The world faces multiple crises and disruptions, such as climate impacts, pandemics, geopolitical tension and competition, conflicts, and wars. Here, we discuss how social metabolism research can address these pressing issues. @bokuvienna.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Resilience and malleability: New directions for socio-metabolic research in times of multiple crises

The world faces multiple crises and disruptions, such as climate impacts, pandemics, geopolitical tension and competition, conflicts, and wars. Socio-…

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