This is way it is never the "new normal" even without tipping points. Emissions adds up syncronized to the energy additions in society. What we might see by 2030 is that the last decade was beyond some tipping point driving even faster acceleration.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 7d ago

Here's a graph of global surface temperatures since 1940 by their decadal average. Notice any pattern?

Interesting article by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz expanding on jevons paradox & material symbiosis!

Entangled Matters@entangledmatters.bsky.social · last wk.

New article about energy and the Jevons Paradox. The Generalized Jevons Paradox and the Future of Energy by William Oman, Etienne Espagne @espagneetienne.bsky.social & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

New article about energy and the Jevons Paradox. The Generalized Jevons Paradox and the Future of Energy by William Oman, Etienne Espagne @espagneetienne.bsky.social & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

If there are Seven Wonders of the Cycling World, Beijing's Shangdi–Huilongguan Highway deserves a place on the list. The 5.4 km elevated expressway is designed so riders can cycle its entire length without stopping; cutting their commute to 30 minutes—halving the rush hour travel time by car/metro.

Shell’s [war] profits more than doubled to $10bn in Q2 - "Shell takes the profits, and the rest of us pick up the catastrophic bill” says Greenpeace #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas prices

Environmental groups renew calls for windfall tax to support households following Q2 earnings rise to $9.84bn

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New article about energy and the Jevons Paradox. The Generalized Jevons Paradox and the Future of Energy by William Oman, Etienne Espagne @espagneetienne.bsky.social & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

Good chart explaining some of the complexities with rebound effects. This gives some context to why efficiency in energy use is often not giving the results we would want. Jevons paradox is in the mix.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last wk.

The rebounds are much more fiendish than just straight replacement...

With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...

A Summer of Violence

The fire Friday at Cap Ferret (Maximilien Lamy/Agence France-Presse)

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I lived on this estate for a few months in 1977 while working for ICI and wrote about it in the book reviewed here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Susan Pedersen · Worker, Hipster, Banker: Modern British Cities

Deindustrialisation was not a long, slow process but a very quick one, erasing whole occupations and transforming one...

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Could ‘Godzilla’ El Niño bring the hottest year on record? – video explainer By @damiengayle.bsky.social #elnino #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Could ‘Godzilla’ El Niño bring the hottest year on record? – video explainer

Environment correspondent Damien Gayle spoke to climate scientists to understand how El Niño and the climate crisis pose a huge threat to the planet

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I just came home from Copenhagen what an inspiring city with all bikes, electric busses and ferries. Wonderful parks and a botanical garden. So many solutions that should be taken to other cities!

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2w ago

Omg poster on the train platform in Copenhagen: “ War! AI! Virus! Trump! Have you all seen that the climate crisis is still here? It’s hard to solve the climate crisis if we’re if we’re not talking about it.” 💀

“In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you'd be like … 'can you not put two and two together?'"

Jimmy Thomson@jameswsthomson.com · 2w ago

I worked as an Antarctic guide for several years, and came away with the belief that we need to ban Antarctic tourism. Glad to see others felt the same way.

Looking forward to read this report uncovering the decpetion pushed about "clean" natural gas. Gas was pushed as a bridge fuel an still gas is growing around the world often even worse as imported LNG.

Rebecca Leber@rebleber.bsky.social · 2w ago

A major new investigation out today with new revelations about the oil and gas industry's long-running deception over natural gas. We lay out in new details and documents how big oil and gas manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas.

What is the energy transition? The definition is totally broken. This article is full of great examples of the contradictions: "The energy transition is advancing. It just is not yet advancing fast enough to stop emissions from rising." robertrapier.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Energy Demand Outpaced The Transition In 2025

The 2026 Statistical Review shows clean energy grew fast in 2025, but global demand grew faster, pushing fossil fuel use and emissions higher.

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What is the energy transition? The definition is totally broken. This article is full of great examples of the contradictions: "The energy transition is advancing. It just is not yet advancing fast enough to stop emissions from rising." robertrapier.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Energy Demand Outpaced The Transition In 2025

The 2026 Statistical Review shows clean energy grew fast in 2025, but global demand grew faster, pushing fossil fuel use and emissions higher.

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This inteview is really enlightning about why IPCC scenarios are not able to account for tipping points. And how models since 2010 are dependent on big CCS deployment that is not close to happening. We need CCS because we have to for the model to get to the goal wanted. Not because it is realistic.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 3w ago

It is easy for climate scientists to get “relatively depressed," Prof Detlef van Vuuren tells Carbon Brief. Read or watch the full interview by @leohickman.carbonbrief.org here ⬇️ bit.ly/4wbaU8J

Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...

Yes, Democrats Should Talk About Climate.

Talking about Climate Change is a Political Winner.

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Legacy media stop platforming & legitimising rabid racists & fascists challenge Tommy Robinson (aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is a convicted criminal, anti-immigration hate-monger & prominent figure in far-right extremism (Media, please prioritise public interest reporting. Examples in post below)

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ A lil🧵collecting the illuminating public interest reporting of Pauline Hanson nemesis—"trashy journo" Sarah Martin Rinehart puppet, "Pauline Hanson & her chief of staff, James Ashby, flew to Florida on Gina Rinehart’s private jet in October & stayed at the mining magnate’s Palm Beach mansion"

How many years will we hear "this is the new normal" while getting new heat records and more extreme weather. While tipping points create more instability and wiplash climate. We don't even know what is coming. Read this article by: @alevermann.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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BYD is betting their external relations on a political recruit proper Elon Musk style. Straight out of Fidesz, extreme right wing racist party, that lost the latest election in Hungary. Known for close ties to the Putin regime & conflict with EU. How is this beneficial? Will Putin buy EVs? 🙈🤯

CarNewsChina@carnewschina.bsky.social · 3w ago

BYD recruits former Hungarian foreign minister to lead international relations.

Indian government doubles the amount of ethanol blended in gasoline. It makes old engines more inefficient. So agricultural land fuels crap vechicles not food for people. Some would call it energy transition but it is really a lot more entangled. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...

India’s ethanol rush prompts anger among vehicle owners, questions for gov’t

Indian petrol stations now only offer fuel with 20 percent ethanol blended in. But the rushed move triggers criticism.

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The Flamingo Revolution - Albanian massive environmental protests against Trump empire. Listen to Dua Lipa talk to historian Lea Ypi about history and the current protests. @dualipa.bsky.social @leaypi.bsky.social www.service95.com/dua-lipa-lea...

Dua & Lea Ypi On Freedom, Communism And Coming of Age

With ‘Free’ the Service95 Book Club Monthly Read for July, its author Lea Ypi joins Dua Lipa to share her thoughts on this striking memoir

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When biomass (wood) is a part of the "energy transition" it is not a new energy source nor a clean one and contributes to deforestation.

Ember@ember-energy.org · 3w ago

Three biomass power stations in the UK – Drax, Lynemouth and Teesside – together emitted MORE carbon emissions than the nine most polluting gas power stations combined 🏭📈 ember-energy.org/lat...

‘National scandal’: June heatwave killed 440 people a day in England and Wales at peak, analysis indicates - May and June heatwaves led to 2700 lost livesm starkly illustrating the danger of the #climatecrisis @wwattribution.bsky.social Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests

Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C

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#CCS interests pitching #Australia as a Sequestration Nation of CCS hubs, never ending fossil fuels BAU, taxpayer subsidies & a carbon waste trading market that takes us from quary nation to C02 dumping ground. It's full of spin and full of holes #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Australia isn't just the world's quarry anymore. Now it wants to be the world's carbon waste dump

We're being positioned as more than the driller, digger and exporter. We're being lined up as the Asia-Pacific's dumping ground for CO2; geology for hire to help cook the books. Australia isn't doing ...

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Fressoz on IPCC Group 1 models underestimating extreme weather and acceleration of warming: "The mere plausibility of these scenarios should be enough to alert us." Will he rethink the timeline in More & More & More? As even net zero by 2050 could be devestating. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

'In trying to avoid accusations of exaggerating, the IPCC has instead underestimated the severity of our summers'

COLUMN. Long accused of alarmism by the far right, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has, in fact, been too cautious, underestimating the speed of change and its impacts, says histo...

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