The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum
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A polity for the Earth. www.planetpolitics.org
Australia's government still gives itself little ribbon rosettes and medallions for being the best fossil fuel exporter www.industry.gov.au/publications...
While there remains uncertainty about the timing and sequence of catastrophic earth system tipping points, they are very real.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2y agoAtlantic circulation collapse? "In short, it’s a climate scientist’s nightmare come true." Here's a good 'deep dive' into this risk, from Yale Climate Connections. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/atla...
If I could take the liberty of quoting, @guyjackson.bsky.social, "India's submission [in the ongoing ICJ case] read from the playbook [we] identify in this article" for @instituteplanet.bsky.social some time back. We ought to hold global south elites accountable for their hypocrisy! #ClimateJustice
Guy Jackson@guyjackson.bsky.social · 2y agoReally good nuanced piece by @pkashwan.bsky.social & @praneetamudaliar.bsky.social on the politics and hypocrisies of climate negotiations. Definitely worth a read. www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/res...
Brilliant
Antonia Juhasz@antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 2y ago"Everyone has a role in #decolonization, which is dismantling the structures that have marginalized, oppressed and subjugated certain peoples and places, including nature. Then recreating them with more equal and just frameworks," Eriel Tchekwie Deranger. #GreenSky www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/c...
Invest in public transport. Invest in public investment-radical idea?
Push The Needle@pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 2y agoi am not sure self driving EVs can solve this geometry problem
Worth a thought. Hope is not a strategy.
Anthony Burke@anthonyburke.bsky.social · 2y agoI think this action at the ICJ is misguided. Even the strongest possible opinion will barely move the needle on action. Pacific countries should be at the General Assembly negotiating coal and deforestation treaties. Every bad strategy now has a planetary cost.
Some deep-sea squid, like Octopoteuthis deletron, detach glowing arm tips to confuse attackers as they escape. #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SxL... ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/i...
Squid attacks and breaks off two arms
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Vintage wisdom from the Moomins. “I’m nothing but air and wind, I’m part of the blizzard,” Moomintroll thought and let himself go..." Worth a read... www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/22/t... #moomins #winter #wisdom
Control, Surrender and the Paradox of Self-Transcendence: Vintage Wisdom from the Moomins
“It’s a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you’re not afraid of them anymore and would like to have a little fun.”
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🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’? Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels.. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’ This is Tera’s story, from Canada #climatebreakdown #COP29 1/13 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’ – This is climate breakdown
Before the floods I was always with my boys. Always. This is Tera’s story
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English translation: Greta Thunberg warns #COP29 is "about to agree to a death sentence" "The COP processes are not only failing, they are part of a system built on injustice, designed to sacrifice current and future generations so that a select few can continue to reap unimaginable profits."
Gabriel Siqueira@gabrieldread.bsky.social · 2y agoGreta Thunberg alerta q #COP29 está "prestes a concordar com sentença de morte" "Os processos da COP não estão apenas falhando, eles fazem parte de um sistema construído sobre a injustiça, projetado para sacrificar gerações atuais e futuras para que uns poucos continuem com lucros inimagináveis."
Just to emphasize: Saudi Arabia *and only Saudi Arabia* was sent a draft of the COP29 negotiating documents *by the COP presidency* so that Saudi Arabia alone *could edit it directly*.
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y agoMan, now Saudi Arabia has apparently been caught editing official COP29 drafts, maybe granted edit access by the COP presidency, Azerbaijan. Rough. “We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states.” -a German minister in Baku
As always a brilliant summary of nearly everything that’s wrong and some great ideas for reform.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2y agoPlease remember, the climate COP meetings are DESIGNED to fail. It is not a bug, but a feature. Here's how they could be designed to succeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm grateful to my publisher, Oxford UP, for featuring me on their blog this week, where I got to talk about my book THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS and my backstory — *and* my need not to chase "hope"! 😆 blog.oup.com/2024/11/unde...
As #COP29 grinds on trying to agree a deal on climate funding, @fionaharvey explains the difference between “provided” and “mobilised” finance Liveblog 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop29 live: rich nations to raise climate finance offer to $300bn as Thunberg warns summit ‘about to agree to death sentence’
The talks in Azerbaijan have seen nations at odds over how much money developed countries should provide to poorer ones
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Another damning @uk.theconversation.com piece by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Robert Watson & @wknorr.bsky.social "In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close" theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
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New data from China. Installed solar capacity at the end of October was 48.0% higher than the same time last year. Wind up 20.3%. www.nea.gov.cn/2024-11/22/c...
Yes, tell me about it! @praneetamudaliar.bsky.social @instituteplanet.bsky.social www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/res...
Resisting the cynical politics of climate negotiations — Planet Politics Institute
As pressure for deep global emissions cuts heats up, both the developed North and industrializing South need to attend to climate and social justice. By Prakash Kashwan and Praneeta Mudaliar.
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Tim@timswilliams.bsky.social · 2y agoHalf the world's population also live in "developing" countries with space programs
6. We cannot resist fascism without building real democracies. That means massive decentralisation, a devolution of politics to the people, the creation of a genuine democracy that cannot so easily be captured, the building of an ecological civilisation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea | George Monbiot
We are told governing systems like ours are inevitable and irreplaceable, but real, participatory democracy is possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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I think this election was about a full-throated support of conspiracism and magical thinking as a way of civic life by much of the American electorate, its institutions, and business and political leaders. Not any specific conspiracy theory per se, but the freedom to think magically before all else.
𝕁, Highly Valued Goose 🪿@checkwithscience.com · 2y agothe problem with this analysis is that all of the evidence we have so far is that it precisely was an enthusiastic embrace of Trump incoherent babble
"An AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster." "This is not about being 100% sure that the AMOC will pass its tipping point this century; it is that we’d like to be 100% sure that it won’t." By @rahmstorf.bsky.social www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?
A few weeks ago, a study by Copenhagen University researchers Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is likely to pass a tipping point alread...
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Our principal was interviewed for this thoughtful article. Are there alternatives to the Paris Agreement on Climate Delay?
Too big to succeed? Experts on what climate COPs get wrong
‘COP urgently needs to change,’ campaigners say. Here are the key reforms and alternatives that experts are proposing.
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It won't be just the LA Times and Washington Post. It will be your employer, your university, your school district, and your local elected officials. They will all cave and engage in anticipatory obedience to fascism because of their cowardice and greed. Your institutions will not save you.
In 2022, the 'current policies' projection of warming was 2.6C. In 2024, it's 2.9C. This is what I mean when I urge caution and over-excitement about stuff like huge solar capacity growth. *This* is the number that matters - and it's getting ****worse**** www.carbonbrief.org/unep-new-cli...
Measurements show that record-high #methane growth in 2020–2022 was mainly driven by increased #emissions from microbial sources such as #wetlands, waste & #livestock. Methane (#CH4) is a prominent target for #climatechange mitigation: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #globalwarming
Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022 | PNAS
The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr−1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driv...
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New UNEP emissions gap report highlights a "massive gap between rhetoric and reality" and calls for a "quantum leap" in ambition to deliver Paris goals, as the world is way off-track today. I cover the details over at @CarbonBrief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
