little surprised by this tbh

@uk-news.bsky.social · 2h ago

Vanguard backs US climate reporting standards in SEC response https://www.europesays.com/uk/1132016/ Vanguard has become the largest investor to speak out against the Securities and Exchange Commission’s plan to ditch…#uk #news #uknews

According to Morningstar DBRS, total economic losses from the French wildfires could reach €10-15 billion, while insured losses are expected to amount to several billion euros "The movement of wildfire risk toward urban and commercial concentrations is our main concern from a credit perspective."

longish piece on El Niño's impact on global commodities w/ nice quotes from Sarah Kapnick and @ccallahan45.bsky.social i've stared at this quote for a while now though and I can't figure out what this Allianz economist is saying: "“El Niño acts as an intermediate between economics and the climate"

Record El Niño Threatens Fragile Economies Squeezed by War

The El Niño could be the most powerful in decades, fueling major threats to fragile economies around the world.

bloomberg.com

i think we can learn a lot from this actually. there's this growing take that we need to figure out how to welcome data centers or else they will be placed in low-income communities... but people can actually just be against something full stop, and that can also make standards better for everyone

Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 19h ago

the original use of NIMBY was actually people opposing nuclear and hazardous waste disposal sites in the 80s, it got turned into opposing housing much more recently

can we at least agree that NIMBYism against new housing and NIMBYism against "stuff being built by powerful companies for mysterious purposes" are two different things

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 20h ago

Data center resistance certainly has some of its roots in classic NIMBYism: Lots of Americans simply don’t trust stuff being built, in their backyards, by powerful companies for mysterious purposes. But the pace of the outrage that’s built up around the country is shocking.

This morning I filed a brief in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... I also blogged about it: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

The Adler brief here is telling and suggests a major cleavage within the Supreme Court's conservative bloc. For the oil and gas industry to win here, the conservative justices would have to compromise on a lot of dearly held conservative principles. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Republicans join push for Supreme Court to allow climate lawsuits

Former Republican EPA leaders and a conservative scholar join Democrats supporting local efforts to sue for climate-related damages.

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GGRF unlocked. A federal appeals court ruled EPA cannot block roughly $20B in already-awarded GGRF grants based on a policy disagreement. If it stands, this is a major step toward getting long-delayed capital into affordable housing, building retrofits, community solar.

EPA cannot block billions in climate grants, US appeals court rules

A federal appeals court said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot ‌freeze about $20 billion of clean energy grants awarded to several nonprofit groups, handing a defeat to the Trump adminis...

reuters.com

3/3 2) a National Climate Service would "...bolster the fed. gov.'s own planning capacity, both to make decisions about physical adaptation & also to aid in crucial oversight of our macroeconomy & fin. sector." More: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications... @rooseveltinstitute.org @toddntucker.com

Stand Up a National Climate Service

Exploring why the U.S. needs stronger climate science infrastructure, adaptation planning, and public access to actionable climate risk information.

rooseveltinstitute.org

Wall Street’s insurance takeover presents circular risks and rewards ft.trib.al/C7uHcp8 | opinion

Wall Street’s insurance takeover presents circular risks and rewards

Aggressive tactics are prompting increased regulatory scrutiny

ft.trib.al

Yes. You can just say yes, and then give the explanation. Scientists don’t have to complicate this so much for people.

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d ago

The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...

Nate Rouette and his brother Nelson went shark fishing on Cape Cod hoping for an exciting catch, but were shocked by what they reeled in.

Tiger shark caught off Massachusetts could be sign of warming waters

Nate Rouette and his brother Nelson went shark fishing on Cape Cod hoping for an exciting catch, but were shocked by what they reeled in.

bit.ly

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

londoncentric.media

i feel like more than 700 homes burning down in spokane should be a bigger news deal

This wasn't on my adaptation bingo card. "Romania used 180kg explosive to blow rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor

Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output

theguardian.com

the unfortunate thing about climate change is that we did certainly fail by some measures (to keep under 1.5 or even 2 I would say) but it always gets worse so long as we're burning fossils so never too late to stop that

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 4d ago

Increasingly seeing "it's too late, we failed" as an argument against climate action. But: a) While we haven't done nearly enough, we've made a lot of progress relative to the "just let fossil fuels rip" world of pre-2000; b) the more&faster we reduce climate pollution, the less bad things will get;

This is a remarkably extreme statistic. Bordeaux, France has recorded more days >40°C in 2026 than in the entire 105 year period combined dating back to 1920 when records began. This summer has been so far above extreme it’s difficult to put into words. Chart: @WxNB_

7. @madisoncondon.bsky.social calls for giving the public real-time and long-term info about how specific towns and regions can anticipate and prepare for climate harms. Make Science Useful! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Stand Up a National Climate Service

Exploring why the U.S. needs stronger climate science infrastructure, adaptation planning, and public access to actionable climate risk information.

rooseveltinstitute.org

what I would like to write about: very niche very nerdy science things that a handful of people find insightful and most people don’t get. what I need to write about in order to get to do that: how to destroy Elon Musk

The Roosevelt Institute asked a bunch of climate wonks to put our heads together to talk about what a national Democratic platform should look like. 2029 is really not that far away and there's a lot of work to do.

Roosevelt Institute@rooseveltinstitute.org · 6d ago

Climate policy isn't going away because Washington stopped talking about it. Americans are already paying the price through fires, floods, heat, and rising costs. Our new collection asks a different question: what should the next agenda for climate look like post-DOGE and the rollback of the IRA? 🧵

We’re hiring a Research Associate to expand our work on climate risk. If you’re passionate about ensuring public access to high-quality climate risk data, and informing just and scientifically-grounded adaptation policy, please apply.

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CarbonPlan is a nonprofit organization using science and data to accelerate climate action. Our team analyzes the design and implementation of climate programs across the public and private sector, an...

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"The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science" by Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush (And the science more readily supports the LPE movement) cc: @lpeblog.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-economic...

The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science - The Sling

The notion of efficiency that undergirds Law and Economics is a zombie ideological economic concept.

thesling.org

This piece replies to @madisoncondon.bsky.social and @lookheron.bsky.social's excellent piece in @LPEblog, found here: lpeproject.org/blog/the-eco...

The Economics that Law and Economics Ignores

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

lpeproject.org

weird for MSCI to be all 'you better think about climate change, idiots' when the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board is right now being sued by its beneficiaries for relying on MSCI's ridiculous modeling showing a 4% portfolio loss under the most extreme warming scenario in 2100

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · last wk.

MSCI's Fernandes to investors: I understand you're obsessed with quarterly earnings, but “the climate is still changing, the world is still overheating, agricultural productivity is declining and there is an impact on companies.... If you ignore this risk you only have yourself to blame.”

Gotta admit it is somewhat amusing that Warsh’s “inflation is a choice” mantra is running into...a war and El Nino

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · last wk.

‘The strengthening El Niño on top of an oil-supply shock could turn a temporary jump in energy prices into a broader inflation problem and put new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh in a difficult position.‘ www.marketwatch.com/story/forget...

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...

next NYT take: we shouldn't worry about floods because the US is on average 2,500 feet above sea level

Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

whether or not data center water use will be a problem depends on where the data center is, that is how water works

sort of like the climate change manifesting on phones thing, climate change will also show itself through 'unprecedented' events like this one happening in 2018 and 2022 and now 2026 and then just eventually becoming how it is

Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · last wk.

Your daily reminder that climate change is already an economic problem: Ships are struggling to carry stuff on the Rhine because there's not enough water Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The number of mentions of "heatwave" or "extreme heat" in corporate filings has hit an all-time high, tripling in the past five years, BNEF has found. And where five years ago it was mainly utilities that worried about heat, pretty much *every* sector is affected now

The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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