RadReduction (Larry Edwards)
@radreduction.bsky.social
Follow me on radical reductions of climate harming emissions (especially from flying, cruise). Engineer. Interests: climate, policy, overtourism. My location: Under the global cloud of GHGs. ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Larry-Edwar
Let's have.more journalists like Katie Phang. #TruthMatters for #Democracy
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2d agoA BIG disclosure in a lawsuit brought by Trump against Capital One reveals the bank closed more than 300 of Trump’s accounts in 2021 after a months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience. I explain the details here: youtu.be/YDTqowVWjfc?...
Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. Now it's at 6.35 m.
#Calltoaction actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
Tell Your Senator: Keep Trump’s Ego Off Our Coins and Currency
Donald Trump wants his face minted onto a new $1 coin and his signature printed across future paper currency. This is not patriotism. It is presidential propaganda paid for by the public. It’s a t...
actionnetwork.org
Remember: nuclear power IS intermittent. Probably, as climate breakdown deepens, worse so than wind - and solar. Pass it on…
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last mo."For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....
Important read on how LNG industry is relying on funding from US government to build out import infrastructure for gas in Asia. What a terribly bad idea. blog.datadesk.eco/p/build-it-a...
Build it and they will export: US public finance to invest in Asian import terminals
In an attempt to lock in an export market, an increasingly desperate US LNG industry is turning to the American public purse to fund infrastructure on the other side of the world.
blog.datadesk.eco
The Senate Farm Bill gives too many handouts to Big Ag and the pesticide industry while failing to restore accountability for pesticide manufacturers whose products have harmed people. foe.org/news/senate-...
Senate Farm Bill Draft Doubles Down on Industrial Ag, Sidelining Healthy Food, Small Farmers, Hungry Families
This legislation pours more taxpayer dollars into an industrial system dominated by pesticide-intensive commodity crops.
foe.org
Trying to understand what is happening with the cruise industry in Venice reads like a Byzantine maze. Here @andreafontana.it maps out the decisions & detours. The ships left the historic center but they did not leave the Lagoon. A critical distinction. Grazie Andrea! #cruiseships #Venice #Venezia
Andrea Fontana@andreafontana.it · 2d agoThank you. Here is the English version: andreafontana.it/en/venice-cr...
"Oracle’s debt-to-equity ratio around 500% — meaning that it had $5 of debt for every $1 of shareholder equity. Amazon’s around 50%, Alphabet’s lower still. But Oracle kept borrowing." Risktaking that threatens security of us all www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.
nytimes.com
Here Elliot's blog post (the bridge is only illustrative). This snip (from a few paragraphs down) sets the stage. Nice post(!), with a look from several decades back to the present. climatecasino.substack.com/p/an-unexpec...
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 4d ago
Excellent research and analysis by @andreafontana.it! What a sad situation; but with this report there is hope. The cruise industry, like many other corporate and government enterprises, counts on the belief, "no one will go to the trouble of catching us." Here, Andrea goes to the (good) trouble.
Andrea Fontana@andreafontana.it · 4d agoNe parlo da mesi. A Venezia ci sono in programma due canali da scavare, un terminal da 300 metri, un'isola di fanghi grande come il Vaticano. Quattro procedure separate, ma è un'opera sola. E adesso ho scritto un pippone. Mettetevi comodi. E ricondividete. andreafontana.it/it/venezia-q...
And today Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson declares statewide wildfire emergency and burn ban. #wawx
John Ryan@heyjohnryan.bsky.social · 5d ago“High winds on Saturday will create explosive fire growth that is rarely seen in Washington state.”
This is a super important petition regarding climate change, if you are Canadian and have 30 seconds to spare please sign and repost.
Mike@brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 4d agoHOC Petition e-7522 - Canadians call on Government of Canada to stop fast-tracking environmentally catastrophic fossil fuel projects, protect health & wellbeing of all impacted by climate change & invest in worker, community & Indigenous-led green energy transition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
"And if they can break the law with impunity, elections are the only consequence they still face, which means they have every incentive to steal them." As Christopher Armitage notes, we cannot let that happen. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/a-ruling-p...
A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections
We won't survive if we try to play by their rules.
cmarmitage.substack.com
60,000 migrants crossed the border into Spain's non-Schengen Area of #Ceuta over a couple of days. An average of 50,000 Britons fly to Spain every day. That's over 19 million annual visitors from Britain each year. But we don't call them "migrants". We call them "expats" and "tourists". 🤫
Ceuta latest: Spain accuses some countries of 'very selfish attitude' as number of dead rises
Spain says 53,000 of the 60,000 migrants who crossed into the tiny enclave of Ceuta, in North Africa, have returned to Morocco. The number of dead has risen to 86. Follow the latest.
news.sky.com
Climate disaster will lead to less climate mitigation. A fact the collapse bubble has been clear about for a long time. This will be downsizing by disaster, not design.
RadReduction (Larry Edwards)@radreduction.bsky.social · 4d ago"'The situation we’re in today is the most difficult we’ve ever recorded, the most difficult since WWII,' Mr. Macron said. Yet for all the urgency, Europe’s commitment to reduce CO2 emissions—a goal scientists say is the only conclusive way to curb climate change—is in danger of being watered down."
Almost 4 C warmer than average. Not pre-industrial average, but 1991-2020 average.
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 4d agoIt’s now official: June–July 2026 was the most anomalously warm two-month period ever recorded in France by a staggering margin. France is now virtually certain to record its warmest summer on record.
We have ample data to prove that leaning into climate solutions is a vote winner, but, regrettably, candidates pay attention to political pollsters (who ask the wrong questions).
Manuel Salgado@manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 4d agoWe have MOUNTAINS of data that show climate hushing is the exact opposite approach electeds should be taken and I’ve argued this on the Hill with mixed results. You also need to show young voters you actually believe in fighting for their futures. Leadership is more than listening to consultants!
Flashbacks to summer 2007, when the first Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed: "debt-fueled bets on AI's dazzling future left him on the wrong side of a brutal sell-off." There's a "Burning ashes" pun in here for the inevitable @economist.com leader
As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
theguardian.com
Charts and analysis in this 2024 paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Leon Simons@leonsimons.com · 4d agoIt's even worse: Models don't take into account the reduction of aerosols over western-central Europe and underestimate regional warming by ~0.5 °C!! And summer warming by ~1.0 °C! Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes 2/
Heat waves come, and heat waves go, but burning fossil fuels make them hotter, more frequent, and longer.
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d agoThe 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...
"A senior policymaker at the European Central Bank has said the climate emergency and the breakdown of nature poses a dramatically growing risk to the global economy."
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 4d agoThe penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.
'We interviewed 25 former #Antarctic guides who decided to quit their jobs (all quotes are anonymised). These guides couldn’t align their morals with the effects of #tourism they were witnessing day after day.' Tourism - and it's pollution - is not helping #Antarctica thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs
Our new study reveals how Antarctic tour guides grapple with the dilemma at the heart of their work — bringing more and more people to an ecologically vulnerable area, and helping cause some of the gr...
thepoint.com.au
A warning way back in 1976, and now repeated catastrophes worldwide, and worsening every year. Emergency cuts in emissions - deep and fast - are necessary. We need to get our governments on the ball. Problem example:
All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 5d ago50 damn years. August 1, 1976 – Oak Ridge report on “The Global Carbon Dioxide Problem” released allouryesterdays.info/2025/07/31/a...
In the first 99 years of temperature records Bordeaux had one day over 40C (in 2003). In the 6 years from 2019, it had 5 days over 40C. This year it has had 6 days so far.
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d agoBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
🧵 Please no, don't do this. We urgently need to accelerate global action on #decarbonisation and UK leadership on this is now more vital than ever. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
theguardian.com
"5. Even if they were to perform the tasks allocated to them flawlessly, LLMs would disrupt the balance of frictions and inducements that scientific norms and institutions impose, reshaping scientific practice and the allocation of cognitive labor. This is classic "New Economics of Science" stuff."
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
"'The situation we’re in today is the most difficult we’ve ever recorded, the most difficult since WWII,' Mr. Macron said. Yet for all the urgency, Europe’s commitment to reduce CO2 emissions—a goal scientists say is the only conclusive way to curb climate change—is in danger of being watered down."
Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne@soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 5d agoEurope's Summer of Reckoning is "Just the Beginning": Article in @nytimes.com with statements from J. Rockström, @frediotto.bsky.social & myself. We should realise that such extreme summers will get even worse if we continue to burn fossil fuels. @usyseth.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
