Leadership - including on global warming - is not defined by the initial absence of denial. Leadership is the ability to recognise and overcome your denial faster than others.
Wolfgang Blau
@wblau.bsky.social
Corporate climate strategies, climate communications. Co-Founder Oxford Climate Journalism Network / Global Managing Partner Sustainable Business Practice, Brunswick Group / Advisor UNFCCC / Prior: Global COO Condé Nast / Guardian / Die Zeit
Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution—which is toxic to our lungs, hearts, and brains. This isn’t “vision”, it’s a public health crisis. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social
Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution
nytimes.com
"Our findings underscore a deeper and more persistent climate footprint of super El Niño events, suggesting that early warnings and proactive measures are crucial for mitigating their escalating risks."
Super El Niño events drive climate regime shifts with enhanced risks under global warming - Nature Communications
Super El Niño events greatly increase the likelihood of global climate regime shifts, revealing their amplified impact and risks in a warming world.
nature.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model Makers
A flurry of model launches from China’s AI sector is rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley and creating what’s been described as a death zone for anyone without frontier-pushing technology or ...
bloomberg.com
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” @patrickgaley.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Unser Bundeskanzler will am heutigen Höhepunkt der Hitzewelle und während sich Wassermangel, Futternotstand und Trockenheit immer weiter zu spitzen die „Entwicklung weiter genau beobachten“. So sieht politische Verantwortung in Zeiten der Klimakrise in Österreich aus.
Ich vermute der Kanzler “beobachtet die Lage” auch weiterhin. Wortlos. www.tagesschau.de/inland/hitze...
Hitze, Dürre, Waldbrände: Rufe nach Reaktion der Bundesregierung
Die Waldbrände in Südeuropa dominieren die Schlagzeilen. Doch auch in Deutschland sind die Folgen des Klimawandels durch Niedrigwasser und Waldbrände spürbar. Die Kritik an der Klimapolitik der Bundes...
tagesschau.de
With the current heatwaves dominating the news, it is easy to miss this bigger news.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoHere is a version in Fahrenheit my American compatriots:
With the current heatwaves dominating the news, it is easy to miss this bigger news.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoHere is a version in Fahrenheit my American compatriots:
Research into the fossil fuel industry's role in blocking climate action demonstrates that the corporations should not have a social license to operate. The fossil fuel industry needs to be nationalized and phased down safely but rapidly. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Fossil fuel industry communication strategies and public responses: a scoping review
Fossil fuel industry communication strategies and public responses: a scoping review, Ansah, Patrick O, Badullovich, Nicholas, Maibach, Edward
iopscience.iop.org
First call I've seen by any politician for an emergency heat summit. 41°C today in Vienna Kudos @lgewessler.bsky.social orf.at/stories/3438177
Grüne-Chefin Gewessler fordert Hitzegipfel
orf.at
What do we know about the GHG emissions of each SpaceX launch, and of the cumulative emissions for the project to become profitable?
A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
Climate change continues to have huge impacts on California. Climate action is an urgent need. We must end our reliance on fossil fuels and transition to a clean energy economy.
Northern California air quality may soon get hit by smoke coming from out-of-state fires
Fires burning millions of acres in Oregon and Washington state are sending smoke across the West.
sfchronicle.com
“Trump presumably assumed the BBC, like other entities he has brought suits against, would simply fold. But the BBC said no,” writes The Empty City
How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump
The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Dry, hot summers are putting Dutch dikes at risk and threatening German river trade The Rhine’s water level in Cologne dropped below the record low set in October 2018 “A ship that would normally carry 2,000 to 2,500 metric tons of cargo can now only transport 400-600" apnews.com/article/neth...
Dry, hot summers are putting Dutch dikes at risk and threatening German river trade
The Netherlands and Germany are suffering the consequences of a European heat wave that has brought dought and sparked devastating wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal, Crete and elsewhere.
apnews.com
There is surprisingly little music about global warming. This from 2015 was foresightful: open.spotify.com/track/5Lj7xb...
Praying for Rain
Don Henley · Cass County (Deluxe) · Song · 2015
open.spotify.com
"More than half of people globally said they were more worried about climate change now than last year, and four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change."
The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
We break down the results of Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, representing 87 percent of the global population.
climatepromise.undp.org
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Technically yes, we know how to decarbonize our society. The trouble is that we have not yet figured out how to politically decarbonize our society and that is what it is going to take.
Wolfgang Blau@wblau.bsky.social · 3d agoWe know how to decarbonise our energy systems. We know how to decarbonise road and rail transportation. We know how to produce low carbon cement and steel. Humanity doesn’t have to suffer ever worse heatwaves and droughts. We can avoid this.
We know how to demethanize food and make room for massive reforestation. Humanity doesn’t have to suffer ever worse heatwaves and droughts. We can avoid this. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Methane emissions are driving climate change. Here’s how to reduce them.
This primer explores the causes of methane emissions and how the world can limit the release of this potent greenhouse gas.
unep.org
Not a clever look for Burnham if he wants better EU relations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
theguardian.com
We know how to decarbonise our energy systems. We know how to decarbonise road and rail transportation. We know how to produce low carbon cement and steel. Humanity doesn’t have to suffer ever worse heatwaves and droughts. We can avoid this.
🇺🇦 FM warns of a 🇷🇺 campaign using #Ceuta pictures to sow destabilisation. Are 🇮🇹🇫🇮🇩🇰 governments talking of suspending Schengen—not mentioning that (a) 🇪🇸 quickly got the Ceuta situation under control & (b) there are border controls between Ceuta and EU mainland anyway—aware whose game they are playing?
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...
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
theconversation.com
For the first time ever, Ukraine is joining the 🇪🇺 Civil Protection Mechanism as a provider of assistance. A 70-member Ukrainian firefighting team is on its way to France to help battle the wildfires.
file under: Journalismus als Teil des Problems. www1.wdr.de/nrw/rhein-ni...
Der Rheinpegel sinkt und sinkt: Wie lange können Frachtschiffe trotz Niedrigwasser noch fahren?
Das Niedrigwasser im Rhein belastet die Binnenschifffahrt. Welche Maßnahmen es gibt - und was Pegelstände damit zu tun haben.
www1.wdr.de
Bordeaux, 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.
