Recent posts by Climate and Energy Professionals on Bluesky

"The investor-State Dispute Settlement process is a secretive system whereby companies can allege that a move by a government has caused them financial harm...The system is increasingly seen as having a chilling effect on human rights and as a looming obstacle to action on climate change."

Chinese company investments in overseas green manufacturing projects now surpasses sum invested by the US Marshall Plan in post-WW2 Europe #climategeopolitics www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Delhi's severe air pollution is causing black crusts to form on the 17th-century Red Fort, threatening its intricate carvings and accelerating its decay @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Some outstanding talks at the joint @oceaniceeu.bsky.social @soosocean.bsky.social workshop already today: the state of the Southern Ocean, declining sea ice, snowfall processes and ice shelf cavities, now on to the carbon cycle...

“Brazil has unique leadership qualities; it is a country that really understands and articulates that sustainability is about development, not just conservation.” PIK Director Johan #Rockström ahead of #COP30, interview with the country’s leading business magazine “Exame”. exame.com/en/brazil-is...

Pretty grim paper laying out the unstoppable popularity of ChatGPT, and specifically how people are using it for information retrieval / fact-checking style tasks. The economists who wrote it see this all as a very, very good thing..... www.nber.org/system/files...

UK’s first hydrogen trial to cut peak gas plant emissions a success www.energylivenews.com/2025/09/16/u...

“Safeguarding & restoring natural carbon sinks is as essential as the energy transition”, stresses PIK Director Johan Rockström at @dgap.org & Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen event, marking 10 years of the #ParisAgreement. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11XW...

“The UK governement's continued reluctance to officially acknowledge even the risk of the ongoing genocide in Gaza is increasingly untenable and stands in stark contrast to overwhelming legal evidence and the mounting consensus among international genocide scholars and human rights organisations."

"As our language around forests became less reverent, Poole noted that people began using more scientific and economic terms to describe trees. In other words, people began viewing forests as something from which to extract value, not inspiration." 🌍🧪

Exxon and Shell Sue The Netherlands in Secret Tribunals for Closing Europe’s Biggest Gas Field #climatecrisis Story by @rishpardikar.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/groning...

Extreme, deadly heat doesn't care about politics. Social-democratic Spain and neo-fascist Italy were hardest hit by this summer's heatwave, both suffering 1000s of casualties to human-caused global warming. insideclimatenews.org/news/1709202...

IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C By @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #climatecrisis www.carbonbrief.org/iea-reiterat...

behavior researchers rightly(!) identifying political swings determined by time and geography of sports gathering events and lack thereof: now please do concerts and guitar shops. I wanna bet you will get similar results in the relevant demographics, young men. #preregistration

Is access to nature getting better in England? Data suggests it might be. The % of people agreeing local green and natural spaces is within easy walking distance is at highest level (69%) in the 5yrs since a govt survey started. Does this chime with other evidence? www.gov.uk/government/s...

Disruptive innovation is a term popularised by the American academic Clayton Christensen. This is a prime example: learning effects lead to reduced cost of solar leading to more adoption resulting in more learning effects because of modularisation. Killer graph from @ember-energy.org

Not large in the scheme of things, but I have a horrific toothache (not infection, not life threatening) that will only be resolved next Thursday when the dentist has time to remove the goddamn molar. I cannot express how sucky this makes life. SUCKY.

I know the politics isn't easy. But it's a sorry state of affairs when the EU can't muster climate leadership at a time that the impacts of climate change are ever clearer the US is pushing in the opposite direction www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The @theguardian.com climate pledge 2025 This update reflects the urgent and growing challenges facing our planet – and how the Guardian is more focused than ever on exposing the causes of the #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human-made global warming ‘caused 16,500 deaths in Europe this summer’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found I think the UK is higher up this chart than most people would expect www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found I expect the UK is higher up this chart than most people would expect www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"As our language around forests became less reverent…. people began using more scientific and economic terms to describe trees.... They began viewing forests as something from which to extract value, not inspiration." Capitalism as both cause and effect of our disconnection with nature.

The climate policies that EU citizens like (and those they don’t) PIK-supported EU project CAPABLE compares opinions on different policies, to help garner majority support for #ClimateAction Info: capableclimate.eu/the-climate-... Interactive online tool: capableclimate.eu/online-tool/

"Since discovering oil in the 1960s, Norway has had to reconcile its environmental ambitions with the sometimes uncomfortable fact that oil and gas have made it enormously wealthy" www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Climate breakdown led to around 16,500 deaths in cities across Europe this summer These deaths are on the hands of the companies profiting most from fueling the climate crisis The EU and governments must turn this around, and one step is a serious #EU2040 climate target that respects the science

Fossil fuels are harmful in a million different ways, but the immediate impacts they have has been broadly understated If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm probably alone in this, but I don't get mad when I see reports, articles, analyses etc that still use 1.5C as a framework, particularly not around rich countries or rich companies. I just see it as a stand-in for "the most urgent action possible", which is what those entities should be enacting

Imagine getting someone like @billhare.bsky.social on your radio show and then spending the entire time asking him to respond to the babbling of someone who denies the basic science. The ABC has gotten so much worse with platforming science deniers in the name of 'showing both sides'

All along the seafront near Dunboy, Beara: an example of the insane waste of time and energy in cutting invasive rhododendron without immediately treating the freshly stumps with herbicide. It's all rapidly resprouting, and very soon the situation will be back to square one: an utter disaster.

In case you find yourself thinking that somehow all sustainability regulation was being rolled back. It isn't. And the US is the outlier. Enormous dynamism and regulatory innovation across Asia. This is from The Brunswick Group's quarterly sustainability radar. For the full report, contact me.

It is wild that oil and gas are still framed as "affordable and reliable"

An absolutely brilliant evening yesterday talking about rewilding in Ireland with Mary @wearetheark.bsky.social and Pádraic @whittledaway.bsky.social in @tcddublin.bsky.social Kudos to the @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social and @jamierohu.bsky.social for organising the event.

Fossil-fueled warming once again killed tens of thousands in Europe this summer. Scientists the rising heat and death tolls show the limits of adaptation.

The fact that we are missing Draghi so bad in 2025 tells you everything you need to know about the state of economic vision in Europe

No one gets this moment any better than the ever-eloquent @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, so much fun to be working with her on Sun Day www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-future-i...

Robert Redford learned how to swim at Barton Springs here in Austin as a boy and that helped develop his environmental sensibility. www.kvue.com/article/news...

If you enjoy reading ChatGPT generated text, you’ll like being a teacher.

Why I ♥️ LA Thursday: Bike+Train to LACMA, lunch in Little Ethiopia Saturday: Husband biked LA River path while daughter worked at Busfest Long Beach. Brought home food from Cambodiatown LB Tuesday: Hawaiian food in Carson

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“It's easy to stand up and speak out when there's nothing at risk. The real test of values is when times are challenging and you have something to lose.”

Absolutely loving fascism. Mr. President, you are killing it!

someone should really start putting the flair back into barrister’s wigs

someone should really start putting the flair back into barrister’s wig

I didn't want Charlie Kirk's killer to be a liberal, but that's where we are*. Two excerpts from the charging document. Full document linked below. * - Unless you believe law enforcement is just outright lying here, which seems unlikely, as this will become evidence in the case.

There it is. Got to get that quota.

“If young people don’t have standing here to challenge presidential orders that threaten their lives, then the Bill of Rights becomes optional, and children’s lives are expendable." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/c...

i can’t believe that wild ass hockey porn is on the shelf at target. it is so brave to read that in a hard copy. you could not pay me enough. that is an ereader-only book.

I am missing normal science life 😓

Lol literally the Senate Appropriations Chair, sent to the kiddie corner by the fascists

Without question, and unapologetically, the answer is D

I made sure to click and read the whole skeet before sharing this

Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice! “virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”

Thanks for nothing @daveminca.bsky.social @repkimschrier.bsky.social @gene4va.bsky.social ...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Drinking a whiskey drink 2. Drinking a vodka drink 3. Drinking a lager drink 4. Drinking a cider drink 5. Singing the songs that remind me of the good times Bonus round. Singing the songs that remind me of the better times

Today in Jack Eats a Thing: a wee piece of turkey

Pledges of future accountability for those doing crimes today are just about the only deterrent in sight. We should see a lot more of these.

I gotta go with D. Mediterranean food. Indian. Thai. Vietnamese. Korean. Japanese. And so much more.

Nothing to see here, just taxpayer dollars wasted on bringing randos with day jobs all the way to DC to stand around in the nice neighborhoods freaking us out with giant guns. Pics by me over the last 24 hours around Georgetown and West End while walking my dog after work.

Another D planning to help vulnerable GOP survive the midterms and to vote to back Trump's fascist showdown of our government.

Trump is already shutting down the government.

Trump is already shutting down the government.

An ordinal Scoville scale from today’s harvest 🌱 #food #garden

Another D drawing the wrong red line on continuing funding for Trump's fascist shutdown of our government.

Streisanding all over himself

post a movie you *love* with an absolutely atrocious rotten tomatoes score

I was today years old when I found out this was Robert Redford. I always assumed it was @deke-arndt.bsky.social

We're going to win the World Series.

I’d call it this if men weren’t Grossssss

last night’s wall of coming togetherness. boston goes so hard

this is what we like to call “the wall of coming togetherness”. because we’re done with all the deaths

biggest takeaway from tour so far tbh

Sea surface temperatures are warming across the entire periphery of the #Arctic Ocean in September. This is especially observed in areas with long-term declines in sea ice concentration, such around the Chukchi and Kara Seas. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1. For more info arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

lol "stop defunding yourself" i say to the republican climate scientist

When the oil & gas industry says EPA has gone too far... 🤦‍♂️ EPA proposal puts US gas exporters in a bind share.google/YGFYX5ndcFgd... 🔌💡

Happy Samin day to those who celebrate :)

Join us this Thursday for the second in our great lineup of speakers for the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics - Irene Montasterolo on the materiality of climate risks and the Network for Greening the Financial System scenarios: cepr.org/events/event... #EconSky #GreenSky

many people are saying this

you did have to be there

ekko astral #1 bluesky band

It was an honor to be invited to speak during the opening session of the Southwest Florida Resiliency Summit. It began with influences on tides, then described the forecasts with origins back to 2020 and operational since 2023 thanks to collaboration with the South Florida Water Management District.

I did not know curry, roti and dhal were considered Indian food until I was in my mid-teens, it was everywhere

Climate week has gotten worse than earth day, email-wise.

“the Reichstagbrand”

re: OBBBA — how are we saying this now? i just heard OB-cubed for the first time 👀

Ivey is polite here but very accurate - Charlie Kirk's death *should* be a lesson that Kirk's valorization of guns for white men, glorification of political violence, and dehumanization of his political opponents needs to end today.

Another Dem on the ridiculous "healthcare for fascism" plan

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT @susielee.house.gov has voted to give Jeanine Pirro the power to prosecute 14 year olds as adults #freedc

Are you thirsty for a casual chat with local climate folks? Join us this month for our #ThirdThursdays Climate Drinks on the third Thursday of each month at #CivicTavern. Supported by @xhalebrewco.bsky.social ! #yyc #ClimateChange #Activism

The Ta-Nehisi Coates take:

"Sorry, we've removed the brightness slider for your own convenience. You can change your phone's brightness by asking Galaxy AI" "Okay, Galaxy AI change brightness" "Sure thing! That requires 10 Magic Credits. Your current balance is 0 Magic Credits. To buy more Magic Credits, go to your Sam...."

This summer, staff members from at least two agencies were put on leave after speaking out against these moves. Some were subsequently fired.

Per "How Iceland Changed the World" by Egill Bjarnason: The Icelandic dictionary has 156 entries describing wind.

can’t believe lambrini girls are playing coachella next year. so proud of my sisters

The ACA is important but it's an absurd line in the sand to draw when the White House is building a loyal army of openly racist masked secret police

Waiting for him to explain his votes bowing to Trump and attacking the political autonomy of Washington DC

The ACA tax extenders is not the right red line at all. My neighbors are being abducted by masked men as they drop off their children at school, drive to work, leave church service.

Disappearing data....The report said: “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” www.thedailybeast.com/doj-quietly-...