Recent posts by Climate and Energy Professionals community members. Updated hourly.
Bizarre to be (incorrectly) referenced in the federal report supporting the EPA's proposal to revoke the scientific finding that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change www.energy.gov/sites/defaul... (More on that story here: www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...)
The World Rally Championship is taking place in #Finland @elokapina.bsky.social are taking action ❤️✊🏽 “Today in #Jyväskylä! Come join the demonstration to spread the message that enough is enough with environmentally harmful World Rally Championship.”
“Governments face shrinking fiscal space and must find funding for international climate finance," says PIK director #Edenhofer. Smaller coalitions of countries with targeted levies could help solve the problem without extra cost to consumers, he adds. New report! www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
The Wall Street Journal has published the most anti-science editorial I have ever seen, celebrating a victory against "climate imperialism" - ie. efforts to respond to an accelerating crisis that is endangering hundreds of millions of lives and is on course to end organised civilisation.
Interesting reading here, especially around one of my favourite topics; publishing pressures and metrics. The term “Top-Tier” journals still makes me gag, especially given the horror stories I’m still hearing from Chinese and Chinese-based co-authors about publishing venues…
Oilprice is running the headline "Europe Wants More US Gas Than Exists", which is pure industry propaganda. Europe neither wants nor can use that much US LNG, but nevertheless the "deal" is being painted as a win both for the fossil fuel industry and for the Trump administration.
I've been asked by reporters to comment on this. I wish I could but I don't want to. What I will say is that I'm relieved to find out that ocean acidification from fossil fuel CO₂ emissions isn't a problem because the ocean was more acidic when life first evolved billions of years ago. 🙄
I was supposed to meet an NPR reporter at the UN Ocean Conference in France in June for an urgent story but she inexplicably ghosted me. It turns out her @signal.org message arranging the meeting was delivered via pigeon and just arrived. Actually, that's unfair. A pigeon would have been faster. 🫠
They always do this: they suppress the actual science of a phrase & spread its colloquial meaning, if that creates misunderstanding. They did it with "uncertainty," and they're doing it now with "we have avoided the worst-case scenario" & "the worst-case scenario is misleading." 🧵
"Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans." www.propublica.org/article/wate...
As a 🌎 we have a HUGE land problem: how to supply 50% more food & wood to a growing population by 2050 while ending deforestation & stabilizing the climate. As noted below, dedicating land to biofuels worsens the problem. Better to use solar, which produces 100x the energy per hectare vs biofuels.
You can’t overstate just how impressive this heat dome is. It covers 2/3 of contig. US, 80% of US population 90+ high temp (~260 mill people) Peak intensity of heat dome record for SE US in late July. Peaked at 3.7 sigma which means this heat dome is extremely rare in our former climate of the 1900s
eek! tsunami warnings all over my skyline! my agéd Washingtonian relations! I consider: but my aunt in Seattle is visiting New Mexico (for the opera, but also for us) currently - she cannot be tsunami'd without considerable effort and the wave getting through, uh, Arizona.
A Green Beret officer with 25 years of service explains in plain language what the Israeli military, with support from the US, is doing to Palestinian civilians - including many children - in Gaza. If you've felt that media coverage here is vague or confusing, you may find this interview clarifying.