"To argue that we can safely overshoot 1.5°C, or any amount of warming, is saying the quiet bit out loud: we don’t care about the increasing suffering and deaths that will be caused while the recovery is worked on." More 👉 theconversation.com/the-overshoot-… #climate #netzero #science

SUVs are setting new sales records each year — & so are their emissions If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s 5th largest emitter of CO2 Read more in our commentary on what this means for efforts to reach energy & climate goals ➡️ iea.li/4dNM0Tb

Holy everloving WHAT. All those poo-pooing the Rio Tinto threats received by Serbian mine critics need to read this. Aggravated assault and burglary, years of harassment leading to Maurice Duffy's wife fatal disease. This is NOT a trustworthy or respectable company.

I find myself mainly in agreement with James Dyke and colleagues here theconversation.com/the-overshoot-… -

Huge shout-out to the The Guardian production team for creating this full page on McQuaid and Pringle's #airquality stripes project, with words by me. (Jim McQuaid 🇺🇦 🇪🇺, Kirsty Pringle , Ed Hawkins)

As the new school year begins, Palestinian students in Gaza cannot access education due to Israel’s systemic attacks on the education system, known as "scholasticide." Education is a vital pillar of resilience, resistance, & hope for Palestinians. #EndScholasticide

The fuckery facing the nascent Bangladeshi democracy, between international media disregard, massive organised racist disinformation from Indian Hindutva extremists and now attack by massive catastrophic man-assisted flooding is ASTOUNDING. Please read & follow Prof Sultana.

I got a lot of flak for wanting people to know about Holly Jean Buck's past work at the Department of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management when they read her Jacobin article arguing that attention to fossil-fuel disinformation is counterproductive. Ok, then. Here's my defense. 🧵

Absolutely everything in these statements from Donald J. Trump is false, so it's difficult to know where to start, but let me try: 1. Scientists *did not* think the world was going to cool in the 1920s - first predictions of global warming were actually in the late 1800s. (1/3).

BREAKING: Biomass power plant Drax failed to give energy regulator Ofgem "accurate and robust data on the exact types of Canadian wood it utilises". The findings come at a tricky time for Drax, with new govt under pressure from campaigners to stop subsidising biomass burning and

NEW The government will not challenge the judicial reviews brought against development consent for the Jackdaw and Rosebank offshore oil and gas fields in the North Sea This is a big deal, both major projects

You know, I am pretty much sure my life is not totally useless because I wrote this. Even though it's based on other people's work. This one matters. jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-up…

This is a great chance to get up to speed with the latest climate and environmental thinking at Global Systems Institute! (James Dyke, Dr Ceri Lewis, Prof Richard Betts, Pierre Friedlingstein, Prof. Claire M Belcher)

In towns and cities across the country such as Southwark, Bristol, & Plymouth, people have been near Crown Courts in recent days over their concerns at the Labour Government upholding the former Tory Government’s anti-protest laws. Dozens of peaceful activists remain in prison.

"We can do both" is apparently the climate and energy messaging on which the Harris campaign has settled. (Harris used the identical phrase in her CNN interview.) I understand it as a message that meets the moment. But it's not true, and I hope they don't believe it. 1/3

BREAKING: Sixth UK renewable auction secures record* 131 projects ☀️3.3GW solar @ £50/MWh** 💨1.0GW onshore wind @ £50/MWh 🌊💨 3.4GW new offshore @ £59 🌊💨1.6GW old offshore @ £54 🛟0.4GW floating wind @ £140 * the 9.6GW of capacity today is below the record 11GW from 2022,

We just submitted a Preprint! The Wins of the Grassroots Climate Movement in the University of California: Never Doubt that A Small Group of the Committed Can Change the World osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science James Dyke Campus Climate Network Scientist Rebellion Rebecca Solnit/joy is a strategy

.CarbonCapture Inc. has suspended development of its WY direct air capture plant, Project Bison, despite the support of the Biden administration, because it cannot secure enough carbon-free energy to power the project. 1/3

NEW: In Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows fossil fuel companies have systematically infiltrated academia, threatening to bias research and undermine meaningful climate action. THREAD. 📰Open access: bit.ly/FossilFUniv

NYPD arrests scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 at Citibank: “I’m a biologist, I’ve been studying climate change since 1982 and no one is listening to the data. So today they’re going to have to listen to my body blocking the doors of the world’s largest funder of new fossil fuel