There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵

The Inflation Reduction Act has spurred huge investment in America. $165 billion of that investment has gone into red districts, compared to $54 billion of investment in blue districts.

This graphic is going viral. This is how it was calculated... let's get geeky🤓...

Incredible stat: A single container ship of solar panels can provide as much electricity as more than 50 large LNG tankers of gas – or 100 large coal ships There's many more insights in IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2024 – here's a selection 🧵 1/7

I woke up seeing 60+ people are dead, thinking Valencia will be a turning point, will dominate the news, wake everybody up to climate change. It’s not though is it. The budget is dominating reporting in the UK. Public don’t care. We are determined to send our children over a

In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful

“My mother, who I lost this year, wasn’t welcome in department stores as a young woman, but for eight years she had the best view in America from her room at the White House.” -Michelle Obama, Orator Extraordinaire

I ❤️ (car-free) #Paris! Starting Nov. 4, 2024, the 5.5 km2 heart of Paris will be closed to through traffic. (Buses, taxis, ambulances, residents' cars will still have access.) Opponents claim it will make life hell. Here's what hell looks like, according to them:

Inevitably there’s considerable interest in what impacts a Valencia type of rainfall event would have on the UK. A 🧵 metro.co.uk/2024/11/01/hap…

"I bet europeans are laughing at us" no we're watching in horror

Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump…

New details have emerged about #ArezooKhavari, a young Afghan immigrant who danced without a hijab and wore jeans to school—simple acts of self-expression that led to relentless harassment from her school’s hijab enforcers, ultimately driving her to take her own life. The

Biden should go all out on climate for the next 75 days. Declare a climate emergency. Get all the IRA money out the door. Permit new transmission lines. Stop new LNG exports. Ban drilling on public lands. Make a mountain of progress for Trump to try and undo.

Exclusive: Ahoo Daryaei Revealed as the Woman Who Undressed in Protest Against Morality Police Close associates of Ahoo Daryaei, a student who protested against morality police harassment at Tehran’s Science and Research University by removing her clothes, have shared photos and

Total hours of sunshine so far this November. Nice Via Dan Harris

NVIDIA ENTERS NUCLEAR: DEAL WITH DIABLO CANYON BRINGS AI INSIDE Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, has just made its first move into nuclear power: it is partnering with PG&E's recently-saved Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant to build AI inside the plant. The deal is being

This fire in Pacific Palisades is crazy. This is the Santa Monica Pier.

Just a few hours ago, Nick Watt, who has covered his share of fires, said, “If this fire were to get to Santa Monica, this would be one of the most devastating nights we could imagine.” Santa Monica just evacuated all areas of the city north of San Vicente.

Jan 7, 2025 3:15pm - The world is literally burning around us and SMPD is still out here giving out street sweeping tickets… Classic Santa Monica 🙄 #PalisadesFire #PacificPalisadesFire

JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible: