I used to be one of the Australian diplomats regularly lobbying United Nations committee members to say the Great Barrier Reef isn’t in danger. Minister Tanya Plibersek we all know the reef is in deep danger. So is our entire climate system. From burning fossil fuels.

Bleaching getting more severe in Las Perlas, Pacific Panama. Many colonies now ~100% bleached, some with substantial mortality (note the algal overgrowth on parts of the white colonies, indicating that the coral tissue underneath has died).

As per Environmental Investigation Agency and OceanCare's new report "Clean-ups or Clean-Washing", we will not get out of the #plasticcrisis by relying on damaging quick fixes. Instead, Governments need to prioritise reducing production. oceancare.org/en/stories_and…

Yall. I wish this was a joke but it's not. There will be a "Responsible Yachting" panel at #COP28. This is the shit that puts me in despair. cop28.com/en/schedule/re…

It's absurd that people are traveling to COP28 by private jet. theconversation.com/why-are-people…

The greatest show on Earth (c) Martin Rowson, The Guardian

500+ pages, 200+ researchers: The most comprehensive review to date on #TippingPoints in the Earth System is out, with University of Exeter. The Global Tipping Points report delivers a comprehensive assessment of tipping point risks & societal opportunities. pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Important new report: Just as in the IPCC, it shows that if we go beyond 1.5, we enter a high-risk zone of crossing tipping points. We need to move fast to avoid moving to a point where the Earth system takes over & pushed us in a direction with unmanageable conditions.

COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates

Taking Care theoatmeal.com/comics/taking_… Written by @CallistaBuchen

Is the #AMOC approaching a tipping point? Here's my take after researching this topic for over 30 years. Open access, peer-reviewed, in full colour & understandable for non-experts. tos.org/oceanography/a…

It’s also possible, that heat stress in the Far North is not reflected fully in bleaching impacts because there’s already relatively low coral cover up there

We are hiring an Ocean Governance expert to provide technical assistance to Trinidad and Tobago to develop a policy to provide instructions and directives for the purposes of drafting the relevant legal regime governing marine scientific research, in alignment with UNCLOS. ‌

OceanCare welcomes the strong, landmark advisory opinion of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which clarifies that international law obliges governments to make every effort to protect marine ecosystems. #UNCLOS #ITLOS #climateChange #OceanPollution #acidification COSIS on Climate Change and International Law oceancare.org/en/stories_and…

Jon Stewart's takeaway from tonight's Biden-Trump debate