Sport is on a collision course with global warming. Yet the "suffocatingly hot" US Open in New York is sponsored by the biggest commercial financier of fossil fuels, JPMorgan, and a heavily polluting airline and car maker, Emirates & Cadillac. Bad play promoting your own demise

A pleasure to be at the 2024 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research annual assemby, seeing old faces and having new conversations. Our 'Catalysing Adaptation and Resilience' theme session kicked off the assembly, thinking about how future extreme weather will impact our transition to decarbonisation.

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Various researchers from University of Southampton join Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Not least Southampton brings in the really important & much neglected area of climate & health, globally & in the UK. Perhaps ‘health’ is a way to get policy makers to take climate seriously (ie. near term votes)?

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of Southampton Rebecca Willis keynote opens 2nd day of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Assembly, arguing democracy is not a luxury that needs to be suspended as we deal with climate change,rather we need more democracy. She emphasises how democracy is a social contract; citizen engagement is core to democracy.

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of Southampton Rebecca Willis Rebecca Willis points to how in many respects the ‘state’ (elected politicians) are failing their side of the social contract. They typically run scared of talking openly about the scale of the climate crisis, engaging far more with fossil fuel execs &big business than citizens.

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of Southampton Rebecca Willis I agree with Rebecca Willis that citizen assemblies contribute to a functioning democracy. But its key to guard against assembly boundaries being selected to deliberately limit citizens views. Eg. Policy suites for Incremental Net-zero 2050 compared with Emergency Paris 1.5-2°C.

Kevin Anderson Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of Southampton Rebecca Willis Absolutely this. Giving elected politicians control over assembly agendas, or allowing them to vet or overrule assembly decisions, largely negates their advantages. Terry Bouricius very good on this (about 30 mins or so, but well worthwhile): youtu.be/rqWWCzbcttc?si…

Andy #Rejoin #Climatejustice #NHS Kevin Anderson Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of Southampton Rebecca Willis Citizens Assemblies are typically conducted around the information needed to come to a decision But Kevin Anderson is right in that who controls the input of information more or less dictates the outcome. The complexity of #ClimateCrisis makes it very hard to get a balanced result

Andy #Rejoin #Climatejustice #NHS Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of Southampton Rebecca Willis I don’t think there is ‘the’ answer. Science is certainly key to informing good decisions, but ‘scientists’ are as susceptible to political bias as is anyone else. Moreover, in my view, there is a lot of fraudulent nonsense spoken by ‘experts’ on pseudo-technologies (at scale).

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of Southampton Rebecca Willis Chris Jones at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Assembly discusses impacts of research in informing change: eg. Tyndall & Massive Attack driving radical change in the live music sector. IMO integrity is key to such change; contrast with weak/scam(?) climate action Coldplay bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🚨Beyond excited to share our new paper in NatureClimate on perceptions of *carbon footprint inequality*🙌 Across four countries 🇩🇰🇮🇳🇳🇬🇺🇸, we find widespread underestimation of within-country carbon footprint inequality, including among the wealthy🧵 nature.com/articles/s4155…

May be of interest Rebecca Willis Kristian Steensen Nielsen Julia Steinberger Kevin Anderson Chris Venables Jake Ainscough @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social Dr. Genevieve Guenther Dr. Aaron Thierry George Monbiot CAST Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Professor Susan Michie Giulio Mattioli ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Sat having a pizza in Helensburgh before cycling the John Muir Way tomorrow. Over the Clyde is Greenock & Carnival Cruise Line Regal Princess spewing poisonous gases over local inhabitants. Kids will have lower educational attainment thanks to this - not to mention the CO2 impacts.

For those who like their academic reading unblemished by unicorns, sweeteners, soft pedalling & the many other half-truths, lies & scams that dominate much of the literature… Dr Steve Westlake is a person to follow. For those preferring the Blue Pill - perhaps give him a miss.

Kevin Anderson Carnival Cruise Line Any chance you could speak to Scottish Government while you're up? Apart from decarbonising electricity generation, progress at cutting emissions more generally has been dismal.