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🚨 Helping climate science break through to many more people - and unlock action. Brainchild of climate comms lab @utopiabureau.bsky.social and campaigner @nickoldridge.bsky.social www.climatesciencebreakthrough.com

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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Fine Sunday morning rant by the excellent @davidrvetter.bsky.social
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Translation: whole new level of shit about to hit the fan.
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There's a #heatwave on, you've probably noticed...what you might not have noticed is Reform just voting against a law to reduce carbon emissions and pollution, which is what makes heatwaves hotter and more frequent! A popular policy that deserves to be more widely known #hotterheatwaves
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
UK Breaking News: Tories and Reform vote for hotter heatwaves!
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 23/04/2026
Big Oil's objective is clear: take away the public's right to hold them accountable for anything, ever. “Every elected official who cares about the interests of their constituents more than those of corporate polluters should oppose this disgraceful proposal,” says @govjayinslee.bsky.social.
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Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ bills
Climate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If you understand the implications of this, I don’t know how you’re not terrified for our kids.
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If this was tv show the plot would be too crass to commission. One of broligarchy sacking Pulitzer Prize winners to foster misinformation and plain stupidly at the time when our very earth systems are in dire trouble. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Very good thread on climate comms as ever by @thierryaaron.bsky.social
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
100%!! A must-read editorial by ace climate journalist @emorwee.bsky.social. @mason4c.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social @who.int @climate4health.bsky.social @climatemuseum.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org
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It's time to embrace climate conspiracy
Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud.
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Literally every US climate scientist is posting about Trump shutting down the NCAR research lab in Boulder. Perhaps it's an even worse idea than the usual merely-very-bad ideas?
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Clear-eyed reality check from @doctorvive.bsky.social
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄? Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year. First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump
I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue.
It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!
475 ReTruths 1.67k Likes
Oct 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Great piece on "tactical frivolity" by @shteyngart.bsky.social in NYT: "Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians". As perfected by Otpor among others. Humor is the antidote! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
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Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The fossil fuel industry can only survive by capturing government - and clamping down on people protesting this... insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...
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New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News
Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"If geoengineering works well initially & you see this temperature drop, the tempempation to keep going & extracting fossil fuels will be greater than ever, because it will seem that you have a technologically that can cut off the link between temperature rises & fossil fuel combustion."
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Overshoot & Climate Breakdown - Wim Carton & Andreas Malm | #39
YouTube video by Jesse Damiani
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Comics who took the Saudi dollar facing a richly-deserved backlash. Not mentioned but also important: Saudi's dastardly role in obstructing climate action for decades... www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
As the US spirals out of control, let's be clear who the architects of this chaos are. A fossil fuel industry hell-bent on preserving its destructive business. Yet in the UK, their lobbyists roam the palace of Westminster with privileged access to ministers. At what point will we say enough?
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Trump and Stalin would have got on nicely www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump fires person behind jobs numbers after they're revised down
The labor market slowed sharply over the past three months amid ongoing concerns over President Donald Trump's tariff policies.
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Climate stooges
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Eye-opening (yet unsurprising...) from @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A despicable approach to carbon emissions: attempting to destabilise the Green energy market @edmilibandmp.bsky.social we re in your corner. Please share/comment if you agree @mvtfwd.bsky.social @femi-oluwole.bsky.social @philmoorhouse.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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Labour MPs challenge Richard Tice over Reform UK’s plan to scrap green projects
Exclusive: Letter signed by 59 MPs criticises party’s deputy leader after his warned energy firms over new contracts
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"From 2019-2024, Reform received more than 90% of its funding, £2.3 million, from individuals and companies linked to polluting industries and climate science denial. "Bringing this information to the attention of voters 'was the only message to significantly reduce willingness to vote for Reform'"
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New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
How to stop Farage...
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Nothing to worry about
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #10/10: NO HONESTY = NO HOPE There is an ongoing debate in climate communications about doom and gloom vs hope. 🧵 #climatecommunication #climatescience
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Awareness doesn't always lead to action. If you don't give a credible account of agency, of how people can affect the dire situation you've just explained, they won't act. 🧵 In the US, it's call or go see your elected representative... #climateaction #climatescience
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #8/10: TIPPING SOCIAL NORMS As Michael Oppenheimer tells David Crosss "we need more people like you". Change comes once social norms tip. 🧵
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #7/10: GRABBING ATTENTION Sadly, most people would rather chew off their own foot than listen to a hefty chunk of the latest climate science. Grabbing their attention is 90% of the battle - this is true of most comms btw. 🧵
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Must-read! Prof Michael Oppenheimer in top DC news site @thehill.com, discussing our new film and why it's time to laugh at the climate crisis: thehill.com/opinion/ener...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
How the next financial crisis starts - The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil By @pilitaclark.bsky.social HT @carbonbrief.org #climatecrisis www.ft.com/content/9e5d...
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How the next financial crisis starts
The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #6/10: CLIMATE SHOCKS Climate communicators secretly welcome extreme weather... it's a no-brainer opportunity to draw attention to the immediacy and danger of the crisis. 🧵
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If anyone has an hour and 14 minutes to kill, here is one of us last Sunday on the @climatechat.bsky.social podcast with the highly-informed @danmiller999.bsky.social, going into the juicy details of our approach! www.youtube.com/live/Y3KO7lR...
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Translating Climate to Human, with Ben Carey
YouTube video by Climate Chat
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"The idea that our little spaceship, our planet, is under the risk of essentially crashing and we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing" Great interview by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social with the ever-punchy @doctorvive.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #5/10: HUMOUR (TYPES OF) This joke didn't make the final cut, but we like it! Humour is a key part of our campaign - but there is definitely good climate humour and bad climate humour for our purposes...🧵
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #4/10: TRIAL AND ERROR The truth is that no one has cracked climate comms. Otherwise we wouldn't still be in such deep s**t. It's therefore imperative to keep trying new creative approaches and angles. In our new film for instance, we bring up China... (🧵)
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 21/06/2025
In case you're wondering what a heat dome is ... www.theclimatebrink....
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Anatomy of a heat wave
sunny days aren't all they're cracked up to be
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 20/06/2025
It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea. All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs. Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?
Warming stripes for JapanWarming stripes for AustraliaWarming stripes for New ZealandWarming stripes for Papua New Guinea
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Dan Miller @danmiller999.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Sunday at 10am PT on Climate Chat: "Translating Climate to Human", with Ben Carey, cofounder of @utopiabureau.bsky.social & the Climate Science Breakthrough channel. Can humor help engage the public? @leonsimons.bsky.social @bikingmzstacey.bsky.social @radsci.bsky.social youtube.com/live/Y3KO7lR...
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Translating Climate to Human, with Ben Carey
YouTube video by Climate Chat
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #3/10: FAIRNESS People aren't motivated by facts, they're motivated by emotion. Including outrage at unfairness, an emotion that has driven people to rise up throughout history. The climate crisis is a story of extraordinary unfairness, with clear villains:
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My most recent book, Saving Ourselves, lays out the argument in full--the paperback comes out NEXT MONTH: www.danarfisher.com/pre-order-book
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Order Saving Ourselves
Get a copy of Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action today! Some options: Amazon Barnes and Noble Buy the book from an ethical supplier Indiebound (for local independent bookstores…
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yikes-inducing summary of latest studies from @thierryaaron.bsky.social (also one of our top advisers 🙏🙏🙏)
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It's almost as if we should fund a proper campaign to counteract fossil fuel industry misinformation. Possibly featuring much-loved comedians? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #2/10: RELEVANCE A criminal amount of climate coverage still focuses on the raw numbers like 1.5, which mean nothing to most of us. Instead we need to spell out the impacts, from crop failures to food shortages to huge economic and political instability.
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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Fun event on the evils of adland at #LCAW2025 on Monday with @lucyvonsturmer.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @robbiegillett.bsky.social @seriouspeople.bsky.social and more. We'll be there as @utopiabureau.bsky.social showing our film and having a drink afterwards no doubt. Limited places! lu.ma/dcepro15
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Ad Brake: How to stop advertising fuelling the climate crisis · Luma
To kick off London Climate Action Week, a coalition of leading NGOs, whistleblowers, journalists and creatives are joining forces to expose and explore the…
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Spain just released a report detailing the reasons behind the country's April blackouts. Britain's Daily Telegraph is now directly lying about the report, falsely claiming that solar power was to blame for the power cuts. The lies are being spread on social media.
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
PG version of the new "Climate Science Translated" out now! If you felt like sharing, but weren't sure your great-aunt Mabel (or your colleagues...) would appreciate David Cross's strong language, here is an equally punchy yet swearing-free version!
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Climate Science Translated Breakdown #1: PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE In our latest film, we highlight that 74% of Americans want more climate action from government. But most people think they’re in the minority — a phenomenon called pluralistic ignorance.
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