Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Fine Sunday morning rant by the excellent @davidrvetter.bsky.social 166
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Translation: whole new level of shit about to hit the fan. 196
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026There'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 030
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 24/06/2026UK Breaking News: Tories and Reform vote for hotter heatwaves! 0102
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughCenter for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 23/04/2026Big 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.theguardian.comRepublican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ billsClimate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate 13118
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/04/20261/ 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. 🧵 30934549
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/03/2026If you understand the implications of this, I don’t know how you’re not terrified for our kids. 412258
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughMP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026If 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...climatecoloredgoggles.comBreaking: Washington Post gutting its climate teamClean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos. 67832
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Very good thread on climate comms as ever by @thierryaaron.bsky.social 0103
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 07/01/2026100%!! 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.orgopen.substack.comIt's time to embrace climate conspiracyTrump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud. 0123
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Literally 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? 082
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Clear-eyed reality check from @doctorvive.bsky.social 0118
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Looking 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! 🧵 315873
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I’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 👇 420772
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Great 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...nytimes.comOpinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance 030
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The fossil fuel industry can only survive by capturing government - and clamping down on people protesting this... insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...insideclimatenews.orgNew Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate NewsPublic 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. 1118
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDr. 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."youtu.beOvershoot & Climate Breakdown - Wim Carton & Andreas Malm | #39YouTube video by Jesse Damiani 55921
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Comics 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...theguardian.com‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festivalMurder 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... 061
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughSimon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025As 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? 412854
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Trump and Stalin would have got on nicely www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...newsweek.comDonald Trump fires person behind jobs numbers after they're revised downThe labor market slowed sharply over the past three months amid ongoing concerns over President Donald Trump's tariff policies. 053
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Eye-opening (yet unsurprising...) from @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talksPetrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet 074
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughMP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 18/07/2025A 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.socialtheguardian.comLabour MPs challenge Richard Tice over Reform UK’s plan to scrap green projectsExclusive: Letter signed by 59 MPs criticises party’s deputy leader after his warned energy firms over new contracts 54729
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughJosiah 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'"open.substack.comNew research reveals the best attack lines to use against ReformHow to stop Farage... 8265157
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Climate 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 1114
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Awareness 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 1147
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Climate 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. 🧵 142
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Climate 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. 🧵 245
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Must-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...thehill.com 021
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 27/06/2025How 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...ft.comHow the next financial crisis startsThe climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil 13212
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Climate 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. 🧵 163
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 25/06/2025If 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...youtube.comTranslating Climate to Human, with Ben CareyYouTube video by Climate Chat 174
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/...theguardian.com‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shieldEconomic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther 12314
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Climate 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...🧵 281
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Climate 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... (🧵) 141
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 21/06/2025In case you're wondering what a heat dome is ... www.theclimatebrink....theclimatebrink.comAnatomy of a heat wavesunny days aren't all they're cracked up to be 02610
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 20/06/2025It'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? 7333165
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDan Miller @danmiller999.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Sunday 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...youtube.comTranslating Climate to Human, with Ben CareyYouTube video by Climate Chat 32110
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Climate 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: 16527
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025My most recent book, Saving Ourselves, lays out the argument in full--the paperback comes out NEXT MONTH: www.danarfisher.com/pre-order-bookdanarfisher.comOrder Saving OurselvesGet 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… 084
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Yikes-inducing summary of latest studies from @thierryaaron.bsky.social (also one of our top advisers 🙏🙏🙏) 011
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025It'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/...theguardian.comClimate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major reportFalse claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised 084
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Climate 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. 194
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughJoeri 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 8326191
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Fun 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/dcepro15lu.maAd Brake: How to stop advertising fuelling the climate crisis · LumaTo kick off London Climate Action Week, a coalition of leading NGOs, whistleblowers, journalists and creatives are joining forces to expose and explore the… 031
Reposted by Climate Science BreakthroughDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Spain 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. 38139
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025PG 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! 053
Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Climate 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. 132