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9/9 Rest in peace, Joe. Your voice - and your warnings - will not be forgotten.

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It is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...

8 / My deepest condolences to Joe’s family, friends and colleagues, including everyone at the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media and @michaelemann.bsky.social and Dean Grodzins, his cousin who wrote his obituary -> web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...

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Remembering Dr. Joe Romm

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7/ That fight will certainly be different without him, but his clarity, courage and refusal to accept comforting claims without evidence must continue to guide it .

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6/ they sound reasonable at a small scale, but by what they could unleash when billions of dollars create incentives across entire landscapes. He would have been a formidable ally in the fight for full disclosure and in supporting rigorous, independent investigation on the ground.

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5/ and traceability of the biomass feedstock nor the chemical safety of the resulting biochar intended for environmental application has been adequately disclosed through publicly inspectable evidence. Joe understood that technologies and climate claims must be judged not only by whether

4/ Given Joe’s credo & life’s work, I would like to dedicate my own David-and-Goliath effort concerning Microsoft’s opaque biochar-CDR activities with inadequate disclosure in Bolivia to his memory. Despite claims involving enormous volumes of carbon removal, neither the sustainability

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3/ problematic if the price starts to get interesting to people.” That warning has become painfully relevant to the rapidly expanding biochar carbon-removal market. Joe also wrote: “But I have another Microsoft post I need to do first about something even more embarrassing that they have done.”

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in 2025, Joe warned me: 2/ “There are a lot of well-meaning people out there who are pushing ideas that on the surface appear reasonable - and at a small scale would probably be fine - but at a large scale would be completely disastrous. Anything involving putting a price on wood is gonna get

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

RIP Joe Romm, a fearless voice for climate action and truth. I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr Joe Romm, a brilliant thinker, prolific author and relentless defender of science and climate action. In our exchanges before the publication of his final book "The Hype About Hydrogen"

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HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We'll have something to say soon about the unique climate change-amplified processes behind the epic Spring 2026 western heat dome in the near future. Watch this space...

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Himalayan glaciers are rapidly losing mass, unusually high temperatures and snowmelt preceded this event, and warming can destabilise high-mountain environments. As Shugar puts it, an increasing frequency of such collapses would point toward warming as a contributing factor.

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being the primary event. Was climate change the cause? We cannot responsibly say that yet. Glaciers can collapse for several reasons, but the climatic background is impossible to ignore:

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According to glaciologist Dan Shugar , part of the glacier appears to have broken away and fallen more than a kilometre vertically into the valley below, generating an enormous ice-rock avalanche and debris flow. Seismic evidence appears consistent with mass movement rather than an earthquake

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Nepal-Tibet: Flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border kills more than 150, with hundreds of tourists missing

almost certainly be much higher. But the emerging understanding of what actually happened is equally disturbing. Initial satellite and seismic analysis reported by New Scientist ** points to the collapse of a glacier at around 5,200 metres altitude. www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

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Nepal's tourist board says the missing tourists include 133 from India, 54 from the US, and 33 from the UK, as well as more than 100 from Nepal itself.

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The scale of today’s disaster on the Nepal–Tibet border is difficult to comprehend. The latest reports put the death toll at well over 150*, with hundreds still missing, while villages, roads, bridges and hydropower infrastructure have been swept away. The final human and economic cost will 🧵

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8/8 If simply moving an existing low-carbon MWh from the grid to an AI server can be repackaged as emission reduction, people will be right to ask what exactly 40 years of carbon-pricing and carbon-market institution-building have achieved & what they are being asked to trust. :

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7/Most people who have spent decades building carbon pricing and carbon markets are serious, competent trying to make an extraordinarily difficult task measurable and credible. But we cannot ask the public to trust the system if we allow propositions like this through the gates.

6/ frameworks admit crediting propositions of this quality, the damage will not stop with a few questionable carbon credit tonnes on a registry. It will reinforce the public suspicion that carbon markets turn clever accounting into climate action.

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5/ and is also among the first five applicants seeking recognition as a certification scheme under the EU CRCF. That is where this becomes a credibility issue for all of us. Any system is ultimately only as strong as its weakest link. If CORSIA, the CRCF or other climate

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4/ The arithmetic is painfully simple. If 1 MWh previously went from the landfill generator into the UK grid and is now diverted to an AI data centre, the data centre avoids buying 1 MWh from the grid, but the grid simultaneously loses 1 MWh of low-carbon generation.

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3/ AI data centres and claim carbon credits because those data centers now use low carbon/renewable electricity. Same landfill gas. Same generator. Same electricity. Different cable. And apparently: new climate change mitigation.

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Thirty years of carbon markets, and I still wasn’t ready for this …..

2/ but I was still not ready for this one. Take UK landfill sites where methane has long been collected under environmental regulation and where some landfill-gas using power generators have operated for decades. Full article on LinkedIn- > www.linkedin.com/pulse/thirty...

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I thought I had seen most varieties of questionable carbon credit additionality over the past three decades. Apparently not: meet PF007/MDC001 – the Era4 Captive LFG-to-Power Project, registered with ...

public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈/𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭: in almost thirty years around carbon markets, I have seen creative baselines, heroic additionality arguments and methodologies requiring rather more faith than science,

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this book is one of those rare, truly timeless must-reads for understanding public health and climate change and everything else going wrong today

cover of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
by Naomi Oreskes (Author), Erik M. Conway (Author) Format: Paperback

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Brilliant piece: The only people who have been sent to prison [for climate change] are those who have protested against it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Climate and Punishment | Gabriel Winslow-Yost

Vigil finds George Saunders returning to the theme of his first novel, grief—this time not for a person but for a planet.

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“I came off air and I cried.” With the UK facing experiencing another heatwave, watch ITV meteorologist Laura Tobin speak to climate scientist Prof Fredi Otto about forecasting record-breaking heat as the impacts of #climatechange accelerate in the UK and around the world.

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Weird Weather: How is climate change impacting our weather? | Laura Tobin & Dr Fredi Otto

From blistering heatwaves to record-breaking rainfall, our weather is becoming more erratic and extreme. To discuss how climate change is influencing these changes, we’re joined by two prominent…

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2/2 complacency, disinformation and the normalisation of ever-greater risks. -> bsky.app/profile/clim...

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Both democratic erosion and climate inaction depend on societies gradually accepting the unacceptable as business as usual. As @michaelemann.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com have long argued, confronting climate change is not only about understanding the science, it is also about resisting

Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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Miklós Horthy did it. Benito Mussolini did it. Adolf Hitler did it. Francisco Franco did it. Augusto Pinochet did it. Jorge Rafael Videla did it. Now Donald Trump does it. Did what? Used the threat of Communism to justify a dictatorship.

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Washington DC’s Fourth of July parade canceled due to soaring temperature

3/3 History is reminding us that every era is defined by the challenges it chooses to confront, or ignore. Stay safe, everyone. The heat is real, so are its causes. Article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... My LinkedIn Post: www.linkedin.com/posts/zsolt-...

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National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as high temperatures have paralyzed the east coast

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2/ events, now a dangerous heatwave - is disrupting the very celebrations of that independence. A stark reminder that changing course is no longer optional, it is inevitable. The transformation ahead - that can happen buy design or by disaster - may prove as consequential as independence itself.

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There is a certain historical irony here. The country that built unprecedented wealth and global power on fossil fuels is now increasingly confronting the consequences of its fossil-fuel (in)dependence. On the 250th anniversary of its independence, climate change by supercharging extreme weather

Washington DC’s Fourth of July parade canceled due to soaring temperature

History is reminding us that every era is defined by the challenges it chooses to confront, or ignore. Stay safe, everyone. The heat is real, so are its causes. Link to the Saturday’s Independence Day Washington DC parade cancellation : www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as high temperatures have paralyzed the east coast

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 03/07/2026

Premier Smith wants to build a $35 billion pipeline to B.C.'s West Coast. 🤦‍♀️ Annddd, there isn’t an energy company committed to paying for it, meaning the public purse could be on the hook. 💰 This is a climate & economic disaster waiting to happen. 🗣️ Take action: stnd.ly/nopipelines

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Zsolt Lengyel @climatius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

2/2 A stark reminder that changing course is no longer optional, it is inevitable. The transformation ahead may prove as consequential as independence itself. Stay safe everyone. The heat is real, and so are its causes.

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Zsolt Lengyel @climatius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

1/2 There is a certain historical irony here. The country that built unprecedented wealth and global power on fossil fuels is now increasingly experiencing the consequences of that very dependence. After 250 years, climate change is disrupting even the celebrations of its independence.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 03/07/2026

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

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Philadelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers say

Philadelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast.

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4/ that could make it easier for expanding oil and gas companies to qualify for green ( "transition") investment. There is nothing new under the Sun, except that one of Europe's climate disasters to stay with us is the heat dome.

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3/ Last week, a French court ruled that TotalEnergies must address the climate risks associated with the combustion of the fossil fuels it sells. In the very same week, the company was reported to have successfully lobbied for weaker EU sustainable finance rules

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2/ That is not how climate works, but because names are symbols. They connect causes with consequences and remind us that today's increasingly deadly heatwaves are not natural accidents unfolding in a political vacuum.

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1/ If hurricanes once deserved names like ExxonMobil or Shell, perhaps Europe's latest climate disaster should be called Heat Dome TotalEnergies. Not because one company "caused" this week's extreme heat.