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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe this is not possible, I don't know. If not, then we have to have some kind of plan to at least stabilize the hotter world we've created. And adapt and encourage a biodiverse planet in the new conditions that are now emerging.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I see naked, barren glaciers, when I think about ocean acidification and warming, when I think about how much ice is being lost — it's overwhelming. We are already in dangerous territory. Stopping warming is not enough. There has to be a plan to turn things around.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I understand the timetables for dwarf conventional policy planning. But maybe what needs to change is our perspective in maintaining a habitable planet, in being guardians of habitable conditions.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think there are easy or quick fixes. I think solar radiation management is far too dangerous to deploy. I'm talking about some kind of holistic plan where our descendants (one day) can enjoy an ice-filled Arctic.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is the point to just live on a much hotter world? We owe it to our descendants to seek some kind of return to humanity's 'climate niche' and the stable and cooler conditions of the Holocene. Even if this takes thousands of years to get there (or longer).

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In international law, there is wide agreement that States are under a legal obligation to stop dangerous levels of warming, and must cooperate immediately to do the same. But there is little discussion about returning to a planet that resembles the Holocene. This is a major oversight.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been shocked that there isn't greater outcry over the sanctions against the International Criminal Court. Sanctioning international judges who are doing their job to enforce international law is an attack on Nuremberg. Directly relevant to international climate law in so many ways.

npr.org

What life under U.S. sanctions looks like for one ICC judge

Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, says U.S. sanctions disrupted her daily life. She is still hearing cases and challenging the sanctions in court.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The science of planetary boundaries provides meaningful context for climate policy, and I look to both when thinking about global policy responses. What's missing today is any kind of meaningful global governance framework to maintain Holocene-like conditions and stay within those boundaries.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think the hardest part about climate policy is getting people to viscerally understand how hot it's going to get. People have trouble comprehending that each year (gets hotter than the last more or less), and in 5, 10, 15, 30 years the levels of heat dramatically will change day-to-day life.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my dissertation (almost done) I argue that international law must develop the idea of the "post-Holocene." The Holocene stability which supported the rise of States and a legal order is ending. When I read headlines like this I get quite sad about what we're losing

theguardian.com

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are greatly underestimating the impacts of climate in the coming years, at least as a policy matter. Wealthy countries like Switzerland are not prepared. I think for many people in rich countries climate change is a "them" problem. Vulnerable countries like islands face existential risks soon.

theguardian.com

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These explainers are so good ⭐️

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Genuine climate solutions remain possible in the US Cities and States could become groundbreaking laboratories for economic and political change. Imagine a powerhouse like NY or CA ending fossil fuel subsidies, defossilizing, providing clean energy jobs, and implementing adaptation measures.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It saddens me how much the US has walked away from climate. And how silent both culture and politics have become on addressing global warming. We need a major political program that can connect the dots on cost of living, climate, and endless war. And which can connect to human rights protections

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A just transition to stop warming will require dramatic changes to the way we live in high-emissions societies. This transition is a cultural and political project. We'll probably work much less, eat less meat on average, and have far more free time. More spending on health and education.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wish rule-of-law scholars would focus more on the US Supreme Court. Its hyper political nature, lack of accountability mechanisms, and lifetime appointments all reflect a judicial body that sits well outside accepted rule-of-law norms. This is a major component of the democratic crisis in the US

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Small island States have championed the concept that they are entitled to their statehood and resource entitlements even in the face of sea-level rise this century. These efforts have been successful. They do not stop the crisis, but they support their self-determination grist.org/internationa...

grist.org

UN passes first declaration on sea level rise, protecting island nations' sovereignty

The world, including the U.S., agreed that rising seas will not change national borders even as small islands disappear.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

UN doc here - www.un.org/pga/wp-conte...

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

World leaders have approved a declaration on sea-level rise An important document that addresses State continuity and resource rights. Pretty firm consensus I would say now that States facing territory loss are entitled to their Statehood on an ongoing basis. grist.org/internationa...

grist.org

UN passes first declaration on sea level rise, protecting island nations' sovereignty

The world, including the U.S., agreed that rising seas will not change national borders even as small islands disappear.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The UN Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights is seeking input from scientists and other experts on which technologies should be prioritized in stopping warming/ I encourage experts to supply input, which will then go into a formal UN report. 30 Sept www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

ohchr.org

OHCHR | Call for Input – Technologies related to climate change and their impacts on human rights

This request follows the Special Rapporteur on climate change’s decision to postpone the topic ‘Technologies related to climate change and their impacts on human rights’ to next year, along with the c...

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This El Niño will devastate the lives of millions. And it's just the beginning. Like the coronavirus pandemic, few people take the effort to truly think through non-linear impacts. Aggressive measures today are the only way to prevent catastrophe in 10 years. 2°C by mid century is a catastrophe.

theguardian.com

Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have mixed feelings about treating climate policy as "national security". National security is the bucket that seems to get the most policy dollars. But climate change is so many other things—a human rights crisis, a cost of living crisis, a health crisis. Also a democracy crisis.

theguardian.com

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Behind closed doors even the climate-denying Trump government knows what's coming. The fact that governments know, but refuse to prepare our societies—much less stop burning fossil fuels—is what is criminal in my view, not to mention repugnant.

theguardian.com

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Interfering with the proper administration of justice is itself a criminal offense under the Rome Statute.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Attacking the International Criminal Court is part of a larger strategy of ending any kind of restraint on the US. For people in climate, take note -- I strongly believe the US will start to sanction anyone who threatens US "energy dominance" and oil and gas capitalism.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The US war on international law is an attack on the Nuremberg judgment itself.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The UNEP report on overshoot is clear-eyed, although the CDR point worries me. For decades, people have promised CDR as a deus ex machina from climate. It is all over the IPCC reports. It is not my area of expertise but CDR has always seemed to me like a perpetual motion device.

unep.org

Limiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C remains a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement, yet under current policies and alternative near-term trajectories, exceedance of 1.5°C is now widely assessed as unavoida...

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm almost done with my dissertation in international law and climate change. I started in 2020. Over the last 6 years, major successes like the ICJ advisory opinion. But also setbacks, most notably emissions themselves. And the projections get scarier. Things are more grim than when I started.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

2.5°C to 3°C by 2050 says ExxonMobil. We are racing into a dangerous post-Holocene. The planet will look completely different and far less hospitable. There is no precedent for our species. And all the wrong people are in charge. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

reuters.com

Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline

The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as the burning of coal could decline at a slo...

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excellent article from Kevin Anderson from 2011 that I'm citing in my dissertation. Worth a reread. 'Put bluntly ... most policy advice is to accept a high probability of extremely dangerous climate change rather than propose radical and immediate emission reductions'

royalsocietypublishing.org

Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world

Abstract. The Copenhagen Accord reiterates the international community’s commitment to ‘hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius’. Y

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I never thought I would see the words 'overshoot' in a UN report and yet here we are. Some days the reality of what is happening is all too much. And yet I feel like it is hard to communicate the gravity of the end of the Holocene.

unep.org

Limiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump's wars of aggression, outrageous energy policies, and destruction of the domestic economy should be fertile soil for a vision of US economic renewal that is in balance with the environment, that is healthier, that promotes genuine well being. I would love to see this better articulated ⭐

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Part of the reason I support ecocide laws is that I don't think our world will change until there are meaningful consequences, including criminal consequences, associated with environmental destruction. A well-enforced ecocide law in NY or CA could truly change the world in my view.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is a terrible social and political necrosis in our political systems at present. There is a void of positive thinking, of transformative thinking. We will not make it without a new vision as powerful as decolonization or Abolition in the 19th century.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is in many respects a call for a new form of self-determination as profound as decolonization after World War II. Decolonial leaders in the Global South recognized the need for a new international order. We need this kind of vision today.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

All the solutions needed to stop warming are here, but they are not implemented because of an increasingly ecocidal economic order. Just as the New International Economic Order could see another way, countries bit and small must band together to see something else.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Right now, many countries are raising alarm about the future of the means of subsistence. Fisheries and farmland are being lost. Critical resources are threatened from climate impacts. The amount of funding to assist such countries is paltry, even insulting.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The international economic system is at the heart of the current crisis. Financial systems are incentivized to keep funding fossil fuel infrastructure. Wealthy countries refuse to implement a robust clean energy transformation. Critical financial and tech transfers to vulnerable States never happen

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Decades ago, the non-aligned movement and G77 insisted on a "New International Economic Order" that would create a fairer and more equitable international economic system. This kind of movement united a variety of countries to envision something new. This kind of vision is needed today in climate 🧵

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Truly addressing climate change will require introspection in wealthy countries about 'the good life,' how we define success, and the wealth gaps between rich and poor. There is no magic tech that will stop the crisis. Social and cultural change represent the most effective forms of climate action

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the most important climate levers we have in wealthy, high-emissions countries is social and cultural change. Reducing energy use, meat consumption, ecological restoration, more time off, investments in health and education, wealth/income measures — these are all forms of climate action.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm trying to focus some of my dissertation on the cultural loss associated with glaciers. Many cultures situate gods in the mountains. What happens when the gods lose their home? When it gets too hot? fortune.com/2026/09/09/m...

fortune.com

'It hits us in the gut': Mont Blanc faces defrosting and rock falls from climate change as communities 'weep' for the mountain peak | Fortune

Heat waves have melted some of the permafrost that held the steep rock faces of the Alpine peaks together, leaving collapsing walls.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A new report from the Canadian government projects 5°C of warming under current emissions scenarios, with 75% glacial loss in Western Canada. Why is the current government still investing in fossil fuels, even while it acknowledges such terrible impacts? This is the definition of irrationality.

cbc.ca

Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns | CBC News

The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."

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