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Ellie Johnston

@elliej.bsky.social
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Climate solutions | En-ROADS | systems thinking | Appalachia Director of Programs, Climate Interactive

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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Wrote this while at COP30. You can make a global climate scenario like this yourself with En-ROADS. See what action is needed. See the climate impacts we can avoid.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10/01/2025
The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.
Warming stripes for 1850-2024, changing from blues to reds as the world rapidly warms up
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Favorite book I've read of 2025 so far: Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Honestly, it's going to be tough to top it. Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize. Novel that spins together questions of planetary thinking, humanity, and the awkwardness of life in space. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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Everything you need to know about Orbital by Samantha Harvey, winner of the Booker Prize 2024 | The Booker Prizes
As Samantha Harvey becomes the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize, here’s the lowdown on her winning novel, Orbital
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Here's a nice positive story about the big growth in solar worldwide ☀️ www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Fossil fuels are being 'eaten alive' by the solar rush
Satellite imagery reveals the staggering rise of solar farms around the world in recent years. Can Australia get on board?
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Of all the stories from Helene, the Craig family’s losses stand out - 11 members of this closeknit family lost their lives www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/u...
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A North Carolina Family Built Its Own Little Town. Hurricane Helene Killed 11 of Them. (Gift Article)
The extended Craig family has suffered an unthinkable loss after landslides slammed into their North Carolina town during Hurricane Helene. The survivors are trying to move forward.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Fascinating episode to learn that George Mitchell, the “father of fracking,” was really passionate about sustainability but didn’t build his company to evoke the environmental standards he espoused. And he had 10 kids but was also very worried about overpopulation. open.spotify.com/episode/5DA6...
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The Mitchell Paradox | Chapter 10
Boomtown · Episode
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
@volts.wtf do you still do a year end music playlist? Remembering downloading the songs years ago, but it hasn’t come across my radar in ages.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The podcast that’s getting me through the holiday drives this year - Boomtown: about the people and political economy of the Permian Basin open.spotify.com/show/6flJdBI...
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Boomtown
Podcast · Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly · In a rugged corner of West Texas, billionaire wildcatters and roughnecks are fueling an oil boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy, ...
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Beth Duckles @bduckles.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is a pretty fascinating model to play with and to examine what levers we can shift to make an impact in climate change. Lots of ways to play and learn more. @climateinteractive.org en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.htm...
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En-ROADS Climate Scenario
Interact with this global scenario of climate action
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I think everyone should get to know the west African term “wahala”. It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck. I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work. Because—- *gestures at everything* See wahala?!???
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Seeing lots of positive remarks about the earlier session of this interactive health-climate webinar. Catch the 3pm EST version in 4 hours!
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
In 2009, I spent several weeks in the Cordillera Blanca and heard stories in the indigenous communities about how the glaciers were melting & seasons changing. 15 years later, it’s only gotten worse 💔 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/s...
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Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red (Gift Article)
As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling and its quality is getting worse.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Top notch lineup of @hausfath.bsky.social @deke-arndt.bsky.social and Drew Jones of @climateinteractive.org offering the hometown crowd here in Asheville the scoop on the latest climate science tonight
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Climate Interactive @climateinteractive.org · 03/12/2024
Climate Interactive equips leaders to transform climate research into action. Over a million people have used our En-ROADS Simulator, developed with MIT Sloan, to accelerate progress on climate action. This Giving Tuesday, donate to drive action: climateinteractive.org/about/donate.
Jutta Niemann quote
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Congress needs to act: Helene is the 2nd deadliest hurricane to hit our nation since Katrina. And one of the costliest natural disasters in US history. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...
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'They need help now.' Biden seeks $100 billion from Congress after NC lawmakers push
The President sent a request for Congress to provide supplemental aid for the states impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
As eviction notices start to appear and bills pile up in the 2 months since Helene, one church has stepped up to quickly provide people cash to cover rent wapo.st/3CWCOiw
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After Helene, a push to stave off evictions in North Carolina
Some tenants who could barely afford rent in western North Carolina before Hurricane Helene have fallen behind and are now facing the possibility of eviction.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Helene decimated communities. Residents are still picking up the pieces. apple.news/AaiiKMIr3QQm...
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Helene decimated riverside communities. Residents are still picking up the pieces. — USA TODAY
Neighbors fighting to rescue neighbors. People stuck on trees, rooftops for hours. Lives were forever changed along the Swannanoa River.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Ooh, look who is here! 🤗Definitely give @climateinteractive.org a follow!
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So good.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#COP29 UN climate negotiations entering the final most tense stage…
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Jennifer Dlouhy @jendlouhy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Mexico will pursue a net-zero economy by 2050 — part of a commitment outlined at COP29 alongside the EU, Canada and other countries seen prodding the world’s biggest emitters to boost their own climate ambition. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Mexico Makes Net Zero Climate Vow in Nudge to Other Nations
Mexico is working to have a net zero economy by 2050, marking a fresh bid by the country to more aggressively confront climate change under a new president that has prioritized the issue.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Powerful imagery collected from satellites is illuminating harmful methane emissions that were previously going unseen
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The rise of AI and its voracious need for energy is undermining plans to decarbonize electricty markets that looked viable 6 months ago wapo.st/494Z6dF
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AI’s enormous power demand is threatening U.S. climate goals
The voracious electricity needs of AI are driving plans for dozens of new fossil fuel plants, pushing climate goals out of reach.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In a clear illustration of the insufficiency of the current global climate finance goal of $100 billion dollars per year, the price tag for disasters in the US this year exceeds that amount (and we're just 4% of global pop) #COP29
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's a mixed bag of headlines coming out of COP29 so far - couple good things I'm seeing today: (1). UK, NZ, and Colombia coming together to phase out fossil fuel subsidies (2). Increased efforts to cut methane from waste Hope the words are followed by action. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cop29 live: Slashing methane emissions is ‘our emergency brake’, UN says
Cop29 presidency announces new drive to cut methane emissions from waste dumps as G20 reaffirms transition from fossil fuels
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It’s great to see how big the climate community has grown—illustrated by the number of Katherine’s focused on climate here! I joined Twitter in 2009 to follow climate people as prep for COP15. The size of that space then was a fraction of what this is now.
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Plenty of good #Climate and Climate adjacent #StarterPacks but how about a good 🧵that makes them all super easy to find and follow? I'm glad I asked. Here you go! #ClimateChange #Renewables #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Advocacy #Activism bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Good news for the day! We have drinking water again after 53 days! www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...
News alert that says Asheville taps are clear to drink
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Philippines have now been hit by four typhoons in the span of just 10 days. Can't say I recall ever seeing this before.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In this hot chaotic world we live in we must plan and prepare for things we haven't experienced. Yet, we often fall into the trap of basing our preparation for future extremes on our experience of past ones. The author Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls this the Lucretius problem.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Current vibe in Asheville—captured in three books #shoplocal
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/11/2024
"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
a graphic showing a linear relationship between emissions of co2 and the warming of earth, projected out also into various scenarios
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Cyril Brunner @brunncy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
How long does CO₂ have to be stored in #CarbonDioxideRemoval #CDR? At least 35 years? 100 years? Longer?🤔 In a new study, @hausfath.bsky.social, @retoknutti.bsky.social & I find that for #netzero CO₂, anything less than 1000 years is not enough to neutralize warming.🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 08/11/2024
In the aftermath of a disaster, most people respond not with greed or violence, but with courage and compassion. Tackling the climate crisis and growing democracy require both, regardless of whether the federal government is working to advance or obstruct these goals.
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A Climate Scientist on What Trump’s Victory Means for Global Warming
Republicans might not actually repeal the Inflation Reduction Act's green energy incentives. But Trump can do plenty of damage to international climate progress without that.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
At Climate Interactive we just updated our En-ROADS simulator the we built with MIT Sloan, so you can explore how we can avoid worsening impacts from climate change worldwide. Check it out: www.climateinteractive.org/blog/major-e...
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Major Update to En-ROADS: New Features Highlight Extreme Heat and Wildfires
New maps, graphs, and enhanced forest fire modeling added to better support informed decision-making.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
7 weeks since Helene. I took this video today heading out to gut some homes that had flooded. The road I’m on was completely destroyed and rebuilt in record time, along with the main pipe for Asheville’s water that runs underneath it. Some progress, still further to go.
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here's a list of Hurricane Helene recovery GoFundMe's to get cash into the hands of people/groups airtable.com/apps0uyKtdXU...
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
News has moved on, but here in Asheville it's been almost 7 weeks since Hurricane Helene knocked out drinking water for over 150,000 of us. At this point, we're hoping we'll be off bottled water by Christmas and more businesses can reopen.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/09/2023
A long view of global absolute temperatures really highlights just how much the world has warmed since the mid-1900s. Here are daily global temperatures in the JRA-55 reanalysis product since 1958; this year really stands out!
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
My very first job at 15 was with the Youth Conservation Corps at a historic battlefield building trails, so this announcement about the Climate Conservation Corps is very exciting. Hopefully the jobs entail less poison ivy than what I faced! www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
And the En-Roads team has been steadily adding features, like air pollution co-benefits and sea level rise impacts! en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.htm...
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En-ROADS Climate Scenario
Interact with this global scenario of climate action
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
We're hiring! New position at Climate Interactive for a Senior Development Manager. Role is US-based, remote, and you get to work with a lovely team www.goodcitizen.com/executive-se...
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Excited to share that we are running another round of our popular En-ROADS Climate Ambassador Camp! Learn to lead events and engage people on climate change with the En-ROADS Simulator - starts Oct 19 ⭐ learn.climateinteractive.org/course/maste...
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.” - Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Climate Simulations: The Flight Plan for a Resilient Planet myclimatejourney.substack.com/p/climate-si...
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Climate Simulations: The Flight Plan for a Resilient Planet
by Ellie Johnston, Climate Interactive Director of Engagement
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Ellie Johnston @elliej.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Hi!
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