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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 20/12/2024
The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/12/2024
Australia's government still gives itself little ribbon rosettes and medallions for being the best fossil fuel exporter www.industry.gov.au/publications...
a little ribbon for being the biggest coal exporter world's 2nd largets thermal coal exporter yay
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
While there remains uncertainty about the timing and sequence of catastrophic earth system tipping points, they are very real.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
If I could take the liberty of quoting, @guyjackson.bsky.social, "India's submission [in the ongoing ICJ case] read from the playbook [we] identify in this article" for @instituteplanet.bsky.social some time back. We ought to hold global south elites accountable for their hypocrisy! #ClimateJustice
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Brilliant
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Invest in public transport. Invest in public investment-radical idea?
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Worth a thought. Hope is not a strategy.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Some deep-sea squid, like Octopoteuthis deletron, detach glowing arm tips to confuse attackers as they escape. #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SxL... ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/i...
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Squid attacks and breaks off two arms
YouTube video by edyong209
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Vintage wisdom from the Moomins. “I’m nothing but air and wind, I’m part of the blizzard,” Moomintroll thought and let himself go..." Worth a read... www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/22/t... #moomins #winter #wisdom
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Control, Surrender and the Paradox of Self-Transcendence: Vintage Wisdom from the Moomins
“It’s a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you’re not afraid of them anymore and would like to have a little fun.”
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’? Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels.. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot of abstract from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629624004201?via%3Dihub
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’ This is Tera’s story, from Canada #climatebreakdown #COP29 1/13 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’ – This is climate breakdown
Before the floods I was always with my boys. Always. This is Tera’s story
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23/11/2024
English translation: Greta Thunberg warns #COP29 is "about to agree to a death sentence" "The COP processes are not only failing, they are part of a system built on injustice, designed to sacrifice current and future generations so that a select few can continue to reap unimaginable profits."
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Just to emphasize: Saudi Arabia *and only Saudi Arabia* was sent a draft of the COP29 negotiating documents *by the COP presidency* so that Saudi Arabia alone *could edit it directly*.
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
As always a brilliant summary of nearly everything that’s wrong and some great ideas for reform.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I'm grateful to my publisher, Oxford UP, for featuring me on their blog this week, where I got to talk about my book THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS and my backstory — *and* my need not to chase "hope"! 😆 blog.oup.com/2024/11/unde...
SB: Do you have any examples of fossil-fuel propaganda that you share with people to illustrate the
scope of the problem? GG: Fossil-fuel propaganda is a huge phenomenon! There are many lies about climate change and clean energy floating around. You may
have heard that developing off-shore wind turbines is killing whales (it isn't), or that fossil fuels are the most reliable form of energy (they aren't), or that focusing on your personal carbon footprint is the most
important thing you can do to fight climate change (it definitely isn't). But the propaganda I investigate in my book is the complex of lies, myths, and incorrect assumptions that create the false and dangerous belief that we can keep using coal, oil, and gas but still deal with climate change anyway. We cannot! So I expose the scientists, economists, lobbyists, and journalists who propagate this false belief, illuminating the bankruptcy of their ideas and giving readers clear, actionable messages to counter mis- and disinformation in their own conversations about climate change. Focus-group polling shows that these messages increase concerned Democrats' and Republicans'
support for phasing out fossil fuels by up to ten points. SB: What are the biggest misconceptions you see around fossil-fuel
propaganda?


Guenther presented her book
The Language of Climate Politics at the book's launch
event at The UN bookshop. Image courtesy of Genevieve Guenther, used with permission.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
As #COP29 grinds on trying to agree a deal on climate funding, @fionaharvey explains the difference between “provided” and “mobilised” finance Liveblog 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cop29 live: rich nations to raise climate finance offer to $300bn as Thunberg warns summit ‘about to agree to death sentence’
The talks in Azerbaijan have seen nations at odds over how much money developed countries should provide to poorer ones
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This looks great
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Another damning @uk.theconversation.com piece by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Robert Watson & @wknorr.bsky.social "In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close" theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
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The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New data from China. Installed solar capacity at the end of October was 48.0% higher than the same time last year. Wind up 20.3%. www.nea.gov.cn/2024-11/22/c...
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We have to grapple with this blight.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yes, tell me about it! @praneetamudaliar.bsky.social @instituteplanet.bsky.social www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/res...
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Resisting the cynical politics of climate negotiations — Planet Politics Institute
As pressure for deep global emissions cuts heats up, both the developed North and industrializing South need to attend to climate and social justice. By Prakash Kashwan and Praneeta Mudaliar.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
6. We cannot resist fascism without building real democracies. That means massive decentralisation, a devolution of politics to the people, the creation of a genuine democracy that cannot so easily be captured, the building of an ecological civilisation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea | George Monbiot
We are told governing systems like ours are inevitable and irreplaceable, but real, participatory democracy is possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/11/2024
I think this election was about a full-throated support of conspiracism and magical thinking as a way of civic life by much of the American electorate, its institutions, and business and political leaders. Not any specific conspiracy theory per se, but the freedom to think magically before all else.
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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
"An AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster." "This is not about being 100% sure that the AMOC will pass its tipping point this century; it is that we’d like to be 100% sure that it won’t." By @rahmstorf.bsky.social www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?
A few weeks ago, a study by Copenhagen University researchers Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is likely to pass a tipping point alread...
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Our principal was interviewed for this thoughtful article. Are there alternatives to the Paris Agreement on Climate Delay?
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Too big to succeed? Experts on what climate COPs get wrong
‘COP urgently needs to change,’ campaigners say. Here are the key reforms and alternatives that experts are proposing.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/10/2024
It won't be just the LA Times and Washington Post. It will be your employer, your university, your school district, and your local elected officials. They will all cave and engage in anticipatory obedience to fascism because of their cowardice and greed. Your institutions will not save you.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/10/2024
In 2022, the 'current policies' projection of warming was 2.6C. In 2024, it's 2.9C. This is what I mean when I urge caution and over-excitement about stuff like huge solar capacity growth. *This* is the number that matters - and it's getting ****worse**** www.carbonbrief.org/unep-new-cli...
Comparing future warming in 2022, 2023, and 2024 UNEP reports Warming in 2100 relative to preindustrial 50th percentile temperature outcomes and uncertainties shown.
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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Measurements show that record-high #methane growth in 2020–2022 was mainly driven by increased #emissions from microbial sources such as #wetlands, waste & #livestock. Methane (#CH4) is a prominent target for #climatechange mitigation: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #globalwarming
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Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022 | PNAS
The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr−1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driv...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 24/10/2024
New UNEP emissions gap report highlights a "massive gap between rhetoric and reality" and calls for a "quantum leap" in ambition to deliver Paris goals, as the world is way off-track today. I cover the details over at @CarbonBrief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
1. Still saying it's OK for kids to go to school with covid 2. Not rolling out the boosters to most of the population 3. no obligation for employers to pay any attention to this "recommendation" 4. You have to pay for tests so ?????
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NHS 'five days' warning to anyone who tests positive for Covid as new XEC strain spreads
It is thought to be highly transmissible due to its numerous mutations
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
How to make a failed state into something even worse
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Half the climate movement struggles with this figure. It means nothing good about our planetary trajectory.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
🚨If successful, this could be a significant move by the UK. It hands the Secretary of State the duty of achieving GHG reductions consistent with Paris targets AND makes them responsible for ensuring that "by 2030 ... nature is visibly and measurably on the path of recovery [vs 2020]".
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Yes.
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Critique can be hope especially when it’s challenging our systems of delay. New paths to change appear other than those rigged to fail.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/09/2024
I always suspected this could be the case, and new research proves it's true: Rich countries could raise 5x the money poor countries need for climate finance thru windfall taxes on fossil fuels, ending harmful subsidies + a wealth tax on billionaires. Read more: www.oilchange.org/publications...
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Rich countries could raise $5tn of climate finance a year, study says
Simple measures could raise five times more money than poorer countries are asking for, research claims
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Kári Driscoll @kdriscoll.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
We have a cover finally! My translation of Teresa Präauer's Tier werden will be out later this year with Seagull Books: www.seagullbooks.org/becoming-ani... A perfect stocking stuffer for that special someone.
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Imogen Herrick @imogenherrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Great article on how to engage students with issues around climate change! theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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Climate change is easier to study when it’s presented as a game
Students found the topic of climate change less boring when they studied it using a numbers estimation game.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2024
But as long as we effectively subsidize fossil fuels by allowing them to use the atmosphere as a waste dump we are not allowing clean energy to compete on a level playing field. We need policy changes, not just tech breakthroughs, to meet our climate goals.
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
The copy edit is back with the press and now that anxious wait for proofs and cover art. Seven years in the making.
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The Ecology Politic
A compelling proposal for new international law and institutions to address the planetary crisis that improves biodiversity protection, supports Indigenous p...
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Erin Macdonald @drerinmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
We need to be screaming about the energy usage of AI engines from our whole heart. Testing it out, making weird art “just to see”, heck even using “AI search engine results” are a MASSIVE energy drain.
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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
A mining company (with ties to military) has cordoned off the majority of a community forest in Cambodia in a land grab. @geraldrflynn.bsky.social investigated with Nehru Pry. 'It's public forests being turned into private fortunes' My latest on the Mongabay Newscast from @mongabay.bsky.social
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Community forest or corporate fortune? How public land became a mine in Cambodia
Mongabay features writer Gerry Flynn joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss a new investigation he published with freelance journalist Nehru Pry looking at how mining company Lin Vatey acquired thousands...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/09/2024
Such a huge amount of public cash has flowed into CCS, with very very little to show for it. Norway is the 2nd worst offender, when it comes to public cash going towards fossil industry greenwashing in the form of this fake solution: www.oilchange.org/publications...
a chart showing norway's ccs funding relative to others
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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
I’m not sure letting Russia commit ecocide in #Ukraine with impunity is the right way to tackle the #climatecrisis but you do you Guardian
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I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia | Anatol Lieven
‘Risk’ analyses largely ignore the dangers of the climate crisis. Unless we wake up to them, they will soon outweigh all others, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Two-wheelers drive East Africa’s EV revolution Unlike many other parts of the world, East Africa’s electric two-wheelers are powered largely by carbon-free energy. theprogressplaybook.com/2024/07/26/t...
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Two-wheelers drive East Africa’s EV revolution
Unlike many other parts of the world, East Africa’s electric two-wheelers are powered largely by carbon-free energy.
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Planet Politics Institute @instituteplanet.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
We are proud to be contributing to such initiatives. Nature needs and deserves representation in our polity.
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Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream?
Movement is growing to give legal rights and political representation to nonhuman animals, species and places
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/03/2024
The single most violent chart I've seen in a while archive.ph/wip/87pqT
A horrific chart with a pink background, bright green bars and even a pink bar shaded slightly differently. It's beyond incomprehensible. It physically hurts
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