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Laura Lee Dooley

@lauraleedooley.bsky.social
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Decades at @worldresources.bsky.social. Environment, tech, science, data, and metrics. Also, Bollywood, Asian drama, K-pop, donghua, and anime. Posts my own. RT/Like≠endorsement.

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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
USAID's work wasn’t just a job — it was an identity, a worldview, and a calling. globaldevinterrupted.substack.com/p/how-are-we...
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How Are We Doing? It’s Complicated
Jaime Oberlander surveyed nearly 4,000 former aid workers on how they're coping since the USAID stop-work order.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
An estimated fifth of all municipal plastic waste in the world ends up in the environment or is burned in an uncontrolled manner. www.statista.com/chart/36376/... @statistacharts.bsky.social
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Infographic: World Mismanages 52 Million Tons of Plastic Waste per Year
This chart shows mismanaged plastic waste emitted per capita and year, by country/territory.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough. For generations, he has reminded the world that nature is not separate from us — it is our home, our history, and our future. Few voices have done more to inspire wonder, curiosity, and action for life on Earth. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday
Naturalist says he has been ‘overwhelmed by greetings’ as milestone is marked with event at Royal Albert Hall
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
From forests and soils to direct air capture, here are 6 ways to pull carbon pollution from the sky — and what it will take to scale them responsibly. #WRIExplains #CarbonRemoval
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“If Americans increased their protein intake by just 25%…it would require about 100 million acres of additional ag land each year — an area larger than Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania combined — & increase annual emissions by 100s of millions of tons of CO2e, according to @worldresources.bsky.social.”
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Opinion | The New Food Pyramid, Brought to You by Big Meat
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
There’s no sugar-coating the fact that the challenge ahead is immense, and the scale of change required is unprecedented. But just because something is unprecedented doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The solutions exist. We know what to do. We just need to act with the urgency this moment demands.
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World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🌎And #COP30 begins! Should we keep our climate optimism despite the backlash? WRI President & CEO Ani Dasgupta believes so. In his new book, The New Global Possible, he delves into the ways we are showing progress and how COPs can achieve real progress. Read his interview: on.ft.com/47T7ay8
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Ani Dasgupta: there is hope despite the climate backlash
The World Resources Institute president is bullish about the path to decarbonisation
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
1 in 8 people on Earth lack resilient homes and basic infrastructure, making them uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. #COP30
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🌍 Climate justice must start where it hurts most. 🔗 apnews.com/article/cop30-un-belem-brazil-climate-change-talks-21cf1cdf247ff5119e84db836015569f #COP30
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As world leaders enter climate talks, people in poverty have the most at stake
In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how climate change is going to affect agriculture, extreme weather and other f...
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World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
At #COP30, decision-makers must focus on turning commitments into action. Experts at @worldresources.bsky.social are closely tracking the issues at stake. Visit the WRI resource hub for the latest: 💬Commentary 🔍Analysis 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Events ➕And more 🔗 go.wri.org/cop30
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
To rake or not to rake? That is the question. The answer: It depends. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
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To rake or not to rake? | CBC Climate Change News
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we discuss the pros and cons of raking fall leaves; learn something new about eels from an award-winning photo; and find out how recycling and restoring ...
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Cool season - as defined by sub-70 degree AMs - is shrinking in the Tampa Bay Area. We now have ~2 months less of AMs below 70F than we did decades ago! Due both to greenhouse warming and, in cities, urban heat island. That's today's Berardelli Bonus. Tks @climatecentral.org for the GFX help!
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NPR @npr.org · 15/10/2025
The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s. n.pr/3JeW2Dj
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'Broadcasting' has its roots in agriculture. Here's how it made its way into media
The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news. NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Responses from more than 30,000 people across 30 countries show that more than six in 10 people worry about #ClimateChange and they want governments and businesses to lead by example. sustainabilitymag.com/news/ingka-g... #ClimateAction
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Ingka Group: How Businesses can Lead Climate Action
A survey by Ingka Group and GlobeScan reveals consumers’ feelings and behaviour towards climate change, including how business can promote climate action
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Why gender matters in climate action: 1. Unequal vulnerability to #ClimateChange 2. Gaps in representation in climate decisions 3. Women’s undervalued role in #ClimateAction 4. Gender inequities in #ClimateFinance 5. Gender equality as a pillar of #ClimateJustice www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
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Why gender-responsive climate action is critical
Women are central to climate justice – stronger gender-responsive climate governance, finance and leadership can drive equitable and effective action.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
“It’s about time that we should call out to the world that #ClimateFinance is important for us to survive.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10... #ClimateAction #COP30
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‘We don’t want to disappear’: Tuvalu fights for climate action and survival
Pacific island nation explores new ways to survive climate change but needs help to build protective sea walls now.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The new EAT–Lancet report warns that we need a global food transformation: more plants, less waste, fairer systems. If food can break the planet, it can also help heal it. 💚 🔗 eatforum.org/update/eat-l... #FoodSystems #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryHealth
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New landmark EAT-Lancet Commission warns food systems breach planetary limits - EAT
The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission today released its Report on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, presenting the most comprehensive global scientific evaluation of food systems to date.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I LOVE the Rurouni Kenshin movies (and anime!). Happy to meet another fan.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Should we power airplanes with food crops? Check out our new video, part of @worldresources.bsky.social’s Stories to Watch 2025 series, where I break down how crop-based biofuels are on the front line of the discussion about alternative aviation fuels and what gets to count as “sustainable.”
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The Debate Over Alternative Aviation Fuels: WRI's Stories to Watch 2025
YouTube video by World Resources Institute
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2025
Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Facts matter. abcnews.go.com/Politics/fac... #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateWeekNYC #UNGA #UNGA2025
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Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General Assembly
President Donald Trump spent a considerable amount of his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday disparaging renewable energy sources.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Across the American West, communities face a rising threat from catastrophic wildfire. Lomakatsi Restoration Project's model shows what’s possible when Native leadership, workforce development and #ForestRestoration intersect. www.wri.org/insights/tri... #Cities4Forests #Wildfires #Megafires
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Tribal Youth Step Up to Fight Wildfires in the American West
The Lomakatasi Restoration Project works to restore forest health and fight wildfires in the American West. In turn, it's providing jobs to tribal youth.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A roundup of recent news stories highlighting #ClimateAction challenges.
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Europe ‘being bullied’ over environmental action
Activist and former vice president Al Gore accused the Trump administration of “bullying” countries to abandon their climate-related policies, by linking…
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“We need to show the world that we care about these issues in a really intimate way.” www.clarku.edu/news/2025/09... #ClimateAction
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‘All action is local’: Clark to reestablish Sustainability and Climate Committee | ClarkU News
Clark University has announced a major step toward ensuring the campus takes the necessary actions to assert its commitment to sustainability and stewardship of the environment.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
On the morning of Monday, September 22, Food Tank will host the “ #ClimateAction: A Food Waste Breakthrough” Summit during #ClimateWeekNYC. foodtank.com/news/2025/09...
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Food Waste and the Climate
“We should not live in a world where people go hungry and food goes to waste.'
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"Forbes Sustainability Leaders 2025" highlights global leaders, including entrepreneurs, investors, activists, and scientists, who are working to combat the climate crisis, including Wanjira Mathai, David Attenborough, Wendy Schmidt, and Kongjian Yu. www.forbes.com/sites/elisab... #ClimateAction
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Forbes Sustainability Leaders 2025: Sustainability Across Sectors
Forbes Sustainability Leaders List highlights global leaders combating the climate crisis across a range of sectors. See who made the list.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Solving the climate crisis and ensuring a livable planet for future generations is a colossal task that requires an all-hands-on-board effort. Here are local leaders who may have a smaller footprint, but they have successfully deployed smart solutions. www.forbes.com/sites/eduard... #ClimateAction
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Meet The Local Heroes Leading The Way On Climate Action In 2025
These five individuals are focused on climate-related impact in their local communities, from the cloud forests of the Andes to the deserts of Egypt.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
@djgagnedos.bsky.social @profamymcgovern.bsky.social @stephenrockwell.bsky.social @simonwillison.net @simonwillison.net FYI -
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Join the online unveiling of a powerful new #AI system that will transform how we see and shape our planet — making it easier than ever to track change, guide action, and measure impact. Today at 3:00pm ET Register now: bit.ly/47Hvh4m #AIForGood #gnw2025
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
www.karboneconomics.com is a student-powered journal that explores how economics drives real-world change—from climate policy to financial systems, inequality, and innovation.
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Karbon Economics - Exploring the Economics of a Changing World
Karbon Economics is a peer-reviewed journal where high school students tackle the economic forces shaping our world—from the climate crisis to global inequality. We publish bold, original research tha...
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Karbon Economics features essays, explainers and soon-to-be-published student research that explores “how economic forces shape our world—from the #ClimateCrisis and carbon markets to inequality, trade and development”—including stories of people living on the front lines of climate catastrophes.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The amalgamation of #AI with citizen science holds immense power in addressing sustainability challenges with solutions that bring together * data accuracy, * predictive analytics, * real-time monitoring and * integrated environmental intelligence. #ClimateAction #AIForGood
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Outrage + Optimism, The Climate Podcast @outrageoptimism.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It's been a bleak few weeks for climate news. So this week we ask: are there still reasons to be optimistic? And what will it take to turn urgency into real change? With Ani DasGupta of @worldresources.bsky.social 🎧 bit.ly/4jy5uiH
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate - "[Politicians] have more public support than they may realise" #climatecrisis #89percent www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says
Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"AI will not build a world where people, nature and climate thrive together. People will. And those people, from community leaders to wise companies to dedicated civil servants, will use technology, and indeed AI, to do so." ~ Evan Tachovsky www.wri.org/insights/ai-... #AIforGood
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AI Can Help or Harm the Planet. It's Up to Us.
AI doesn't have to be bad for the planet. It can help us fight climate change, protect nature and improve lives — but only if it's used with care.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it's too late to act" | An excerpt from our @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & my) new book #ScienceUnderSiege, via @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it's too late to act
"Doom-mongering convinces many would-be climate advocates that climate action is a hopeless cause. But the blistering attacks against mainstream climate science and scientists advance an agenda of div...
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"At a time of fractured geopolitics, mounting climate impacts and rising inequality, it's more important than ever that we learn from initiatives that are already working." ~ Ani Dasgupta www.wri.org/insights/reb... #ClimateAction #WhatsPossible #NewGlobalPossible
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Climate Action Has a Messaging Problem
Climate action can bring real, immediate benefits for people, nature and economies. But we don't talk about it that way — and that's a problem.
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Patrick Hamilton @patbhamilton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Climate Change - The Facts is available on @BBC iPlayer. Presented by the legend David Attenborough. It looks like a great place to start for anyone new to this topic. #climate #ClimateEmergency www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Climate Change - The Facts
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Learn more about Eunice Newton Foote. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #GreenhouseEffect #GlobalWarming #WomenInScience
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Is effective action on climate change feasible in a political atmosphere overheated by a pandemic, wars, zealous partisanship, and now tariffs? Yes, argues Ani Dasgupta. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/ani-dasgupta-talked-to-100-climate-experts-he-came-away-optimistic/ #NewGlobalPossible
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Ani Dasgupta talked to 100 climate experts. He came away optimistic. » Yale Climate Connections
In his new book, ‘The New Global Possible,’ Dasgupta shares what he learned from talking with dozens of climate luminaries and how that can reshape how we think about climate action.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Finally, a path to rebuilding optimism in the age of the climate crisis. The #NewGlobalPossible by Ani Dasgupta, President & CEO of @worldresources.bsky.social, explores how to orchestrate change at speed and scale. ➡️ go.wri.org/new-global-p... #ClimateAction
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Can we sustain #ClimateAction as multilateralism wanes? Use innovation to protect nature? Dismantle entrenched power to build a clean, resilient economy? #NewGlobalPossible shows hope via stories of unlikely alliances, bold collaboration, and lessons from failure. go.wri.org/new-global-possible-sk
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
AI + Climate: ✅ Good - Forecasts fires, droughts, heatwaves ⚠️ Bad - Drains energy + water via data centers 🚨 Whoa - Needs standards & carbon tracking now yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/what... #AIforGood #ClimateTech #SustainableAI
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What you need to know about AI and climate change » Yale Climate Connections
We take a hard look at the good, the bad, and the whoa of AI.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Climate action depends not just on what people believe—but how they believe it. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications... #ClimateAction #ClimateBeliefs #IPCC #ScienceOfBelief
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Variations in Climate Change Belief Systems Across 110 Geographic Areas - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Variations in Climate Change Belief Systems Across 110 Geographic Areas” in Nature Climate Change. Think of climate change beliefs like tr...
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The loss of winter sea ice in Antarctica over just the past decade is similar to what the Arctic has lost over the last 46 years. This extraordinary decline is kicking off a climatic feedback loop. grist.org/climate/anta...
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Antarctica is in extreme peril
New research catalogs several “abrupt changes,” like a precipitous loss of sea ice, unfolding in Antarctica with dire implications for us all.
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This is a great cartoon of the illogical narratives I hear refuting climate warming. As I have said many times, it's not "either/or" when it comes to natural variability and human contributions, it's "both/and." Grass grows naturally and it grows differently when you fertilize the lawn....
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ground-breaking, fundamental U.S. climate science by Roger Revelle, Charles David Keeling, Wally Broecker, Susan Solomon and many others helped shape the IPCC's work and helped make it urgent. About 50 U.S. researchers are working on the panel's next round of reports, without federal support.
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Despite Lack of Federal Support, US Scientists Continue Work on Key Global Climate Reports - Inside Climate News
Amid rising repression of climate science domestically, researchers from universities around the country are lending their expertise to an international effort.
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Laura Lee Dooley @lauraleedooley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Veteran climate scientists weigh in. The comments summary states that DOE's Climate Working Group report “exhibits pervasive problems with misrepresentation and selective citation of the scientific literature, cherry-picking of data, and faulty or absent statistics.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/c...
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Scientists submit coordinated response to Trump admin report casting doubt on climate change: ‘It makes a mockery of science’ | CNN
More than 85 veteran climate scientists have pushed back against a Trump administration report downplaying the severity of climate change, submitting more than 400 pages in public comments to the Ener...
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 02/09/2025
The study, led by scientists at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social, found around 1,500 of the 2,300 estimated heat deaths were the result of #ClimateChange – equating to a tripling of the number of deaths in the #heatwave due to #GlobalWarming. theecologist.org/2025/sep/01/...
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Climate triples heat deaths in Europe
Climate breakdown tripled deaths in European cities during recent heatwaves – study.
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