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Some lawyers are responsible as they enable new fossil fuel projects. Others (like us) take responsibility to stop the harm. #lawforlife in #climatebreakdown lar.earth

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 28/04/2026
Good to see this new report from bank J.P. Morgan on deep uncertainty about climate change & tipping points. One way it could significantly reduce this uncertainty is by stopping being the world's largest funder of oil & gas. jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c... bank.green/banks/jpmorg...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"We show that #climate litigation can lead to the implementation of significant policy changes. The paper concludes by arguing that with each successful climate case taken against a state, the corpus of international jurisprudence grows& reverberates creating a ‘domino effect’ in climate litigation"
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Taking Governments to Court | IIEA
The IIEA is Ireland's leading international affairs think tank. Independent, not-for-profit organisation with charitable status. Learn More. Learn About New Policy. IIEA. Leading Thinktank. Highlights...
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🚨 𝗢𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 🚨 ❄️ In a new report, The New Weather Institute reveals the climate impact of the world's leading snow sports event - the Winter Olympics. Background and full story. 🧵 1/9 Full report 👉 www.newweather.org/wp-content/u...
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Nooooo! Don't scrap the Finch ruling! Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!! Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!
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Oil and gas imports are a problem. Labour should rethink its North Sea stance | Nils Pratley
Rachel Reeves could make geopolitical, economic and environmental case for limited boost in production
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2025
NEW: Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve. With @northdakotamonitor.com
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They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped.
Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fail...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2025
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. (Published April 2024)
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The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19/06/2025
Your 'moment of doom' for June 19, 2025 ~ Uninhabitable "Overall, our indicators provide multiple lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction to provide a clear and consistent – but unsurprising and worsening – picture of the climate system." www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
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Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising - Carbon Brief
Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels.
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Why is there no significant action on Climate Change in spite of a having @Ed_Miliband in Gov? Because @RachelReevesMP works hand in glove with fossil fuel industry. In this exposé @writesbright.bsky.social gives the mechanics. Join our campaign #ScrapCCS @stopcambo.bsky.social
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Reeves promised oil industry ‘quid pro quo’ over windfall tax in private meeting
Government accused of making ‘secret exchange deal’ with fossil fuel companies to compensate for tax hike
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 08/05/2025
We have created weapons of biospheric destruction. Our food systems have exterminated species across the globe while fossil fuel combustion is driving the climate towards a much hotter & violent state. Industrialisation transformed humanity. The trade off is that we have become death.
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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵 Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🏭How to make the polluter >really< pay is one of the challenges of our time 🤔New paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes a breakthrough that may help - in linking climate damages to individual polluting companies (read: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...) @sioldridge.bsky.social
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/04/2025
Last night @itvpeston.bsky.social interviewed UK opposition leader @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social… They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic) Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 24/04/2025
I see I've been quoted in the Times about the hypocrisy of law firms that work for fossil fuel companies (behind a paywall). 1/5 www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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‘Magic circle’ law firms accused of hypocrisy over climate change
Campaigners accuse them of promoting their green credentials while facilitating billions of pounds of fossil fuel deals
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Lawyers Are Responsible @lawyersareresp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
BREAKING: @Ls4Ca released their 2025 Law Firm #Climate Change Scorecard. The legal profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back. A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵 Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"Everything in connection with something else" The most fundamental insight of Earth System Science is the application of the lens of complex system analysis to our planet. Bear this in mind, for the following quick thread of recent developments in our understanding of the Earth's #climate...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"These upper-ocean changes suggest a trend towards increased heat storage in the upper ocean and reduced sequestration into its interior, and an increasing likelihood of prolonged heatwaves and hence a threat to near-surface marine ecosystems" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Observed multi-decadal increase in the surface ocean’s thermal inertia - Nature Climate Change
Analysis of 42 years of daily sea surface temperature data shows increasing persistence of anomalies. These changes, which are attributed to deepening of the mixed layer, reduced oceanic forcing and r...
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