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Patrick Gonzalez

@patrickgonzalez.bsky.social
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Climate change scientist, forest ecologist, University of California, Berkeley; lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) @ipcc.bsky.social; www.patrickgonzalez.net

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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Human-caused #climatechange under very high emissions could double fire frequency in Yosemite National Park. Cutting #carbon pollution could keep #wildfire near natural levels. Research @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @ioppublishing.bsky.social, doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Photo of Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park, by U.S. National Park Service; Maps of projected fire frequency increase under climate change in Yosemite National Park, by Patrick Gonzalez
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Walking, biking, and public transit can help halt #climatechange. If U.S. cars and light trucks were a separate country, they would be the 5th largest #carbon polluter in the world. Research @pfriedling.bsky.social, doi.org/10.5194/essd...; @ctrglobsust.bsky.social, ghgi.cgs.umd.edu/reports.html
Car pollution photo by Martin Meissner, carbon graph by Patrick Gonzalez
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Halting #deforestation could cut global #carbon emissions 12%, reducing #climatechange, protecting #nature, improving people’s well-being. Research @pfriedling.bsky.social, doi.org/10.5194/essd...; Mo et al. 2023, doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Deforestation photo in Gabon and carbon graph, by Patrick Gonzalez
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Un grand merci à la France pour l’accueil chaleureux du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat (GIEC) @ipcc.bsky.social, le soutien fort aux #sciences, et l’action forte contre le #changementclimatique. Merci www.ecologie.gouv.fr www.diplomatie.gouv.fr @jnbarrot.bsky.social
Monique Barbut, Ministre de la Transition Écologique, de la Biodiversité, et des Négociations Internationales sur le Climat et la Nature; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change authors; Paris, France; December 1, 2025; photo Patrick Gonzalez
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Endangerment of natural ecosystems by #climatechange caused by #greenhousegases from human activities - my report to current U.S. administration, presenting strong scientific evidence supporting 2009 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency #endangerment finding www.patrickgonzalez.net/images/Gonza...
Power plant emissions, smokestacks against an orange sky, photo by Steve Cole
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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) @irena-official.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In 2024, global #renewable power capacity reached 4,448 GW—an increase of 15% in just one year. 91% of new projects outpriced fossil fuels, avoiding approx. $57 billion in costs. Clean energy is no longer an option—it’s the new economic baseline. bit.ly/4lGceLK
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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) @irena-official.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🚨📢 New IRENA data shows that in 2024, 91% of newly commissioned renewable power capacity delivered electricity at a lower cost than the cheapest fossil fuel-fired option. Renewables remain cost competitive while supporting energy security and economic stability. Read: bit.ly/3TSg6gE
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91% of New Renewable Projects Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Alternatives
Renewables maintain their cost leadership in global power markets, IRENA’s new report on Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 confirms.
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Human-caused #climatechange caused by #greenhousegases from cars, coal burning, and other human activities endangers #ecosystems, #nationalparks, and people - my science comments on current U.S. administration report www.patrickgonzalez.net/images/Gonza...
Graph of doubling of burned area in western U.S. due to human-caused climate change, data J.T. Abatzoglou, A.P. Williams, graph P. Gonzalez. Photo of Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park, photo by J. Sullivan.
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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The @ipcc.bsky.social has selected UC Berkeley climate change scientist and forest ecologist Patrick Gonzalez as a lead author on its next global scientific assessment of climate change. news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/22/i...
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IPCC selects UC Berkeley scientist for climate change assessment - Berkeley News
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces the authoritative scientific assessments that guide global policy and action on human-caused climate change.
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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Gonzalez has served as a lead author on four previous IPCC reports. For the upcoming assessment, he is part of a team producing the North America chapter of the volume on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“It’s an honor to advance climate change science and solutions as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” Gonzalez said. “This work provides a strong foundation for innovative policies and meaningful efforts to halt climate change.”
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Honored to be selected again by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change @ipcc.bsky.social as a lead author, for the next science assessment of #climatechange www.ipcc.ch/2025/08/18/p..., providing a strong science basis for policy and action to halt human-caused climate change.
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The U.S. National Climate Assessments make objective science on #climatechange publicly available so that local communities can protect people and nature from serious harm. You will find the original files, 2001 to 2023, publicly available to download, here: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 06/06/2025
The impacts of Trump's campaign against American science will likely be profound, write John P. Holdren and Neal Lane. "The rapidly growing damage to the scientific pillar of American well-being and influence requires that Republican members of Congress stand up to rein Trump in."
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Time for Congress to save American science…and the nation
"We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes require exercising the prerogatives of the Congress to constrain excesses by the Executive Branch and resuming the serious conversations, debates, and compromise across the aisle and between the branches that used to be the way policy was made."
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Human-caused #climatechange is harming the rich #biodiversity of plants, animals, and #ecosystems that sustains nature and human well-being. Assessment by @nationalacademies.org @nasonline.org @climate.nationalacademies.org with R. DeFries, @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.17226/27796
ʻIʻiwi bird (Drepanis coccinea), Hawai‘i, USA, listed as threatened, U.S. Endangered Species Act; photo Raymond Lara, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Human-caused #climatechange, human ignitions (temperate shrublands, LA California), unnatural suppression (temp forests), #deforestation (tropical forests), are increasing #wildfire. Solutions - cut #carbon pollution, halt ignitions and defor, use natural fire (temp forests). doi.org/10.5070/P539...
Springs Fire, May 2, 2013; Thousand Oaks, California, USA; photo Michael Robinson Chávez, Los Angeles Times
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Human-caused #climatechange caused most of the increase in area burned by #wildfire in summer in northern and central California forests, 1996-2021, #detection #attribution research by @marco-turco.bsky.social, @climate-guy.bsky.social, colleagues, in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Windy Fire; September 19, 2021; Giant sequoia (Sequoia giganteum), California, USA; photo Noah Berger, Associated Press; text, design, Patrick Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/01/2025
Walls really do tumble. But the cause of freedom is a call to action for each new generation, Bono writes.
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The Gorgeous, Unglamorous Work of Freedom
Notes from an “actualist” on what liberation requires
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/12/2024
After being elected president in 1976 and serving only one term, Jimmy Carter went on to have an extraordinary life that included a Nobel Peace Prize. Threaded here is his story. wapo.st/49ZLa55
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says
The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/12/2024
Breaking News: The EPA banned two solvents found in everyday products and used in dry cleaning that can cause cancer and other serious diseases.
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E.P.A. Bans Perc and T.C.E., Two Chemicals Used In Dry Cleaning
The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In the African Sahel, #climatechange, livestock, and timber cutting have severely reduced small tree densities. Natural regeneration, conservation, and cutting #carbon pollution can help restore #trees. Research by A.M. Lykke, N. Rømer, @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Fété Olé, Sénégal, savanna with sparse tree regeneration in the foreground, large baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) in the background. Photo Patrick Gonzalez
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Human-caused #climatechange has increased temperatures in US #nationalparks at twice the rate of US as a whole and reduced precipitation more severely. Cutting #carbon emissions reduces future risks. Research @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social, @iceageecologist.bsky.social, et al., doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Temperature changes across the United States, Gonzalez et al. 2018 Environmental Research Letters
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Human-caused #climatechange has caused the death of #trees and local loss of tree species in the African Sahel. People depend on trees. Natural regeneration locally can help. Cutting #carbon pollution globally is the solution. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja.... doi.org/10.3354/cr01...
Tree mortality, Sénégal, West Africa, photo Patrick Gonzalez
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change #ipcc report, we found that human-caused #climatechange has driven two species extinct, increased #wildfire, killed #trees, and caused other impacts in #ecosystems. People cutting #carbon pollution can halt climate change www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
Rim Fire, August 20, 2013, near Yosemite National Park, California, USA, photo by Al Golub
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