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Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) @solarfund.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🌍 What is #EnergyPoverty, and why does it still impact so many people today? SELF’s @bobfreling.bsky.social joined the @utopiaisnow.bsky.social podcast to unpack the global #energy gap & explore how solutions like #SolarPower are changing lives. 🎧 Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UAY...

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Power is Progress | The Fight for Global Energy Access | Bob Freling

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Bob Freling @bobfreling.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What does it mean to live without #electricity? And what does it take to change that? I joined the @utopiaisnow.bsky.social podcast to talk about #energy poverty, #solar solutions, and the surprising ways in which energy access transforms lives. Give it a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UAY...

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Power is Progress | The Fight for Global Energy Access | Bob Freling

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Utopia is Now @utopiaisnow.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨 Featuring @johnfocook.bsky.social. We explore the fundamentals of climate change misinformation, its effect on belief, and what we can do to counter it. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Ak... #climatechange #climatedenial #climatemisinformation #misinformation

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Misinformation 101: Climate Change Denial and How to Fight Back | Dr. John Cook, PhD

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In April 2024, a few words like "delve" had a viral moment, when researchers pointed out that GPT-4 used it often, demonstrating that the spread of the word showed AI in science papers. Did that result in a decrease in AI use in scientific writing? No, but people started avoiding the word "delve!"

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Cate Faehrmann MP @greencate.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Chairing the PFAS Inquiry in the Blue Mountains today. Tune in live: www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/pages/region...

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John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Whether it's wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, drought, whenever we're devastated by extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, we are shooshed by climate deniers. It's another attempt to delay action on climate change and is making our world more dangerous.

Cartoon of Cranky Uncle telling scientist "Now is not the time to talk about climate change." "Now?" asks the scientist. "Not the right time." "When?" "Not yet." "Come on!" "Shoosh!" "Surely!" "Soon." "Now?" "Ok." "Climate change is..." "A hoax!"

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

For the folks who try to say “But it’s just a model!” or “The models don’t work!” Climate scientists have had the model physics correct since the 1970’s. The majority of the future uncertainty is due to human behavior & policy choices. #StopBuringFossilFuels & emissions & temps will drop. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

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Zali Steggall @zalisteggall.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🚨 2024 was the hottest year on record, exceeding 1.5°C of heating. Every fraction of a degree that we can limit warming matters. 🌏 I'm calling for a 75% emissions reduction by 2035. We must act now to decarbonize & build climate-resilient communities #75by35 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/01/2025

"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world" Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

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What does climate change have to do with California's fires?

As Los Angeles battles catastrophic wildfires, experts say there are signs climate change is already reshaping fire seasons around the world.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

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Utopia is Now @utopiaisnow.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨 Featuring @climategeorge.bsky.social. We explore social psychology, the role that identity plays in slowing climate action, and what we can do about it. Watch now: youtu.be/_ruaDjEr2ho?... #climatechange #climatecrisis #climatecommunication #psychology #socialpsychology

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Social Identity and Intergroup Conflict Over Climate Change | George Marshall

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Zali Steggall @zalisteggall.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

TransitionZero's Solar Asset Mapper shows solar power is doubling every three years and is set to supply 50% of global electricity within a decade. Australia can lead the clean energy revolution, but we must act now and reject misinformation aimed at keeping fossil fuels alive. #SmartSolutions

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 31/12/2024

The former Elon Musk. Eight years ago. In discussion with Leonardo DiCaprio... "The more there can be a popular uprising against [the money and influence of the fossil fuel industry], the better." www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZm_...

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Welcome to the Gigafactory | Before the Flood

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The 50 million-strong vulture population plummeted to near zero because of diclofenac, a cheap non-steroidal painkiller for cattle. The decline of vultures led to the proliferation of deadly bacteria & infections and the deaths of about 0.5 million people over five years. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Indian vultures: Decline of scavenger birds caused 500,000 human deaths

A new study links the vulture decline in India to deadly bacteria spread, causing about 500,000 deaths.

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

US announces national climate plan (NDC) of cutting emissions up to 66% by 2035. Big step from the world's second biggest emitter, and a useful counterfactual of what Harris might have done if she won. But also almost certain to be junked by Trump administration www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

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Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution | The White House

Via Teleconference 2:03 P.M. EST MR. FERNÁNDEZ HERNÁNDEZ: Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining today's embargoed press

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

All that rapid and growing clean-energy build is not enough to start the secular decline of coal. The extreme rise in gas prices post-pandemic has reinforced coal's energy-security benefits for India and China. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... by @willmathis.bsky.social

Coal Demand Keeps Surpassing the IEA's Expectations. The chart looks at IEA's coal outlook by the year from 2020 through 2024 and finds upward corrections.

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John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Just coauthored a paper that says something which may seem obvious to many but still needs to be argued: why misinformation must not be ignored. Specifically we argue that 1) misinformation is prominent & 2) has a negative impact on people psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

One chart, many stories. Predicted renewable energy deployment vs actual deployment.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Well, this is fascinating. The good people at @cplusc.bsky.social have found that voters with incomes under 100K overwhelmingly support fossil-fuel phaseout! So much for the myth that climate change is merely an "elite" preoccupation of the affluent, college-educated, dare I say "woke" voter. 🧵

PHASING OUT ALL FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTION

Under $50k

Oppose: 26.3%
Support: 41.5%
Net: +15.2%

$50k - 100k

Oppose: 33.0% Support: 42.0% Net: +9.0%

Income of 100K +

Oppose: 46.1% Support: 31.9% Net: -14.1%

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

So-called “cold deaths” (aka deaths from exposure which can occur up to +20°C) disproportionately affect the unhoused, and can be mitigated through affordable housing and poverty alleviation. Meanwhile…

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The 2023 annual increase in atmospheric SF6 concentration set a new record. Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) is 22,800X more powerful at warming the climate than CO2 (over a 100 year period).

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John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

False balance is when media give equal weight to opposing voices on an issue with scientific consensus. It's misleading, giving the impression of 50:50 debate among scientists. Balanced coverage is appropriate with matters of opinion or politics but not science crankyuncle.com/cranky-uncle...

Cartoon of the mainstream media (MSM) hosting a debate between a scientist talking about the solar system and a member of the flat earth society.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This paper identifies another relatively unknown natural mechanism on Earth that regulates temperatures: the Ocean emits methanethiol, a compound that serves as a marine cloud seeding aerosol, which cools the climate! (This is in addition to the better known dimethyl sulfide emissions from oceans).

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"Politically neutral scientists are viewed as the most credible. [...] there is a monotonic penalty for scientists displaying political affiliations: the stronger their posts, the less credible their profile and research are perceived"

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Utopia is Now @utopiaisnow.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨 Featuring Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram, Assistant Professor of Geopolitics. Our discussion delves into geopolitics, national security, and how climate change intensifies geopolitical tensions and security challenges. Watch now: youtu.be/reKbihJ8YBo?... #climatechange #podcast

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The Warming World Order: How Climate Change Fuels Geopolitical Risks | Prof. Dhanasree Jayaram, PhD

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

From the IPCC’s Summary for All, AR6

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Fascinating study that shows "a strong and consistent relationship between nationalist attitudes and the extent to which people think that their own country should not act on climate change unless others do so".

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Quite remarkable. Not an opinion, but a demonstrable fact: the prime minister has rejected a policy his government promised for the good of the country in the name of short-term parochial politics in a state captured by vested interests. bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Peter FitzSimons @peterfitz1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Tks @jacklong17 Fascinating. "Survey conducted by Farmers for Climate Action found just 17% opposed renewable energy developments, with 8% strongly opposed." How could they NOT support something that protects their farming land, AND drives revenue! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘Silent majority’ of Australian farmers found to support renewable energy transition

Survey conducted by Farmers for Climate Action found just 17% opposed renewable energy developments, with 8% strongly opposed

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The perception gap in US politics: People tend to perceive those on the other side as more radical than they actually are. 👇beliefs of Republican voters vs what Democrat voters think they believe From a very interesting post by Kevin Dorst: kevindorst.substack.com/p/a-majority...

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Social Media-ting in the Midst of a Polycrisis #Delhi #Pollution #BlueSky

Two masked men under a polluted Delhi sky, yearning for "this magical thing called Blue Sky"

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

People don't believe me when I tell them about the toxic waste dumping off Sydney's coast as late as the 1980s - ICI was one of the chief villians. Here's a doco with video - wonder where all those PCBs and other nasties are now!: www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08...

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Where have all the poisons gone? Part 1 - 1972

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Astonishing issue of ‘The Australian’ pro green cover to cover! Nanna is gobsmacked.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's about POWER. "A common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests to narrow techno-economic mindsets and ideologies of control"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/11/2024

Brilliant report from @cleanenergycouncil.bsky.social laying out something obvious but oddly rarely calculated: just the absolute amount of emissions avoided thanks to clean energy deployment in Australia. Spoiler alert: it is a decent chunk cleanenergycouncil.org.au/getmedia/56d...

a chart showing 75 of 193 original tonnes have been reduced thanks to clean power deployment in aus

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There is a lot of ruin in a social network, and they are pretty durable, especially when there are no real alternatives. But with the rise of alternatives, the dynamics shift creating the possibility of cascading collapse of entire online communities or networks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Utopia is Now @utopiaisnow.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello Friends, Who are some of the most insightful voices on climate change (& the wider ecological crisis) that you would like to see interviewed? If you have any suggestions for podcast guests, please @ them here! #climatechange #climateaction #ecologicalcrisis #podcast #utopiaisnow

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a poster that says our time for climate action with a fist on the earth

ALT: a poster that says our time for climate action with a fist on the earth

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When ppl try to tell Brett Christophers “markets” really are delivering the clean energy transition. www.economist.com/china/2024/1...

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