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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 13/08/2026
15 years ago, there were no orangutans in Jantho Nature Reserve. Today, it’s home to a growing wild population. Nearly 200 rescued and relocated orangutans have been brought to Jantho, and at least 10 babies born here. But how do you build a wild orangutan population? mongabay.cc/e37GO2
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 09/01/2026
Link to new paper: Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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Client Challenge
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 09/01/2026
We've always said that we wished we were wrong about the acceleration of global warming, but the truth is worse than many wanted to believe. See the rate of Ocean Heat Content increase from different datasets:
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Climate scientist @kevinclimate.bsky.social says “we need to eliminate fossil fuels”. Societal and ecological collapse at 3-4C warming. For <2C, the UK has 7 years of current CO2 emissions. Drax and CCS are delay tech. Heat pumps, good public transport, and deep cuts of aviation are essential.
Kevin Anderson speaking to the audience
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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear : 'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action' www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
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Report 9 from #COP21 - Wednesday December 9, 2015
Our ninth from Paul Price, a member of An Taisce's Climate Change Committee. Paul is a conservation carpenter with a MSc in Sustainable Development.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Tech-bro fixes will inevitably lead to the “network state” …Curtis Yarvin. It all comes down to how these people were treated in high school in the 90s. Psychopaths don’t care about multigenerational welfare.
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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“Canada has been masking fossil expansion behind the language of climate leadership.” Leaving #COP30 one thing is clear, Canada must reject the thrall of the fossil fuel era or risk becoming a fossil ourselves. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/24/o...
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A tough climate summit for Canada
Labeled the "Fossil of the Day" at COP30, Canada faces accusations of pulling back climate policies while pushing forward fossil subsidies and projects. But the committee seemed particularly stung by ...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Opinion
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders' cowardice - but there is another way
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The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Good discussion this morning at the #ArcticCircle Assembly on the risk of pushing the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC beyond a dangerous tipping point. The Icelandic government considers that a serious national security threat for Iceland. 🌊
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2025/b...
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BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation
93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
What does it take to retire this hunger for the profit motive. Has our civilizational awareness just evaporated?
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It is wild that the US and European governments that most vocally claim to support press freedom are openly supporting, arming and funding a proxy regime that targets and murders journalists *as a matter of policy*.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
CO2 levels top 430ppm after huge 3.6ppm rise over last 12 months No sign at all of this slowing We really are in deep, deep, sh^t But I don't see any government that gives a flying f*ck scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...
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Annual Carbon Dioxide Peak Passes Another Milestone
For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and Scripp...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/04/2025
We are about two weeks away from the start of peak heat in India and surrounding countries. Some places are already registering 45°C (113°F) or higher.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Read “the Divide”
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
US politicians commonly claim that the US has been a "beacon of democracy" for the past 250 years, at home and abroad. Let's have a look a the evidence. 🧵 Links at the end.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I've avoided it on the principle that I don't engage with the arguments of the worst climate deniers, but given that Chris Wright, the Sec of Energy, is taking his climate messaging directly from Alex Epstein's *The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels* I guess I now have to read that fucking book. 😖
It says the former fracking executive told the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference that the "previous administration's policy was focused myopically on climate change, with people as simply collateral damage" He also said there is a "moral case for fossil fuels" to alleviate poverty and was
"dismissive of renewable power, which he said played only a small role in the world's energy mix", the newspaper reports.
According to CNBC, Wright said there is
"simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas".
. The outlet says he
also denied accusations that he is a climate sceptic and said: "The Trump administration will treat climate change for what it is - a global physical phenomenon that is a side effect of building the modern world." The Guardian reports that Wright said the US is "unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 11/03/2025
It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.
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Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
They think they’re smart because they have money but they are the biggest fools in the universe. Selling their own planet out from under them. Idiots www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/c...
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U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change
To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Energy researcher and proponent of "2000-watt neighborhoods," Peter Strack, shows how quickly our daily comfort could become daily discomfort.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is good news! "The Supreme Court has blocked an attempt by 19 red states to end a set of climate lawsuits against the oil and gas industry." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Supreme Court rejects red states’ bid to quash climate cases
Two conservative justices said they would have allowed Republican state attorneys general to sue their Democratic counterparts for pursuing climate lawsuits against oil companies.
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Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I’m still in shock about NASA cutting science. Got the email earlier today. Sadly, not surprised. What an astronomical mistake
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/03/2025
Your 'doom quote' for today: "The evidence before us suggests that we are now on a path to a global environmental catastrophe that will involve the collapse of our current industrial consumer societies. This is not a distant possibility but something unfolding now..." www.wiley.com/en-us/Deep+A...
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Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos
<p>&lsquo;Deep adaptation&rsquo; refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for &ndash; and live with &ndash; a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societi...
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The ocean is the final victim of multiple planetary crises, suffering from nutrient pollution, excess heat, rising CO₂, explains PIKs Johan Rockström. "This has to be turned around. The ocean will ultimately determine whether we secure a livable future for humanity." www.weforum.org/videos/earth...
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Earth has crossed 6 of 9 dangerous planetary boundaries, says this leading climate scientist
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape glob...
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 23/02/2025
This increase in Outgoing Longwave Raditation (0.75 W/m² in 20 years!) led many climate sceptics (some ill intended, many honestly and understandably confused) to doubt the role of greenhouse gases. Without the 0.85 W/m² greenhouse gas forcing increase, 1.6 W/m² would now be leaving Earth as OLR!
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 23/02/2025
Climate Chat starts three hours from now. We have a lot to discuss, please tune in.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It’s wobbling.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 01/02/2025
During the last glacial maximum, global sea levels were about 120 meters lower than today. Most of that water was locked up in Nort American and Eurasian ice sheets. Melting that much ice would require about 18,000 ZJ of heat, at 150 ZJ/meter of sea level rise. But hotter oceans expand and ...
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 01/02/2025
... that also helped to increase sea levels. Increasing sea levels by thermal expansion requires about 7,300 ZJ per meter of sea level rise. About 50 times as much as it does through melting ice! That's why it matters where the heat from global warming goes!
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/02/2025
The bigtime Arctic f&%kery, with temperatures in some parts reaching 28°C (50°F) above average, begins today and will last at least a week. Today:
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 02/02/2025
Sea Surface Temperatures in this region increased more during the previous 15 years than in the preceding 150 years. This is what accelerated warming looks like:
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"This Week in Democracy – Week 2: Chaos, Crashes, Firings, and Funding Freezes" Please share/support/subscribe to Zeteo's new project documenting the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism, illegality, & general chaos in the Trump 2nd term:
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This Week in Democracy – Week 2: Chaos, Crashes, Firings, and Funding Freezes
Zeteo's new project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Posturing is part of the Art of the Deal.
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
In this Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by members of the bioregioning movement, Daniel Christian Wahl, Samantha Power, and Isabel Carlisle, to discuss the necessity of reconnecting to our local places for the sake of addressing our ecological, social, and economic challenges.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 01/02/2025
Getting real close to a billion posts
999.86M total posts
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Happy Brexit Day! Five years on, what is the economic impact of Brexit? My article in the Oxford Encylopedia of Economics and Finance reviews and summarises the evidence on trade, investment, immigration, and economic growth overall. (1/2) oxfordre.com/economics/di...
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The Impact of Brexit
"The Impact of Brexit" published on by Oxford University Press.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
👀🙏
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 31/01/2025
Manny give into that little voice voice of denial in their heads.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 13/01/2025
The 40 million km² of the North Atlantic have been above pre-2023 temperatures for 676 days in a row, and counting! This is unprecedented!
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 01/12/2024
Wake up!
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 01/12/2024
Has global warming accelerated in recent decades? If we look at the rate of warming between 1970 and 2008 and extend it through present, we see that almost all years since 2015 are above the previous trend.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
What portion of this immediate rise do you think is due to reduced ocean uptake?
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#COP29 is the biggest of all the COP wastes of time, energy, more time, human lives, biodiversity… dystopia here we are.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I blame the Prussian military education system. Limit the scope and messaging, create a resounding, aligning battle cry of national motivation (MAGA) and unleash. Seems to be playing out across the spectrum. Ideological manipulation at its finest.
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westwas.bsky.social @westwas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Abundance is a foundational element in the transition away from the profit motive. It cannot be decoupled from a conservation mindset that seeks to create an abundance engine that will culturally drive the transition.
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