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Marginal wells make up only 5% of US oil & gas output but <60% of methane leaks. And yet the government subsidizes them with tax credits, so 1 in 10 Americans live in a county with 1,000+ marginal wells. @sejorg.bsky.social @rockymtninst.bsky.social rmi.org/marginal-wel...

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Any laws - or interpretation of laws - that lead society to require genital police for bathrooms or anywhere else does seem weird. Good point well made.

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"The possible elimination of the lab, called GFDL, in concert with potential cuts to other NOAA operations, threatens irreparable harm not only to global understanding of climate change and long-range scenarios for the planet but to the country’s safety, competitiveness and national security."

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Silver linings - UK & EUR remain committed to RE as a route to energy security www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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and in Texas it is becoming very costly to insure your home bc of climate change 'Texas was once affordable. After hail and hurricanes, not anymore.' www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Most of the world’s population wants stronger climate action. They just don’t realize that they are a majority

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Preparing a talk + I'm struck again by this adaptation strategies by Voelz et al., 2024. I think as ice sheet scientists we are sometimes too caught up in processes. Smart engineers + social scientists FTW #SeaLevelRise @h2020protect.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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9 in 10 people believe their government should do more to fight climate change 🌍Happy🌎Earth🌏Day🌿 ...but they also believe others are not as committed as they are☹️ Lets make 2025 the year that changes💚 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Last month was the warmest March since instrumental records began in 1850, with global average temperatures reaching 1.55 ± 0.15 °C (2.32 ± 0.22 °F) above the 1850–1900 baseline. This is despite the end of El Niño conditions. - Berkeley Earth

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New Bill to Recognize Legal Rights of All Water Bodies in New York State ->Great Lakes Now | #Water | More info from EcoSearch

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Today's story for subscribers: Three Earth-observing NASA satellites will likely go dark within a year, without immediate/exact replacements for some of their measurements. Meanwhile, scientists are increasingly concerned about the future of Earth science at NASA. www.eenews.net/articles/thr...

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Exciting innovation in wildfire resilience insurance just announced in California - cost reduction in household insurance for fire risk where the forest is managed to lower risk (thinning, prescribed cool fires etc). Congrats TNC California & partners www.wtwco.com/en-ie/news/2...

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Nice to see The Entrepreneurs Network featuring TNC's collab effort for Global Renewables Watch... thanks Jessie Green entrepreneursnetwork.substack.com?utm_source=n...

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From 'living from a river' as a resource to 'living as a river' as part of us: how different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the way people interact with and value nature. A fascinating infographic by @ipbes.net

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NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024 As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!) Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵

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1.5C - how's it looking in 2025? @wmo-global.bsky.social take is helpful, I thought wmo.int/sites/defaul...

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While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs! billmckibben.substack.com/p/tesla-big-...

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Great victory for communities, clean air, and climate action in WA State: Superior Court judge rules that I 2066 is unconstitutional. Decision leaves in place energy efficiency and gas appliance standards that made WA a national leader. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

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Today's Times makes the Sun look even more dodgy: "the paper, dating from 2023, concluded that in the long run the economic consequences of net-zero were 'likely to be positive' & the negative impact could be mitigated by clear and consistent government policy"

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Hey look, it's a highly placed government official openly & proudly fighting for net-zero!

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Hear that? It's the bell tolling for the oil industry ...

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This week at @chathamhouse.org I chaired the final session of #CHClimateEnergy Summit 2025! Four great climate tech innovators pitching solutions, great expert panel grilling them including @fionaharvey.bsky.social who nailed why this work matters now more than ever.

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

🌍 Our Global Renewables Watch, featured in @nytimes, is revolutionizing clean energy mapping. This partnership, with Microsoft and Planet, uses AI & satellite imagery to track solar and wind projects, providing real-time data on installations and land use trends. #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability

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Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

submitted 37 days ago • 28 comments

Trump (the genius) is about to place a 200% tax on Guinness the week of St Patrick's Day...

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Farmer’s house in danger from climate change, court told in RWE case | RWE npower https://www.europesays.com/1926552/ A Peruvian farmer’s home is in “concrete danger” from climate change, a court has heard, in the resumption…

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Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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State of the Global Climate 2024 report wmo.int/publication-...

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Of the 617 reported extreme events in 2024, heatwaves led the charge with 137 events recorded. #ClimateCrisis #HeatWaves Data experience.arcgis.com/experience/5...

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Theresa May, who brought in the net zero target, has hit back at Kemi Badenoch for now calling it 'impossible'

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@carbonbrief.org can always be relied upon to fact check "net zero sceptics" in right-wing media. Here is their extensive rebuttal of Kemi Badenoch's speech that seeks to destroy the political consensus on climate change. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

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I fear a great many journalists and even environmental orgs did not read the most recent IPCC report past the Summary for Policymakers. Here's why that is a big problem: that part of the report is the only one that is lobbied to hell and back by politicians. Saudi + US pushed CCS hype into it

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💚 to World Economic Forum - Climate 'victory': Swiss citizens vote in favour of new law to reach net zero emissions by 2050 app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/a3e9b6...

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As the Trump regime moves to consolidate their power they are taking climate denial into attack mode to try and literally destroy the ways we measure the crisis. [Petro-] Fascism is first and foremost an attack on [scientific] reality. #ClimateSky #EnergySky

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Climate change alters the climatic suitability of croplands, likely shifting the spatial distribution and diversity of global food crop production. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Climate change is solved!

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OUT TODAY: How is the US electricity transition doing? WIND+SOLAR OVER TOOK COAL: Wind and solar now at 17% of US electricity supply; coal falls to a record low of 15%. Only 6 years ago in 2018, coal generation was x3 that of wind and solar🤯

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Woooohoooo! 👏🏼 UK emissions lowest since 1872💃🏻 I am celebrating every win in these challenging times

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NEW – Analysis: Nearly a tenth of global climate finance threatened by Trump aid cuts | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/BuxwfSL

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Interesting piece on how climate vulnerability is constructed👇🏼- passive victim or resourceful agent of change. No surprise that former is more often the construction for southern communities. And it has implications for how we frame our responses too. #LocallyLedClimateAction critical to agency.

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Happy women’s day to all the amazing women out there fighting every day to leave the world in a better place for our kids. It’s a joy and a privilege to be a small part of the movement ❤️🥰💃🏻🥰❤️

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