Rasmus E. Benestad
@brasmus.bsky.social
Climate scientist, physicist, statistics nerd, and code developer. Contributor to RealClimate.org and leader of Tekna Klima. Working for the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
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Climate change - from CO₂ to crisis. It starts with accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions but leads to multiple global repercussions. Climate change isn’t a distant threat — it’s a systemic chain reaction already in motion & steadily increasing in severity.
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Climate change - from CO₂ to crisis. It starts with accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions but leads to multiple global repercussions. Climate change isn’t a distant threat — it’s a systemic chain reaction already in motion & steadily increasing in severity.
What would happen if everyone switched from Windows to Linux.
It's a general problem with super-rich elites. The reason why some are so rich has more to do with luck than skill. And the way our society is rigged, which rewards the lucky ones. People seem to cowtow to them who use their wealth to gain even more power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
What would happen if everyone switched from Windows to Linux.
It's a general problem with super-rich elites. The reason why some are so rich has more to do with luck than skill. And the way our society is rigged, which rewards the lucky ones. People seem to cowtow to them who use their wealth to gain even more power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's a general problem with super-rich elites. The reason why some are so rich has more to do with luck than skill. And the way our society is rigged, which rewards the lucky ones. People seem to cowtow to them who use their wealth to gain even more power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real-life James Bond villain? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure
The Tesla CEO once hinted he was done with politics – but he’s been leaning further into the international far right
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The real-life James Bond villain? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
What it tells all countries is that they all need to fight Trump and his bandit administration.
A start reminder about what's at stake before COP30 starts: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
More than 100,000 evacuated in the Philippines as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon
Fung-wong was preparing to hit the Philippines just days after the country was battered by typhoon Kalmaegi which killed 204 people
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
What it tells all countries is that they all need to fight Trump and his bandit administration.
A start reminder about what's at stake before COP30 starts: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
More than 100,000 evacuated in the Philippines as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon
Fung-wong was preparing to hit the Philippines just days after the country was battered by typhoon Kalmaegi which killed 204 people
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
A start reminder about what's at stake before COP30 starts: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing eos.org/research-and...
2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing - Eos
A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects shows a “planet on the brink” of ecological breakdown and widespread crisis and suggests that only rapid climate mitigation able to avoid the...
eos.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing eos.org/research-and...
Viktig at omstillingen innebærer både klimakutt og klimatilpasning. Den må kunne tåle fremtidens klima og samtidig være med på å redusere de atmosfæriske konsentrasjonene av drivhusgassene (f,eks. CO2 og metan). www.energiogklima.no/meninger-og-...
Omstilling i klimaendringenes tid
Energiomstillingen – kuttene i utslipp – skal skje samtidig som klimaendringene biter stadig hardere.
www.energiogklima.no
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Viktig at omstillingen innebærer både klimakutt og klimatilpasning. Den må kunne tåle fremtidens klima og samtidig være med på å redusere de atmosfæriske konsentrasjonene av drivhusgassene (f,eks. CO2 og metan). www.energiogklima.no/meninger-og-...
Should summon the board rooms of all oil companies, banks and big tech to hammer out a strategy, rather than paying single CEOs an obscene amount of money. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Should summon the board rooms of all oil companies, banks and big tech to hammer out a strategy, rather than paying single CEOs an obscene amount of money. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This paper should be read by all participants of COP30. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global record-breaking recurrence rates indicate more widespread and intense surface air temperature and precipitation extremes
Most record-hot annual mean surface temperatures are not found in the Arctic where the warming pace is the greatest.
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
This paper should be read by all participants of COP30. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
At begrepet fossil energi ikke kom med i klimatoppmøtwnes slutterklæringer før 2021 i Glasgow, og at CO2-kurven bare har akselerert etter hvert klimatoppmøte og rapport fra FNs klimapanel, er megetsigende.
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
At begrepet fossil energi ikke kom med i klimatoppmøtwnes slutterklæringer før 2021 i Glasgow, og at CO2-kurven bare har akselerert etter hvert klimatoppmøte og rapport fra FNs klimapanel, er megetsigende.
Mange av mine kolleger mener at Parisavtalen har redusert klimautslipp, men en alternativ forklaring er at de har vært et resultat av tilbud, etterspørsel og interessene til OPEC. Dvs å maksimere profitt uten å mette markedet. Hvilken forklaring er mest riktig?
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Mange av mine kolleger mener at Parisavtalen har redusert klimautslipp, men en alternativ forklaring er at de har vært et resultat av tilbud, etterspørsel og interessene til OPEC. Dvs å maksimere profitt uten å mette markedet. Hvilken forklaring er mest riktig?
Reposted by Rasmus E. Benestad
The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).