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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 1d

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

www.theguardian.com

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

It ain't over yet. Call, email, fax.

Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 1d

To be clear: the deal they voted on to move forward last night still needs to be formally voted on in the Senate and House. If the eight are your senators, they should be hearing from you this morning!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.

policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says. New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.

But Trump has halted those efforts.

Read the full story: propub.li/494vgbw

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

In Georgia, power bills beat out party politics.

Will the new Democratic public service commissioners advance clean energy and shake up next year’s midterms?

grist.org/georgia-psc/...

#GA #Georgia #Politics #Energy #Bills

In Georgia, power bills beat out party politics

Will the new Democratic public service commissioners advance clean energy and shake up next year’s midterms?

grist.org

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

"Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees"

hechingerreport.org/climate-chan...

Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees

University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.

hechingerreport.org

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?

For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers

John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.

heatmap.news

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · 4d

This is a good summary of the current state-of-play for global climate policy, IMHO.

Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 4d

Paris was meaningful even without the US.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are

Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 5d

Whilst its easy to get used to scary graphs, this one made me pause! The 2025 State of the Cryosphere report published yesterday has this one overlaying observations of #AMOC slowdown against model predictions.

The report states that “AMOC shutdown appears all but inevitable”

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 7d

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

www.unep.org/resources/em...

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A figure showing all ghg emissions rising

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7d

Off their phones and into the streets

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

A Little-Noted Element
Propelled Mamdani's Rise:
Gen Z Loneliness
Members of Gen Z found something unexpected in the mayoral race: a chance to hang out. Their enthusiasm turned into real votes.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6d

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 7d

“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”

Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.

Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.

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OPB @opb.org · 7d

Portland voters appear to be approving a ballot measure to renew and extend the city’s parks levy for another five years. In partial returns, the measure had 53% support on Tuesday shortly after 8 p.m. About 47% of votes counted oppose the measure.

Portland’s parks levy passage favored in early returns Tuesday night

In partial returns, the measure had 53% support on Tuesday shortly after 8 p.m. About 47% of votes counted oppose the measure.

www.opb.org

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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 7d

Climate action entails transition.
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All transition is local.
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Local politics is important.

a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket is sitting in front of a lamp in a room .

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket is sitting in front of a lamp in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 8d

The most under-appreciated (and under-funded and under-reported) driver of climate change is our food system.

Our food system emits ~1/3 of global emissions. But it only gets 3% of climate funding and 4% of media coverage.

Let’s focus more on food.

Here’s a start: go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it

Global food production — from meat to grains — accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions, says sustainability scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a portfolio of data-backed solutions to b...

go.ted.com

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Chloé Farand @chloefarand.bsky.social · 8d

Jordan has seen the number of EVs on its roads boom in recent years. To deal with a growing wave of end-of-life EV batteries, mechanics in Amman are coming up with innovation solutions.

The latest for @climatechangenews.com's Clean Energy Frontier series.

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/03/s...

Self-taught mechanics give second life to Jordan’s glut of spent EV batteries

As EV sales boom in Jordan, a lack of formal infrastructure for dealing with end-of-life batteries is leading to some innovative solutions

www.climatechangenews.com

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Cherice Bock @chericebock.bsky.social · 8d

You were in a Starter Pack for Urbanists Outside North America! 😁 bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Richard Allan @rpallanuk.bsky.social · 9d

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest

Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

www.newscientist.com

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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 9d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 9d

Meanwhile, in the far-left progressive bastion of ... entire State of Utah:

"The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations."

www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...

Utah rolls forward on statewide freeway system for bikes. Here’s where the trails would go.

Utah plans to build a statewide network of paved trails that will act like an interstate system for bikes.

www.sltrib.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8d

Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 9d

October is the least warmed month and reached +1.55°C during a La Niña!

The past 29 months were +1.57°C on average, 0.32°C above the same 2015-2017 period, indicating a 0.4°C/dec warming rate.

That's more than a doubling from the 1970-2010 warming rate.
Even(?) we might have underestimated this.

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