Holly Mellor
@hollymellor.bsky.social
all things politics, climate + security | currently studying - master of public policy at ANU | living in sheffield
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🇩🇪 Yesterday all wind power accounted for ~22% of Germany electrical power generation (217GWh). Solar power was ~39% (383GWh). Hydro power net of pumped was ~5% (45GWh).
Source: SMARD
#Germany #windenergy #solarenergy #hydroenergy
Source: SMARD
#Germany #windenergy #solarenergy #hydroenergy
August 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🇩🇪 Yesterday all wind power accounted for ~22% of Germany electrical power generation (217GWh). Solar power was ~39% (383GWh). Hydro power net of pumped was ~5% (45GWh).
Source: SMARD
#Germany #windenergy #solarenergy #hydroenergy
Source: SMARD
#Germany #windenergy #solarenergy #hydroenergy
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Saw my first ever stoat this weekend… even got the photo to go with it so that iNaturalist believes me🤪
August 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Saw my first ever stoat this weekend… even got the photo to go with it so that iNaturalist believes me🤪
sunrise in sheffield the other morning 🌅
December 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
sunrise in sheffield the other morning 🌅
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New article from Ellie Martus.
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions.
How is climate policy made in authoritarian states?
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions.
How is climate policy made in authoritarian states?
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
December 17, 2024 at 7:43 AM
New article from Ellie Martus.
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions.
How is climate policy made in authoritarian states?
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions.
How is climate policy made in authoritarian states?
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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📣New paper📣
We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity
🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity
🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge C...
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates - Volume 2
www.cambridge.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:12 PM
📣New paper📣
We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity
🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity
🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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December 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
www.latimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:21 PM
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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This looks worth reading!
Really happy to see this out! Draws on conjunctural and pragmatist methodologies to develop a more nuanced account of the possibility and politics of justice-based climate resilience through research into the Justice40 initiative in the United States.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience’: A pragmatist approach to justice-based climate change governance
Scholars have afforded much attention to environmental justice issues amid the recent global surge in climate resilience efforts. And yet our analysis…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:35 PM
This looks worth reading!
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December 12, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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In our next 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article, Gabriel Paes da Silva Sales and Rejan Guedes-Bruni describe how a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry. #envhist #brasil
The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century
In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.
www.environmentandsociety.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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This one? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot - Nature Climate Change
Current emissions scenarios include pathways that overshoot the temperature goals set out in the Paris Agreement and rely on future net negative emissions. Limiting overshoot would require near-term i...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:44 PM
This one? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nichts Neues. War alles vorhergesagt worden.
Klimakatastrophe verläuft weiter nach Plan.
Klimakatastrophe verläuft weiter nach Plan.
Die Permafrostböden der Arktis dienen seit Jahrtausenden als gewaltige Kohlenstoffspeicher. Jetzt hat die US-Ozeanbehörde die Sorge, dass die Tundra die Folgen der Erderhitzung verschlimmern könnte.
Arktis: Tundra stößt laut US-Behörde mehr Kohlenstoff aus, als sie aufnimmt
Die Permafrostböden der Arktis dienen seit Jahrtausenden als gewaltige Kohlenstoffspeicher. Jetzt hat die US-Ozeanbehörde die Sorge, dass die Tundra die Folgen der Erderhitzung verschlimmern könnte.
www.spiegel.de
December 11, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Nichts Neues. War alles vorhergesagt worden.
Klimakatastrophe verläuft weiter nach Plan.
Klimakatastrophe verläuft weiter nach Plan.
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"The case for tackling [climate] inequalities is often made in moral terms. But there is also another rationale. The failure to protect vulnerable communities ... may push them into the arms of nativist parties and other political forces that often seek to block climate action."
A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
"The case for tackling [climate] inequalities is often made in moral terms. But there is also another rationale. The failure to protect vulnerable communities ... may push them into the arms of nativist parties and other political forces that often seek to block climate action."
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NEW: An industry-backed emissions metric could ‘completely derail’ climate action if adopted by governments, campaigners warn
It comes the New Zealand government considers whether to adopt new climate goals based on the GWP* measure
My latest for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/i...
It comes the New Zealand government considers whether to adopt new climate goals based on the GWP* measure
My latest for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/i...
Industry-Backed Emissions Metric Could ‘Completely Derail’ Climate Action, Campaigners Warn
Governments have been cautioned against adopting a new methane metric that is “incompatible” with climate science and “penalises” low-income countries. A statement issued by more than 60 civil society...
www.desmog.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:47 PM
NEW: An industry-backed emissions metric could ‘completely derail’ climate action if adopted by governments, campaigners warn
It comes the New Zealand government considers whether to adopt new climate goals based on the GWP* measure
My latest for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/i...
It comes the New Zealand government considers whether to adopt new climate goals based on the GWP* measure
My latest for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/i...
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University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form reduced their methane emissions by almost 40% without affecting their health or weight.
www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/fe...
www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/fe...
Feeding Grazing Cattle Seaweed Cuts Methane Emissions by Almost 40%
Scientists find making a seaweed additive more accessible to grazing cattle would make cattle farming more sustainable while meeting global demand for meat.
www.ucdavis.edu
December 6, 2024 at 5:43 PM
University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form reduced their methane emissions by almost 40% without affecting their health or weight.
www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/fe...
www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/fe...
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Amnesty drops a 296-page report accusing Israel of genocide, and U.S. media’s response? Pretend it’s not happening. Read how they’re downplaying the story:
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/u-s-...
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/u-s-...
U.S. mainstream media downplays Amnesty International’s finding that Israel is committing genocide
Pressure is mounting on the international community over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. With the latest report from Amnesty International, the mainstream U.S. media faced an excruciating dilemma. How coul...
mondoweiss.net
December 6, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Amnesty drops a 296-page report accusing Israel of genocide, and U.S. media’s response? Pretend it’s not happening. Read how they’re downplaying the story:
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/u-s-...
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/u-s-...
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"There are more children on the run here from conflict than anywhere else in the world — 5 million children fleeing their homes [across #Sudan]."
@unicef.org's Tess Ingram talks with ABC News about humanitarian access in the country and what she's heard from girls affected by the crisis:
@unicef.org's Tess Ingram talks with ABC News about humanitarian access in the country and what she's heard from girls affected by the crisis:
Video UNICEF: Five million children displaced in Sudan amid civil war
UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram joined ABC News Live to talk about the "world's largest child displacement crisis" currently unfolding in Sudan amid the nation's civil war.
buff.ly
December 6, 2024 at 9:10 PM
"There are more children on the run here from conflict than anywhere else in the world — 5 million children fleeing their homes [across #Sudan]."
@unicef.org's Tess Ingram talks with ABC News about humanitarian access in the country and what she's heard from girls affected by the crisis:
@unicef.org's Tess Ingram talks with ABC News about humanitarian access in the country and what she's heard from girls affected by the crisis:
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On @antonygreenelec.bsky.social's numbers, the LNP needs about 51.5% 2PP to get to 'most seats'. On trend, it may get near to that, below. (YIK, rough-as-guts, and 2PP may now be a poor guide ... but so is small-sample seat polling.)
December 6, 2024 at 10:11 PM
On @antonygreenelec.bsky.social's numbers, the LNP needs about 51.5% 2PP to get to 'most seats'. On trend, it may get near to that, below. (YIK, rough-as-guts, and 2PP may now be a poor guide ... but so is small-sample seat polling.)
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“Direct Air Capture is an opportunity cost that increases CO2, air pollution, fossil mining, fossil infrastructure and social cost (energy+health+climate costs) by a factor of 10 vs using the same money to replace fossil sources with clean, renewable energy.”
lailluminator.com/2024/12/02/c...
lailluminator.com/2024/12/02/c...
Removing carbon from the air: A climate cure or waste of money? • Louisiana Illuminator
President-elect Trump has vowed to slash climate spending under the Inflation Reduction Act, but direct air capture hubs are part of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
lailluminator.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:46 PM
“Direct Air Capture is an opportunity cost that increases CO2, air pollution, fossil mining, fossil infrastructure and social cost (energy+health+climate costs) by a factor of 10 vs using the same money to replace fossil sources with clean, renewable energy.”
lailluminator.com/2024/12/02/c...
lailluminator.com/2024/12/02/c...
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Brazil is among the top consumers of pesticides in the world, many of which are highly hazardous. Pesticide drift poisons rural communities.
The government promised to enact a National Pesticide Reduction Program. Although it’s been 10 yrs since the plan was first drafted, it’s still not adopted.
The government promised to enact a National Pesticide Reduction Program. Although it’s been 10 yrs since the plan was first drafted, it’s still not adopted.
Brazil Fails to Launch Long-Awaited Pesticide Reduction Plan
The Brazilian government failed to follow through on its commitment to enact a National Pesticide Reduction Program on International Pesticide Free Day today. Brazil is among the top consumers of pest...
www.hrw.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Brazil is among the top consumers of pesticides in the world, many of which are highly hazardous. Pesticide drift poisons rural communities.
The government promised to enact a National Pesticide Reduction Program. Although it’s been 10 yrs since the plan was first drafted, it’s still not adopted.
The government promised to enact a National Pesticide Reduction Program. Although it’s been 10 yrs since the plan was first drafted, it’s still not adopted.
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Recently gave this another listen. It’s very good.
December 2, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Recently gave this another listen. It’s very good.
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Nature conservation is chronically underfunded in the ACT and across the county.
It has to increase if we are to better protect & manage the incredible landscapes that make Australia so special.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/883559...
It has to increase if we are to better protect & manage the incredible landscapes that make Australia so special.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/883559...
Plan to protect endangered ACT grasslands a casualty of tanked environment deal
'These are two of the most ecologically significant bits of bush in Canberra.'
www.canberratimes.com.au
December 2, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Nature conservation is chronically underfunded in the ACT and across the county.
It has to increase if we are to better protect & manage the incredible landscapes that make Australia so special.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/883559...
It has to increase if we are to better protect & manage the incredible landscapes that make Australia so special.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/883559...
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#Climate change exacerbates inequality & disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable.
"The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie
@docsenvaus.bsky.social
#auspol
"The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie
@docsenvaus.bsky.social
#auspol
December 2, 2024 at 5:12 AM
#Climate change exacerbates inequality & disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable.
"The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie
@docsenvaus.bsky.social
#auspol
"The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie
@docsenvaus.bsky.social
#auspol