Lawyers Are Responsible
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Some lawyers are responsible as they enable new fossil fuel projects. Others (like us) take responsibility to stop the harm.
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So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge
The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!
Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!
The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!
Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!
Oil and gas imports are a problem. Labour should rethink its North Sea stance | Nils Pratley
Rachel Reeves could make geopolitical, economic and environmental case for limited boost in production
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge
The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!
Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!
The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!
Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!
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NEW: Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change.
Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped.
Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fail...
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
NEW: Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change.
Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
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The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
(Published April 2024)
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
(Published April 2024)
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
(Published April 2024)
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
(Published April 2024)
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Your 'moment of doom' for June 19, 2025 ~ Uninhabitable
"Overall, our indicators provide multiple lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction to provide a clear and consistent – but unsurprising and worsening – picture of the climate system."
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
"Overall, our indicators provide multiple lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction to provide a clear and consistent – but unsurprising and worsening – picture of the climate system."
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising - Carbon Brief
Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels.
www.carbonbrief.org
June 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for June 19, 2025 ~ Uninhabitable
"Overall, our indicators provide multiple lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction to provide a clear and consistent – but unsurprising and worsening – picture of the climate system."
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
"Overall, our indicators provide multiple lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction to provide a clear and consistent – but unsurprising and worsening – picture of the climate system."
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...
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Why is there no significant action on Climate Change in spite of a having @Ed_Miliband in Gov? Because @RachelReevesMP works hand in glove with fossil fuel industry. In this exposé @writesbright.bsky.social gives the mechanics.
Join our campaign #ScrapCCS
@stopcambo.bsky.social
Join our campaign #ScrapCCS
@stopcambo.bsky.social
Reeves promised oil industry ‘quid pro quo’ over windfall tax in private meeting
Government accused of making ‘secret exchange deal’ with fossil fuel companies to compensate for tax hike
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Why is there no significant action on Climate Change in spite of a having @Ed_Miliband in Gov? Because @RachelReevesMP works hand in glove with fossil fuel industry. In this exposé @writesbright.bsky.social gives the mechanics.
Join our campaign #ScrapCCS
@stopcambo.bsky.social
Join our campaign #ScrapCCS
@stopcambo.bsky.social
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We have created weapons of biospheric destruction. Our food systems have exterminated species across the globe while fossil fuel combustion is driving the climate towards a much hotter & violent state. Industrialisation transformed humanity. The trade off is that we have become death.
May 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
We have created weapons of biospheric destruction. Our food systems have exterminated species across the globe while fossil fuel combustion is driving the climate towards a much hotter & violent state. Industrialisation transformed humanity. The trade off is that we have become death.
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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🏭How to make the polluter >really< pay is one of the challenges of our time
🤔New paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes a breakthrough that may help - in linking climate damages to individual polluting companies (read: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...)
@sioldridge.bsky.social
🤔New paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes a breakthrough that may help - in linking climate damages to individual polluting companies (read: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...)
@sioldridge.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🏭How to make the polluter >really< pay is one of the challenges of our time
🤔New paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes a breakthrough that may help - in linking climate damages to individual polluting companies (read: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...)
@sioldridge.bsky.social
🤔New paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes a breakthrough that may help - in linking climate damages to individual polluting companies (read: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...)
@sioldridge.bsky.social
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Last night @itvpeston.bsky.social interviewed UK opposition leader @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social…
They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic)
Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...
They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic)
Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...
April 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Last night @itvpeston.bsky.social interviewed UK opposition leader @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social…
They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic)
Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...
They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic)
Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...
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I see I've been quoted in the Times about the hypocrisy of law firms that work for fossil fuel companies (behind a paywall). 1/5 www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
‘Magic circle’ law firms accused of hypocrisy over climate change
Campaigners accuse them of promoting their green credentials while facilitating billions of pounds of fossil fuel deals
www.thetimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I see I've been quoted in the Times about the hypocrisy of law firms that work for fossil fuel companies (behind a paywall). 1/5 www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
BREAKING: @Ls4Ca released their 2025 Law Firm #Climate Change Scorecard. The legal
profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back.
A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵
Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard
profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back.
A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵
Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard
April 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
BREAKING: @Ls4Ca released their 2025 Law Firm #Climate Change Scorecard. The legal
profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back.
A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵
Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard
profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back.
A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵
Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard
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"Everything in connection with something else"
The most fundamental insight of Earth System Science is the application of the lens of complex system analysis to our planet.
Bear this in mind, for the following quick thread of recent developments in our understanding of the Earth's #climate...
The most fundamental insight of Earth System Science is the application of the lens of complex system analysis to our planet.
Bear this in mind, for the following quick thread of recent developments in our understanding of the Earth's #climate...
February 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Everything in connection with something else"
The most fundamental insight of Earth System Science is the application of the lens of complex system analysis to our planet.
Bear this in mind, for the following quick thread of recent developments in our understanding of the Earth's #climate...
The most fundamental insight of Earth System Science is the application of the lens of complex system analysis to our planet.
Bear this in mind, for the following quick thread of recent developments in our understanding of the Earth's #climate...
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"These upper-ocean changes suggest a trend towards increased heat storage in the upper ocean and reduced sequestration into its interior, and an increasing likelihood of prolonged heatwaves and hence a threat to near-surface marine ecosystems"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Observed multi-decadal increase in the surface ocean’s thermal inertia - Nature Climate Change
Analysis of 42 years of daily sea surface temperature data shows increasing persistence of anomalies. These changes, which are attributed to deepening of the mixed layer, reduced oceanic forcing and r...
www.nature.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"These upper-ocean changes suggest a trend towards increased heat storage in the upper ocean and reduced sequestration into its interior, and an increasing likelihood of prolonged heatwaves and hence a threat to near-surface marine ecosystems"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...