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Peter Thorne
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Climate scientist, director ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland, author IPCC AR6, member Ireland's climate change advisory council, Chair GCOS AOPC. www.peter-thorne.net

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Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 4h
Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc
A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
www.nytimes.com

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 6h
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10h
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
Pictures of a pink sea anemone sitting on top of a hermit crab shell.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 13h
The Bureau of Land Management proposed to overturn a rule that conservation is an official "use" of public lands.

As the comment period closes tonight, the folks at @westernpriorities.org analyzed the comments so far-->
98% oppose the rescission.

infogram.com/public-lands...
Public Lands Rule a by Kate Groetzinger - Infogram
infogram.com

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 13h
Latest painting: oil on panel, 70 x 100cm. I wanted to try and portray the hills as a place where I feel at home.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #wicklowmountains #autumn #ireland #irishart
Landscape in oil: rolling hills in autumn colours, with the suggestion of trees in green, brown, ochre and red filling the left side of the composition, and a lighter green, bare hillside to the right. Light blue sky with fair weather clouds above a gentle ridge line.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13h
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 16h
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

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Dr. Shannon Cofield 🪨🗺️🌊 @geoshanz.bsky.social · 17h
🚨New Paper: "History of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet, MIS 11 to present" - Cofield & Darby (2025)

Utilized ice rafted debris + Fe-grains from a deep-sea Arctic sediment core to reconstruct ice movement/ timing for Barents Sea Ice Sheet through MIS 11 (~440 ka).

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History of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet, MIS 11 to present
Understanding the history of large Arctic ice sheets is important in knowing the possibilities for future climate change and its impact on existing ic…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Thomas Opel @thomasopel.bsky.social · 19h
!New #OpenAcess paper alert!

Late Pleistocene atmospheric dust dynamics reconstructed from sediment included in ice wedges from #Batagay and Central Yakutia:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
East Siberian ice wedges recording dust transport variability during the Late Pleistocene - Nature Communications
Dust preserved in Siberian ice wedges reveals shifts in wind patterns during the last glacial stage. Long-range dust transport from China to the Arctic operated under similar mechanisms as today but w...
www.nature.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h
"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"

Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:
🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again
Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on heathcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.
zeteo.com

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 22h
Worried about the global polycrisis? About food security, public health, or the degradation of democracies?
Then you'll be interested in knowing that, as a matter of great urgency, the EU proposes a new package to enhance and simplify the production of...
wine.
perrincam.bsky.social Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · 1d
“No meeting minutes have been shared, no stakeholder consultation has been opened [..]. For those who work to reduce alcohol-related harm, [..] the message it sends is unmistakable: the interests of producers matter more than the wellbeing of citizens.”
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Lack of transparency of EU's new wine proposals will cause a hangover
The EU Wine Package — a broad reform of the rules for how wine should be produced, marketed, and labelled across the EU — is moving forward with unusual speed and limited transparency.
euobserver.com

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 1d
Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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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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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d
Electrify 50% of your industry, save €250bn/year on fossil fuel imports.¹

Relatedly: the EU sends €380bn/year to autocratic regimes for its fossil fuel addiction.

¹ @jamiesmythft.bsky.social's @financialtimes.com Energy Source newsletter
“We are stagnant,” Gwenaelle Avice Huet, executive vice-president of industrial automation at Schneider Electric, told Energy Source. “Industry in Europe has a huge potential for electrification and still it’s not going that fast.” A recent report by Schneider estimates that the EU could save €250bn in energy imports if it reached 50 per cent of electrification in final energy use by 2040 — a target set by the European Commission. This would take a large chunk out of the bloc’s annual fossil fuel import bill of €380bn, Schneider said.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 2d
The Irish Times is hiring for this job, Head of Data Architecture and Machine Learning, but I can't understand what it is and how it relates to running a newspaper. Can you explain it to me please? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...

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Daryl Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 2d
"The Taoiseach made his remarks at the Cop30 climate summit where the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, of which the Republic is a founding member, will host several events"

We could be a wind power behemoth & he wants to tie us to US fracked gas. That's not security.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
LNG ‘can’t happen fast enough’, says Taoiseach as Cop30 grapples with ending fossil fuels
Martin indicates that liquefied natural gas a security imperative for Ireland
www.irishtimes.com

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 2d
whiskey

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 2d
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d
@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat:

"Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas."

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Stefan Krauter @solarpapst.bsky.social · 2d
The development of the Pizol Glacier within a few decades – and there are still retards who claim that man-made #climate change does not exist.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d
"The Hague’s fossil-fuel advertising ban is more than a policy- it’s a signal. By rejecting the normalization of fossil fuel promotion, the decision to implement a ban locally can challenge entrenched norms globally... FF advertising bans present a compelling opportunity for governments to act"
Local fossil fuel ad ban as a catalyst for global change - Nature Climate Change
The Hague in the Netherlands was the first city in the world to enact a law prohibiting advertisements for fossil fuel products and services. Although the ban is restricted to The Hague’s jurisdiction...
www.nature.com

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Andy Reisinger @andyreisinger.bsky.social · 3d
The sad thing is, I remember sketching changes in temperature and heavy precip distributions in exactly this way in the early 2000s, just to now watch it play out.

The animation very much reminds me of an angry beast pulling on its chains; and they are tearing loose...
lymecfs.bsky.social Sebastiaan Deetman @lymecfs.bsky.social · 3d
Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told
Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told
Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households Rachel Reeves has been told that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would risk the UK’s climate goals and hurt low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups. In a letter to the chancellor, more than 60 groups and companies urged Reeves not to take such a damaging “short-term fix” to slash funding for more energy-efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3d
Martyn Turner
Martyn Turner
November 8th, 2025
www.irishtimes.com

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 3d
The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 3d
thanks Google AI!
AI Overview: "Cote" is pronounced "coat" in English, but the French pronunciation is "coat".

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d
This is a good article, worth reading.

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?

The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.

Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
www.vox.com

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 3d
Gross
Screenshot of Politico Power Switch newsletter, about the COP and the "anti-COP" which is how they describe a meeting in Athens this week where US politicians are pushing increasing fossil fuel development, with red circles around "Presented by Enbridge" and around the two Enbridge ads flanking the text, hyping the companys "reliable energy for AI"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3d
Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs!

gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Datasets and protocols for including anomalous freshwater from melting ice sheets in climate simulations
Abstract. Anomalous freshwater fluxes from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves are impacting the surrounding oceans, and we need to be able to account for these effects in climate m...
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