Dr Ann Smith
@profzero.bsky.social
Advisor and mentor on carbon management | Chair SBTi Services Validation Council | Born at 312 ppm CO2
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There will never be any reduction in the need to materially stop releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The laws of physics do not change depending on geopolitics or vibes or elections: it will always make sense to stop thickening the heat-trapping blanket above our heads
The laws of physics do not change depending on geopolitics or vibes or elections: it will always make sense to stop thickening the heat-trapping blanket above our heads
April 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
There will never be any reduction in the need to materially stop releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The laws of physics do not change depending on geopolitics or vibes or elections: it will always make sense to stop thickening the heat-trapping blanket above our heads
The laws of physics do not change depending on geopolitics or vibes or elections: it will always make sense to stop thickening the heat-trapping blanket above our heads
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Adaptation without mitigation is not enough. Ultimately, we need to reach net zero, to prevent further increases in global temperature and stabilise risk.
Falling short of that, many might soon be priced out of insurance and mortgages.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Falling short of that, many might soon be priced out of insurance and mortgages.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Climate change will send home insurance spiralling. Here’s how to control costs
Insurers rely on sophisticated catastrophe modelling to estimate risk exposure — and as climate risks are rising, so are the costs for protection.
www.nature.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Adaptation without mitigation is not enough. Ultimately, we need to reach net zero, to prevent further increases in global temperature and stabilise risk.
Falling short of that, many might soon be priced out of insurance and mortgages.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Falling short of that, many might soon be priced out of insurance and mortgages.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Roberta Flack's first single was the remarkable protest song 'Compared to What"
An absolutely definitive voice and soul
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
An absolutely definitive voice and soul
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
Compared to What
YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Roberta Flack's first single was the remarkable protest song 'Compared to What"
An absolutely definitive voice and soul
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
An absolutely definitive voice and soul
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...
What I’m reading. Depressing but well written. Recommend it along with @hcrichardson.bsky.social substack Letters from an American which I read daily without fail.
February 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
What I’m reading. Depressing but well written. Recommend it along with @hcrichardson.bsky.social substack Letters from an American which I read daily without fail.
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And this is how it goes.
Pine Creek Forest protestors camp vigil.
Support them here friendsofpinecreek.com
Pine Creek Forest protestors camp vigil.
Support them here friendsofpinecreek.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
And this is how it goes.
Pine Creek Forest protestors camp vigil.
Support them here friendsofpinecreek.com
Pine Creek Forest protestors camp vigil.
Support them here friendsofpinecreek.com
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OMG Coffs Harbour Nannas show no mercy at their weekly vigil outside Forestry Corp NSW today.
FCNSW have been exposed (by activists) as having amended 3 years of sustainability reports, dramatically reducing the reported yield from native forest logging since 2021.
greens.org.au/nsw/news/med...
FCNSW have been exposed (by activists) as having amended 3 years of sustainability reports, dramatically reducing the reported yield from native forest logging since 2021.
greens.org.au/nsw/news/med...
February 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
OMG Coffs Harbour Nannas show no mercy at their weekly vigil outside Forestry Corp NSW today.
FCNSW have been exposed (by activists) as having amended 3 years of sustainability reports, dramatically reducing the reported yield from native forest logging since 2021.
greens.org.au/nsw/news/med...
FCNSW have been exposed (by activists) as having amended 3 years of sustainability reports, dramatically reducing the reported yield from native forest logging since 2021.
greens.org.au/nsw/news/med...
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We were warned:
Frank Press's accurate and prescient memo on #climate change to President Jimmy #Carter in 1977.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Frank Press's accurate and prescient memo on #climate change to President Jimmy #Carter in 1977.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world
Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 6:31 PM
We were warned:
Frank Press's accurate and prescient memo on #climate change to President Jimmy #Carter in 1977.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Frank Press's accurate and prescient memo on #climate change to President Jimmy #Carter in 1977.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We're not doing what we committed to, even if monitoring makes that failure blatantly obvious. Strengthening MRV systems will be critical for monitoring progress, such as it may be. @mattrigby.bsky.social
Emissions of HFC-23 do not reflect commitments made under the Kigali Amendment - Communications Earth & Environment
Substantial hydrofluorocarbon-23 emissions persist despite international reduction commitments: Emissions estimates based on inverse modelling of atmospheric measurements and transport excee...
www.nature.com
December 30, 2024 at 10:32 PM
We're not doing what we committed to, even if monitoring makes that failure blatantly obvious. Strengthening MRV systems will be critical for monitoring progress, such as it may be. @mattrigby.bsky.social
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The UK edition of THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS is out on Thursday!
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
October 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
The UK edition of THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS is out on Thursday!
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
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Add the Paris Climate Accord to the „firmly defend“ category - climate stability is a precondition for preventing societal collapse.
„Gradually, and then suddenly“ also applies to climate change once we cross tipping points.
„Gradually, and then suddenly“ also applies to climate change once we cross tipping points.
December 17, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Add the Paris Climate Accord to the „firmly defend“ category - climate stability is a precondition for preventing societal collapse.
„Gradually, and then suddenly“ also applies to climate change once we cross tipping points.
„Gradually, and then suddenly“ also applies to climate change once we cross tipping points.
My day is not complete without reading Letters from an American. Today’s letter is particularly pertinent. Ruth Carlson’s Silent Spring inspired me to study Botany and Ecology, to do research on pollution and solutions based on environmental management standards.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 15, 2024
Tomorrow, December 16, is the fiftieth anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act, signed into law on December 16, 1974, by President Gerald R.
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December 16, 2024 at 4:24 AM
My day is not complete without reading Letters from an American. Today’s letter is particularly pertinent. Ruth Carlson’s Silent Spring inspired me to study Botany and Ecology, to do research on pollution and solutions based on environmental management standards.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Read and then listen. Highly pertinent to all the shit going on in our lives including in Aotearoa New Zealand
www.dailygood.org/story/2867/-...
www.dailygood.org/story/2867/-...
'New Day's Lyric', By Amanda Gorman | DailyGood
May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Withered, we come to weather,
Torn, we come to tend,
...
www.dailygood.org
December 16, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Read and then listen. Highly pertinent to all the shit going on in our lives including in Aotearoa New Zealand
www.dailygood.org/story/2867/-...
www.dailygood.org/story/2867/-...
Holiday homework - read the article and make a submission. This is significant to yours, your childrens’, your grandchildrens’, your community’s futures.
e-tangata.co.nz/category/com...
e-tangata.co.nz/category/com...
e-tangata.co.nz
December 16, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Holiday homework - read the article and make a submission. This is significant to yours, your childrens’, your grandchildrens’, your community’s futures.
e-tangata.co.nz/category/com...
e-tangata.co.nz/category/com...
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"You can either price the emissions and that creates the business case and that rewards those who take up the technology or you can wait to have it done to you by the private sector," Rod Carr said last week.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/06/c...
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/06/c...
Climate Commission recommends carbon negative 2050 target
A stronger methane target and a carbon negative goal would be 'affordable and achievable', the independent commission's latest reports find. Marc Daalder reports.
newsroom.co.nz
December 8, 2024 at 11:57 PM
"You can either price the emissions and that creates the business case and that rewards those who take up the technology or you can wait to have it done to you by the private sector," Rod Carr said last week.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/06/c...
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/06/c...
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These six charts tell the story of Australia's (slow) progress on climate change
The six charts that reveal Australia's (slow) climate progress
Climate and Energy minister Chris Bowen declared "Australia is on track to deliver on our legislated targets" in his annual climate statement. But new data challenges that optimism.
www.abc.net.au
December 9, 2024 at 12:47 AM
These six charts tell the story of Australia's (slow) progress on climate change
Great thread - explainer - not just for electricity nerds
Electricity means efficiency ⚡ which also means fewer materials and less energy than you might think.
An explainer on materials and the energy transition for Rewiring Aotearoa: www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/ele...
An explainer on materials and the energy transition for Rewiring Aotearoa: www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/ele...
Electricity means efficiency
There are no free lunches in energy. But some lunches are far, far cheaper than others. Electrifying everything will massively reduce the overall material and energy requirements of the global energy ...
www.rewiring.nz
December 9, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Great thread - explainer - not just for electricity nerds
Fascinating article - wonder if there is a global report. The CERES assessment also quoted in the article is also fascinating in the gripping sense of the word.
Great article, quotes Carolyn Kousky, @scrawford.bsky.social
Freddie has been trying to hire a climate risk specialist for... months? If anyone is up for unpicking this knot (DC only): www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/38...
🎁 link: The Climate Risk to the Mortgage System www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...
Freddie has been trying to hire a climate risk specialist for... months? If anyone is up for unpicking this knot (DC only): www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/38...
🎁 link: The Climate Risk to the Mortgage System www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...
December 9, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Fascinating article - wonder if there is a global report. The CERES assessment also quoted in the article is also fascinating in the gripping sense of the word.
Clever - on so many levels
Species Of Blue-Green Algae Announces IPO
theonion.com/species-of-b...
theonion.com/species-of-b...
December 9, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Clever - on so many levels
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Initial analysis of the impact on Marsden Fund changes on success rates for Māori researchers, with a link through to modelled data based on the 2024 funding round here:
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
PRESS RELEASE Cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences Research Will Impact Māori Most | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
www.maramatanga.ac.nz
December 6, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Initial analysis of the impact on Marsden Fund changes on success rates for Māori researchers, with a link through to modelled data based on the 2024 funding round here:
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
Brilliant
Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
December 3, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Brilliant
Just love the Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends
Thinking that Knitting Nannas were winding down for Christmas while two of our own were locked onto a giant tree flattener shutting down Forestry’s logging of the Bulga State Forest for another day!
On #insta instagram.com/reel/DDGegyu...
#SaveBulgaForest
There's no rest for us Nannas!
December 3, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Just love the Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends
Reduce emissions sooner - don’t delay till the last minute.
On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check
This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable.
The answer is very little warming is locked in.
Also, this is our 100th post!
www.theclimatebrink....
This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable.
The answer is very little warming is locked in.
Also, this is our 100th post!
www.theclimatebrink....
Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check
Why future warming isn't as "locked in" as you might think
www.theclimatebrink.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Reduce emissions sooner - don’t delay till the last minute.
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The United Kingdom has pledged to slash climate pollution by 81 percent by 2035. Could New Zealand do the same?
The Government’s decision to slam the brakes on climate policy sets New Zealand up for an expensive or embarrassing new Paris target.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/25/t...
The Government’s decision to slam the brakes on climate policy sets New Zealand up for an expensive or embarrassing new Paris target.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/25/t...
UK to slash climate pollution by 81%. Could NZ do the same?
The Government's decision to slam the brakes on climate policy sets New Zealand up for an expensive or embarrassing new Paris target.
newsroom.co.nz
November 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
The United Kingdom has pledged to slash climate pollution by 81 percent by 2035. Could New Zealand do the same?
The Government’s decision to slam the brakes on climate policy sets New Zealand up for an expensive or embarrassing new Paris target.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/25/t...
The Government’s decision to slam the brakes on climate policy sets New Zealand up for an expensive or embarrassing new Paris target.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/25/t...
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Carbon dioxide emissions are STILL rising! We are still running away from our "zero carbon" future. The total carbon budget for 1.5C warming will be gone by the end of this decade, 2C around 20 years later. More extremes, more damage, more cost...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
Analysis: Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth - Carbon Brief
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement will rise around 0.8% in 2024, reaching a record 37.4bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2)
www.carbonbrief.org
November 26, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Carbon dioxide emissions are STILL rising! We are still running away from our "zero carbon" future. The total carbon budget for 1.5C warming will be gone by the end of this decade, 2C around 20 years later. More extremes, more damage, more cost...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
So many questions to consider before blue carbon could be counted in the national inventory. Where to set the baseline? Over what timescales would increased carbon be stored? What are the risks of reversal? More important to protect marine biodiversity so it continues to do the job it is doing now.
And while I'm here, here's a wee audio piece I made for Morning Report on the the Government's hopes to use blue carbon
Govt wants blue carbon counted towards effort to slow climate change www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Govt wants blue carbon counted towards effort to slow climate change www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Govt wants blue carbon counted towards effort to slow climate change
The Government wants blue carbon counted towards the country's efforts to slow climate change. Climate Change Correspondent Eloise Gibson reports.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2024 at 11:41 PM
So many questions to consider before blue carbon could be counted in the national inventory. Where to set the baseline? Over what timescales would increased carbon be stored? What are the risks of reversal? More important to protect marine biodiversity so it continues to do the job it is doing now.