Anthony Burke
@anthonyburke.bsky.social
Australian political theorist & international relations professor. Climate, justice, biodiversity, ecodemocracy. He/him. New book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552554/the-ecology-politic About: https://www.anthonydburke.net .. more
Australian political theorist & international relations professor. Climate, justice, biodiversity, ecodemocracy. He/him. New book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552554/the-ecology-politic About: https://www.anthonydburke.net
Anthony Burke is an Australian political theorist and international relations scholar. He is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales. He is co-principal at the Planet Politics Institute. .. more
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Amazon Tipping Point Postponed • Planetary Compendium
This speculative future shows how transnational Indigenous leadership could forge eco-democratic infrastructure to delay the Amazon tipping point.
governtheplanet.org
Meanwhile, some good #climate news from 2050.
It was fun doing this with @darkmatterlabs.org and @berggruen.org - a little chastened hope. #COP30
It was fun doing this with @darkmatterlabs.org and @berggruen.org - a little chastened hope. #COP30
If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.
3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
www.npr.org
Yet our leaders are deaf dumb and blind.
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3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
www.npr.org
If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.
Two signs the crash must be nigh on recent months:
1. Tech companies have been actively working to spread around the exposure to AI debt
2. People have increasingly been talking about that (which of course ‘strengthens’ the case for bailouts when it comes)
1. Tech companies have been actively working to spread around the exposure to AI debt
2. People have increasingly been talking about that (which of course ‘strengthens’ the case for bailouts when it comes)
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
This is what happens when you try to run the world on bullshit.
Reposted by Anthony Burke, UN Environment
Reducing methane emissions is one of the most immediate and effective steps to slow the climate crisis.
The latest Global Methane Status Report, launched today at #COP30 by @unep.org @ccacoalition.bsky.social, shows progress, but more is needed to deliver global goals.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
The latest Global Methane Status Report, launched today at #COP30 by @unep.org @ccacoalition.bsky.social, shows progress, but more is needed to deliver global goals.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Two signs the crash must be nigh on recent months:
1. Tech companies have been actively working to spread around the exposure to AI debt
2. People have increasingly been talking about that (which of course ‘strengthens’ the case for bailouts when it comes)
1. Tech companies have been actively working to spread around the exposure to AI debt
2. People have increasingly been talking about that (which of course ‘strengthens’ the case for bailouts when it comes)
Daily report for 17 November 2025
enb.iisd.org
The vandalism is well under way at the Belém climate #COP30 - opposition from the fossil fuel states on any sectoral initiative. They want the treaty to fail.
It’s working.
It’s working.
Sorry the situation is disturbing not your argument. 🙏
I so hate that new climate elite and professional NGO talking point. Tipping points are to be censored cos hopist narrative
Disturbing comments about lying. Arendt had issues
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Joan Didion on the fatal touch of Dick Cheney: “Dick Cheney pioneered the tactic of not only declaring…apparently illegal activities legal but recasting them as points of pride, commands to enter attack mode, unflinching defenses of the American people
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COP30: Climate protest in Brazil's city of Belem aims to hold governments' feet to the fire
After a week of dreary negotiations at the COP30 climate talks, the streets were alive with the drumming of maracatu music and dancing to local carimbo rhythms on Saturday.
news.sky.com
NEW
Indigenous people have defined the image and sound of the climate talks in Brazil - and today was no different
COP30: Climate protest in Brazil's city of Belem aims to hold governments' feet to the fire
news.sky.com/story/cop30-...
Indigenous people have defined the image and sound of the climate talks in Brazil - and today was no different
COP30: Climate protest in Brazil's city of Belem aims to hold governments' feet to the fire
news.sky.com/story/cop30-...
Uh uh. Australian democracy ceased to function when it became clear our governing parties take their marching orders from corporations. When they refused to reform donations law or create a working NACC, we knew.
Some of our richest business owners are fascist. I can think of at least three.
Some of our richest business owners are fascist. I can think of at least three.
It’s too much to hope modern civilisation comes to its senses. The first sign will be that everyone on the AI grift will learn to distinguish between artificial intelligence (which does not exist) and machine agency (which is scary as hell bc it’s an abstraction of human or institutional thinking.)
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
This phenomenon keeps me awake at night and will one day empty my pen.
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Depends what you or others think is controversial. Almost any common sense decency seems controversial these days, let alone the idea people and animals have universal rights.
Finally, national coverage on the loss of 9 seismic stations in #AK going dark this month due to #NOAA funding cuts. This leaves #tsunami forecasters without vital data used to determine if an #earthquake will send tsunami waves toward the #US West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow
Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com
If you’re a social scientist who doesn’t believe in nonhuman agency you have some awkward bed friends.
Thanks for your reporting @bberwyn.bsky.social
Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress - Inside Climate News
Experts say stifling bureaucratic procedures that are disconnected from the climate crisis have consistently stalled COP negotiations.
insideclimatenews.org
Stunning denunciation of the #COP30 talks’ anodyne corporate culture. But it’s not just some “countries” being marginalised but the living earth itself. Why we continue to see the climate issue through an anthropocentric lens defeats me.
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U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow
Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com
Finally, national coverage on the loss of 9 seismic stations in #AK going dark this month due to #NOAA funding cuts. This leaves #tsunami forecasters without vital data used to determine if an #earthquake will send tsunami waves toward the #US West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun... #EM #greysky
A new Nature paper accompanying the Global Carbon Budget finds that the land and ocean sinks are 25% smaller and 7% smaller, respectively, than they would have been without the effects of climate change over 2015-24:
Emerging climate impact on carbon sinks in a consolidated carbon budget | Nature
Despite the adoption of the Paris Agreement ten years ago, fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise, pushing atmospheric CO2 levels to 423 ppm in 2024 and driving human-induced warming to 1.36°C, within years of breaching the 1.5°C limit 1,2. Accurate reporting of anthropogenic and natural CO2 sources and sinks is a prerequisite to tracking the effectiveness of climate policy and detecting carbon sink responses to climate change. Yet notable mismatches between reported emissions and sinks have so far prevented confident interpretation of their trends and drivers 1. Here, we present and integrate recent advances in observations and process understanding to address some long-standing issues in the global carbon budget estimates. We show that the magnitude of the natural land sink is substantially smaller than previously estimated, while net emissions from anthropogenic land-use change are revised upwards 1. The ocean sink is 15% larger than the land sink, consistent with new evidence from oceanic and atmospheric observations 3,4. Climate change reduces the efficiency of the sinks, particularly on land, contributing 8.3 ± 1.4 ppm to the atmospheric CO2 increase since 1960. The combined effects of climate change and deforestation turn Southeast Asian and large parts of South American tropical forests from CO2 sinks to sources. This underscores the need to halt deforestation and limit warming to prevent further loss of carbon stored on land. Improved confidence in assessments of CO2 sources and sinks is fundamental for effective climate policy.
www.nature.com
Damn. We’re really winning.
Emerging climate impact on carbon sinks in a consolidated carbon budget | Nature
Despite the adoption of the Paris Agreement ten years ago, fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise, pushing atmospheric CO2 levels to 423 ppm in 2024 and driving human-induced warming to 1.36°C, within years of breaching the 1.5°C limit 1,2. Accurate reporting of anthropogenic and natural CO2 sources and sinks is a prerequisite to tracking the effectiveness of climate policy and detecting carbon sink responses to climate change. Yet notable mismatches between reported emissions and sinks have so far prevented confident interpretation of their trends and drivers 1. Here, we present and integrate recent advances in observations and process understanding to address some long-standing issues in the global carbon budget estimates. We show that the magnitude of the natural land sink is substantially smaller than previously estimated, while net emissions from anthropogenic land-use change are revised upwards 1. The ocean sink is 15% larger than the land sink, consistent with new evidence from oceanic and atmospheric observations 3,4. Climate change reduces the efficiency of the sinks, particularly on land, contributing 8.3 ± 1.4 ppm to the atmospheric CO2 increase since 1960. The combined effects of climate change and deforestation turn Southeast Asian and large parts of South American tropical forests from CO2 sinks to sources. This underscores the need to halt deforestation and limit warming to prevent further loss of carbon stored on land. Improved confidence in assessments of CO2 sources and sinks is fundamental for effective climate policy.
www.nature.com
A new Nature paper accompanying the Global Carbon Budget finds that the land and ocean sinks are 25% smaller and 7% smaller, respectively, than they would have been without the effects of climate change over 2015-24:
Are we racing towards Earth’s ‘Hothouse’ tipping point? | One Earth
A shocking new scientific report shows that we are hitting the ceiling of the warmest conditions on Earth over the past 1 million years.
www.oneearth.org
Tipping points are all over the web and Exeter has a website, plus the IPCC is writing a chapter (the first time) in the next assessment. No excuse really.
www.oneearth.org/are-we-racin...
www.oneearth.org/are-we-racin...
I’ve tried to get a minimal protocol - tell dad you ate X so I know - still a work in progress at 19
I would write another oped but I’ve been grading against deadline and am pretty burned out. Future historians of science will condemn us for our foolishness.
The image is an email from @theconversation.com - this is becoming an NGO talking point but a cascade of tipping points will be triggered over the next decade and result in a permanently four degree earth. The idea that things will
hold at 2.5 is scientifically worthless, politically irresponsible.
hold at 2.5 is scientifically worthless, politically irresponsible.
I am so tired of reading the bizarre pseudoscientific hopium surrounding COP30. The latest is the fallacious reasoning that progress has been made because we’ve reduced likely heating to 2.4C (other estimates put it at 3C, heating is only accelerating, and tipping points looming) from 5C.
Reposted by Dana R. Fisher, Anthony Burke
COP Climate Talks Could Benefit From More Feminist Values, Less Focus on Tech Solutions, Experts Say - Inside Climate News
Addressing gender equity under existing United Nations initiatives could be one of the best ways to improve outcomes of the annual global climate talks.
insideclimatenews.org
This was written after COP29 and it holds true for COP30, where the UNFCCC's outdated technocratic procedures clearly are not a match for this moment in Earth's history.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...