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Brendan Carton
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I do believe the climate crisis, driven by our own greenhouse gas emissions, is an existential threat – it should be treated as such.

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alexverbeek.bsky.social
Here's why Mamdani's win gives this European hope:
#politics #Mamdani #news #opinion
Mamdani Proves That Americans Want What We in Europe Already Have
On the warning signs we recognize and the hope we share
medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.05% of global CO2 pollution.

That it's about to be destroyed by a monster hurricane is climate injustice — aka climate colonialism, aka global capitalism — in action.
Our World In Data Jamaica: What share of global CO, emissions are emitted by the country? Carbon dioxide (COz) emissions from fossil fuels and industry. Land-use change is not included. 0.05% 0.04% 1970 / 1980 / 2000 0.03% 0.02% 1960 / 1990 / 2010 / 2020 0.01% 0% 1950 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2023
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#ClimateCrisis
jussiteronen.bsky.social Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 18d
"The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs."
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
#AGW #GlobalHeating
October 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Roger Pielke Jr spent years moaning about being "cancelled", and now he's just spending his days at a fossil-funded think tank directly attacking climate scientists, and he has a fascist dictatorship to help him out now too

So seriously gross

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
E&E News by POLITICO Publications Subscription About Free Trial Login Search Full access to essential energy & environment news for professionals. Learn more 7-DAY UNLIMITED ACCESS FREE TRIAL Climatewire Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming By Lesley Clark, Sara Schonhardt, Chelsea Harvey | 10/09/2025 06:22 AM EDT Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters. Friederike Otto. Fossil fuel industry allies have launched a campaign against the inclusion of scientist Friederike Otto in the next United Nations climate review. They say her work to attribute extreme weather to human-caused global warming is bolstering climate lawsuits against oil companies. The First/Facebook | The First/Facebook Critics of mainstream climate science and allies of the fossil fuel industry are taking aim at a prominent expert who’s helping coordinate the next United Nations review of global climate research, arguing that her work aims to bolster multibillion-dollar lawsuits against oil and gas companies. In an August New York Post op-ed, Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, raised concerns about the appointment of Friederike Otto as a coordinating lead author for the seventh assessment report of the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The criticism is aimed at extreme weather attribution, a popular field of research that studies whether and to what degree human-caused global warming has made an extreme weather event, such as a heat wave or heavy rain, more severe or likely to occur. Otto co-founded World Weather Attribution, which develops analyses showing climate’s role in extreme weather events. Advertisement Attribution science has been cited in congressional hearings and included in legislation to highlight the links between extreme weather event… UN Abandons Science and Hires Climate Change Zealots Who Damn the Facts By Roger Pielke Jr. New York Post August 22, 2025 Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a few. But we live in a time when too many of these roles have become politicized. President Trump recently fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency released a jobs report he did not like. Similarly, soon after his election, President Joe Biden fired the climate scientist leading the US National Climate Assessment and replaced her with a communications professional. Not surprisingly, public confidence in medical and scientific institutions has dropped overall and become more partisan as politicians increasingly select experts to advise them based on their politics rather than their willingness to call things as they see them. The ongoing politicization of scientific institutions is not limited to politicians or to the United States. Now we’re seeing it in the organization tasked with periodically assessing climate science under the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which distills the thousands and thousands of research papers on climate change to help inform decision-makers on the nature of the problem and possibilities for response. The IPCC is so important for clarifying what we know and don’t know about climate that I have testified before Congress that if it didn’t exist, we would have to invent it. Last week, the IPCC announced its list of authors for its seventh assessment report, which is just getting underway and will take several years to produce. One of its most important chapters is on extreme weather events — how they may have changed over time, and understanding the reasons for any identified changes.
October 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.

But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.

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CLIMATEWIRE Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming By LESLEY CLARK, SARA SCHONHARDT, CHELSEA HARVEY | 10/09/2025 06:22 AM EDT Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters. Table 12.12 | Emergence of CIDs in different time periods, as assessed in this section. The colour contesponds to the confidence of the region with the highest confidence: white cells indicate where evidence is lacking or the signal is not present, leading to overal bu confidence of an emerging signal.
October 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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profterryhughes.bsky.social
Tuvalu is on the frontline of climate change and rising sea levels - a nation that will be outlived by Australia’s fossil fuel industry. The only way to “adapt” to climate change is to leave. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A climate crisis, a ballot, and a chance at a new life in Australia
World-first agreement that creates a visa in the context of climate change stirs hope among young people in Tuvalu
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“We are warming the planet at a significant rate now and we continue to put record amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere … we are still seeing record levels of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use.”
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Same shit, different year’: Australia records hottest 12 months and warmest March on record
ANU climate scientist says ‘everyone is getting fatigued these records keep falling – it’s now incredibly predictable’
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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profterryhughes.bsky.social
“The research highlights the disproportionate impact these companies have on the climate crisis and supports efforts to enforce corporate responsibility.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Ireland fossil gas terminal information webinar, via Uplift.ie; Tue 11 Mar
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LNG Information Webinar
Join us on Tuesday 11 March at 1pm for an online information session about the governments proposed LNG terminal. This webinar will give you some information and training on how you have your voice h...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #MarineHeatwaves
profterryhughes.bsky.social Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · Feb 23
After a year of secrecy from Australian authorities, scientists are now revealing the terrible toll of global heating on the northern & southern Great Barrier Reef in 2024.

More mass bleaching & mortality is underway this year in the northern GBR.

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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profterryhughes.bsky.social
NOAA Fisheries published a 'final rule' on December 17, 2024 to change the status of the magnificent Caribbean pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) - from "threatened" to "endangered".

The rule was halted by President Trump's January 20th memorandum, entitled “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review.”
February 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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wmo-global.bsky.social
In South-East Europe, temperatures are rising nearly twice as fast as the global average, contributing to more frequent and severe weather events—from floods to heatwaves.
February 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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lincolnproject.us
Eggs UP
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.

Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
February 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Dear Canada and Mexico,

We’re so, so sorry.

— Sane America
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“More extreme rainfall and higher frequencies of flooded rivers and flash floods around the world have a clear link to climate change and ongoing global heating.”
#ClimateCrisis #QldFloods
theconversation.com/whats-drivin...
What’s driving north Queensland’s deadly, record-breaking floods?
One woman has died, as floodwaters continue to rise from Townsville up to Cairns. An environmental geography expert explains what’s behind the floods – and what to watch in coming days.
theconversation.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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hausfath.bsky.social
January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.

This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
February 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Jan 29
3. The Impoundment Control Act provides the only legal mechanism for a president to temporarily withhold funding for a program. Trump could delay funding a program for 45 days if he first sends a message to Congress explaining why he believes funding should be rescinded

Trump did not do this
January 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Tasmania, a “global hot spot of gigantism in plants”, according to co-author Dr David Bowman, a professor of fire science at the University of Tasmania
#Eucalyptus.regnans
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global ‘gigantism’ hotspot: Tasmanian tree standing at almost 100m tallest in the country
State provides perfect conditions for ‘kings and queens of the forest’ – some of which are up to 500 years old
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#ClimateCrisis
climatecasino.net Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · Jan 29
As of January 28, 2025, Arctic sea-ice extent is currently ranked second lowest for the day.

With the upcoming Arctic heatwave (up to 28°C/50°F above average in certain parts), I expect sea ice extent will be at a record daily low within a week.

Will there be a record low maximum? Stay tuned!
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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peterwsinclair.bsky.social
My interview with former climate Skeptic physicist Richard Muller, at the American Geophysical Meeting in San Francisco, 2014, has become one of my most-watched videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sme8...
Richard Muller: I Was wrong on Climate Change
YouTube video by greenmanbucket
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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petergleick.bsky.social
You know it's bad when even the Washington Post uses the word "purge."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump defends ousting at least 15 independent inspectors general in late-night purge
The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
#EVs
January 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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getup.org.au
Thousands of people joined rallies around the Country yesterday for Invasion Day.
They stood alongside First Nations Peoples demanding Treaty, Truth and Justice.
Sovereignty was never ceded and we will continue to fight for First Nations Justice together. #invasionday #survivalday #treatynow
January 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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nickknudsenus.bsky.social
Alright, thank you for helping crowdsource this Starter Pack of Independent / Non-Corporate Media Sources.

These voices will be essential in the Trump 2.0 era.

Please check out these folks and share!

Let me know if I missed anyone...

🙏
December 7, 2024 at 7:19 PM