David Parslow
@drparslow.bsky.social
MSc, Global Sustainability Solutions at Exeter University. Previously...PhD (Psychology), SEN teacher. Interested in Tipping Points, Systems Thinking, Feedback Loops.
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Really sorry for the poor quality of the figures below. They looked OK on my laptop
All figures are available here:
globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2024/
GCB Presentation in PDF and PPT format
plus country level emission figures
Also available here :
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
All figures are available here:
globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2024/
GCB Presentation in PDF and PPT format
plus country level emission figures
Also available here :
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
November 13, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Really sorry for the poor quality of the figures below. They looked OK on my laptop
All figures are available here:
globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2024/
GCB Presentation in PDF and PPT format
plus country level emission figures
Also available here :
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
All figures are available here:
globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2024/
GCB Presentation in PDF and PPT format
plus country level emission figures
Also available here :
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
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Agreed, but, to be fair, it doesn't seem that this is the argument that Johan and the rest are making here.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Agreed, but, to be fair, it doesn't seem that this is the argument that Johan and the rest are making here.
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It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.
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"The idea that intense grazing can regenerate grasslands rather than accelerate their decline has been controversial. Initially, proponents argued it could help to solve the climate crisis through storing carbon in regenerated grasslands – a claim with little scientific basis."
Why ‘mob grazing’ may help protect drought-hit Senegal’s vast grasslands
Why ‘mob grazing’ may help protect drought-hit Senegal’s vast grasslands
A regenerative scheme has shown early promise, with herders hopeful it can restore degraded pastures
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"The idea that intense grazing can regenerate grasslands rather than accelerate their decline has been controversial. Initially, proponents argued it could help to solve the climate crisis through storing carbon in regenerated grasslands – a claim with little scientific basis."
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And you’re going to see a LOT of this coming out of COP.
But if you want to see what the real issues of food and climate change are, and find solutions that work, we have you covered.
First, the science underpinning the issue:
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
But if you want to see what the real issues of food and climate change are, and find solutions that work, we have you covered.
First, the science underpinning the issue:
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it
Global food production — from meat to grains — accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions, says sustainability scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a portfolio of data-backed solutions to b...
go.ted.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
And you’re going to see a LOT of this coming out of COP.
But if you want to see what the real issues of food and climate change are, and find solutions that work, we have you covered.
First, the science underpinning the issue:
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
But if you want to see what the real issues of food and climate change are, and find solutions that work, we have you covered.
First, the science underpinning the issue:
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
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When big food doesn’t want to talk about cutting emissions — by shifting diets, ending corn ethanol, reducing food waste, protecting forests, or managing fertilizers — they try to distract you.
They say methane “doesn’t count”.
They try to sell “regenerative grazing”.
They try to greenwash.
They say methane “doesn’t count”.
They try to sell “regenerative grazing”.
They try to greenwash.
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When big food doesn’t want to talk about cutting emissions — by shifting diets, ending corn ethanol, reducing food waste, protecting forests, or managing fertilizers — they try to distract you.
They say methane “doesn’t count”.
They try to sell “regenerative grazing”.
They try to greenwash.
They say methane “doesn’t count”.
They try to sell “regenerative grazing”.
They try to greenwash.
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NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a
Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a
Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a
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COP30 starts today.
The chart below shows how much of a fuck we give after 30 years of COP meetings (warnings from leading world scientists to politicians that they need to wake up).
Nothing has changed...
#DontLookUp
The chart below shows how much of a fuck we give after 30 years of COP meetings (warnings from leading world scientists to politicians that they need to wake up).
Nothing has changed...
#DontLookUp
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
COP30 starts today.
The chart below shows how much of a fuck we give after 30 years of COP meetings (warnings from leading world scientists to politicians that they need to wake up).
Nothing has changed...
#DontLookUp
The chart below shows how much of a fuck we give after 30 years of COP meetings (warnings from leading world scientists to politicians that they need to wake up).
Nothing has changed...
#DontLookUp
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Trump trying to meet climate targets before COP30. 🙃
U.S. airlines again cancel more than 1,000 flights on the second day of cuts tied to the government shutdown.
US airlines again cancel more than 1,000 flights on second day of cuts tied to government shutdown
U.S. airlines again canceled more than 1,000 flights Saturday mostly because of the government shutdown and the Federal Aviation Administration’s order to reduce air traffic.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Trump trying to meet climate targets before COP30. 🙃
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Emerging evidence shows the Antarctic is entering an abrupt regime shift: record-low sea ice, slowing overturning circulation, and rising risk of West Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping
Interacting feedbacks may trigger global cascades, staying near 1.5 °C is critical
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interacting feedbacks may trigger global cascades, staying near 1.5 °C is critical
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment - Nature
Abrupt changes are developing across Antarctica’s ice, ocean and biological systems; some of these changes are intensifying faster than equivalent Arctic changes, potentially irreversibly, and their i...
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Emerging evidence shows the Antarctic is entering an abrupt regime shift: record-low sea ice, slowing overturning circulation, and rising risk of West Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping
Interacting feedbacks may trigger global cascades, staying near 1.5 °C is critical
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interacting feedbacks may trigger global cascades, staying near 1.5 °C is critical
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Better to farm solar for energy
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Better to farm solar for energy
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
than to farm crops to use for biofuels
1ha solar array ~600kW
1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location)
>100x more energy than
1ha planted crop for biofuels
- Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr
(updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)
Superb summary of where we are and what needs to happen
We need to Urgently stop burning fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Superb summary of where we are and what needs to happen
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Misleading UK adverts for ’very low emission’ wood-burning stoves banned
- @adstandards.bsky.social ruling won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- @adstandards.bsky.social ruling won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Misleading UK adverts for ’very low emission’ wood-burning stoves banned
ASA action won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Misleading UK adverts for ’very low emission’ wood-burning stoves banned
- @adstandards.bsky.social ruling won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- @adstandards.bsky.social ruling won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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"we show that an underestimation of present-day #Antarctic sea ice in the latest generation of #climate models results in an underestimation of future OHU by 3%–14% an underestimation of global cloud feedback by 19%–32% &an underestimation of global atmospheric warming by 6%–7%"
#FasterThanExpected
#FasterThanExpected
Increased future ocean heat uptake constrained by Antarctic sea ice extent
Abstract. The ocean takes up over 90 % of the excess heat stored in the Earth system as a result of anthropogenic climate change, which has led to sea level rise and an intensification of marine extre...
esd.copernicus.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"we show that an underestimation of present-day #Antarctic sea ice in the latest generation of #climate models results in an underestimation of future OHU by 3%–14% an underestimation of global cloud feedback by 19%–32% &an underestimation of global atmospheric warming by 6%–7%"
#FasterThanExpected
#FasterThanExpected
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ice’s illegitimacy grows with every passing day
"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.
June 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
ice’s illegitimacy grows with every passing day
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I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
January 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
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This.
TotalEnergies Loses In Paris Court, Marking A Turning Point For Fossil Fuel Truth-In-Advertising - CleanTechnica share.google/2PWrEdObhYUW...
TotalEnergies Loses In Paris Court, Marking A Turning Point For Fossil Fuel Truth-In-Advertising - CleanTechnica share.google/2PWrEdObhYUW...
TotalEnergies Loses In Paris Court, Marking A Turning Point For Fossil Fuel Truth-In-Advertising - CleanTechnica
A French court ruled that TotalEnergies misled consumers about its climate goals, marking a global shift toward legal accountability for greenwashing.
share.google
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This.
TotalEnergies Loses In Paris Court, Marking A Turning Point For Fossil Fuel Truth-In-Advertising - CleanTechnica share.google/2PWrEdObhYUW...
TotalEnergies Loses In Paris Court, Marking A Turning Point For Fossil Fuel Truth-In-Advertising - CleanTechnica share.google/2PWrEdObhYUW...
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Let’s see how Labour and the right wing media both handle a real politician instead of a pantomime clown
Sir John Curtice - Indepedent pollster - confirms what we all already know.
The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do.
The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do.
The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Charismatic leader emerges on the left to roil Britain’s political scene
Zack Polanski of the Greens has drawn comparisons to New York’s Zohran Mamdani as he connects with younger voters on social media over the political issues of the day.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Let’s see how Labour and the right wing media both handle a real politician instead of a pantomime clown
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October is the least warmed month and reached +1.55°C during a La Niña!
The past 29 months were +1.57°C on average, 0.32°C above the same 2015-2017 period, indicating a 0.4°C/dec warming rate.
That's more than a doubling from the 1970-2010 warming rate.
Even(?) we might have underestimated this.
The past 29 months were +1.57°C on average, 0.32°C above the same 2015-2017 period, indicating a 0.4°C/dec warming rate.
That's more than a doubling from the 1970-2010 warming rate.
Even(?) we might have underestimated this.
November 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
October is the least warmed month and reached +1.55°C during a La Niña!
The past 29 months were +1.57°C on average, 0.32°C above the same 2015-2017 period, indicating a 0.4°C/dec warming rate.
That's more than a doubling from the 1970-2010 warming rate.
Even(?) we might have underestimated this.
The past 29 months were +1.57°C on average, 0.32°C above the same 2015-2017 period, indicating a 0.4°C/dec warming rate.
That's more than a doubling from the 1970-2010 warming rate.
Even(?) we might have underestimated this.
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"Collectively, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway increased their oil and gas production by nearly 40 percent between 2015 [Paris Agreement signing] and 2024. In the rest of the world, combined oil and gas extraction dropped by 2 percent over the same period"
oilchange.org/publications...
oilchange.org/publications...
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Collectively, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway increased their oil and gas production by nearly 40 percent between 2015 [Paris Agreement signing] and 2024. In the rest of the world, combined oil and gas extraction dropped by 2 percent over the same period"
oilchange.org/publications...
oilchange.org/publications...
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The biggest improvement would be scrapping anything that increases traffic, and investing in public transport www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Still time to improve A38 road scheme, says MP
Jonathan Davies says he will push for improvements to a multimillion-pound road project in Derby.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The biggest improvement would be scrapping anything that increases traffic, and investing in public transport www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...