Jan F. Kleine
@jfkbn.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host of Inconvenient Chats podcast
Weekly chats on climate change and societal change.
New episode every Wednesday morning on Apple, Spotify, Overcast or wherever you listen to your podcasts
Inconvenient Chats: https://inconvenientchats.podigee.io
Weekly chats on climate change and societal change.
New episode every Wednesday morning on Apple, Spotify, Overcast or wherever you listen to your podcasts
Inconvenient Chats: https://inconvenientchats.podigee.io
In our very first podcast episode we discussed how ‘false balance’ can quietly distort climate debates.
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 PM
In our very first podcast episode we discussed how ‘false balance’ can quietly distort climate debates.
I have the feeling difficult climate conversations often break down over identity and values rather than data.
Have you experienced that? What did the moment look like?
Have you experienced that? What did the moment look like?
December 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I have the feeling difficult climate conversations often break down over identity and values rather than data.
Have you experienced that? What did the moment look like?
Have you experienced that? What did the moment look like?
I feel that facts alone sometimes don’t change opinions about climate change. What do you think actually does?
December 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I feel that facts alone sometimes don’t change opinions about climate change. What do you think actually does?
Hi @bsky.app and the rest out here, trying to give it a shot here properly. Been hosting a podcast on climate change and societal change now for 3 months. It's called "Inconvenient Chats". Any climate questions you think that tend to get avoided or would be interesting to dive deeper into?
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hi @bsky.app and the rest out here, trying to give it a shot here properly. Been hosting a podcast on climate change and societal change now for 3 months. It's called "Inconvenient Chats". Any climate questions you think that tend to get avoided or would be interesting to dive deeper into?
Good to see many people on the streets in New York
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells climate marchers to be ‘too big and too radical to ignore’ – li...
Demonstration falls days before the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit, at which Joe Biden is expected to be a no-show
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2023 at 12:15 PM
Good to see many people on the streets in New York
Need to get control over my sky blue life here. Any survival tips? I already figured out that I messed up the link card in my very first post 😃
Tips below! Vielen Dank! 🎉
Tips below! Vielen Dank! 🎉
September 19, 2023 at 11:29 AM
Need to get control over my sky blue life here. Any survival tips? I already figured out that I messed up the link card in my very first post 😃
Tips below! Vielen Dank! 🎉
Tips below! Vielen Dank! 🎉
Trying with link card now :)
Conveying the urgency of climate change is crucial and for everyone fighting this fight it should not make us (beeep) frustrated.
Wrote on Medium about it
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice
Conveying the urgency of climate change is crucial and for everyone fighting this fight it should not make us (beeep) frustrated.
Wrote on Medium about it
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice
Medium
medium.com
September 19, 2023 at 11:24 AM
Trying with link card now :)
Conveying the urgency of climate change is crucial and for everyone fighting this fight it should not make us (beeep) frustrated.
Wrote on Medium about it
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice
Conveying the urgency of climate change is crucial and for everyone fighting this fight it should not make us (beeep) frustrated.
Wrote on Medium about it
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice
Reposted by Jan F. Kleine
The logic of offsets arose decades ago, before it was appreciated emissions have to get to zero.
"Carbon offsets’ original promise looks completely different in a world where governments and companies are seeking to stabilize planetary temperatures instead of supporting modest emission cuts."
"Carbon offsets’ original promise looks completely different in a world where governments and companies are seeking to stabilize planetary temperatures instead of supporting modest emission cuts."
I have a new commentary on carbon offsets in One Earth, with Grayson Badgley and Freya Chay.
Even if you already know they are a mess, this short essay brings together five distinct lines of critique to explain exactly how carbon offsets undermine climate progress.
Open access, please share!
Even if you already know they are a mess, this short essay brings together five distinct lines of critique to explain exactly how carbon offsets undermine climate progress.
Open access, please share!
Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement
Carbon offsets allow companies and governments to outsource emission reductions to
third parties and have played a prominent role in many climate mitigation policies
to date. But in order to support t...
www.cell.com
September 18, 2023 at 2:38 AM
The logic of offsets arose decades ago, before it was appreciated emissions have to get to zero.
"Carbon offsets’ original promise looks completely different in a world where governments and companies are seeking to stabilize planetary temperatures instead of supporting modest emission cuts."
"Carbon offsets’ original promise looks completely different in a world where governments and companies are seeking to stabilize planetary temperatures instead of supporting modest emission cuts."
Reposted by Jan F. Kleine
So, the IEA is declaring that demand for oil, gas and coal will ALL peak before 2030.
www.ft.com/content/f615...
www.ft.com/content/f615...
Peak fossil fuel demand will happen this decade
But the decline in oil, gas and coal will not be steep enough to limit global warming to 1.5C
www.ft.com
September 12, 2023 at 6:19 AM
So, the IEA is declaring that demand for oil, gas and coal will ALL peak before 2030.
www.ft.com/content/f615...
www.ft.com/content/f615...
Conveying the urgency of climate change is crucial and for everyone fighting this fight it should not make us (beep) frustrated.
Wrote on Medium about it.
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice.
medium.com/@rage_of_cha...
Wrote on Medium about it.
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice.
medium.com/@rage_of_cha...
September 19, 2023 at 9:49 AM
Conveying the urgency of climate change is crucial and for everyone fighting this fight it should not make us (beep) frustrated.
Wrote on Medium about it.
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice.
medium.com/@rage_of_cha...
Wrote on Medium about it.
It got it all: swearing, depressing messages, light-hearted (sarcastic) commentary, and (useless? useful!) advice.
medium.com/@rage_of_cha...