Martha Molfetas
@m-molfetas.bsky.social
Prof Pratt SES | ED Impact Human | Consultant & Writer | #LSE alum | Former Sr Fellow New America | #ClimateJustice #Energy #ConflictResources | views my own
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One retracted study doesn’t offset a decade of literature and common sense, all of which make it obvious that a hotter, more chaotic planet is a poorer planet
Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column
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One Retracted Study Doesn’t Cancel Climate Science
It’s hard enough for most of us to predict what we’re having for dinner tonight, much less how the the world will look in 2100. By that time we might have cured cancer and started building giant space...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One retracted study doesn’t offset a decade of literature and common sense, all of which make it obvious that a hotter, more chaotic planet is a poorer planet
Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column
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Further evidence that our #climatecrisis is a threat multiplier and we need to do more >>> @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Report Calls for More Synergistic Responses to Triple Planetary Crisis sdg.iisd.org/news/oecd-re... There's a link in the summary for the full 400+ page report. #biodiversity #SDGs
OECD Report Calls for More Synergistic Responses to Triple Planetary Crisis
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published its periodic analysis of economic and environmental trends – and of policy actions to address the key challenges. This y...
sdg.iisd.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Further evidence that our #climatecrisis is a threat multiplier and we need to do more >>> @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Report Calls for More Synergistic Responses to Triple Planetary Crisis sdg.iisd.org/news/oecd-re... There's a link in the summary for the full 400+ page report. #biodiversity #SDGs
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A coordinated, state-led, & inclusive energy transition can help Indonesia sustain economic growth, while phasing out coal.
For a truly #JustTransition, community concerns & circumstances must be front & centre. New research outlines 8 recommendations.
www.iisd.org/publications...
For a truly #JustTransition, community concerns & circumstances must be front & centre. New research outlines 8 recommendations.
www.iisd.org/publications...
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A coordinated, state-led, & inclusive energy transition can help Indonesia sustain economic growth, while phasing out coal.
For a truly #JustTransition, community concerns & circumstances must be front & centre. New research outlines 8 recommendations.
www.iisd.org/publications...
For a truly #JustTransition, community concerns & circumstances must be front & centre. New research outlines 8 recommendations.
www.iisd.org/publications...
#COP30 had a lot of great speeches and weak outcomes. We can’t continue to let fossil fuel interests hold so much influence on whether or not we get to have a habitable planet. #Multilateralism #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #FossilFree
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December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#COP30 had a lot of great speeches and weak outcomes. We can’t continue to let fossil fuel interests hold so much influence on whether or not we get to have a habitable planet. #Multilateralism #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #FossilFree
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"If you tax the rich, they'll just leave."
Massachusetts' tax on millionaires has fixed bridges, funded buses, hired teachers, and made community college and school meals free.
The state has 39% more millionaires than they did before.
Tax the rich.
Massachusetts' tax on millionaires has fixed bridges, funded buses, hired teachers, and made community college and school meals free.
The state has 39% more millionaires than they did before.
Tax the rich.
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"If you tax the rich, they'll just leave."
Massachusetts' tax on millionaires has fixed bridges, funded buses, hired teachers, and made community college and school meals free.
The state has 39% more millionaires than they did before.
Tax the rich.
Massachusetts' tax on millionaires has fixed bridges, funded buses, hired teachers, and made community college and school meals free.
The state has 39% more millionaires than they did before.
Tax the rich.
WTF is this headline? Lethal but not killing? Those are synonyms in this context. I guess the mass illiteracy underway needs to include the double speak being parroted by this once great paper.
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
WTF is this headline? Lethal but not killing? Those are synonyms in this context. I guess the mass illiteracy underway needs to include the double speak being parroted by this once great paper.
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I wrote about Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito's massive conflicts of interest re: the climate deception cases that Big Oil is desperately trying to get the Supreme Court to step in and dismiss. newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.
newrepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I wrote about Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito's massive conflicts of interest re: the climate deception cases that Big Oil is desperately trying to get the Supreme Court to step in and dismiss. newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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Honestly Canada: your country is burning down - quite literally - because of fossil fuel addiction.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Honestly Canada: your country is burning down - quite literally - because of fossil fuel addiction.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
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A reminder for your Saturday: let’s take care of each other and our planet 💚
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A reminder for your Saturday: let’s take care of each other and our planet 💚
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
www.cnbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
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The price fossil fuel forces on everyone else.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The price fossil fuel forces on everyone else.
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Next week, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=b...
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Next week, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=b...
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#COP30 - “Our elementary school kids are reading textbooks that are more science-based and in line with reality than the [draft] text we have here, where we are supposed to fix this problem” says Juan Carlos Monterrey, climate envoy for Panama
#climatecrisis
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#climatecrisis
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Cop30 live: summit president warns ‘everybody will lose’ if countries fail to cooperate
André Corrêa do Lago issues plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries far from reaching agreement on scheduled final day
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#COP30 - “Our elementary school kids are reading textbooks that are more science-based and in line with reality than the [draft] text we have here, where we are supposed to fix this problem” says Juan Carlos Monterrey, climate envoy for Panama
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
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'A death sentence for many': UN secretary-general slams countries' current climate plans
#cop30 #climatecrisis
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#cop30 #climatecrisis
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Cop30 live: current climate pathway ‘a death sentence for many’, says UN secretary-general
António Guterres uses speech at Belem summit to urge countries to find compromises in final hours of negotiations
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November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
'A death sentence for many': UN secretary-general slams countries' current climate plans
#cop30 #climatecrisis
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#cop30 #climatecrisis
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Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats
Those are just factual statements.
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Learn more: wwf.to/4oapTuV.
Rio Grande basin faces urgent water crisis
Over half of Rio Grande water use is unsustainable. Farmers and WWF urge investment in solutions to secure water for people and nature.
wwf.to
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Learn more: wwf.to/4oapTuV.
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47% of Americans now fear they can’t afford health care.
Premiums are about to skyrocket for millions.
The people in charge could have kept that from happening—but they used their opportunity to give billionaires tax breaks instead.
We can't keep going like this, folks.
Premiums are about to skyrocket for millions.
The people in charge could have kept that from happening—but they used their opportunity to give billionaires tax breaks instead.
We can't keep going like this, folks.
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
47% of Americans now fear they can’t afford health care.
Premiums are about to skyrocket for millions.
The people in charge could have kept that from happening—but they used their opportunity to give billionaires tax breaks instead.
We can't keep going like this, folks.
Premiums are about to skyrocket for millions.
The people in charge could have kept that from happening—but they used their opportunity to give billionaires tax breaks instead.
We can't keep going like this, folks.
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ICYM - $170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
ICYM - $170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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It’s official. The New York Times is now worse than Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal
NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It’s official. The New York Times is now worse than Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal
YUP
A US senator attending the UN climate summit in Brazil tells AFP that Donald Trump's America is "deliberately losing" the clean tech race to China u.afp.com/SnhW
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
YUP
Can we stop feeding #datacentres the bulk of new #energy capacity now? K thanks. Some folks really never saw the Terminator movies and it shows. #AI #CyberAttack
www.fastcompany.com/91442330/ant...
www.fastcompany.com/91442330/ant...
Anthropic says an AI may have just attempted the first truly autonomous cyberattack
A 10-day investigation revealed that Claude had been manipulated into reconnaissance, code generation, and data theft—highlighting a new frontier of risk.
www.fastcompany.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Can we stop feeding #datacentres the bulk of new #energy capacity now? K thanks. Some folks really never saw the Terminator movies and it shows. #AI #CyberAttack
www.fastcompany.com/91442330/ant...
www.fastcompany.com/91442330/ant...
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Cop30 live: calls for ‘just transition’ plan grow as report warns world on track for 2.6C of heating #Climate
Cop30 live: calls for ‘just transition’ plan grow as report warns world on track for 2.6C of heating
Climate Action Tracker report finds pledges made in past year have not cut the forecast for global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Cop30 live: calls for ‘just transition’ plan grow as report warns world on track for 2.6C of heating #Climate