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Amélie Kirchgaessner
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⚠️Current pledges and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions put the world on a high-risk climate track, towards warming levels of 2.8°C by the end of this century warn @joerirogelj.bsky.social, @robinlamboll.bsky.social & @j-bird.bsky.social.

📒 ow.ly/cpTr50Xq1X1

#COP30
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Great to see coverage of our first full @wasitusie.bsky.social study on RTE (and elsewhere). Kudos @clairebergin.bsky.social and Lionel swan as well as met Éireann colleagues and thanks as ever to @wwattribution.bsky.social for the hugely valuable collaboration www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Record temperatures linked to human-caused climate change
New research by climate scientists at Maynooth University in conjunction with Met Éireann has found Ireland's record summer night time temperatures this year were made 40 times more likely by human-ca...
www.rte.ie
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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We are now at the climatological warmest time of year for the average global temperature. While there will be no new absolute records this year for the annual maximum, our planet remains much warmer than any previous decade in our records. 🤒

Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
July 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Cambridge Greens can beat Labour!

Years of hard-working Green effort mean Greens are now the best alternative to fading Labour administrations. Greens are winning locally and nationally.

Join the party working hard for real hope and real change in Cambridge and help us win!

join.greenparty.org.uk
July 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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If we choose not to act,
Or fail to adapt,
Then suffer we will.

#ShowYourStripes
June 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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21st June: #ShowYourStripes day

1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it

3) Encourage others to do the same
June 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
June 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reproductive rights are under attack in the UK! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised

action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law
The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...
action.goodlawproject.org
June 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🔥 "The Reform company, sorry party, has already seen four of their new cohort announce that they can’t or won’t represent them in the council chamber, decisions that in some cases will cost local government tens of thousands of pounds."
Ineligible, inept and unspeakable
Reform UK Ltd’s councillors, are already proving they are unfit or unwilling to serve
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"The problem is fossil fuels. The answer is to stop burning fossil fuels. It's that simple"

- Michael Mann, "Science Under Siege" talk at the University of Southampton

#climatecrisis #climate #ScienceUnderSiege
May 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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“Toilets are for peeing, not politics”

Even after the Supreme Court ruling there is nothing stopping anyone using whatever toilet they wish to use.

Very clearly set out 👇
April 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Data centres in Germany copy Terabytes of data from environmental scientific institutions in the US in case they may become unavailable from their original repository.
Umweltdaten in Gefahr - Deutsche Forscher retten US-Datenbestände
Wegen der Umstrukturierungen in US-Behörden, die zentrale Plattformen für Umwelt- und Klimadaten bereitstellen, sind Datenbestände gefährdet. Deutsche Einrichtungen engagieren sich für ihre Rettung. V...
www.tagesschau.de
April 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 11:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100
March 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM