It also ignores the fact that climate as an issue is interlinked with other issues, and many Sierra Club chapters are working to model that.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It also ignores the fact that climate as an issue is interlinked with other issues, and many Sierra Club chapters are working to model that.
Freshwater Writing
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
Freshwater Writing
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
sternaparadisaea.net
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Freshwater Writing
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
How to handle freshwater fluxes from ice sheets in climate models, where there isn't an ice sheet model component? A new paper just out reveals all...
This is great piece by Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL) that summarizes five of the fundamental and accurate model-based climate predictions made by Suki Manabe and colleagues at GFDL over the past half century+. 🧪⚒️
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you
From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is great piece by Nadir Jeevanjee (NOAA GFDL) that summarizes five of the fundamental and accurate model-based climate predictions made by Suki Manabe and colleagues at GFDL over the past half century+. 🧪⚒️
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
“The raid, which came a week before world leaders began arriving for the United Nations climate summit COP30, has pitted leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who called it disastrous, against conservatives who say it is a model to fight organized crime.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“The raid, which came a week before world leaders began arriving for the United Nations climate summit COP30, has pitted leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who called it disastrous, against conservatives who say it is a model to fight organized crime.”
Thanks @rustneversleeps.bsky.social! As a business builder. I have never thought the way to beat climate change was "just stop oil". You have to build the alternatives, which means factories, supply chains, skills, capital formation, etc which takes time. Great to see my little model catching on.
Listening to @volts.wtf recent panel/podcast with @mliebreich.bsky.social , discussing his "Pragmatic Climate Reset", published in two parts at BNEF last September.
Michael mentioned his "simplest energy model ever" - just 4 parameters - and I decided to sketch up and add emissions and temps.
Michael mentioned his "simplest energy model ever" - just 4 parameters - and I decided to sketch up and add emissions and temps.
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Thanks @rustneversleeps.bsky.social! As a business builder. I have never thought the way to beat climate change was "just stop oil". You have to build the alternatives, which means factories, supply chains, skills, capital formation, etc which takes time. Great to see my little model catching on.
The utter lunacy at every climate-wrecking step of this scandalous business model is hard to overstate: killing old-growth🌲 in BC, trucking them to plants, turning them into pellets, shipping them half-way around the 🌍, then 🔥 them. All subsidized by 🇬🇧 taxpayers. @stand.earth @tzeporah.bsky.social
New @stand.earth report shows that zebras don’t change their stripes.
Drax is STILL sourcing wood from ecological significant forests in BC, still the single biggest carbon emitter in Britain, and still receiving subsidies from the UK Gov.
Drax is STILL sourcing wood from ecological significant forests in BC, still the single biggest carbon emitter in Britain, and still receiving subsidies from the UK Gov.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The utter lunacy at every climate-wrecking step of this scandalous business model is hard to overstate: killing old-growth🌲 in BC, trucking them to plants, turning them into pellets, shipping them half-way around the 🌍, then 🔥 them. All subsidized by 🇬🇧 taxpayers. @stand.earth @tzeporah.bsky.social
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
🧵
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Thanks @rustneversleeps.bsky.social! As a business builder. I have never thought the way to beat climate change was "just stop oil". You have to build the alternatives, which means factories, supply chains, skills, capital formation, etc which takes time. Great to see my little model catching on.
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Thanks @rustneversleeps.bsky.social! As a business builder. I have never thought the way to beat climate change was "just stop oil". You have to build the alternatives, which means factories, supply chains, skills, capital formation, etc which takes time. Great to see my little model catching on.
Earth can no longer sustain a development model based on intensive use of fossil fuels responsible for planet-harming emissions, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told a climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem on Friday ➡️ u.afp.com/Snkg
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Earth can no longer sustain a development model based on intensive use of fossil fuels responsible for planet-harming emissions, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told a climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem on Friday ➡️ u.afp.com/Snkg
We get a non-linear signal in the global current system in the oceans...
upper ocean speeds up, deeper ocean slows down, mainly due to stratification
Now we have the first non-linear signal: eddy kinetic energy in the Kuroshio current intensified by 50% the last decade - Gulf stream 20%
#climate
upper ocean speeds up, deeper ocean slows down, mainly due to stratification
Now we have the first non-linear signal: eddy kinetic energy in the Kuroshio current intensified by 50% the last decade - Gulf stream 20%
#climate
![Map shows where the regions in the oceans are with the most kinetic energy - its where the strong currents exist - east of all continents moving poleward, around Antarctica, and in the equatorial oceans. The Kuroshio current is located east of Japan coming in from the south. Gulf Stream in the Atlantic.
Some text excerpts:
From the abstract:
The Eddy Kinetic Energy (EKE)
This study investigates if the global ocean mesoscale variability is becoming more energetic by analyzing 30 years of satellite altimetric observations. We use two observational products: one constructed from a consistent pair of altimeters and another including all available missions. Our results reveal a significant global EKE strengthening of 1–3% per decade.
The intensification is concentrated in energetic regions, particularly in the Kuroshio Extension and the Gulf Stream, which show EKE increases of ~ 50% and ~ 20%, respectively, over the last decade.
Over the last decade, the EKE in the Kuroshio Extension has increased 6 to 7 times faster than over the last three decades, representing an increase of ~ 50% with respect to mean values. These findings support previous studies that detected an intensification of the Kuroshio Extension, potentially linked to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
The Gulf Stream is the second region with the largest EKE trends. [...] Over the last decade, this region has increased 8.5 times faster than over the complete altimetric era, representing a statistically significant increase of ~ 20% with respect to mean values. A positive, consistent and increasing EKE trend in the Gulf Stream opens new questions about its relationship with the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and the subtropical North Atlantic gyre.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qfsw5lfocespqswcp62bfexu/bafkreihbdcb4353ym4kas2g5526imqbhwhjgtu6cdses3ul64urqnsyuta@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We get a non-linear signal in the global current system in the oceans...
upper ocean speeds up, deeper ocean slows down, mainly due to stratification
Now we have the first non-linear signal: eddy kinetic energy in the Kuroshio current intensified by 50% the last decade - Gulf stream 20%
#climate
upper ocean speeds up, deeper ocean slows down, mainly due to stratification
Now we have the first non-linear signal: eddy kinetic energy in the Kuroshio current intensified by 50% the last decade - Gulf stream 20%
#climate
🎥 The LAERO team at University of Toulouse, part of #UrbanAIR, is advancing high-resolution urban climate simulations with the Meso-NH model to study heatwaves and storms in #Paris, supporting data-driven planning for more resilient cities. #DestinationEarth #HorizonEU
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🎥 The LAERO team at University of Toulouse, part of #UrbanAIR, is advancing high-resolution urban climate simulations with the Meso-NH model to study heatwaves and storms in #Paris, supporting data-driven planning for more resilient cities. #DestinationEarth #HorizonEU
Major downside of the click-based business model for media is we can only write the stories our audiences click on. A lot of the axing of climate coverage is simply because those stories don't make money (because readers don't click). Climate journalism is necessary but the ad model won't support it
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Major downside of the click-based business model for media is we can only write the stories our audiences click on. A lot of the axing of climate coverage is simply because those stories don't make money (because readers don't click). Climate journalism is necessary but the ad model won't support it
Yes, it's possible for state policymakers to take meaningful action on climate and address key fiscal needs. The WA model will become even more important for other states to consider if/when the Trump economic blunders create a state fiscal crisis.
With strapped state budgets and federal climate funding slashed, the value of Washington's Climate Commitment Act has never been more clear: it continues to send billions to communities to advance clean energy & resilience - $3.5 billion since it went into effect in 2023. Other states, take note.
With the state strapped for cash, Democrats’ chief budget writer in the Washington Senate has told colleagues there’s no money available for new spending they might desire next year.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yes, it's possible for state policymakers to take meaningful action on climate and address key fiscal needs. The WA model will become even more important for other states to consider if/when the Trump economic blunders create a state fiscal crisis.
I know of no scenario that gets us to climate safety without a price on emissions. The free-to-pollute business model is now lethal.
November 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I know of no scenario that gets us to climate safety without a price on emissions. The free-to-pollute business model is now lethal.
Transitioning to AI and robotics. He was never in it for the climate. EVs are just a revenue model to him.
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Transitioning to AI and robotics. He was never in it for the climate. EVs are just a revenue model to him.
Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
www.gatesnotes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
And then there's that whole thing about AI data centers which I suspect is the reason tech bros, like Bill Gates notably, are shifting their positions on climate change to an innovation centric model.
Because the AI beast needs all the electrons.
www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...
Because the AI beast needs all the electrons.
www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...
AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change
The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
And then there's that whole thing about AI data centers which I suspect is the reason tech bros, like Bill Gates notably, are shifting their positions on climate change to an innovation centric model.
Because the AI beast needs all the electrons.
www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...
Because the AI beast needs all the electrons.
www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...
New paper out led by Felix Nößler!
We present #GrasslandTraitSim.jl, a process-based simulation model that links plant traits to ecosystem processes to predict how management and climate change shape productivity and composition of plant community in temperate grasslands
doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...
We present #GrasslandTraitSim.jl, a process-based simulation model that links plant traits to ecosystem processes to predict how management and climate change shape productivity and composition of plant community in temperate grasslands
doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...
A trait-based model to describe plant community dynamics in managed grasslands (GrasslandTraitSim.jl v1.0.0)
Abstract. Temperate semi-natural grassland plant communities are expected to shift under global change, mainly due to land use and climate change. However, the interaction of different drivers on dive...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New paper out led by Felix Nößler!
We present #GrasslandTraitSim.jl, a process-based simulation model that links plant traits to ecosystem processes to predict how management and climate change shape productivity and composition of plant community in temperate grasslands
doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...
We present #GrasslandTraitSim.jl, a process-based simulation model that links plant traits to ecosystem processes to predict how management and climate change shape productivity and composition of plant community in temperate grasslands
doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...
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Ethiopia's Green Initiative praised by African Union as regional model
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: tvbrics.com/en/news/ethiopi...
Ethiopia's Green Initiative praised by African Union as regional model
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: tvbrics.com/en/news/ethiopi...
Ethiopia’s Green Initiative praised by African Union as regional model | TV BRICS, 12.08.25
The African Union (AU) Staff Association has praised Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative (GLI) as a model of climate action for the continent and a source of ins...
tvbrics.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Ethiopia's Green Initiative praised by African Union as regional model
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: tvbrics.com/en/news/ethiopi...
Ethiopia's Green Initiative praised by African Union as regional model
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: tvbrics.com/en/news/ethiopi...
Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models
Dukes et al. @dukesjeff.bsky.social @changliao.bsky.social @richphillipslab.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dukes et al. @dukesjeff.bsky.social @changliao.bsky.social @richphillipslab.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models
Dukes et al. @dukesjeff.bsky.social @changliao.bsky.social @richphillipslab.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dukes et al. @dukesjeff.bsky.social @changliao.bsky.social @richphillipslab.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
LTE today in Toronto Star by Jeffrey Levitt
Industrial carbon pricing a step in right direction
Our volunteers will be remembered for their persistence & integrity.
When all is said and done, they will be remembered as good ancestors! torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2817...
Industrial carbon pricing a step in right direction
Our volunteers will be remembered for their persistence & integrity.
When all is said and done, they will be remembered as good ancestors! torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2817...
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
LTE today in Toronto Star by Jeffrey Levitt
Industrial carbon pricing a step in right direction
Our volunteers will be remembered for their persistence & integrity.
When all is said and done, they will be remembered as good ancestors! torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2817...
Industrial carbon pricing a step in right direction
Our volunteers will be remembered for their persistence & integrity.
When all is said and done, they will be remembered as good ancestors! torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2817...
Ireland is yet to produce a draft #SocialClimatePlan. The consultation process that closed on the 23rd of October fell short of the inclusive and iterative participation model envisaged by the Social Climate Fund Regulation and Commission Guidance.
No plan 🟰 No meaningful participation
No plan 🟰 No meaningful participation
📢Endorsed by over 37 CSOs including CAN Europe, a new briefing by @ceebankwatch.bsky.social & @rescoop.eu analysed the Social Climate Plans of 19 EU Member States in terms of public participation, effectiveness in targeting vulnerable households, investments & policy alignment.
The results? 1/2🧵👇
The results? 1/2🧵👇
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Ireland is yet to produce a draft #SocialClimatePlan. The consultation process that closed on the 23rd of October fell short of the inclusive and iterative participation model envisaged by the Social Climate Fund Regulation and Commission Guidance.
No plan 🟰 No meaningful participation
No plan 🟰 No meaningful participation
🌍📢 COP30 is around the corner! As global leaders meet in Belém to discuss climate action and financing, NDF will continue to highlight Nordic values, priorities, and commitment to international cooperation as a model for global climate action.
➡️️ Read more about NDF at COP30: shorturl.at/DsdH8
➡️️ Read more about NDF at COP30: shorturl.at/DsdH8
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🌍📢 COP30 is around the corner! As global leaders meet in Belém to discuss climate action and financing, NDF will continue to highlight Nordic values, priorities, and commitment to international cooperation as a model for global climate action.
➡️️ Read more about NDF at COP30: shorturl.at/DsdH8
➡️️ Read more about NDF at COP30: shorturl.at/DsdH8
Not preparing for catastrophic outcomes simply because they're not certain, or even the most likely, is like driving 90 mph late at night with your lights off after drinking a bottle of gin and thinking it'd be bad luck to wear a seatbelt. Or staying home on election day in 2016 or 2024.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Not preparing for catastrophic outcomes simply because they're not certain, or even the most likely, is like driving 90 mph late at night with your lights off after drinking a bottle of gin and thinking it'd be bad luck to wear a seatbelt. Or staying home on election day in 2016 or 2024.