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@climatista

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. ~ Rachel Carson

The Anthropocene linktr.ee/climatistaJoined May 2017

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Global oil companies are reporting 2022 as their most profitable year in history. Meanwhile, the planet continues to burn as household budgets shrink. We must change course. The only credible direction to take is away from fossil fuels & towards renewable energy.

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This needs to get mainstreamed. And not only hand waving but real. World’s biggest investment fund warns directors to tackle climate crisis or face sack

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World’s biggest investment fund warns directors to tackle climate crisis or face sack

Norway’s sovereign wealth titan threatens to vote against boards on firms it holds investments with over lax climate and social targets

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As vaccines for #COVID19 continue to be distributed across the globe, look back at this data visualization from

@ScienceVisuals

that illustrates the power of vaccines to vanquish disease—an impact that far eclipses their minute risks. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/1m1

The Amazon rainforest is one of the most vital major ecosystems on Earth—but it is under threat. In this issue of Science, researchers underscore the rapid and profound changes occurring in the Amazon resulting from ever-increasing human activity. scim.ag/1iX

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Lack of social sciences and humanities in climate knowledge due to the domination of natural sciences, including modelling, has resulted in science that has not been implemented. Bypassing detail and contextual knowledge in the search for reductionist, simple messages...

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I'm watching the sunset, and am struck with the realization that I'm sitting on a habitable planet looking at a normal star that gave us some energy and somehow led to the origin of life, consciousness, and intelligence. How is any of this real 🤯

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WE ARE NOT WINNING. Former Vice President of the USA says the people who run our world and economy are driving us towards global cataclysm. Where are our cultural and political leaders? They need to raise the alarm and demand action NOW #ClimateEmergency ox.ac.uk/news/2021-08-0…

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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

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This is an important article about vicarious trauma among students and researchers in environmental science. For members interested in developing our work to support Educators and School Counselors, please feel free to DM & join out Educators Subcommittee!

tandfonline.com

The Cost of Bearing Witness to the Environmental Crisis: Vicarious Traumatization and Dealing with...

Researchers working on environmental issues are often unprepared to deal with the traumatic potential of their studies. They often face traumatic encounters in their first-hand experiences in field...

Last month I started a Google Sheet called "So you want to Work in Climate" to make an art piece. It became a work of art itself with 417 resources! With the thousands of layoffs over the past few weeks, I thought it could be helpful to share again

nicolekelner.substack.com

So you want to work in climate…

How a google spreadsheet became a work of art

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"For decades in newspaper columns and speeches, cardinal Pell popularised climate denial talking points to dismiss the science of global heating and to brand environmentalists as hysterical and in the grip of a pseudo-religion."

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George Pell saw climate science as a dangerous religious dogma – in the end his hardline stance...

Cardinal’s scepticism provided cover for the likes of Tony Abbott, who were able to justify denialism by invoking religious beliefs

This chart is scary

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Tweets containing “climate scam” or other terms linked to climate change denial rose 300% in 2022

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Climate Misinformation Surges on Elon Musk's Twitter

The social media platform "has in fact put rocket boosters on the spread of lies and disinformation.”

A new report warns the region is facing “much more than a climate and ecological crisis." It's a humanitarian issue

time.com

Climate Change is Fueling Conflict and Migration in Lake Chad

A new report warns the region is facing “much more than a climate and ecological crisis." It's a humanitarian issue.

Thanks to a recent piece by

@thedailybanter

I discovered something more awful than I realized: just how much money anti-vax grifters are pulling in on Substack. I mean, hundreds of thousands of dollars per month awful.

derekberes.substack.com

How anti-vaxxers monetize misinformation

Substack provides a lucrative opportunity for grifting.

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My new paper "Maturing conversations: Developing climate engagement through group dialogues" is out in the Journal of Analytical Psychology's Special Issue on Environmental and Climate Crisis. authorservices.wiley.com/api/pdf/fullAr. Full article can be viewed here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/I

BREAKING: We've introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and the irresponsible SCOTUS decisions that came before it. Unrestricted dark money has no place in our elections or democracy. We need to return power to people. Once and for all.

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While some Democrats are trying to end fossil fuel subsidies (including Biden), the party platform still supports them.

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DNC’s Flip-Flop on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Follows Deep Ties To the Industry

The DNC quietly removed language from the party platform yesterday that endorsed an end to fossil fuel subsidies, after voting two years ago to allow itself to accept fossil fuel PAC contributions.

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Europe has expressed concerns over US protectionism around the Inflation Reduction Act. European Commission President

@vonderleyen

tells me she welcomes the IRA’s climate impacts, though adds “we want to compete on quality, but there needs to be a level playing field.”

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This is one reason limiting warming to no more than 1.5°C matters - the chances of activating tipping points in the climate system increases over 70%. pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest

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Update: I was fired. I loved working at ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute and am devastated, but am also more determined and hopeful than ever. We have incredible power to affect change together.🌱

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Opinion | I’m a Scientist Who Spoke Up About Climate Change. My Employer Fired Me.

I knew that I could face retaliation, but inaction during this critical time will have far greater consequences.

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Earth scientist Rose Abramoff

@ultracricket

says she was fired for a climate protest. “Most earth scientists have spent decades writing calm reports… with no decrease in carbon emissions really to show for it. And I think a lot of us are really getting desperate,” she tells me.

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An interview with the artist behind the meme that defined a generation:

bostonglobe.com

The ‘This is Fine’ comic turned 10. The Mass. artist behind it says it’s changed his life — for...

K.C. Green, the Easthampton artist behind a comic that inspired an era-defining meme, reflects on its impact online.

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Join us on January 24 for Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: The Culture of Uncare with Sally Weintrobe. Find out how to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture —and how to shift towards greater care towards ourselves and others. sarahpeyton.com/product/psycho

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#ManchinsGrandkidsGaze

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Jan 12

INBOX: Manchin’s chief of staff becomes a top oil lobbyist

For years, Big Oil companies like ExxonMobil claimed the science around climate change was inconclusive. Now we learn “ExxonMobil's predictions were often more accurate than even world-leading Nasa scientists.” They knew — and did nothing.

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ExxonMobil: Oil giant predicted climate change in 1970s - scientists

Researchers claim to put a number on what Exxon knew about temperature rise as early as the 1970s.

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"What Exxon scientists found and what they communicated to company executives was nothing short of horrifying" - Interesting to hear the perspective of law professor

@kcsokol

on our new #ExxonKnew study, and great reporting by

@NPR

@jeffbradynews

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Exxon climate predictions were accurate decades ago. Still it sowed doubt

Exxon's climate research decades back painted an accurate picture of global warming, according to a new scientific paper. Still, the oil company continued climate-denying policy efforts.

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Jan 13

#ExxonKnew82 #ChildrensGaze

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Geoffrey Supran

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Jan 12

NEW: In @ScienceMagazine today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.

No pay wall for 2 weeks: bit.ly/ExxonKnew2poin

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climate investigation has turned up compelling evidence of oil & gas companies and their trade group misleading the public on climate and misrepresenting their commitments. Why are they letting the investigation die with this Congress?

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Subpoenaed Fossil Fuel Documents Reveal an Industry Stuck in the Past

The industry is still running the same five-step plan, to the same end: preserving power, subsidies, and social license.

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For almost 50 years, we've talked about quitting fossil fuels. Yet, we're stuck with the same old dirty energy system. When we look back a decade from now, we may find that 2022 was an inflection point for global climate progress. My latest in

@nytimes

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Opinion | This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition

Switching off fossil fuels is going to be a bumpy ride — an energy disruption.

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Earth’s energy imbalance is the best diagnostic of where climate is heading. We must keep up the measurements. Twittering is fun (youtu.be/z-OteAgvINc?t=), but we aim to advance the science. It’s hard and takes time - please read Earth’s Energy Imbalance: mailchi.mp/caa/earths-ene

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Where is climate headed? We’re already at doubled CO2 greenhouse gas climate forcing. The first Faustian aerosol payment is coming due. Humanity needs to reverse course. Scientific discourse welcome at this point. Global Warming in the Pipeline: mailchi.mp/caa/global-war #aerosols

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Our final #IPCC WGIII #ClimateReport on climate mitigation is out! Yes, it took since April till now to finalise the design of drafts, copy editing, type setting, and figures. (Can’t take credit for any of this!) Download those nice files here: ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3 1/4

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This is going to make you feel very small. Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.

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Fauci's warning to America: 'We're living in a progressively anti-science era and that's a very dangerous thing'

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Fauci's warning to America: 'We're living in a progressively anti-science era and that's a very...

Fauci speaks with The Times days before he steps aside from his role as the U.S. government's top expert on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

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Every year, the

team picks the stories we wish we'd written. Here are a few of my favourite pieces of climate journalism that were published 2022.

unearthed.greenpeace.org

The best environmental journalism of 2022

A selection of the stories we wish we had written over the last 12 months, featuring work by the New York Times, Bloomberg, and others

Heartland Institute hosts a conference every year dedicated to climate denial. They recently announced their speaker line up for the 2023 event. Something looks similar about all the speakers, but I can't quite place my finger on what it is..

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If you, like me, didn't follow the big COP15 meeting on biodiversity, check out this great summary of results from

@CarbonBrief

. Sounds like it was a pretty big deal.

carbonbrief.org

COP15: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal - Carbon Brief

Almost 200 countries have agreed to a new set of goals and targets to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by the end of the decade.

climatista

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Dec 14, 2022

"The second is the identity of those that aren’t. Take a guess. North Korea? Russia? Wrong. Both ratified the convention years ago. One is the Holy See (the Vatican). The other is the United States of America."

"There are two extraordinary facts about the convention on biological diversity, whose members are meeting in Montreal now to discuss the global ecological crisis. The first is that, of the world’s 198 states, 196 are party to it."

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The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse | George Monbiot

It’s not just indifference. It’s an active, and deadly, cavalier attitude towards the lives of others: an example other nations follow, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Cost of misinformation:

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Dec 7, 2022

Death rates in Florida and Ohio among Democrats and Republicans were roughly equal before vaccines became widely available. At that point, the trend lines began to diverge. The death rate for Republicans ultimately was 76 percent higher than for Democrats. wapo.st/3HiY7dX

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