Climate Action

1/ There’s an instructive debate underway in the open review pages of @egu.eu journal Ocean Science. It’s about whether we can tell if the #AMOC is already on a trajectory towards collapse. What I think it really teaches is how scientists judge evidence, & why that differs from assessing risk. 🧵

😔 😭 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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We maken ons hier echt hele grote zorgen over... voor onze gezondheid, die van onze kinderen en de insecten die onze gewassen bestuiven: "Europese Commissie wil de normen voor pesticiden versoepelen" www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/eur...

Due to **declining soil quality**, nutrients in fruit & vegetables are sharply lower Researchers at Deep Science Ventures found twice the fruit & veg need to be eaten today to get the same level of minerals like potassium, magnesium or copper than 60 yrs ago www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Where might we make the most progress on climate change? Where positive "tipping points" could happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

68% of voters want the US to take ambitious action on climate change!

The cryosphere is in trouble due to climate change, and it's accelerating loss. "Glaciologists in the Alps considered 2% of ice lost in a single year to be 'extreme'. This year has seen an estimated 5.5% disappear."

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution.

No one would be able to say this stuff if the fossil fuel industry didn't own both the people saying it *and* the media ecosystem reporting it. But here we are.

‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Een zomer als die van 2026 zal over veertig jaar als een koude uitschieter gelden. Waarom praat het kabinet zo weinig over het klimaat? En de zomer van 2026 gaat eind september nog even door ... Column van Peter Kuipers Munneke share.google/YyI3UnezOECn...

Wow. Researchers at Leiden university and TU Delft university in the Netherlands accuse TU Munich of "gross misrepresentation" of their findings in the TUM press release of last week, which attacked EU regulations on vehicle emissions www.linkedin.com/pulse/misint...

And in food systems, it’s the rapid reduction in food waste/loss & rapid shift to more plant-based diets and reduction in livestock consumption.

Please read this report of the Dutch CPB which concludes the proposed changes will lead to "significantly higher emissions and barely lower energy costs" and "make other forms of support for the industry less effective." www.cpb.nl/publicatie/v...

The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/...

"Aanpassen moet ook. Maar zolang de emissies niet onder controle zijn, is dat als lucht pompen in een lekke band." fd.nl/opinie/16108...

The Earth will cross the 1.5 degrees warming limit that everyone agreed to in the Paris Accord. Thank all those politicians that delayed and weakened the vital climate policies, and still do. It’s not them who’ll pay the price, but you and your children. apnews.com/article/clim...

11 years after the Paris Agreement, @unep.org concludes that keeping global warming below 1.5°C is now impossible, because global fossil fuel use and emissions kept growing (slowly) instead of going down. It's now important to stay below 2°C. Once we've reached net zero emissions, we will...

Maybe of interest: Peak warming depends on methane mitigation, too. Without methane mitigation we will exceed even 1.8 °C with ambitious net zero targets. See below or www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Mike Smith is a hero. After 6 years fighting for everyone who cares about nature and the environment, the Supreme Court of NZ ruled that major fossil fuel polluters could be liable for climate damage The NZ Govt immediately changed the law and backdated it to subvert the Court's decision #nzpol

In a world of mounting climate impacts and super cheap renewables, fracking is exactly the wrong move at exactly the wrong time. Canada is in a trade war. We need to be smart about economic development while protecting the land and communities we cherish. www.theenergymix.com/new-brunswic...

NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:

This visualization is doing the rounds - it is a powerful message & I think it's worth to keep on sharing and keep it visible.

Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, not ‘green the planet’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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"The potential population displacement caused by sea-level rise is on the order of the displacement seen during World War II, except sustained over entire lifetimes... roughly 90% of people at risk live in low- to mid-income countries"

De extreme hitte van deze zomer kost Europa 180 miljard euro, aldus Triodos Bank - evenveel als de totale economische groei die werd verwacht www.triodos.com/en/articles/...

Europe should have been shocked into action in 2003, when a heatwave killed more than 70,000 people. Instead, the Continent is now the fastest-heating region in the world with climate policy in reverse as defence and competitiveness dominate the EU agenda. - @pbresnihan.bsky.social

Up is down. Black is white. Orwell lives! #RupertMurdoch #CriminalDisinformation www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

@minister-president.bsky.social While Pedro Sánchez says it plainly: “Climate change kills,” I expected more from former “climate crusader” Rob Jetten. Sometimes leadership is simply having the courage to say it out loud. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable

lees dit. @sheilas.bsky.social overtreft zichzelf. helaas, gaat het niks uithalen, vrees ik 😢

Kabinet, zwijg niet. Mijn gedachten over o.a. de onacceptabele intimidatie van voorstanders van menswaardige opvang van vluchtelingen in Engelen. 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/jessek...

Kabinet ondermijnt rechtsstaat door vonnis rechter te negeren: "Kabinet negeert datum in klimaatzaak Bonaire: 'Blamage voor Nederland'" - nos.nl/l/2624678

Renewables shield Spain from energy crisis as gas sets electricity price in only 9% of hours - www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/16/r...

#Subsidies can be a structural reason why healthy #diets remain unaffordable for millions. While global support to #agriculture runs to $540 bn/year, about 70% of it is tied to few commodities: grains, #sugar, #dairy, #beef, and oil crops grown for #livestock feed… + vegconomist.com/studies-numb...

Renewable energy is set to become the world's largest source of electricity in 2026, overtaking coal after reaching near parity in 2025. www.iea.org/reports/elec...

"We, the undersigned, urge the Prime Minister to convene a live, televised emergency briefing, delivered by independent experts." We've an open letter in the FT today calling on Andy Burnham to hold a national emergency briefing on climate and nature.

The US has emitted far more climate pollution over the last century than any other nation, causing some $10 trillion (and counting) in climate damages since 1990. Meanwhile, emissions are going up in every US economic sector. We have so much work to do, starting with sending the fascists packing.

"Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

“That is our own doing: as temperatures climb, the atmosphere’s thirst increases quickly, sucking moisture out of rivers, lakes, reservoirs and the soil. If you have increasingly hot air, it will suck the soils dry.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...