Bob Berwyn

It can get a bit freaky.

COP30 Backpedals on Climate Action - Inside Climate News BELÉM, Brazil—After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Sat...

COP30 reminded me of some small kids on a beach facing a tsunami with toy plastic shovels and pails … insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

Screenshot of The Nature Conservancy's webpage (https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/priority-landscapes/gulf-of-america/) for one of their priority landscapes, the Gulf of Mexico, that they've renamed the Gulf of America because TNC = moral cowards and political ass kissers.

Fuck you, @nature.org.

YouTube video by Playing For Change Guantanamera | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

Buen día!
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Because the UNFCCC reflects the hierarchic, colonial structures upon which it was built. It's an organization that can't escape its own shadows.

An Indigenous man holding a protest banner in a crowd.

Several Indigenous protestors in a crowded hallway.

Closeup of a protestor at COP30.

Marching Indigenous People in the main hallway of COP30.

Indigenous People protesting on the last day of COP30 said it ended the same way it started, a lot of promises, but still no real seat at the table ...

White plate with slices of mango, papaya, lime and avocado.

Belém breakfast. Don't know what the rest of you were eating, but this was my go-to meal ...

Steel town, eh …

A man sitting in old style clothing holding a burning globe in his hand.

Back from COP30. The speeches on the last day made me think of how how we are living a tragedy, and so, to paraphrase the Bard ...

Do we keep going as we are,
absorbing disaster after disaster,
or do we finally confront the system that’s breaking the planet?

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Cityscape from a hilltop at dawn with clouds, mists and red glow from a steelworks over city lights.

Wakey-wake, back in industrial reality land …

painting of animals holding instruments in a grove of trees in the Huni Kuin style.

Land and seascape, looking over a wide river meeting the sea with an orange fireball sunset in the distance.

A wall painting of a man wearing a toucan mask floating above the Amazon.

Seascape of dark blue water and rainshafts falling from gray clouds.

Without the spirits of the forests and oceans we are nothing ...

Adeus Belém, até nos encontrarmos novamente.

Hey, @nature.com, regarding your COP30 editorial, it might be worth acknowledging that countries with a "legitimate concern" about a transition away from fossil fuels have had 30 years. You make it sound like that's somehow a NEW thing.

A mais de um ano setores do governo decidiram flertar com a possibilidade de enfraquecer pontos do licenciamento ambiental e abriram mão de influenciar enquanto o projeto estava na CMA do Senado. De lá pra cá, o governo engoliu traições em série e agora temos a pior versão de licenciamento possível.

A computer generated image of Hamlet holding a burning globe.

This is a bit what COP30 felt like, asking existential questions, but making excuses for doing nothing ... insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...

👂onderhoudend en goed verhaal van ‘the queen of peat’, over veen dus - een veel sterkere co2-spons dan 🌳🌲

Tien minuten die je goed besteed, no doubt about that

Zoomed in view of a streetmarket vendor with several customers ordering and eating plates of fried meat on spiced rice.

Zoomed in view of a street market scene with vendors under awnings, people walking, all under a row of tall green trees.

Closeup of a grill with some skewers of meat smoking and a bunch of green coconuts behind.

A zoomed vieo of a drummer in a Samba band playing outside in a park.

Meat sticks and cold green coconuts. Life can be good at the Sunday market at the Praça da República in Belém ...

Are we waiting in vain? I was in grade school when the very first climate summit happened, long before I knew what “Conference of the Parties” meant. I only became…

After spending my entire adult life working on climate,I saw how real progress came from people, never from plenaries. From communities moving faster than govts. From organisers who refuse to wait for another round of negotiations to finish arguing over commas. jennytuazon.medium.com/are-we-waiti...

🔴⚠️🌋🇪🇹After more than 10000 years,the 1st historical #eruption of #HayliGubbi #volcano has occurred in E. #Ethiopia, producing an eruptive column that reached more than 18km of height on Nov.23.⬇️Meteosat12 animation of RGB Ash product of the huge gas & ash plume moving eastward.

Watch your f-ing language Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.

Cooking with gas.

Well-oiled machine.

Burning the midnight oil.

Step on the gas.

Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...

Predatory, expoloitive rogue capitalism ...

There was a LOT of COP tourism again this year. I spoke with a handful of Brazilians from out of town visiting the Green Zone, including a lot of school groups. Other tourism areas, like the new Museu das Amazônias, where insanely busy.

Solar Radiation Modification | Royal Society This policy briefing assesses the potential risks, detrimental impacts and climate benefits of implementing solar radiation modification at scale.

"There is robust evidence that globally coordinated deployment of SRM could reduce global-mean surface temperature, and associated impacts such as sea-level rise, wildfires and extreme precipitation, and so mask part of human-induced climate change."
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Poor Air, Glaring Lights and Stress Could Hobble COP30 Climate Talks - Inside Climate News Solving complex puzzles is challenging in the best of circumstances. Unhealthy indoor environmental conditions may make it tougher.

I could go on ... Ahead of COP30 I wrote something about health effects of indoor environment at large conferences, icymi. insideclimatenews.org/news/1111202...

Busy, busy!

It sorta seemed to get better as time went on, I guess. This was about halfway through ...

Wowza, that is a LOT of air! Did anyone have a noise measurement instrument? Did anyone care? Were there facilities engineers on hand to check and respond?

Quick, did anyone else calculate their carbon footprint for COP30? Should we do a thread and add it up?

I just got an invitation from someone to calculate my COP30 carbon footprint and offset it with credits ... did anyone else get that?

Fueling, with electrical wire and other gear, workers smoking cigarettes, all within a few feet of the COP30 tents.

Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement Our initiative stands against such emerging initiatives to explore planetary techno-fixes as a climate policy option.

I keep trying to point out the www.solargeoeng.org initiative, which suggests pretty widespread consensus. Also, there does NOT seem to be one single peer-reviewed paper, or even a body of research, suggesting this could work in the real world, except arm-waving, "oh. it's just like Pinatubo ..."

To me, the main question is how to keep this framed as a scientific issue and not let people politicize it, if that is even possible.