@thierryaaron.bsky.social
Graduate student at Cardiff University - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour, says major @unep.org report
- ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
#climatecrisis
Story by me
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10 years have past since Paris - that's something to commemorate! #ParisAgreement #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis 🌡️
Join us for the launch of the Klimaatwiki and a press conference on Friday - in The Hague (10 AM CET) and/or on the livestream (at noon)!
"Ultimately, I argue that #climate change requires a transformation in the practice of law, namely that #lawyers choosing to represent climate wreckers should be held accountable for their decision to do so" - Prof. @camilabustos.bsky.social
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Overlaid on an image of a smiling conference delegate, text reads "Step Change for Sustainability Conference 2026. 31 March, Perth Concert Hall. Book now to receive an early bird discount!" In the top corner is the EAUC Scotland logo.
Bookings are open now for the EAUC Scotland conference, taking place on 31 March 2026 at @perthtch.bsky.social.
With a key focus on storytelling, the conference will provide valuable CPD across two insightful plenaries and six interactive workshop sessions.
🔗 www.eauc.org.uk/about/projec...
New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!
08.12.2025 14:21 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
#OtD 9 Dec 1947 the Rawagede massacre was carried out by Dutch colonial troops in Indonesia, who executed 431 people: nearly every male aged over 15 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari). None of the killers were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1088...
09.12.2025 10:25 — 👍 69 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 3
On 8-9 Dec, the EU Commission hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum—promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. Despite decades of CCS failures, €billions still flow in, propping up dirty industries. A big win for fossil lobbyists. #ICMForum
➡️ oilchange.org/publications...
Prof @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social's warning at the National Emergency Briefing that everyone in the UK deserves to hear.
For the full talk, please go to our YouTube channel. See below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
Artificial intelligence and data centres Australia is building domestic capabilities in artificial intelligence. Home chevron_right Do business with Australia chevron_right Explore a sector chevron_right Technology chevron_right AI and data centres On this page Helping to power digital transformation Australian AI Industry Capability Report Why buy Australian AI Why invest in Australia Strategic location as a data centre hub Australia emerges as an AI powerhouse How we can help Success stories Incentives, grants and support Snapshot - Data centres Snapshot - Artificial Intelligence Strategic direction Industry and research ecosystem How Austrade can help Helping to power digital transformation Australia is becoming a regional data centre hub, and a global leader for artificial intelligence (AI). We are helping to power digital transformation in the Asia Pacific and the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies scross broad sectors. Our economy hosts an outsized AI industry, including over 1,100 private AI companies. Adoption of AI is strong across society, with over 400 public firms developing or deploying AI solutions. Our vibrant AI ecosystem and proximity to Asia means we are becoming a service provider for the region, with AI-related patents quadrupling over the past decade. Sydney and Melbourne are both top-ten data centre markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Australia’s abundance of renewable energy resources means we are a great location for regional, green data centres. This includes supplying Asia via subsea cables. Australia aims to become a global leader in developing and adopting trusted, secure and responsible artificial intelligence, led by the National Artificial Intelligence Centre. Australian AI Industry Capability Report Unlocking potential with Australian AI, an industry capability report on Australia’s capabilities and expertise in artificial intelligence, highlights the achievements of Australian companies in the growing sector. Austra…
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"
08.12.2025 19:45 — 👍 325 🔁 133 💬 10 📌 4
Power-hungry datacenters & AI demands of the likes of Meta, Google & OpenAI, along with damage caused by extreme weather & ageing transmission lines is driving up household electricity bills, cost of living pressures & "threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security"
09.12.2025 05:34 — 👍 65 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 2Please sign an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the UK broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Highlights from actor Olivia Williams' powerful reading.
Full version link below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
BONKERS!
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
" #Climate poses the greatest risk to the contemporary nation state as a political form that it has ever faced, and that is only goinv to get worse" - Prof. @geoffmann.bsky.social
09.12.2025 03:55 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1"The Indonesian Agency for #Climate Science, Geophysics and Meteorology reported that warmer seas in the eastern Indian Ocean might have boosted the intensity of rainfall in this storm in some areas to more than 300 millimetres a day - up to six times the usual rate"
#ClimateEmergency
"Further attention must be given to this #climate tragedy, not only to apply pressure to speed up rescue & recovery...[&] to recognize the planetaryscale crisis that humanity is currently facing. A new future awaits us- we need to recognize its patterns now, before more lives are lost"
#Indonesia 🇮🇩
Violence over water resources reaches record levels
@petergleick.bsky.social: "It is urgent that efforts be made to reduce the threat of water-related conflicts and to reverse the worsening trend of water violence." thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol... @thebulletin.org
"Data from Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency indicates nearly 96,000 acres of farmland has been affected in the province, and over 300,000 people impacted"
#Thailand 🇹🇭
#ClimateEmergency
www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...
This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions.
Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...
📣2025 Recap!
⚖️Climate Litigation Database 2.0
💵Research on climate risk & fiduciary duties
🌊Legal frameworks for CO2 removal & Climate Week symposium
⚛️Climate science advocacy & attribution conference
🏙️Smart Cities tools & key briefs
🌱Energy & environmental justice tools
🔗 buff.ly/NMXwdv8
"Region imported 438,000 tons of pesticides and herbicides in 2020, two-thirds more than in 2018. More than half of such chemicals used in Nigeria are highly hazardous, at least 40% of those can’t be sold in Europe"
#Pesticide colonialism
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
as the popular press starts to pick up on the cost of climate change... i dont think everyone quite gets the scale we are talking about here
08.12.2025 13:42 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
If we play this out: What would 3 °C of warming mean in 25 years? What would the world look like? FB: We would all live in different climate zones. Open an old world atlas and you see a huge red patch for the Sahara. With 3 °C of warming, that zone would stretch into parts of Spain. Vegetation, rainfall weather patterns, all would look very different. And what would 3 °C mean for Germany? FB: In summer, meteorological records could reach up to 50 °C. Three degrees of global warming does not mean hot days will just be 3 or 4 degrees hotter. It could mean up to 10 degrees hotter. We would also face much
Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
My piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the rapid and widespread increase in violence over #water resources in the past several years.
Record levels reported in 2024.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/viol...
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, he won the Fifa peace prize for it.
08.12.2025 14:46 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8
04.12.2025 17:39 — 👍 27 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 4
We have been very amiss in posting here, so here's a long thread of many episodes:
Matt III, in which we are totally not paranoid about the security state, social media, surveillance, climate, podcasting, love, this novel, or anything else. Really.
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/m...
NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
