Dr. Aaron Thierry

‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down? In December 2024, Rachel Graham, executive director of the Belize-based marine nonprofit MarAlliance, posted on LinkedIn that she knew “5 wildlife & conservation scientists who have taken their lives ...

People see conservation as an exciting, romantic field to work in

But it's a tough life watching the places you love, study and fight for being destroyed

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Seems to me that perpetual gas and oil crises might be avoidable if we replaced them with more locally sourced non-depletable resources. There might be other benefits too. Just a thought. 🤷

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose

The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week

Here's our interview:

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"the measured values suggest that with a hypothetical 1 m of relative sea-level rise, 31–37% more land and 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Techno-optimism reduces willingness to address climate change 🚨

In a new preprint, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @fdabl.bsky.social, and I examined the causal effect of techno-optimist beliefs on the willingness to contribute to addressing climate change.

🔗 Read the paper: lnkd.in/eE847_jK

Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback? Climate deniers expected more resistance to the fossil fuel blitz. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent

"'Democrats in Congress have been silent...There has been no pushback on this,' Morano said."

Why is longtime climate denier Marc Morano is happy that Democrats have stopped talking climate? As I told The Guardian, because it helps the Trump regime. Obviously.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"If pandemic threat assessment and preparedness was as fragmented, we would be scandalised."

It was great talking to Ellen for this excellent piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk about climate risk and the threat of AMOC collapse specifically

Essential reading!

Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback? Climate deniers expected more resistance to the fossil fuel blitz. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent

Hello? Anybody home?

Climate "hushing" and avoidance has allowed Trump and the fossil industry to destroy decades of effort.

Where is the climate movement? Where are the Democratic politicians?

Vast majorities are concerned about climate change.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has your MP joined the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats from climate change and nature loss?
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

Have they watched the expert briefings?
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Adelaide Uni - Academic freedom, freedom of speech!

Francesca Albanese - Great, let's discuss human rights, war crimes, and genocide.

Adelaide Uni - Oh, not that much freedom. Cancelled, soz.

Genuinely pathetic and embarrassing cowardice.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Report: Flooded Future: Global vulnerability to sea level rise worse than previously understood | Climate Central New elevation data show that by midcentury frequent coastal flooding will rise higher than areas currently home to hundreds of millions of people.

There was already a study in 2019 which showed costal elevation had been overestimated in many regions due to satalite lidar not accurately reading ground level.

www.climatecentral.org/report/repor...

The fate of fossil fuel systems in the "mid-transition" I talk with Emily Grubert about the hidden dangers of letting the free market manage the decline of our legacy energy infrastructure.

Today on Volts: for the next few decades, we'll be in the "mid-transition," with clean energy systems growing as FF systems decline. Those FF systems will not decline smoothly -- there will be thresholds, "cliffs," where they suddenly crumble -- so maybe we should, I dunno, plan for it?

"the findings indicate that hundreds of millions more people — particularly in Vietnam 🇻🇳 , the Philippines 🇵🇭 , Indonesia 🇮🇩, the Maldives 🇲🇻 and other Southeast Asian and Pacific nations — are living closer to sea level than widely assumed by Western experts and policymakers."

"It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions." Arwa Aburawa on the CO2 Newsletter... - All Our Yesterdays Arwa Aburawa is a filmmaker whose work focuses on race, the environment, and the enduring legacies of colonialism.  www.arwaaburawa.co.uk In his book ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ (1), the writer Sven ...

"In his book ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’, the writer Sven Lindqvist carefully and meticulously traces the European colonial legacy of extermination and genocide as he treks across North Africa. And yet, he starts the book with a simple quote:

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allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/03/i...

The scary thing about a prediction market is that people with little information can randomly make a catastrophic event marginally more likely.

40% of US rail freight is also fossil fuels, mostly coal. Wind coal down and you free up a lot of rail resources! Some of which could be converted to fast electric passenger trains, which in countries with modern transport infrastructure are faster than air travel for most trips under 1000 miles.

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social explains how the Trump admin's attacks on sci forced her to act.

Fighting back is not "politicising science".

🗣️ "I wasn't the one who banned f*cking words!"

Clip: youtube.com/shorts/RPMf9...
Full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=KDTt...

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Dramatic illustration of the impact of the White Death (i.e. sheep)

That would be super helpful

Public Transport Art - Communicating the Bigger Picture 👍
Fossil Fuels are a Death Sentence. From fuelling War to Empowering Fascist Oligarchs. #ShowYourStripes #EndTheFossilFuelAgeNow

🆘 Can I ask a favour?

Does anyone know where I can find the dataset to reproduce this figure - IPCC AR6 Synthesis SPM 1(c) ?

Thanks you.

That YouGov poll yesterday:
Britain's working age population 18-65:
🟢Green 26%
🟣Reform 21%
🔴Labour 16%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🔵Tories 13%

Britain's retired population 65+:
🟣Reform 33%
🔵Tories 26%
🔴Labour 15%
🟠Lib Dem 14%
🟢Green 6%

“...the reason why we're vulnerable to climate change has to do with the political system that we live in, the way that society is structured…”

@lisaschipper.bsky.social

Listen now: overshootpod.com

YouTube video by PBS Terra This Is How the World Ends According to Science

How can we avoid the end of the world? Well, it all starts with planning...

Laurie Laybourn delves deeper into the risks of overshoot - and how to avoid them - in this discussion with Maiya May on PBS.

Watch now👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugk...

Warm ocean water, not air temperature, drove massive Antarctic ice retreat after the last ice age  - British Antarctic Survey A new study concludes that warm ocean water was the primary driver of major West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the end of the last ice age 18,000 years ago.

🌊 Warm ocean water, not air temperature, drove massive Antarctic ice retreat after the last ice age

www.bas.ac.uk/news/warm-oc...

Film maker Arwa Aburawa on the CO2 Newsletter...

allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/03/i...