Dr. Aaron Thierry

"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:

1/n

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...

⚛️🧪

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...

I commit to reviewing at least two manuscripts for every paper I publish.

The peer review system only works if we all contribute.

Wow.

The Green Party aren't just in second place on 21%.

They are FIVE points ahead of Labour.

The Gorton and Denton by-election is convincing Labour voters the Greens aren't a wasted vote.

And they're just 2 points behind Reform!

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

Deeply saddened to see the UK slash climate aid for developing countries.

Climate finance isn’t charity; it’s a responsibility. We must stand by our commitments and the countries that did the least to cause this crisis.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Energy security comes from renewables & clean flexibility, not fossil gas.
Fossil fuel supplies can vanish overnight, prices can spike, and consumers pay the price.
A renewables-based, flexible system is immune to these shocks.
More in our webinar today.
🗓️ 11am CET
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

BREAKING: @EuropeanSlpr's new sleeper train from Brussels & Cologne to Zurich, Como & Milan will start 9 September. Tickets go on sale from 17 March with couchettes from €49.99, single/double/triple sleepers also available. 🥳 Press release: mcusercontent.com/5ffbd133c9ab...

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

Turns out lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services is really popular.

This is just the beginning - people are seeing through the attacks and demanding something better.

And we're making hope normal again - together.

news.sky.com/story/greens...

Discussing the 2026 forecast El niño with Dr Jennifer Francis - layering heat up on heat and pushing the thresholds of natural resilience.