Prof Phoebe Barnard

South Park Isn't the Only Outfit Sticking it to Trump; Samuel L. Jackson Dings the Wind Power Hater-in-Chief President Trump may have ended the development of offshore wind power in the United States last week (see Canary Media’s running coverage), but the international wind-energy industry doesn’t seem faze...

Best put-down of Trump this month, imho. And I’ll bet you didn’t know (I didn’t) that #SamuelLJackson studied #marinebiology!

#environmentalimpact #fossilfuels #Trump #satire #idiocracy #renewables #windfarms #offshore #putdown #SouthPark

@revkin.bsky.social

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And of course “grazing land” is just now-highly-degraded native prairie and grasslands put over to commercial rangeland production by previous governments. Economic incentives? Corruption among land barons? Bit of both but…

Our last hurrah in #Skagit - fundraiser screening at the venerable Lincoln Theatre, 26 August.

Our final #TheClimateRestorers film -“Ecosystem Restoration - from the Dust Bowl to the Loess Plateau catastrophe of China, to the Skagit+ California Central valleys. Big, inspiring stories. Please share.

Trump defends firing labor statistics chief by lying about her role in 2024 campaign – as it happened This liveblog is now closed.

I am truly sad & sickened to leave the USA. But these are 4-alarm fires for a formerly #evidencebased #government, now an autocratic, incompetent embarrassment on the world stage. And the world is hostage

#democracy #autocracy #callingbullshit #mirage

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

@sanders.senate.gov: "US taxpayers have spent...billions of $ in support of the racist, extremist Netanyahu government (..they) do not want to be complicit in an unfolding famine+daily civilian massacres.Tonight, we have the power to force Netanyahu+his extremist government to end this slaughter."

If you're on Instagram, a friend of ours who produces a lot of great content on this subject is Dr Andreia Fernandes - check her out at www.instagram.com/onehealthsci...

If you knew anything about me, you wouldn't sling words around like hopium. Or overshoot. And yes, sorry that I slung 'nihilist.' I don't actually know who you are, but you can easily find out about me.

SCREENINGS | Climate Restorers Upcoming educational film screenings for this global documentary series on climate and ecosystem restoration.

2. ⬆️ This documentary, the final film in the full-length series #TheClimateRestorers, is broadcast in the USA on @earthxorg.bsky.social, in Australia on SBS, and soon in Canada on CBC and Italy. Our public/policymaker screenings are at www.theclimaterestorers.com/screenings - soon coming to Europe!

From the American #DustBowl to China's #LoessPlateau, the #SkyIslands of #Arizona - #Mexico to #California #CentralValley agriculture - our #documentary film on working with Nature to #restoretheclimate.

#ecosystemrestoration #regenerativeagriculture #climaterestoration www.theclimaterestorers.com

Indeed! Jed Emerson is the veteran impact investment strategist with whom I'm working to build funding mechanisms to support civilizational shift strategies - and he commissioned his daughter (I think!) to produce and act/sing in it. I had no idea about it before yesterday.

This is where the bottom completely drops out of the USA.
#LeeZeldin #endangermentfinding #EPA #corruption #cantheysleepatnight

YouTube video by Jacqueline Emerson IMPACT: The Musical! ("What If")

What on Earth is an #economy actually for? I did not expect to find a 1970s-style music video on an #impactinvestment site - but here you go, thanks to Jed Emerson.... it's fun. We still need it. Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta might've eaten their hearts out.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oiW...

YouTube video by Bird Matters Beautiful Photography of Garden Birds: Bird Matters

And check out Dr Dionne Miles' terrific #birdphotography there at BirdMatters, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSL...

"France is the 1st country to require all new washing machines to have a #microplasticsfilter... That’s brilliant. We would hope that maybe that would catch on, as our fabrics are a huge source of #microplastics in the environment."
- Dr. @janevandis.bsky.social with @nehapathak.bsky.social

Nihilists unwelcome on this page, sorry Piglet. There are plenty of things we can stop, and about 3 that we can't - on a human-relevant timeline, anyway. I'm not as concerned about human extinction as I am about 5-10 million other species. But nihilism creates misery for millions of human kids too.

YouTube video by Bird Matters Tracking Birds in Space & Time – Bird Matters S01E10

Having a great #nostalgia #moment happening upon our #birdconservation #newsmagazine series, "BirdMatters" by John Bowey, Dale Wright, Dane Marx, Maleshigo Komane, Davide Gaglio and myself in South Africa www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Gg...

See www.youtube.com/@birdmatters... for a range of fun stuff!

6. The answer is that we the international community and we the people must enforce it: through every last means possible including trade alienation, political and economic boycotts and punitive sanctions. This takes all of us. And no time to waste. Everything we know and love is at stake. 💗🌿🐝🦋🐬

5. So many of us are asking: who will require this and what entity will enforce it? Is this unanimous legal judgement more than a profound ethical statement?

4. Reparations are possible: Countries could be required to compensate or remedy the damage caused by their emissions anywhere in the world.

3. Failure to act is unlawful: Granting fossil fuel licenses, providing subsidies or failing to regulate emissions may constitute internationally wrongful acts.

2. 1.5°C has legal weight: States must pursue their “highest possible ambition” in Nationally Determined Contributions +ensure collective measures can limit warming to 1.5°C.

Breaking Planetary News: The ICJ Climate Opinion Explained The International Court of Justice has just delivered a landmark advisory opinion on climate change and human rights - could this transform global climate action and accountability?

#ICJruling summarized by Christiana Figueres and team: their 🧵 @outrageoptimism.bsky.social:
The ICJ’s unanimous opinion states:

1. Climate action is now a legal duty: States are obligated under international law to prevent dangerous climate change…

www.outrageandoptimism.org/episodes/bre...

“Those of us living through late terminal stage Holocene rains will experience many more extreme events now that global change has passed its long-forecasted 1.5°C tipping point….” - we need to work hard on strategic intervention points to force compliance with this #ICJjudgement.

Every single point of Andrew Griffiths’ summary is absolutely thrilling. | Phoebe Barnard Every single point of Andrew Griffiths’ summary is absolutely thrilling. But as I wrote earlier this week, legal obligation seems to mean little or nothing to the putative leaders of the USA, Russia o...

Yes, and it is one of the most thrilling judgements ever. Yet we need to be fully prepared for the likelihood of “certain countries” continuing to act with impunity, and ready to read the riot act. www.linkedin.com/posts/phoebe...

It’s hard to disagree. We just need to recognize that the system’s cracking wide open at a crossroads.

“We can’t go on like this” she said, wearily 😣

Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

We’ve known for 25+years that #ecosystems were turning from #carbonsinks into #carbonsources. But this is where life on #Earth enters a vortex of runaway #climatechange if we can’t #restoretheplanet & #restoretheclimate at scale & at speed. #MillenniumAssessment
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...

Love this, which you wrote to me today: "Never in my time in the Senate have I seen a president cause as much chaos, panic,+damage in such a short time as President Trump has caused with his brazen+illegal moves to block federal funding from making it out to communities all across our country..." 👏

Let's make better choices about where we place so much of our attention. Here's someone worth following...

Good work Joe. Big hugs. ☀️

It is indeed shocking the degree to which humanity has debased itself on this issue through a carefully and brutally constructed narrative. Where are we going, people?