Prof Phoebe Barnard

Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘ The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate

If youve lived in countries where 30•C or 40•C temps are common, you’ll know well what a brake it is on physical activity. Ten, twenty, thirty years ago, it was African desert countries that often kept me from a morning run. Now, in the summertime , it’s France 😟 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Glad that this is still running despite all!

Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change is a global partnership aimed at promoting and defending information integrity on climate change

#Austria #Belgium #Brazil #Canada #Chile #Denmark #Finland #France #Germany #Spain #Sweden #Uruguay #Netherlands decided to be on the right side of history when it comes to corruption vs a future.

Who else will sign? C’mon #SouthAfrica #Namibia #Bhutan #CostaRica

www.unesco.org/en/informati...

Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change is a global partnership aimed at promoting and defending information integrity on climate change

So far, only 13 countries have signed the #COP30 #InformationIntegrityDeclaration to counter FossilFuelDisinformation. Which countries?: 🧵

www.unesco.org/en/informati... #COPofTruth

Statement from Scientists at the Planetary Science Pavilion, about the current state of COP negotiations - Planetary Science Pavilion Belém, November 14, 2025. Most of the CO2 budget that would push warming to 1.5°C has already been emitted, mainly by the world’s major economies. Now, midway through the decade, when global emissions...

When you look at it like this, every moment of hot air is especially inexcusable. Please share from my science colleagues at #COP30

planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/14/s...

Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...

My colleague @nafeez.bsky.social exposes the utterly dark and cynical relationship between #Epstein and #Bannon - not just domestically in the #USA but in the blatant ideological infiltration of #Europe. The worst ironies of #pizzagate, etc. #marjorietaylorgreene

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I’m already living in a similar climate and advising governments on preparing to govern wisely (and more collaboratively) in much less stable times.

Yep, it’s like a whole lifetime of a slow-motion self-fulfilling prophecy. I hear you on that.

The science behind cutting shipping emissions and short-term global warming Recent scientific debates highlight a paradox in pollution reduction. Reducing certain air pollutants, particularly sulphur emissions from shipping, is hugely beneficial for people’s health. But a dec...

This isn’t my field, but the basics are that soot from burning ship fuel has protected the Earth from a certain level of heating. We’ve know that cleaning it up would cause short term heating, but that in the longer term it’s essential to do it. Here’s a link: www.cleanairfund.org/news-item/cu...

Prof Bill Laurance’s team shows how protected areas in South America are hugely vulnerable to road expansion and the many environmental perils this brings.

South America’s protected areas are bisected by >830,000 km of roads — enough to encircle Earth over 20x.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lIjD...

My determined friend and global climate strategy expert #EliseBuckle: “Very moving and humbling to witness the immensely beautiful territory of #Amazonia with its
550 million hectares of trees. 390 billion trees from 16,000+ species. There are 50 times more trees than human beings on #Earth.”

Just wait for the AMOC. But for now, both have significant mortalities in many countries each year.

Yes. I worked for a while on the Belt and Road Initiative impacts and planning in two different organizations. But like every country, and especially like any country with >1 billion people, they are full of good, bad, ugly, beautiful.

Go to the post and you will see - part of thread

You misunderstand me. I don't disagree on catastrophic change, indeed you'll find that I've warned of this for 6+ years. But I disagree that we have no agency apart from collapse adaptation. I work on biodiversity, ecosystems, civilization. I know how crucial is each 0.1 degree of avoided heating.

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#hansen | Phoebe Barnard 🎯 Many of us have been predicting this for years, not least James #Hansen and Sir David King - I remember the time in 2005 when I realized that reality was starting to be worse than the worse case sce...

We have to choose. Right now, by lunchtime. Bleakness? Or human agency and a future? If you’re anything like me, you’ll fight for the latter and not capitulate to the lazy and grim former. Read it: www.linkedin.com/posts/phoebe...

#climateemergency #civilization #futures @nickoldridge.bsky.social

You'll notice my text was full of caveats for those and other reasons. But which of our countries has higher moral ambition for the planet? I can count the nations I'd recognize on that line on the fingers of one hand.

China, not without its own flaws, nonetheless shows us what an #ecologicalcivilization might look like with Nature, climate, community at its core. It has a long way to go, like the West but I respect its high moral ambition. A good US climate/Nature leader: housedemocrats.wa.gov/lekanoff/iss...

Yes, we've seen appeasement vs zero-tolerance before. Appeasement didn't end well in Britain under Chamberlain. But European leaders do face a dilemma of managing right wing parties in government or banning them. What was easier in the 1940s with the BUF ban is a huge social+media challenge today.

I left the USA last month for Europe - for one of its most humane and democratic cities - and it feels like oxygen suddenly blowing through an opening window - even after living in one of the USA's most humane and democratic states, Washington State. This extremist US administration cannot last.

10. Photo credit for photo of women in post 5 of this thread: Women and children sitting in a naturally cooling community space designed by much-awarded Nigerienne architect Mariam Issoufou. Photo by James Wang and team, kindest courtesy of Mariam Issoufou Architects. ♥️🌿🦋

9. #documentary #filmmaking #shoestring #takebackourfuture www.theclimaterestorers.com

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8. #cities #humanagency #future #hyperconsumption #endlessgrowth #population #humansupremacy #corruption #inertia #systemschange #mindsetshift #shinytech #methane #emissionsreduction #emissionsremoval #bluecarbon #builtenvironment #ecosystemrestoration #natureconservation #rewilding

7. ♥️💜🧡 The future is not yet written, but time is against us, and the odds are still very stark. If we want a future for civilization, we have to shift our destructive systems + our mindsets of entitlement and domination - fast.
#cdr #carbon #climaterepair #climaterestoration #civilizationalshift

Women and children sitting in a community space designed by much-awarded Nigerienne architect Mariam Issoufou. Photo by James Wang and team, kindest courtesy of Mariam Issoufou Architects.

5. cont... for scaled, well regulated solutions is essential.

6. 🌇🚋 Construction and renovation need to move rapidly to biological concrete alternatives+other approaches to sustainable human settlements, as they generate more than 38% of global carbon emissions.

www.theclimaterestorers.com/news

4. cont. ...to find, test, scale, fund, regulate ways to remove levels already in the atmosphere. It’s too late to focus simply on emissions reduction, though both are urgent.

5. 🐋🐟🌅 Blue carbon solutions are critical+promising, even if some are proving unlikely. And continued innovation funding

3. cont. ...and Nature protection and restoration, and food systems change and soil restoration, need vast investment and effort globally.

www.theclimaterestorers.com/news

4. 🌪️⛽️ Methane, the superpollutant, needs urgent attention, not only to reduce emissions drastically and rapidly, but also...

2. 🍘 Nature-based technologies and building approaches may, sometimes will, have an increasing role to play in carbon dioxide removal and methane oxidation - but:

3. 🌿🐝👩🏽‍🌾 while they’re developing and being tested and scaled, and governance developed, Nature is still the only real game in town.