Climate Action Maps (Cat Russell)

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

When it comes to climate change, our diets matter — and matter a lot.

Not to mention for biodiversity, water, and especially our own health.

The updated EAT-Lancet report makes this abundantly clear.

apnews.com/article/plan...

Food causes 22-34% of climate change.
But it only gets 4% of the media coverage.

Why? Neglect. Misunderstanding. And a hell of a lot of greenwashing.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

As a climate educator, my mind is full of possibilities for discussion questions based on this film!

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Everyday #ClimateAction

Watch this Netflix series!!!

One of the best dramas I’ve ever seen.

Challenged in the context of climate migration, all of the characters mature, not just the teens.

Suspenseful, haunting, loving, thought-provoking, unforgettable.

www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/families_...

More solar was installed in the first 4 months of 2025 than in all of 2022.⚡New battery storage is smashing records. Wind likely will too. EV sales? Record pace. 🚗🔋
The clean tech wave is accelerating—and petrostate politicos are freaking out. 🌍 #EV #BESS #Solar #Wind

Great! I’d be delighted to work with y’all. Let me know!

"Drilled has been digging into what the industry says privately about its preferred climate solutions [like CCS] ... We’ve talked to current and former staff at oil companies ... dug up primary documents, and watched countless hours of promotional videos." 👀

Historic Hearing Underway In Youth Constitutional Climate Case Against Trump A federal court in Montana is hearing arguments and live witness testimony this week in a new youth-led lawsuit challenging several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders designed to boost fossi...

It's day 2 of the high-stakes hearing in the youth climate case challenging the Trump administration's orders unleashing a fossil fuel frenzy

Youth plaintiffs & expert witnesses are testifying live. No witnesses are testifying on Trump's side

www.climateinthecourts.com/historic-hea...

🔌💡 #Greensky Hi All. I've written up some notes with links to resources for anyone who wants to understand and make the case for grid-scale batteries in their community, as we did in Poughkeepsie. Feel free to share. And for the many people on here who know more than me – please help me improve it.

An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared - Inside Climate News The mining industry is the sector linked to the most attacks against people trying to protect the environment and their homelands.

Since 2012, at least 2,253 environmental defenders have been murdered or disappeared. Far more have been abducted, threatened, harassed and assaulted.

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

We do need a small, cheap, lightweight one, though!

Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows - Inside Climate News Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts.

A new study led by @clairbarnes.bsky.social shows that human-caused global warming tripled heat wave deaths in European cities this summer to 24,400. These 16,500 people would still be alive if we weren't burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.

Just noting that climate activists — and, indeed, researchers into climate communication, science, and politics — have been saying this about our opponents for years.

Check it out!

Yep! Not even close.

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Ikr? With “friends” like this, who needs enemies?

But! I am hopeful that people will read this paper anyway - even the supplement! - and we're still working hard to launch a new Global Burden of Climate Change Study that can actually #CountEveryClimateDeath. And if you've read this far, I hope you'll share our work (and journalists... 📲📩👋). ❤️

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Example of international cooperation reducing climate risk

Powering up: how Ethiopia is becoming an unlikely leader in the electric vehicle revolution A country plagued by power cuts has become the first to ban imports of petrol and diesel cars, as a new dam brings hopes of cheap green energy

As of last year, Ethiopia banned new petrol & diesel car imports—leapfrogging fossils straight to EVs. ⚡🚗 Backed by 97% hydro and the 5,150 MW Renaissance Dam, it’s targeting 500k EVs by 2030. $4.5B in fuel imports on the line. Challenges remain, but the future’s electric. 🌍🔋 #EV #EnergyTransition

13 state governors join coalition to promote EVs The Affordable Clean Cars Coalition said it will push back against the Trump administration's policies of “putting polluters over people.”

Despite unprecedented headwinds from the federal government, states continue to lead when it comes to the clean energy economy of the future. #ClimateFederalism

Pakistan is sold on solar. It’s not about going green. Conventionally generated electricity in Pakistan has become very expensive, but consumers don’t have to buy it. They are adopting solar panels.

Pakistan’s rooftop solar boom shows how energy transitions often start from the bottom up.

I told Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social: when tariffs soar and panel prices plunge, people innovate.

www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-S...

Sure! Here's an idea of what a Climate Action Map based on the SHIFT guide I received might look like, with the actions I indicated I'm already doing checked off. For another example, see www.climateactionmaps.org/climate-frie...

Just look at what happened with solar investment - it’s astonishing.

Solar has seen the most rapid investment growth, soaring from $142 billion in 2015 to a projected $441 billion this year.

Scary numbers as government tallies the catastrophic cost of climate delay | Climate Council THE CLIMATE COUNCIL WARNS our first National Climate Risk Assessment released today is a horror story of rising costs an

#BREAKING: The Government's first National Climate Risk Assessment is a horror story of rising costs & harm unless we cut climate pollution faster.

If we keep burning coal, oil & gas at the same rate, the Govt says Sydney would face a 444% increase in heat-related deaths.

https://climc.nl/3VV5VbT