I hosted a 'Hoon' yesterday with Cathrine Dyer PhD & Catherine Knight with epidemiologists and public health & climate specialists Alistair Woodward & Caroline Shaw. We previewed The Reality of Everything symposium happening at Vic Uni on June 26. Great chat. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
03.03.2026 03:55 β π 19 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0The Guardian just published a story on our paper "The Risk of a Hothouse Earth Trajectory" regarding a potential point of no return. You can read it for free here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
16.02.2026 16:26 β π 48 π 21 π¬ 4 π 2Humanities biggest crisis i think is our crisis of imagination. We can't imagine a world that isn't like this one (because it's all we have known). So we will do anything including digging up and destroying what is left of the life supporting capacity of our planet in an attempt to maintain this
15.02.2026 01:47 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
"If done right" sad to see 350.org so naive
29.01.2026 01:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is brilliant, I have all but given up on sustainability conferences (seems almost every conference is one) but I would do anything to attend this one. Anyone have some truth serum?
lylel.substack.com/p/the-sustai...
For you to believe that you must be misinformed, uninformed or lying. You seem to forget they are made mined transported and connected using fossil fuels and the eroi of fossils are declining and all the minerals ore concentrations are declining. How can they possibly remain cheap?
28.12.2025 22:45 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
We shouldn't be surprised with the outcome of Cop30. We have three decades of failure that shows us where this road leads to. It's time to change course.
www.technosphere.earth/about-as-muc...
Alcoholic art? :-)
25.11.2025 00:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0No better feeling? Surely there are one or two better? π
24.11.2025 19:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...
22.11.2025 23:10 β π 172 π 94 π¬ 6 π 6Great news congratulations James
21.11.2025 19:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The tiny grey sliver is remaining carbon budget for the mythical 1.5 degrees. Heads in sand we March on as if there is no tomorrow
14.11.2025 04:05 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0As we alarmingly wrote "We are hurtling toward climate chaos" in our new State of the Climate Report which just came out. We may be on the path of a hothouse Earth trajectory as shown in this figure. Read the full report: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
08.11.2025 00:44 β π 39 π 21 π¬ 4 π 1Hype vs reality
23.10.2025 01:42 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A Bolt From the Blue | Art Berman a brilliant reality check on the "energy transition" share.google/XaeDsECvQ2Kw...
17.10.2025 04:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our carbon capture plan. . .
16.10.2025 02:59 β π 69 π 21 π¬ 2 π 1
100% brilliant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
This is key for planetary and personal health: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
06.10.2025 03:37 β π 69 π 31 π¬ 4 π 4New Zealands dairy driven freshwater disaster
26.09.2025 09:53 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1Do the Math | Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, optionsβby Tom Murphy share.google/V4Xj0fN9kwfk...
25.09.2025 00:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nailed! thanks Alf for saying it so clearly
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