Katrin Swindells

Also decreased pollution within the home. Less chance of asthma attacks in children.

How many do they then shut down?

a graphic showing who bought the startups - mostly og companies

"Oil and gas companies are the most active acquirers of climate tech startups. According to research by Sightline Climate, Shell made the most acquisitions globally between 2020 and 2024, buying up 8 companies. That was followed by BP, which snapped up 7"

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It appears that politicians are the weak point for action on climate change. Hoping Australians can share or donate to my funding drive to help more Community Independent politicians get into Parliament. 🙏
Australia doesn't want billionaires owning our politicians.
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The conclusions of the IPCC's 1.5C report: every action matters, every bit of warming matters.

Climate science never said "we only have 12 years until we fall off a cliff" - but sadly, many thought it did; and even more sadly, that misleading message fed right into the script for Trump's WEF remarks today.

Here's what the science has always said:

Just reporting in.

I managed to get through the whole of today without making a Nazi salute.

I suspect I'll achieve the same tomorrow.

That's so fast! Climate change is certainly changing the balance of nature in favour of wildfires.

Today we've announced our plan to make public school truly free.

The Greens will abolish school fees & deliver 'back to school payments'.

This will put nearly $2500 a year back in the pocket of a family with 2 kids, funded by making big corporations pay their fair share of tax.

Plastic pollution is just the other side of the fossil fuel cartels planetary destructive actions. In the same way they undermine action on decreasing emissions, they also actively undermine plastic recycling.

YouTube video by Punter's Politics Are we dumb enough to fall for this? 🤔 #australia

Punters politics has some good fossil fuel posts for Australia youtube.com/shorts/wJadk...

What turns a wildfire into a disaster, and where does climate change come in? I break it down here ...

some ways to generate electricity

A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons

B) use sunlight to make electrons

Altadena Wildfires My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly.

Several folks (170+) at NASA JPL affected by fires, including @bhamlington.bsky.social who wrote about it on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/pulse/altade...

Triumph stag

Climate change and insurance: a growing fustercluck Climate change is breaking the insurance market, and state governments can't afford to pick up the pieces

As we watch the #wildfire tragedy in SoCal, I'm thinking about root causes, and solutions. I'm sure I'll be writing lots more reflections going forward, but for now, posting this @volts.wtf episode here on insurance. Is this the event that breaks the FAIR plan's back?

www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...

Catastrophes cost the world $320bn in 2024, reinsurer reports Losses rise by 30 per cent as climate change takes its toll

As LA is on fire thanks to Exxon, now is as good a time as any to say that climate disaster costs are increasing 30% each year

And yet the right still insists we can’t afford climate action
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What does climate change have to do with California's fires? As Los Angeles battles catastrophic wildfires, experts say there are signs climate change is already reshaping fire seasons around the world.

"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world"

Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Climate change just keeps making extreme fire weather more extreme. What will it take to make people acknowledge that?

Here’s the thing.

There is a neat pyramid of wood, and a pile of kindling soaked in gasoline at the base.

I’m telling you it will burn, and they are telling you “there’s no evidence yet”.

PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot

A pie chart showing the area burned by the 20 largest wildfires on record from 1900 through 2021 in California.

As climate change increases the risk of dry conditions and fire weather, fires across western NAm are bigger, more dangerous, and burning greater area.

It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.

The way climate change is increasing extreme fire weather around the world is horrifying. Glad to hear you are safe

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Brilliant cartoonist Ann Telnaes is quitting the Washington Post because the paper killed her cartoon about billionaires in tech and media kowtowing to Trump. Sadly, the Jeff Bezos-owned Post proved her point.
Support the media truth-tellers. Reject the media cowards.

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Climate scientists be like..

Same here. Love the fact that it charges off my rooftop sunshine and that I never have to debate whether to go to the servo before or after work.

I remember reading an early draft of this @fastlerner.bsky.social story and having to stop several times out of disbelief, anger and disappointment.

Reading it again nearly a year later, my reactions are no less visceral.

On track for record-low Arctic sea ice this year.

Climate change was not a major theme in this year's election, but it should have been.

Luckily for humanity, no matter how vilified, maligned, and mistreated we are, we will keep doing the work needed to stop climate crisis.

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