@kevinclimate.bsky.social
Professor of Energy & Climate Change at Universities of Manchester & Uppsala. Translating climate science, through carbon budgets, into policy goals & mitigation options. Co-founder https://climateuncensored.com
Thanks for reminding me of the article. It sketches out some of the headline shifts that would be needed – & the unavoidable requirement to reallocate society’s productive capacity away from furnishing narrow private luxury and toward wider social good. Private sufficiency & public luxury, perhaps.
The box shows a summary that I've done of actions to be taken in high emission countries, suggested by the NEB scientists in their Nov 2025 talks, together with the article by @kevinclimate.bsky.social at www.sgr.org.uk/resources/ge... (hoping that I've not misquoted anybody).
Thanks for the support & I agree we can’t really begin to sketch out policies & strategies until we acknowledge the problem quantitatively & with a timeline. That said @radreduction.bsky.social makes a fair point, & one I do need to sketch out in more detail - with a UK, & similar nation, focus.
But then you have missed the point, I am afraid.
If we do not acknowledge failure, how can we even start making "prescriptive policy recommendations"? All we ever get is "we need AI and more electric cars", and Kevin's point is that such policies do not bring us any closer to the Paris agreement.
Fair point tho’ I suggest this wasn’t the right forum for me prescribing solutions as the audience was primarily Mexican. Mitigation strategies are shaped by culture, geography, &the political economy of the country in question. I’ve long argued that responses need to be grounded in those realities.
The world continues to heat regardless of geopolitics. Well worth 14mins of your time - with data up to Jan 2026. @kevinclimate.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8z...
The expansion of knowledge has unfolded alongside the expansion of harm. The damage is neither unforeseen nor poorly understood; it is documented in real time. What impedes response is not ignorance, but the gravitational pull of convenience, entrenched power, and habitual patterns of consumption.
Vol. 1, no.4 of the CO2 Newsletter, first published in April 1980 (that's not a typo) is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles.
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"What impedes response is not ignorance, but the gravitational pull of convenience, entrenched power, and habitual patterns of consumption and governance. We continue, knowingly, to accelerate processes whose consequences we can quantify with unsettling accuracy."
Thanks for the kind feedback.
i appreciate the work Kevin has done here
well worth a read
it’s grim but bracing
"The Arithmetic Of Climate Failure". my response to a series of questions posed by Alma Asfalto & published last week.
A link to the publication (with abridged answers) and including my full answers is at: climateuncensored.com/the-arithmet...
3️⃣ Professor @kevinclimate.bsky.social at the National Emergency Briefing:
UK must cut emissions far faster than planned even to limit warming to 2°C.
And that's before accounting for mounting evidence that heating has accelerated.
Full talk: www.nebriefing.org/expert-brief...
#NEB2025
Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach."
Probably fine.
We could reach +2°C of global warming next decade!
Learn why tomorrow on Climate Chat.
www.youtube.com/live/jcPwmfD...
Greenhouse gas concentrations keep rising. The planet keeps warming in response. And that added heat shows up in the extremes and impacts. This is really basic stuff.
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
If you haven't read this yet, pin it to your feed - take it to yr elected representatives. And to others'.
Thanks Johan Rockström & Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson for making this crystal clear to all who must act on it.
#AMOC #tippingpoints @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @euiniceland.bsky.social
bit.ly/4qyIMsZ
Recent talk recorded with slides.
Available at: climateuncensored.com/a-velvet-or-...
The presentation builds on and expands my short contribution to last November’s National Emergency Briefing. climateuncensored.com/national-eme...
Duration: 50-minute talk followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
A wonderful talk. IMO, the best of the maybe 10 I saw over the years, better than the NEbriefing one too, wrt slides and performance/act. Seeing WG2 highlighted had me💃!!
Lots to talk about with others.
But let me tell you wrt equity & CO2budget: non-dev'ed countries do not need the same pc CO2.
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@kevinclimate.bsky.social leading the way really now with communicating just what dite straits we're in
“no non-radical pathways now remain. We face a stark choice: rapid and far-reaching social and technical change, or a delayed transition marked by increasingly chaotic, and potentially violent, social disruption as climate impacts accelerate.“
I consider this to be a must-watch for everyone, everywhere. @kevinclimate.bsky.social doesn't sugar-coat the situation we're in, he tells it straight.
We need to understand the deep trouble we're in.
Wonderful talk. The best of the maybe 10 I saw over the years. Some slides are made for beginners. Emotion and ethics r pointed out. Attention pulled to experts in lying, eg 🇨🇦Carney and the now-IPCC chair Skea.
And calls for self-empowerment: push for progress within your radius so it can spread🕸️💪
Many thanks for the very kind comment and the thread; really appreciated.
"Fostering moral disengagement facilitates & encourages unrestrained, excessive consumption. …demand for air travel has been driven by the ideological manufacture of desire through targeted airline promotions that seek to ‘create’ consumers and accelerate air travel consumption."
Regulation needed.
The "global aviation regime [is] adept at shaping user practices & culture to enable & encourage unconstrained air travel… This has influenced the public’s perception of possible regulatory regimes…"
"confront…artificial[] acceleration [of] demand."
OPEN ACCESS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Recent talk recorded with slides.
Available at: climateuncensored.com/a-velvet-or-...
The presentation builds on and expands my short contribution to last November’s National Emergency Briefing. climateuncensored.com/national-eme...
Duration: 50-minute talk followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
This link climateuncensored.com/national-eme... takes you to the video recording of my 15-min' presentation at the National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social & a 10-min' interview I gave to wedonthavetime.org immediately after the event (Nov. 2025). Selected slides attached for reference.
Thanks for the feedback - & certainly an insightful quote.
Thanks for the kind comment.