Clair Barnes

Generations from now, when historians study this period where we have perfect understanding of the problem, and brilliant, readily available solutions with all the resources necessary to implement them, they'll study cases like this to try to figure out why we kept drilling holes in our lifeboat.

Well now that's upsetting.

“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.

This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.

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Watch, @fisherdanar.bsky.social , @davidho.bsky.social and me talk about corporate capture, cat capture and where we think things climate could be in 5 years. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stories on BBC News - a street brawl which helpfully tells us those involved were “of Turkish origin” and another about a sex offender “Sudanese” but an extremely prolific sex offender responsible for 343 offences is not described as “white British” why is that

Do climate conferences actually achieve anything? A lot of people have strong opinions, but we wanted measurements, so we look at how the stock market moves during yearly international meetings called COPs – explanation below, or read the paper here:
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Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:

STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food

RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor

SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise

PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

*** 1 metre of rain ***

Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.

In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors.

Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

"People think hope is wishful thinking, and actually hope is about action." Quote from the Wiser Than Me podcast with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

"Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." Graphic by the Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Graphic by Ariana Huffington on Instagram.

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

The logo of the European Space Agency's Planetary Defence office is a cartoon T-Rex distressed by the appearance of an impacting asteroid in a starry sky. Under the logo is written "Dinosaurs didn't have a space agency".

I was reminded today of the logo for ESA's Planetary Defence Office.

I think it wins over the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office and JAXA Planetary Defense logos.

📈Climate change-driven summer heat led to an additional 16,500 deaths in 854 European cities, a new study led by the Grantham Institute and the @lshtm.bsky.social estimates 🧵

Watch Dr @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social explain the findings.

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

Almost 900 fewer people have been injured on Welsh roads since the default speed limit was lowered from 30 to 20mph two years ago

Casualties on 20 to 30mph roads between July and September 2024 were the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979

👏 Evidence-led policy

The extremely hot, dry weather conditions that primed Spain and Portugal for this year's catastrophic wildfire season are no longer a rare occurrence thanks to human-caused warming. This probably shouldn't come as a surprise, but if it does, the full study is @wwattribution.bsky.social...

Puptribution? I'm game!

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Finland and Scandinavia were sweltering under a relentless heatwave a few weeks ago, with local temps exceeding 30C for days on end... @wwattribution.bsky.social found that prolonged high temps like these are twice as likely to happen now as in 2018 -> tinyurl.com/42m7z2uc

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

ICYM - Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

- Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

#climatecrisis
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Check out our new alert system at @climatecentral.org for the rapid attribution of climate extremes around the world (including information on temperature extremes, marine heatwaves, tropical cyclones, wildfires, and more to come): www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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