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Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021

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Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables

Global use of coal hit record high in 2024

- Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables

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US and Qatar issue energy and trade threats to EU over climate rules Fossil fuel exporters claim investment and security of supply will be imperilled

US & Qatar effectively admit their liquified natural gas supply chains harm human rights and the climate & environment

The prospective EU law on supply chain audits is up for debate this week

This kind of vigorous lobbying against the law suggests something to hide

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The Economic Consequences of Effective Carbon Taxes By Felix Kapfhammer∗ This paper studies the sectoral and macroeconomic consequences of carbon taxes in four Nordic countries using a novel monthly measure of effective carbon tax rates. The suggested measure accounts for the time-varying emission coverage of taxes that are both explicitly and implicitly levied on greenhouse gas-emitting goods, thereby solving several issues of existing carbon tax measures currently used by the literature. Employing the new measure in a local projections setting, I find that carbon taxes reduce emissions as expected but also impair macroeconomic activity – though there is some heterogeneity in the effects across sectors and countries. JEL: H23, Q54, Q58 Keywords: carbon tax, carbon pricing, climate policy, emissions, macroeconomy, economic sectors

You've got to love studies like these: New carbon tax paper out in @aeajournals.bsky.social: Macroeconomics.

The headline: "I find that carbon taxes reduce emissions
as expected but also impair macroeconomic activity."

What to make of this, a quick 🧵

Economics Needs a Climate Revolution With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics…

This isn't what macro econs ordinarily think through — and it isn't how science ordinarily works⁵ — but there's no harm in adding a bit of context either.

And suddenly the headline conclusion would be rather different.

⁵ gwagner.com/climate-econ-revolution w/ @tombrookes.bsky.social

Even the Telegraph - yes, the Telegraph - notes the gaping hole in her announcement today that she would, if ever electing into govt, scrap the Climate Change Act...

"It is unclear what plan Mrs Badenoch would put in place instead to help tackle climate change, which she concedes is happening."

Kemi Badenoch during her visit to Blyth*...

"A town once powered by coal is now powered by wind. And all this is creating hundreds of jobs. Blyth illustrates the promise of the clean energy revolution."

"We know that growing our green industries is crucial to reaching net zero"

Back to petroleum | The Observer In 2020, BP told the world that it cared about climate change. Today, it is doubling down on oil and gas. This is the story of how financial markets gave...

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Exclusive: Ad Giant IPG Accused of Breaking 'Industry First' Climate Policy With Work for World’s Biggest Oil Company Firm’s top London consultants planned to help Saudi Aramco influence policymakers, leaked documents reveal.

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Climate special: How to fix the climate crisis with Tim Lenton and Kate Marvel Episode 316 “All of the other planets out there are just complete garbage. The Earth is the only good place.” – Kate Marvel The climate crisis can leave many of us feeling hopeless and overwhelmed.…

Recommended listen: On a @newscientist.com podcast, climate scientists Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton discussed how to fix climate change, quipping: “All of the other planets out there are just complete garbage. The Earth is the only good place.”

Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report.  The channel, which attracts nearly half a million listeners a week, consi...

Murdoch-owned TalkRadio has been bombarding listeners with false claims about climate change, a new analysis by @stopfundingheat.bsky.social has revealed:

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What are we really going to have to do to adapt to climate change? It’s the tricky question that a cracking new book, Sink or Swim, grapples with

Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis Building rules have been focused on keeping warm in winter and saving on energy bills, not cooling down

Brutality of climate harm and dangerous heat. Especially harmful to the poorest & most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes - Carbon Brief Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030.

Read @carbonbrief.org's article by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and Ho Woo Nam here...

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Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under Paris Agreement.

Yes, SEVEN billion

Basically, equal to Indonesia's emissions over that period

Trump backs deep-sea mining hopefuls, risking international clash An executive order from Trump backing deep sea mining faces fierce environmental and international opposition.

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

“Authorizing deep-sea mining outside international law is like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite-it threatens ecosystems, global cooperation and US credibility all at once.”

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RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons WASHINGTON—Claiming the fantastical creatures were “way too cool” to leave their investigation to a handful of so-called experts, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a sta...

RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons

Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels - Carbon Brief UK newspapers have already launched more editorials attacking Ed Miliband in the first four months of 2025 than they did during the whole of 2024.

Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-att...

In a screeching u-turn, it emerges that Tony Blair does have a reverse gear after all

Extraordinary error of political judgement for him to make his initial attack on net zero policies a week after Starmer’s clean energy speech & days before local elections

5 reasons I (mostly) agree with Tony Blair on Net Zero It was just a few months ago when Tony Blair issued a paper hailing the Conservatives’ decision to put the Net Zero target into law as "a significant moment of statecraft and global leadership that he...

Interesting take from Joss Garman on Tony Blair’s intervention on Net Zero.

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Heartland Institute Reacts To Petro-Masculinity Concept With Pathetic Display Of Petro-Masculinity In March, we wrote about the misogynistic harassment that women climate activists like Sophia Kianni and Greta Thunberg face online. In April, Kianni tweeted out quotes from the syndicated Red, Green,...

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We must rethink energy security for today’s complex world Governments and businesses need to work together in realising a secure and sustainable vision of energy abundance

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Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment Move could open the door to using high-profile report to attack climate science

@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.

@rparloff.bsky.social love your work sir.

Daniele Artico, physicist, will go on trial in Berlin, Germany, for acts of civil disobedience in resistance against governments' complicity in the suffering of peoples during the ongoing climate emergency. #ScientistsOnTrial

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

Anyone starting to see a pattern here at all?

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
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Capitalism Will Ruin the Earth By 2050, Scientists Say
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Some awfully good signs yesterday.

Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️

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Signalgate: the investigations begin DOD Inspector General launches investigation into Signalgate. Here's why this is potentially a VERY big deal.

Signalgate: the investigations begin
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