Kelly Rigg

Emissions Gap Report 2025 UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leav...

New UNEP Emissions Gap Report finds that, without immediate aggressive action, the world could be on track for 2.3°C-2.8°C of global warming over the century. www.unep.org/resources/em...

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

“The nuclear powers might have been the most technologically advanced countries in the world, but in hindsight, it’s clear they had little idea of what they were doing, and the health of the local populations was an afterthought, if a thought at all.”

Speaking for every sane person

Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons The president says he wants to resume nuclear testing but doesn’t seem to know why.

The president wants to resume nuclear testing. This is a really bad idea - and he can't even get his facts right about why he wants to do it:

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The US has respected a moratorium on testing nuclear weapons for 33 years. It's been 35 years for Russia. Trump wants to start exploding them again. Where did he have in mind? Nevada? The South Pacific?
Trump and the new arms race. But no food aid or health care for Americans.

Climate change is making hurricanes more destructive a lot of climate misinformers don't want you to understand this

Climate deniers getting ready to claim that climate change did not make the damage from Hurricane Melissa worse.

This is misinformation.

UN calls for faster emissions cuts for 2035 as first global estimate disappoints UNFCCC "calculations" suggest a 10% drop in global emissions, but delays by many countries in submitting NDCs cloud official review of climate pledges

Global emissions may fall 10% by 2035 — but scientists say a 60% drop is needed to keep 1.5°C alive.

CDA & VVD negeerden de Tweede Kamer en maakten Poetin rijk

Erkens: "We dachten: we kopen goedkoop Russisch gas. In Duitsland gaan kerncentrales dicht. Iedereen denkt: we importeren het. Als iedereen zo denkt, heb je een probleem. Dat hebben we nu. Daarom moeten we energieonafhankelijker worden."

Klimaatmars in Den Haag met duidelijke boodschap: ‘Stop de fossiele subsidies’ Naar schatting trekken zondagmiddag 45.000 mensen naar het Malieveld om de strijd tegen de klimaatcrisis aan te gaan. Tijdens de mars die vlak voor de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen plaatsvindt, eisen de me...

Met 45.000 demonstranten riepen we in Den Haag de stille meerderheid op om komende woensdag vooral groen te stemmen. Een stabiel klimaat is randvoorwaardelijk voor het duurzaam kunnen oplossen van alle andere Haagse issues
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Big crowd on sunny Malieveld

At the Climate March in The Hague. As the climate crisis deepens, it's not much of a theme in the Dutch election campaign.
I heard it's because climate is 'only' the #4 concern of voters. But why not ask questions on #4 in the debates?
While immigration is talked up, climate is silenced down.

Oud-weerman Hiemstra geeft persconferentie: 'Belangrijkste crisis wordt genegeerd' Terwijl de verkiezingsdebatten in Nederland vooral draaien om koopkracht en migratie, waarschuwt meteoroloog Gerrit Hiemstra dat de echte crisis wordt genegeerd: het klimaat.

Kiezers vinden klimaat niet meer belangrijk, dus politici dan ook niet. Het nieuwe normaal: het klimaat kan vast wel even even wachten, tot we een paar andere problemen hebben opgelost. Van alle politici was alleen Esther Ouwehand hier aanwezig. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...

All of this should be obvious. And yet one of the biggest causes of the crisis is that it is still being ignored by far too many people who accept there is a problem but refuse to engage with the scale of what they are facing.

'All systems are flashing red': How the world is failing in its climate goals The latest State of Climate Action report reveals that for all the progress sparked by the clean tech boom, the global economy is still badly off track for meeting its net zero goals

This may be coloured somewhat by the fact I'm recovering from covid, but in 20 years of writing about climate change I think this may be one of the bleakest reports I've ever covered. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

This is not doomerism. It's facing the facts. And it's not a reason to give up, but a call to redouble our efforts. And vote for the climate, in countries where that's possible.

And keeping atmospheric CO2 in check is already becoming harder, as we're running into this: bsky.app/profile/sust...

"There's no shortage of reasons these days to be angry or afraid. But look around you right now and you'll see tens of thousands of reasons to keep the faith and keep going. This is the America we know to be possible."

—Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston No Kings Rally 🚫👑 #NoKings

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

This is a huge shame.
Maritime emissions need to be reduced. It has taken years to build proposals to enhance committed clean shipping supporting decarbonisation, ocean health and innovation.

This is the quiet, but slowly getting louder horror story taking place across the northern hemisphere

nature NEWS 12 October 2025 Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world. By Jeff Tollefson

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors.

The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇
👉global-tipping-points.org

“We have more & more evidence for tipping points in all these different systems” warns @pik-potsdam.bsky.social scientist Sina Loriani...“There is an increasing risk that we kick off feedback loops that amplify & accelerate changes in the Earth system”

#ClimateEmergency

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

"Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The real winners of Trump’s attack on clean energy aren’t American U.S. politics are undercutting clean energy at the same time economics are propelling it forward globally. Can the U.S. afford to sit this out?

"As US political forces are working against the energy transition, economics are propelling it forward globally. Other countries are pivoting to solar and wind because dramatic price reductions have made them the cheapest options"

Should be a no-brainer, but I guess that explains it
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Pope Leo Calls for Unity on Climate at a Divided Moment

"there are sobering signs that the world continues to warm, leading to devastating effects for millions of people."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

If you are interested in the climate crisis and how to prepare yourself, you need to be listening to, reading, and following Alex Steffen. This thread is a great place to start.
@alexsteffen.bsky.social

The anthropogenic glacier collapse currently underway in the Alps has resulted in the disappearance of >1000 small glaciers! 😱🔥

Following the release of Swiss glacier loss numbers today, let me introduce you the now extinct Vadret da Triazza (Eastern Switzerland) ✝️

Via @matthias-huss.bsky.social

The Montreal Protocol (which regulates HFCs) is a clear example of when govts listened to scientists (despite opposition from industry at the time) and very good things happened as a result. Enter Trump, as usual, to fart in the elevator and tell us it’s perfume.

Why the White House is abandoning solar President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright insist that solar power will never be a reliable source of energy.

As usual, no one mentions that fossil fuels are heavly subsidised. Level the playing field my ass.

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