if you talk to people about climate change you need to know these six key facts. from @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference.

"The announcement indicated that Tonga... could move forward with recognizing whales as legal persons and appointing human guardians to represent them in court."

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China's CO2 Flow Drops Despite Growing Electricity Demand Wind, solar and nuclear growth appears to be driving a big shift (for now).

Vital and encouraging news via @revkin.bsky.social and @carbonbrief.org

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Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2024 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Explore climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support at every geographic level in the United States.

Majorities in almost every state (47 of em) support the transition to 100% clean energy, away from fossil fuels....

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

This is very wow ...

Trump officials fire 800 employees at weather forecasting and oceans agency | CNN Politics The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two s...

"Meteorologists and computer engineers across NOAA were impacted, including at the Hurricane Research Division... Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and the division that develops and improves the United States’ weather models."

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ok maybe i'll start actually using this...

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2024 Two-thirds of Americans think global warming is affecting weather in the U.S.

"11% of Americans have considered moving to avoid the impacts of global warming." 👀

Yup, it's that time of the year again, when reporters need to find a scientist to give them a quote for their article. To save time, I've come up with this.