Outrageous. Britain is being sued in a corporate court, for stopping the Cumbria coal mine.
We’ve been saying for years that this system of corporate courts (ISDS) is an obstacle to climate action and democratic politics. Now it couldn’t be clearer
7/ The take away is that that we'll see climate impacts sooner than previously predicted.
We therefore need to redouble efforts to phaseout fossil fuels, whilst at the same time investing in adaptation
We must avoid a doom-loop where the impacts of climate chaos derail our ability to cut emissions
6/ Scientists aren't entirely sure whats causing the acceleration. But it's related to a decline in the planets reflectivity.
A leading explanation is that clouds are shifting pole-wards. This "constitutes the largest contribution to the observed 21st century trend of increased solar absorption"
5/ This pre-print by Foster an @rahmstorf.bsky.social shows that this acceleration in global warming means we will breach the 1.5C goal in 2026!
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
4/ We're seeing this manifest in an acceleration in global warming.
"Ocean heat content rose 1.7× faster in the past decade than in previous decades"
& impacts like sea level rise are also accelerating...
"Global mean sea level rose 1.8× faster in the past decade than in previous decades"
3/ Scientists now believe this rules out lower #climate sensitivity estimates
Which "means that increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases likely will cause even more warming than most current models predict."
Our carbon budgets are smaller. Meeting the Paris goals is harder.
2/ The Earth is absorbing energy faster than climate models had predicted...
"Observations from space of the energy imbalance shows that it is rising much faster than expected, and in 2023 it reached values two times higher than the best estimate from IPCC"
In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why
The public discourse is not keeping up.
Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
In Forbes talking about how we need to start properly taxing wealth. It would pay for a lot of stuff we need. But it’s good in itself because a tiny % of people have far too much. & they have it because of massive exploitation of people and the planet.
www.forbes.com/sites/christ...
The Trump administration is undoing years of climate action in a matter of days.
Here’s a detailed timeline of the rollbacks: bloom.bg/43njfLn
Reeves is right - the world has changed. So why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Obsession with arbitrary fiscal rules & ruling out wealth taxes is political choice that’s causing huge pain as well as laying out the welcome mat for populist Reform UK #SpringStatement
The climate crisis is happening now, and fossil fuels are the number one cause. Tell the UK Prime Minister: We need a global exit plan from fossil fuels #FossilFuelTreaty #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/3262
MP Watch was at the EFRA committee yesterday to hear
@sarahdykeld.bsky.social & @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social
quiz the head of Ofwat about plans & history.
Questioning was at times almost as fierce as the public's disgust & local examples were given. Let's see what the recommendations are.
People should dance way more. Just let loose. Things get too uptight otherwise
