"Here we show that more than 99% of the evaluated impact assessments handled sea-level and land elevation data inadequately, thereby misjudging sea level relative to coastal elevation. "
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Luckily, a few countries are standing up against the attack. But more is needed. www.politico.eu/article/spai...
"The findings raise concerns that much larger glaciers could one day collapse just as quickly." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The EU is undergoing Treaty change. You just weren’t supposed to notice.
5 reforms to EU law-making. No Convention. No ratification. No democratic debate.
I call it the Castle Method — and it’s constitutional drift hiding in plain sight.
🔗 verfassungsblog.de/the-castle-method/
Ofwel, ik heb zeker hoop dat GL/PvdA vecht voor goed klimaatbeleid. Maar klimaat komt te vaak in belangrijke debatten/media/etc laag op de prioriteitenlijstjes waardoor er naar mijn mening minder gevoel van urgentie is bij het bredere publiek. Terwijl het van alle kanten politiek wordt aangevallen.
Is het niet belangrijk om juist nù klimaat weer in de belangrijke debatten die veel media aandacht krijgen op 1 te zetten? Juist nu bijv op Europees niveau een directe aanval plaatsvindt op het fundament van het Europees klimaatbeleid (zie Italië en lobby mbt ETS)?
“It is one thing to ask for fine-tuning [of the ETS] but to call out for basically an open-heart surgery of one of the most successful economic instruments that the Union has risks cutting the blood flow altogether,” Swedish Industry Minister Ebba Busch.
This should be code red. The ETS is the pillar of EU's climate policy. It's under heavy attack from lobby groups and center and far-right politicians. If the ETS falls, this will have enormous negative consequences for Europe and the planet as a whole. www.politico.eu/article/ital...
Climate mitigation costs money. But it ends up avoiding way more costs in the future.
My new video…
Methane: The Emergency Brake for Global Heating
If we reduced human methane emissions by 45% over the next decade (very doable) then we could shave off 0.3C of warming…
youtu.be/cqsEm2XOqKc?...
“We wish to state plainly and unequivocally that, in our informed view, there is no basis in science and no discernible basis in law for [the Minister's] assertion."
– Experts' “extreme concern” over the delay in publishing an updated national Climate Action Plan.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.
80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.
16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
”The planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.”
#ClimateHeating
www.esa.int/Applications...
"Our results imply that the Antarctic Ice Sheet does not act as one single tipping element, but rather as several tipping systems interacting across drainage basins."
"Marine-based sectors in East Antarctica, representing ~5 m of potential sea-level rise, are at risk of losing stability at 2–5 °C."
"A first threshold, potentially as low as 1–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, triggers the long-term collapse of ~40% of marine ice volume in West Antarctica." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lets not deny gravity like the US does. If they want to disregard scientific facts, let them pull out and become more and more isolated. www.politico.eu/article/us-t...
The EU's climate targets are completely off track to contain global heating to 1.5°C
Every fraction of a degree the world heats, more people will die, lose their homes, lose their livelihoods
That means every fraction of a degree of heating we STOP, the more people we save and destruction we avoid
So far, the EU's "deregulation drive" seems more about protecting vested interests than regaining competitiveness. It mostly protects legacy interests at the expense of the formation of new sustainable companies and technologies. Which more likely results in further loss of competitiveness.
The ETS is the most important and successful climate policy of the EU. It provides a market-based, predictable and stable way to transition to a sustainable economy. If EU truly wants to regain competitiveness, killing the ETS would be the worst thing you could do. www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
EU's von der Leyen defends carbon market after leaders' criticism reut.rs/3MvY9nP
"Here we show that the South Indian Ocean—a vital conduit for interocean exchange—has experienced the strongest freshening in the Southern Hemisphere since the 1960s." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rubio's speech is a toned-down version of what the US institutions have emanated for 12+ mos. A 15 min evocation of the white history of Euro-US relations, Colombo and colonisers get a cheer, 20th c migration cancelled, 21st c "mass" migration demonized. And ofc climate change being called a cult.
"Zo ongeveer de hele energie-intensieve industrie van Europa wil dat de afbouw van CO₂-emissierechten in het emissiehandelssysteem stopt. Dat zou de bodem onder het Europese klimaatbeleid wegslaan, en de pas aangescherpte doelen van de Green Deal onhaalbaar maken.."
fd.nl/politiek/158...
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Voor iedereen die de sprookjes gelooft dat het allemaal makkelijker wordt als je de #kdw uit de wet haalt en gaat sturen op #natuurkwaliteit. Dit zijn de drukfactoren voor de #n2000 gebieden, gebaseerd op de eerste 70 natuurdoelanalyses. #stikstof en #water. Grotere gebieden én verbinden.
Environmental stressors (food scarcity, heat) combined with pesticide exposure create effects 70x more destructive than pesticides alone, yet regulators ignore this lethal synergy.
www.newstarget.com/2026-01-...
This is just criminal. It serves no purpose at all, except for helping his donors destroy the planet. www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-direct-pentagon-buy-coal-revive-industry-bloomberg-news-says-2026-02-11/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=698bf0f0f0b1700001e22762
