New work tells a familiar story about invasive species impacts, while highlighting the value of #OpenScience resources for biosecurity.
#CEBRA, @lu-yiwang.bsky.social, Anca Hanea, @tkompas.bsky.social
I, along with 30 co-authors from 20 different countries, just had published a Perspective in Nature Sustainability entitled 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises'. It's available in the link below:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... .
A new Nature Sustainability paper out today. 30 co-authors from 20 different countries. 'Rethinking responses to the world's water crises' … url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yliZCXLKNw...
McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sums it up nicely: Bill McGuire: “Smoke and mirrors: 37 bt out of 40 bt tonnes of CO2 emitted in 2023 due to burning FFs, but - like every COP beforehand - @COP29 pretends this isn't happening.”
It's like they've reinvented Australia
Happy to join you here Michael!
Bluesky is seeing a massive influx of activity following the US election results last week. ‣ @siliconrepublic.bsky.social #BlueSky
For those who are keeping track, that's named storm #18. Only 11 seasons going back to 1851 have seen that many storms. (Note: the last time tropical Atlantic temps were near this warm and we were headed toward La Nina--2005--the season extended into January)
If you learn anything today, it should be this:
We're burning more fossil fuels and releasing more fossil fuel CO₂ than ever. Despite what people had hoped, anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have not peaked.
To stay below +1.5°C of global warming, we're supposed to cut emissions by 50% by 2030. 🥲
Biden officials ask EU to align methane rules with US to ease LNG flows
Instead of rushing the study on the environmental, climate, and national-security impacts of LNG, making the permitting pause permanent before Trump takes office, Biden is spending his time making sure that the sweet, sweet methane keeps flowing smoothly after he's gone.
Catastrophe.
Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
This is exactly what I argued about the campaigns themselves: that Trump offered a deep story and Harris defended institutions!
Here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Hmm— two independent but converging takes — we must be right lolsob.
To wit:
Headline: COP29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals Image: the exec on video looking shady
Video shows Elnur Soltanov, a chief executive of COP-29, planning to use the COP to drive "investment opportunities" in their state oil & gas company.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he said to the reporter posing as an investor.
The BBC has the story (link in next skeet).
The Atlantic hurricane season is on track to eclipse the 160 mark for Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE). This will officially qualify 2024 as a "hyperactive" season. Notice how heavily backloaded the season became. Precisely why no one should ever declare a hurricane season "over" in September.
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
rdcu.be/dbFbB
Here are the economic damages at 3.4C (!!) by country. Up to 28% annual losses in GDP for the most impacted. Catastrophic!! (Antarctica captures losses for island nations and other countries that don’t have resolution in the global map.) Even here damage functions are limited. Published in NCC.
People working on the transition have already prepared a slate of executive orders and presidential proclamations on climate and energy. They include withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, eliminating every office in every agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities and shrinking the size of national monuments in the West to allow more drilling and mining on public lands. President Biden has made environmental justice a top priority and has sought to ensure that underserved communities benefit from at least 40 percent of clean energy development. That initiative will be scrapped, people familiar with the plan said. The move will be part of a greater effort to dismantle what Mr. Trump’s allies view as the “woke” agenda and any programs that do not help improve the economy.
Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment has reportedly prepared drastic changes, including "eliminating every office in every agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities"
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/c...
The CEO of COP29 talking to a fake investment group on a video call, promising to arrange deals between them and SOCAR, Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company during the upcoming climate conference:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hey Leah, good to see you here. I’m an economist working on damages from global warming and needed (and urgent) emissions reduction.
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past three months! 😳Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
The severe losses in GDP by country as a result of Climate Change at 3.4 degrees (graphic). Total global damages over $610 TRILLION to 2100, or a COVID sized economic shock *every year* on average for the next 80 years. END FOSSIL FUELS NOW! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
