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🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨 Featuring @johnfocook. We explore the fundamentals of climate change misinformation, its effect on belief, and how to counter it. Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=a4Ak39… #climatechange #climatedenial #climatemisinformation #misinformation

Hi @bobjcarr I am an Australian environmental podcaster who interviews experts in the ecological crisis. Would you be interested in joining me on my podcast to discuss your leadership in climate change policy? Xavier

Hello @RobertBilott , My community in the Blue Mountains (Australia) is currently in the midst of a PFAS contamination in our drinking water. Would you join me on my podcast to discuss the history of PFAS and its deleterious effects?

🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨 Featuring @dhanasreej, Assistant Professor of Geopolitics at @MAHE_Manipal. We explore the intersection of #geopolitics, national #security, and how #climatechange exacerbates global tensions and challenges. Click the link in my bio to watch now.

Bluesky is down and it's still a better social platform than this place

I am moving over to @bluesky (assuming it continues to grow and maintains users). Follow me there! bsky.app/profile/utopia…

"if other countries vacate the field then let's take the rug from under them that they no longer want": Matt Kean re clean energy/industry transition, the USA and Australia's opportunity. @IGCC_Update summit

Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump…

This might sound boring, but it's a really big deal. Independent politicians pushing to take $10s of billions of subsidies for mining companies and spend it on public services. #Auspol Good work @DavidPocock @ChaneyforCurtin @spenderallegra @zalisteggall

This iconic photo is now part of Iranian history, capturing the deep frustration of women with the regime—a powerful statement against repression.

In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful reminder of Iranian women’s fight for freedom. Yes we use our bodies like weapons to fight back a regime that kills women for showing their hair. This happened at Tehran’s Science and Research University She has since been arrested by the authorities. Be her voice. #WomanLifeFreedom

UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals | @hausfath Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3BZnEZ3

The greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time.

People tend to think there are more immigrants in their country than there really are. In the United States, for example, the average person believes that 33% of people were not born there. However, official estimates from government agencies show that the figure is just 15% — less than half as many. In Japan, people guess that 10% of the population are immigrants, but the accurate figure is around 2%. For every 5 immigrants people think exist, there is only one in reality. As the chart shows, this mismatch is common everywhere. The data comes from the 2023 Ipsos Perils of Perception report. (This Daily Data Insight was written by Simon van Teutem.)

Humans tend to underestimate the pace of innovation and overestimate the inertia of incumbent technologies. Clean energy technologies have scaled much more rapidly than predicted by modellers.

@DoctorVive Thank you for coming on, Genevieve! It was a brilliant and moving conversation!

"I think the most important word to think about is...love, because I think the reason we *really* want to stop using fossil fuels and halt global heating is that we love." This pod I recorded with @UtopiaIsNow really got to the heart of things! Listen👇 open.spotify.com/episode/39epaL…

The most common response to adversity is not chronic stress. It’s resilience. 54 studies of potentially traumatic events: • 11% of people had extended difficulties • 21% had acute symptoms that dissipated • 66% sustained healthy functioning Humans are less fragile than we realize.

Pretty striking figures on new US electricity generating capacity 99% in August was solar 95% in 2024 to date was clean energy (vs 55% last year) New gas power installs down 89% HT Sun Day Campaign