🌎The Week In Climate 27th Jan - 2nd Feb🌍
A huge announcement by The Guardian, the divestment movement showing its effects on fossil fuel stocks & interesting new research surrounding social tipping points.
Let's dive deep below 👇
A huge announcement by The Guardian, the divestment movement showing its effects on fossil fuel stocks & interesting new research surrounding social tipping points.
Let's dive deep below 👇
🤑THE BUSINESS 💰
1/ In absolutely huge news, The @guardian announced it's going to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies. They're following up their excellent reporting by putting their money where their writing is.
Who's next?
theguardian.com/media/2020/jan…
1/ In absolutely huge news, The @guardian announced it's going to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies. They're following up their excellent reporting by putting their money where their writing is.
Who's next?
theguardian.com/media/2020/jan…
2/ And here's @emorwee interviewing The @guardian's interim chief executive Anna Bateson on the ban of fossil fuel ads. It's a free edition of her newsletter that you should definitely subscribe to if you're looking for excellent climate journalism
heated.world/p/everything-y…
heated.world/p/everything-y…
3/ Is media impartiality a good thing when it comes to climate change? This recent @physorg_com article argues it's 'misguided and downright dangerous'
cc @AlexandriaV2005
phys.org/news/2020-01-m…
cc @AlexandriaV2005
phys.org/news/2020-01-m…
4/ The divestment movement really got to @jimcramer as he becomes quite bearish on fossil fuel stocks
5/ Here are some updates as to why @blackrock's coal policy is not THAT impressive - it only takes out 20% of companies still keeping them as the world's largest coal investor
6/ As someone who's been in the crypto space for a while, I'm excited by this insight from deep within the tech circles. Having clever risk-takers approach the climate crisis from different angles is a necessary puzzle piece to better technology
7/ If you decided to take fighting climate change beyond just reducing individual emissions or protesting (and you're considering working for a climate startup) here's a fantastic resource to find high-impact jobs that attempt to solve the #climatecrisis
climate.careers
climate.careers
🧑🤝🧑THE SOCIETY👯
8/ Here's a great article arguing that acting on climate change is about right or wrong - and there is only one obvious answer as to the direction we should be headed in.
earther.gizmodo.com/the-climate-cr…
8/ Here's a great article arguing that acting on climate change is about right or wrong - and there is only one obvious answer as to the direction we should be headed in.
earther.gizmodo.com/the-climate-cr…
9/ Here's an excerpt from the upcoming 'Cranky Uncle' book written by @skepticscience founder @johnfocook. It's an awesome approach that involves taking on climate denialism using humor. Super excited to soon interview John on the Podcast as well :-)
skepticalscience.com/Global-warming…
skepticalscience.com/Global-warming…
10/ Are social tipping points getting closer? Are we at a point where mass protests globally can trigger the kind of systemic change we need to reduce emissions faster?
@drvox explores new research that has been published
vox.com/energy-and-env…
@drvox explores new research that has been published
vox.com/energy-and-env…
11/ Having spoken to @the_ecofeminist (& interviewing several other African activists soon) I can only hope that these messages grow in frequency and reach - Africa is already feeling the impacts of climate change in ways which are hard for us to imagine
climatechangenews.com/2020/01/31/you…
climatechangenews.com/2020/01/31/you…
12/ Many people have mentioned that it's hard to find all the awesome content created around climate change. Here's a great resource that aggregates #climatepodcasts into one simple web-page
climatepodcasts.com
climatepodcasts.com
👩🔬THE SCIENCE 👨🔬
13/ Talks at Davos focused a lot on planting trees to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere, but what impact would planting 1 trillion trees actually have? Is it a substitute for reducing emissions? Of course not, here's some data
13/ Talks at Davos focused a lot on planting trees to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere, but what impact would planting 1 trillion trees actually have? Is it a substitute for reducing emissions? Of course not, here's some data
14/ Planting trees is a great idea, however 90% of the 11 million saplings planted in Turkey 🇹🇷 as part of "National Reforestation Day" have died because of insufficient water & inexperienced people planting them
theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
15/ Here's a recent article written by @nature based on @Peters_Glen & @hausfath's work on why RCP8.5 shouldn't be used as a 'business as usual' scenario
nature.com/articles/d4158…
nature.com/articles/d4158…
17/ And of course, there were mainstream media headlines that missed the point of the piece, which was to emphasize that they shouldn't be used as "business as usual" scenarios, not that they should be completely discounted.
18/ A great visualization of global warming over the past 2,000 years (with mainstream media coverage) courtesy of @ed_hawkins
cbsnews.com/news/climate-c…
cbsnews.com/news/climate-c…
19/ A deep dive by @YaleE360 into the melting of the Andes glaciers (thinned by 3 feet a year since 2000)
e360.yale.edu/features/andes…
e360.yale.edu/features/andes…
20/ Interesting article from @grist about potential new breakthroughs in battery technology (hint: they might be much smaller than you're expecting)
grist.org/energy/looking…
grist.org/energy/looking…
🤝THE POLITICS 🤝
21/ In amazing news all the way from Asia, the Indonesian 🇮🇩 government announced the retiring of old coal plants & their replacement with plants using renewable energy
reuters.com/article/us-ind…
21/ In amazing news all the way from Asia, the Indonesian 🇮🇩 government announced the retiring of old coal plants & their replacement with plants using renewable energy
reuters.com/article/us-ind…
22/ Here's @James_BG exploring what 🇬🇧the UK's official exit from the 🇪🇺 EU means for its fight against climate change moving forward
businessgreen.com/blog-post/4009…
businessgreen.com/blog-post/4009…
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Also, this week I released 3 new podcast episodes (many more are recorded and ready to go out!). Here's a list of them below:
Started off the week with a fascinating chat with @BenFranta
Started off the week with a fascinating chat with @BenFranta
And finally, an amazing chat with @the_ecofeminist on the crisis surrounding Lake Chad & the impacts of climate change on Africa
