Paulo Ferreira

Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

👇 Important report, today at 15:00 CET.

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Big goals or just big words? 🤔

...but it is.

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each January to October period from 1900 through 2024. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ highest on record

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to October.

+++NEW ANALYSIS: China’s CO2 emissions have now caused more global warming than EU+++

Our new analysis comes as the "principle of historical responsibility" is being cited in #COP29 talks on a new climate finance goal

THREAD with details, caveats + bonus chart

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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excerpt from New York Times article detailing how the Saudi delegation is using procedural objections to stall COP29 climate negotiations in Baku

negotiators *expect* Saudi Arabia to be obstructive at UN climate talks. If they're shocked, it must be *bad* www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/c...

New from me: As Trump solidifies his anti-science agenda the complicated, and escalating, wildfire crisis will be waiting. Here’s what we know about the challenges ahead:

Living in southern China or HK, you become aware that every approaching typhoon first has to hit the Philippines, which absorbs the worst of it. It's a brutal slice of hardwired planetary injustice. Four typhoons in 10 days is another level.

Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’ | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

Read here: https://buff.ly/4fPLqpe

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...

Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.

The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.

interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

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The 1.5C Climate Goal Is Dead. Why Is COP29 Still Talking About It? Politicians and green advocates want to keep the focus on limiting global warming to 1.5C, even though scientists say the planet is already on track to soon breach the target.

Yes, the separation between scientists & policy / advocates is stark: "Politicians & green advocates want to keep the focus on limiting global warming to 1.5C, even though scientists say the planet is already on track to soon breach the target"

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Hi Alexander 👋
(the air is fresher here...)

And physicists, of course! It just hit me the moment I pressed 'reply' :)

The power to biologists and chemists 😉
Signed: a biologist

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go.bsky.app/LjV86zg A work-in-progess starter pack for the IPBES stakeholder community

Good points.

Hey Bluesky, follow us for climate communication that cuts through. We translate the climate science into human.

Something the folk at COP29 could do with a dose of....?

#climate #climatescience #COP29 #creatives #communication #comedy #climatecomedy #comedy

The aspirational climate target of limiting warming to 1.5°C has slipped out of reach, but scientists say it's "not time to give up"! Urgent action is needed to bend the trajectory from 2.5-2.9°C today down to 2°C a new report warns. Featuring @glenpeters.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/c...

Great overview.

As the climate crisis worsens, the warming outlook stagnates

2024 #climateactiontracker Global Update: the combined global effect of government climate action has flat-lined over the last 3 years: a critical disconnect between the reality of the climate emergency and the lack of urgency on policies to deal with it. 🧵
bit.ly/CAT_2024_glo...

2024 Global Carbon Budget YouTube video by University of Exeter

Short video of the Global Carbon budget youtu.be/XNL_FT9sS3k?...

📢Global Carbon Budget 2024📢

Despite some predicting a peak in global fossil CO2 emissions, we estimate growth of 0.8% [-0.3% to 1.9%] in 2024. Maybe a peak next year?

Is it all bad news, or can we find some good news?

essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

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The 2024 Global Carbon Budget was just released! Unfortunately despite hopes emissions might peak, both fossil CO2 and total CO2 emissions reached new record highs. I cover details w/ Pierre Friedlingstein (@PFriedling) at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...