Lawyers Are Responsible

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❄️ In a new report, The New Weather Institute reveals the climate impact of the world's leading snow sports event - the Winter Olympics.

Background and full story. 🧵 1/9

Full report 👉 www.newweather.org/wp-content/u...

Nooooo! Don't scrap the Finch ruling!

Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.

Oil and gas imports are a problem. Labour should rethink its North Sea stance | Nils Pratley Rachel Reeves could make geopolitical, economic and environmental case for limited boost in production

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge

The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!

Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped. Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fail...

NEW: Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change.

Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.

With @northdakotamonitor.com

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

(Published April 2024)

Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising - Carbon Brief Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels.

Your 'moment of doom' for June 19, 2025 ~ Uninhabitable

"Overall, our indicators provide multiple lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction to provide a clear and consistent – but unsurprising and worsening – picture of the climate system."

www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...

Reeves promised oil industry ‘quid pro quo’ over windfall tax in private meeting Government accused of making ‘secret exchange deal’ with fossil fuel companies to compensate for tax hike

Why is there no significant action on Climate Change in spite of a having @Ed_Miliband in Gov? Because @RachelReevesMP works hand in glove with fossil fuel industry. In this exposé @writesbright.bsky.social gives the mechanics.

Join our campaign #ScrapCCS

@stopcambo.bsky.social

We have created weapons of biospheric destruction. Our food systems have exterminated species across the globe while fossil fuel combustion is driving the climate towards a much hotter & violent state. Industrialisation transformed humanity. The trade off is that we have become death.

🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵

Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

🏭How to make the polluter >really< pay is one of the challenges of our time

🤔New paper in Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes a breakthrough that may help - in linking climate damages to individual polluting companies (read: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...)

@sioldridge.bsky.social

Last night @itvpeston.bsky.social interviewed UK opposition leader @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social…

They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic)

Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...

‘Magic circle’ law firms accused of hypocrisy over climate change Campaigners accuse them of promoting their green credentials while facilitating billions of pounds of fossil fuel deals

I see I've been quoted in the Times about the hypocrisy of law firms that work for fossil fuel companies (behind a paywall). 1/5 www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

9/ In 2024, global temps hit 1.62°C above pre-industrial levels.
UNICEF warns 1 in 5 children now live in climate-stressed zones.
Extreme weather is rising.
Lawyers in regulated professions must reckon with this, not just as citizens, but as custodians of
the #RuleofLaw

8/ For those seeking guidance on navigating this critical decision we invite you to explore our
worked scenarios, which demonstrate how this Counsel Opinion applies to everyday client
interactions. #Fossilfree
bit.ly/LAR-scenarios

7/ Lawyers Are Responsible has written to #MagicCircle firms as an act of care - the climate
science is harder to ignore. The risks have been laid bare.
Legal ethics demand serious reflection on the consequences of fossil fuel work.
bit.ly/LAR-letters

6/ Find enclosed a Counsel Opinion: Lawyers have the right to refuse fossil fuel work,
whistleblow, and protest on ethical grounds.
If magic circle firms won’t lead, your staff might soon exercise these rights themselves.
#FutureOfLaw
bit.ly/LAR-objection

5/ The data is damning:
- 71% of #Vault100 firms got a D or F
- 80% of #MagicCircle firms also failed
Change is coming.
It’s not just about lawyers refusing harmful work. Now it’s about holding firms accountable for
taking it on.
After all, it is a choice…

4/ Slaughter and May say:
“Sustainability is a whole business proposition for us.”

Yet they facilitated $153M in fossil fuel transactions in 2024.

Words matter. But so does the work.

#ClimateCrisis

3/ In 2024 alone, London-based firms facilitated $59.84B in fossil fuel deals.

Yet many still market themselves as climate champions.
This is cognitive dissonance—and young lawyers aren’t buying it.

Blowing up your own pipeline
of talent much?

2/ Between 2020–2024, Vault 100 law firms:
- Took $35.8M in fossil fuel lobbying fees
- Facilitated $2 TRILLION in fossil fuel transactions

- Conducted litigation that 88% of the time worsened the climate crisis

BREAKING: @Ls4Ca released their 2025 Law Firm #Climate Change Scorecard. The legal
profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back.
A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵
Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard

"Everything in connection with something else"

The most fundamental insight of Earth System Science is the application of the lens of complex system analysis to our planet.

Bear this in mind, for the following quick thread of recent developments in our understanding of the Earth's #climate...

Observed multi-decadal increase in the surface ocean’s thermal inertia - Nature Climate Change Analysis of 42 years of daily sea surface temperature data shows increasing persistence of anomalies. These changes, which are attributed to deepening of the mixed layer, reduced oceanic forcing and r...

"These upper-ocean changes suggest a trend towards increased heat storage in the upper ocean and reduced sequestration into its interior, and an increasing likelihood of prolonged heatwaves and hence a threat to near-surface marine ecosystems"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...