Policymakers & citizens are aware of these risks, but not how severe they will be, how rapidly they might emerge or which are avoidable. Government leaders need to know the severity & urgency of such risks to help them make well-informed decisions and set priorities.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump is hell bent on making the planet worse for all of us. Why? Follow the money.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In a Presidential Memorandum signed yesterday (7 January), the POTUS says it is “contrary to the interests of the US” to remain a member of, participate in, or provide support to more than 60 international organisations, treaties, and conventions.
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
“s the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate change. Most conspicuously, it was the year the U.S. abandoned the effort. The Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement…
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Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
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The study used historical data to project how changes in temperatureand rainfall will affect economic growth.
However, researchers have since found errors in economic data from Uzbekistan from 1995 to 1999, which hugely skewed their findings.
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
More waste of taxpayers’ hard earned money…
insideclimatenews.org/news/0212202...
@nam.edu’s Climate and Health Resource Library…
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Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In “The White House Effect”, now available on @netflix.com , archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
#BoycottExxon
Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south less inclined to support the UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If only they didn’t vote for morons…
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
People who seek to contradict climate research online often adopt the aesthetics of science while portraying climate advocates as emotional and irrational, says sociologist Anton Törnberg, who analysed thousands of posts by key players in the climate-denial movement in Sweden.
“Much of this content borrows the look and feel of science: technical graphs, neutral colors, and data-heavy visuals that give an aura of objectivity, even when the message itself is misleading.”
@environmentalpol.bsky.social
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Climate & Health Information Gateway:
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Nearly two-thirds of US pharmaceutical mfg facilities are located in disaster-prone areas, with 6,819 production sites affected by weather emergencies between 2019-2024. Hurricane Helene recently triggered nationwide IV fluid shortages after damaging a key facility.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Rolling back environmental protections means: higher healthcare costs, dirtier air, increased energy bills, & richer oil companies. #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalProtection
One of the most visible examples occurred in May 2025, when the U.S. government discontinued the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Billion-Dollar Disasters Database, a resource used by researchers, emergency planners, & policymakers to track high-cost weather events since 1980
In recent months, the United States (U.S.) has witnessed an unprecedented contraction in its federal climate-health infrastructure.
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
As smoke from Manitoba wildfires prompts air quality warnings in four provinces and several U.S. states, one expert says increased awareness on the impacts is necessary.
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
New findings published by the National Cancer Institute link tiny, toxic air pollutants to changes in lung cancer tumors at the genomic level in people who have never smoked.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0207202...
As the Trump administration guts the EPA and clean air act…
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
Only 15 short years from now.
Right around the time when the AMOC collapses(causing devastating crop failures in northern latitudes) and ocean pH drops below the ability for oxygen producing phytoplankton to survive (collapsing the ocean food web leading to global starvation).
#ThanksExxonMobile
