Viktoria Spaiser

Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...

🗳️ As the dust settles after Gorton and Denton's hard-fought byelection, JUST Deputy Director @matpaterson.bsky.social provides a striking expert analysis of how the UK political landscape is evolving - and what this means for climate policy.

Read the full analysis: bit.ly/40cSczE

Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...

Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.

Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!

They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected Offshore turbines with nature‑inclusive Reef Cubes help restore oceans, boosting marine life as Dutch wind farms show clean energy can heal underwater ecosystems.

They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected
www.ecoportal.net/en/turbines-...

Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest

#5: Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest. Nicole Nisbett, @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social, @estrangeirada.bsky.social & @dvaldenegro.bsky.social

Here's the bigger context--JUST OUT.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Book Review: "More Everything Forever" A book that takes Silicon Valley's unserious ideas seriously, and then delightfully tears them apart.

So one of the best tech-related books of the year was "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social a great read on the ideologies of the Silicon Valley, @davekarpf.bsky.social wrote the best review of it davekarpf.substack.com/p/book-revie...

As an avid observer of algorithms I think I’ve figured out part of what happened here.

FB now explicitly looks for and directs posts you’re opposed to into your feed, to rage-bait engagement.

So now my posts are being actively boosted into people’s feeds of who reject climate. Ha! 😄😵‍💫

Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.

Iceland Climate Minister Johannsson: "It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security. (This) is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat."
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ocean Tipping Points: Understanding Drivers, Thresholds, Risks and the Potential for the Ocean to Play a Role in Mitigation. After registering, you will rec... A tipping point is where a key threshold lies within a system beyond which a small change can trigger a rapid shift between substantially different system states. Whilst such changes may take place in...

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tune in today for this free #COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion webinar on #Ocean #TippingPoints and why they matter

Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action

Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement

A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...

Welcome to the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative How can we stop the consequences of climate change from undermining climate action?

A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods

They were supercharged by climate change

Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe

Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment

Climate Wake-Up Call🚨

New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...

Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm

"Two US-based academics and experts said Rainforest Reserves Australia’s (RRA) claims in submissions about their work were “100% misleading” and “absurd"...the organisation’s submission writer has admitted using AI."

And, look who supports RRA ;)

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hi all! I’m looking for research jobs in social psychology, environmental action, & climate policy. I study pro-environmental action, moral and identity processes, scientist advocacy, and universities’ climate responses. I use qualitative and quantitative methods for research with real-world impact.

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

The second Global Tipping Points Report has been launched today. Please see our press release here: www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Find the full report here: global-tipping-points.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social #TippingPoints #COP30

How should the world confront climate derailment risks? In this event, expert panellists discuss climate derailment risks, and how these risks can be tackled.

What are 'derailment risks' and how are they rapidly increasing? Join me for an in-person & online panel discussion at Chatham House, London: 28 OCTOBER 2025 — 5:00PM TO 6:00PM
www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...

If you’re in Leeds on the 15th of October, come to my inaugural lecture on “Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat - Exploring Future Trajectories, Surveying the Past and the Present” www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.

“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

SHIFT

I am SO EXCITED about this!

Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.

Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.

jointheshift.earth

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate disinformation media fellowship 2025 | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union For the third time, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, is looking for a select number of journalists reporting o...

🟢📣 Only 1 day left to apply for our 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 🔍
All info here 👉 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
@zorasiebert.bsky.social @boell.de

ABSTRACT Populism of the radical right is strongly associated with climate change denial and opposition to climate policy, but we lack understanding of why these two phenomena are linked. This article tests two alternative explanations presented by extant literature. A structuralist explanation argues that the link is spurious, as both are caused by perceived vulnerability to structural changes in the economy. In highlighting that the ideological nature of radical right populism is antithetical to climate policy, an ideological explanation posits that any apparent effect of structural changes on climate policy attitudes is mediated by radical right populist ideology. We present data from an original survey administered in Australia, Germany, Norway, and the United States that is designed to test the two hypotheses against each other. Two different structural equation modeling analyses provide greater support for the ideological explanation than the structuralist explanation.

New article!

What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

🌍 Carbon storage is not a limitless climate solution.

A new IIASA-led study in @nature.com shows that safe, practical underground carbon storage could reduce warming by only 0.7°C – almost 10 times less than earlier estimates of 6°C.

Read more 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
@gidden.bsky.social

Our co-produced #PolicyBrief following our event "Accelerating #SocialChange in Response to the #Climate and #EcologicalCrisis", is out now, see here: cdp.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Mobilising climate action with moral appeals in a smartphone-based 8-week field experiment - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Mobilising climate action with moral appeals in a smartphone-based 8-week field experiment

People do care! Exposure to moral appeals (moral implications of fossil fuels etc.) can reduce people's carbon footprints, while also increasing climate-related civic and political action, though it may backfire among individuals with strong egoistic values. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How young people have taken climate justice to the world’s international courts Four international courts are due to deliver advisory opinions on how governments are legally responsible for climate justice.

🌴 Ahead of the much awaited #ICJ
#AdvisoryOpinion on state obligations regarding #climatechange, on 23rd July, happy to share a piece I wrote for the
@uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-young-pe...
Celebrating the vision and effort of the #youngpeople in this 🌍

Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is 'rapidly closing' - Carbon Brief In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the UK city of Exeter recently...

Here is a great summary of the #GlobalTippingPoints Conference 2025 in Exeter by @carbonbrief.org: www.carbonbrief.org/tipping-poin...
The conference was a call for action as we head towards #COP30 at which the 2nd updated Global Tipping Points Report will be launched

The Global Tipping Points Conference 2025. Credit: Jim Wileman / University of Exeter

NEW – Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’ | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/ECWvN3z