The impact of the climate left is perhaps very small. Global finance, energy majors, and mainstreams politics more than sufficient to continue to lock in large-scale emissions. Perhaps the error of the left was to have ever thought anyone would actually 'listen to the science'?
To be clear here: the climate science said: if you want to limit warming to well below 2°C then fossil fuels must be phased out (because carbon budget so small). Politicians interpreted that as 'net zero' and (amongst other things) continued to grant leases for new oil & gas. And here we are.
finally got the membership plugin working on the blog and will start transferring the restricted content on kofi and substack across - three reasons
it's my domain, more control
information all in one place
not supporting nazis
But have you seen the price of polar bears recently? Surely a win-win available here.
In London on Tuesday night this week?
Join me at Kairos on Tottenham Court Road to talk about how we can maintain our agency to act on climate change even as its impacts escalate
Doors and drinks at 1830, talk starts at 1900
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Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...
Not sure if this it would suit your needs, but I recommend ghost.org.
It's worth pointing out the Hansen's conclusions are largely within the envelope of IPCC reported climate sensitivity.
Yes, one of the comparatively rare statements that very clearly communicate this issue.
We're on track to sail past 2C...TPs are very much in the crosshairs. Governments already know this; their own scientists have laid it out for them very clearly. Their short term ism and vested interests propaganda will ensure an unstable world for coming generations. We all must demand change NOW!
If you like this sort of thing, you are going to 😍 this video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkh2...
That would do it :)
This is where risks assessments are probably going to head towards. The danger is that the outcomes of such assessments make things worse. Much work to be done there.
Yep. Which is why I think effective climate policy is going to be about people, not planet. Well at least not leading about planet.
In this respect at least he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.
There is a limit on how far we can let climate run away now, if we are to give the next generation an opportunity. See Runaway – mailchi.mp/caa/runaway-...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/runaway-cl...
You can't be continually amped because you burn out so you sort of put it in a little box.
And the ultimate cause of the crash: the driver was trying to make up lost time...
I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
"If you rule out the fast phase out of #fossilfuels, then you have to either remove carbon from the atmosphere, or reflect sunlight. Who decided that #geoengineering was more feasible than rapid fossil fuel phase out?" @jamesgdyke.info
Well that would give the IDF two reasons to target them /s
Energy majors & petrostates are not going to willingly implode their businesses & economies. Build multilateral coalitions to reduce demand. Accelerate renewables & link this to material improvements in people's lives. Work to make sustainability transitions resilient - there is trouble ahead.
Techno-belief is a millenial gamble on civilization. Our time will be remembered of many gruesome things, but messing up the climate is damning for our posterity.
Realism:
"👉Net zero by 2050: increasingly meaningless
👉Overshoot won’t be temporary or even reversible. Large-scale CO2 removal doesn’t exist
👉Solar geoengineering: a bad idea
👉We didn’t confront the deep dysfunctions in our political systems"
Yet still we must act: Fast fossil fuel phase out!
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As the ‘growth agenda’ is increasingly dominating UK research funding, we scientists also need to push back against this drive to line the pockets of the super rich
We didn’t confront the deep dysfunctions in our political systems, we failed to rein in our destruction. There are consequences to this failure. If one of these is we realise we must turn our attentions and efforts to radical mitigation, then we would have learnt something important. END
Yes we can avoid further dangerous climate change, we can stop the destruction of nature, we can begin the transformation of our societies so that they live in balance with the Earth system. But no we didn’t act on the science when we should have 10/11
It's also worth pointing out that fossil fuel dependency is the ultimate cause for why the United States is lighting up the Middle East. Again. 9/11
