Dr. Kenneth A. Gould

Imagined Futures - Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, NZ 10/10/24 nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Oxfam report: The super-rich profit from the pollution driving climate breakdown, and then cash in again on the disasters it causes. No profit without accountability. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why are Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China pushing to delay the release of the IPCC’s seventh assessment report (AR7) on climate science? 🤔

I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

The war profiteers say the “demand” for war is “permanent” 🤔🇺🇸😕

IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global #climate report by petro-states. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There are so many candidates for "peak stupid," but having a power plant burn wood to power an AI datacenter and receive "green energy" subsidies to do so ... is right up there at the top of the list. Can we really be that stupid?

The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Merchants of Doubt are going after extreme event attribution www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Occasional reminder that all efforts to address the ecological crisis without changing the structure of the political-economy will fail.

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.

If you're Catholic & believe in church-defined sin, there are a lot of new official sinners now, including fossil-fuel company execs, climate deniers, & billionaire eco-destroyers. "Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation & the Creator’ www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09...

A federal judge just killed New York's $75 billion climate bill for polluters. Fossil fuel companies would have been charged for climate damages. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air #Climate

“Existing approaches are no longer fit for purpose... I think, for me, that’s the clarion call. We now have to reconfigure our climate governance around dealing with an overshoot pathway.” - Prof Debra Roberts, a report author and co-chair of the @ipcc.bsky.social

Permafrost is thawing deeper and it’s happening worldwide. A new study of 156 monitoring sites found that the active layer, the soil that thaws each summer, increased significantly at many sites from 2000–2024. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Expecting dozens of dissertations on American quiescence.

As anthropogenic climate change triggers the collapse of the cryosphere, Himalayan valleys have become extremely vulnerable to catastrophic floods like the one in Nepal yesterday. Bhutan, Nepal, and Sikkim all have major economic, population, and cultural centers along these river valleys.

People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A year ago, the Swiss town of Blatter was destroyed by an ice-rock avalanche. Now hundreds are missing Nepal owing to the same kind of disaster. This only going to become more common as the climate warms.

The Rasuwa disaster in Nepal today. Original post

"The United States has doubled down on its opposition to plastic production limits in global treaty talks, pushing to create a broad loophole to disregard the treaty on national security grounds." National security grounds??

Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise. | Marcel Llavero Pasquina, from ICTA-UAB, hopes his research would be used to support excluding fossil fuel producers from any role in setting international climate goals. grist.org/accountabili...

And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!

Liquidating the biosphere to create billionaires was a bad idea.

"England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and ecosystems unable to adapt fast enough to the changing climate. Ancient and veteran trees are being disproportionately affected." 😢

"I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quantitative global assessment of #climate change extinctions. With increased certainty, this meta-analysis suggests that extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. "

Every so often it is worth reiterating that there is zero possibility of solving the climate crisis, let alone the larger ecological crisis, within the current structure of the global political economy.

The Trump regime has withdrawn federal funding for the Arctic Report Card, an annual report that compiles data from hundreds of scientists and specialists, highlighting the region’s warming, dwindling sea ice, and other environmental transformations.

A simple point that surprisingly few people understand: "The longer we wait to reach net zero, the higher the eventual peak temperature will be, and the worse the associated damage. Warming is now nearly 1.4C above pre-industrial levels. Imagine summers when it gets closer to 2C."

"'Tipping points' may actually be fracture points - when key institutions & systems break from intense, cumulative stress. We still do not fully understand how sensitive the Earth system is to human impacts. We are well beyond incremental, 'policy relevant' pathways. Think wartime mobilisation."

I'm all for "climate adaptation," but honestly I don't know how we can adapt to this level of climate disruption of agriculture. Farmers can't "adapt" to chronic drought and heatwaves. Crops don't "adapt" -- they wither. I don't think we fully understand where we're headed.

Climate change is coming for nuclear power plants.

The science was right. In 1988, Dr Syukuro Manabe predicted the Mediterranean region, North Africa and Southern California would all dry out in summers due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. In 2021 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with two others for reliably predicting global heating.

What is climate gentrification? Why house prices are rising outside of Europe's city centres New ICTA-UAB research led by amaliacaar.bsky.social www.euronews.com/2026/07/23/w...

We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.

Here's the latest from @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social: Rebranding geoengineering as "climate stabilization" is a bad idea because it suggests the climate can be controlled and held steady, obscuring ongoing ecological change, political tradeoffs, and questions of whose "stability" is prioritized.

The future of climate change keeps moving into the present. The future of climate action… somehow stays in the distant future. A fascinating new study analysing 240,000+ US news stories reveals how news coverage may be normalising delay. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yet again, the future has already arrived. "Waterways across Europe have been affected by prolonged heatwaves and ​drought this year and the average peak ​temperature across Western Europe on Monday was forecast ⁠to be 26.2 degrees Celsius, 2.7 degrees above ​the normal high for July 20..."

"If you were on a big boat, like the Titanic, & someone comes up to you & says the boat's going down, you bloody well get on those lifeboats & start acting & do stuff" "We're not doing that. The ship is starting to sink in a really massive way, & we're not seeing it as what it is. It is so serious"

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EXTRAORDINARY July Records smashed allover the Hemisphere in Namibia,Zambia,Botwana,Zimbabwe,Madagascar,Malawi up to TANZANIA where the National record of July highest temperature was pulverized: 33.8C Tabora 1200m asl It will get worse. Most record breaking event in Southern Africa history

"Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures" in June (post below) Now, in July: "Malta is living the most extreme heat wave in history" bsky.app/profile/extr...

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.