Emanuela Paoletti

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

Oil is the cause, the effect, the weapon, and the vulnerability in our world’s myriad wars billmckibben.substack.com/p/are-the-pe...

Eye-opening discussion on AI safety culture with David Robinson (formerly OpenAI) and @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. “We have to make good choices. We have no time to rush.” open.spotify.com/episode/6nX4...

We will need both carrot (incentives for clean energy) and stick (disincentives for fossil fuels) to follow the needed decarbonization pathway. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something — probably (directly or indirectly) fossil fuels.

No AI for kids. Full stop.

Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?

Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.

The breathtaking eloquence of @abdulelsayed.bsky.social on speaking truth to power and truth to pain, in conversation with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/4PXj...

“Storage and transmission should be best friends.” Brecht Dierckx from Centrica explains why, while also sharing his views on pricing, risk management, and the evolving energy landscape. On Transmission, the podcast by @edporter.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/52Vp...

Ready for some good news? We can do it! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. ... In a large majority of states (40), undocumented immigrants pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living within their borders."

#FreePalestine at Teatro Regio, Parma. Where beauty meets culture and solidarity.

Why are climate scientists not surprised about mountains being destabilized by glacier melt and permafrost thaw? Because they have long predicted that as a result of #globalheating. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The Earth will cross the 1.5 degrees warming limit that everyone agreed to in the Paris Accord. Thank all those politicians that delayed and weakened the vital climate policies, and still do. It’s not them who’ll pay the price, but you and your children. apnews.com/article/clim...

In Europe: "Extreme weather spiked power demand just as nuclear, gas, and coal plants had to reduce their output. Solar and batteries helped keep people cool." Thanks, solar!

Climate change is going to fuck up our infrastructure in ways that we can't even imagine in advance -- ways that are not captured in all the faux-precise climate-damage models. We were really stupid to run this uncontrolled, irreversible experiment.

Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it

"This is how the world’s most profitable industries buy their way out of trouble: they give money to politicians, deploy armies of lobbyists and rig the system for themselves." @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social on open.substack.com/pub/tomsteye...

Tell your government leaders to fund our shared future with a strong Global Tax Treaty. #TaxTheSuperRich #MakePollutersPay

In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.

We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.

New Oxfam analysis: emissions from only five fossil fuel corporations were enough to cause roughly 25% of all heatwaves between 2000 and 2023. Many of the extreme heat events would have been virtually impossible without climate change: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

The choice is simple: energy from heaven, not from hell. ☀️ @billmckibben.bsky.social explains why renewable energy may be our last, best chance to cool the Earth: www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

A friend sent me this from near Bordeaux. The world will soon be united under a smoky sky.

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

"If you don't like what's happening to our institutions, if you don't like what's happening to the media, if you don't like the corruption of government, [...] the only lasting solution is to reduce the amount of wealth at the top." @pkrugman.bsky.social on open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

As long expected. It’s climate science 101. The vapor thirst of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature. A law of physics known since the early 19th C (Clausius–Clapeyron law). It causes more drought even if rainfall doesn’t decline. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“What is unfolding is what climate and forest scientists have been predicting for 30 years. That as the world gets hotter and drier, we are exposing forests to more and more risk, and the old strategies of fire suppression are simply being overwhelmed.”

“It’s up to the pro-democracy movement to respond.” As institutions falter, strategic organizing and broad coalitions matter more than ever. Excellent and timely piece by @danielaltshuler.bsky.social and Javier Corrales on @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Climate change is front and center in the affordability crisis — and Democrats ought to talk about it.

This is NOT just a #heatwave. It’s a fossil fuel warning. The corporations driving the climate crisis must be held to account. #MakePollutersPay 👉 act.gp/4usPymE

"Yet urgent calls to cut emissions continue to be brushed off as centrist governments across Europe weaken climate policy." It’s absolutely staggering that even record-breaking heatwaves fail to trigger a real call to action. @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Red alert for France brought to you by TotalEnergies.

It’s all very clear: this heatwave is part of a trend. Climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent. We know the science. We have the solutions. What we lack is the political will—undermined by the fossil fuel industry.

Defiant and hopeful outgoing Colombian environment minister Irene Vélez Torres, co-chair of the Santa Marta TAFF Fossil Fuel Phaseout conference, delivering their report at #LondonClimateActionWeek. Watch 1/2

Clean electrification is the way forward yet this industry lacks political clout: a very compelling account of just how urgent it is to act. David Roberts @volts.wtf speaking to Steve McBee: open.spotify.com/episode/6tMD...

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

"There's no democracy without journalism." Scott Pelley is the best of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Read every word of this, twice. 🎁🔗

"Taking RCP8.5 off the table is a sign of progress – we’ve avoided the worst-case scenario. But we have also missed the best case future. [...] We must double down on our efforts to create the best future possible." @andrewkingclimate.bsky.social on @theconversation.com

Even if climate change wasn't happening Even if burning fossil fuels didn't kill millions It would still make sense to invest in the green economy because these are the technologies of the future, and fossil fuels are the technologies of the past You don't sit out an industrial revolution

#Trump is not noted for admitting mistakes, but the Iran War should be an exception. He’d be better off admitting he screwed up, and so would the country. Latest FP column here: foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/28/t...

The UN Secretary General's report listing the Israeli and Russian armies, along with Hamas, Sudan's RSF, a number of Libyan militias and others, as "parties credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence in situations of armed conflict":

I'm hearing reports that the NY State Assembly just passed the plug-in solar vote by a wide margin, joining the State Senate. Assuming the governor signs it, that will be the 8th state making it legal (and the biggest). A groundswell across the country, and so many thanks to great organizers!