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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Mike Cannon-Brookes is the only one I know of who’s a lefty. Founder of Atlassian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ca...
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Brendan Jones@brewenjon.bsky.social |
83 followers 283 following 82 posts
A good life for all within planetary boundaries. Climate, energy, post-growth, ecology, biodiversity. - Mastodon: @Brendanjones@fosstodon.org - Twitter: @brewenjon
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Mike Cannon-Brookes is the only one I know of who’s a lefty. Founder of Atlassian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ca...
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Richard Waite
@waiterich.bsky.social
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Re-upping this excellent article by WRI colleagues on increasing competition for crops—not only to feed people directly but also to feed animals and cars (biofuels). Did you know that since the 1960s, the share of global cropland used for domestic food consumption has declined from ~50% to 37%? 🧪
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
@bethsawin.bsky.social
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Anyone else have the feeling that people are asking the questions that they should have been 20-30 years ago, but not the questions we need to ask now? Lot of forecasting talk. Lot of transition plans with nice smooth curves out gently into the future.
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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I’m optimistic that they’re really trying but I’m doubtful that it’s entirely by choice. I suspect they’ve seen the need to preempt interoperability regulations set by the EU’s DMA, and they’re using it as an opportunity.
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Mona is just the best! Though I do love tooot for its cleanliness and open sourceness. And Phanpy for being downright amazing (though I wish it was an app).
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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It’s not at all the only sane policy. Why can’t I rent out my house while I go on holiday? Just regulate it heavily like Amsterdam has done. Max 30 days a year and AirBnB has to report it to the council. Also only Airbnb-ing your primary residence should be possible.
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Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
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🚨NEW INVESTIGATION🚨
The oil company ran by #COP28 Sultan Al-Jaber used the UAE's year as host of global climate talks to pursue oil and gas deals worth a potential $100 bn
How much longer will we let industry co-opt climate negotiations? www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Also for driving. The question basically assumes everyone drives a vehicle, so hiring or buying an EV is counted as a positive. What about those who don’t drive at all? The best car is no car.
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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If someone's telling you that the sub-categories of climate change causes needs to be solved in serial, not parallel, there's an extremely high chance they're putting themselves absolutely last in the queue of actions
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Akshat Rathi
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
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TIL: Europe's emissions trading system is about half the value of the world's regulated carbon markets that in total trade about $100 billion of emission credits annually. In comparison, the voluntary carbon market that trades cheap offsets is just over $1 billion last year.
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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If Google lock you out of your account can you actually open their (Google docs and sheets) files in another app?
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C.J. Subko
@cjsubko.bsky.social
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I needed this today
@alt-text.bsky.social
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Emily Atkin
@emorwee.bsky.social
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NEW: The world's most powerful countries are considering a novel climate proposal: Impose a 2 percent climate tax on the world's richest 3,000 people—and give the money **directly** to people in climate-vulnerable countries.
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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I’d normally agree (Nordhaus getting the prize makes me seriously doubt the work of everyone else who also received the prize) but given it’s Duflo I’ll give it a pass here.
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Tara Connolly
@taraconnolly.bsky.social
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Want to work with me on the energy transition?
Well, good news! We're looking for someone with:
- strong campaign experience 📣
- good understanding of the energy transition 🔋
- knowledge of energy markets and grids a bonus 🤓
More details here:
beyondfossilfuels.jobs.personio.de/job/1438396?...
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Matthew Hayek
@matthewhayek.bsky.social
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently misused my research. I spoke out and published an open letter, demonstrating in several pages how FAO conducted a faulty analysis to distort and downplay the impacts of dietary change on the environment www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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John O'Nolan
@johnonolan.bsky.social
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Excited to share that Ghost is going to federate over ActivityPub and become part of the largest open publishing network in the world 🎉
Maybe ATproto one day, too - but at the moment AP is leading the way as a standard.
activitypub.ghost.org
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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Great work by Clean Creatives here - congrats @duncanwrites.bsky.social!!
www.businessgreen.com/news/4199743...
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Unfortunately almost every news article covering the paper is reporting the figure as if that’s the actual figure we can expect, which is massively misleading.
Some like arstechnica.com/science/2024... do at least say why the figure is too low (in the last paragraph…) but most don’t even do that.
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Yeah from my admittedly fast reading of that paper they’re only using temp and precipitation, so the 6x figure is WAY off. The paper does say this, so this is not a criticism of the paper. Well, sorta, they use soft scientific language like ‘lower bound’ which means it’s not blatantly obvious.
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John Kostyack
@kostyack.bsky.social
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This article nicely captures the two sides of this debate. I side with the anonymous SBTI staffer arguing that unregulated instruments often overstate the greenhouse gases stopped AND justify further emissions by polluters. To the great detriment of the Global South. www.ft.com/content/b07e...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley
@globalecoguy.bsky.social
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This is hugely important to watch.
The UN FAO has been misrepresenting the impact of dietary change on reducing greenhouse gas emissions — ignoring widely known scientific results.
The real question is why?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Robert Rohde
@rarohde.bsky.social
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The 12-month moving average of global mean temperatures has now moved slightly above 1.6 °C (2.9 °F).
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Iain Soutar
@isoutar.bsky.social
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Nice piece on the rise of the Energy Nerd. This subculture is doing a lot of important social learning about how to optimize energy in homes. Alongside, we need to make this stuff more attractive and accessible to the average human...
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Yeahhh very much a concern here. At least on mastodon I know exactly how much my server costs to run, and so I cover my fair share. Here? Are we the product? I don’t know.
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Emily Atkin
@emorwee.bsky.social
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NEW: Top coral scientist says the only way to save dying reefs is "a rapid phase out of fossil fuels" "No amount of tinkering with corals—attempting to make so-called super corals—is going to save the world’s coral reefs"
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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... how would one find out if one is on such a list? Also, how are refining and marketing oil and gas lumped in together? That's an amusing combo of not similar things at all.
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Kate Littler
@palaeoclimate.bsky.social
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Our new paper is out: “Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
tldr: Even the miners think DSM is a bad idea.
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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How to get yourself on a list 101 😅
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Yung En Chee
@yungenchee.bsky.social
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@euanritchie.bsky.social, @megcevans.bsky.social & I wrote about the hollow disappointment of the Albo govt's illogically-structured, utterly inadequate, shamefully lacking in urgency EPBC Act reforms
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Leon Simons
@leonsimons.bsky.social
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It took 4 years, but there it is! The Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) showing the reduction of sulphur dioxide over the oceans! This helps climate scientists to update their models and finally start to include the radiative forcing. We could be facing an aerosol termination shock!
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Reto Knutti
@retoknutti.bsky.social
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Reducing greenhouse gases to avoid 2°C is six (!) times cheaper than paying for the damage that would otherwise occur, according to @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
Fixing climate change is just as much an economic and geopolitical argument as an environmental one.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prof Chris Jackson
@seismatters.bsky.social
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Annnnd…the preprint that the article relates to is available here: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
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Greg Jericho
@grogsgamut.bsky.social
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The market is not going to save us. The market got us where we are.
My column on the need to invest in renewables and the NEED TO STOP APPROVING COAL MINES
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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"It is astonishing that, for a system that is touted as an efficient and effective way of channelling finance towards climate action, there is no publicly available data of any sort that would even come close to estimating the amount of funding the voluntary carbon market truly provides"
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EasilyDistracted
@babblingfringe.bsky.social
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An employee run company has a strong incentive to keep on just “make enough money to turn a profit for future expenses and other externalities” and not fuck things up, which is so much better for like *handwave*
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Laurens
@laurenshof.online
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since a mastodon server got blocked in russia for hosting a tiny lgtb account with 30 followers, i got curious what would happen in bluesky got served such a notice:
@safety.bsky.app are there any published policies for what happens when a censorship agency demands a delete?
1/..
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the Mountain Goats
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
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occasional reminder, you know the thing we used to do on the other site where we put garbage on the TL to dunk on it, even though we’re not really amplifying marginalized voices or spreading good information when we do so? Just befouling the place? We don’t have to do that here. We can just not
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Megan Darby
@climatemegan.bsky.social
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yikes. SBTi was the best corporate climate standard-setter we had. And it's just opened the door to carbon offsetting 🚩🚩🚩 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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MeatMechSuit
@meatmechsuit.bsky.social
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‘Landlord’ and ‘landlord adjacent’ are unambiguously the largest slice of the economy 😒 how fucking ridiculous, precarious, and invented.
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Max Roser
@maxroser.bsky.social
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38 million km² of land are used for the production of meat and dairy — either as grazing land or cropland to grow animal feed.
This is an area as large as the entirety of the Americas.
From my article on how we can protect the world's wilderness: ourworldindata.org/agricultural...
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Jarmo Kikstra
@kikstra.bsky.social
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NEW PUBLICATION!
Can degrowth save the world?
Co-author
@jasonhickel.bsky.social made the case in a book.
How do these ideas stack up in a systems model?
How are such scenarios different from scenarios used in the IPCC?
Let’s find out!
Open-access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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I find “no one is talking about” posts so annoying. Nine times out of ten plenty of people *are* talking about it, you just haven’t discovered them yet.
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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Why doesn’t mastodon want you there?
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ændra.
@aendra.com
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I'm going to keep repeating a phrase here: Meta cannot be trusted with the future of online news media again
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Brendan Jones
@brewenjon.bsky.social
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But not knowing will haunt you ;)
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Abu Aardvark (OG)
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
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Fascinating story about UAE company purchase of vast amounts of land in five African countries - 10% of Liberia! - for conservation and carbon offsets, threatening indigenous land use.
apnews.com/article/carb...
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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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How far away is fusion energy? 8.33 minutes.
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Richard Bärnthaler
@rbaernthaler.bsky.social
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The 4th article of our (to be assembled) SI "Shaping Provisioning System for an Eco-Social Transformation" is out! "Price-making in provisioning systems & social-ecological transformation?" by C. Staritz, B. Tröster & A. Wojewska @oefse.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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