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More junk offsets, 10% drop in UK electricity usage, detailed COP27 recap and how the fossils influenced COP27. — Welcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉 References: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6]. If this is the first time you’re reading this perhaps a quick explanation. Over on weeklyclimate.com I’ve for more than 2 years published a recap of the most important climate news this…

Let’s face it I’m deep into the bottle. That came out wrong. I have a quite deep interest in wine. It was a bottle of Domaine Bachey-Legros Vielles Vignes Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru ‘Les Petit Clos’ 2013 or in other words a bottle of fermented Chardonnay grapes from old vines harvested…

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Climate 🎉 This is a repost of the newsletter that appears on weeklyclimate.com. To listen to this issue go to this link. And don’t hesitate to subscribe there as well. The title for this weeks issue is taken from the 4 adaptation…

Sandra boarded the electric high-speed train from Pittsburgh to New York. She walked along the narrow aisle of the train, past other commuters and found her seat. She sat down and plugged her headphones in. She just came from a meeting with Pittsburgh officials discussing proposals about what to use…

Captains log, time 24572. Arrived at safe distance 0.16AU from the planet 2389AX.C, the third planet from the star 2389AX. We confirm that the planet is located within the goldilocks zone and orbits at a distance of approximately 1 AU from its star. The planet itself looks to be covered…

We must embrace both the degrowth and decouple strategy if we are to solve the climate crisis. — There are two main strategies to solving the climate crisis: Degrowth or Decouple. These strategies will define and build our future. Degrowth is the strategy of “no”: As in “no, you cannot fly”, “no, you cannot eat meat” and so on. Where Decouple is the strategy of “yes but”: “Yes…

In November 2018, I had just started on my climate journey, when this happened: The Sunrise Movement stormed Nancy Pelosi’s office in the White House, AOC joined them and the Green New Deal was born. Back then I was puzzled. I thought the Green New Deal was some weird attempt…

Please don’t think we’re anywhere near shutting down the fossil industry in EU just because of #FossilFreeEIB — Update: Feb 12 2020, yes this is exactly what is happening. Read on. To make it clear: I think it’s amazing that the European Investment Bank (EIB) is trying to stop fossil fuel funding. I want to personally kiss each board member on the mouth for taking this fight. From…