Data scientist; researching climate policy. I calculate how to avoid much carbon emissions: http://data.yt Banner is a directed acyclic graph. Avatar shows a white man in a heatwave.
"At best, it is a long-term option contingent on heavy subsidies, regulatory change and infrastructure build-out. The risk is that reliance on #CCS could delay more viable alternatives (renewables, storage, green hydrogen) and expose Germany to high costs and project failures"
The case against carbon capture for Germany’s gas power sectorChapter 2ieefa.org
Just 16% of countries met a 2025 deadline to identify their nature-harming subsidies, according to new analysis by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I 🐛
I keep on saying the same things, so here we go: People think mitigation politics is impossible, but the type of adaptation politics we tend to play is superficially ok at best and only in the short run (it is terribly toxic in the long run)
Happy to have been involved in this work. How a rush for minerals is causing deforestation in tropical regions www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How a rush for minerals is causing deforestation in tropical regionsAn analysis of the extent to which mining caused deforestation between 2001 and 2020 in areas near mines in sub-Saharan Africa could help conservation efforts.www.nature.com"We find plantations in temperate regions were twice as likely to suffer stand-replacing #wildfires than natural production forests, including in vital timber-producing nations like China and Russia. Plantations in tropical regions showed no clear effect". Bousfield et al. (2025):
Global risk of wildfire across timber production systems - Nature CommunicationsTimber plantations in temperate countries are twice as likely to be destroyed by wildfires compared to natural wood-producing forests under similar conditions. The increasing threat of wildfires in th...doi.orgmuch agreement with this 🧵 but pol science has clearly shown that ideologically opposition to clean energy is a direct function of political efforts in fossil fuels sectors and constituencies to generate such ideology. So no, fossil lobbying for their interests and culture wars are not separate.
Zeke HausfatherWhile I agree with Bill that the fossil fuel lobby paid for a lot of climate denial in previous decades, I see ideological opposition to clean energy (and climate action) as a much bigger barrier to progress today than fossil lobbyists.
great reporting on the litigation brought by Big Food companies against public health policies in battleground jurisdictions while the majority of these legal challenges fail, they should be understood as part of a political economy of delay www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Big Food vs. The PeopleWe expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policieswww.lighthousereports.com
'While tour operators often argue that visiting Antarctica can heighten tourists’ awareness of environmental issues, former guides were struck by guests’ ignorance of human impacts. None of the guides quit overnight. Their decisions emerged through years of reflection, uncertainty & moral conflict'
Starmer's nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do better. I've written about the government's '30by30 Delivery Plan', out today, which isn't a plan & won't deliver 30by30. I suggest some policies Burnham should pursue instead, amidst Blackadder gifs: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/starmers-n... 1/🧵
Starmer’s nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do betterToday's 30by30 Delivery Plan isn't a plan, and it won't deliver 30by30.guyshrubsole.substack.com
1/ We've a new paper: The highest-impact diets belong to the people with the most choices. In @nature.com Food, led by Oliver Taherzadeh and Hongyi Cai: across 165 countries, the highest dietary emissions per person are among highly educated urban men aged 15-34. doi.org/10.1038/s43016-026-01389-y
Dietary environmental impacts and quality differ by socio-demographic characteristics - Nature FoodDietary intake and supply chain data from 165 countries reveal demographic disparities in diet-related environmental impacts. Impacts are greatest among young, highly educated urban men, and healthier...doi.org