conv.climate

“Nearly two-thirds of the American public say climate change is increasing the risk of respiratory diseases and heat- and insect-related illnesses”— Annenberg Public Policy Center · full quotes →

“We're not moving fast enough. We need more businesses, investors and leaders to step up, back what works and help bring these solutions to scale.”— Prince William · full quotes →

“Another obvious need Private jets are pure luxury, except in the rarest of security situations. As such, they should carry very heavy luxury taxes - on…”— TCatInReality, Mastodon commenter · Mastodon · full quotes →

“In Portugal, temperatures could approach 38°C in the Alentejo and the Tagus Valley, driven by an anticyclone positioned to the north of the Azores.”— Euronews / IPMA · full quotes →

“The city had historically relied on the National Weather Service threshold of a heat index of 105 F (40.6 C), but they noticed that people were getting heat…”— Live Science · full quotes →

“We set out a path for European industries: to continue their transition to a low-carbon future, while maintaining production, investments, and employment in…”— Dan Jørgensen, EU Energy Commissioner · full quotes →

“It was this idea of, like, if we did lose our house, how would we get back on the land?”— Adriano Pupilli · full quotes →

“This is not about energy dominance. It's about padding the pockets of oil and gas operators and saddling society with the costs.”— Darin Schroeder, Clean Air Task Force · ProPublica via Bluesky · full quotes →

“It is just a wonderful feeling … when we can save energy, save on the bottom line, and reduce our carbon footprint”— Chris Barber · full quotes →

“We found that most pollution probably comes from vessels in or near the Seychelles' own waters. This challenges the assumption from previous work that island…”— Study researchers, Marine pollution investigators · Mastodon · full quotes →

“In the U.S. alone, productivity losses due to heat stress cost an average of $220 billion annually, up from $130 billion in 2001. Why aren't businesses working…”— bambooshooti.bsky.social · full quotes →

“With nearly £30m of funding for People's Power projects, communities across every nation of the UK will soon have the chance to build and control their own…”— Andy Burnham, UK Prime Minister · Mastodon · full quotes →

“Governments are currently doing a dance between acknowledging the importance of clean power while continuing to support fossil fuel expansion. We are seeing an…”— Pauline Heinrichs · full quotes →

“That was a critical piece of infrastructure that was missing.”— Benjamin Gerber, CEO of CleanCounts · full quotes →

“a footprint is what one person leaves behind. A wave is what we make together”— Leah Stokes · full quotes →

“The deletion of data has also become a possibility, and there is a risk that [data] could be manipulated to skew findings in a desired direction.”— Kathrin Winkler, German Research Foundation program manager · Hacker News · full quotes →

“The EPA's legal reasoning is fatally flawed, so we are going to court.”— Meredith Hankins, NRDC federal climate legal director · full quotes →

“part of Trump's love of fossil fuels – and his accompanying hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation – might be less…”— Moira Donegan · full quotes →

“The floods we have seen across China recently provide a stark reminder of how quickly extreme rainfall can disrupt agricultu…”— Researchers, University of Manchester study · full quotes →

“A sustained decline in dust therefore ripples through all of these.”— Ashok Gupta · full quotes →

“Rarely have we seen such rainfall accumulations in 30 minutes”— AVAMET, Meteorological association · BBC World · full quotes →

“And perhaps we should ask the House of Representatives to stiffen the laws, classifying this as 'ecological terrorism'. This is a very serious matter.”— Prabowo Subianto · full quotes →

“Die Temperaturerhöhung der letzten Jahrzehnte ist nicht wegzudiskutieren und stellt viele Städte vor schwere Aufgaben was den Hitzeschutz und mehr angeht.”— realkachelmann.bsky.social · full quotes →

“The headline blames FEMA but the details indict congress, and the executive indirectly, for not changing the law to enable a solution.”— venya@musicians.today · full quotes →

“Meanwhile, in unrelated news, the Govt. claims Data Centres are national infrastructure, and their draining of local water sources 'necessary'!”— ChrisMayLA6 · full quotes →

“For example, the amount of gallium in our e-waste is enough to reduce the EU's import dependency of this metal by up to 40%.”— Researchers (The Conversation) · full quotes →

“The planet's water cycle is becoming increasingly erratic, swinging between too little and too much, the United Nations has warned, with an unprecedented El…”— UN World Meteorological Organization · full quotes →

“UK MUST FULLY COMMIT TO HITTING NET ZERO BY 2050, SAYS BURNHAM”— Andy Burnham (via coverage), UK political figure · Bluesky · full quotes →

“Imagine getting a job telling lies to trick people into harmful behaviour. Imagine an $800 billion industry based on that, growing faster than the rest of the…”— EricLawton · full quotes →

“This is the first time in more than 50 years that there has been no growth in India's coal power over a two-year period, even as electricity demand grew…”— Lauri Myllyvirta, Lead analyst, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air · full quotes →

“There are no words that can ease the pain of losing a loved one so suddenly, and our hearts are especially heavy knowing that three lives were lost.”— Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren · full quotes →

“For over 15 years, the Obama and Biden administrations implemented a war on coal to destroy reliable and affordable energy.”— Lee Zeldin, EPA Administrator · Mastodon · full quotes →

“El Niño–like conditions increase the dengue incidence, as it shifts large‐scale circulations toward warmer and drier pre‐monsoon conditions over the state”— Roxy Mathew Koll · full quotes →

“We can still hold it off with medicines, but I'm concerned that if this persists, it will lead to worse illnesses”— Mimi Marlina, Pontianak resident · SCMP/AFP · full quotes →

“Synergy between global warming and a type of El Niño not seen since the late 1990s could create unprecedented weather that scientists don’t have enough climate…”— @bettycjung.bsky.social, Bluesky poster sharing the report · Bluesky · full quotes →