“Intermittency of Renewables”. Well, yes. Some news about the growing intermitttency of nuclear power stations:

Financial Times: “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” https://on.ft.com/4fsSclS

Anthropocene may not be a
‘-cene’ (meaning: a lasting division in geological time) at all, and only mark the moment of us humans breaking planetary boundaries to the point of putting ourselves at risk. Not a lasting new era. Just a decisive moment in time. A last moment of choice.

Shell taps gamers and influencers to boost image among the young https://on.ft.com/3QT7h5g

The wise teenage son of a friend recently quipped: ‘you all find it somehow easier to imagine the end of the world and nature than the end of capitalism’.

Plastic waste is the ultimate oil spill.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/plastic-waste-spiralling-out-of-control-across-africa-analysis-shows

I’ll be at COP28. As always, let me know if we should meet/talk.
And yes, I expect this to be a politically chaotic COP.

Paris🇫🇷, “A car-choked capital is transforming before our eyes, the dream of urbanites around the world who are eager to reassess the automobile’s 🚗 dominant role in the city.“ 👇👇

https://slate.com/business/2023/03/paris-car-ban-bikes-cycling-history-france.html

Spending the week in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, preparing for the UN Climate Summit COP28 which will take place here from Nov 30 to Dec 12 this year. This will be the venue for it.

This really happened and is wonderful. Establishing a much broader understanding of climate change is a huge societal task, not only for news media & science communicators but equally for sports and the cultural sector. Well done, @ed_hawkins and ITV.
https://twitter.com/itvfootball/status/1619433881962434560/video/1

Where did all the new podcasts go?

The number of new podcasts launched fell by nearly 80% between 2020 and 2022 — and seems to keep dropping. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/01/where-did-all-the-new-podcasts-go/

Over 100 billion people have lived on our planet.

Just 622 have been to space.

Just 12 have set foot on another celestial object, our barren moon.

Not a single human has been to another planet.

We know of no other planet that can sustain human life.

Why is it so damn hard to get people to care about protecting the only home we've ever had and the only place we can live?

#climatechange

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oceans-break-record-for-highest-temperatures-four-years-in-a-row-180981455/

Icy Hampstead Heath this morning. (London)

Germany’s national ARD-TV interviewed me about the prominence of climate change as a topic at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. (Spoiler: Was it prominent? Yes. Was it prominent enough: No, it wasn’t.)
Video: https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video-1143971.html

The World Economic Forum’s top-3 long-term risks are all climate-related:

https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/

I’ll be at the #WEF in Davos to speak, learn more and meet about climate change, the need for greater corporate climate literacy (board level and management) and the role of and potential for corporations in fighting climate change.
If you will be there and think we should meet, I still have some time open and will enjoy hearing from you.

@baekdal :-)

Thinking about leaving your current job to do something that really matters?
You’re not alone. And there is a podcast for you :-)
“Meet the Climate Quitters”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-05/how-to-quit-your-job-to-fight-climate-change

Swiss ski ressort Gstaad uses helicopter to fly in…snow.
Financially, this may have been ‘worth it’. Ecologically, it is a sign of madness. #carbontax

https://t.co/p7EkTskCGt

Link: https://t.co/hgrZwj2N5C

Right below the CNN article on "‘Uncharted territory’: January heat records smashed across Europe"?

SUVs, business-class flights, and more SUVs.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/europe/europe-heat-records-climate-intl/index.html