#climateliteracy — Public Fediverse posts

@BBCRadio4 People worried about energy and food bills - and energy security - must be helped to understand that none of these are helped by more drilling in UK waters. Please could your presenters and editors gain and then use some #climateliteracy

@ChrisMayLA6 Voting against #climateliteracy - can only assume a campaign stuffed with misinformation. Burn, baby, burn... #NoNewOilandGas

@jgkoomey.bsky.social Invaluable thread, thank you so much. Have to ask yourself who benefits from demonisation of the 'carbon footprint' concept and metric
#climateliteracy

@BBCRadio4 Good to hear this morning's actual discussion of greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels and El Nino as part of heatwave reporting - along with future prognoses and continuing value in mitigation. Let's normalise this! #climateliteracy

@sellathechemist Jeez! #carbonliteracy #climateliteracy #bringsciencetoscience

A new UK national security assessment quietly frames ecological collapse as a long‑term planning risk. This isn’t a call to panic—or prophecy. But it does shift context. Safeguarding is about foreseeability, not certainty. #ClimateRisk #Safeguarding #EducationPolicy #Preparedness #ClimateLiteracy

When ecological risk becomes a...

Thanks for a great episode today! #ClimateQuestion #climateliteracy #SciComm
@akshatrathi
@bbcworldservice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct702z

"...Daily Mail published an article around the time of the 2019 youth climate strike headlined: “Net zero hero! How being carbon neutral will help the planet”. Fast forward to 2024, and in September the Mail published the headline “Bonkers’ net-zero target could cost 1 MILLION jobs, union chief warns”, which included four mentions of net zero but no mention of climate change..."
#NetZero v problematic, but deliberate obfuscation? #mediatellthetruth #climateliteracy
https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-73-000-articles-and-found-the-uk-media-is-divorcing-climate-change-from-net-zero-272527

A group activity in my #ClimateLiteracy courses - ranking a handful of nation-states by total territorial, then per capita territorial, then per capita consumption-based emissions. Australia so often surprised participants (should maybe also include Canada?!? And rounding off with historical/cumulative is important, as a segue into future scenarios...)

Carbon-neutral roadbuilding?!?!? There's #greenwash all over the #LowerThamesCrossing
#climateliteracy
@TheWarOnCars
@WalterMenteth
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/lower-thames-crossing/nature/cutting-carbon/

#FarmersWeekly in need of #climateliteracy - #UKFoodsecurity gonna crumble with #climatebreakdown
#GHGEmissions
"The government has quietly shelved proposals to announce a UK-specific pledge at the COP30 climate summit to cut methane emissions from livestock by 30% by 2030..."
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/lucky-escape-as-government-shelves-cop30-methane-pledge

"Fossil fuel interests in the classroom
Branch said there have been "systematic attempts to provide teachers with misinformation about climate change in the hopes they will relate it to their students," with material coming from "very strongly ideologically motivated" climate change denial think tanks, such as the Heartland Institute, as well as from the fossil fuel industry itself."
Hunger for #climateliteracy easily fed with misinformation from #fossilfuelindustries
https://p.dw.com/p/52eO8

@peterdutoit Thanks for this!
And here's a handbook (partly prompted by the Ladybird book from our unelected head of state, which omitted explanation of carbon, energy and stuff or fossil fuel industries) https://bit.ly/CLNZine
#ClimateLiteracy

"...the Subtropical Front – the boundary between cold subantarctic water and warmer subtropical water that is biologically and economically significant – has moved 120km west, the report said, noting it was the first time a shift in large-scale ocean circulation around New Zealand had been observed..."
#oceansystems #climatebreakdown
Shall we do something about #GHGEmissions, or not bother? #Climateliteracy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/08/new-zealand-oceans-warming-34-per-cent-faster-than-global-average?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"The platform has said it will counter the Trump administration's war on climate science through a collaboration between experts, educators, organizations, universities and civic leaders" #climateliteracy #Scienceunderthreat
https://www.dw.com/en/fired-climate-scientists-crucial-extreme-weather-data-cut-us-president-donald-trump-v3/a-73977766

An aspect of #ClimateLiteracy that isn't normally considered, and maybe should be.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/spanish-schools-to-give-lessons-in-coping-with-natural-disassters?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@CelloMomOnCars Great idea - #mediatellthetruth #climateliteracy #journalism #bringsciencetopolitics

I can't emphasise this enough. #ClimateLiteracy is fast becoming a 21st Century "mission critical" skill!

Urgent need for climate litera...

Here is another *excellent* thread from @weatherwest.bsky.social Also follow him for more of the same insights! #ClimateLiteracy

Page by Daniel Swain | @weathe...

Lack of #ClimateLiteracy is going to get *lots* of people killed. We live in a ~1.5°C world now and we are *firmly* on our way to 2°C

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uy73np7f3ln6srlnp27bwdyt/post/3lt657tuc7c24

*Everyone* needs to improve their #ClimateLiteracy and a dashboard like this with monthly data is *really* helpful. Check this out and if you have any feedback let John know.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bpe2cboy6nffv4jd7v7uzyzi/post/3lrxe25jyjs2w

When we talk about #Adaptation, which we urgently need to, given our heating trajectory, it is 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 to understand these concepts👇🏻 #ClimateLiteracy

Fire isn’t always the villain. Some trees, like the giant sequoia, need fire to thrive. But climate change is throwing the cycle out of balance.

Let’s talk about the role of fire in forest health. 🔥🌲

#ForestFactFriday #EcologyFacts #ClimateLiteracy #ForestFireEducation #ConservationMatters

Reminder: Soft followed by hard limits to adaption will reached as we continue to heat. In the meantime, there are a host of barriers to #adaptation that CAN be overcome to delay hitting these limits. Here are some of the barriers: #ClimateCrisis #ClimateLiteracy #Leadership