Aino Kivelä

Viestinnän asiantuntija / Comms pro / Valtsikkalainen / HY ❤️/ Music - Curiosity - Learning 💫 Bang & Whimper 💫 Team #Airborne 😷 #FFP3 #COVIDisAirborne

[Aino Kivelä @aino_kivela]

"How gatherings of people increase the risk of coronavirus exposure" 💎💎💎 by @VVuorinenAalto @AnttiRasi @riinar & co #DontShareAir #airborne
https://t.co/nvFqvihMV8

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

We keep waiting for someone to invent a machine that cleans the air, stores carbon, produces oxygen and grows food.

We already did.

It’s called a tree.

[Dan De'Ath @DeAthCardiff]

Last week in the Alps, even the highest glaciers experienced unusual warmth and were losing ice rapidly. Protective sheets were draped over the ice to shield it from the sun and heat, like a veil over a dying patient - a haunting symbol of a warming world.

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

How bad will it get?

What frightens me about the #ClimateCrisis is we don’t know how bad things really are

"What we do know is that so far, the effects of heating the #climate are sooner and worse than many scientists projected (in public at least)" https://t.co/sKLklKtNtU

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

FRANCE'S LOIRE RIVER RUNS DRY
As in 2023 the Loire river is running dry, from prolonged record heat and drought. #drought #climatechange #heatwave #globalwarming

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

🌍✨ Sabbatical Day 1 — super excited and optimistic--while stepping back to find a way I can help things improve.

After decades of nonstop research, teaching, mentoring, advocacy, and building, I am stepping back to ask an underlying question that has been bothering me:

Are we doing science the right way — a way that has the largest impact on the world?

We are producing more papers and data than ever. And yet the air is becoming more poisoned. The water more contaminated. Communities are suffering more. Climate change is accelerating. New forms of pollution are emerging faster than we can study them. And most people have no idea how to protect themselves from what they cannot see.

We are living through the greatest uncontrolled human experiment in history. We are not moving fast enough — or being loud enough — about what it is doing to us.

Something has to change. And I think it starts with how we think, connect, prioritize, and communicate.

The greatest impact comes not from doing more measurements — but from thinking more clearly, connecting more deeply, and communicating more powerfully.

So for the next year I am doing something that feels essential — stepping back to help go further. Slowing down to speed up. Trading the relentless pace of the lab for the kind of deep thinking, global connections, and creative energy that only emerges when you finally give it room to breathe.

Right now, this year looks like: 🌅 slower mornings and deep thinking | 🌱 hands in the garden | 🐾 exercising and long walks with my husband and golden retrievers | 🍳 cooking yummy and nourishing food | 🌍 global travel and transformative new collaborations in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Sweden and beyond | 🧠 pushing beyond just measurements to understand how air pollution — in concerning new forms — is reshaping our brains, lungs, and bodies | 💨🌊 connecting air, water, climate, and human health in ways no single lab can do alone | 🎬 possibly a documentary on how scientists and communities fight back against environmental disasters to make a difference while not getting destroyed | 🎙️ possibly a podcast with MDs giving people the knowledge to protect themselves from what they cannot see -- connecting health and environmental exposure | 📚 a book connecting dots that have never been connected | 💨 more deep unhurried time with my extraordinary research group who remind me every day why this work matters 🙏

It is only one year and it will go very fast. Let me know which sounds the most impactful to you. The question I am bringing into this sabbatical — and I want to hear YOUR thinking:

How do we open our eyes to what is actually happening to us? How do we move from measuring the problem to solving it? And how do we do it fast enough to matter?

I clearly don't have all the answers. But I intend to spend this year finding them — and I hope the most powerful breakthroughs will come from conversations that have never happened before. I welcome being at the table.

What do YOU think the world most urgently needs right now? 👇

Watch this space for updates. 👀🌱

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

A new extinction…wake up Trump and his denying cult ASAP. He is destroying our planet. This is not about future generations. It is here NOW. Wake the fuck up.

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

This is beyond scary. Our son lives in France. We are deeply concerned…when they talked about climate migration, I didn’t even think of Europe. It is heating twice as fast as any other continent. Feeling extremely ldisheartened especially as our own sick demented delusional President is adding to it….

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The problem is not people being uneducated.

The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Professor Richard Feynman (must watch)

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

‘No one wants to be right about this’: #ClimateChange scientists’ horror & exasperation as predictions play out

 "It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis & knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself"
https://t.co/p7AHJUtdTi

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Sir #DavidAttenborough

“Things are going to get worse."

"This is the new extinction."

"We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get."

#ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/EfMrZh9RGB

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Listen to the haunting silence of an ecosystem gradually dying out over half a century.

This acoustic profile captures the progressive erasure of birdsong, serving as a stark and alarming warning of catastrophic biodiversity loss. Listen closely to realize exactly what we have lost.

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Trump is doing irreversible damage to the world

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

35C or more in London tomorrow.
This was exceptionally rare when I was a kid.
I hate it.
You look all over TikTok and other social media and almost no one is talking about climate change.
The public just don’t have a clue that it’s going to get hotter and hotter and hotter.

[tern @1goodtern]

When you see that parts of France are projected to have temperatures up to TWENTY THREE degrees above the seasonal average this week, you wonder what level this is going to reach eventually.

This is going to be the baseline.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Btw. I'm not aware of any models suggesting a "sudden collapse" of the #AMOC. The very serious real risk is that it soon passes a point of no return (tipping point) where it shutting down over the next 50-100 years becomes practically unstoppable.
https://t.co/ZQPWz01gmf

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

“There is a significant probability that we’re already committed to collapse, and we can’t change that even now,” says Phil Holden at the Open University, UK.

https://t.co/LLm6HmIPTe

@Keir_Starmer @andyburnham @AngelaRayner @DavidLammy @YvetteCooperMP @KemiBadenoch

[🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️‍🌈🌻 @RedBison]

OMFG
21°C = 69.8°F
The avg temp of Earth’s oceans is now 70°F—including polar seas.
We can’t truly grasp how much energy it took to heat such vast WATER to 70F, how much destructive power we face. Record-breaking, and will keep rising for millennia. Earth will never be the same.

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

The Actual Situation we face

If I was going to write an up to date article on where we are at in 2026 it would likely be very much like this article. I think this is the emerging main scenario. It is of course outside the mainstream at the moment - always late to admit the reality. But at some point in the next 5 years someone in a suit is going to have to tell the world what is actually going on - a bit like how eventually the mainstream finally caught up with the reality (10 years after it was obvious) that 1.5C is past and gone.

https://t.co/s5bcYsm8ZU

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

We're entering our third heatwave of the year.

We're calling this one #HeatwaveBP.

(After all, if storms get names, fossil-fuel-amplified heatwaves should get sponsors.)

Here's a little reminder of what 38°C does to a country whose infrastructure was built for a milder climate, maintained through austerity, and upgraded mainly via the aspirational phrase "lessons will be learned".

Perhaps an incoming Prime Minister could give this some thought.