Kelly Rigg

Director Varda Group, campaigns and communications. Former Exec Dir at former Greenpeace director, 30+ years running campaigns

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Disturbing news. Loss of Arctic sea ice has caused an “irreversible” shift in the chemistry of the ocean that is disrupting the foundations of chain of life, a two-decade-long study has concluded. Tipping points are already here…

https://t.co/KxWPsI8qST

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

Twenty years on from "An inconvenient truth": PIK Director @jrockstrom reflects in this @nytimes piece on how the plummeting prices for renewable energy generation, batteries and EVs have changed the conversation around #climatechange.

https://t.co/AMmHNLEZ3X

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

In 2025, wind and solar became the bedrock of European energy self-reliance. Power generation from renewables in Europe has reached a new record of 384.9 TWh.
Norway has just said no to nuclear power and NATO now backs renewables as the solution to energy security.
Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.
The direction of travel is clear.

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Four fifths of the world’s rivers are “choking” - losing oxygen - because of climate change, a big new study concludes. It’s worst in the tropics where oxygen levels are already low.

https://t.co/s6FxFxNGFt

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

For decades sceptics cited lack of melting of Antarctic ice as proof the world was not hearing up. But since 2015 it has been vanishing far faster than scientists expected. Now a new study suggests it may spark a new climate tipping point.

https://t.co/MhCWC56YW3

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario | @rtmcswee Cecilia Keating @hausfath

Read here: https://t.co/3ccYxh3CE9

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

Unbelievable! A president that is able to arrange for his own immunity for tax fraud. Hard to sink deeper as a country.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The President is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them.

Got it.

It's just mind blowing that is what's happening in America.

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Worrying stuff. Microplastics are three or five times higher than normal in the brains of people with dementia. And they are increasing in all our brains - up 50% in less than a decade. Time to pay attention….
https://t.co/MQ1tLieL80

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

🚨 FACTCHECK: PIK Director @jrockstrom spoke to The @AP to counter the misinformation being spread about the scientific communities' updates to future climate scenarios.
https://t.co/XtohCZ2cfi

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Now oil and gas drilling greatly increase the threat to the Amazon rainforest, one of the world’s fastest growing fossil fuel frontiers. 20% of all new reserves found there or nearby in recent years,. And when burned they will also hasten its demise.

https://t.co/xgQkUzNoWk

[Fatih Birol @fbirol]

Electric car sales rose to new records in nearly 100 countries in 2025 – and close to 30% of all cars sold globally this year are set to be electric

Battery price declines & policy responses to the current energy crisis can add to EVs' momentum

More ➡️ https://t.co/uhicaXjwm3

[Akshat Rathi @AkshatRathi]

Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario.
🎁🔗 https://t.co/VqZ6GQ3gc0

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Europe is swinging from Arctic frosts to near-35°C heat within days. Some parts will warm by ~15°C in a week. Agriculture does not thrive under violent thermal instability. Ecosystems depend on stability, not a whiplash. This is what climate instability looks like in practice.

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

This is truly scary. The breakup of Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier would raise levels by over three meters and inundate coastal cities worldwide. And yet we continue to slow efforts to combat global warming.
https://t.co/PTBx7ibEbR

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Mind boggling. There are 171 TRILLION pieces of Microplastics floating in the world’s oceans alone, surveys conclude. And they are indestructible, so there forever. What on earth are we doing?

https://t.co/y0GCuw3dDr

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Europe subsidises fossil fuels - which kill 600,000 people a year - to the tune of £387 million every year. And the climate change deniers complain that renewables can be subsidised….

https://t.co/eCdSDXZNsi

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Nuclear is already too late and too costly to play any positive role in tackling the climate and energy crises. What’s worse, every pound invested in nuclear is a pound not invested in renewables, energy efficiency, storage and grid resilience - investments that would provide a much bigger pay-off.

https://t.co/FgUarNfG5k

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

In 55 countries, wind and solar generated more electricity than coal in 2025.

34 of them have near-zero coal left.

Spain crossed over in 2009. The UK in 2016. The USA last year.

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