BNEF is projecting global GHG emissions could fall as much as 2.5% this year marking the beginning of a structural decline

Reductions in coal burn in China, lowered fossil fuel demand in Europe and Asia are driving the shift 🤯

Do people who are not oceanographers know that elephant seals have been helping us collect temperature and salinity data in inhospitable areas of the ocean for the last 20 years?

Some helpful AI context:

'AI processors installed in 2023 consumed 7–11 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity annually, ~0.04% of global electricity use. Thats less than cryptocurrency mining (100–150 TWh) and conventional data centers plus data-transmission (500–700 TWh)'

Please stop doing this. The 1.5ºC/2ºC levels from the Paris Agreements are for the global mean temperature changes - not northern hemisphere land (which warms faster than the ocean or the southern hemisphere).

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A new advanced market commitment just launched that will direct around a billion dollars toward high-quality afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation projects: symbiosiscoalition.org/perspectives/i…

Importantly, it includes stronger requirements around the use of dynamic baselines and

'It's really fundamentally a problem of changing conditions, not changing ignitions.' Zeke Hausfather on the role of climate change in the 'zombie' fires reigniting in Canada after a record-setting year for fire and heat