Every tiny-scale coral ‘restoration’ project on the Great Barrier Reef has been destroyed or severely damaged this summer due to anthropogenic heating.

Qantas is pulling your leg, so they can keep polluting while pretending to care about environmental damage.

In my new The BMJ piece, I argue that economic activity must serve the health of the planet & population—and not the other way around. This builds on my work as chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All Council.

Read it here ⬇️ bmj.com/content/385/bm…

The white corals are bleached. Some colonies are partially dead.

The pink table coral on the right has manufactured colourful pigments in a desperate attempt to stay alive.

The green corals are already dead, their skeletons colonised by algae.

SEVERE BLEACHING = MASS MORTALITY

Brazil is facing cascading impacts to its health system due to a strong El Niño.

Professor Mercedes Bustamante highlights this example of how the climate crisis is impacting our daily lives.

Watch last month's public meeting: youtube.com/watch?v=QQcFUV…

Neuer globaler Temperaturrekord für März: Im Vergleich zum Zeitraum 1850 bis 1900, dem vorindustriellen Referenzzeitraum, war der Monat 1,68 Grad wärmer.
#Klimaschutz ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.
Die Europawahl im Juni wird sehr wichtig!
#Klimakrise
tagesschau.de/wissen/klimaer…

Please join us for a conversation between two legends – Dr. David Suzuki and Johan Rockström on Friday 12 April from 4.30-5.30pm CET / 10.30-11.30am EST. Register here: virginunite.tfaforms.net/139

Important new PIK study. A shift in our diets could make a considerable difference if we do not want to crash through the 1.5°C limit in the next 10 - 15 years. This calls for globally concerted efforts to support the transition towards sustainable healthy diets.

Earth Commission The Earth Commission is entering its 2nd phase, expanding on and quantifying new elements of the #SafeAndJust boundaries.

We welcome Prof Fatima Denton UNU-INRA as Co-chair alongside Prof @JRockstrom Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK.

See the list of new Commissioners & workstreams ⬇️

Our Tribute to Malin Falkenmark is now published in Ambio. It was a humbling reminder of her greatness and water legacy for humanity to lead the writing of this guest editorial rdcu.be/dCgnN

Science must be clear on global risks, but also couple this with paths to solutions cnn.com/2024/03/07/opi…

Klimatpolitiska rådets sågning av svensk klimatpolitik är saklig och motiverad. Det är ytan under utsläppskurvan som räknas, vilket innebär att utsläppen måste minska > 60% till 2030, inte öka, för att hålla Sverige inom en vetenskaplig koldioxid budget svensktnaringsliv.se/sakomraden/hal…

Proud to join the Jury of the Volvo Environment Prize.

environment-prize.com/johan-rockstro…

Large scale-power outages caused by tropical #cyclones can be prevented almost entirely if a small but critical set of power lines is protected against storm damages. 👉New PIK study: pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

🆕Not in my backyard? #windturbines have little effect on US property values, shows new study with PIK scientist Leonie Wenz, Max Auffhammer UC Berkeley. The effect is smaller the further away the recently installed turbines are, and fades over time.
👉pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Actuaries raise the alarm of the risks of fat tail ”stings” from irreversible and catastrophic outcomes threatening the future of humanity actuaries.org.uk/media/g1qevrfa…

Global sea surface temperatures, aside from being at a modern-era record high of 21.21°C for the third consecutive day, are also in crazy-town territory for the standard deviation, yesterday at 5.68σ above the 1982-2011 mean. That's 1-in-150 million for a normal distribution.

Reefs in the Coral Sea are cooking, again, with sea temperatures 2C above the normal summer maximum.

In Joyeeta Gupta’s last article as Earth Commission’s co-chair, published in Scientific American, she walks through our transdisciplinary methodology tot establish #SafeAndJust boundaries for planet and people.

Read it here ➡️ scientificamerican.com/article/how-to…

Big Mistake. Geologists reject the Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch — after 15 years of debate. But geologists have often found themselves on the wrong side of scientific evidence, e.g., on Anthropogenic climate change nature.com/articles/d4158…