Director Varda Group, campaigns and communications. Former Exec Dir at http://t.co/1j5YsAcr0Q, former Greenpeace director, 30+ years running campaigns
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
🌍 “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” Our 2026 State of the Climate report finds 7 of 16 planetary vital signs at record extremes. The planetary emergency is already here.
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call heat storms. They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world. reut.rs/4zBUXtM
Kelly Rigg retweeted
“I have worked on the AMOC for more than 30 years. I’m increasingly worried”, states PIK scientist @rahmstorf. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) carries warm water northward. #climatechange is putting this ocean circulation at risk.
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
I don’t understand. Why is no one being prosecuted for this? Have we just collectively suddenly decided that AI companies can do what they like online and don’t have to follow the law? Wouldn’t we be prosecuted if we ‘infiltrated’ a government website??
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
770 million - a tenth of the world’s people - are at “acute risk” from sea level rise, concludes a report by the UN Secretary-General. They include the residents of some of the world’s biggest cities and the entire populations of some island nations.
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
Today, we launched the Planetary Health Check 2026. Seven of nine Planetary Boundaries are transgressed, and pressure on all seven is at its highest recorded level.
Yet, we still have a window to change course. But we need to move fast.
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
The amount of freshwater on earth is seriously declining, reports the World Meteorological Organisation. Last year rivers carried 36% less water than usual and glaciers lost 400 gigatons of ice. Reserves of groundwater are also shrinking in most places
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
Second wave of big batteries will eat the dinner of fossil fuels, forcing some coal generators to close reneweconomy.com.au/second-w…
Kelly Rigg retweeted
The math isn't mathing.
The world spends more than three times as much on fossil fuel subsidies as it would cost to transition to clean economies for a safe climate and air.
The solutions are ready and the money is there. What’s needed now is action at scale.
Here’s how: bit.ly/3UFnsYq #CleanAirDay
Kelly Rigg retweeted
Wind industry starts turning tables on critics with blade recycling. Recent dismantling of Scotland's first commercial wind farm shows the way.
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
"Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it." George Monbiot.
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
Kelly Rigg retweeted
🆕 Climate change threatens Europe’s whole food system: extreme heat, droughts and floods damage crops and fisheries, then ripple through storage, processing, transport and trade. Southern Europe is particularly exposed, with recurrent droughts and heat: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
ALT Quote by Christoph Müller, PIK scientist: "Climate risks do not stop at the farm gate: They spread through trade, processing, transport and food prices, but EU policies do not yet address these interconnected risks coherently.
ALT Cracked drought‑scorched soil illustrating that Southern Europe is particularly at risk — heat and recurring drought threaten crops, livestock and fisheries. Other European regions also face growing risks from extreme weather and disrupted supply chains.
ALT Supermarket produce display with headline "Food price increases hit disadvantaged groups harder" and subtext noting low-income households are especially affected because they spend a larger share of their income on food.
Kelly Rigg retweeted
Little-known fact: Solar just became Pakistan's single biggest source of electricity, ahead of gas, coal and hydro, capturing 25% of the power mix
>Nobody planned it: as grid prices doubled, households and businesses bought Chinese panels by the bucketful
>Pakistan imported more solar (17GW) in 2024 than any other country. Most of it never talks to the grid and is missed by official statistics
Distributed technology beats volatile commodities every single time
Wires chewing pipelines
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill.
Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
The latest deal hands a foreign energy company $1.2 billion to abandon offshore wind projects off New York, California, and Louisiana.
And we've seen them pull this scam before. They paid a company nearly $1 billion to invest in gas projects, and it turned out the company was already planning to make those investments anyway. Trump got nothing for you in return.
He hates wind power so much that he has now spent nearly $4 billion of your money making it disappear.
Twelve leases canceled, billions of taxpayer dollars gone, and power for millions of homes wiped away just like that.
You’re paying for this twice: once when the government spends your tax dollars to block the cheapest energy available, and again on your electric bill when utilities have no choice but to keep running expensive coal instead.
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
"Es gibt Anzeichen, dass in der Klimawissenschaft die Leute zu vorsichtig waren. Weil sie Angst davor hatten, als alarmistisch eingestuft zu werden. Das war aber nicht alarmistisch, sondern alarmierend. Das ist ein großer Unterschied." @lewan.uk
Stimmt.
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Kelly Rigg retweeted
The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing.
We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.
Kelly Rigg retweeted
We haven’t seen atmospheric CO2 levels consistently this high in 14 MILLION years.
We’re in so so SO much trouble, & pretty much every politician & journalist has just decided to ignore it.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy
(graph by Dr Thomas Ronge)
Kelly Rigg retweeted
Drought, extreme heat, raging wildfires- yet the former consensus on climate change has evaporated. Instead the right argue net zero is a fiction and a con. Adapt to the climate crisis: but do nothing to stop it. This is becoming a civilisational threat. observer.co.uk/news/columnis…
Kelly Rigg retweeted
The extreme heat, fire, droughts displacing > 200000 and killing > 20000 in Europe, happens on a 1.4°C planet. We are inevitably breaching 1.5°C and heading towards 3°C. It will be get worse before it potentially gets better (if we urgently change course) nytimes.com/2026/07/29/world…
