"Climate hushing"—the quiet trend undermining global climate action
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"Climate hushing"—the quiet trend undermining global climate action
The year of renewables, bad news in disguise, "climate hushers", and how to keep the conversation going
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February 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Worthwhile newsletter when you have to carefully curate what's in your already-full inbox.
Today I learned about "climate-hushing."
Thanks @katharinehayhoe.com !
#ClimateChange #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #Conservation 🧪🌎🦤
Today I learned about "climate-hushing."
Thanks @katharinehayhoe.com !
#ClimateChange #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #Conservation 🧪🌎🦤
Most people are worried about climate change - but most don't hear or talk about regularly.
That's why I started my free newsletter Talking Climate. Every week I share good news, not so good news, and what people can do.
If you aren't a reader yet, see below. I have 6 different ways to subscribe!
That's why I started my free newsletter Talking Climate. Every week I share good news, not so good news, and what people can do.
If you aren't a reader yet, see below. I have 6 different ways to subscribe!
February 4, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Worthwhile newsletter when you have to carefully curate what's in your already-full inbox.
Today I learned about "climate-hushing."
Thanks @katharinehayhoe.com !
#ClimateChange #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #Conservation 🧪🌎🦤
Today I learned about "climate-hushing."
Thanks @katharinehayhoe.com !
#ClimateChange #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #Conservation 🧪🌎🦤
The scale bar is *only* 1C.
1C rise on this scale in a very, very short time frame from a geological perspective.
This is mass extinction-scale climate change.
🌎🧪 #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #ClimateChange
1C rise on this scale in a very, very short time frame from a geological perspective.
This is mass extinction-scale climate change.
🌎🧪 #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #ClimateChange
Going back 2000 years really brings our current warming into perspective. Carbon pollution is remaking our climate. Thanks @edhawkins.org for the great visual.
April 24, 2026 at 2:15 AM
The scale bar is *only* 1C.
1C rise on this scale in a very, very short time frame from a geological perspective.
This is mass extinction-scale climate change.
🌎🧪 #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #ClimateChange
1C rise on this scale in a very, very short time frame from a geological perspective.
This is mass extinction-scale climate change.
🌎🧪 #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #ClimateChange
Per Sir Attenborough: "We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that."
🌎🦤🧪 #SixthExtinction #ClimateChange #6thExtinction
Let's go for the green! See below:
🌎🦤🧪 #SixthExtinction #ClimateChange #6thExtinction
Let's go for the green! See below:
Three scenarios discussed in our article illustrate the choices and risks we face. I'd say: let's aim for the green one.
We still have a choice, and are not yet destined to bequeath a much less habitable planet to future generations. Our children and grandchildren deserve a fair chance.
We still have a choice, and are not yet destined to bequeath a much less habitable planet to future generations. Our children and grandchildren deserve a fair chance.
June 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Per Sir Attenborough: "We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that."
🌎🦤🧪 #SixthExtinction #ClimateChange #6thExtinction
Let's go for the green! See below:
🌎🦤🧪 #SixthExtinction #ClimateChange #6thExtinction
Let's go for the green! See below:
This is what happens in the beginning of a mass extinction: chaos as each species responds individualistically to its requirements for survival. Range shifts, establishment of refugia, even expansion of environmentally tolerant species are parts of the breakdown of ecosystems.
🦖🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction
🦖🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction
Our new Nature Eco Evo paper documents range shifts in 1,758 butterfly species across 105 countries, primarily due to climate change.
🦋80% expanded
🦋27% contracted
🦋22% shifted elevation
🦋342 showed multiple shift types.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
🦋80% expanded
🦋27% contracted
🦋22% shifted elevation
🦋342 showed multiple shift types.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
August 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This is what happens in the beginning of a mass extinction: chaos as each species responds individualistically to its requirements for survival. Range shifts, establishment of refugia, even expansion of environmentally tolerant species are parts of the breakdown of ecosystems.
🦖🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction
🦖🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction
Further proof that we will need our global network of protected areas to remain robust for thousands of years.
See my talk at #OceansPast #OceansPastInitiative #OPI #6thExtinction
(Plus: check out this open access article!)
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See my talk at #OceansPast #OceansPastInitiative #OPI #6thExtinction
(Plus: check out this open access article!)
🌎🦤🧪
We are in the Age of Humans - the Anthropocene.
Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000!
Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000!
Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We Are in the Anthropocene—Now What?
The Anthropocene's enormous consequences are of long-term nature, the slow pace of recovery currently under-appreciated among the public The smallest unavoidable residual emissions (e.g., from fo...
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June 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Further proof that we will need our global network of protected areas to remain robust for thousands of years.
See my talk at #OceansPast #OceansPastInitiative #OPI #6thExtinction
(Plus: check out this open access article!)
🌎🦤🧪
See my talk at #OceansPast #OceansPastInitiative #OPI #6thExtinction
(Plus: check out this open access article!)
🌎🦤🧪
Happy 100th, Sir David Attenborough!
A quote from 2021 to the United Nations COP26 climate meeting:
“In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.”
Let's make this birthday wish come true.
#Conservation #6thExtinction 🦖🦤🧪🌎
A quote from 2021 to the United Nations COP26 climate meeting:
“In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.”
Let's make this birthday wish come true.
#Conservation #6thExtinction 🦖🦤🧪🌎
May 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Happy 100th, Sir David Attenborough!
A quote from 2021 to the United Nations COP26 climate meeting:
“In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.”
Let's make this birthday wish come true.
#Conservation #6thExtinction 🦖🦤🧪🌎
A quote from 2021 to the United Nations COP26 climate meeting:
“In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.”
Let's make this birthday wish come true.
#Conservation #6thExtinction 🦖🦤🧪🌎
Your 'moment of doom' for May 8, 2026 ~ Sixth great extinction.
"Between warmer temperatures and shifts in rain and snow patterns, between 7% and 16% of the world's plant species are likely to lose at least 90% of their habitat and go essentially extinct in about 55 to 75 years"
"Between warmer temperatures and shifts in rain and snow patterns, between 7% and 16% of the world's plant species are likely to lose at least 90% of their habitat and go essentially extinct in about 55 to 75 years"
Scientists say don't forget about plants. Climate change is endangering tens of thousands of species - The Mainichi
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing, but the crucial
mainichi.jp
May 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Better people than me have tried to explain people’s insane behaviour & how they rationalise business as usual with irreversible, not survivable climate change. The kind of hellish future my very young & deliriously gorgeous great grandchildren will confront as they reach adulthood. #6thExtinction
August 4, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Better people than me have tried to explain people’s insane behaviour & how they rationalise business as usual with irreversible, not survivable climate change. The kind of hellish future my very young & deliriously gorgeous great grandchildren will confront as they reach adulthood. #6thExtinction
www.blueskypacks.com/starter-pack... unitedforclimate.blogspot.com/2025/01/embr... #RootCauses #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #EnvironmentalAdvocacy #Sustainability #Activism #AIOpenSourceEvidentialMaterial #Perplexity Llewelyn Pritchard 15 April 2025
Embracing Landback and Self-Determination - Bluesky Starter Pack
Discover influential voices centered on Indigenous knowledge and climate justice.
www.blueskypacks.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A special issue with 17 articles on the biosphere in the present and future Anthropocene:
#ClimateChange #Conservation #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction 🧪🌎🦤
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
#ClimateChange #Conservation #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction 🧪🌎🦤
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
Volume 381 Issue 1942 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM
A special issue with 17 articles on the biosphere in the present and future Anthropocene:
#ClimateChange #Conservation #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction 🧪🌎🦤
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
#ClimateChange #Conservation #ConservationPaleobiology #CPB #6thExtinction #SixthExtinction 🧪🌎🦤
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
Emissions lead to global warming. Warming leads to many things, but this...100s to 1000s of years to recover, if at all.
Many mass extinctions occurred during or because of an end to ocean mixing.
#6thExtinction #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Oceans 🧪🌎
interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...
Many mass extinctions occurred during or because of an end to ocean mixing.
#6thExtinction #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Oceans 🧪🌎
interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...
AMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?
The AMOC is under threat from human-caused climate change, as warming seas, melting ice and increased rainfall upset the temperature and salt balance of the North Atlantic.
interactive.carbonbrief.org
May 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Emissions lead to global warming. Warming leads to many things, but this...100s to 1000s of years to recover, if at all.
Many mass extinctions occurred during or because of an end to ocean mixing.
#6thExtinction #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Oceans 🧪🌎
interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...
Many mass extinctions occurred during or because of an end to ocean mixing.
#6thExtinction #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Oceans 🧪🌎
interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...
and there was a lot of ferns! #6thextinction ❤️🌿
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
and there was a lot of ferns! #6thextinction ❤️🌿
PSA: The animals don't need fixing, their habitats that we humans destroyed do.
Conservation is thankless or mocked while this cruel animal experimentation and others that support industrial farming profits get clicks and raves.
#ClimateCrisis #6thExtinction
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what...
Conservation is thankless or mocked while this cruel animal experimentation and others that support industrial farming profits get clicks and raves.
#ClimateCrisis #6thExtinction
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what...
April 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
PSA: The animals don't need fixing, their habitats that we humans destroyed do.
Conservation is thankless or mocked while this cruel animal experimentation and others that support industrial farming profits get clicks and raves.
#ClimateCrisis #6thExtinction
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what...
Conservation is thankless or mocked while this cruel animal experimentation and others that support industrial farming profits get clicks and raves.
#ClimateCrisis #6thExtinction
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what...
1. I cannot "like" this.
2. We are a reprehensible species and do not deserve this world.
#Collapse
#6thExtinction
#HumanExtinctionASAP
2. We are a reprehensible species and do not deserve this world.
#Collapse
#6thExtinction
#HumanExtinctionASAP
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
1. I cannot "like" this.
2. We are a reprehensible species and do not deserve this world.
#Collapse
#6thExtinction
#HumanExtinctionASAP
2. We are a reprehensible species and do not deserve this world.
#Collapse
#6thExtinction
#HumanExtinctionASAP
Class prep not helping mood. Struggling 2 figure out how 2 teach Conservation Bio without getting 2 buried in gloom & doom. #6thextinction
November 24, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Class prep not helping mood. Struggling 2 figure out how 2 teach Conservation Bio without getting 2 buried in gloom & doom. #6thextinction
Cats kill disease carrying vermin harmful to human life. In comparison, humans kill animal species (incldg birds) and drive them into extinction. People also kill each other, #6thextinction news.stanford.edu/stories/2023...
Human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire genera
A new analysis of mass extinction at the genus level, from researchers at Stanford and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, finds a “mutilation of the tree of life” with massive potential har...
news.stanford.edu
August 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Cats kill disease carrying vermin harmful to human life. In comparison, humans kill animal species (incldg birds) and drive them into extinction. People also kill each other, #6thextinction news.stanford.edu/stories/2023...
Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine. 1992. "Last Chance to See".
About endangered animals & Why they endangered.
Witty, poignant, it gently disparages us 'smart' apes.
Stephen Fry & Mark continued it with a 2009 BBC series.
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6thExtinction
#booksky
www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-...
About endangered animals & Why they endangered.
Witty, poignant, it gently disparages us 'smart' apes.
Stephen Fry & Mark continued it with a 2009 BBC series.
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6thExtinction
#booksky
www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-...
Last Chance to See
Last Chance to See [Adams, Douglas, Carwardine, Mark] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Last Chance to See
www.amazon.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine. 1992. "Last Chance to See".
About endangered animals & Why they endangered.
Witty, poignant, it gently disparages us 'smart' apes.
Stephen Fry & Mark continued it with a 2009 BBC series.
Collapse
6thExtinction
#booksky
www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-...
About endangered animals & Why they endangered.
Witty, poignant, it gently disparages us 'smart' apes.
Stephen Fry & Mark continued it with a 2009 BBC series.
Collapse
6thExtinction
#booksky
www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-...
Speaking of water … over two billion people lack safe drinking water, 785 million lack basic drinking water access, and over 2.2 billion people still lack access to safely managed drinking water services. #climatechange #watercrisis #6thExtinction
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Speaking of water … over two billion people lack safe drinking water, 785 million lack basic drinking water access, and over 2.2 billion people still lack access to safely managed drinking water services. #climatechange #watercrisis #6thExtinction
Now that #Israel has started #WW3 w attack on #Iran I am re-push out my tune Jamming in Hope BC. Allah bless Iran may the gods of Mother Nature help the rest of us. #6thextinction Whole tune here: on.soundcloud.com/6MQeDT1nTInO...
June 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Now that #Israel has started #WW3 w attack on #Iran I am re-push out my tune Jamming in Hope BC. Allah bless Iran may the gods of Mother Nature help the rest of us. #6thextinction Whole tune here: on.soundcloud.com/6MQeDT1nTInO...
At the #ExtinctionRebellion solidarity rally in Dublin a couple of weeks back a speaker mentioned how rural car trips decades back used to result in a windscreen smeared with dead insects - turns out thats now very well documented part of #6thextinction...
December 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM
At the #ExtinctionRebellion solidarity rally in Dublin a couple of weeks back a speaker mentioned how rural car trips decades back used to result in a windscreen smeared with dead insects - turns out thats now very well documented part of #6thextinction...
The first major step towards this kind of love is "understanding" by all. The second is the dissolving of Property Rights, overlording, dominion. A loving kind of attack-healing required to sort this bloody mess out. #6thExtinction
December 2, 2024 at 11:13 AM
The first major step towards this kind of love is "understanding" by all. The second is the dissolving of Property Rights, overlording, dominion. A loving kind of attack-healing required to sort this bloody mess out. #6thExtinction
Seriously - as a matter of the most urgency, all political figures aligned with the #WEF who are propagating a malicious false narrative about #NetZero must be exposed and "removed from power". Because Net Zero will cause the #6thextinction.
@guardianaustralia.bsky.social @dianedee.bsky.social
@guardianaustralia.bsky.social @dianedee.bsky.social
May 8, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Seriously - as a matter of the most urgency, all political figures aligned with the #WEF who are propagating a malicious false narrative about #NetZero must be exposed and "removed from power". Because Net Zero will cause the #6thextinction.
@guardianaustralia.bsky.social @dianedee.bsky.social
@guardianaustralia.bsky.social @dianedee.bsky.social
55 years years after the first Earth Day the problem remains the same, we act as if nature is what we study rather than what we are.
Viola candensis is considered historical in RI so I just planted some. Spreading nicely.
We all need to be the change.
#6thextinction
#RInativeplants
Viola candensis is considered historical in RI so I just planted some. Spreading nicely.
We all need to be the change.
#6thextinction
#RInativeplants
May 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
55 years years after the first Earth Day the problem remains the same, we act as if nature is what we study rather than what we are.
Viola candensis is considered historical in RI so I just planted some. Spreading nicely.
We all need to be the change.
#6thextinction
#RInativeplants
Viola candensis is considered historical in RI so I just planted some. Spreading nicely.
We all need to be the change.
#6thextinction
#RInativeplants
Ocean currents not only influence climate but they also keep ocean ecosystems healthy.
Shutdown of ocean currents = stagnation of ocean = extinction of species.
This is the first current that could go. Once they are off, it's centuries to millennia, before they start up again.
🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction
Shutdown of ocean currents = stagnation of ocean = extinction of species.
This is the first current that could go. Once they are off, it's centuries to millennia, before they start up again.
🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction
May 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Ocean currents not only influence climate but they also keep ocean ecosystems healthy.
Shutdown of ocean currents = stagnation of ocean = extinction of species.
This is the first current that could go. Once they are off, it's centuries to millennia, before they start up again.
🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction
Shutdown of ocean currents = stagnation of ocean = extinction of species.
This is the first current that could go. Once they are off, it's centuries to millennia, before they start up again.
🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction