Climate Adaptation and Restoration Team
The Sierra Club's Climate Adaptation and Restoration Team—Grassroots Network.
- Trump Tried to Kill Renewables. He Failed: Here are the numbers. Solar alone accounted for almost three-fourths of new generation capacity in Trump’s first ten months, and wind added another 13%, for 87% total. legal-planet.org/2026/02/05/t... @dfarber1950.bsky.social @cleeberkeley.bsky.social
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- Near a Refinery for Venezuelan Oil, U.S. Residents Say: Please Buy Our Homes—Pascagoula residents now worry that more Venezuelan oil is headed their way, adding to their pollution worries. The prospect is… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c... @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social @nytimes.com
- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamI don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamThird Act Maine came out in force for the Make Polluters Pay Day of Action, even though many of us had to get up early to dig cars out after a heavy snow storm & drive an hour or more, Maine elders showed up for the future of the planet! @polluterspay.bsky.social thirdact.org/maine/2026/0...
- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamWhat happens when the Winter Olympics can't rely on winter? For one, all the cities that staged the Winter Games since 1950 have heated up in the years since by an average of 2.7C. Read the full story w @hayleywarren.bsky.social via @bloomberg.com for FREE www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
- Investors use new tactics to pressure BP on climate change— Nest, the UK’s largest workplace pension scheme by membership, Swiss federal pension fund Publica and four British local authority funds… www.ft.com/content/ffe4... @attractamooney.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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- Norway’s $2tn wealth fund stress tests effects of climate shocks and AI correction—The stress test exercise undertaken by Norges Bank Investment Management for the first time featured… www.ft.com/content/a826... @kenzabryan.ft.com @financialtimes.com
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- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamICYMI: As California's glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia www.latimes.com/environment/...
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- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamA sign at California's Muir Woods National Monument explaining that redwoods soak up planet-warming greenhouse gases has been removed by the Trump administration. One of many ways the National Park Service is now silencing science and history: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...
- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamWith Paris Marx about digital and energy sovereignty in Canada in the face of U.S. aggression – including tips for your personal digital sovereignty to get off U.S. tech – and the importance of continuing to push the Canadian Government to do better. Listen here: www.sierraclub.ca/digital-sove...
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- A difficult year for Burgundy-Burgundian vignerons have been worrying about the dangerously drier climate that seems to be heading their way for years, but in 2024 it was wet weather that proved the real hazard… www.ft.com/content/83b0... @jancisrobinson.com @financialtimes.com
- The deadly force of floods and the welcome return of wolves — new environment books—Jeevan Vasagar in The Surge: The Race Against the Most Destructive Force in Nature; Nick Chater and George Loewenstein, in their lively book… www.ft.com/content/bbff... @pilitaclark.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
- Australians fear repeat of ‘Black Summer’ as fires rage- Scientists have warned that climate change is making extreme weather events more intense across the world. That has been evident in Australia… www.ft.com/content/9b86... @nicfildes.ft.com @financialtimes.com
- China pushes coal-fired power projects alongside renewables—The International Energy Agency @iea.org said in a report published in December that global coal use — for both factories and electricity generation — was set… www.ft.com/content/103a... Rachel Millard @financialtimes.com
- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamI am a climate scientist and this is correct. As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open. Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- US green energy growth is proving hard to kill— The Energy Information Administration predicts US solar generation will increase 46 per cent in the next two years. Wind power — hit by a welter of… www.ft.com/content/b52c... @simonmundy.ft.com @financialtimes.com
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- Storm Poses Big Threats to Power Grids Across U.S.—The dangerous conditions are likely to take a bigger toll on lower-income Americans, many of whom live in poorly insulated homes and have struggled with rising energy costs… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/b... @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social @nytimes.com
- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamWe are hiring at the 2035 Initiative at UC Santa Barbara! We are looking for a Senior Energy Analyst to take on analysis, research, and project management tasks, with a particular focus on energy systems modeling and analysis. Check out the job posting here: www.2035initiative.com/jobs
- Multibillion-dollar transit project to tunnel through the Santa Monica Mountains is approved by L.A. Metro—The busy corridor and solutions to improve it have been under discussion for decades. @ethanelkind.bsky.social a rail expert… www.latimes.com/california/s... @cshalby.bsky.social @latimes.com
- …and director of the climate program at the @cleeberkeley.bsky.social at UC Berkeley, said that a variety of political and logistical factors slowed attention to it: a focus on downtown transit, opposition to high-capacity transit in the San Fernando Valley and…
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- Logical Intelligence brings LeCun on board as it touts AI breakthrough—The six-month-old Silicon Valley-based firm on Wednesday unveiled a new “energy based” reasoning model called Kona, which it says… www.ft.com/content/157b... @georgehammond.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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- US commerce chief Howard Lutnick heckled at Davos dinner as Christine Lagarde walks out—Lutnick told his audience that the world should focus on coal as an energy source rather than… www.ft.com/content/e2ae... @olafstorbeck.ft.com @financialtimes.com
- Nestlé chief blames Trump for company going quiet on sustainability—Nestlé chief executive Philipp Navratil has partly blamed Donald Trump for the company’s failure… www.ft.com/content/0e09... Madeleine Speed @financialtimes.com
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- Reposted by Climate Adaptation and Restoration TeamFor decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has factored public health impacts into pollution limits. Now, the equation is changing. Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters. Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
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- Storm drifting over California will unleash historic winter system across U.S.—By this weekend, that system will have exploded into a sprawling storm stretching 2,000 miles… www.sfchronicle.com/weather-fore... @gporterwx.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com
- Los Angeles fires dominated insured losses of $127bn in 2025, says Aon-Insured losses from climate disasters were 27 per cent higher than the long-term average since 2000, said insurance broker Aon, emphasising… www.ft.com/content/bc5f... @fteva.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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- Ancient ice’s secrets can give us a look into the future-The project provides hope for the future even as the political consensus around climate change wobbles. Just as DNA in criminal cases was archived speculatively… www.ft.com/content/b60a... @anjahuja.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
- Norway’s oil fund defends push to water down net zero-The lobbying effort by the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund could have major ramifications for efforts to avoid breaching the 1.5C threshold, which scientists say… www.ft.com/content/dedb... @kenzabryan.ft.com @financialtimes.com
- The great oil head fake—Just as dollar-based sanctions pushed countries at risk of US financial retribution to hold a more diverse basket of reserves, perhaps petro-politics and higher oil prices… www.ft.com/content/3c78... @ranaforoohar.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
- All Sides Agreed on Shutting a Coal Plant. Then Trump Stepped In—In the short term, the Trump administration’s moves have upended the longstanding Washington deal. “We made a deal, and everyone got what they wanted, right?” said… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/c... @hclairebrown.bsky.social @nytimes.com
- The dark truth of CEO silence on Trump’s climate retreat— It is because we lack the political changes needed to put financial systems and economies on to paths that avoid burning fossil fuels. Achieving those changes… www.ft.com/content/3e48... @pilitaclark.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
- Europe goes ‘full blast’ on carbon capture but fears of ‘expensive distraction’ persist—Environmental campaigners say carbon capture must not replace cutting fossil fuel consumption. “The problem with CCS is that… www.ft.com/content/ef69... Susannah Savage @financialtimes.com
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- EVs central to carmakers’ Europe strategy despite petrol ban easing—While carmakers will be allowed to carry on releasing 10 per cent of their 2021 emissions and to continue selling some petrol engines and… www.ft.com/content/97ba... Kana Inagaki @financialtimes.com
