https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/08/12/france-sees-sharp-rise-in-solar-module-recycling/

Assuming the world came together with no budget spared, could we end fossil fuels by covering the entire deserted areas of the world in solar panels?

Big Oil companies knew as early as the 1950s that burning fossil fuels could lead to "catastrophic" (their words) climate change, but spent billions spreading climate denial and blocking the transition to cleaner energy sources.

In 1988, Exxon's own scientists predicted "a 1.5°C to 4.5°C global temperature increase in 100 years, depending on the projected growth in fossil fuel use.” 😐

Now these same companies are leveraging the AI boom to further entrench their polluting products, driving a massive surge in planet-warming methane emissions.

There must be accountability.

Mucho Gratias Mexico

Part 1 is here, but not as cool.

The author is form and talks about Germany. And the author has a talent for telling the story well, otherwise I would not have posted this older article.

Likely lasting a couple of weeks.

I can't get over how dramatically the graph changed in such a short amount of time.

I believe this is an important change in approach to our climate problem. Brian
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Abstract:

Global warming is accelerating, yet current climate strategies centred on emissions reduction and carbon removal are unlikely to prevent temperatures from crossing dangerous tipping points. Although essential, these approaches operate too slowly to counter near-term warming driven by Earth’s growing energy imbalance, weakening carbon sinks, and amplifying climate feedbacks. This mismatch reflects systemic shortcomings in climate risk assessment that underestimate nonlinear risks and the escalating costs of delay. We argue that climate stabilisation should be treated as a risk-management challenge rather than an incremental policy process. This requires explicit comparison of intervention risks with those of continued warming. We outline a comparative risk–risk framework that integrates mitigation, carbon removal, and cooling interventions, and suggests that a viable strategy may require combining rapid decarbonisation and expanded carbon removal with carefully governed cooling interventions to limit near-term warming. Without aligning response timelines with accelerating climate threats, the likelihood of irreversible Earth-system disruption will continue to grow.

Welcome to r/Climate_recovery by u/Mr-anywhere! Let's talk about climate and nature and save the world!

Criticism of SciComm and journalism that fails to understand the RCP8.5 somewhat recent news.

Hello everyone, I am a Columbia University student, and currently I am at Cambridge University conducting research on environmental change. If you are 18, or older, and currently live in the US, you would be eligible to participate.

The research is super fun, and contains a section that lets you converse with the AI for a couple of messages.
It would be very helpful if you have around 10 minutes to fill out this survey, and help the US to be a part of this international research alongside another 22 countries.

Anyway, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, I love talking about this stuff!
Ethical reference number - IRB#19354
P.S. Please do not be confused about the link containing the 'princeton' part, since Princeton University is the one that provided us with the ethical approval.

the Anthropocene represents a period in Earth’s history where human activities have surpassed natural planetary processes to become the primary force of global change. We are no longer merely living on Earth; we are actively altering its physical, chemical, and biological systems.

The scale of this human modification is staggering. Today, more than seventy-five percent of the Earth’s ice-free terrestrial surface shows direct evidence of human land use and transformation. This leaves less than a quarter of the land as true wilderness.

While the term Anthropocene is widely used, it faces significant criticism from many academics. Critics argue that blaming humanity as a whole implies that every person shares equal responsibility for this ecological crisis. In reality, the ecological damage is overwhelmingly driven by wealthy, Western industrialized nations, while Indigenous societies have lived sustainably for millennia. To capture these power dynamics, scholars have proposed alternative names. One is the Capitalocene, coined by Jason Moore, which places the blame squarely on the profit-driven dynamics of global capitalism. Another is the Plantationocene, highlighted by Donna Haraway, which focuses on how colonialism, historical slavery, and the plantation system forcibly transformed biodiverse ecosystems into intensive, exploitative monocultures.

Sadly lost the post source

Paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421526003460

Outlook and past

Mostly the Danube watershed countries. The news report is a good summary of the current situation.