Ali Hendessi
@alihendessi.bsky.social
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Badgers are often the forgotten victims of fox hunting, an illegal activity that is supported by Nigel Farage and his Reform party, and now they are encouraging a cull of badgers in Wales, despite there being no scientific evidence that this is effective in dealing with bovine TB.
SHARP ACCELERATION OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURES The map elaborated by Dr. Ryan Maue shows a sharp acceleration of the global temperature anomalies in the past week. It's not an isolated week,but a signal of The Niño incipient atmospheric coupling/warming. Exceptional times are ahead.
One of the best cartoons for the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence.
Cold War Steve@coldwarsteve.bsky.social · last mo.
“A new study says that global veganism could remove 16 years of fossil fuel-based carbon emissions from the atmosphere by the year 2050.”Your bacon is not worth watching your children burn.If everyone went vegan,we’d buy the earth time to heal and have more time for humans to figure out options.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2w agoIn Biscarrosse, southwestern France, horses were set free into the wild to escape fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated in Europe due to the fires.
Politicians side with the meat industry and animal farming, whilst health, environmental, climate and animal welfare indicators all point in the opposite direction‼️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products
Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets
theguardian.com
Spanish #seafood company Nueva Pescanova abandoned building a commercial #octopus farm - which would have confined ~ 1M octopuses annually & put pressure on wild fish stocks used for feed - after years of pressure from #animal-welfare groups, NGOs & scientists. #VeganFTA tinyurl.com/bdzzu7mr
Octopus Farm Plans Abandoned After NGO Campaign
Compassion in World Farming welcomes the abandonment of plans for the world's first commercial octopus farm after five years of campaigning.
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Politicians side with big dairy farms, whilst health, environmental, climate and animal welfare indicators all point in the opposite direction‼️ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK
Swedish company claims ruling is anti-competitive and ‘solely benefits Big Dairy’
theguardian.com
Unfortunately, it will take a lot more than mega wildfires, deadly heatwaves, floods and other climate-related calamities for the world's financiers, investors and their pet politicians to change their ways. It will be business as usual until the profit streams dry up, like the reservoirs.
Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌@parentsforfuture.de · 2w ago"In Gironde and throughout France, the flames are not only devouring our pine trees, our animals, and our homes. They are burning away the veil of our illusions right before our eyes." #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels Thread by @libreavanttout.bsky.social🔥
You see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
Ongoing marine heatwave in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | EU Space Support Office
In late May 2026, several countries in Western Europe faced above-average temperatures. During the same period, large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea also recorded above-average ...
eu-space.europa.eu
Extreme temperature warnings in place as ‘heat dome’ bakes US Warnings about dangerous, unhealthy air also extended from Minnesota to New York as wildfires rage in Toronto www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...
Extreme temperature warnings in place as ‘heat dome’ bakes US
Warnings about dangerous, unhealthy air also extended from Minnesota to New York as wildfires rage in Toronto
theguardian.com
It’s crazy that the EU’s electrification rate is no faster than to oil & gas producing countries, especially since 2022. Good on Fatih Birol for drawing attention to it
Europe’s slow electrification is a ‘major mistake’, warns IEA chief
Fatih Birol says EU should have moved faster to achieve energy independence after 2022 gas crisis
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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: England's defeat to Argentina was a proactive disaster, a self-inflicted collapse, our columnist writes. "Tuchel made a tactical alteration that will go down as one of the most consequential mistakes ever by an England manager."
Thomas Tuchel is guilty of orchestrating England’s craven World Cup demise
The German coach was supposed to be the master of big-game management but this felt like a self-inflicted collapse
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These pledges would genuinely make Count Binface a better representative for the people of Clacton than Farage has ever been
NYT: Is It Safe to Exercise When the Air Is Smoky? Published July 26, 2024 Updated June 4, 2025 Reshared July 16, 2026
Is It Safe to Exercise When the Air Is Smoky? (Published 2024)
The answer depends on your overall health, along with the length and intensity of your workout.
nytimes.com
As the AI revolution gathered pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should “learn to code”. That may have been bad advice
Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers
The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind
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Racing to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.
Need for speed? Driving above the speed limit costs you — and doesn't actually save much time
Racing to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.
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Frankly terrifying speaking to Irish people today who fled a wildfire on a French campsite - will change how I think about safety. It was just “minutes” from seeing smoke to the fire overcoming the place - they lost everything but the clothes they were wearing www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Irish holidaymakers leave belongings and flee French wildfires
More than 10,000 evacuated near Perpignan as blaze threatened villages close to French border with Spain
irishtimes.com
“Climate change is here, we are living the consequences and it is only the start of July,” said the fire chief for Pyrénées-Orientales, Eric Belgioino. “This season is going to be a long one for the soldiers fighting fires. You have to help us.”
Wildfires rage across southern Europe, forcing thousands to flee homes
Tour de France spectator ban as country along with Spain, Portugal and Greece faces ‘powder keg’ after heatwave
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The “Summer of the Heat Dome”! In the coming weeks Florida, Europe & Central US will see more swelter. What’s behind the extreme heat, what #science says, and what can we expect the rest of the summer? Welcome to the one of the hottest summer’s of your lives, and one of the coolest of your future.
This El Niño could set the benchmark for peak intensity, with potentially dire implications for the extreme weather events it influences worldwide. https://cnn.it/4f8Etku
In The Language of Climate Politics, I noted: "the extremes caused by warming are emerging on the worse side of the range of possible outcomes." Now @eroston.bsky.social has published a magisterial overview of how that grim fact is playing out around the world. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming
Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.
bloomberg.com
Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean. ' The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:
New separated cycle lanes popping up on Shaftesbury Ave. All it takes is political will + the removal of some unnecessary parking spaces. London is becoming a cycling city, reflecting a generational shift that recognises driving in urban areas as slow, inefficient use of time.
Now that millions of electric vehicles have been on the road for a decade or more, we have the data to check in on how their batteries are holding up. Quite well, it turns out.
EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Hundreds of Thousands of Miles
Industry experts think newfound knowledge of battery durability is a game-changer for consumer confidence in EVs.
wsj.com
Gianni Infantino and #FIFA should hang their heads in shame. There must be an independent inquiry into this sordid affair and other issues around this World Cup after the tournament. Four me, this #WorldCup is over. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Unwelcome and undue: Trump’s red-card intervention hurts the US’s World Cup more than it helps | Pablo Iglesias Maurer
In pushing Fifa to reverse Folarin Balogun’s suspension, the president did the most American thing possible: assert unasked-for power to get his way
theguardian.com
Cape Verde, the smallest country ever to play in the World Cup, with a population of 500,000. They lit up the tournament with their attitude, enthusiasm, energy, and sportsmanship. A credit to football and a joy to watch. They only just lost to Argentina 3-2. Wow!
