Clean energy is indeed…clean i.e. "Health should be key to transitioning away from fossil fuels" Well put, @robbieparks.bsky.social, @maibached.bsky.social et al via @thelancet.com Annual deaths from outdoor air pollution due to fossil fuels are in the millions. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Health should be key to transitioning away from fossil fuels

The first conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (Santa Marta, Colombia; April, 2026), co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, convened representatives from 57 nations to advance a just...

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From humans in the loop of AI to AI in the loop of humanity

Provocation · Audrey Tang on Replacing the Logic of Maximization With an Ethic of Care in Democracy's Operating System

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Seems a fitting event of our time: there's an open hierarchy applied to who gets saved, who gets the resources, who is discarded and knowingly imperiled. Nearly all of us are decoy. The more privileged, the less likely we are to wake up to this fact before we feel it.

A big thank you to everyone who’s been promoting the petition for a televised emergency briefing on the climate and nature crisis. It’s now jumped up to 56,700. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE STARVING

How the good-news hunger headlines you are seeing about the state of global hunger are hiding the new acute hunger numbers and famines that aid cuts are causing right now.

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Trump: “We have supplies of munitions all over the world. “If we ever needed them, we'd take them.”

"Every moment is an important opportunity to wake people up and to start to fight back.” Or: "we’ll find ourselves in a situation where “we don’t have democracy, we don’t have an economy and we don’t have a future. If that doesn’t radicalise people, then we deserve what we’re going to get.”

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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...because there's really no benefit whatsoever to be salvaged for supporters of naked, and nakedly destructive, greed and celebrated ignorance. Let the moment when "might makes right" and hubris-based ideology and conspiracy-addled brains shout loudest sink back into the hole with him.

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong... written by @zekehausfather.com The Climate Brink

The Strongest El Niño Ever

With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event

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"we were looking at something that was not a failure to communicate. Quite the opposite. The right wing, the fossil fuel industry—what I call “the carbon combustion complex”—they understood the science only too well, and they understood very clearly what was at stake."

Naomi Oreskes@naomioreskes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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It never had to be this way and it does not have to be this way in the future. Values have to change. Incentives need to shift. Fossil fuels, which were for long so beneficial to humanity, have to be recognised as poisons. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot

The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

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A striking new visualization maps every El Niño and La Niña since 1979 — nearly five decades of the ocean breathing warm, then cool, then warm again. And it lands at a pivotal moment: World… | Roberta...

A striking new visualization maps every El Niño and La Niña since 1979 — nearly five decades of the ocean breathing warm, then cool, then warm again. And it lands at a pivotal moment: World Meteorolog...

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Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

We decide with our inaction what the world will be like for millennia. An open letter, in four questions open.substack.com/pub/justdean...

An open letter, in four questions

An open letter to the reader who feels the climate case is overstated

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“Our societies are not built to withstand what’s coming, and by any rational thinking, all countries should be uniting in a last ditch battle to save the world.”

London’s Burning

Extreme heat hits Europe — the US is next

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New paper out: The environmental bill of the top 10% of consumers is more than $1.7 to $5.7 trillion a year. "The top 10%" sounds like billionaires but it's essentially the middle class of the wealthy world & up: more than 60% live in the US & EU, 2% in India 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

Top 10% generate climate and biodiversity damage bill that exceeds economies of most countries, say researchers

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General rule of thumb for political change: don’t imagine it carried out by your favourite party. Think what your most hated political enemy would do with the precedent because they’ll have their hands on it sooner or later. And what’s being announced by Labour is, of course, a longterm Tory policy

I learned so much in this conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social for the Apocalyptic Optimist Pod about climate disinformation, how to understand the current attacks on science, & what comes next. We all must embrace our anger as a motivator for resistance and action! @piqueaction.bsky.social

Pique Action@piqueaction.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Climate anxiety and despair freeze us—but appropriate anger makes us move. @fisherdanar.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social discuss how it's time to stop looking for comfort, embrace the indignation, and channel that energy into real action. Go watch the full episode! 💥

The US military has now murdered 200 people in small boats in the waters off South America. Local fishing communities have been upended.

The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People

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"Don’t settle for the status quo that they hate. Don’t play it safe because that used to work, back in the old days. Shake things up, Be the disruptors, only on your terms."

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The UK’s extremists are now waltzing into their own Karma Ballroom and there may be a few lessons there, if not a little hope, for other countries around the world dealing with resurgent fascism.”

Finally available in English: Folding The World: Sustaining A Changing World On A Finite Planet by @alevermann.bsky.social! Have a read. @philiploring.com @chadbourn.bsky.social

A super-El Niño could be on the way. Couple this with Trump’s war closing the Strait of Hormuz and blocking fertiliser shipments and we may be looking at a crisis in some of the poorest parts of the world.

Record global temperatures possible as chance of a 'super El Niño' grows

As El Niño develops this year, scientists are increasingly confident it could be one of the strongest on record with global consequences, as Simon King explains.

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"The Old World has produced leaders who have stepped forth to defend freedom, and who may, in God’s good time, inspire us once again to do the same." What a position to be in.

The Free World Is Leaving Trump Behind

We dropped the torch. They picked it up.

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Armuts­betroffene Frauen sind in Indien Vorreiterinnen im Kampf fürs Klima. Reema Nanavaty, eine der mächtigsten Gewerkschafterinnen des Landes, erklärt im Interview, was wir von ihnen lernen können.

Reema Nanavaty: «So schafft man eine Wirtschaft der Fürsorge»

Sie leitet eine indische Gewerkschaft, die 3,7 Millionen selbst­ständige Frauen unterstützt.

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‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks

Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence

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Don’t forget Georgia, under assault from Putin’s puppets. Georgia is European. @annagvarish.bsky.social

A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

TRUMP: *signs his name* Oh, that's a good one. Look at that, Joe. Do you think Biden can do that?