As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com

The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms

“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...

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This goat was practicing a charge, but the cat thought it was a sign of affection. Original post

@kgrove80.bsky.social I saw your article in Political Geography - completely agree, and I am flattered for all the wrong reasons. The term goes back to postwar reconstruction work in 2008 - was shocked to realize I was seeing it in the US doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

We are in the End Times, epistemologically speaking

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

A team of scientists uploaded videos of marmots burrowing nests or scurrying across rocks on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

I am sure everyone feels reassured

RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | …@rappler.com.web.brid.gy · 2w ago

Marco Rubio met Sergey Lavrov in the Philippines today. But same old, same old. US Sec of State "new ideas are needed" Russian FM: "Russia would agree to a political + diplomatic settlement if the parties agree to proposals from the meeting between Putin and Trump in Anchorage."

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

The very definition of resilience targeting and intended to prevent reconstruction over the long term. Oh, and its illegal (as if they care)

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

On 17 July, we remember the 298 victims of the downing of flight #MH17. Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones. As we honour their memory, we reaffirm our enduring commitment to truth, justice and accountability.

The Sea Gull Lake site is very close to one of the fires near Boundary Waters in Minnesota, and registered an AQI over 2000 this morning. Anything over an AQI of 300 is Hazardous — the highest level on the AQI scale.

"Instead of analysing future #climate as a sequence of quasi-equilibria — as a system that will settle when the world stops emitting carbon — researchers must treat it as an unstable system that is reorganizing while society tries to phase out carbon-based energy." - @alevermann.bsky.social

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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The Trump administration's new Balkans policy—cutting NATO's Kosovo force and lifting sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik—is unraveling decades of American-built security architecture in the region, creating risks for both Bosnia and Kosovo.

Power vacuum: Trump is dismantling the security architecture in the Balkans

The announcement in June that NATO would reduce its military presence in Kosovo, together with disputes between the United States and its European allies over…

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Dostoevsky wrote Lindsey Graham’s epitaph in Crime and Punishment: “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 4w ago

US Senator Lindsey Graham passes away https://aje.news/1rnupi

Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror

I bet MAGA will blame Ukraine for this

The one time I saw Lindsey Graham in person was at Dulles airport in Dec 2018 - DCA had shut down and forced flights to transfer. Graham walked through the crowd to glares from EVERYONE That's how loved he was even before the 2nd term nazi revival

For the record, this is not normal

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4w ago

An extreme wildfire risk is in place across London this weekend. Please follow London Fire Brigade advice: ❌ No disposable BBQs in parks & open spaces 🚬 Dispose of cigarettes carefully 🗑️ Take rubbish home if bins are full Together we can help the London Fire Brigade save lives.

🇸🇪🇺🇦 Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson: Russia is unwilling to negotiate but also unable to win against Ukraine. We need to be extremely prepared for a lot of different scenarios regarding Russia.

In 2021 and 2022, the Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD were convinced that Russia would NOT invade Ukraine. They based that conviction on information from a reportedly highly placed source inside the Russian security apparatus. Dutch newspaper 'De Volkskrant' reconstructed the blunder.

Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "Her name was Lucia- that much I had garnered over the last hour, but little else from the worried figure sitting miserably in the rain across the table from me."

Alan Fisher@amfisher.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "Look, I know that sometimes convenience trumps quality. Sometimes you just need a hand of glory, so you pop on over to the supermarket, or order online, or get a case of twelve at a big box store."

"The city of Utrecht beat Copenhagen on the Copenhagenization Index– a competition to be the best at biking and urban mobility. We visit the city to steal the cheat codes to the top (so other cities can get back in the race). " With input from @dutchcycling.nl

Inside the world's best cycling city

YouTube video by DW Planet A

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We have a peer-reviewed article, coming out (hopefully) soon on the national and global security implications of this silencing of climate science. A related interview with Nick Breeze: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KS...

Weaponising Confusion: How Cognitive Warfare Hijacks Our Minds on Climate and War – Prof Chad Briggs

YouTube video by Nick Breeze ClimateGenn

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy 250th birthday, USA 🇺🇸! In Germany we’re very grateful for the big role of the US in liberating us (my then teenage parents!) from authoritarian rule. I’m deeply concerned that now the US is sliding toward authoritarian rule, including suppressing science. www.carbonbrief.org/prof-ben-san...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Sitting here in the Philippines, on the receiving end of El Nin̈o and a never-ending supply chain crisis re Iran, the next months will be rough

Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · last mo.

This is absolutely terrifying The Nino 3.4 forecast temperature anomaly mean is now at 4C, when even the biggest historical super ninos have seen less than 3C I really have no idea what this is going to bring over the next 12 months, but it will be very, very, grim

The Trump administration is planning to cut down DC's oldest cherry tree to make way for a new Trump golf course.

The big papers all ignored the Gillibrand story. Big mistake, since corrupting people through their family is an old trick that is very popular crypto strategy these days. Just ask the Trumps.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2mo ago

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

Yulia Svyrydenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine 💬 "Right now, as russians continue to strike #Kyiv with over a dozen of ballistic missiles, the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a #UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.

Important new @brookings.edu research quantifying economic damages from the Trump ICE surge. Spending tens of billions of dollars to destroy lives, tear apart families and communities, and damage businesses and hurt the economy.

Brookings Institution@brookings.edu · 2mo ago

New research from Marcela Escobari, Ian Seyal, and Paul Beach finds the 2025 ICE enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs across U.S. cities—including an estimated 51,000–297,000 held by American-born workers.

The ocean observatories help scientists, fishery managers, coastal hazard planners & the military plan & prepare: e.g. calculating fish harvest amounts or when a marine heatwave or giant wave action may be occurring. 🌎🧪 insideclimatenews.org/news/0906202...

Alaskans Reel From the Loss of National Science Foundation Ocean-Monitoring Instruments - Inside Climate News

With its multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decision leaves Alaska flying blind.

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