We could just ... not let them do this.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

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Our new research reveals how the world’s largest fossil fuel companies undermine renewables in their corporate communication. Powerful corporations reinforce negative misleading narratives to reinforce fossil fuel dependence and slow down shift to renewables. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action - Energy, Sustainability and Society

Background For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied...

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Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

This book has thoughtful reflections on the current state of academia from the perspective of NL-based early career / 'young' scholars. My colleague @dionkramer.bsky.social has a provocative chapter on abolishing competition in research funding. vuuniversitypress.com/product/fixi...

Quote of the day while reading works on time, law and nature: "Practicing critique in fossil modernity means staying with the rubble." @afolkers.bsky.social

Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes. Read the letter here: www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes

Over 100 international law experts sign letter on Iran War, UN Charter, and international humanitarian law.

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BREAKING 🇵🇸🇬🇷 Greek shipping companies are secretly arming and fuelling Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, reveals a new report from the Palestinian Youth Movement, Progressive International and Energy Embargo for Palestine.

Trump's description of the Iran nuclear deal was a lie. It would NOT have meant Iranian nuclear weapons. Iran agreed to stringent enrichment limits, exporting 97% of its enriched uranium, and inspections going far beyond usual IAEA safeguards. But Trump pulled out -- and here we are.

🧵Last week Meloni lost her only structural reform proposed in 4 years of “long” gov life. However, the thing that is pressuring her govt rn is not the justice referendum, but the implications of the current ME war and the fact that Meloni lacks instruments to deal with it. Indeed, energy biting 🛢️🔌

The international legal framework of the climate treaties fails to account for the GHG emissions caused by (grave) illegal acts of states. This is a gap that the war on Iran is clearly showing.

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

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David Rossati@davidrossati.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Beyond the human loss and devastation which we all see, I hope someone is estimating the greenhouse gas emissions from bombed oil assets and vessels in Iran. These should be attributed to the US' emission record. Just to set the record straight for future compesation claims under international law.

Satellita data are able to reveal hidden plumes of methane leaking from fossil fuel infrastructures. US and Turkmenistan among the biggest leakers. International GHG accounting frameworks could and should include these emissions. Accuracy is key to know who's eroding our depleting carbon budget.

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

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Beyond the human loss and devastation which we all see, I hope someone is estimating the greenhouse gas emissions from bombed oil assets and vessels in Iran. These should be attributed to the US' emission record. Just to set the record straight for future compesation claims under international law.

Co-chairs Statement on The Hague Group Meeting on Accountability and the Enforcement of International Law in Palestine. 4 March 2026.

The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere. The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

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Flore Heinrich and I have co-authored a blog on @ejiltalk.bsky.social on the recent judgment in the Bonaire case, focusing on how the District Court of The Hague approached cultural rights in the context of climate change and implications for future litigation: www.ejiltalk.org/climate-chan....

Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, and Cultural Rights: The Case of Bonaire

On the 28th of January, the District Court of the Hague rendered its judgment in the case of Greenpeace v. the Netherlands. The case addressed the Dutch State’s mitigation and adaptation obligations t...

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🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

Review of how “minimising the magnitude and duration” of overshooting 1.5C could decrease the risk of surpassing climate tipping points #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements—a review

The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements—a review, Ritchie, Paul D L, Steinert, Norman J, Abrams, Jesse F, Alkhayuon, Hassan, Arnscheidt, Constantin W, Bochow, Nils, Chapman, Ruth R, Clarke, Joseph, Dennis, Donovan P, Donges, Jonathan F, Flores, Bernardo M, Garbe, Julius, Högner, Annika, Huntingford, Chris, Lenton, Timothy M, Lohmann, Johannes, Lux-Gottschalk, Kerstin, Milkoreit, Manjana, Möller, Tessa, Pearce-Kelly, Paul, Pereira, Laura, Quinn, Courtney, Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich, Stuenzi, Simone M, Swingedouw, Didier, Van der Laan, Larissa N, Zickfeld, Kirsten, Wunderling, Nico

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⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: hearings continue at 🧑‍⚖️ Paris Judicial Court in landmark case against 🛢️TotalEnergies 🔍 Focus today: expert hearings & civil liability 🧵 Live coverage in English below 👇 🇫🇷 See also live coverage in French via @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social

The legal design of the 'Board of Peace' is a primer in the history of international organizations law, and it's fraught with issues. From 'pay-to-play' seats to a 'Chairman for Life', here is why the BoP is a legal anomaly: 👇 #InternationalLaw #BoardofPeace 1/10

The ESABCC's report on climate change adaptation is just out. Some statements that should 'sink in': ♨️Europe warmed up to 2.4°C on average over the last 5 years ... Estimated 16.000 deaths in Eu in 2025 for extreme heat linked to climate change 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating

Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation

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Some might read Carney’s speech below as a “the king (international law) is naked” moment: but the “rules-based order” he refers to isn’t international law, but a US remaking of it, with the rest of the West often grudgingly following.

Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · 9mo ago

🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)

"the court failed to seriously engage with situations where anonymity is crucial — including for whistleblowers or people seeking information while fearing reprisals."

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On today's judgment on access to environmental information - with comments from me, @gavclaw.bsky.social and Emily Barritt

I am pleased to see so many signatories on this letter to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband about ISDS and climate change (I am one of the signatories). We need to be considering alternatives to ISDS to prevent foreign investors from challenging measures that address climate change.

Trade Justice Movement@tradejusticemov.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 56 academics warn corporate lawsuits threaten UK climate action As the UK is sued over the blocked West Cumbria coal mine, academics warn that ISDS lets investors challenge climate action in private tribunals. 📄 Read the open letter 👇

🚨 BREAKING: EU countries have agreed to a weakened 2040 climate goal and have set a new target for COP30. Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

Plastics Treaty talks are over. After 11 grueling days of delays, distractions, and gaslighting, we are leaving Geneva without a treaty. But countries stood firm against fossil-fueled interests — hope for an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty lives on. 🎥 @dlevialvares.bsky.social + @davzoul.bsky.social

"The absence of a substantial discussion on climate change and disaster in the Court’s Opinion is thus not a gap; it is a discursive shift" 🔥

EJIL: Talk!@ejiltalk.bsky.social · last yr.

From Act of God to Act of Law: Rethinking Natural Hazards Disaster through the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion | by Fia Hamid-Walker