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Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson

A public report urges the CFTC to ban prediction market contracts on destructive wildfires, raising concerns over public safety and potential arson.

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FOR ONE DAY ONLY: A History of the World in 47 Borders is 99p on Kindle and thus, also, elsewhere. Is this a good thing? Shouldn't two years of my life cost more than that? Who can say! Get it while it's cheap! www.amazon.co.uk/History-Worl...

Let's be clear. Gay men can be misogynists, they can have male privilege, our experiences are not the same as women. But we are not heterosexual men either. We do not experience being a man in the same way straight men do, society reminds us of that on a daily basis. 7/

UK harvest on track for historic lows after drought and heatwaves desiccate crops – new analysis 2026 likely to be one of the 5 worst harvests since 1984 4 out of 5 of worst harvests on record occurred this decade after periods of extreme weather made worse by climate change

As the world heats up, denying the reality of climate change has become implausible..... Instead, a tendency to downplay the seriousness of the crisis has emerged. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Tuesday briefing: Inside the right’s heated climate-denial debate

In today’s newsletter: A small chorus of right-leaning critics are trying to convince politicians that climate action is deeply unpopular, downplaying its seriousness in the process

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Hey UK #energy people - an organisation I’m working with has been quoted £12k to have the gas supply removed and capped after they switched to heat pumps. Any suggestions for how they might avoid these charges? @richardlowes.bsky.social

Some reflections on how to electrify well.

It’s Not Enough to Electrify More. We Must Electrify Better.

Electrification means replacing technologies that burn fossil fuels directly — gasoline-fueled cars, diesel buses, gas boilers, industrial furnaces, etc. — with alternatives powered by electricity. Th...

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Sharks may not be full of plastic! Finally, some good fuckin' news!

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 3d ago

The finding: no plastic (>1 mm) in any specimen. In marine plastic research, that's a rare and genuinely good result. It suggests pelagic elasmobranchs here may have lower plastic exposure than we'd assume, and gives us a solid baseline to track change over time.

Hungary's Paks nuclear plant is close to complete shutdown due to low water levels on the Danube The river just hit the lowest level in more than a century, amid an ongoing European drought and heatwave

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

"This is the climate signal picking up, and it will drive food price inflation." England has had three of its five worst harvests on record, all since 2020. Heatwaves driven by climate change are putting crops, fruit, veg and livestock under strain. @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social on Times Radio.

This must be so head-spinning for them... Here's the Daily Mail trying to cover the wildfires ('Evacuate!') and record heat deaths in UK, while also trying to maintain its climate denial by running a highly misleading comment piece by Matt Ridley and an editorial focused on "water companies"

Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

And here is some of that "Mediterranean lifestyle", as reported by today's Telegraph website...

Here's a quick recap of those five stages of climate denial... 1. Deny the problem exists 2. Deny we are the cause 3. Deny it is a problem 4. Deny we can solve it 5. Claim it is too late And we should probably squeeze in... 4.5. Claim we can just adapt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report | Dana Nuccitelli

Dana Nuccitelli: Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published

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Meanwhile, look at the extreme discordance and dissonance of stories on this news page in the same edition...

The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."

You gotta think even Telegraph readers aren't buying this shit as their holiday home near Bordeaux goes up in flames...

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last wk.

Nighty night.

we have a decent amount of family spread across southern France and northern Spain + Catalonia so I've been watching the news closely and I asked my husband tonight if he was worried (it's his family) and he sighed "Yes, I think it's going to affect the wine quite badly"

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...

Another reason to avoid flying.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

General reminder to anyone working at a digital company: If you cold call or try to schedule a meeting with the Head of Digital at a UK university two weeks before A Level results day, then I am NEVER buying your product or service. As you've clearly not bothered learning when UK HE is busiest.

Hi @garius.bsky.social - do you know who might be interested in these? A friend found them while clearing his recently deceased parents’ house.

One of the most interesting dynamics going on in energy world: as the need for storage duration creeps up, are li-ion (and na-ion) batteries going to keep up or will some threshold be crossed where either long-duration storage or clean-firm becomes more economical?

Sweet spot for battery storage now 7 hours - growing to 8.5 hours - as coal exit looms

AEMO wants future batteries to deliver 7 hours of storage to fill gaps as coal exists, and is forecasting this duration to keep climbing in the 2030s.

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It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

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Britain's best-loved birder, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85 The comedian and conservationist came to fame with The Goodies before dedicating his life to wildlife, presenting BBC Springwatch and Autumnwatch, and spending decades campaigning for the environment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bill Oddie: The Goodies and Springwatch star dies at 85

His agent pays tribute to the "multi-talented" broadcaster, comedian and conservationist.

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