Remember: Trump consumes upwards of 12 cans of Diet Coke per day.

Study reveals cognitive decline linked to drinking Diet Coke daily

Whether you work in an office or from home, you're likely familiar with the after-lunch slump that makes you reach for another coffee or a soda.

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July marks the first consecutive twelve month period where wind generated more electricity than gas in the UK...in every single month. In the last decade, wind generation in the UK has more than doubled, pushing first coal and now gas out of the mix.

Another factor that accelerates household solar installations is bad energy policy and corrupt energy companies. Customers want to produce their own electricity rather than enrich selfish politicians and their crony partners in the energy business. Relevant also in USA. bsky.app/profile/sola...

Jenny Chase@solarchase.bsky.social · 2d ago

One factor is that people in Pakistan really hate their utilities and discoms - not only have power prices risen, but corruption is rampant. And another is the role of landlords, who often own farms but live in cities and act as diffusers after testing the tech on their own houses.

4 AUGUST 2026 WRITE DOWN THIS DATE-EUROPE CLIMATIC HISTORY IS REWRITTEN ANEW Thousands and Thousands of records are being shattered in pieces in Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Czechia,Slovakia,Poland,Slovenia,Croatia,Hungary,Ukraine,Belarus,Romania,Serbia... Widespread 40Cs Tbc

A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!

We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.

Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again

The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".

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Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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The newest challenges all focus on geolocation using natural features, a valuable skill for investigations in remote areas. This story about wildfires in Namibia shows that even termite mounds can help pinpoint a location. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves - bellingcat

Satellite analysis of the Etosha wildfires in Namibia has found that more than a third of the nature reserve was burned.

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Trump's "historic breakthrough" in Gaza was short-lived. slate.trib.al/PUS3O5c

Trump’s “Historic Breakthrough” in Gaza Was Short-Lived

This is what happens when you bring in amateurs to negotiate peace in the Middle East.

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Stories about Kushner, Witkoff and inside trading relating to the Iran War have been abounding for months now.

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

HISTORIC ARCTIC HEAT Weeks and weeks with 35C in Russian Arctic HUNDREDS of records are being smashed systematically every day for weeks. August started breaking records in a huge area at winter cold poles like 33.9C Selagoncy,33.2C Yarol In etc. Hot air mass is moving East

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.

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

It is a wild experience checking in on the nukefluencers who only years ago were cosplaying as sign-holding millennial climate activists and are now just flat out unhesitating open MAGA freaks

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Trump family is poised to cash in on the nuclear renaissance that Trump is promoting: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.

'France’s nuclear fleet should see heat-related cuts of up to 5.7 GW tomorrow, or 9% of total installed capacity, up from 6% today, amid a new heatwave that could see temperatures hit 42C, operator EDF said on Wednesday.' montelnews.com/nordic/news/...

French nuclear cuts to hit 9% on new 42C heatwave

EDF to cut nuclear output by up to 6.8 GW as 42C heatwave forces reactor curbs at St Alban, Chooz and Golfech; French power edges higher to EUR 95/MWh.

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A wildfire raging near the Sizewell B #nuclear plant on the Suffolk coast could burn for another 36 hours, officials have warned. (Sky News) #wildfires

Wildfires latest: Major fire near Suffolk nuclear plant grows as wind makes spread 'difficult to predict'

A wildfire raging near the Sizewell B nuclear plant on the Suffolk coast could burn for another 36 hours, officials have warned. In France and Spain, firefighters have reported progress in battling ma...

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An unusually strong heat dome will scorch much of the western United States this weekend, bringing the hottest temperatures so far this year to tens of millions from California to Canada. https://cnn.it/4pQfSpm

HISTORIC DAY EUROPEAN CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Hundreds and Hundreds of records pulverized allover Europe in Spain,France,Switzerland,Austria,Liechtenstein,Germany,Denmark,Poland,Czechia,etc... 30 July 2026 marks the history of European climatic history. Wait for MANY UPDATES

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Additionally, the UK and French governments have also issued a similar statement on climate change: "[We] call on all countries to intensify their efforts to tackle its causes while boosting resilience to its effects" www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/presse-et...

Nuclear shut down continues. Paks NPP to close down fully, announced by PM Magyar. 2000 MW is out, a significant cut to power production of Hungary: 444.hu/2026/07/30/m...

Magyar: Leállíthatják Paksot

A Duna alacsony vízállása miatt. Emiatt csütörtökön Románia is atomenergia nélkül maradt, mert folyóvíz híján le kellett állítaniuk az utolsó erőműblokkjukat is.

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It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Mer de Glace 1992 | 2026 Largest French glacier, 32 years ago and today! 😭 Glacier retreat 100% due to anthropogenic activity over this period! 📷 via @MiguelMorenatti

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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Oh FFS! Instead of worrying about your summer holidays, you should be worrying about a 2.8°C to 3°C hotter southern Europe in 2050 and where all those millions of displaced people are going to be living? And what a 4°C Europe is going to do to your children? 🤷‍♂️

How will wildfires in Europe affect your summer holiday?

Travel expert Simon Calder shares his advice for those travelling to France and Spain this summer as devastating wildfires ravage western Europe.

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Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:

In Spain fires are currently running second highest for this point in the year at 8x the area burned in a typical year, but are still well below the record for annual area burned set just last year (2025):