fluids_guru
@fluidsguru.bsky.social
Following the new energy revolution. Navigating the Climate Change apocalypse. Helping to forecast future weather events. Probably an anarchist. Still dealing with long COVID. Also at mastodon : @fluids_guru@kolektiva.social
The main reason for developing our El Niño prediction capabilities is to mitigate its severe negative consequences.
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity
theguardian.com
A study shows male mice recovering from severe COVID-19 can pass anxiety-like traits to their offspring. The virus alters RNA molecules inside their sperm, suggesting a father's infection before conception could change how the next generation develops mentally. Source: archive.md/U7dad
Data shows you're 11% more likely to die in a crash while *driving* an SUV, largely because the false sense of indestructibility leads you to drive more recklessly around others. Antisocial behaviour is baked into the design of these monstrosities.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d agoClimate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵
Interesting how many power stations in Europe appear to use run-of-river cooling – don't (directly) evaporate the water, just heat up the river as it flows past. There are none similar in Australia. Our rivers are too small and the flows too irregular.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayHungary comes ‘within millimetres’ of shutting down nuclear power plant amid drought crisis – Europe live
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
WaPo alone found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, namely to spy on girlfriends or ex-wives. They interviewed ~seven victims w/ stories of abuse that are really awful. One police chief "watched every single move" his ex made.
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d agoNew: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
Nearly 1.2 Million Teslas Face Investigation Over Suspension Failures www.autoblog.com/news/nearly-... via Autoblog
Nearly 1.2 Million Teslas Face Investigation Over Suspension Failures
The NHTSA is taking a closer look at reports involving Tesla's suspension system, launching a new probe covering several Model 3 and Model Y model years.
autoblog.com
One more time. The costs of climate adaptation will dwarf the costs of decarbonisation. #Pyrocene #ClimateAdapation Gift link. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
European wildfire costs this year have already surpassed €3bn
Economic toll in worst-hit countries exceeds official estimate of costs to bloc in average year, according to FT analysis
giftarticle.ft.com
From @claretotty.bsky.social, a definitive piece on our situation, with receipts. Recommended read: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/im-so-angr...
I'm so angry I'm almost on fire
We warned the media liberals about climate collapse. Their cowardice is the greatest threat to life on earth.
clarejfarrell.substack.com
Land & marine heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods, landslides, sea-level rise, super-charged typhoons, weather whiplash Climate change is harmful, fossil fuels cause it, we know who's responsible👇, non-fossil alternatives are viable
Yann Quilcaille@yannquilcaille.bsky.social · 11mo ago🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors". www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you don't believe that the big end of town donates millions to both major parties out of the kindness of their hearts... And you want change You need to aim for a majority crossbench of independents and Greens; since neither major party will change the rules.
Voters are starting to ask a new question about politics, money
Debate about money in politics has traditionally revolved around whether politicians have broken the rules. But voters are increasingly asking what good judgement looks like.
abc.net.au
Heart is breaking. Major PNW city on fire. Climate change does not care about your beliefs or politics. #v4v #dv1 #usDemocracy
We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
During an interview with the BBC, Israeli settler and lawyer Yehuda Shimon said all Palestinians in the villages of Tal, Sarra, Jit and Farata should be killed. "One Jewish life, it's 10 million (Palestinian lives)," he said. What the fuck is wrong with these people 🤬🤬🤬
The article interviews one the founders of the Network for Greening the Financial System h/t @timgoodacre.bsky.social
Inequality News@inequalitynews.bsky.social · 4d ago🚨🚨🚨➡️ "... if you destroy nature, you destroy the core on which our economies depend ... This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
An article written by a wildfire fighter, interviewing wildfire fighters and discussing the roles of suppression, prevention and ‘re-wilding’. Lessons of the past will not help us in the pyrocene.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4d ago“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Why Is Europe Burning?
“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.”
newyorker.com
AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.
Scientists warned us decades ago of the risks we were running by continuing to burn fossil fuels. They were right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperatures
Wales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.
bbc.co.uk
"“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”" novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/a...
AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them
The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.
novaramedia.com
What do hungry people do eventually? Riot. Then revolt. Climate change-induced food insecurity will cause violence and wars.
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
theguardian.com
"The hollowed-out nature of our major political parties exacerbates the risk that spivs, shonks and criminals can exploit a party’s internal dynamics to get access to torrents of taxpayer money." www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/30/v...
What happened in Victoria can happen to federal Labor — and all too easily
Anthony Albanese might be set to spend billions on his favourite projects, but the fate of Jacinta Allan is a warning of what can happen when accountability is ignored.
crikey.com.au
“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
theguardian.com
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
