Fruit to produce jet fuel: another greenwashing scam, directly from the fossil fuel industry, that will turn an area of Brazilian countryside the size of LA into a monoculture. 🧵

Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing

A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.

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Once in a 1000 year events happening increasingly regularly all over the world say it's time to #StopAllDrilling #ReduceFossilFuelUseToZero "1000-Year Rain Event In New York The rain falling in the #Hudson Valley has peaked near the 1-in-1000 year recurrence interval." via WFLA Jeff Berardelli

I'm quoted in this Guardian article about the Telegraph's rollercoaster week of comment pieces about climate change www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?

Flurry of articles has raised eyebrows and prompted a response from Kemi Badenoch defending stance on net zero

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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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8 CORPORATIONS amassing obscene profits by fueling war & climate catastrophe. 8 BILLION PEOPLE on track to lose everything & everyone we love. Our children are screaming at us from the ashes of the future: “WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS?!?”

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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22,000 signatures so far for our petition against the corrupt UK media. Please sign at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... and then share the hell out of it.

Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform

Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...

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I see this and I think about all the long years of relentless filthy abuse these swine have thrown at good and well-meaning people, to make the country more comfortable and more compliant for thoroughly unpleasant and actively malicious people like themselves.

Appreciate this is 'make it make sense' howling into the void, but the failure (with some exceptions) of government, politicians, media, and business to point at the heatwaves and fires and state 'this is why climate action matters' is a serious problem. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Summertime silence

The right of British politics has stepped up its attacks on climate action in recent weeks, so why has the rest of the political spectrum largely failed to seize the 'teachable moment' presented by cr...

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Institutional investors on North Sea drilling: “If what you’re trying to achieve is the trifecta that most governments appear to be looking for ... affordability, energy independence and decarbonization,” then increasing North Sea drilling “doesn’t achieve any of those."

Investors Raise Alarm on Prospect of More UK North Sea Drilling

Institutional investors are raising concerns over the prospect of UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham supporting more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

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Wrote about the deafening silence on our summer of climate impacts from Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens, business leaders, and even some campaign groups. The dominant climate discourse from the past week has been from those who want to ditch net zero targets and trash decarbonisation policies.

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d ago

We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

The sheer joy of being in the rainforest with actual rain again. But the ever more frequent, intense, and longer lasting droughts and heatwaves are causes for extremely deep concern about the future of such wild, natural ecosystems. Climate breakdown is here.

EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE #2 Heat returned to Switzerland and Liechtenstein with temperatures up to 38C and some monthly records. In particular the 37.4C at Triesen Langgasse ties the LIECHTENSTEIN HOTTEST AUGUST DAY IN HISTORY (=Ruggel ,August 2003)

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 2d ago

EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE -HISTORIC WEEK day #1 Hundreds of records have fallen allover Europe in the first of a historic week which will rewrite anew European climatic history From France To The Balkans throughout Central Europe ,records are falling EVERYWHERE I ll start posting soon

And for many years people said 'flooding suggests rivers need to be straightened.' Now we are realising the opposite is necessary. Strange how short-term solutions often turn out to be a bit shit. Even stranger how foreign-owned 'newspapers' love a good populist headline.

Jason Scott-Warren@jes1003.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rewilding causes wildfires! Sign/share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... Visit mediasovereignty.org

all the 2s for our petition to bin the #billionaire media! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... (if you could help to share the petition, please DM me your email address).

We are all so going to regret not phasing out fossil fuels sooner. Not that we are phasing out fossil fuels yet, of course. In fact, quite the opposite.*

‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature

Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day

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Blimey, Amol Rajan really taking Daily Telegraph/ Reform UK talking points on net zero! #r4today

Imagine, after everything, all the financial scandals coming in thick and fast, surrounding Reform and Farage, platforming Zia Yusuf to spout uncosted, ludicrous, nasty policy that will never happen. And giving no pushback. Thank you #R4today for the party pilitical broadcast on behalf of Reform.

South Korea have warned people to “stop outdoor activities” as a record breaking heatwave continues to grip the Peninsula. Temperatures have exceeded 40°C for 5 days straight with a new all time record of 42.5°C recorded yesterday. Yet another area seeing record heat.

Great Photo (Source: www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...)

Rewilding causes wildfires! Sign/share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... Visit mediasovereignty.org

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 2d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

Very obliging of #r4today to lead with Reform’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats using the Royal Navy, pretending it’ll be some great WWII-style escapade, rather than a hateful, costly, diplomatically incontinent mess. A total waste of everyone’s time as they’ll never be in power and it’s unworkable anyway.

My view on the COVID pandemic is: if you think that was bad, wait til you try 3C of warming

The really fun part is after all the suffering from this El Nino is done we’ll get several years of columnists in serious newspapers opining about how we’re now seeing a ‘pause’ in global warming.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

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.

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.

There's been growing recognition, in recent years, of the mental health benefits of spending time in nature But I'm not sure it's quite the same when all you can see are signs of nature dying

Once more, with feeling.

Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People

ALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People

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Our world is a tinderbox as we approach 1.5C above preindustrial temps. We’re locked in for at least 2C, & on track for 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Tumbleweeds as we wait for governments, the media & the public to provide a proportionate response to this information.

I suppose we should be grateful the Sunday Times is both-sidesing the idea we should try to cut carbon emissions, rather than dismissing it outright. But it’s still further evidence of how mainstream reporting on climate has got dramatically worse in recent years. www.thetimes.com/article/ed72...

How wildfires put climate (and net zero deadlines) back on the agenda

Much of the country is experiencing the extreme heat scientists have long warned about, but reignited political debate shows no sign of finding consensus

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Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.

‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing

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