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Lara Williams

@lararhiannon.bsky.social

I write about climate change for @opinion.bsky.social and pursue the outdoors

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Lara Williams@lararhiannon.bsky.social · 21h ago

We should crack down on arson and ban temporary BBQs, but alone that's not nearly enough of a response to wildfires. We have to look at the entire causal chain: Reduce human ignitions, tackle the buildup of fuel in the landscape (rewilding can help) and stop contributing to climate change

BBQ Bans Are a Woeful Response to Wildfires

In response to this summer’s devastating wildfires, France has arrested more than 300 people in connection with suspected arson. French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged “zero tolerance” for anyon...

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Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · 6d ago

Remember this week when the editor of the Telegraph said we need to adapt to a European lifestyle because climate change is inevitable? That would be: cowering indoors in shadow as fear lays panting in the white hot street, fleeing fires for our lives www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Spain, France, UK warn megafires show climate change is ‘threatening our way of life’

In joint statements, the three countries reaffirmed their commitment to fighting global warming.

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Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · last wk.

"The images of holiday homes’ swimming-pool water being drained to use on the encroaching flames should dispel the notion that developed countries are immune" Gift link to @lararhiannon.bsky.social 's column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

France and Spain Wildfires Are the New Reality

The normally idyllic landscapes of rural France and Spain now look closer to hell. Multiple aggressive wildfires have been sweeping through regions of both countries for weeks, filling the skies with ...

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Lara Williams@lararhiannon.bsky.social · last wk.

Between France and Spain, the current fires have driven around 335,000 people to evacuate from their homes. We used to think that climate-related displacement would come for poor countries first. But images of swimming pools being drained to use on the flames should dispel that notion

France and Spain Wildfires Are the New Reality

The normally idyllic landscapes of rural France and Spain now look closer to hell. Multiple aggressive wildfires have been sweeping through regions of both countries for weeks, filling the skies with ...

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Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

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Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tech bros will literally pay millions to put 50,000 space mirrors blasting sunlight at the Earth instead of going to therapy Gift link to the @opinion.bloomberg.com column from @lararhiannon.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Giant Space Mirrors Are Coming. What Could Go Wrong?

Just when you may have thought there was a limit to human ambition, along comes Reflect Orbital, which hopes to control — and monetize — the sun’s light using a fleet of giant space mirrors.

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Lara Williams@lararhiannon.bsky.social · 2w ago

so the story of Phaethon, who BEGGED to drive his dad Helios's sun chariot and royally f'd up, was once just a warning from Ancient Greece against hubris & inexperience. now we need to interpret it literally: bad things happen when mortals try to control the sun www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Giant Space Mirrors Are Coming. What Could Go Wrong?

Just when you may have thought there was a limit to human ambition, along comes Reflect Orbital, which hopes to control — and monetize — the sun’s light using a fleet of giant space mirrors.

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James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.

Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · 3w ago

Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

Lara Williams@lararhiannon.bsky.social · 3w ago

The government wants us to be prepared -- I documented my prepping prep last year. We are now the proud owners of a bunch of water and a wind-up radio! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Prep

With natural disasters increasing, stockpiling food and water and packing a grab-bag of necessities makes sense.

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Britons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises

Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The climate chaos scientists predicted is here. Yet it seems our grasp on reality is getting fuzzier. Some are responding to spiking temperatures by dismissing the need for climate action." 🎁 link to @lararhiannon.bsky.social's column for @opinion.bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Our Grip on Climate Reality Is Melting in the Heat

Just as the UK and western Europe settled into a reprieve from the recent heatwave, the mercury is rising again, with sweaty temperatures forecast this week. While this doesn’t look as extreme as last...

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Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · last mo.

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’

‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media

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Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · 3y ago

Blood transfusions from close relatives can cause graft vs host disease. Close relatives are literally the last people in the world rich weirdos should be roping into their creepy vampire hobby.

Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · last mo.

Today’s Paraguay/France World Cup match will kick off in a heat index of 106F, with a wet-bulb temperature extreme enough that it should force postponement This is an issue for sports on a hotter planet, as @lararhiannon.bsky.social has warned Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The World Cup Problem That Could Disrupt All of Sports

After last year’s dangerously hot and humid FIFA Club World Cup in the US, attention has turned to how soccer’s governing body might handle extreme heat during its largest ever tournament: The 2026 FI...

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David Fickling@davidfickling.bsky.social · last mo.

There’s a mine off the coast of Australia that has predicted a century of major wars, and it’s opening again. I went there to better understand tungsten, a critical mineral at the heart of the geopolitical struggle between the US and China: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It’s Opening Again

The fortunes of a remote tungsten pit have risen and fallen through more than a century of conflicts. The critical mineral could now be a deterrent.

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Lara Williams@lararhiannon.bsky.social · last mo.

A disingenuous argument over small steeds in Dartmoor hides the real scandal, which is the continued degradation of precious wild space at the taxpayer’s expense 🎁free link via @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Dartmoor Grazing Row Risks the Return of Pony Burgers

It’s a sign of the troubled times we live in when an English national park’s treasured equines prompt the spread of rampant misinformation, “unpleasant” correspondence being sent to staff at a governm...

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