“To adapt a phrase from Animal Farm, we are all responsible, but some are more responsible than others. In this case, the US is the beast more responsible than all the rest: it has emitted more than one-fifth of all historical emissions…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst

The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst

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More traffic for the implied freedom ahead www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Protesters launch high court challenge to Queensland ban on ‘from the river to the sea’

Lawsuit filed on behalf of seven protesters alleges ban amounts to ‘a direct, content-based restriction’ on speech, effectively targeting pro-Palestine movement

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Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social say that part again about climate action not being economical? "It would have been too expensive for Canadians. Canadians who are already struggling with affordability."

Steve Russell@steverussell.bsky.social · 3w ago

The view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West. #ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto

The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Me on the PM’s speech: wonderful, just completely devoid of any reason why AI or these data centres are needed or will be of benefit.

Deepcut News@deepcutnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Albanese's AI investment won't create mass jobs - the 'big AI boost' is essentially imports to plug into data centres, writes @grogsgamut.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...

I mean - gas turbines are getting expensive **because they're being deployed so much**. That isn't something to celebrate. Data centres are "helping" batteries here thanks to a country-sized carbon cost. Remember why we're doing this: to stop fossil fuels. reneweconomy.com.au/chart-of-the...

Chart of the Day: How batteries are beating gas at its own game, with a little help from data centres

CSIRO says data centre demand in US has helped inflate cost of gas turbines, and accelerated the crossover point on capital costs with battery storage.

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I guess we’re all Spain fans now.

No offence under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 committed here. That's only for pensioners protesting a genoicde in Gaza, or for rappers allegedly waving flags on stage.

Belfast Telegraph@belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 4w ago

A Co Antrim bonfire adorned with UVF flags has been built on a platform paid for by ratepayers to provide a ‘community space’.

It's worth stressing that the *magnitude* by which some of these records are being broken is nothing short of astonishing

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · last mo.

Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

5.7km/h!!! I never again want to hear about the dangers of legal Ebikes

Prof. Ian Walker@ianwalker.bsky.social · last mo.

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

Germany’s hottest weekend on record followed by an electrical storm now ripping through Berlin. I’m becoming used to climate change summers in 🇦🇺 but it’s weirdly more confronting experiencing it in Europe. Media here reporting on it without linking it to climate change discussion - just like home 🇦🇺

‘At present, Andy Burnham is a retail product: someone who appears relaxed around ordinary people and on camera, and although he has spent plenty of time in Westminster, hasn’t (yet) become reassociated with that much loathed place.’ @will-davies.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Burnham’s Political Economy

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands...

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How come all the NIMBY weirdos who never shut up about wind turbines 5km off the coast have nothing to say about these gargantuan noisy data centres that are springing up in the middle of suburbs, contaminating water, destroying liveability and property prices? It's weird.

How might H5N1 (bird flu)—now in at least two Australian states—affect native wildlife and ecosystems, and compound Australia's extinction crisis? Some thoughts from me 👉 theconversation.com/bird-flu-has...

Bird flu has spread to two Australian states. Here’s how it could accelerate our extinction crisis

The arrival of the H5N1 strain may threaten our most vulnerable species.

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Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before. #AI #Climateemergency

As heat warnings are issued for England and Wales, please remember that there is no sound empirical basis for claiming that more people die of cold worldwide than of heat. Just because something is recited like a mantra doesn't make it true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot

Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Mistaking Suffragists for Suffragettes. Not that I don't also admire the Suffragists. Millicent Fawcett was a terrific campaigner. But Suffragette Annie Kenney grinning as she's arrested time after time should be unforgettable inews.co.uk/light-relief...

The forgotten suffragette who was arrested 13 times

As people go to the polls all over the United Kingdom, many will remember the sacrifices of the suffragettes who […]

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Cowleyforniadreaming@holybollards.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Judge Carr talking about the Suffragettes as if it was some sort of demure and peaceful resistance movement is not only revisionist, it reeks of internalised misogyny.

The CoA Palestine Action judgment is just dripping with disdain and throwing shade at every opportunity. Art 10 and 11 don't actually say "law abiding individuals"; they say "EVERYONE".

The British government acted lawfully when it banned the pro-Palestinian protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, the Court of Appeal in London said on Monday, overturning a lower-court ruling that found the ban had breached free speech rights.

U.K. Ban on Pro-Palestinian Protest Group Is Lawful, Court of Appeal Rules

The decision overturned a lower-court ruling that found that banning Palestine Action as a terrorist group had breached free speech rights.

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"The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds

JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say

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It's rare that you get to say "told you so", and rarer still that you get to say it about something positive In 2015, some laughed at Greenpeace projections of how much solar power there would be by 2025 10 years later... Greenpeace: on the money 🎯 International Energy Agency: way, WAY off

Australia's state-owned broadcaster did a story on AI and this is one of the guys they chose to interview for it Honestly, the number of academics and experts who work on *actual* real risks who never get interviewed, and the platform goes to guys like this:

Excellent investigation here in the Guardian into the weapons being rolled out in Australian protests - increasingly dangerous and increasingly used www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about

Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds w...

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Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual – in pictures

Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual – in pictures

How Was Your Dream? is a documentary project by Thadde Comar, a Franco-Swiss photographer, created during the extradition bill protests in Hong Kong between June and October 2019

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The UK food imports most at risk from El Nino heat stress this summer UK food imports are under pressure as climate driven heat stress leaves farmers in poorer nations unable to work, threatening staples like rice, coffee and chocolate. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...

“Published research from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now establishes that human activity has pushed the planet's rotation into territory unlike anything in 3.6 million years — and the engineers who keep GPS working are already watching the numbers.” www.techtimes.com/articles/317...

Earth Rotation Climate Change Rate Unseen in 3.6 Million Years: GPS Precision at Stake

Earth rotation climate change is altering our planet’s spin at a rate unmatched in 3.6 million years, a new study finds. Melting polar ice is lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century — a pace...

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“Ordinarily all this would be none of my business but these methods are being advocated for in Australia. This has made it my business and it has made it your business as custodians of the law; we are all interested in this, whether we like it or not.” 👏👏 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

A high court justice warned of US-style judge ‘stacking’ and created a new front in Australia’s culture wars

Justice Robert Beech-Jones has accused the Samual Griffith Society of a US-style attempt to stack the high court with conservatives, exposing a partisan rift in the process

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This is something the Victorians understood: that democracy is dangerously vulnerable to plutocracy, and that it needs to build defences against that. Our defences are in tatters. Rebuilding them is one of the most urgent tasks facing our politics.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

For the Australians, but also others interested in this issue: Australia's emissions data just saw its *biggest ever* land-use data revision. Except this time, it's UPWARDS: the same amount as power sector GHGs fell 2018->2026 (!!!!!) A thread on that + other updates from the data!

“We either will need to massively increase our use of renewables and batteries or datacentres will effectively destroy our ability to reduce emissions to net zero.” www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Australia’s GDP figures are meaningless when the boom in datacentres means destroying jobs and the climate | Greg Jericho

In the March quarter Australia’s economy grew 0.3%. But the real issue is what drove that growth

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