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@mediatellthetruth.bsky.social

Calling on the media to tell the truth about the climate and nature emergency

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Dr Charlie Gardner@charliejgardner.bsky.social · 7h ago

Maybe there would be more of a national conversation on climate change if the government wasn't trying to imprison anyone who takes to the streets to kickstart such a conversation

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · yesterday

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...

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8h ago

As an aside, if any other professionals were as incompetent as certain journalists, they'd be sacked and disbarred. But in the rightwing press, gross incompetence appears to be a qualification. After all, without its bullshitters for hire, how else would capital deny, deflect and distract?

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8h ago

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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Marc Owen Jones@marcowenjones.bsky.social · 8h ago

Here is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation

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Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d ago

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!

Line chart titled "A first year above 2 C in the mid-2030s looks increasingly plausible". It shows global mean surface temperature from 1940 to 2050 as the annual anomaly against the 1850 to 1900 baseline, in degrees C. Data is ERA5 from Copernicus, running to 31 July 2026. A thin gold line shows individual years, wobbling around a thick dark blue smoothed trend. Both sit near 0.2 C through the 1940s to the early 1970s, then climb steadily from the mid-1970s onward. Three red dots mark the first year each threshold was passed. 0.5 C in 1980, 1.0 C in 2010 and 1.5 C in 2024. Labels beneath note the gap of 30 years between the first two and 14 years between the second and third. Everything above 1.5 C is shaded pink. Two dashed lines run forward from 2025. A blue line follows the 15-year trend of 0.42 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2037. A fainter grey line follows the 30-year trend of 0.27 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2044. Two orange circles mark estimates for the developing El Niño, at about 1.5 C for 2026 and about 1.7 C for 2027.
Robin Boardman@robinboardman.com · 4d ago

Meta tried to build a 200-megawatt data centre on farmland in Zeewolde. Twice the electricity of the entire town. 20 rebels occupied the council. "We want Greta, not Meta." They won, and then the Dutch banned hyperscale centres over 70MW. Direct action works! wagingnonviolence.org/2026/07/the-...

The data center fight is going global

As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.

wagingnonviolence.org

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

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

thetimes.com

Leon Simons@leonsimons.com · 4d ago

This statement in the @nytimes.com article grossly downplays the data and science: "Far from moderating, *some experts say the pace of warming appears to be accelerating*" Experts who took an honest look at the data acknowledge that global heat uptake has more than doubled! bsky.app/profile/leon...

Leon Simons@leonsimons.com · 4mo ago

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)'s 'State of the Global Climate 2025' is out today. This shows that the amount of heat stored on Earth isn't "just" increasing or accelerating, but that even the acceleration is accelerating (third-order derivative)! @wmo-global.bsky.social

Leon Simons@leonsimons.com · 4d ago

Europe’s Summer of Reckoning Is ‘Just the Beginning’ “2026 is just the beginning,” Professor Rockström added. “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.” @nytimes.com 1/

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Joe Taylor@climatejoe.bsky.social · 5d ago

Dear @frediotto.bsky.social, I write to you as a parent and activist about your interview on Today this morning (I will be writing elsewhere about Dharshini David's appalling line of questioning). I understand there is a strong social pressure not to frighten the horses in these interviews...

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 6d ago

🧵UK media has been duped about net-zero (again) The playbook is identical: 1️⃣ Find a big scary number 2️⃣ Speed-dial non-specialist hacks 3️⃣ Do say “serious economic damage” 4️⃣ Don’t say “we pretended gas is free” 5️⃣ That's it! Many papers still fell for it 🤷

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