Nick Brooks
@npjbrooks.bsky.social
Adaptation professional. Aspiring swordsman. Supporter of Sahrawi self-determination. Norfolk boy. Director of Garama 3C Ltd. Personal site: https://nickbrooks.wordpress.com/. Adaptation training site: https://garama-training.com/
“Climate breakdown is the result of a global failure to address the power of private capital.”
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d agoI wrote this last year, but as nothing has been done to address the underlying issues, it remains, unfortunately, just as relevant today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After a summer of #buhurt, camping & hiking, I’ll be back to work running Garama’s #training courses, addressing #climatechange #impacts, #adaptation, #resilience, climate & #heritage, designed to build #adaptationliteracy and practical adaptation skills. garama-training.com for more.
An entire article about the ways #ClimateChange is decimating the Bourdeux wine region of France — that never mentions the words “climate change.” This is journalistic malpractice. Not even high-school papers leave out such necessary context. #EndClimateSilence www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
Fire Raging Near Bordeaux Brings More Bad News for Its Vineyards (Gift Article)
One of the largest fires in modern French history is raging near the vineyards of Bordeaux. That is just the latest problem for France’s embattled wine industry.
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Another AI risk.
Eve Thorne@evethorne.bsky.social · last wk."the use of AI-powered campaigns as an "emerging fossil fuel industry playbook" that threatens the integrity of policymaking nationwide." #uspoli #cdnpoli i don't think this should not be legal. When companies are found to be impersonating people, they should be shut down phys.org/news/2026-02...
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
My theory: Christopher Nolan’s shitass Odyssey is actually Jason Bourne’s dream as he floats half dead in the Med with two bullets in his back at the start of the Bourne Identity.
An adaptation professional needs an outlet, and I find Buhurt to be great therapy for climate anxiety. Me (with the shield) at last weekend’s Latitude festival with @getmedieval.bsky.social, to whom many thanks for the footage.
This is extraordinary. You can see why they’ve tried to gag her and why, every single time the gag gets mentioned, she sells a few thousand more copies
As Andy Burnham seems set to give the go ahead on new North Sea oil & gas, and the rise of energy-hungry AI undermines efforts to tackle climate change, perhaps now is the time to sign up to one of our courses on how we adapt to the escalating impacts of climate change. garama-training.com
Absolutely. How did these tech nerds interpret dystopias as manuals?
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w agoTech companies treating cautionary tales from science fiction as product roadmaps is one of my least favorite things about this timeline.
Nothing about geography, or I’d know we were filming this in occupied Western Sahara, therefore endorsing colonialism and sticking two fingers up at the Sahrawi people displaced by the occupation or living under its oppressive daily reality.
Conor@ernekid.bsky.social · 3w ago
Climate economics has by far been the legitimate discourse that has done the most to downplay the dangers of climate change. And it’s been the main lens though which policymakers—and non-scientist and non-climate journalists (and pundits)—have understood the crisis.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w agoWe didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
Well finally a cooler than average day in London area. A max of 23.5C at Heathrow which is 0.7C below 1991-2020 norm for July 18th, this is first below average day in 37 days. Worth noting on older climatology 1961-1990 this would have been ~1C above average. #climate
An import point that most people don’t fully grasp. Generating electricity from renewables like solar and wind eliminates this wasted energy. We can deliver more energy services with vastly lower primary energy consumption.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 3w agoTwo-thirds of global energy is wasted, mostly as combustion heat. Electrification gets rid of most of that waste rather than replacing it. From my keynote at the Eurelectric PowerSummit.
People are desperate for tangible things that can’t be taken away by greedy billionaires. CDs are cheaper and more portable than vinyl, and a greater portion of the money spent goes to musicians compared to the pennies provided by Spotify and Apple Music.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3w ago16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.
The costs of fossil fuels tend to be left out of conventional economic analysis, because they’re paid by all of us. Another subsidy.
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 3w agoAnd: the CEC's goal is to promote the Canadian oil and gas industry and counter anti-pipeline or anti-oil narratives. The Canadian Climate Institute is a policy think tank whose goal is to "help Canada adapt to the effects of climate change, and compete and prosper in the global energy transition."
Any party thinking they can secure our future while ignoring the climate & ecological crises, & that they can bank on growth as a solution to our problems in a world facing catastrophic climatic reorganisation & geopolitical chaos, is not a serious party. They’re just cosplaying at government.
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3w agoSo not environmental breakdown then ?!?
OK. Honeymoon period over.
Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3w agoHard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Anyone interested in the story of this truly weird, racist fascist thumb who runs Trump should listen to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdHi...
Stephen Miller – American Fascist | Origin Story
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Trump, the GOP and the polluters & plutocrats they answer to are responsible for the death and damage caused by this fossil-fueled disaster: www.reuters.com/business/env...
Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats
Wildfire smoke blanketed the eastern U.S. from the Great Lakes to Washington, D.C. on Friday, floodwaters tore through Texas's Hill Country for a third day, and new fires erupted in the Pacific North...
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Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump threatens higher tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke: “Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal”
Just in case you weren’t aware of what a shower of bastards the Telegraph’s new owners are. There’s a reason that the paper was so appealing to them.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w agoAxel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...
Good to see that Norfolk is benefitting from #adaptation expertise from Africa, where the impacts of climate change arguably have been felt harder and earlier than they have here, driving the development of adaptation knowledge and expertise ahead of us. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2626229...
UEA researcher uses African expertise to help Norfolk farms adapt to a hotter climate
UEA researcher Madalitso Mgunda, from Malawi, is exploring how legume crops such as beans, peas and lentils could boost the climate resilience of…
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The American accents may have a lot to tell us about power, but so does the fact that some of this film was shot in occupied Western Sahara (a UN designated non-self-governing territory) in collaboration with the occupying Moroccan authorities, and all these stars were fine with it.
Paul J. Dauenhauer@pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 3w agoOdysseus runs on Dunkin www.vox.com/culture/4955...
I’ve been using the hashtags #ClimateCriminals & #ClimateNuremberg for the better part of a decade now. Occasionally I find others raise the prospect of such criminals being held to account in such a way, but I’m surprised that these hashtags have not been embraced by others fighting the good fight.
Out-of-Control Canadian Wildfires Prompt Calls for 'Nuremberg Trials for Big Oil' | Common Dreams
Over 100 fires were raging in Ontario alone, where they have forced the evacuation of at least 15 rural communities; destroyed homes in the Indigenous community of Collins First Nation, or Namaygoosis...
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