Irony: "Even Trump expresses unhappiness with the massive profits that Exxon, Chevron, and other oil giants are reaping in the wake of the Iran War's disruption of global markets." bsky.app/profile/ross...

Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chevron, ExxonMobil, & Shell combined raked in $404 million in profits/day for the last 3 months. This bonanza for oil companies/executives is raising eyebrows & ire among EU lawmakers & Democrats in the U.S. Congress, who're calling for windfall taxes on oil companies. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Chevron, ExxonMobil, & Shell combined raked in $404 million in profits/day for the last 3 months. This bonanza for oil companies/executives is raising eyebrows & ire among EU lawmakers & Democrats in the U.S. Congress, who're calling for windfall taxes on oil companies. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.

npr.org

🍃🌹🌿Sign: #Polluters Pay Pact! To: govts around the world Make oil, coal & gas corps pay their fair share for damage they cause Introduce new taxes or fines on them to help communities rebuild from climate disasters & invest in #climate solutions act-int.greenpeace.org/polluters-pa...?

Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay

Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.

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Update: Wildfires have raged across Europe over the past week. More than 330,000 people have been evacuated in France and Spain. Another heatwave may complicate efforts to tackle the expanding blaze, which is about 15km from Bordeaux, with a population of ~850,000. www.bbc.com/news/article...

France and Spain fires: Macron calls crisis meeting as wildfires threaten Bordeaux

Blazes are about 15km from Bordeaux, but the city's mayor says there are no plans to evacuate.

bbc.com

Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Update: Wildfires have raged across Europe over the past week. More than 330,000 people have been evacuated in France and Spain. Another heatwave may complicate efforts to tackle the expanding blaze, which is about 15km from Bordeaux, with a population of ~850,000. www.bbc.com/news/article...

France and Spain fires: Macron calls crisis meeting as wildfires threaten Bordeaux

Blazes are about 15km from Bordeaux, but the city's mayor says there are no plans to evacuate.

bbc.com

Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

And this is only at 1.5C above pre-industrial. 2035 will be 2.0C above pre-industrial. By then a quarter of a million evacuations would be a normal relaxed summer.

I‘m fascinated by this front page posted by @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Did the people assembling that know the juxtaposition? Was it people lower in the hierarchy who dared do this, against the editorial line? Or no one assembling this front page made the connection?

This video by firefighters in Spain going to fight fires is hair-raising. bsky.app/profile/evas...

Eva Helada@evaspinola70.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tremendo vídeo. No hay dinero que pueda pagar a esta gente. Gracias.

"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – live

Meanwhile, in the UK, a blaze in the Cairngorms national park has been described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first minister

theguardian.com

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? theconversation.com/how-do-scien...

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?

A National Academy of Sciences report examined the latest advances in extreme event attribution science. As four of the authors explain, the type of disaster makes a difference.

theconversation.com

First time at Fenway Park. Pretty excited about RedSox vs BaltimoreOrioles game. Not so much thinking about the plastic footprint of each game. It's wild that they force everyone to carry small plastic water bottles. #RedSox #FenwayPark

‘It’s only going to get worse’ 🔥 The world is experiencing the impact of decades of denial and delayed action on the climate and ecological emergency. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘It’s only going to get worse’: wildfires forcing firefighters to make impossible choices

As the climate crisis fuels more intense blazes, pushing them to new parts of the world, those tackling them are forced to ration resources and decide which to fight

theguardian.com

"The internet... cld have been a global 🧠, an end to monopoly capitalism, a liberation of free speech. How did we get from there to here: to surveillance capitalism + data colonialism, facing an extractive AI industry + a fragmented social media landscape powered by misinformation + advertising?"

The Internet We Could Have Had

The Internet We Could Have Had, What happened to the internet we could have had? Can we remember a future that did not come to pass? The Internet We Could Have Had takes up the challenge, revisiting t...

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Prakash Kashwan, an initiator of the open letter calling for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering, writes in The Economic Times about the risks of solar geoengineering in the Indian context: economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-c... @pkashwan.bsky.social

Not a risk worth taking: Solar geoengineering could put India's monsoon at risk - The Economic Times

Global heatwaves prompt discussions on solar radiation modification technologies. This approach involves significant logistical challenges and potential ecological risks. SRM does not address root cau...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

insideclimatenews.org/news/1407202...

The Dire Lengths Florida Farmworkers Go to Keep Working in ‘Scorching’ Heat - Inside Climate News

Underresourced farmworkers can experience physical and mental symptoms while working under the Florida sun. But heat is not their only worry, according to one advocate.

insideclimatenews.org

Trump has threatened Canada with tariffs for wildfire smoke, which is a good reminder that he doesn’t understand how tariffs work. Or how fire works. Or how Canada works.

When real life beats stand up! "The senator is alive, a key requirement to maintain one’s job in the US Senate" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Mitch McConnell mystery is solved. But it doesn’t look good for America | Moira Donegan

The senator is alive, a key requirement to maintain one’s job in the US Senate

theguardian.com

Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...

Yes, Democrats Should Talk About Climate.

Talking about Climate Change is a Political Winner.

electricnotes.news

As celebs like Kylie Jenner promote Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Lorde made it known at her concert: "Fuck the glasses." 404 Media has reported on how its been used by ICE officers, by people filming secretly at massage parlors and how some have hacked the recording light. www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

Want to know what #ClimateChange looks like in #Boston & Massachusetts & #NewEngland ?

(also) "In February, SpaceX filed with the FCC for one million more satellites, for “AI data centers.” One million. That is 40 times as many satellites as have ever been launched — for a single megaconstellation consisting of completely untested technology that may not even work in space."

A giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Reflect Orbital will test a satellite to reflect the sun’s rays back to Earth. The light covers ~5 km, requires repointing every 4 min. www.independent.co.uk/space/space-...

US company cleared to install giant mirror in space to create ‘sunlight on demand’

Reflect Orbital will reflect the sun’s rays back to Earth for extra solar energy and lighting

independent.co.uk

At this point, he is not even referring to "illegal aliens." Simply "aliens," which is the legal speak for a variety of legal immigrants on wirk visas.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Q: Will this change on vehicle stops lower the rate of deportations? HOMAN: No. No. I'm sick and tired of reading about how the administration has lost their guts with mass deportation. Do you know that ICE last month arrested more aliens than any month in the history of the agency?

Well done, New York. Grateful to the activists who are fighting these wasteful fossil-fuel enabling monstrosities!

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.

Appalling: Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 @wildcard.land have run a noble campaign trying to get the CofE to see sense But this demonstrates exactly why Ministers can't rely on landowners to voluntarily support 30by30: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030

Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners

theguardian.com

www.reuters.com/business/env...

Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show

Scientists have said the late-June heatwave would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, ​which is making heatwaves more frequent and intense.

reuters.com

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears. UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990. Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure. Yet record high prices and profiteering. Does anyone call companies to account?

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears

Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue

theguardian.com

‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies #Climate

‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks

theguardian.com

Nature has been absent from discussions on the env impacts of AI data centres, which focus mainly on carbon emissions & water use. There has also been no consideration of how AI deployment by industry could gobble up more natural resources, activists warned. www.climatechangenews.com/2026/07/08/a...

AI governance debate silent on risks to nature, campaigners warn

Global efforts to ensure AI does more good than harm must consider how it could fuel exploitation of biodiversity and ecosystems, conservationists say

climatechangenews.com

Planetary-scale solar geoengineering interventions present unprecedented governance challenges that cannot be addressed via normal civil-society-participation/procedural justice approaches. We need stronger global regulations, incl. a Non-Use Agreement. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-c...

Not a risk worth taking: Solar geoengineering could put India's monsoon at risk - The Economic Times

Global heatwaves prompt discussions on solar radiation modification technologies. This approach involves significant logistical challenges and potential ecological risks. SRM does not address root cau...

economictimes.indiatimes.com