"There is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs. This massive lie can best be summed up as 'when it comes to climate change... we have more time.'" - @ghostpanther.bsky.social

The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...

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Probably fine

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“.. We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” said one trader. “All of that’s now gone,” he said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6c31...

An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning

Reuters@reuters.com · 3mo ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

Wildfire season has started - and that's not a sentence I ever expected to be typing about the UK

Major wildfire rips through moorland close to Greater Manchester

Blaze on Tintwistle Moor, Glossop, has burned more than 500 square metres, forcing road closures and smoke warning

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Just a reminder that, historically, summer temperatures in England have been about 18-25C And June is far from high summer

open.substack.com/pub/billmcki... By the end of the decade we need to have decisively broken the political power of the fossil fuel industry, so we can get on with…building a world that can survive the damage Big Oil has inflicted. climate-returns?r=it8n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

And so "climate" returns

The next--and most important--cycle in a long-running battle

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The planet is on fire and I don't think the government should be having cosy chats with the arsonists

XR Islington@islingtonxr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Greta says 40C heatwaves in the UK are “only the beginning” and that Britain’s leaders have “their heads completely buried in the sand” about the #climatecrisis Labour ministers met #fossilfuel lobbyists more than 500x during the party’s 1st year in power....

Our infrastructure can't even cope with the conditions that have already been unleashed Yet climate policy aims to keep making things worse till 2050, and many people argue we shouldn't even do that

Rail passengers told to travel only if essential amid red extreme heat warning

Network Rail tells people to check if services are running, with intercity trains expected to be worst affected

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Around the planet our self-organizing selves and systems are taking adaptive action even if its sporadic, episodic, experimental, and hard to see. Even if it feels too slow, it is speeding up and you can participate. www.barcelona.cat/barcelona-pe...

❌ Myth: Guaranteed income creates a disincentive to work ✅ Reality: Guaranteed income actually helps people find suitable and sustainable work that leads to more stable employment:

Some men turn 80 and plant a tree knowing they’ll never sit in its shade. Others turn 80 and strip the orchard bare, cut all the trees down to sell the lumber, pocket the cash, and blame the hungry for not inheriting fruit.

RFK Jr demanded the *retraction* of a 20 yr Danish study that showed aluminums in vaccines do not cause health issues. The journal REFUSED saying the study has been peer-reviewed and found to have no significant flaws. Imagine asking science to un-science itself.

People have shown up to watch the removal of the orange felon’s disgusting name from the Kennedy Center including thousands more watching live streams. It’s coming TF down!

If there was more space between "just how a leader looks and acts in the dominant meta-narrative" and "sadistic controller and abuser" we wouldn't keep ending up in these situations.

In this episode of News From a World in Flux, @claretotty.bsky.social and I chat about the impacts of repression on activists and the blossoming of the climate movement into diverse approaches

The psychological effects of repression and what's next for the climate movement? | NFAWIF

YouTube video by Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK

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Throwback to the day when Presidents were literate.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica. This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.

How teaching the history of science can help equip students to face polarized times. Science educators have been encouraged to leave politics at the classroom door. But as disinformation spreads online and public trust in science seems to erode in some contexts, this advice is no longer realistic.

How teaching the history of science can help equip students to face polarized times

If science teachers embrace history as a lens for teaching complex accounts of science, we open possibilities for more socially relevant classrooms.

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You can toggle between light mode and dark mode, as well as between static and interactive graphics (the interactive ones can take a long time to load on slower internet connections). I've written more about what is included in the new dashboard here:

Introducing the Climate Brink Dashboard

A new place to find daily updated climate data

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You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

More people became billionaires last year than ever before in history. 2025 gave us about 350 new billionaires, almost one per day. Nine million people also starved to death last year.

One sentence to destroy them all.

Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Even if the MAGAtes are voted out entirely in future elections, it could take a generation to undo the damage they have done to America and the world. And some damage may be irreversible. Take this, for instance 👇 ... 📰🧪🌎