On the up side ... at least they are now "saying the quiet part out loud" - i.e. "we are fully commited to climate action as long as it doesn't affect any of the things we are *really* fully commited to ..."
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 4h agoClimate Act curbs could be considered to avert infrastructure ‘paralysis’, Chambers says
"Grocers are already bringing in more products from abroad because of the poor conditions at home" But the time is coming - soon - when countries will hold onto their own And the UK imports getting on for half its food www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farmers warn shoppers face smaller and more expensive vegetables due to hot weather
This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
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I can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe black polythene snagged in fences, hedgerows and trees.
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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Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
I lived in Tokyo from '91 to '95 and it's a city well used to heat and cloying humidity. But 40C?!Every day?! Those poor animals
Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · yesterdayEverything's quite distressing isn't it edition.cnn.com/2026/08/04/a...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Many parts of southern England recorded 0mm of rainfall in July, a first since records began in 1871. No sign of meaningful rainfall in the next 2 weeks either as high pressure re-builds, the drought continues. 📷 Blackheath, London
Smoke will cover half the US today from the devastating Pacific NW fires. Here’s where we stand: 2.4 Million Acres burned in Washington, Oregon, & Idaho - 16X the size of #Chicago. 700 structures lost. Countless lives changed forever. One unsustainably warming planet. 🌍 #smoke #fire #spokane
Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2d agoThe wildfires in the Pacific NW are incredibly sad and devastating. We have to face the fact that a warming climate is unsustainable. As you can see, fires in the Pacific NW are getting much larger in recent decades. The largest fires (100K acres+) have increased by 10-15X since the 1980s. 1/
Would like some Actual Good News about the environment ?
Joy as Irish bird feared gone forever returns to Cork
Return of the corncrake gives hope for other native species
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#Glencullen Firefighters from Rathfarnham and Dun Laoghaire are at the gorse #wildfire on the Dublin mountains. Smoke is traveling from the South over 3 Rock into South Dublin. If you are affected by smoke close all windows and doors as a precaution.
Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years
Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years
NatureScot refuses licence for hunt on Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir in which up to 2,000 gannet chicks are killed
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Eastern Washington fires destroy 600 structures and force 60,000 to evacuate
Eastern Washington fires destroy 600 structures and force 60,000 to evacuate
Wildfires in and around Spokane have stretched ability of federal and local agencies to fight blazes
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Sympathy to the families of the people who died. Haven’t seen much of that from European political leaders. There have been around 35,000 deaths of people trying to irregularly enter the EU since 2014.
There has been little mention of the 72 people who drowned or were crushed trying to reach Ceuta last week. A shocking figure that's been eclipsed by right wing press fear mongering. The incident and how it started is now coming under welcome scrutiny www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta’s streets
People among the more than 50,000 who entered Spanish enclave this week describe the journey and their prospects
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There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
The nasty little thing with climate change is that the situation progressively gets worse as long as we emit greenhouse gases, and that is irreversible. So there's no happy message "Let's bring emissions to zero and then everything will be alright" Nope, everything will be worse than it is now. 1/
It’s 49C in Basra, Iraq today. Coolest it will get overnight is 36C. Temperatures will top 50C next week. #Climate breakdown is already well underway. Furnace-like conditions like this will continue to spread, year after year.
Firefighters battle blaze after fire reignites on Slievenamon
Firefighters battle blaze after fire reignites on Slievenamon
Tipperary County Council requests Air Corps support in effort to curb and control problem
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Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
High Court challenge brought over €12.6m catering contract for TUD Grangegorman
High Court challenge brought over €12.6m catering contract for TUD Grangegorman
Kennedy’s Food Store tendered for the new 60-month contract for Grangegorman last February but was unsuccessful
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Grangegorman is a place of many histories. One lesser known chapter is its part in the cholera epidemics of the 1800s. Discover the story of 'The Grangegorman Cholera Cemetery' and its connection to one of Dublin's most challenging periods for public health. @ria.ie @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social
The Grangegorman Cholera Cemetery, Grangegorman Lower - Royal Irish Academy
In 2023, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), working with Dublin Cemeteries Trust, undertook a project to reinter in Glasnevin Cemetery the remains of people who died during, and as a result of, t...
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This thread - documenting the rapid growth of a new fire into Spokane, WA today - is terrifying. We’re used to wildfires in the Northwest but what’s happening right now in eastern Washington is not normal.
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d agoHoly crap. Level 3 (GO NOW!) zone now includes urban Spokane, south of Francis to Wellesley. Level 2 (GET SET!) zone now extends east of Division. Not to be alarmist, but at this rate, it’s not inconceivable that the Old Trails Fire merges with the Fairview Fire.
Serious wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire situation in Spokane, WA amid "extremely critical/Particularly Dangerous Situation" fire weather conditions. Two separate fires, #OldTrailsFire & #FairViewFire, are actively burning near/in neighborhoods; mass evacs ongoing. #WAwx
The Old Trails Fire is seen from the Centennial Trail near W. College Ave., Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026, in Spokane, Wash.
Fascist-curious tech bros just can't figure out why telling ppl they'll be made utterly redundant by climate destroying bots has not been met with a wave of popularity...
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
