FN:s specialrapportör för miljöförsvarare riktar skarp kritik mot Sverige, efter att det blivit känt att en tysk-ungersk forskare hotas av utvisning till följd av sin klimataktivism. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fn-k...

Norway's state-owned energy giant Statkraft is racing to drown one of the most sacred Indigenous sites in Chile so it can build a mega-dam. The flooding could begin at any moment. Indigenous leader Machi Millaray Huichalaf says global pressure could help. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Norway: Stop the flooding!

Norway calls itself a champion of Indigenous rights -- yet its own state-owned company is about to drown a sacred Mapuche river in Chile.

secure.avaaz.org

Rosi and Heather are two of the best - please come along to this if only to hear from them

Pat Simons@patsimons.bsky.social · 3h ago

Data Centre Boom: We pay, they profit this Wednesday, 6PM We're supporting this webinar organised by Getup, featuring @ketanjoshi.co, Rosi Leonard from FoE Ireland and Cr Heather Champion from Wingecarribee Shire. It's a great lineup and well worth attending. www.getup.org.au/campaigns/bi...

Exxon: carbon capture's potential is "limitless" and we are leaders in CCS! Also Exxon: suing the EU so as not to be forced to do CCS. This is the least surprising thing ever.

Doug Parr@dougparr.bsky.social · 2d ago

Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“We often talk about what climate change has wrecked in terms of what’s material, tangible, structures lost to fire, flood, or sea level rise, trees dying, species threatened, glaciers melting in warmer weather. But summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us.” 🎯

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6d ago

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

"We also need to talk to young people about reading to outrun and outfight injustice. Reading to get faster, swifter and tougher; to develop powers of scrutiny and criticism and huge creative imagination. ... Because when we let a computer think for us, we put a gun to the head of civilisation."

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

theguardian.com

I spoke to @newleftreview.bsky.social about the political economy of climate: supply chain geoeconomics, why Biden’s signature climate policy didn’t stick, political weakness of green capitalism, Chinese industrial policies, global South resource nationalism &more newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026

An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...

newleftreview.org

"On Sunday a four-month-old Palestinian baby, Ahmad Maarouf Zaid, died after Israeli forces blocked his family from crossing a checkpoint to reach a waiting ambulance."

Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says

Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial

theguardian.com

I've received 6 of these emails by Deutsche Bahn now, rendering half of my reservations for an upcoming trip to Belgium obsolete, and changing the planned departure times for all four legs of my journey, some multiple times. DB has tested my patience lots before but this is on a whole new level...

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling  - Carbon Brief

UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

carbonbrief.org

The Northeast is sweating through a dangerous heat dome. Meanwhile, climate politics keeps circling around geoengineering instead of the urgent task: stopping emissions at the source. @alfatau.bsky.social speaks with Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social on fossil capital & climate politics.

The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics

Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.

inthesetimes.com

"The chain of events, starting from the meltwater and the North Atlantic cold blob, then leading to changes in the ocean and atmospheric circulations, makes Europe heat up more quickly than other parts of the world in summer"

PIK_climate@pik-potsdam.bsky.social · last mo.

The AMOC is weakening with warming, but debate persists over how fast it could slow & whether a collapse is possible this century. PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social: "Consequences of an AMOC shutdown would be massive in many parts of the world." economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

Incredibile and dramatic #heatwave in #Europe as seen from space. The #Copernicus #Sentinel3 Land (not air!) Surface Temperatures map of June 24 shows peaks of 55°C in #Spain and over 50°C (in purple) in #France. #climateemergency

“Here I am with my fellow firefighters, tackling this terrible fire. There must be a hundred of us. But wait, I’m just one firefighter. What difference can I make? GOOD LUCK, LADS, I’M OFF TO THE PUB.”

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · last mo.

Brutal demolition from @eciu.net of the 'we're just one per cent of global emissions - what difference can we make' bullshit. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Do not let all the Supreme Court's other bad decisions cause you to lose sight of the Court's unceasing efforts to protect corporate power

The Big Pro-Corporate Power Supreme Court Case You Might Have Missed

A major corporation needed help defending itself in court. The justices were happy to provide it.

ballsandstrikes.org

I had a piece commissioned by The Yale Review. However, since they published Christopher Sorrentino's sophomoric, frankly pathetic ode to using generative AI for his writing, I have told them in the strongest possible terms that I no longer have any interest in writing for them.

A very good articulation of what seems to me the very obvious point that, no, you shouldn't "bring AI into the classroom."

Welcoming Claude Into the Classroom Risks the Soul of Education

Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.

chicagomaroon.com

Right! @kevinclimate.bsky.social nailed it in 2011: "Socolow's wedges…they're the wrong way around. ...He has us starting with small reductions from the pointy ends of the wedges & progressing to…the big end. …but because we're so late…we need to get the big reductions almost immediately." 1/2

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

Amazon and Google just reported emissions jumps of 16% and 18%, respectively, in 2025 compared to 2024. The main driver is not hard to guess: data centers and AI. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Big Tech’s Carbon Emissions Spike With Runaway Growth of AI

Amazon and Google report jumps in their greenhouse gas output as the data center boom gains momentum.

bloomberg.com

Can you help push the petition numbers over 20k? www.change.org/p/stop-redun... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nearly 20K sign petition to stop University of Exeter job cuts

The university says the measures which would hit Devon and Cornwall posts were currently proposals.

bbc.co.uk

De här, från 2024, hade jag helt missat. Samme Hökmark som försvarar skolkoncerner och dyker upp i det Tankesmedjan Balans granskar, titt som tätt. Han var uppenbarligen lika lättköpt som SD var av Kreab. Krävdes bara lite bjudmat. supermiljobloggen.se/nyheter/sa-k...

Claes Lennartsson@claeslennartsson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bör delas & spridas varje dag: "Dagens ETC och Supermiljöbloggen har genom att begära ut hundratals dokument granskat hur oljebolaget Exxon, via tankesmedjorna Atlas Network och Timbro, betalat Moderaterna för politik som går på tvärs mot klimatvetenskapen." www.aktuellhallbarhet.se/opinion/komm...

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

technosphere.earth

"The solar geoengineering techno juggernaut rolls on, with what seems to be a complete disregard for what the damage might be to the planet, and despite several important assessments from leading scientific academies." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | Raymond Pierrehumbert, Julia Slingo, Michael Mann and Valerie Masson-Delmotte

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

theguardian.com

When does the sun set in California? It doesn't.

Robbie Andrew@robbieandrew.bsky.social · last mo.

Yesterday in California (CAISO): ▸State gas squeezed to almost nothing (but there's some in imports from other states) ▸Hydro squeezed out much of the day, saving valuable reservoir water ▸SunZia wind delivering ▸Batteries discharging all night

The US at 250. "Trump got more than $500m from his flagship World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including “governance tokens” [and] more than $600m from souvenir-type “meme” coins stamped with Trump’s face that launched days before his inauguration."

Trump raked in more than $1bn from crypto businesses in 2025, filing shows

President’s crypto ventures have eclipsed in revenue much of his property portfolio that took decades to accumulate

theguardian.com

AI didn’t kill those girls at Minab. But over reliance on it did. And I’m not talking about “AI needs better human prompts” or any of that shit I am saying there are scenarios where fake text generators should not be integrated into decision chain of command www.latimes.com/world-nation...

U.S. analyst’s missed remark surfaced in inquiry into deadly Iran school strike

An analyst's missed remarks and U.S. intelligence systems that weren’t connected to one another are among the missteps investigators have surfaced while probing the deadly bombing of a school in Iran.

latimes.com

Fun fact: this is the most common argument used in defence of AI and data centres, often by dudes who'd never dream of making this argument for a country

Peter du Toit@peterdutoit.com · last mo.

“Even if we were all climate neutral in Germany tomorrow, not a single natural disaster would be prevented anywhere in the world.”—Friedrich Merz Only the climate illiterate say things like this!