War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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Anne-Marie Bonneau
@zerowastechef.bsky.social
Award-winning cookbook author. Speaker. Lots of fermentation, sourdough and cooking like Grandma. Born at 323 ppm. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
“Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then dance in the ashes!” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 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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‘There’s no nurdle fairy’: thousands mobilise to clean up plastic spillage in north-east England
‘There’s no nurdle fairy’: thousands mobilise to clean up plastic spillage in north-east England
Volunteers painstakingly gather plastic pellets washing up on beaches after ship collision on 19 July “You’ve got a local community that really cares about the coastline,” said Alice Laverty, reflecting on the huge army of volunteers who had taken to crisis-hit beaches in north-east England with passion and only the most basic tools. “They’ve all got a dustpan, a brush, a bucket, a kitchen sieve.” On beaches from Cambois in Northumberland to Seaburn on Wearside, up to 2,000 dedicated volunteers have been painstakingly sifting through sand to find tiny, lentil-sized pellets of plastic. Continue reading...
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The world is full of people who insist "AI is changing everything" but who - when pressed - have to admit that what they mean is that they're pretty sure that AI *will* change everything. Eventually. After we allow it to consume all the planet's energy, carbon, water and financial resources. 8/
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 1, 2026 ~ Climate hell incoming. "Temperatures above 50°C (122°F), which have been virtually impossible at Mediterranean locations in the pre-industrial world, have seen their likelihood increase by a factor of 10 to 1,000 under human-induced climate change"
Building for 131°F: Europe races to protect its infrastructure from a ‘quiet catastrophe’
A summer of weather extremes and severe infrastructure stress has prompted companies and policymakers across Europe to respond.
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You should know @andyburnham.bsky.social that the climate doesn't recognise - or reward - pragmatism Every tonne of CO2 takes 400,000 years to be removed from the atmosphere Hell is coming - and you ignore it at your - and our - peril www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Burnham says he told Trump he would be ‘pragmatic’ on drilling for oil in North Sea – politics live
‘There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that,’ the prime minister says when asked about his conversation with Donald Trump
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Wildfires in Europe are “very worrying”, says Shell boss, as oil giant cashed in on high prices to make bumper Q 2profits of almost $10bn. "My heart goes out to the many who are suffering from it” Sawan abandoned many green investments made by his predecessor www.thetimes.com/business/com...
Wildfires very worrying, says Shell boss as he defends green record
Wael Sawan, the oil group’s chief executive, insists it is not ‘just a fossil fuel company’
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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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I can’t put @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI down. The broligarchs, for all their supposed genius, don’t understand planetary boundaries. I guess they transcend them? Money > physics?
Also shouldn’t we be having more of a public debate about AI data centres. Those things are going to send our emissions skyrocketing, all so Elon Musk can get more rich off far-right slop and porn. Seems a bad trade-off.
If tech bros and neoliberal economists have wine cellars, they should go down there and read some of the labels in order to learn that the world physically exists and is not just a stack of appetites and status anxiety. youtu.be/f71wpyJOMe8
France : aux portes de Bordeaux, l'incendie toujours hors de contrôle • FRANCE 24
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Join scientists, meteorologists, and concerned citizens urging leaders to protect public safety, incl. Adam McKay, Dr. Peter Kalmus, Mandy Moore, Woody Harrelson, Bill McKibben, Hannah Einbinder, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, Chelsea Handler, Joaquin Phoenix and more. Send a letter at elninowarning.com
El Niño Warning Letter | Public officials: Stop ignoring, start preparing.
This El Niño is a public safety emergency. Join the open letter from scientists, meteorologists, and concerned citizens.
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Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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Footage from the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis. We are about to cross 1.5°C permanently and are firmly on track for 1.6°, 1.7°, 1.9°, 2°C etc. What will planet look like then? Yet fossil fuel extraction and burning continues unabated. We are on a highway to hell.
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w agoUndated firecrew video (probably 23, 24, 35 July) from the Gironde showing the devastation. #wildfires #France
"If you were on a big boat, like the Titanic, & someone comes up to you & says the boat's going down, you bloody well get on those lifeboats & start acting & do stuff" "We're not doing that. The ship is starting to sink in a really massive way, & we're not seeing it as what it is. It is so serious"
Great Barrier Reef at risk of 'collapse', scientists warn
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and "ecosystem collapse" linked to this year's El Nino weather phenomenon, top scientists warn.
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“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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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.
This is what happens when you lie about that climate change is ‘fake’ and then have to stick to your own fake story…ridiculous.
The wildfires in Ontario and Minnesota are a direct consequence of the high temperatures and low rainfall resulting from a major July heat dome event. A year ago we showed that these events had tripled in frequency due to human-caused warming: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3w agoSummer 2023 called. It wants its apocalyptic haze back... www.independent.co.uk/us/voices/ai...
Apple workers in Wayne County, NY endured extremely poor air quality both while working and in employer-provided housing which is not air conditioned. AQI exceeded 500 at times which is extremely hazardous. 1/
“American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction, year after year,” - letter from 4 Republican members of the US House of Representatives, from a party that loves to deny that climate change exists, and does the bidding of oil companies and tech companies demanding data centres.
Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.
Starbucks: Why aren’t you following your own reusable cup policy? It appears the default at Starbucks is single-use disposable cups, and not reusables. Sign our petition to ask Starbucks to follow its own reusable policy at beyondplastics.org/actions/starbucks-cups #starbucks #reusablerevolution
Google's greenhouse gas emissions rose 18% and its water use rose 34% in 2025. Thank you, AI: www.axios.com/2026/06/30/g...
Google's AI boom sends emissions, power use soaring
Its electricity, water use and greenhouse gas emissions all climbed to record levels last year.
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America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F. #Climate
US data centers for AI tend to run on more fossil fuels than renewables → they produce proportionally more climate pollution → which is supersizing extreme weather → which is now the #1 risk to data centers themselves. The very definition of "coming right back around to bite you."
The AI boom is colliding with a new threat: Severe weather
Heatwaves and severe weather are raising risks for AI data centers, from grid strain to higher insurance and repair costs.
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