Peter Lipman

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

DFC Announces $20B Plan for Maritime Reinsurance in the Gulf WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO Ben Black and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent today announced agreement on a detailed implementation plan approved...

This is astounding. U.S. taxpayer money to insure the movement of oil and LNG tankers to the tune of $20 billion.
The Trump administration releases a reinsurance plan for oil and gas through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.

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Thanks for reminding me of the article. It sketches out some of the headline shifts that would be needed – & the unavoidable requirement to reallocate society’s productive capacity away from furnishing narrow private luxury and toward wider social good. Private sufficiency & public luxury, perhaps.

An Island Nation in the South Pacific Leads the Latest Push for Climate Justice at the UN - Inside Climate News Vanuatu urges the U.N. to support a landmark International Court of Justice climate opinion that says governments have legal duties to confront climate change.

With all the smoke and mirrors out there, it's easy to forget that there is still a globe-spanning coalition of nations, representing billions of people, that want to strengthen global climate rules.

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

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Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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Fossil fuels also just *happen* to be how Wright made his own personal wealth and personal money...

Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly
Foster & @rahmstorf.bsky.social

"The resulting adjusted and thus less “noisy” data show that there has been acceleration with over 98% confidence, with faster warming over the last 10+ years than during any previous decade."

"Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences."

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

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NEW - Carbon Brief's mega-analysis of China's new five-year plan just dropped!

We dig into what the plan means for carbon emissions, renewable energy, cleantech competition, critical minerals & more

To find out everything you need to know about the new policy, click the link in the comments ⬇️

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’

Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change? - Carbon Brief China’s leadership has published a draft of its 15th five-year plan setting the strategic direction...

What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change? www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

Iran is following Russia's model: financing its war machine with fossil fuels, and cutting off global fossil fuel supply. Trump's war is once again exposing the profound weaknesses of a fossil fuel dependent global economy and the necessity of a rapid transition off of fossil fuels.

😬I'm sure this will be fine😬 "Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study"


www.carbonbrief.org/...

Unsere neue Studie: die Erderwärmung hat sich ab 2015 erheblich beschleunigt. Die rote Kurve zeigt 10-Jahres-Trends, um je 1 Jahr versetzt; der letzte ist 2015-2024.
Die blaue Kurve zeigt den Trend vor und nach dem objektiv bestimmten change point.
👉 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Meanwhile

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

Repression is quickly becoming the norm under Kier Starmer

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Incredibly normal to be banging on the door of the Quakers repeatedly but allowing literal organisations such as Britain first to stalk homes of refugees and domestic violence survivors every weekend.

Totally normal is this government. Not worried at all.

Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen The embers of resistance – in Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen - have not been snuffed out. With the attack on Iran, they are being fanned into a fire

Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

Warming Triggers a Chain Reaction of Disturbance in European Forests - Inside Climate News Escalating wildfires, wind damage and insect outbreaks could threaten tourism, water supplies and biodiversity, a new study shows.

Warming Triggers a Chain Reaction of Disturbance in European Forests insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined iandunt.substack.com/p/this-is-th...

Javier Blas @JavierBlas · 34m CHART OF THE DAY: We have forgotten how bad the European energy crisis of 2022 really was. So let me refresh memories: German electricity prices. It may still get uggly. Worst-case scenarios are horrible. But we aren't there yet. Link to my @Opinion colum in reply. Javier Blas @JavierBlas · 34m

lessons from the first blackout of the green era

You can really learn a lot by observing the language of ppl like this

Notice how fossil fuels causing a price spike = "energy" crisis, where renewables merely existing on the same grid as a major blackout = "the first blackout of the green era"

At some point in distant, half-remembered history, David Wallace-Wells would have mentioned fossil fuels and climate change in a piece like this, but we're in 2026 now and thankfully the laws of physics have changed since then

Personally, I find these comparisons a bit grand, and am skeptical that A.I. will bring about two hundred years’ worth of economic and cultural transformation in just a couple of decades, as Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who is among Silicon Valley’s more careful C.E.O.-prognosticators, has suggested it might. But I also don’t know that slowing the rate of data center construction will stop A.I. from introducing machine hallucinations into the conduct of war; from destabilizing employment patterns by bringing about widespread layoffs, and contorting surviving kinds of work, too; from polluting the internet with slop; from interfering with education; from making dating an exchange between chatbots; and from turning what we call writing into something extruded by prompting, and moviemaking or music into things done entirely within a machine.

Pretty disappointing and weird piece from @dwallacewells.bsky.social here dismissing opposition to data centres in the US as hollow "NIMBYISM" or at best a second-order reflection of anxieties about AI

No chance communities have reasonable concerns, not possible.

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