“If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This will be a treat: The Columbian Exchange on In Our Time today. #Skystorians
Interesting look at the data that MethaneSat, a satelite that monitored methane pollution from oil and gas extraction sites, gathered in its year of operation before it suddenly disappeared.
www.methanesat.org/project-upda...
"If you want to know who will ultimately pay in this scenario, just look in the mirror. Even as your home-insurance rates rise, so will your taxes. All of this will drive down property values, especially in the places most at-risk from climate disasters. And that will hurt muni finances even more."
“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”
This should be THE story everyday.
and yes, the BBC has enormous problems *but*
*gestures at everything*
Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.
THIS
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Democracy dies of heatstroke.
What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
It's a small part of the broader bloodbath, but the guy who made his fortune selling *books* online closing the *books* section of the newspaper he owns deserves some kind of special medal for hypocrisy.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous
Bafta has caught the zeitgeist with One Battle After Another, but let’s hear it for The Ballad of Wallis Island
Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
As the Taliban step up their war on women and girls, it is clear that appeasement has failed | Gordon Brown
“A.i.” is for creeps and weasels.
PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made:
1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups
2. which incubate fake experts
3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks'
4. which get blurbed by politicians
5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media.
Voila!
www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...
66% of recent increases in UK energy bills has come from wholesale gas prices, say @ukerc.bsky.social - 17% from grid charges, 13% from extra policy costs
Despite gas accounting for 1/3 of generation, its price drives cost of electricity up to 90% of the time
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC
"Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021."
www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...
Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.
And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
For such a softly spoken guy, Ben doesn't hold back on the Trump administration:
"Insane. That’s the only word for it. Removing our ability to measure and monitor how the world around us is changing, makes no sense whatsoever."
Coal power generation falls in both China and India for first time since 1970s
- ‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country.”
US oil groups warn they will need guarantees to invest in Venezuela
A warning I constantly make: as climate activists, we must denounce how frames of national sovereignty/interest are used not only to advance fossil fuel operations, but also to persecute and slander climate justice points and advocates.
Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
Meanwhile, catastrophic #climatechange
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A good time to watch
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
Particularly Episodes 5 and 6 - ‘Crude Diplomacy’
and ‘Power to the Producers’
@pbs.org
Severe Weather Emergency Protocol activated in London ❄️
The temperature is due to drop below freezing tonight, and emergency accommodation is open across the capital for those sleeping rough.
If you are sleeping rough or know someone who is, connect to support via StreetLink
thestreetlink.org.uk
a screenshot of the video
a screenshot of the video
Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
