Personally I like the name Abdul. Douglas is OK too, but someone is giving the name a bad name.
Personally I like the name Abdul. Douglas is OK too, but someone is giving the name a bad name.
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵
While Trump goes backward on clean energy development, California pushes forward in building an affordable, clean energy future. I signed a new executive order to maintain our progress in adding clean electricity to our power grid while protecting thousands of good-paying jobs.
There's not a soul in the streets, just a little 4-year-old boy playing in the sand in his yard. The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach three times and left. We all stood there with our mouths open.
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Next weeks we will see HUNDREDS of records brutalized in which will be the most anomalous heat wave ever seen anywhere in the tropics. World climatic history will be totally rewritten anew with weeks of insane and unprecedented heat in the whole area. 40C+ EVERY DAY. even in the highlands
Circular retail is not just about what we buy, but how and where we buy it.
Those who think nature has no inherent value, that it's just there to be exploited, also tend to see other people who are different to them in the same way: women, people of colour, Muslims, Jews, gays, trans, indigenous, Palestinians, even children... the list goes on and on. It's *all* connected.
AI will drive mass unemployment and inequality
Our rivers, the very lifeblood of the land, are being murdered. Yet this sickening crime is just allowed to get worse and worse.
Fossil fuel extractors fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating. They demand the equivalent of the royal monopolies once granted by the Crown, excluding competitors, enabling old technologies to fend off newer ones. Trump answers the call. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
6 months ago, in the shadow of the night, Israeli soldiers took 16-year-old American Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim from his family. He’s been imprisoned ever since. He’s suffered from scabies & lost 25 pounds. Remember Sayfollah Musallet, the young American killed by settlers last month? They’re cousins.
Ireland and the Netherlands are two European nations with several toxic similarities. Both nations have a political class that is obsessed with providing billionaires and large American corporations extremely low tax environments while also destroying their water quality as a stupid political bonus
Conservation is all about preventing or reversing change to conserve the biodiversity we have. It's right there in the name But in the era of rapid climate change that's an impossible goal We desperately need to rethink what we're trying to achieve conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER AFRICA Thousands of records brutalized everywhere from North to South Africa. Wait for more updates from this insane day.
Tax wealth not work at The Budget
Decarbonisation isn't being held back by a lack of knowledge or technology It's being held back by the power of vested interests Even if AI was benign and all it's hyped up to be, it wouldn't address that
The only newsworthy aspect of the far-right anti-migrant protests currently is how pathetically small they are. Last summer 60,000 people came to the Restore Nature Now protest in London, and the BBC didn’t even report on it. bsky.app/profile/sund...
🦇 Only one more week to go - International Bat Night is coming soon, on the 30 August! How will you be celebrating bats? Have a look at our page for ideas and inspiration: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats... Or, download and share your favourite bat facts: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
"Trump is setting us up for a far worse climate future" by @thorbenson.bsky.social for the “madness” newsletter: madness.ghost.io/trump-worse-...
New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year...
"In fact, the best estimate is that we’re emitting carbon perhaps 10 times faster than even the mindless, undirected Siberian volcanoes that brought about the worst mass extinction ever." Read that again.
Since #Brexit, UK now has lower standards than EU in: * protecting nature * water quality * air pollution * methane control * pesticides * chemicals * deforestation supply chains * waste reduction Only on marine protection does UK have a better story to tell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
12. I hope I can keep those scenes of the wildfire clouds to the fore of my mind so that, in whatever way I can, I challenge the psychologies and toxic systems that caused it. Ultimately it’s ugly stuff and a threat to everything that thrives.
11. I only went to Narbonne and surrounding areas for a few days but loved it there. I hope it thrives and finds ways of dealing with recurrent wild fires.
10. But there’s something more malign at play here in the neoliberal dogmas and systems that have been clever enough to get us to look away from the collapse of living systems. If people can’t see it, they’ll carry on not adapting and, god forbid, mitigating.
9. The climate crisis is an obvious cause and also a symptom. A root cause of the climate crisis may be our seeming human incapacity to grasp the climate catastrophes that are unfolding in slow motion when you’re not directly affected.
8. According to French media, the fire probably started with a still lit cigarette from a vehicle; an ignorant, or malicious act. I hope whoever did it is caught and punished but that act is hardly the root cause of what is playing out in the Aude and other parts of Southern Europe.
7.You could have been forgiven for seeing the cloud mushrooming over the hills behind the lagoons as an integral part of that tranquil scene, with ribbons of cloud streaming across the length of the hills. Most people did not even look up from their mobile phones as the cloud boiled in slow motion.
6. On the 6th August we took a train from Narbonne to Perpignon. It’s a beautiful journey that runs close to salt lagoons where we saw flamingos, avocets, curlews and more. People were fishing in the lagoons and strolling along their shores. It was a scene of tranquillity.
5. Overnight and the following day it tore through the countryside at speeds of over 5km an hour. It killed a person, with three people still missing and destroyed several homes and businesses. Most of the wildlife was snuffed out.
4. So, it was with sinking hearts that we noticed on the 5th August a large billowing cloud of smoke in the distance as we were wandering along the borders of a salt lake teaming with birds. We hoped the fire was small and containable. It wasn’t.
3. When we got here at the end of July the massifs were closed. High winds, high temperatures and drought had made them vulnerable to wild fires. The Aude is no stranger to wildfires and there were careful efforts underway to protect its villages and wildlife.
2. We came here by train principally for the mountain massifs and other surrounding countryside. Relative to the biodiversity impoverished UK, the Aude, as with swathes of Southern France is rich with wildlife, with endemic species on the massifs.
1. You may have heard about the wild fires that have engulfed an area larger than the size of Paris in the Aude Department of South Western France. Narbonne is a Roman and medieval town in the region known for its resplendent beaches which inspired the Charles Trenet song, La Mer.
The oil and gas industry is among the worst workplaces for heat-related deaths and injuries. Yet the American Petroleum Institute is lobbying to get Trump to cancel a proposed rule that would protect workers from extreme heat. These sociopaths don't care if they kill even their own people.
Is it time to ban single use barbecues? Yes. Idiotic that they exist. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...
Wannabe dictator acting like a dictator.
How do we have a stable world, let alone "economic growth," if nearly half a billion people will need to move away from coasts and (to use jargon) the value of all that fixed capital is slowly destroyed?
Two policy positions that are consistently popular with voters: Net Zero and a closer relationship with the EU. You'd think it was the exact opposite if you only paid attention to the right-wing press. Labour needs to deliver what the nation voted for, not try to placate maniacs and fanatics.
These days Paris is promoting its "garden streets" on its billboards
🦇We’re putting MPs on ‘Notice for Nature 📢 4 of 11 Red Listed British mammals at risk of national extinction are #bats. We can’t afford further loss of protections🚨 If Government doesn’t fix the the #PlanningBill it must be rejected by Parliament. Hear from our CEO @kitstoner.bsky.social 👇
*Copy one of Boris Johnson's stupidest and most self-destructive policies. *Ignore the massive wave of public fury it ignited. *Smear and attack anyone warning that it might not be a great idea. In this week's column I ask what the hell Keir Starmer is playing at. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to hear that Reform UK’s policies add up to an agenda of fiscal recklessness that rivals, and may well exceed, the disastrous 49-day, hair-raising, market-tanking premiership of Liz Truss in 2022 econ.st/42WSuLG
After weeks of media attacks on #NetZero, we learn in one day that 1000 new jobs will be created at a second giga-factory in Sunderland, that plans for 4.7GW of offshore wind have been advanced by the Crown Estate, & Ed Miliband approves a 400MW solar farm. Result? Zero column inches.
No matter what the land management issue is, the answer always seems to be removing restrictions or regulations on agricultural activities.
They're 100% wrong. The fireprone landscape on Dartmoor is caused by centuries of grazing. Preventing fires means rewetting the land, and allowing/assisting the return of the temperate rainforest and carr, which should be widespread here and is v hard to burn. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
The elephant in the climate space is the cow - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact. But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act. shorturl.at/JMy71
This applies 100% to Ireland too: native rainforest, bog, and other natural ecosystems in a healthy state are virtually inflammable. But in a drought, the sheep-wrecked deserts that have replaced them burn like petrol. The underlying cause of hillfires is overgrazing, and the solution is rewilding.
And re-wet the vast areas of peat that cover the high moor, which have been badly degraded by drainage, swaling & overgrazing - and become dominated by fire-prone molinia (purple moor grass) as a result ‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’ bsky.app/profile/geor...
“There’s a growing, tribe of MPs & pontificators who mock Net Zero without suggesting any alternatives. This is just climate denialism in a posh suit. If the best you can do for our grandchildren is shrug your shoulders, history will not be kind.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...
No prizes for working out which side of this fence is grazed by sheep. One side (my side) is exploding with wildflowers, self-seeded native trees, insects, and birdlife. The other is lifeless. In the midst of an extinction crisis, there is now *zero* excuse. #Rewilding 🌎
1. There has been a major effort by that old combination – big business and the far right – to diss foods derived from plants. The meat lobby invests big time in misinformation. And the far right hates “soyboys”, while associating itself with red meat-eating. It's a match made in hell. 🧵
Shut down the youth clubs. Sell off the playing fields. Put up "no ball games" signs. Make public places hostile to teenagers. Then: "Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."
I gotta say, “women are going to space” sounds a lot nicer than “the ultra rich are taking hyper-polluting joyrides to space while the planet descends into climate chaos”
Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this @wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT
This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺 nywolf.org
Trump is dead serious about everything. Invading Greenland. Invading Canada. Sacrificing Ukraine. Emptying Gaza. Destroying voting rights. Claiming a 3rd term. Mass deportations. White supremacy. All of it.
Public luxury vs Private luxury in an image. We can move in private cars and use huge amounts of land, concrete, metal and fuel. Or we can design long-distance transport systems for everyone to travel swiftly and efficiently in trains and luxury buses. Inspired by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Outrageously, Dartmoor National Park Authority recites the same mantras, inc "This helps manage vegetation on overgrown heathland and clears the ground of dead vegetation so that new growth can appear." Not a word of that makes ecological sense. It's just about turning ecosystems into sheep grazing.
Regenerative grazing, pox parties, letting bird flu rip thru farms, butter over seed oil, antivax - dangerous RFK ideas that don’t work. Protecting ecosystems, less food waste & less beef - backed by science. newrepublic.com/article/1933... @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social @garrettbroad.bsky.social
We just wanted to say amazing work to everyone this weekend—an estimated 200,000 protesters took to the streets. Elon Musk claims that we are “paid” protesters, and many of us are curious about how to sign up to get paid (/s).
They're hanging up the hi-vis , but they've achieved their mission: no new oil and gas licenses is UK Govt policy . So , top work Just Stop Oil– some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive . The fight for a liveable planet continues .
As usual, all about hard defences Bugger all being done to reforest uplands, unstraighten rivers, manage retreat from coastlines and other measures designed to tackle the CAUSES OF FLOODING in a #climate changed UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Israeli airstrike on UN headquarters in Gaza kills staffer, wounds five others. Imagine if that headline involved any country other than Israel? It would rightly be internationally ostracised as the rogue state it is. Instead, the West supports it in every way possible. www.rte.ie/news/middle-...
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes.
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
As @mitchelldickau.bsky.social notes, carbon released from the lithosphere (fossil fuels) cannot be compensated by carbon taken up in the biosphere (trees, plants, etc). Sadly this scam is widespread; it needs to be called out on every occasion.
On Friday, a whole mountain west of Glengarriff was burnt, with a wall of flames visible through the night for miles around. It's pure ecocide, layered on top of ecocide (sheep), and it just beggars belief that this is still going on in the year 2025.
We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare. Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
Yes, well said. Also some tolerance of ambiguity needed. I want science, not feud.
They're killing people. They're killing communities. They're killing the planet. So how are these gigantic tanks still allowed on our roads?
This is my experience also. The media is also far less parochial than ours.
I think modern computer software was a mistake and we should go back to our roots of developing for limited hardware. The same amount of electricity that could power MS-DOS for a year is now used to ask Copilot how to save a Word document to your local Desktop instead of OneDrive.
Rachel Reeves uses 'sustainable aviation fuel' & 'electric planes' to dismiss climate concerns on Heathrow expansion. Though such 'tech' sounds reasonable, relative to dwindling 1.5-2°C carbon budgets, they're no more valid than unicorns & flying pigs. Appealing 'techno-babble' is the new denial.
"Air pollution from animal farms is linked to almost eight times more premature deaths than coal-fired power plants." The animal ag industry gets away with such a massive amount of pollution that doesn't get anywhere near the attention it should.
It is no secret that Starmer & Reeves take a Trumpian view over climate change. Moreover, it looks increasingly like they have a similar hold of the political fodder masquerading as a labour party (with notable exceptions) as Trump has over the supine republicans. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.
Hot take: if a person or group has enough money to afford multiple private jets, they also have enough money to pay taxes.
Bringing regenerative education to children in Barichara is such a beautiful and inspiring process! www.regeneratebarichara.org/post/teachin...
It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. 🪶 #bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵
Or, could this relate in part, to the failure of an education system to inspire and include? Systems based solely on narrow metrics and that emphasise the 'brightest and best' end up excluding people rather than galvanising a life-long love of science.
To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect? Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse? Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
And today (6th January 2025), the climate challenge is some 40 billion of tonnes of carbon dioxide more challenging than it was then (Feb 2024)! And it gets harder still everyday we continue to burn fossil fuels and eat hi-emission diets.
The Climate Change Act 2008 held so much potential, but IMO the CCC, alongside prestige seeking academics (usually senior) & a supine press have squandered its potential thro’ years of dishonest tales of green & even pseudo-tech. We’ve run scared of rocking the boat, preferring a shared delusion.
People shouldn't use AI to assist in research or writing because AI is like Jordan Peterson. It has the vocabulary, and it can arrange words into conclusions that seem coherent and even insightful at first glance, but on closer inspection they turn out to be utter bollocks.
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
The William Hamilton method was: start lecture by silently filling the board with a massive, incomprehensible equation, then turn to audience and say, "it therefore follows..."
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