NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

Rare positivity in global politics today - pakistan vaccinating 45m kids against Polio, Rafah crossing slowly reopening, Trump creating strategic reserve of critical minerals and Liam Ramos and his dad released. Take the good days where you can find them.

Musk giving up on Telsa being a real EV company is genuinely depressing. Whatever you think of his hideous impact on the world, it was surely better that he was focused on massively increasing EV uptake rather than this nonsense. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Stephen Miller is such a wild extremist: "You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one — no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist — can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties.”

Why is everyone in the US so stressed? alexwhite.org/2026/01/the-... #politics #stress #neoliberalism

NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

This honestly sounds horrific.

@petermckillop.bsky.social on climate politics in 2025 is a must read. "Concern for our atmosphere, oceans, and changing climate are now at the bottom of every Western business, financial and political leader’s agenda. Short-term thinking rules." www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/climates-ann...

Can you believe they give books so devastating to children? What a masterpiece.

This is real...

I knew that #phnompenh lacked green space, but the numbers are stagering - Phnom Penh has 1.1 m² green space per capita compared to New York City's 29.2 m² and Tokyo's 5.5 m². Another good reason to put turn the old airport into a glorious public park.

We do have it in us to be so much better.

Damage Pumpkins

I know it's dumb to rank these things, but I think the execution of Renee Good might be the most consequential step we've seen on this journey to hell.

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With America's deeply desperate and distructive oil grab, it's easy to forget that this is the state of play for internal combustion engines.

Easiest step towards a better world you'll ever make.

‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters - Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia should be the world's most motivated climate change activist.

Great article on ocean acidification. Cascading impacts and damage everywhere... Earth’s ocean has become roughly 30% more acidic than it was in the pre-industrial age - mainly in recent decades. More acidification means less carbon sequestration and damage to marine life of all types

I'm honestly so profoundly relieved.

Melbourne's ever-growing SUVs are killing more and more kids. It's always sickened me to hear people talking about how their big car is necessary to keep their families safe. A pathological selfishness that we just accept. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Australia just raised the travel warning in Cambodia. I'm totally sick of Thai aggression. This conflict is confounding and full of vested interests, but at this point thailand's position is just punished poor Cambodians to achieve craven short term aims and unacceptable military goals

Man, don't know many of Pitchfork's top 50 records this year! pitchfork.com/features/lis...

Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation. We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

I stopped listening to Bill Gates years ago. You should stop too. Instead, I would listen to *real* experts who know about *real* climate solutions — not tech fantasies. You would then quickly see how these solutions can improve lives and help vulnerable communities thrive across the world.

The word I keep grasping at these days is ‘impunity’

This is gorgeous.

I reckon this conflict sits at the top of the table of "fights most likely to ruin the world".

The great stretches of palm oil plantations you see as you fly into Kuala Lumpur are just staggering

I hate rating boards that let sit in judgement on those doing hard, underpaid and too often gross work - uber, food delivery, cleaners. But i also hate the idea that whingers are marking cleaners down, so i end up voting 'excellent' to make sure jerks don't make lives harder. Dumb world.

Excellent podcast by BBC on the torrent of western fashion waste that Ghana has to wade through. Particularly love that they captured the joy of African markets and tenacity of the people there - these places are far from just misery. But also love that they stared down the utter mess we're making.

Phnom Penh's new international airport is stunning and Cambodians are so proud. I've never lived in a country that's so proud when something good happens. It is really nice....

This is absolutely bang on

A lot of understandable despair today - but vital to note the huge, huge difference between 2 and 3 degrees. A shitload of lives depend on it.

Similarly melts my brain that progressive NGOs still use X.

I'm super worried/convinced that AI articles will end up being really good. But over the last week I've read three articles on solar power, Van Halen and Les Paul Guitars and each have been utter slop.

Solar panels now cost peanuts (under 10 cents per W) in most of the world. Carbon dioxide emissions in high-income countries are now falling, and there's reason to believe other countries will be able to develop much more sustainably than those did. ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...

Phnom Penh really knows how to kick you in the guts. My six year old daughter's been making Save the Environment posters and we've been having many discussions the recyclability of things (mainly in an attempt to try to subtly tamp down her voraciously accumulation of barbies).

The world's a scary place right now. Australians are incredibly, undeservedly lucky to live where we do. But climate change risks all of that, and all within my kids' lifetime.

I've been thinking about personal action and social media a bit over the weekend. It's become an accepted fact that individual action was a waste of time. And to a certain extent i get that - recycling was a figleaf for consumerism, carbon footprints were developed by BP etc etc BUT....

This is deeply inspiring and should be the number one goal for anyone managing our roads.

Around ten years ago, some person curated the greatest 68 playlists of all time. African soul, SEA psychedelica, summer in Rio. It's all amazing. Check it out. www.mixcloud.com/journeywitho...

I don't talk too much about having a #cleft as it's not a huge part of my identity, but this is pretty awesome. So many parents worry that their cleft kids will freak people out (not helped by every popular depiction of a cleft being a bad guy!) so this is very, very nice and great to see.

Everywhere he goes needs to look like this.

Better idea - just wait till it breaks.

Proud to be part of an effort by 85 scientists from around the world to respond to a misleading DOE climate science report last month. The fact that our rebuttal is more than 3x the length of the DOE report is a good example of Brandolini's Law in action...

Pretty depressing that this is true.

It's unfathomable that so many Aussie politicians have been falling over themselves to legitimise the views of 'good people' attending last weekend's anti-immigration rallies. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...