You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Minister Godongwana: Strengthen SA's carbon tax, don't weaken it. Suspending shifts pollution costs to poor households. Use revenues for energy efficiency for the poor & transition support for firms. We're in a climate crisis—polluters must pay. #TipsForMinFin #Budget2026 #ClimateAction

This is a horrendous political (not scientific) decision. After dangling rights before them under the #SmallScaleFishers policy for 14 years, this sector is about to be *even further* impoverished. This is a low-impact, handline sector that supports whole communities, materially and culturally.

“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.” Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Thanks to a scifi fixation and @alicefraser.bsky.social, I now regularly drink half a glass of water.

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

ACDI postdocs Tesfaye Tessema Gintamo and Collins Matiza joined the Forecast4Africa workshop in Pretoria, contributing to discussions on integrating local knowledge with AI-driven climate tools to enhance data-informed decision-making across Africa.

Gina Ziervogel delivered a lead talk at the 6th National Global Change Conference on building resilient communities amid rising disasters. She highlighted the need for strong local action alongside coordinated cross-scale interventions, noting that local and municipal priorities often misalign.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

An organisation based in Constantia that offers horse-riding therapy to disabled people has lost a 15-year court battle to hold onto the land it has used since the 1980s. Read groundup.org.za/article/disa... by Tania Broughton

A picture of a neutron star taken by South African astronomer Kelebogile Gasealahwe has been featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Read groundup.org.za/article/uct-... by Michael Cherry

For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB

This latest This American Life about White South African “refugees” is wild.

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unfccc.int/sites/defaul...  South Africa’s second Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement (NDC2)

Proof that climate change is real and horrible: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The poleward movement of living populations from global warming is so predictable that scientists use it as a fingerprint for climate velocity itself. Unfortunately, this is the world’s most dangerous animal arriving in Iceland. www.icelandreview.com/news/scienti...

Well, that is short-sighted and brutal. Condemning communities to a future without kreef.

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This. And this again.

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Hotel prices lead countries to consider skipping COP30 climate summit Update on COP30 logistics, with five weeks until the conference begins👇 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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I was delighted to speak alongside some of the foremost experts on China's climate developments in a webinar on the country's new NDC targets. It's well worth a listen for anyone wondering how China can still be seen as a climate leader, despite the NDC's low-ball targets!

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Here’s the study of several MILLION children with sibling-control that proves acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism. In case you need to refer to it in the coming days. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Finding good information is hard. A study done on 2.5M pregnant women who took Tylenol during pregnancy showed no adverse fetal effects. However, pregnant women with untreated fevers had increased fetal risk of: Neural tube, Heart, And abdominal wall, Defects. Plus cleft palate and more!

PROF LESLIE LONDON: Crying ‘antisemitism’ at UCT a smokescreen to suppress criticism of Israel mg.co.za/thought-lead...

Recommended read: A guest essay in the @nytimes.com discussed the new American inequality – those who are “cooked” and those who are “cooled” – as extreme heat becomes increasingly common in the US.

Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report. This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...

I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism. Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.

South African women are playing an increasingly central role in the country’s economy, contributing 45% of national income and outnumbering men by 1.5 million.

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

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Motherfucking wind farms…

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And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do

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So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Kind reminder: Tomorrow, the DAAD Climate Lecture of Prof Nambi is taking place. The DAAD Global Centres programme is looking forward to seeing you! +Info 👇

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

ICE crossed a line in LA

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The youth unemployment rate continues to climb, negatively impacting our economy, mental health & wellbeing. At 14%, it's the highest since 2014 (excluding the pandemic). We have a solution. Enter: The Youth Climate Corps 🫱🏼‍🫲🏿. 1/6 🧵 (plus check out the photos of inspiring youth fighting for a YCC)