Climate people - I'll be in Belem to cover Cop30 from Saturday onwards. If you're there and have a story, or just a desire to chat, please do get in touch.

Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-... Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:

the New York Post is taking the news well

The US will have no high-level representatives at UN climate talks in Brazil next month, White House confirms www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I spoke to Harrison Ford about the climate crisis and he said - - Trump's axing of climate policies “scares the shit out of me” - of Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history” - that the world is "teetering on the edge" due to the loss of nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Recently drafted climate plans from scores of countries fall drastically short of what is needed to stave off the worst effects of climate breakdown, a UN analysis has shown. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The two key coral species that form the Florida reef are now functionally extinct due to extreme ocean heat, scientists say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mosquitoes found in a warming Iceland for the first time www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 are the costliest ever on record in US, a resurrected tracker that was axed by the Trump administration has found www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump is scrapping a 2001 rule that protects 58m acres of the most prized forests in the US "so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money." I went to the forest where the roadless rule was unveiled to find out what's at stake www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this sums up a root cause of a lot of things happening at the moment jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

World leaders rally to release new emission reduction targets a day after Donald Trump calls climate crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world” in scathing and often fact-free UN speech www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. It’s like being woken in the night by a burglar wearing a striped shirt and carrying a bag marked “Swag”" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Chicago - what a city this is - to see the first organized swim in its cleaned up river in 98 years

Scientists at 'de-extinction' company say they’ve made a "pivotal step" in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

"Residents in the area no longer pile their garbage up on sidewalks, but building supers instead toss their bags in the bins" my word, you know it might just work, New York gothamist.com/news/no-more...

Sales of plant-based meat have plummeted amid a surging pro-meat trend in the US, pushed by online influencers and the Trump administration. The number of vegetarians in the US is even lower than it was in 2001, despite meat's huge toll upon the planet. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

down with this sort of thing www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Global greenhouse gas emissions edged up in the first half of 2025 due to a rise in pollution from the US. It may be a sign of things to come - Trump's pro-fossil fuel policies are set to badly slow cuts to planet-heating emissions, new forecast finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

House committee releases image of apparent Trump birthday note and entire Epstein album www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"

I stand by my offer to appear on Joe Rogan and set the record straight about our half-billion-year temperature reconstruction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For months, Joe Rogan has told his huge audience that a study shows the world is cooling, disproving "horseshit" climate science. The study's authors say he has this completely wrong. We are now in an era where many now get news from figures like Rogan. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say in withering and comprehensive review www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🤡 "So dumb" 🤡 The operator of coal-fired plant in Michigan wanted to close it. But Trump forced it to keep running at a cost of $1m a day. #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fantastic exercise by Carbon Brief to go through Trump's controversial climate report. They found the report, by 5 handpicked researchers with fringe views on climate change, has least 100 false or misleading statements interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...?

the New Yorker has calculated how much Donald Trump and his immediate family will have gained financially from two presidential terms. It is $3.4 billion. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

For a couple of days a year, we get to forget about cars

National parks staff say they're doing multiple jobs as prized parks degrade amid Trump cuts. - ecological work now being ignored - safety a worry, from lack of lifeguards to visitors leaving food out in Yosemite, luring bears - impacts will last years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Trump admin report last week claimed the Great Barrier Reef has enjoyed a "recent rebound" and "considerable growth." Australian scientists have just confirmed the reef has suffered its biggest annual drop in live coral since the 1980s. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands: www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

I’m tired and no longer capable of being measured when speaking to reporters… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

just a reminder that in the last election no significant swath of voters actually voted for this and/or wanted this

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

A radioactive wasp nest was discovered near a nuclear plant in South Carolina. Department of energy report: "The wasp nest was sprayed to kill wasps, then bagged as radiological waste. The ground and surrounded area did not have any contamination." orpspublic.doe.gov/orps/reports...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

we are hiring a new science reporter, please do apply if you think that's you workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

"We have divorced ourselves from nature, yet we crave a connection with the very thing that we have turned our back on. In surrounding ourselves with simulated recreations of nature we create unwitting monuments to the very things that we have lost." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Donald Trump's war against wind turbines near his Scottish golf course escalated to him squashing clean energy in the US as president. His dislike for renewables now has major ramifications for the climate crisis and the US' place in the world www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The US has 30% fewer pipeline inspectors than it should have, with just one inspector for every 19,000 miles of pipe. Trump cuts and halting of pipeline safety rules have raised fears of further leaks and explosions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

imagine going back to 1970 and telling those who formed the Environmental Protection Agency that this is what its administrator will be talking about

Household energy bills are set to soar from Donald Trump's 'big beautiful bill' cutting support for cheap renewables. States that voted for Trump last year will be the hardest hit, with some getting cost rises of more than $600 each year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The website for the US' premier climate assessment has been taken offline by the Trump administration. We have retrieved the report so anyone can read all 1,800 pages of it here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New York City's congestion charge for cars is 6 months old. The numbers are in - traffic congestion is down, vehicles are traveling faster, there are fewer car crashes and air pollution has eased. The Trump administration still wants to kill it off. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Ted Cruz inserted language into the Republican spending bill that cut weather forecast funding. He was then on holiday in Greece (checking out the Parthenon) as a flood killed more than 100 people in his state, amid concerns over forecasting cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...