Kuwait has the most oil per person of any country. It's also struggling to keep the lights on. Here's a cautionary tale for the 21st century from @davidfickling.bsky.social Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I wish they could be clearer about this: The best available evidence shows that taking paracetamol during pregnancy is safe. Double negatives confuse people.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

the maddening thing is there are *hardly any* drugs approved for use during pregnancy. Extreme caution since thalidomide. Generally considered unethical to test on pregnant women. Paracetamol is one where there's good evidence it's safe. Let women have their pain relief!

ban headlines ending in a question mark. Find out the answer and tell us that!

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

excellent Tooze analysis on the truly history-making China-led clean tech transformation washing over the world adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

💥Wow! Colombia will host the first international negotiations conference on the phase out of #fossil fuels next year in April: fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co... This is not any conference, this is between government representatives 👀 👏👏👏

Did team WSJ spend the weekend at a Sun Day rally? "The rapid pace of EV adoption in China and elsewhere casts a long shadow over oil demand. Natural gas will be burned for decades, but increasingly competitive solar panels and batteries might sap how much of it the world will need."

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

Don't sleep on the good news, folks. It's rare these days. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ind...

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Salary sacrifice is making electric cars and bicycles more affordable by allowing employees to pay for them in monthly instalments from their pre-tax salary. Could it be used for home heat pumps and solar panels too? Thom Groot, CEO at The Electric Car Scheme, says yes ⤵️

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

loving this 🍂windy autumn weather🍂 and beautiful clean power grid

Feels a useful contribution to the left / right binary 'who's fault is all of this' hole many analysts (and some governments) have got themselves into... via the ever thoughtful @j_amesmarriott in @thetimes

It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

For the first time ever China will sell more electric cars than the US sells of gas and electric cars combined 🤯

if, as you say @javierblas.bsky.social, you hope this Trump-favoured scenario is wrong, why present it as the most likely? this headline normalises the path to 3C warming www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

oof horrific. Electric doors don't work in a crash, leaving people to burn to death inside. I've experienced a lower stakes version of this - car club driver seat could only be adjusted with electric controls that didn't work. Felt unsafe in a bad driving position. Bring back nobs and handles!

Such a good @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social + @steveclimate.bsky.social paper here: examining how "climate pragmatism" has become a major part of the new lexicon of climate delay Also see: "climate realism" theconversation.com/politicians-...

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently. I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

a tube strike is what got me cycling in London, 15+ years ago. It can be intimidating at first but safe bike routes have improved a lot, not least thanks to LCC's campaigning

NEW | China’s clean energy boom and rapid electrification are creating the conditions for a FOSSIL DECLINE at home and abroad⚡ Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system. https://loom.ly/psjqvhE

US oil and gas employment.

Drill baby drill? US Big Oil is cutting jobs, slashing costs and scaling back investments.

I know ppl say this a lot but I think it weirdly hasn't sunk in yet: once China's fossil fuel use starts to drop, our *entire species* usage of fossil fuels will mostly follow the same trajectory. Massive new @ember-energy.org report out today on China: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!! Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

New @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @adambell.bsky.social research finds removing gas plants from the market could reduce household energy bills £1.7bn/ year, & by £3.3bn for businesses. Crazy as Poland & Germany look to massively increase dependence on gas power.. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The carbon bully www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

"The Metropolitan police has only taken action against 0.6% of bike thieves this year — meaning you’ve now got more chance of winning a cash prize on the National Lottery than seeing a London bike thief prosecuted." @londoncentric.media buff.ly/jVyTTER

“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)

Something is being completely missed in the Graham Linehan / broader UK ‘free speech’ row – and it’s that much of this is a direct consequence of Elon Musk no longer doing anything like what’s required to moderate X in line with UK and European law. 🧵

neither artificial nor intelligent. also, not sure if this is a global south thing, but fully 50% of the job postings I see (as a writer/editor) are for this sort of work. at laughable wages, of course.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

“If I was an existing manufacturer, I’d get less hung up on the cost and more focused on ‘the cars are actually better.’” insideevs.com/news/770686/...

Not counted as a heat death: “A 72-year-old Arizona man died days after falling on a sidewalk last year, with the hot surface burning 16% of his body. Cause of death: complications of thermal injuries because of prolonged exposure to elevated environmental temperatures on a hot surface.”

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“These buses are beautiful, London is beautiful.’ Incredibly wholesome content. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

In the richest country in the world people are baking to death at home. Richard Chamblee died in Arizona two days after the central AC broke and the family couldn’t afford to repair it. His core temp was 108F/42C. He was just 52 years old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s a pretty common newsroom practice to say that protests of a few hundred (or even a few thousand) people aren’t headline news because they happen all the time. And it’s largely true. What I can’t explain is why even Ofcom regulated TV is determined to make *these* protests news.

Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.

Director of European Transport Safety Council: "Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated US pick-up trucks and SUVs – heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

this is horrific