Rick Steves 😍

Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0

This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->> www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We can calculate our limits pretty well though 😊 It seems to be difficult for people at the top to accept that there are practical constraints, even if they have been Machiavellians for half their lives. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Carney talking out of both sides of his mouth on climate policy www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

This map shows the projection of changes in annual precipitation in South Africa at ~1.5°C of heating. This is already playing out in real-time in December 2025. Floods in KZN (iol.co.za/news/south...) Drought in the WC (peterdutoit.com/knys...)

A canopy beneath the canopy... The magic of an Irish rainforest.

My jacket has been leaking feathers because of the crash, so I finally brought it into Patagonia for repair. They said it would take 14 weeks and offered me a new jacket. I turned it down because the jacket was otherwise still perfectly good so I fixed the hole with a patch.

Yet another 'Science Talk' must watch. "Well, I sure hope we can stay beneath 3°C because 3°C is a very different world. Really, really dangerous, scary world." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kcO...

Based on the 11-year running mean (and on Earth's Energy Imbalance), the near-term rate of warming could turn out much higher than the linear 2010-2025 extrapolation. The next El Niño peak will be very informative for the rate of global warming, as @drjamesehansen.bsky.social points out:

This all-straw house approach by LTL architects is wild. But imho it's also way to explore carbon storage possibilities. #strawhouse #strawbuilding #bicrs www.instagram.com/p/DScnIZZEWP...

Thinking As with the Thwaites AMOC collapse and Coral reef tipping point The shock of 3C/2050 Is starting to settle itself. It is something I have to add to the weight of it all now. It's so heavy. And there is no choice except to carry it with me and keep moving forward. 🔥🌎💥☄️

Let’s see what we can learn from temperature change in the next two years – mailchi.mp/caa/global-t... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/.../global-t....

Happy #DecemberSolstice! 🌞 Understanding seasons - a look at the hourly incoming solar radiation during the two solstices (23.5°N/S). I've added a red marker for ease of viewing. Dashed line shows the equator This graphic can be found at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Skating into winter — & 2026 — like this today It’s a little rough but stunning out there, merry solstice to all ❄️ See more on-ice-imagery at Instagram, www.instagram.com/erikhoffner

I'm proud of this quote. "The idea that LNG is presented as a ‘non-polluting fuel’ in the documents is total madness and obviously completely untrue,” said Mikulka

A weather pattern capable of delivering substantial cold and snow remains unclear in NW Europe, but guidance is resolute on a stubbornly cold/drier theme persisting into early 2026. No end in sight for now....

The treatment of the hunger strikers by the British state is truly barbarous they've been convicted of no crime, are being held w/o trial, & have been on remand for over twice the remand custody limit they've been subject to degrading & humiliating treatment, & are now in a critical state

#ClimateStrike #Dublin week 366!. 7 years this month and still here. Here's to more #FridaysForFuture in 2026 and, more importantly, some climate action. @philkearney.bsky.social @trocaire.bsky.social

Utilities have always had a monopoly. They aren't ready for what is coming.

Another case of the public having to eat the costs for a private fossil fuel company's failures www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Global battery storage deployment is accelerating, led by China and US. Cost of batteries fell 90% in last 15 years. BloombergNEF: cumulative energy storage capacity in 2035 to reach 2 terawatts, eight times higher than the level in 2025. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

Winter Solstice today. Likely record warm Christmas on tap. Perfect opportunity to explain why we have winter and can still have a warming climate. Enjoy. My thoughts www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... --

Solstice sunrise …

Yes... Crucial climate research like this (building on findings from e.g. our @drjamesehansen.bsky.social et al. and CERESMIP, @climateofgavin.bsky.social et al. 2023 work) should never be paywalled. These are open access: academic.oup.com/oocc/article... www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...

On this December solstice, for those in the Northern Hemisphere, the bleak mid winter is about to arrive. To keep warm, listen to this beautiful a capella performance by the Gesualdo Six Give them a follow if you don’t yet follow @thegesualdosix.bsky.social who are currently touring Northern Europe

This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.

Merry solstice!

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! The days are getting longer from today 🌞 #Winter #WinterSolstice

The Reform vote continues to stagnate. The Green vote continues to creep up. There is never zero hope.

Wrote and deleted a few lukewarm takes on that dumb NYT op-ed. At the end of the day, I think it best to just not feed the troll. That dude's whole business model is outrage bait. His only power is the power we give him via attention and engagement. If the op-ed does numbers, NYT will print another.

Great thread of 2025 wins from one of the coolest climate policy organizations in the US.

Trump takes booze.

Andrew Tate - trafficker and abuser of women, turns out to be useless when fighting even a novice male boxer. He’s been punching down most of his life. When he had to fight a novice low-level boxer, he got punched down.

The willful ignorance by the fossil fuel media is impressive. They can't ignore that China isn't buying LNG like they told us but they have a really interesting reason - SMRs. Ok. Meanwhile the article doesn't mention china's solar growth or electric trucking.

An absolute freak show of record high temperatures will take place this coming week in the US. On Christmas day, large parts of the central US will see temperatures more than 22°C (40°F) above average. Source: www.tropicaltidbits.com

Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 21, 2025 ~ Darker days ahead. "Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Some really interesting findings for all of us later bloomers who struggled to connect across fields and build a base of broad knowledge: "Across the highest adult performance levels, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

Last month on the Jon Stewart show when China's energy policy came up in an interview he immediately responded that china was building new coal power plants as fast as they can. We need to get people to understand reality and the US media is not helping.

A leaked draft of legislation for MPAs that nearly passed in 2024 indicates that the government is taking a minimalist approach with low ambition for restoration of marine life. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly. Critics say that's a dangerous fiction. Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one! www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...

When an extreme event hits a place that has no built resilience, that place, is more often than not taken below a tipping point from which complete recovery is not possible. This leads to permanent loss. We see this playing out everywhere. news.un.org/en/story... #ClimateCrisis

This photo has been removed from the DOJ Epstein webpage. By whom? For whom?

Any ecosystem, including an Irish Atlantic rainforest, combines both living and inert elements. Perfectly exemplified here by tree and rock, their upper surfaces all equally swathed in mosses, ferns, and a great variety of other plants. 🌎

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls. Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year. We're all just getting started. Join.greenparty.org.uk

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.