New report says, if rich countries want, they have more than enough money to fund climate action: $6.6 trillion annually oilchange.org/publications...

"10 years after the Paris Agreement, governments plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C" Stark "production gap" report from @unep.org today www.sei.org/publications...

“While the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Wildfire smoke now kills more Americans than car crashes—41,000 people per year. For decades air quality has been improving, but not anymore. It won't help that the Trump administration is loosening regulations on factory & power plant emissions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

the history will continue until morale improves

🚨WHOA!!! What a powerful moment. "I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, but tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel."

"The Gaza Strip is becoming a real estate bonanza," and the plan is "on President Trump's desk," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at the "Real Estate Center" conference. He said negotiations have begun with the U.S. regarding a business plan for Gaza.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Trump is headed to the UK, where he's expected to sign an agreement to power everything from data centers to ports with US modular nuclear reactors. But even the simplest projects are likely 5 years away from building a prototype in the UK @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study by @transportenvironment.org shows www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

There were 254,808 hours of sewage outflows into rivers in UK national parks last year, 2x more than outside national parks. 57% of rivers there don’t meet quality standards. @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Well, this is reassuring: "We find no significant difference between the climate strategies of companies that purchased carbon offsets and those that did not" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

These electric flights in Norway can carry cargo now & could be carrying passengers by the end of the decade www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Scientists have finally discovered the real Black Hole Sun phys.org/news/2025-09...

I was expecting the Reichstag Fire parallel to be made, but I did not expect it to come from the right.

70,000 premature deaths due to smoke from the 2023 Canada wildfires

The dark irony of Trump using the Magnitsky Act to sanction the judges who convicted Bolsonaro www.reuters.com/world/americ...

A study arguing against polar geoengineering like microspheres & seabed curtains got a lot of press. But a commentary in the same issue says geoengineering could help avoid tipping pts. Geoengineering is coming—& it's sparking a "civil war" in polar science www.scientificamerican.com/article/pola...

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

No clear answers on whether mommy disappeared entirely behind hands during game of peekaboo Mommy's face was not visible from behind hands, and experts say they can't be sure

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s unbelievable how tone-deaf the UK Labour government is. It’s dead set on disappointing voters at every turn www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Ok whiplash time: I know I've made it my social-media mission to try to delegitimate the misguided climate policy proposals of the abundance faction, but I gotta say that Ezra Klein is 100% right about this. 1/2

Drought is climate change’s biggest threst. “Experts agree that Syria and the broader region appear headed toward worse climate shocks, which they aren't prepared to absorb.” www.independent.co.uk/news/syria-m...

Russia launched the largest mass aerial attack on Ukraine of the war, firing 805 drones and 13 missiles at targets across the country. The Cabinet of Ministers in central Kyiv was struck for the first time in what Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha called “a serious escalation.” on.ft.com/4ghT1hQ

Protest works. Peace anti-genocide demonstrations have closed down an Israeli weapons factory. Banners can literally defeat bombs www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

New factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports That stat only refers to extraction emissions. The lion's share of gas emissions come from burning it See chart below and my factcheck with @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for the details www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...

Or notice how far it’s come in non-car transportation like electric buses, high-speed rail, bike lanes & pedestrian streets

Pakistan is currently undergoing a massive, world-leading and surprising solar revolution. It would be a pretty massive mess if all of that just ends up serving Bitcoin mining demand instead of cutting down on fossil fuels.

Incredible story about an ant that lays eggs of another species (!) to create cloned males (!!) that go on to father all of the workers in the colony (!!!) www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

NEW RECORD: The UK just recorded its hottest summer on record, per the @metoffice.gov.uk Four heatwaves, persistently warm nights, and widespread water shortfalls pushed the season into unprecedented territory. Human-driven climate change made this summer about 70x more likely.

Inside the Bold Geoengineering Work to Refreeze the Arctic’s Disappearing Ice Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate change www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

As he tumbled down a cliff in Norway, Alec Luhn knew his life was in danger. “I remember thinking, ‘This is really bad. This is the start of the disaster movie,’” Luhn said in an interview with Anderson Cooper. “This is that moment where everything goes really, really wrong.” https://cnn.it/4fR8oO3

ICE is now raiding firefighting crews as they fight out-of-control wildfires www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AI consumes large amounts of water, 0.000085 gallons per response in the case of ChatGPT. But eating a hamburger consumes 7 million times more water www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I fell while hiking near Folgefonna glacier & broke my femur, pelvis & some vertebrae. I was trapped on the mountain for 6 days & had to drink my urine. Bad calls got me into this. What got me out of it was the love of my wife, family & friends. I’m lucky to get a 2nd chance youtu.be/EM96OFPR6Mc?...

A subglacial lake erupted from 85m below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, apparently because of pressure caused by the increasing buildup of meltwater www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

Shipping firms claim most oil slicks are from natural seeps. But sat imagery shows >3x more slicks are illegal discharges from ships. There’s almost no enforcement to make them spend $ treating their bilge water @leanahosea.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

slowly becoming anti cancel culture from the leftist perspective and its lowkey liberating

12 seafarers have been stranded off Mozambique by the shipowner. 2,280 seafarers have been stranded this yr. “We are not getting paid, & not being released or allowed to disembark and work for some other shipping co.” @katiemcque.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...