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Die Enttäuschung über das Ende der Klimakonferenz verdeckt die Erfolge, die in Belém bei der #COP30 erreicht wurden - wäre dieses Ergebnis vor dem Gipfel vorgelegt worden, hätte sich niemand beschwert; ein Ergebnis stimmt sogar euphorisch. Hier mein Abschlussbericht: taz.de/UN-Klimakonf...

Die Abschlusssitzung der #COP30 ist unterbrochen, weil Kolumbien nach den formellen Beschlüssen Widerspruch angemeldet hat. Sie seien von Konferenzleiter André Corrêa do Lago übergangen worden, beschweren sie sich - Corrêa do Lago hat sich tatsächlich nicht wie üblich nach Widerspruch erkundigt. 1/2

First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼

Heute hatte ich eigentlich keine Lust rauszugehen. Es war dann aber doch ganz gut an die frische Luft zu gehen. Ich habe euch ein Moosfoto mitgebracht. #moss

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

@rtwsz.bsky.social und ich haben zu Konstantin Wecker recherchiert, dem berühmten Liedermacher aus München. Es geht um eine intime Beziehung, die er mit einer Jugendlichen geführt hat. Sie war 15 Jahre alt, als es los ging. Konstantin Wecker war damals 63.

Auf seiner ersten Klimakonferenz #COP30 wirft sich Carsten Schneider gleich in die Mitte des Geschehens. Er übernimmt die Verhandlungsführung der EU für Just Transition, also sozialen Klimaschutz. Das passt zu ihm, aber es ist auch ziemlich risky 👇 taz.de/Umweltminist...

Germany‘s resistance to the EU‘s phase-out of combustion engines barely matters. The only choice Germany will have long before 2035 is whether to buy Asian or German electric vehicles. In that sense, Germany‘s government is frivolously pretending to be pro-business while it really is anti-growth.

Chaos! At the Klimakonferenz. Warum das vielleicht gar nicht schlecht ist: mein Rückblick auf Woche 1 👇 taz.de/Zwischenbila...

Sollte man als Bundeskanzler so über andere Länder reden? #Brasilien #COP30 #Belém #Merz

Oil companies are suing each other in the Permian basin as their greed driven drilling and water disposal practices are damaging reserves. Oil and gas companies are suing each other of LNG contracts. And this is while oil and gas demand is still growing. The infighting will get vicious.

Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.

Since Trump took office, the US has killed 70 people in its campaign to allegedly defend the border from narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean. Over 28 years, the Berlin Wall caused 140 deaths taking into account not just the shootings but also the accidents, drownings and borders guard deaths.

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Fascinating. The bluffers guide to the railway bubble vs the actual historians. And why Britain has such a lousy railway system.

Als Geschichtswissenschaftler buchstabierte Rödder am englischen Beispiel die Plausibilität eines anti-reaktionären Liberalkonservatismus der Vermittlung aus, der Akzeptanz für Veränderungen organisiert. Wie wurde er als Staatsbürger zum Polarisierungsunternehmer? 8/12

Seit Jahren wird über Dimes Square berichtet, eine Straßenkreuzung mit vielen Bars in Manhattan, wo sich während der Lockdowns einige Artists und solche, die es sein wollten, trafen. Doch existierte diese Szene wirklich als die kulturelle Avantgarde, zu der sie von Medien weltweit gemacht wurde?

If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

I’m sorry but can we all admit climate scientists have Streisand effect-ed this Bill Gates thing to the moon? Do not yell at me. Do not yell at me in the replies

these people obviously have not read the Gates memo

Wirklich spannend, wie es Trumps Koalition bei den Zöllen so zerreißt - anders als bei staatlichen Terroranschlägen und rassistischer Polizeigewalt. The business of business etc, aber vllt ist das der Punkt wo ihnen die Vorteile eines Rechtsstaates deutlich werden? on.ft.com/4hBsYm6

When Napoleon said, “Let China sleep for when she wakes, she will shake the world,” he was talking about the USDCNY fix.

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead. www.wsj.com/articles/oba...

Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/ You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, something not everyone knows how to love. -Warsan Shire

So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right

Tl;dr: the fact we were dealing with Hurricane Melissa is probably "more climate change than not," but the component of the storm that is the "climate part" of it is non-trivial but not massive, and the event could definitely have happened anyway. That's not how people are talking about it on here!

The fact that we went nearly 20 years without a sub-900 mb Atlantic hurricane and now we’ve had two in just the last two seasons.

For discussion later via @subletteweather.com

You know how sometimes you watch a sci fi movie and they’re on an alien planet and it’s got like the Big Wall of Storm advancing rapidly and messing with your sense of Euclidean geometry? I just think we should all remember that’s also this planet, and we keep choosing to piss it off for some reason

Crazy days... who would have thought that there would be a day when I mention Tuffi, the circus elephant who famously jumped out of Wuppertal's suspension monorail in 1950 when a PR stunt went wrong, and roman emperor Nero in the very same FT article? www.ft.com/content/0400...

New data from our Global #CoalPlant Tracker is out. A few key trends: 📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement. 📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages. Explore the data ⤵️ globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

China's coal imports fell 3% in September, and are down 11% year-to-date. Fossil gas imports fell 8% in September, -6% year-to-date. Net oil imports are up 2% year-to-date, 3% in September, and oil product exports are rising fast in October, indicating easing demand.

It'd be remiss of me not to wish the US navy a very happy birthday, of course - and unlike virtually everybody else I'm going to include a picture of a genuine American warship to do so...

Nicht nur „die Politik“ muss in angespannten Zeiten liefern, auch Medien sollten das tun. Sechs Ideen für einen konstruktiven Journalismus.

Ich war ja Team Amsel aber das Rebhuhn ist auch toll!!

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

easy. ipcc wgi, wgii, wgiii

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

"Die Mehrheit in diesem Land ist rechts, aber bekommt trotzdem eine linke Politik" – dieser Satz ist also nicht analytisch gemeint, sondern strategisch. Er ist nicht da, um etwas zu beschreiben, sondern um etwas zu planen. www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice." YES. Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti... Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.

Wild: Das beliebteste Bier Japans ist bald aus, wegen einer Cyber-Attacke auf die Fabriken. Japan days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry after cyber attack - on.ft.com/47c5b7R via @FT

Der Schluss zu Europa ist sehr spannend 👇

Lesenswertes Spiegel-Porträt über Katherina Reiche: (€) www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

I'm writing today to share some (rare) good climate news! New research released today by @energy.iisd.org @oilchange.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social shows that members of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership have cut their international public finance for fossil fuels by up to 78%.

CHOTINER: So as I understand it, your argument is that you couldn't break your soldier's oath to the Fuhrer? GERMAN GENERAL: Honor would not stand for it. CHOTINER: What confuses me, though, is that you swore the same oath to the Weimar Republic.

Das hier von @alphaville.ft.com macht sehr viel Spaß zu lesen. www.ft.com/content/65a1...