Rapid intensification is an increase in a cyclone’s max sustained winds by 35 mph in 24 hrs With Melissa, its wind speeds of 70 mph doubled in just 18 hrs "We are now pushing the limits of extreme rapid intensification" said Bernadette Woods Placky in a webinar hosted by @coveringclimatenow.org

Climate change is the world's most pressing issue because it makes everything else worse. It enables dictators, it drives inflation, it makes survival harder for the poorest people in the world. And the new data are clear: the rate of climate change is accelerating.

We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.

"Sea ice could affect marine transport; extreme weather could severely affect our capabilities to maintain any agriculture and fisheries, which are central to our economy and food systems. We cannot afford to wait for definitive, long-term research before acting." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Shame on all the degrowthers reflexively opposed to just building things!!!

how good is the Abundance Agenda luxurylaunches.com/transport/dr...

“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Sometimes during COP, we forget there is a real world out there. News from Groningen about a 3.4 magnitude earthquake. It's where Exxon and Shell extracted gas irresponsibly for decades and have now filed a case against the Dutch government for closing the gas field www.reuters.com/business/env...

“If we wait to cross tipping points before we act, it will be too late. The only credible risk management strategy is to act in advance.” global-tipping-points.org/the-dartingt...

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

Likely policy reality less dramatic, less harsh than absolutist over-spinning Actual? era of permanent protection being [almost] automatic is over: grants will be subject to review. [Govts had already done that & closed off routes to citizenship if arrive unauthorised]

NB "we will always offer sanctuary" is still a minor part of the message New principle? "But never again will people come to Britain, get protected, and get to stay and settle + become British" with "we will always send them all back" They won't actually - but do they REALLY want that principle?!

Govt policy is there would be temporary, time-limited offers of protection. (People will know that they might go home - which lot would want, in principle, though historically many people also stay) Govt rhetoric + spin (false, obvs!) is all would be *immediately* returned *the moment* it is safe

"The era of permanent protection is over" Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Cop30 was meant to be a turning point, so why do some say the climate summit is broken? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Monoculture eucalyptus plantations to supply charcoal to the steel industry in Brazil are not a climate solution reddmonitor.substack.com/p/when-the-e...

Tents in Gaza Collapse From Rain as Palestinians Struggle With Massive Flooding www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-rain-...

Conservation projects abandoned as rich countries retreat from climate fight observer.co.uk/news/interna...

I was invited on to @listentotimesradio.bsky.social to talk about the (so-called) "stealth tax on long haul flights". Not very stealthy in my opinion but I do offer a better, fairer alternative. Listen now. Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgMF...

Just the hugest congrats to @greenpeace.no - who've had their historic win against three massive oil fields confirmed in a court of appeal y'day 100,000 will die early if the fossil fuels in these fields are dug up and burned -->> www.greenpeace.org/norway/nyhet...

Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...

💥 Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal “This is a huge victory. Today’s children and future generations will reap the benefits of the courage the judges showed today. It proves that our struggle for climate justice has real force" PRESS RELEASE:

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires. They’re for everyone.

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature. Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing. It's our duty to work out why, and act on it. share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...

Above all it’s offensive that we should deliberately try to reduce the number of *successful* asylum claims. We are still a wealthy country. We welcome a (shamefully) tiny share of the world‘s refugees. It should be an honour & pleasure to welcome people who need sanctuary. Shame on Labour. /end

The other reason is that the Home Office simply doesn’t have the resources to process each person‘s asylum claim several times over. It struggles to process the cases it‘s got. Delays are colossal. These proposals will hugely increase bureaucracy and cost, as well as the effects on people’s lives 4/

One reason is that people who’ve fled for their lives need security and permanency to rebuild their lives. The last thing they need is unending anxiety about being sent back to what they escaped. This will cause huge stress, damage to mental health, harm to children, difficulties in integrating 3/

We don’t make most people (again, with exceptions for those committing offences) re-apply for asylum on a regular basis or make their status ‘permanently temporary‘, so to speak, for two good reasons 2/

To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists. Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

The RATE of CO₂ increase keeps increasing. It's not exponential (like the @clubofrome.org 1972 'Limit's to growth' projection), but there is little indication of the growth rate stabilizing (let alone decreasing) any time soon either.

Not surprised to see Gibson Dunn jumping on this case -- championing "corporate free speech" is kinda their thing. www.exxonknews.org/p/the-law-fi... of course they want to get this issue in front of the Supreme Court (credit to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for warning us all on that one)

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

Greenhouse gases we add to the atmosphere and the resulting Earth's Energy Imbalance could cause about a yottajoule (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules) of heat to accumulate in the Earth system this century. Causing an energy level similar to the Eemian, when sea level was ~7.5m higher! 1/

Case in point:

I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.

Last year's estimate for 2024 was off by a mile, so I don't put much trust in the 2025 estimate:

The atmospheric CO₂ growth rate was off the chart in 2024!

pity that an upstanding corporation like JP Morgan Chase might be somehow damaged www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More on the infamous Larry Summers memo. I know there are many things gross about him, including now having asked Epstein for dating advice, but let’s not leave this one off the list. Summers memo - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers...

Don’t forget, he also argued for the economic logic of dumping toxic waste in developing countries for a few reasons, including that the cost of health impairing pollution is less where people’s earning potential is lower. Afterwards, he said it was satire. Sure thing Larry. Read his memo here:

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Our Cop30 blog is closed for today but scroll down to see reporting on who has access to the negotiations - and who doesn’t, and the deployment of armed security forces in response to Indigenous peoples demanding their right to be included. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement. It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it. www.wisn.com/article/meta...

Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time. Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike. Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.

October 2025 globally,according to JMA-Japanese Meteorological Agency, had a temperature anomaly of +0.40C vs 1991/2020 baseline and was the 3rd hottest on record behind 2023 and 2024. Slightl different numbers from NASA (different datasets) but same ranking.