How the British military props up the oil industry ... And how the oil industry influences the Ministry of Defence abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/how-the-br...

When Angela Merkel tried to address this demographic decline with migration, the backlash was wild. But we know Germans are willing to commit long term economic suicide for short term ideological reasons. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I really hope everyone understands that this antiscientific nonsense that totally ignores tipping points, first of all the AMOC. Shameful stuff tbh. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life) billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

Wow.

Excited to watch this! As @jason-watkins.bsky.social rightly says "I absolutely agree fundamentally that privatisation of the water industry has been a disaster" Dirty Business begins on (publicly owned!) Channel 4 on 23 Feb, 9pm 📺 www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Trump admin has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from U.S. cities. “The administration finally realized the amount of resistance that was coming up was more than anyone anticipated.” The deployments have cost more than $496 million. - reports The Washington Post

A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/p...

Similar playbook to leaded gasoline — GM and Standard Oil literally created Ethyl Corporation in the 1920s to suppress cleaner alternatives. Pattern's ancient.

Disgraceful - the government should remove South West Water's licence Last year it was rated red ("significantly below target") for environmental performance for the *14th year in a row* PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

“A govt. that arrests journalists for speech is a govt. declaring war on the First Amendment...” @kimwehle.bsky.social breaks down Don Lemon’s prosecution while explaining the Face Act under Trump’s war on free speech. Lemon is set to appear in federal court today. Read: zeteo.com/p/will-trump...

Royal Mail delivered letters from your doctor, family and friends, 6 days a week for decades. Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week. Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Each El Niño event in recent decades has gotten steadily worse, because each one drives the temperature to a new record. ...We are ever further into the great overheating." billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

Big Tech says AI can solve climate change. The actual data says not so fast. Learn why/how so many claims about AI’s climate benefit are a hoax 👇 beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...

@novaramedia.com report on the witch hunt against Francesca Albanese based on a doctored video attributing statements to her she did not make As Francesca says, false accusations of antisemitism are made in order to shelter Israel from accountability

That I read interview after interview, speech after speech on security, energy, migration, or geopolitics, wondering why climate change wasn‘t mentioned in them at all sums up the job we have to do. None of these issues are monocausal, of course. Without climate, though, they can‘t be addressed.

As one example, longer-term past #AMOC evolution has been reconstructred by analysing heat content and temperature changes in the subtropical and tropical Atlantic at mid-depth, which correlates with #AMOC strength: www.nature.com/articles/s43... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring. "Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening." @noc.ac.uk youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...

I see David Runciman, the 4th Viscount of Doxford, has not withdrawn from Schloss Elmau Symposion w 'reactionary fascist' (JD Vance) Curtis Yarvin (Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have) guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...

How climate change is reshaping crop agronomy www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-...

What’s the state of this Starmer-led nation? Speak to angry voters in Gorton and Denton and it all becomes clear www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

Stürme, Überschwemmungen und Hitze werden mit zunehmender Erderhitzung häufiger und heftiger. Während die globale Durchschnittstemperatur seit Beginn der Industrialisierung um etwa 1,4 Grad gestiegen ist, ist Europa ungefähr 2,4 Grad heißer geworden. Leugnen bringt’s nicht. www.taz.de/!6154994

Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice Spot the pattern?

"The British museum has removed the word 'Palestine' from some displays in its ancient Middle East galleries..." Milena Veselinovic reports

"Social media data increased occurrence records by 35%, and the proportion of social media data was higher in countries poorly represented in GBIF. In addition, we obtained new distributional information from well-represented countries" conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hani Mahmoud: "I'm not really sure if we can keep calling this a ceasefire, so let's just call a spade a spade. When you have four months of supposed ceasefire, you end up with 600+ Palestinians killed, close to 1,600 of various injuries.. this is not a ceasefire anymore" 🎯

@novaramedia.com explains the story about Labour Together was broken by the @scotnational.bsky.social last September. So how come it wasn't picked up by the msm then like it is now? Because back then the targets were on the left & as far as the msm is concerned, the left are legitimate targets

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Climate change made ‘fire weather’ in Chile and Argentina three times more likely www.carbonbrief.org/climate-chan...

What does Trump’s repeal of US ‘endangerment finding’ mean for climate action? www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...

"Israel continues to tightly restrict aid & basic supplies into Gaza. Its refusing to allow more food, fuel, medicine or temp housing, despite agreeing to all those things in the ceasefire. On Sunday 158 trucks entered the strip, but only 12 were carrying humanitarian supplies"

The head of the UN Development Programme says Gaza needs more access for debris/waste removal, more access for relief housing, and more access for health needs. Who is blocking all those things? Israel.

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

Michigan argues in a new lawsuit that big oil companies and their chief trade association operated as a cartel, the latest in a string of climate-accountability cases.

Michigan antitrust lawsuit says oil companies hobbled EVs and renewables arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

What the Epstein files tell us about extreme wealth patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

The angel of abundance, the Dolly Lama of literacy, the distributor of almost a third of a billion books for kids.

Under competitive authoritarianism, countries hold elections, but the ruling party uses various tactics — attacking the press, disenfranchising voters, weaponizing justice system and threatening critics — to tilt the electoral playing field in its favor www.npr.org/2026/02/16/n...

Very good statement on the ways that extreme wealth/power concentration breeds depravity. The story of the Epstein Files, and of our time.

"If the proponents, the original founders of the treaty [in Europe], are withdrawing, then resource-constrained settings like Africa should be more cautious. Getting embroiled in legal cases can cause a lot of economic suffering" drilled.media/news/ect-afr...

pretty stunning chart

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

Fixed that headline for you: ‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance. PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Watch the full episode: zeteo.com/p/naomi-klei...

A heads-up from @billmckibben.bsky.social: "One way of summing up this moment is to say that the endangerment finding & the politics of climate are puny in the face of physics. We’re going to see that physics in action in the next 24 months, and it will drive many changes... some of them political"

Our governments and politicians have largely lost interest in the climate crisis. Unfortunately it’s still interested in us. This is going to become extremely unmissable over the next few years