Trump Vs The World. www.youtube.com/watch?v=296-...

It's great to see action starting against dangerous pavement parking. Now we need: A clear definition of what "unreasonable obstruction" means; Effective ways to enforce against obstructive and dangerous parking; Enforcement against pavements being broken by heavy vehicles. Read more: bit.ly/4jsWbRa

1. Apply for one of the positions below (lab or theory) by Jan 18th 2. Learn interdisc skills and discover cool new things about how mitochondria move and socialise 3. Explore some of Norway's beautiful nature (both the below, Rundemanen and Gullfjellet, <10km from work)

Drax has been burning trees for years & it's the UK's single largest carbon emitter So, the idea of powering an AI data centre is only going to increase the carbon emissions, as Drax will argue it needs to keep burning trees to keep the computers running Pls write to your MP to object

We are now accepting applications for #IsoCamp2026! Join us in beautiful New Mexico June 15th-26th to learn about stable isotopes from expert instructors and get hands-on instrument training. The application deadline is February 28th. For more information, or to apply, go to isocamp.org. Pls share!

"... I’m going to make the observation that it’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine. What I’m trying to say is, if you’re for peace and democracy, then a solar panel is a valuable tool (and a valuable symbol, a peace sign for our age)."

Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...

Experts don’t lose public debates because they’re wrong. They lose because they’re hard to hear. In energy, complexity without a clear takeaway gets ignored. Simpler, louder stories take its place. My latest piece is about starting with clarity and then layering nuance. medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...

Extra für Spitzenpolitiker: Zewa bringt Klopapier-Sonderdruck "Völkerrecht" auf den Markt www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/voel...

Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪 Please repost Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...

More satire for today's events:

The Truth about Venezuela.

Why is Donald Trump so interested in Venezuela's oil? US is the world's biggest oil producer by a country mile - but that's light crude oil, meaning it is still totally dependent on trade to meet its demands for heavy oil. And that brings us to Venezuela news.sky.com/story/how-m...

“Every dollar spent on SMRs is a dollar not spent on proven, less expensive, rapidly deployable renewable energy sources. Worse still, the delays and overruns that have plagued nuclear projects mean that SMRs cannot be built in time to meet urgent climate goals.”

‼️Two new PhD positions open! One experimental, one modelling, exploring these beautiful collective dynamics in mitochondria across species. 🇳🇴, good pay, full staff benefits. [Shares much appreciated] Lab: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Modelling: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Trump just said what it is all about. The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

The folks at The Guardian are really getting climate coverage right (while so many other outlets are flailing). A great final read about our warming world and its effects in the US on the last day of 2025: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In case you need another reason to not drink bottled water…

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefings aren’t just spin – they reflect what George Orwell warned about: lies divorced from reality, and the use of “doublethink” to have a word (like “transparency”) mean just the opposite. A historian who studies Orwell explains: Thread ⬇️ buff.ly/tb8q3ES

I highly recommend the videos on ocean currents by Jonathan Sharples, Professor of Oceanography at the University of Liverpool. Here he covers the AMOC: youtu.be/eZzpvLz4yAk

Kids these days.

Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.

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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

The BBC's Reith Lectures with @rutgerbregman.com are all uploaded now and worth a watch if you want some hope and inspiration going into the new year www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The problem here is less another dime-a-dozen me-first car owner, and more a city who endorses this behavior by refusing to deploy tow trucks to deal with the problem. In cities not so committed to maintaining inequality, this vanity tank would have been removed in minutes.

Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in. www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...

🧪 This will blow your mind

The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

Wood burning for electricity is not a solution to decelerate climate change or biodiversity loss. The huge carbon emissions from Drax were ‘solved’ by carbon capture, which was never going to work, and now they’re abandoning it. My film explores tree burning for fuel: fires-and-fascism.co.uk

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Das ist nicht schlimm. Das Geld ist ja nicht weg, es hat nur jemand Anderes. Wahrscheinlich ist das auch das Ziel .

As we move into the final days of the year, 2025 has just overtaken 2022 as warmest year-to-date for Central England. Given the forecast, it looks likely that 2025 will end up being the warmest calendar year for this region since records began in 1659. The top 3 warmest will be 2022, 2023 & 2025.

Barriers.

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

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People who are still being lured into dependence on fossil fuel infrastructure are tomorrow's idiocracy voters. Because they are running into a cost trap. This must be prevented at all costs.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

"If you decrease the space given to cars, they go slower, public transit goes faster, and walking and cycling become safer." Neither complicated nor expensive, but requires challenging some entrenched priviliges few in power are willing to take on.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research was featured in the light show of the @unibirmingham.bsky.social Christmas activity this week. Nice to see on such a large scale the cool things going on in our institute

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come join us at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, a great place to do research!

This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch. Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Please watch and sign. NATIONAL EMERGENCY BRIEFING held in Westminster. Who knew? Well, that’s the point of the briefing and the video. The government and media should act now, we have an emergency that needs courage as a response. Now.