It's hard being a climate comedian's therapist... 🫠

Thankfully since 1877 we've had the Haber-Bosch process to create nitrogren-based fertilisers so we won't...[touches earpiece] what's that? My producer reminds me that global nitrogen production has been crippled by the Strait of Hormuz being closed. As you were.

Profile of Noni Franklin‐Tong nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So disappointing to see the lack of political will now in Birmingham for safer streets. After questions from Babiker Yahia, whose 4-year-old daughter Mayar was killed by a driver in April 2024, only one candidate (after quite a pause) backed 20mph limits on all residential streets.

Watch this before you vote.

Quite the effort from Alicia to put this together, glad it’s finally out!

"E-bikes are cheating," says man wearing a space helmet whose bike and components are made of ultralight materials designed by NASA and aerodynamically tested in wind tunnels for F1 racecars.

It's 2026. The question isn't which thing can we burn to produce electricity that is slightly less worse than the other things we burn. Building new infrastructure to burn things in 2026 is peak stupidity and greed. Luckily solar, wind and storage are cheaper.

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Ich sage es mal so: Solange deutschlandbewimpelte Flachdenker mitten in einer fossilen Übergewinnphase und Klimakatastrophe ausgerechnet in einem Verbrenner-Autokorso nach Berlin schüsseln, um dort im Kreis fahrend gegen hohe Spritpreise zu demonstrieren, ist Sprit einfach noch nicht teuer genug.

All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Australia's energy minister is skipping global meetings on accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels because he has to stay in Australia to deal with the fallout from not phasing fossil fuels out fast enough.

Did you know that Better Streets for Birmingham CIC is grassroots funded and run by volunteers? Help to cover our organisation's costs by donating today: actionnetwork.org/fundraisi...

The same people who argue with climate scientists about who knows more about climate are naturally going to argue with the Pope about who knows more about Jesus.

4 women raised their voices & forced Dems to remove Swalwell from office. Despite 27 women credibly accusing Trump of sexual assault, his name in the Epstein files 1M+ times & being found guilty of raping E Jean Carroll, DeSantis continues to stand by Trump. Every MAGA accusation is a confession.

The US will close the Straits of Hormuz because the Iranians will not open the Straits of Hormuz despite the US bombing Iran in response to them closing the Straits of Hormuz because only the US is allowed to extort other countries via the Straits of Hormuz.

Helmet discourse in 4 panels.

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

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City To Increase Sidewalk Width To Accommodate Parking Needs Of Supersized Vehicles.

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

We didn't deserve this day.

Sharing again for visibility: those shoeless hippies at the, uh, European Central Bank have urged states to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, highlighting their volatility.

Would You Rather? The new hit game for decision makers everywhere!

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This is an excellent paper and I also encourage high school teachers to read it. We owe our students so much more. It requires slow, patient effort from all of us.

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

Excise relief socialises cost nationally while privatising direct benefit to fuel users - and to sends more dollars to those selling fossil fuels But free public transport to help peeps get out of cars is ignored, except for Vic and Tas No, not ignored, ruled out bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thought I'd check, and yes, the hit-and-run driver who killed David Perkins here was put back on our roads before @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social got around to trolling us with this "solution." Instead of the modal filter that should have been installed immediately. What an announcement of priorities.

The US Forest Service. This is madness. Illegal, obviously. But madness even if it weren’t. WTAF morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Come join us! We're recruiting 3 new academic posts in the School of Biology, University of Leeds, closing 23/04/26. Assoc Prof Plant Science tinyurl.com/4x48jc78 Assoc Prof Animal Biology tinyurl.com/2s4sk85s Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management: tinyurl.com/39dwp47j

April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.

Perennial reminder: IKEA sells induction plates for $50. Cap the gas line, put the induction plate on top of the gas stove, and avoid spewing carcinogens into your home. Yes, you can also spend $5k on that beautiful high-end stove, while vying for that Michelin star. www.ft.com/content/14f6...

But calling for it anyway, however ignorantly, will make a direct difference to what climate change denying donors pay politicians. So there’s that.

Dear Persian creator god of order, Please help humanity realise the folly of fossil fuels by closing your beautiful strait for just long enough until we all install solar panels Thanks, Humans who want to survive

I wonder if AIPAC is coping to the fact that a majority of Americans are rooting for Iran? We are sick of Israel’s shit. They started all of this. They started it with the Nakba, they started it with genocide, they started it w/Iraq & now they started it with Iran. And we are over that shit.

Who needs physical reality anyway? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Great new Streetscapes documentary about how Groningen (NL) implemented a controversial traffic circulation plan, half a century ago, and how it transformed the city into the pleasant place it is now. youtu.be/bgKokpZMFnU?...

Rare video: watch a meteorite hit the Moon in real time 🌕☄️

"Großbritannien reagiert auf den durch den Iran-Krieg verursachten Energieschock mit der Vorschrift, dass alle Neubauten mit Solaranlagen und Wärmepumpen ausgestattet werden müssen" So und nicht anders.

No idea if it’s true but it seems extremely likely.

As a climate person, I feel this so much. Constantly being called extremists and told to be more moderate about the fact that we're destroying the only habitable planet we have

Weil sich Schwarz-Rot gerade wieder im Klein-Klein verliert. Was das Klima wirklich schützt und Deutschland unabhängig macht: -> #Energiewende 💚 -> #Verkehrswende 💚 -> #Wärmewende 💚 📷 @quarkswdr.bsky.social 👏

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

The current heatwave in the US Southwest is utterly destroying many records for this time of year. Phoenix, Arizona has ~90 years of daily temperature data, and yet recent temperatures beat the previous March record by 5 °F (2.8 °C), and would actually tie the record for April.

This is deeply saddening and infuriating. Snowgums are my spirit plant.

I, too, am calling for people to cut oil demand. In addition to these ideas, also try demanding: -adequate funding for transit operations, -protected bike lanes, and -an end to freeway expansions.

Hottest March temperature ever measured in the U.S.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️