According to Irish Water, as of 2021, data centres across Ireland drank about 810 megalitres of water from the public mains a year. But that same year, Meta reported that it withdrew 928 megalitres of water for its data centres in Clonee alone. How is this possible?

Air conditioning is an equity intervention for climate resilience, full stop. Every school should be safe, have healthy air & solar on the roof, & have air conditioning. In the next inflation reduction act, we need large investments in clean & green schools. Btw- they’re in every political district

Evidence keeps mounting that the green economy has entered a new phase, one where its rapidly improving economics give it lasting immunity from fickle political sentiments Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This may be the first climate strikes in France (that I am aware of at least). A Stellantis factory in Mulhouse has issued a strike notice because the temperature in some workplaces is 38-40°C

Europe is warming at a rate that’s more than double the pace of warming worldwide since the mid-1990s, due to melting Arctic sea ice, reduced pollution-related aerosols, and less snow cover. These changes are also altering weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense heat waves.

air conditioning is good and right and a just climate future has zero emissions and also air conditioning and we should build a better world where people don’t die in heat waves

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

“Old, Cold, and Free” in Ireland and the UK. Wonderful resource!! www.google.com/local/userli...

Runaway Warming Today is #ShowYourStripes day. A day when those concerned about the climate challenge raise awareness. I helped start the day in 2018 with the genius creator of the Warming Stripes Prof Ed Hawkins and the incredible BernadetteWoods It’s grown by leaps and bounds globally since 1/

#showyourstripesday #climatestripes Explore the dataset from ECMWF! era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=40.71&ln...

Data centres will exacerbate a climate-impacted future that already involves ⬆️temperature, ⬆️frequency & severity of heatwaves, ⬇️cool season, runoff-generating rainfall, but ⬆️frequency & severity of extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts & hydroclimate whiplash hazards Moratorium NOW‼️ ✍️👇

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

Vaccines are humanity's greatest scientific achievement.

The Trump regime has paid $2.5 billion of our money to ensure that fossil fuel companies continue to profit off the destruction of our planet.

*W.E.B. DuBois has entered the chat*

I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.

Minnesota joins Connecticut as the second state to launch a new student loan program for graduate students after the federal government limited lending. I will be watching whether the state has the capital to support the program when need-based aid is already under stress there.

This game is so great!!! 10/10 recommend.

Just gonna watch videos of New Yorkers celebrating all day ✨

This happens regularly, in my experience. AI summaries seem to work like these childrens books where you can flip heads bodies and legs separately to create all kinds of weird combinations. 3/

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Love my local art scene ⚡️

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts Or, the US wants to take the earth down with it—it’s going to be ugly—but what comes next is worth fighting for. A terrific read!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

You can tell Mamdani what you think about this here: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

My incredible colleague Sukanya Barman & the THE-RCT team at @mdrc-news.bsky.social published this GitHub repository of open-source R code to help researchers efficiently & transparently process National Student Clearinghouse data: www.mdrc.org/the-rct/phas...

Solar energy just provided more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time on record, marking a milestone for the rise of renewables in America.

Wednesday morning the U.S. CENTCOM said in a post on X that it had conducted attacks near the strait “with precision munitions from U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter jets.” The precision strikes seem to have hit a drinking-water facility on Iran’s southern coast. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

NYT visual analysis suggests the US hit 2 drinking-water facilities overnight in s Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is war crime. When asked, Hegseth tenaciously refused to identify a legitimate military target connected with this attack.

The New York Times confirms what appears to be a US attack on two Iranian #water systems with precision bombs. Intentional attacks on civilian water systems is a war crime under the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocols and related international laws. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

something I think about a lot is that in conversations about pregnancy, men will hear someone say “pregnancy ruined my body” and they think about like stretch marks and weight gain and saggy tits, but what we mean is actually like. diastasis recti and pelvic organ prolapse

'Night Clocks' by contemporary printmaker Lisa Benson #WomensArt

Happy World Ocean Day! The ocean is the heart of our life support system, without which we’d all be dead. It’s taken up >90% of the heat from global warming and 30% of our CO₂ emissions. In return, we give it 11 million tonnes of plastic annually, which animals ingest and also become entangled in.

🚨🚨 Re-upping this emergency call to action: New Yorkers, we need you in Binghamton on Monday at 11 am. We can’t let the White House overturn our state’s fracking ban and build a pipeline whose permits our DEC denied. Science and law still matter but need to be backed by people power. Bring it.

We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

“Importantly, the main barriers here are no longer technological, or even about cost. The real barriers are electricity infrastructure, institutional capacity and mandate, finance, planning systems, market structures, public perception, and lobbying by vested interests.”

New column: Now is the ideal time to make fossil fuel phase-out the organising principle of Ireland's energy and economic strategy. My piece in today's @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Hey Jacobin: misogyny IS the most pervasive driver of economic inequality. Don't take it from me, Mere Female: take it from Nobel winner Amartya Sen whose major thesis in "Development As Freedom" is that oppression of women puts the brakes on prosperity everywhere. www.wider.unu.edu/video/amarty...

"Since launching its climate strategy, its energy investments returned 10 per cent annually, compared to 8 per cent from a global oil index — a gap that amounts to almost $4 billion above what investing in oil companies would have generated."

Congolese doctors & researchers didn't just tell me about Ebola because its not the only concern. If governments don't protect citizens from violence & starvation, Ebola outbreaks will continue. “An empty stomach does not have ears to listen,” Gang Karume said. kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

For nearly a week, demonstrators outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey clashed with federal agents. The governor hoped that replacing federal agents with the state police would bring peace. It didn’t work out that way.

The obscure word that helped novelist Jesmyn Ward process her grief

I often get asked: what impacts would a shutdown of the Atlantic ocean circulation #AMOC have on people? A good short overview is found in this expert report. Impacts include e.g. widespread domestic food insecurity in Northern Europe and strain on global food systems. pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

What happens when energy security is threatened? In the 2020s, it means speeding up deployment of renewables and electric devices. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Let’s get this party started, @governor.ny.gov ! gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

washingtonian.com/2026/06/01/h... maryland home owners AND renters can plug in balcony solar up to 1200 watts today virginia residents on jan 1 dc residents: ????? on the GRID act before the city council

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

This is an absolutely terrifying escalation by the regime. They have now criminalized our freedom to fight the crimes they commit against us and our neighbors. These protesters acted with extraordinary courage and moral clarity.