“I have nothing against vegans or British people,” said Jennings. “But I don’t want to abandon my culinary mission.” 😂

If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

At Theatre Picasso at Tate Modern they have a film made of him painting on silk but filmed from the back, so it appears like a digital composition

Got to love a bit of dry science-talk. On the blood-curdlingly grim drive-hunt method of killing cetaceans: "it is unlikely that it can be undertaken humanely"

This is like Brexit all over again - here the fossil fuel lobby has polluted and dominated the narrative

Fastest glacier melt in modern history. Between January 2022 and March 2023, glacier retreated *25 kilometres* www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Robocop (1987). See also I am the Law (2023) @molcher.bsky.social

For help getting rid of some of that money

The West Antarctic Peninsula deserves a close watch..

A kingfisher just flew past in that firework-burning way they have

Overshoot is an exercise in managing failure - Joeri Rogelj

Wtf is “drinking vinegar”? Seen on drinks menu.

Okinawa beer, natsukashii! 懐かしい! 沖縄

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

Eye of dragon? Tongue of snake? No - cat!

It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

This quote is a great example of scientific writing that in the real world would translate into someone running through the streets ringing a bell and crying emergency

Lee Miller at Tate Britain is a MUST SEE. What a life she had, and the images she made. From fashion/art in the 1920s to WWII photojournalism. Incredible.

"the War on the Climate Change Hoax" - wow, as 1 metre of rain falls on Jamaica in a hurricane just shy of category 6, and 1.7m fallls on Hue in Vietnam, and and and...

Bill Gates wrote How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (the same year as my How to Spend a Trillion Dollars) purporting to show how we get to net zero by 2050. He's now 70. Why not double down on investing in netzero tech?

Saw Punch, by James Graham. Buzzes with energy but also immense compassion - David Shields should win all the awards for his performance, which left the place in tears 1/2

Functions performed by megafauna have collapsed outside protected areas - Work by planetary ecologist @ymalhi.bsky.social and colleagues

My quote for today's WaPo story: "We’re going to be seeing a lot more Melissas in the future and we’re definitely not ready for it". www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Happy #seaslugday to those who celebrate

Jacob Epstein made this in 1913! Very much inspiration for ABC Warriors @2000ad.bsky.social

Wow, this detail from the story of the man who survived the Piper Alpha oil disaster: Now retired, he still speaks at oil companies, sharing his story and offering advice on safety offshore www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“Frontier models already exhibit a substantial, though not yet superhuman, level of evaluation-awareness” 😱 cc @adambecker.bsky.social @sparkes.bsky.social

29kg of nitrogen compounds are rained on each hectare of land in the UK each year, causing dysbiosis and contributing to decline diseases of trees

*** 1 metre of rain ***

Sad to see this logging in Richmond Park. Must be to do with acute oak decline?

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

“We’ve missed 1.5”: In the podcast this week we discuss the facts that (a) Paris saved us from the worst of global heating and (b) that it’s been clear for a long time that we’d miss 1.5 degrees. 📺🎧: podfollow.com/the-world-th...

This is the sort of tipping point we want to hear about!

Oh Mary Ann Hobbes! Playing Nick Cave’s sublime Into My Arms then Laura’s theme from Twin Peaks ❤️

Future Chronicles *usually* looks at technology just around the corner. In this case, however, the tech to end prisons is mostly here. It’s the will to implement it that is lacking (except maybe in Scandinavia) 👇

Fallow deer look so graceful and noble compared to red, but they fight just as hard (📷Warren Richardson)

The WRI report says we need to close 360 coal plants a year and cancel all planned plants. And yet bsky.app/profile/just...

Horrific but great tension/film-making - you can’t stop watching until the inevitable

The world, the universe and us is LIVE 🚨 @rowhoop.bsky.social, @pennysarchet.bsky.social and the team on: 💉 mRNA vaccines teach your body to kill cancer ⚠️ @worldresources.bsky.social #StateOfClimateAction 🐦 Why birds sing the dawn chorus podfollow.com/the-world-th...

New podcast: 💉mRNA vaccines help your body fight cancer 🤬State of Climate Action report sounds red alert 🦜New explanation for the dawn chorus open.spotify.com/episode/4ODd... with @pennysarchet.bsky.social and @mjflepage.bsky.social plus Clea Schumer and Sophie Boehm of @worldresources.bsky.social

No. www.huckmag.com/article/slap...

When Antarctica's ice starts melting as fast as Greenland's sea level will start rising so rapidly that it won't really be possible for most places to adapt.

This piece on technological incarceration was inspired by the Culture novels of Iain M Banks but it turns out to have a solid basis in real-life research

Meteors always strike the White House in disaster movies

The US spends $182 billion a year on locking up its citizens, and has a recidivism rate of 60 to 70 per cent after two years. Prison is expensive, and doesn't work - this piece looks at how to get rid of 95 per cent of them www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

TotalEnergies has a revenue of $237.1 billion, and it is fined €8000 euro!?

Very interesting climate case against Shell, using Philippine law to argue that Shell has contributed to anthropogenic climate change, and therefore violated the constitutional rights to a healthy environment www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The US spends $182 billion a year on locking up its citizens, and has a recidivism rate of 60 to 70 per cent after two years. Prison is expensive, and doesn't work - this piece looks at how to get rid of 95 per cent of them www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

"Many of the wrestlers, including the yokozuna, told me the environment and the atmosphere that was created inside the Royal Albert Hall was much better than that at the Kokugikan or any regional venue in Japan" Hiro Morita on #LondonSumo. Our report here: open.spotify.com/episode/3SO4...