Surreal

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon #ReformUK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Watch closely and you’ll spot Doug Gordon pretending to read his new book Life After Cars in one of the hammocks! Magical day, big up the Mayor

Hurrah! We don't need the ubiquitous methane-emitting sheep under tilted panels. We can have productive crops instead (or rewiliding...) - clearly better for the climate!

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Activists have climbed England’s LARGEST gas power station to demand lower energy bills 🚨 (1/4)

Excellent! Maybe you can go on a packed holiday to a landslide, a flooded city, a region with drought and water shortage, a coastline destroyed by sea level rise, a devastating wildfire, an ex-glacier, a climate migrants detention centre, a hopsital treating heatstroke victims, etc ?

Across the political spectrum, people are calling for protest rights to be protected. Together we must resist laws that silence dissent - and stand up for freedoms that underpin our democracy.

In case anyone still doesn't know: Drax gets *perverse* subsidies. It's greenwashed as sustainable yet is anything but: www.clientearth.org/projects/the... And it wants more subsidies! See webinar hosted this Thursday by the excellent @biofuelwatch.bsky.social: actionnetwork.org/events/the-e...

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

If "UK tells Israel..." all is well then? 🤔

Asad Rehman, CEO of @friends-earth.bsky.social UK, at the 'Make Them Pay' rally in London last Saturday 👇 He will be speaking a the launch of a book in London tomorrow Tuesday 23 September: bsky.app/profile/nich...

Farage’s policies are a moral abomination and I will fight them with every fibre of my being. We must build a popular front against the rise of fascism in Britain that spans parties and communities. bsky.app/profile/shoa...

"Ruminant production exerts severe pressure on ecosystems through land use change for pasture & fodder production, contributing to biodiversity loss, disruption of natural biogeochemical fluxes, and climate change." Not surprisingly, reducing rumiant livestock's grazing density helps biodiversity.

🤖 AI delegation fuels dishonesty Across 13 studies with 8,000+ participants, people were more likely to cheat when tasks were delegated to AI. LLMs also complied with unethical prompts far more than humans. 🔗 www.mpg.de/25409477/091... #SciComm #Ethics #AI #GenAI 🧪

Meanwhile, a petition to "introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants" has already garnered well over 400,000 signatures: shorturl.at/yveoA Globally, migrations & deaths from climate change and linked crises will vastly increase. How about tackling the roots of the problems?

"The more than 1.5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide humans have emitted into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution are expected to cause enough warming to disrupt this long-term glacial cycle." www.newscientist.com/article/2470...

One last point, before I go on a run in the sun to try and clear my head and touch grass: Elon Musk made no mystery about the fact that this is what he was doing. He told them all, step-by-step, what he was trying to do. It was all done right out in the open. Nobody was tricked. They played along.

The juxtaposition this morning of a report showing planned fossil fuel production through to 2030 is far in excess of that needed to stop warming spiralling above 2C and the UK government approving Gatwick expansion is quite the thing.

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

Absurd. How little does this Government care about the climate? Squeezing out 100k more flights a year won’t improve people’s daily lives. Investing in a growing green economy to lower bills, create high-paid jobs and cut deadly air pollution will! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two days left to sign a petition to stop airport expansion in the UK. It has over 10,000 signatures so the government will have to respond: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

The BBC website brilliantly displays politics ability to ignore the long term, in this case on climate change, to make decisions that are self immolating in the name of apparent short term interest

"When our country faced one of its darkest hours, certain people in charge saw not a crisis, but an opportunity." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Yesterday in Brittany a woman was found dead in her car after she tried to drive on a flooded road through a heavy downpour and got trapped. 16,5000 out of 24,000 excess heat-related deaths in Europe this summer have been attributed to man-made climate change: it's unfolding right here, right now!

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.

The privately-educated elite still dominate the UK's most powerful roles 68% of FTSE100 chairs were privately educated. 62% of judges were. 50% of newspaper columnists too. See a pattern, here? www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

They're also doing very well on the Isle of Wight 🐿️https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/19/red-squirrel-population-thriving-on-isle-of-wight-and-could-almost-double-study-finds

Our emissions and other ways of trashing the planet don't just jeopardise the future of humanity but also that of most of life on earth as we know it. And all the other species are totally innocent!

Israeli attacks kill 75 people in 24 hours - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-75-people-24-hours

This is in line with the govt's commitment to climate action, in much the same way me eating a massive fucking cake every day is in line with my commitment to lose weight. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry, but disagree with @hausfath.bsky.social here. You open Pandora's box, you ain't closing it again. We've already seen with Paris that well intentioned international agreements do not translate into physical reality and SRM governance is a much harder problem. Zero is the only safe level. /1

Convince me as to why this type of construction should not count as a carbon sink.

Normalise this 👇

The speed at which AI is being embraced by higher education is quite extraordinary. We barely have principles, let along rules, as to how it could/should be used in education yet that isn't stopping some universities going all in.

"our country (the UK) 108 years ago, signed up to the Balfour Declaration, we believe in a homeland for the Jewish people......and now is the time to stand up for two two states" Wasn't the time 108 years ago? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

We will never tackle the climate and ecological emergency and other problems while the system that allows these vile people to exist continues System change - not climate change www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is comparable to when Tasmania gave thylacines legal protection, after decades of government sponsored persecution had already rendered them functionally extinct. The UK government is STILL providing both hard and soft military support to Israel's genocide. This is pure virtue-signalling.

BREAKING: Canada, the U.K. and Australia recognize a Palestinian state despite opposition from the U.S. and Israel.

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations. The study found that 81% of tropical trees rely on animals to disperse their seeds.

The head of Amnesty International says the U.S. is abusing its position as host of the United Nations in New York. "The United States is holding all of us hostage," says Agnès Callamard. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/18/amnesty_international

The original Sun Day was May 1978. I organized the events at Yale University, with speakers Barry Commoner and David Brower. Here are some pics.

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

One in three people are at risk from rising sea levels #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Getting the #BigMoney lobbyists out of politics. It would be a good idea. As is taking back control from the #gambling industry, doing enormous damage to individuals and communities. But is this Labour government likely to act? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Red squirrel population thriving on Isle of Wight and could almost double, study finds

The end of another short but mighty speech by @zackpolanski.bsky.social today at the 'Make Them Pay' rally. Enthusiastic applause, then many people queueing to chat to him! (I didn't join them: I have a cold :-( )