On the social cost of carbon emissions. Stone cold language; horrifying numbers on the level of economic destruction that future citizens (currently our kids) are faced with. 'Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon' | Nature share.google/GF2Eo9fksR3j...

Finally! This is great, but what's with the blind spot on farming and food? There's no national security without an adequately fed population. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Robert Habeck: 'I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap'. This time, let's actually do it! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I suspect we can say thank you Oh Great Orange One for instilling in us a fresh sense of right and wrong, and a strong impetus finally to do the right thing ourselves - get the f..k off of fossil fuels as fast as our skinny legs will carry us.

In my experience, 'doing the right thing' on energy use has dramatically paid off. We got rid of our petrol cars for electric, took practical steps to cut heat loss from our house, and installed a heat pump in place of an oil boiler. Today we use no oil or gas for ANYTHING.

Instead of fighting over the Strait of Hormuz, let's engineer a radical, steep reduction in demand for fossil fuels. There are so many creative ways to achieve this that are currently being neglected through fear of the fossil-funded right.

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

'There’s nothing sinister about Muslim prayers in Trafalgar Square. As a bishop, I reject the right’s attacks on worship' Arun Arora, Bishop of Kirkstall, diocese of Leeds So should Kemi Badenoch, if she values what it is to be British above cheap nastiness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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No Roosevelt. More a Capone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dusking: 'All you need is a chair and a view'. This is something we've done for the last couple of years from a quiet spot in our garden, most often in summer when evenings are long and warm. It's peace giving and revitalising after an active day. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A positive amongst the many scary negatives of climate change "A simple water shift could turn Arctic farmland into a carbon sink | ScienceDaily" share.google/ZkehnG7rqwgq...

Rain intensity has ALREADY increased by more than 20% after just 1.5°C of global heating - enough to cause the extensive, long lasting winter flooding we've seen. Imagine the effects of the 3°C and more that we face as climate deniers fight to slow our green transition. share.google/vzFiW8bMc7WQ...

Interesting! Ab initio modelling might offer us our first ever realistic assessment of climate impacts on economic (in)stability share.google/W1Td96NFOinz...

All very well, but you need to listen to the indigenous people of the Pantanal, whose leaders have been urging you to cut your ties with the fossil-fuel corporations that are causing this destruction – stop taking money from BP and Adani. It's thoroughly immoral for you to be doing this.

Trump administration takes steps to gut protections against toxic chemicals in consumer products. Watch for the next step, when Trump is outraged that foreigners don't want to buy US-produced goods and the US balance of payments sags still further. Duh 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Finally, a rational analysis of the Mandelson saga and its impact on a leader seeking to act in his electorate's interests. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An illuminating insight, especially for our current dysfunctional times. share.google/hkVO2FOXn0R4...

THIS 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Addressing climate change without the ‘rules-based order’ share.google/04FhIaZ0E5Aj...

The climate situation and its impact on future global stability is worse than we are told, and governments continue to fear to tell the truth. share.google/W77owfMJlbA4...

People have been trying to tell me for years that worrying about climate change is silly because I live in a first world country. These people have always been ignorant of the facts.

America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover. Francine Prose www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To paraphrase one veteran: "If you haven't served, at least have the balls to respect those who have" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Can any country in the world do any kind of "deal" with this lying and corrupt US administration? Of course not. The less we have to do with it, the better. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Can any country in the world do any kind of "deal" with this lying and corrupt US administration? Of course not. The less we have to do with it, the better. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One wonders how the USA can accept having such a contemptible man as its president and commander-in-chief.

So obvious from recent events that Trump knows the Arctic will melt, knows the seas will rise, knows and effectively acknowledges that climate change is real. He just doesn't care. Cities can drown, agricultural land can turn to salt: he only wants to enjoy his blood money and power until he dies.

German study finds 96% of US tariff burden borne by itself; levies also weaken industrial competitiveness: expert - Global Times share.google/RcCNI6p5g3AD...

Sure, Jeremy, but under the pressures we have now from big oil, the oligarchs' social media companies and their political wings, democracies also die gradually, then suddenly. BBC News - Bowen: Authoritarian regimes die gradually then suddenly, but Iran is not there yet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

very disappointing. There is a code of conduct for Royal Society fellows - it's not a value judgement to say that Musk has contravened it! see relevant bits of code and the Royal Society stated values below.

Trump's greatest achievements - to meet the short-term needs of an obsolete global industry, fossil fuels, that seeks to survive a few years longer, and to lie constantly about the flourishing global industry that's replacing it as we speak.

Let's call a spade a spade: Kristi Noem watched the videos and doesn't want an impartial investigation because she knows her narrative about domestic terrorism is bullshit. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

So it's support protesters in Iran but shoot them (like Iran) in Minnesota? After not much more than one year, America has fallen into barbarity.

Words of a humanity that Trump, Putin or Netanyahu could never understand, but will long survive them. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

How can anyone say this was unpredictable? He is acting exactly as promised. The fault lies in having comprehensively ignored and discounted his statements. 'BBC News - Chris Mason: Greenland and Ukraine point to Trump's head-spinning unpredictability' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Honesty, courage and compassion are now survival tools. When did we last hear this - from Confucius? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In a world where the law of the strongest applies, Europe and the UK must unite and build strength - and not delay for a moment in doing so.

To retrofit rather than demolish & rebuild isn't just about supporting the community, but also about the urgency of climate & environmental measures, & for councils to lead the way. From a government report on "Environmental sustainability & housing growth" publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...

This is some kind of absurdist planners and councillors dream, perhaps to justify spending the money they've been awarded? With over £200k per home they could be made into zero bills homes, retrofitted to near passivhaus standards, and with extra bedrooms in the attic space.

Absolutely. This plan is wrong from so many angles it's hard to criticise it in one message. Basically Blackpool's plan is like a sieve designed to hold water.

Demolishing an “excellent example of early 20th century terraced housing that has been proven suitable for a successful and sustainable residential community” is the worst of ignorant 1960s policy. Don't kill the community, spend the money on restoration/retrofit! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Demolishing an “excellent example of early 20th century terraced housing that has been proven suitable for a successful and sustainable residential community” is the worst of ignorant 1960s policy. Don't kill the community, spend the money on restoration/retrofit! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

What's next? A ban on folk opposed to gun violence? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

An interesting perspective, to identify twisted, hateful falsehoods as "American perspectives". www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Time for economic recovery in the UK! Do what everyone of good sense knows must be done, and rejoin the EU Customs Union. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The only security being protected by these stop orders on wind power plants is security of demand for obsolete fossil fuels. The beneficiaries - Trump's core supporters, the FF corps. The losers - the American people, US national security, and everyone on this planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...