Today's Tour de France stage ends at Le Lioran, at the top of the Cantal Volcano, Europe's larges stratovolcano. Two years ago, we made this clip there, our favorite :) How volcanism led to the invention of the bicycle! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social @uugeo.bsky.social

On The Climate Brink, @zekehausfather.com writes about the upcoming El Nino, which could be the strongest in the observational record. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong...

Yes, and UK/Europe is stuck with centuries of building stock constructed without extreme heat in mind, and hard to retrofit for air conditioning. Yet that does not excuse negligence on building codes. Extreme heat was completely foreseeable 20 years ago (actually more) but even now building codes

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Why don't most Europeans have air conditioning? Dumb? Woke? No - WE DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL FOSSIL FUEL BURNING CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS More info 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...

40 years of dismissing the scale of the crisis and hoping it will go away. It's physics. It won't go away. We've always known it will keep getting worse until we take it seriously. The politicians arguing against net zero are advertising a fantasy ignorance cult, not trying to lead a country.

Starmer's nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do better. I've written about the government's '30by30 Delivery Plan', out today, which isn't a plan & won't deliver 30by30. I suggest some policies Burnham should pursue instead, amidst Blackadder gifs: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/starmers-n... 1/🧵

Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar

As @louisemorris.bsky.social has said: "CCS does not fail because it is misunderstood. It fails because it does not work" thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Please savor the irony of this coming from a rider on a team sponsored by a petrostate.

BBC News - Major incident declared for Conwy Mountain wildfire (Mynydd y Dref) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Which is why we fired all our climate reporters”

#Clacton, take out the trash on the 13th August.

Powerful article on climate denial and disinformation. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateBrawl

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

My review of Evolution. The BBC series, not the concept. But to be fair, I'm a big fan of both. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c6c0...

My students get a talk at the beginning of the term that goes "Yeah, you could use GenAI on this and produce an output without you actually learning a damn thing, and you know what? I refuse to care more about your education than you do." This is either sound pedagogy or burnout and I cannot tell.

NEW – Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @zekehausfather.com Read here: buff.ly/EynMeIk

A group of Ugandan farmers has brought suit in the U.K. High Court against a controversial oil pipeline being built in East Africa. The suit is a last-ditch effort to halt the project before it goes online in October.

This Tuesday the @archbishopofcanterbury.org and the members of the @churchofengland.org’s internal parliament, The General Synod, have a massive choice to make that will affect all of us. Will they restore 30% of their land to nature by 2030? #SynodVoteForNature @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Denial of the need for net zero is climate denial. Treating facts of planetary physics as political trigger words is performative infantilism, not politics

Brilliant piece: The only people who have been sent to prison [for climate change] are those who have protested against it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Some crucial points here on the great Carbon Capture and Storage con by @sioldridge.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

So, um... ‘happy’ sixth birthday, Nazi Bar Parable

Surreal being in the UK -with its quintessential nature & abundant water- to observe how this breeds complacency on a sm island of c70m people in a world of 8.3bn people, declining agricultural predictability, snowpack & soil fertility 🧵 @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

a bunch of losers in the office of management and budget are trying to tear apart federal science and research funding in the US. in my professional opinion, this is a very very bad idea.

Best of all, they actually *are* running with "Count Binface is the establishment candidate"

Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2)

👀 Data centres account for almost a quarter of Irish electricity usage in 2025 #AI www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre

I just filled out the form in my own words, because we MUST take a stand against these partisan attacks on science. I urge everyone who follows me here to do the same. If you love science, then please help us protect it. I attached a screenshot of what I wrote. 🧪 🔭

There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.

Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

Yesterday marked 70 years since the UK Clean Air Act 1956 - the first national legislation to tackle air pollution, introduced in response to the devastating Great Smog of London in 1952. The graphic below is courtesy of airqualitystripes.info. 🧵 1/5

The Times should quickly correct this article - or just pull it. It's extra embarrassing (and tells you a LOT about the motivations of their senior editors) that they also promoted it so prominently on their frontpage...

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

The anger all those of us with any empathy or compassion feel. youtu.be/EdFlJFXPNZU?...

“A kingfisher, like a streak of living sapphire, flashes across the water. He knows better than the fishermen how to catch fish” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

Here we go again. Another crunching heatwave begins tomorrow. As a food grower, I know only too well what this means. This is your climate on drugs. It keeps getting worse forever until we get off #fossilfuels.

🧵🧪 Article starts "An increasing number of scientists", implying that the science community should be held responsible this kind of insanity. This is grossly incorrect. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Recommended listen: The BBC Climate Question podcast discussed the weather pattern El Niño and its links to climate change.

Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon. The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland. But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

IT'S ROCK N' FLYBY TIME! Now on an extended mission, Hayabusa2 will attempt flyby observations of asteroid Torifune at ~18:30 JST tonight (07/05) 🛰️👀🪨 Turning a rendezvous mission into a flyby spacecraft is not trivial, but it's exactly what we might need to do to save the Earth on short notice 🔭🧪.

DC parade is also cancelled due to extreme heat. +20F above normal today.

New builds that have to be retrofitted - utter madness