“1,600 turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower”

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters. At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up. C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.” allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...

Things are feeling bleak right now, so it's worth sharing how California, the world's 4th largest economy, is doubling down on offshore floating wind.

SEI's Production Gap report is out, and it's not looking great.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

From "How to obliterate foreign investment in your country," p. 254

The push for AI makes sense when you understand that it is a subsidiary of the cult of Accelerationism. The father of Accelerationism, Nick Land, regards capitalism and AI as being one and the same - and that humanity must be sacrificed in its name.

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

A 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 from Ember, showing exactly how electrotech is demolishing fossil fuels through 1) physics 2) economics and 3) geopolitics.

This is the front page of Britain's most popular newspaper, today. The Daily Mail's owner, the 4th Viscount Rothermere, spends most of his time abroad and enjoys non-domicile tax status.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

This is an interesting one. The massively and historically subsidized bedrock of American agriculture versus one man's vibes.

Energy transition? Seriously important work from NGO Platform, showing the UK's oil and gas workers overwhelmingly want support to help them retrain for the jobs of the future.

A timely reminder that as President Trump attacks wind power, his sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for...bitcoins.

Say The Thing: why and how fascism is being mainstreamed across the board, and what to do about it. Read and share Patrick's morally and factually unassailable essay.

When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

8 in 10 top businesses worldwide plan to increase green investments, according to a major new report from Capgemini, surveying 2,150 execs.

Projects worth nearly $42 billion have been delayed, shrunk of canceled since Trump’s inauguration. The government's misdirected efforts will nonetheless prove futile

To even allow the appearance of this — Starmer’s No 10 adopting Trumpian media management policies — seems extraordinary to me. Very depressing.

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

British politics really needs to wake up to what is happening in America given we have imported a huge amount of its culture war politics. Maybe there are some clues about what would be on the cards here under a Reform government?

What a relief that we've spent the past decade wringing our hands about censorious leftist college students

Bemoaning the cost of UK electricity and in the same breath promising to do the one thing guaranteed to cause that cost to stay sky high is the sort of intellectual brilliance you'll only get from the world's leading tech moguls.

Jokes aside, this is precisely why Reform and Silicon Valley are so deeply in cahoots. They intend to steamroll the public interest to give the billionaire techbros what they want - and what they want is everything.

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

One for the diary, Oct 3: "the 2025 Commission addresses a critical question: how to feed a growing population within planetary boundaries, while putting justice and equity at the center of food systems transformation."

"The attendance of a prominent figure in the City marks a shift from the cautious approach banks have taken to the rightwing populist party so far."

'Countless' BBC staff have told Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey that they agree with the party’s petition to “balance the BBC" away from Farage's party (as reported by Byline Times) he says in a pre-conference interview with the NS today www.newstatesman.com/politics/lib...

If you want to see what a best-in-class climate scientist with a lens on geopolitics and energy can do in the financial sector - read Sarah Kapnick's new report on energy system politics for JP Morgan. A few of my favorite figures below 🧵1/ www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

Don't miss this brutally important essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates. "By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy."

A project is under way to cover California's thousands of miles of canals with solar panels, and it's turning out to be a win-win solution.

The word in energy circles is that the UK passed a significant milestone yesterday: for one hour, Britain's entire domestic electricity demand was met entirely by clean sources.

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

Journalists have been detained and a van showing images of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been confiscated in Windsor. This follows a separate incident in which four people were arrested for projecting images onto Windsor Castle.

History teaches us that it would be beyond irresponsible to take these claims from Big Tech in good faith. But when it comes to billionaires with promises, the credulousness of our political class knows no bounds.

In case you missed it, four people have been arrested for projecting images of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle.

@rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social  highlights how this study may uniquely quantify the daily impact of climate change on heat-related mortality over the past 50 years. Numbers of heat-related deaths are still growing despite improved health medical facilities.

90% of the UK newspaper market is controlled by three companies: DMG (Daily Mail et al), News UK (Murdoch), and Reach (the Mirror, Express). This also translates to a huge share (~40%) of online reach.

Fond memories of the Economist, at about the time this chart begins, telling me that it wasn't possible or even a priority (hi, Bjorn Lomborg!) to switch to renewable energy.

Pakistan’s rooftop solar boom shows how energy transitions often start from the bottom up. I told Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social: when tariffs soar and panel prices plunge, people innovate. www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-S...

This utterly valueless article reads like a parody of our media's steadfast determination to whitewash overt racism and bigotry. A thousand words that say less than nothing.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Empty nets. Southwest Louisiana was once the “shrimp capital of the US,” but fishermen say that the growing number of LNG terminals, chemical plants, and refineries have decimated their harvests. By @mckennapr.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org…

ICYMI - Elon Musk called for the dissolution of UK parliament at a far-right rally in London... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today