The most destructive and unsustainable form of transportation is the ICE car. The second most destructive and unsustainable form of transportation is the EV. Carrying two tons of metal and a couch with you everywhere you go is insanely wasteful and inefficient - even if it has become normalised.

"“We would love to feel some love from Ireland”, he says, adding that attacks on Jews reverberate far beyond national borders and that how we discuss both Jewish people and Israel merits serious care and nuance now more than ever." www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/...

The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting. Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment. 🔗www.gov.ie/solstice#WinterSolstice#Newgrange#ShareTheSolstice

30 yrs ago; Dec 14, 1995 – Monbiot nails it with “it’s happening” article, after release of 2nd IPCC report. The “data should be enough to throw us all into a muck sweat.” Atmospheric CO2 was roughly 361ppm. As of 2025 it is 425ppm, allouryesterdays.info/2024/12/14/d...

like arundahti roy on COVID as a portal: "We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world"

Since Europe is paying for Russia's invasion, its only fair that Russia should pay for Europe's defense. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The UK and Ireland both built their first offshore wind turbines 25 years ago. Since then, offshore wind has gone on to supply 17% of the UK's electricity supply. Meanwhile, the original 7 Irish turbines are being dismantled at the end of their operational life and no new ones have been built.

In a nutshell: We gotta shut fossil shit down before #AMOC shuts down. Get serious, get sustainable, get sufficient, go vegan, go solar, get organised and build resilient communities. Start today.

This is the first sign of an accelerating climate effect that will dominate the decades and centuries to come. At first it happens at king (spring) tides, then at most high tides, then twice every day, then its always water. Decade by decade, incessant and inexorable, further and further inland.

"It was becoming increasingly clear that the allegiance to economic growth is a new religious form. That growth-based consumerism is itself a secular theodicy." cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

Looking out the window on a wet, grey, late November day on the south-east coast of Ireland, I can almost feel thankful for the rain.

I know Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You know Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” The BBC knows Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” Just like everyone knows PA activists aren't terrorists. And yet...

Ireland's 139 data centers now consume 21% of the country's entire electricity use (compared to 28% for all households). This means that about two in every three wind turbines and solar panels in Ireland are being used to meet this new demand, and not to replace fossil fuels.

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"Our world is so much more complex and wondrous than the myth of human supremacy would have us believe." www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-all...

On Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainians light a candle at 4 pm and place it on the windowsill to honor the millions who died in the 1932-1933 famine. 🕯️4 pm in Ukraine

Personal hot take: it would have been much preferable if these talks *actually collapsed". The UNFCCC COP process is *manifestly* not fit for purpose and *must* be reformed. But with this "last ditch agreement" any prospect of reform has been stymied. Yet again.

"We know that we did not create this crisis – they did – but we are the ones who are suffering." "They don’t listen. They don’t want to listen." "Sometimes I feel that this process has lost its humanity. Sometimes it’s like we are arguing with robots." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@carbonbrief.org reporting members of the "coalition of the willing." Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Nepal, Netherlands, Panama, Spain, Slovenia, Vanuatu, Tuvalu.

🧵 This is a truly interesting piece by @scottsantens.com on the first-ever, proper introduction of Universal Basic Income #UBI. Find the core facts below. The text gives you lots more interesting information and background. scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...

My exclusive interview with Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay on leading the first carbon-negative nation and why the West must do more: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's the first draft text from the COP. There are just TWO mentions of "fossil fuels”, both as minor parts of options about more meetings, reviews and other bla, bla, bla. It really seems to be one big 'discourse of delay'. unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

My latest for @science.org: A remarkable set of high-resolution climate model runs, computed over 900 (!) days of supercomputing time, are revealing how warming-induced changes to Earth's wind patterns due can prime huge spikes in extreme rainfall. But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.

"The voices speak of the future, of goals, of funding, coming and going with the haste of those who have a clock in their soul." "The monster of haste from non-Indigenous society hasn’t entirely consumed me. I fear it nonetheless." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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To find out what's next you have to pay Elsevier €36. Academic publishing is a greed-fueled obscenity - much like the fossil fuel, chemical, advertising, tech and other money-hungry industries that are destroying our planet and our future. Is there no end to more? How much is enough?

frame: rich people get rich by being smart Negation: rich people get rich by being evil Kirby: money works like mass, it is drawn towards the largest accumulations, and most of our stories about it are rationalizations

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This is a post about non-linear climate damages.

To put this into perspective, in 2020, during the worst of the covid lockdowns, global CO2 emissions dropped by 5.4%.

If you don't pay your subscription, granny dies again. Or you could use the free version, in which granny tries to sell you health supplements every five minutes.

It certainly looks like it accelerating. The next El Nino will be interesting. Unless, of course, your house burns down, or gets flooded, or your crops die, or you lose your insurance - then it'll just be horrible.

Who says there's never any good climate news? It may be weak soup, but its soup.

Seems to me we've been rolling a lot of 6s lately - and there seems to be a big gap between policy and action. And with impacts worse than expected, 3C may be the new 4C. And don't get me started on irreversible planet-changing tipping points or the other 6 planetary boundaries that we've crossed.

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦" 𝘈 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺. ⁣ ⁣ 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩?

"I would want to see emissions going down for several years before I would stand up on a building top and shout that emissions have peaked" Please take note of my wise words... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Climate justice resists the disproportionate power of large multinational companies, & prioritises the needs of people & communities. It demands that decarbonisation and emissions reductions are linked to transformative public investments in basic services that every community needs and deserves."

"The message that jumps out above all others is that previous IPCC reports, going back to 1990, have not been heeded. Where is the report on that? Because that’s the one we really need."

This inequity is much bigger than COP access. The entire climate conversation seems dominated by the people (including professional 'campaigners') who use the most carbon. Those who use the least carbon (i.e. 'the poor') hardly get a word in. That's probably why so much 'action' is performative.

So. We have to invent a new technology, spend a Trillion $ a year on it and make it the world's biggest industry, all while cutting emissions at covid lockdown levels. And we have to do it before Greenland, Thwaites, the Amazon or the AMOC tip. Got it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An absolutely glorious twilight this morning, holy smokes.

"A republic where everyone is valued and diversity is cherished, where sustainable solutions are urgently implemented, and where a home is a fundamental human right." Very proud of our new president. youtu.be/gEvltn0BmRQ?...

"All six of the NMME’s component models now show this trend. With this in mind, it’s worth keeping an eye out for a potential El Niño event in the latter part of 2026." High risk of failed crops, car soup and pretty sunsets from burning boreal forests. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/octo...

How screwed is the climate, how do we stop it screwing us, how do we unscrew it. Three episodes of Global Warning has considered answers to all the above, and @aljazeera.com has made it free to watch on YouTube. Ep 1: How Screwed Is It? 👉 youtu.be/F8vI5_gN90g?... 1/3

On political imagination and a politics of ideas over a politics of management...

"Beauty is truth, and truth beauty; That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn

I dealt with a lot of fossil-fuel propaganda in my book, but the lie that “by doing what we’re already doing we’ve avoided the bad outcomes” has in the past two years turned out to be the most popular and the most pernicious of all the disinformation I discussed.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.