Since Zuckerberg used the phrase "destroys the planet," here's a great snippet of George Marshall talking about his friend Mayer Hillman. Hillman wrote a book called "How to Save the Planet," and he once brought climate change up at a dinner party of well-educated ppl: youtu.be/b-eC6adEYNE

"Long-term warming... up to and including 2024 stands at 1.40°C, and underlying human-caused warming at 1.34°C." "In IPCC language this means it was 'very unlikely' that human-induced warming had exceeded 1.5°C."

Whilst US attacks on Greenland's sovereignty are creating dangerous geopolitical instability, the island's ice is rewriting the rules of global climate. New evidence shows it is no longer just a victim of warming, but an active participant in it. drtomharris.substack.com/p/the-unstab... #Greenland

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

This is excellent.

"On Christmas Day, Dublin Airport shuts providing a small window to access the control zone around the airport and city." youtu.be/OGlDnXgGt1c?...

Two powerful protest songs from the American resistance... youtu.be/4PUOhAJG5EU?...

Its important to remember that this research also reduces the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 2C, 2.5C, etc.

Long evenings; early morning light; warm sun on bare skin and walking around town in a T-shirt; luscious fresh vegetables; curtains billowing in the breeze; beer gardens. Don't mind the cold rain beating against the window. Its all ahead of us! And it starts here...

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

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There's a lot of talk around about the futility of appeasement and the importance of standing up to bullies. Not these bullies though.

Two years ago the EU’s Anti-Coercion instrument came into force. Its purpose? To deter economic threats from abroad. Here’s hoping calm heads prevail, and that it will not be needed. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland. The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Of course the individual has some responsibility. Denying their responsibility is denying their agency, and thus denying the most important part of their humanity. They're not children. They're not senile. Oil companies don't force them at gun point. Of course its partly the fault of individuals.

"We will never fucking trust you again." (Senior NATO military officer to US counterparts at the Halifax International Security Forum last November) www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

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%.

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