It's been such a busy week, I almost forgot to humblebrag about the fact I'm now officially a published scientific co-author... 🤯https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.70130

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

“Every year we leave the Cop depressed, but [we] will begrudgingly continue to participate – because if we’re not at the table, we’ll be on the menu.” (Ralph Regenvanu - Vanuatu Minister of Climate Change) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is nuts... www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

If the seas die, we die. It really is that simple... www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Isn't this... basically... the plot from 'The Last of Us'...? 🧟https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-fungal-infections-are-adapting-to-climate-change-and-threatening-public-health/

Seems China believes in climate change, even if certain others don't... Certainly not spectacular but it's a start... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lifetime of li-ion batteries that power our modern lifestyles is orders of magnitude longer if batteries are kept between 30-80%. Never completely full, never empty. And yet so few devices have this setting as standard. Almost like manufacturers actively want stuff to break, huh?

I'll take my new Myopia RS Club Sport in Guards Red, please @porscheusa.bsky.social... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Green Party now has 78,000 members. Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line. I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

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...

NEW #ProductionGap report out today! @neilgrant.bsky.social told @theguardian.com “So far, renewable energy growth has been an addition alongside fossil fuel demand, and we haven’t seen peak demand. But given the pace of change in the energy system that could change quite significantly."

And just like *that* it’s suddenly woolly jumper weather again 🍂

Another HOT TAKE on Australia's 2035 targets, but also a comment more generally on rise of climate "realism" and "pragmatism", where simply giving up on trying to stop us being killed by fossil fuels is presented as the Very Reasonable and Very Serious thing to do.

Not sure @buffalo-bills.bsky.social are winning it all this season if they manage to make such a mediocre Miami team look competitive for large portions of this game

I feel you Bronze and Iron Age farmers...

Trump is in today’s State Visit press conference saying wind power is "a disaster, a very expensive joke" Presumably he didn’t realise every other light 💡 and microphone 🎤 in that press conference was being powered by wind

More Americans are very worried about climate change than are about crime. @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

So there are hundreds of thousands of British men of fighting age whose shared interests include ‘patriotism’, buzz-cuts, marching en masse and fighting foreigners. And meanwhile the Army has a recruitment crisis? #BringBackNarionalService

Deep down, so many of the liberal elite are unwilling to sacrifice any bit of discomfort to bring about a more just society because the current system has given them their wealth, prestige, and platform. They are hopelessly inured to a failing system and unwilling to break from it.

Even Jason Bordoff, who runs Columbia's Center for Global Energy Policy — no lefty! — thinks that "climate realism" is bullshit.

Brazil... nuts... #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Apart from reminding us that the Germans really do have all the best words - 'wackelzahnpubertät' or 'wobbly-toothed puberty' being today's example - this is an interesting read for primary-age parents... www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

The world may be in permacrisis, but at least we can relax in the knowledge AI will help us harness the power that fuels the sun within the next five years... 😏https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlz5p314z0o

“There is so much in culture, in society, that you’ve been living in unconsciously. But you see that crack of light coming through – and realise that’s what you want to follow. I think that’s what midlife is about. And it’s very engaging.” (@IamSandraOh) www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘In the 1930s, [Elon Musk’s] grandfather headed an anti-democratic fringe political movement in Canada with fascist overtones, which campaigned for government by elite technocrats. He then moved to apartheid South Africa because the racist system appealed to him.’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Can’t wait for the ‘SAS: Are You Tough Enough?’ Xmas Special with Ant Middleton putting all his new fascist friends through their paces.

“It is the absolute worst-case scenario.” The move by President Trump and Republicans in Congress to cut public-broadcasting funds is forcing profound changes that will reshape the airwaves, especially in rural and tribal areas. nyti.ms/46qif99

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

This you? Just two hours later?

Starmer was apoplectic and very vocal about peaceful anti-Israel protests But his silence at this obscene display of fascism, supported by Musk and other US extremists, is deafening We have a truly spineless PM www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

These are evil times... #politics #fascism

Instead of reporting that 100,000 people joined Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s march today, they should be reporting that 99.85% of the UK population couldn’t be arsed.

Can't set limits on emissions if you don't know how much polluters are emitting... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

Love this quote from @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social of @mongabay.com fame... > “Optimism, properly understood, is not a mood. It is a method.” news.mongabay.com/2025/09/the-...

We got 99 COP problems but Bolsonaro ain't one... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Both Democrats and Republicans hold exaggerated ideas about how much their rivals tolerate violence when in fact both sides mostly abhor it. This fuels misperceptions all around.' www.economist.com/united-state...

open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p... This is beyond creepy

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

If Charlie Kirk's death makes a few other self-appointed online political commentators/agitators across the spectrum think twice about their career choice, I don't feel like that would be a bad thing.

What he said I agree with.

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social:

'Swiss chemists reported that while 200 milligrams of morphine per kilogram of bodyweight (mg/kg) was enough to kill half of a test population of mice, the most potent original nitazene required only 1 mg/kg to achieve the same effect.' www.economist.com/science-and-...

Did that local Tory councillor really make a comparison between a solar farm planning application in West Oxon and the unstable spoil heap that caused the Aberfan disaster? Tell me that was fake news

I was today years old when I discovered that there’s an Environmental Doomsday Clock.

What matters for climate is not how much clean energy is being built. What matters is the change in the share of electricity generation coming from clean energy. Using that metric, China doesn't even make the list. So, again: all-of-the-above energy is not a #climate solution.

I know ppl say this a lot but I think it weirdly hasn't sunk in yet: once China's fossil fuel use starts to drop, our *entire species* usage of fossil fuels will mostly follow the same trajectory. Massive new @ember-energy.org report out today on China: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...