Corrected headline: In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed by car drivers who didn’t properly control their cars on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been killed annually by car drivers. Safety experts explain how car drivers need to stop killing pedestrians and cyclists

2. What do planetary boundaries mean in real life to real people living their lives? A chapter in this new report about planetary boundaries discusses exactly this topic:

NEW WorldRiskReport 2025 with a focus on Floods. Topics covered: Formal and Informal Structures in Disaster (Risk) Governance Technological Innovations for Flood Risk Management Flood Risk Is Local: Why Solutions Must Be Too Flood Risk Reduction through Nature-based Solutions on Private Land

This is arguably one of the most complex steering scenarios in recent memory!! Two hurricanes(?), a stalled cut-off upper low, and a deep Greenland cold pool diving south. How all these factors interact with each other is driving the models (and meteorologists lol) up the wall!! 1/

For reasons I cannot begin to fathom, @davidho.bsky.social has decided to commandeer my midlife crisis.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Have uncovered incontrovertable proof of immigrants repeatedly eating spit roasted swans: The offenders are called Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, son of a German immigrant and his Danish wife Alexandra. More on this breaking news story as I get it www.royal-menus.com/kings-britai...

Good that they’re catching up. This is from 8 months ago:

The @BBCWorld, @AFP, @AP & @reuters have released a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza.

24. Horrific. Our planet’s oceans are failing key health checks as acidity crosses critical thresholds for marine life. Death and collapse will most definitely follow, along with famine for billions globally:

22. The days of oil are over. Oil extraction is now becoming so expensive that oil prices would need to be above $80 per barrel for US shale extraction to be profitable. Meanwhile solar PV costs less than an equivalent of $20 per barrel oil. Oil’s chances have gone up in smoke. Literally.

Are we really going there, are UK politicians really parroting the absolute nonsense - dangerous nonsense - being spouted by Trump and other US politicians? Paracetamol was invented in 1878 and has been *extensively* studied. Perhaps we should shine a light on who funds Reform?

7. A new piece by Rowan Hooper about encouraging YIMBYism especially for solar power:

4. How Colorado’s governor is speeding up solar and wind development despite Trump:

HELP NEEDED: A colleague's mum in mid Wales has been told by her heating company they cannot install a heat pump for her in her old stone house. Can someone recommend a local installer who is experienced with old houses and heat pumps?

This is the picture I use. This is what Nigel Farage wants the UK to look like when he allows fracking. I don't think people realise the density of wells needed to extract gas from an area.

Here is a coal mine, tiny, isn't it 🤥

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Just signed the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection to end academic collaborations and bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. Colleagues in European academia are more than welcome to do the same (via the link below)!

“This is the way intelligent humans change the cities they live in.”

Such an amazing sight !💚

There has never been better conditions for a force to Labour's left. There has never been a bigger threat from fascism in Britain. If 'Your Party' implodes, that will be tragic - and unforgivable. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

Natural disasters 🌪️ continue to kill years after they happen! Indirect effects of natural disasters could explain the observed higher mortality in south east US 🇺🇸! Data can save lives! #science #data #climate 🧪 📊 🌍

In some places especially with rammed earth or cob houses, village ponds are a clear sign of extraction. Short runs, since this was heavy! Anyway, doggies loved the pond / clay pit at the time of #deepretrofitting our house with local materials.

America plunges headlong into Onion territory Oklahoma lawmakers introduce legislation requiring every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader" Or get fined www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Also what’s up with the NYT title? It’s made up nonsense. Almost every country in the world is accelerating away from fossil fuels with only a few white supremacist exceptions: USA UK Norway Australia Canada New Zealand The NYT slips its mask again. A white supremacist rag.

Can someone tell Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer?

For decades the fossil fuel companies have been putting out disinformation and bribing politicians, to protect their sale of fossil fuels, because capitalism puts short-term profits ahead of long-term consequences. Similarly for the companies that produce weapons. We need to end capitalism.

It’s called “burning fossil fuels”. That’s what’s fucking up our ability to stay alive because burning fossil fuels entirely fucks up our climate. Making it fucked. Entirely fucked. Fossil fuels are the fuck up. To stop the fuck up stop burning fossil fuels. Immediately.

The line between outright, manufactured climate propaganda and the ideology that justifies fossil capitalism is sometimes not even a line — sometimes it's a mere space on one continuum.

TL;DR? It's because of this:

Or this result - the terrestrial carbon sink nearly flipped into a source as we massively seem to have underestimated increases in microbial respiration - just a jump by ~3.5Gt C - sinke declined to ~0.3Gt C as NPP increased by ~1.5 Gt C

Don’t forget to let them know.

Another senior Russian executive has been found dead in Moscow. Alexander Tyunin, CEO of Umatex, a Rosatom subsidiary, supplied materials for Shahed drone production. Russia says suicide.

Techno-fascist companies suffer the consequences of their own actions www.businessinsider.com/read-memos-s...

Does summer seem to be lasting longer? Check out this recent data analysis from @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... Find your town here (United States) and share the result: www.climatecentral.org/graphic/ling...

Sometimes I think about how ~$200k per year of gift funding - which is often overhead free - would fund a rotating team of three PhD students and a professor at a public university to do whatever research they want, forever, unbeholden to the whims or ideology of federal or corporate sponsors.

ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN EUROPE Europe is living its most extreme event in 2+ centuries of history Records (even all time summer records) are being smashed by hundreds with margins even >5C. Stay tuned for updates (19:30utc) of the most extreme heat event in Alpine history.

The Disney franchise is now forever associated with the Orange Assolini regime. They are part of it.

Or how MHW persistence made a jump in 2023/24 - this shit is just starting and related to the cloud feedback over warmer oceans: stratification, declining upper mixed layer dept, blocking patterns and stalling high pressure, OHU shifting to shallower depths, and SSTAs reducing clouds cover...

Long suspected the majority of deaths from natural disasters occur in the years afterwards due to ongoing health, wellbeing and economic impacts. We currently only count the immediate deaths and therefore hugely underestimate the impacts. Such important work as natural disasters increase.

Corporate Statism. 1978 "... larger questions about the collaboration of multinational corporations with one another and with military powers. ...no doubt of how easily the pursuit of profit coexisted with barbarism in the Third Reich." www.nybooks.com/articles/197...

With this action this week disney has become a one sided company. Hope they can survive on only republicans. Actually I hope they can't. Keep canceling them! Show them our purchasing power! We will not relent to these assholes!!! Fuck trump, fuck the nazis, fuck the racists, and fuck disney!

Two weeks after its release, THE LIE OF THE LAND climbs six places to no.3 on national non-fiction bestseller list! Pleasantly surprised to see there is real public interest in a book about Ireland and the #climate emergency.