”Europe is currently the fastest-warming continent. Since the 1980s, Europe’s warming has outpaced the global average by a factor of two.” Caused by changing weather patterns, reduced aerosols and geography. #EU27 #Arctic #ClimateHeating climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-euro...

”Even if we were to assume that all exported crops went to direct human food consumption — which they don’t — yield growth trends would still be outpaced by yield growth for crops for animal feed, fuel and industry.” #Growth www.wri.org/insights/cro...

The American preoccupation with producing, consuming and controlling oil may ultimately prove a misplaced priority: a scramble to control the energy resources of the 20th century.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

I'll have 2x 14.5 litre panniers, a 24 litre waterproof pack on the rear rack, a 20 litre backpack and an 11 litre quick-release handlebar pack on the eeb. Also, a small frame pack and a snack pouch - in total, this will be more space and especially weight than I carry on the back (picture below)

Modern society still produces energy with steam turbines, uses it in internal combustion engines and even the jets were invented during the second world war. We are reliant on a few major crop varieties and overharvest almost everything from the biosphere.

The latest video from @tillathenun.bsky.social prompted me to check our system for the last 12 months: 6.64MWh produced 6.21MWh consumed about £250 received from @octopus.energy This is for a 100% electric house with heat pumps, plus running an EV The future is clean, electric & renewable ⚡☀️🔌

I've noticed a few things about the e-MTB that beat hiking to remote rivers: in spring temperatures, you don't sweat even with a heavy load; it is easy to ride directly to the destination, including on single track; and I don't get fatigued for the next day's fishing or hiking. #eMTB 🤠

The 2022 energy crisis proved that energy behaviour isn't fixed. Gas use fell as people adapted 📉 Nesta’s Madeleine Gabriel explains the practical steps you can take right now to stay ahead of the next price shock. 🎧Watch ep 4 of the Policy Fix: https://bit.ly/41K0PSY

Good news. French have too many volunteers for their 10 months military service program! Bad news. The size of the program, 1800 recruits, is less than half of Estonian yearly one. Considering the populations, French have ways to go militarnyi.com/en/news/too-...

@twonks.bsky.social drew this. I like it.

”Even if we were to assume that all exported crops went to direct human food consumption — which they don’t — yield growth trends would still be outpaced by yield growth for crops for animal feed, fuel and industry.” #Growth www.wri.org/insights/cro...

New research from Sweden's Lake Vättern reveals that cocaine pollutants drive young salmon to move more widely and erratically. These behavioral shifts, caused by urban wastewater, threaten growth and survival. The study highlights the urgent need for better environmental monitoring. Learn more!

Weaken a movie Apocalypse Later!

This is a critical point: *today*, even in countries that don’t introduce policies & measures to support it, consumers can unilaterally enact electrification and demand destruction

Loving reminder from the Muppets that your compassion for others and desire for a better world is never a bad thing even if it feels most people disagree

”Europe is currently the fastest-warming continent. Since the 1980s, Europe’s warming has outpaced the global average by a factor of two.” Caused by changing weather patterns, reduced aerosols and geography. #EU27 #Arctic #ClimateHeating climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-euro...

📉 In 2025, around 90% of the continent had fewer cold stress days than average – a record low. 📈 41% of Europe saw more ‘strong’ heat stress days & parts of southern Europe had up to 30–40 more tropical nights. Get more insight ⬇️ @ecmwf.int @wmo-global.bsky.social #CopernicusClimate

March felt highly abnormal, almost like a regular April. The months have been mixed up for a few years in Finland. The winters were almost snowless in North Karelia.

The mercury rose to 23.5C on May 2, following the warmest March-April period ever recorded in #Finland #weather #climate yle.fi/a/74-20223806

Momentum building for Scottish-style access rights in England, says film OUR LAND, an amazing new film that interviews both landowners & members of the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, is out in cinemas from 8th May. Be sure to see it - and tell your MP to go! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tomorrow is International Dawn Chorus Day! Whether you crack the window open, or step out under the trees, take a moment to pause & listen. We’d love you to share your recordings, photos or dawn chorus moments with us. #DawnChorusClub: It's time. Set your alarms... Who'll be up with the birds? 💚

“At the root of this disconnect between Brussels and Berlin is the CDU and CSU’s systematic disregard for combatting the climate crisis, articulated most vociferously by Reiche… Reiche was the CEO of Westenergie AG, a subsidiary of the energy company E.ON” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Latest comic on an economy that has become hostile to humanity.

Butchers we are, that is true.

Reform UK’s pledge to gut existing climate and green policies would cause 500,000 jobs losses, rising to more than 1.4 million people put out of work by 2040, according to new research. ✍️ - Matt Mace for edie.net www.edie.net/reforms-anti...

Die Auswirkungen der Erderhitzung sind bereits jetzt deutlich in Österreich 🇦🇹 sichtbar. Trotzdem: ❌ kein Klima(schutz)gesetz ⚖️ ❌ keine Änderung der klimaschädlichen Subventionen 💶 ❌ Kürzungen bei Klimaforschungsprogramm #ACRP 🔬

Car manufacturers can make products that societies currently need such as electric buses and infantry fighting vehicles, but leveraged budget airlines are reliant on the combination of subsidies, tax-free fuels and a small portion of people who fly the most. yle.fi/a/74-2020945...

FAQ: Why are trains more expensive than flying?

”Global tourism emissions grew 3.5% p.a. between 2009-2019, double that of the worldwide economy, reaching 5.2 Gt CO2-e or 8.8% of total global GHG emissions in 2019.” Budget airlines are supposed to save oil demand growth when road transport slowly electrifies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Russia's Tuapse refinery not looking in good shape after Ukraine's 4th visit yesterday.

Finnish summer cottage owners are inconvenienced by the low water levels in the Vuoksi watershed. They cannot drive outboard engine boats to the piers because the water line has retreated more than ten meters. yle.fi/a/74-2022334...

My favourite moment in any oil price shock cycle is when the Very Serious Energy People explain why this — again! — is not the time to give a shit about the climate crisis

Damn.

Carbon capture and storage has always been a non-viable technology at scale, used to forestall actions to actually reduce carbon emissions. Saying that Canada should drop CCS and triple down on pipelines is simply to abandon the pretense of actually wanting to address the climate emergency.

🚨NEW: The impact of climate change on our economic stability is being hugely underestimated. Our latest analysis shows climate damage could drive the EU’s debt-to-GDP ratio 58 percentage points higher than official projections by 2050.

"President Donald Trump said Friday he still is considering a half-billion-dollar government bailout for Spirit Airlines as the debt-ridden air carrier prepares to shut down." Capitalism? www.thewellnews.com/white-house/...

"Finland, Norway and Sweden made an early decision to move away from heating oil following the energy crisis in the 1970s (...) the oil price rocketed by almost 300% due to an oil embargo by the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries." #OilCrisis www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

Good to hear that the Irish government is looking into additional payments for heat pumps and efficient cars, rather than just addressing the energy crisis with cuts to fossil fuel prices. However, supporting HVO ("renewable diesel") would be a really bad idea. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

We might as well start preparing to explain why energy price increases aren’t due to the transition to renewables, but due to the transition not happening faster.

Key findings from 2025 include a record 1 million hectares burned by wildfires, glacier mass loss across all European regions, and river flows below average for 11 out of 12 months. (continues...)

And hopefully by "efficient car" supports they mean small fully electric cars, and e-cargo bikes.

What will the global fossil fuel market look like once the closure of the Hormuz ends? In short, volatile and risky but oversupplied - terrible for fossil fuel investors, less so for clean energy investors. The UAE's decision to leave OPEC reinforced this.

Mikäli ei ole käyskennellyt luonnontilaisessa ikimetsässä Saamenmaan valoisassa kesäyössä, niin voi sikäli olla tyytyväinen, että se kokemus on vielä edessä. Elämässä on jotain, mitä odottaa.

e-MTB efficiency shines compared to driving 100-200 km and hiking the last stretch to the river. I can carry up to 20 kg and walk about 10-15 kilometers per day, pushing it. A train combined with the e-MTB can reach all areas in North Karelia with at least 25 to 30 kg of load. No sweating! #eMTB

Take the bus or train? Cycle? Walk more? Car share? Nope none of those. And nothing about using this moment to push for policies that both reduce energy costs and climate impacts.

Imagine if we would have not designed transport around ever larger, heavier and more powerful cars for excess consumption. Or governments prioritising aviation growth over other priorities. Now we will learn #Sufficiency

It is incredibly difficult to be an advocate for sustainable mobility in communities where the available public transport options are diminishing in frequency and reliability and the commitments to proposed improvements have simply been withdrawn.

⚡️Ukraine strikes Russian airfield nearly 1,700 kilometers away, damages 2 fighter jets, General Staff says. Ukrainian forces hit a Su-57 and a Su-34 fighter jet on May 1 at the Shagol airfield in Chelyabinsk, Russia, the General Staff said.

Yeah, it was a shock when I visited an old-growth forest for the first time. They are so rare in southern Finland that many people have never been in one. Gladly we have restored rivers at landscape scale, so it brings back a situation similar to what it was before human alteration from the 1950s.

"Within just a few decades of Europeans beginning to develop what is now Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1870s, 99 percent of Pacific herring, surf smelt, and eulachon had been wiped out in nearby waters." hakaimagazine.com/news/we-knew...