The University of Exeter has announced plans to axe 150 academic staff - most in humanities and social sciences. This will also put education & research groups in Penryn, Cornwall at risk. Degree programmes will be closed. It's a disaster. Please sign this petition. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

The more fossil fuels we burn, the more people will suffer and die. That's the brutal calculus of the climate crisis. A crisis that is the result of a tiny fraction of humanity preferring profit & power over people.

European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don’t know when we last broke a monthly record three days in a row but this breaks the previous 1976 record by a wide margin

Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."

Episode links: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/70gN... Youtube: youtu.be/d8ic1KVmryY Substack: open.substack.com/pub/savingth...

Climate change will stress social systems, which can respond - up to a point. Like a physical material they can fracture & fail. Adaption is vital to reduce suffering & to protect the institutions needed for sustainability transitions against fracture points. www.technosphere.earth/from-tipping...

My latest for Technosphere Earth. From tipping points to fracture points www.technosphere.earth/from-tipping...

Cllr Austen Moore had put forward a proposal to scrap King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council's climate emergency declaration - to be discussed on Thursday. The meeting has now been called off amid red and amber Met Office alerts for heat. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Credit to @TudorTongue on Instagram

15/ This is just a small piece of Carbon Captured, our new, ongoing investigative series with Drilled, looking at how the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself. Follow the series here: projects.propublica.org/carbon-captu...

Are picture editors paid by the bikini? Do they long for European heatwaves so they can use photos of women in bikinis, yes on the beach but preferably in urban settings?

Fantastic and important work that sheds light on how the fossil fuel industry has put its thumb on the scales of climate solutions research. What kills me is that I expect this from them. I expect better from academic researchers. Collusion just undermines trust and makes it harder to do our jobs.

"concentrated ownership, regulatory capture, & business model that extracts data & attention at scale. Instead of reckoning with that we get all kinds of other talk about whether capitalism is mutating into technofeudalism or AI will automate away every job in existence." fortune.com/2026/06/21/n...

1976 was hot. 2026 is hotter.

MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel laureate, argues that the current discourse on AI is overly optimistic and detached from reality. He believes that AI’s economic impact will be limited, with only a small percentage of tasks being profitably automated in the near term.

A metaphor for the 'hot swap' we need to pull off when it comes to the phase out of fossil fuels & phase in of renewables: Some years ago I witnessed two drivers swap positions of the coach I was in as it was hammering along a motorway (not my photo) 1/4

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Many are following this. Those at risk here on Exeter's Cornwall campus include myself and colleagues in Geography, Environmental Science, Marine Science, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Maths, Humanities, and 1/2 the Environment and Sustainability Institute. I really hope this can be resolved.

Irony being fried in the heatwave. A London Climate Action Week event on adaptation to extreme heat was cancelled because of... extreme heat. The venue didn't have any AC. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

A UN inquiry says over 20,000 Palestinian children have been killed and 44,000 injured since Oct 2023, with evidence of torture, sexual violence, and attacks on schools, hospitals and orphanages. When children become targets, humanity itself stands accused. #Gaza #HumanRights

There's a lot of talk about narrative these days but what we really need to be talking about is Narrative Power. It's all around us but how do we actually define it? This short piece offers some answers: www.patrickreinsborough.com/what-to-chan...

Big and very shallow = very, very bad.

They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate this petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

Petition to the University if Exeter ti not dismantle its humanities programs. The humanities help make thoughtful, active citizens, something all democracies need!

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Sadiq Khan has been saving people's lives.

The RAIB have released their initial findings regarding the Elstow (Bedford) rail crash: www.gov.uk/government/n...

Any UK news presenter or journalist that talks about this week's extraordinary heatwave in terms of ice cream, cooling off in the sea, or having BBQs should be made to spend a few hours collecting trolleys from a baking supermarket carpark, or try sleeping in a south facing London terrace House.

This was Brisket, soon after he joined our pack. I want to tell you about him because it was the 40º UK heatwave that did him in, in 2022. And how that changed how I approach heat and why I skipped #LCAW26. Short 🧵

Next they will be putting fencing up around Miami to keep back riding seas. Perhaps they can supply a gilded throne for Trump to sit on.

Imagine being a climate scientist. You've been explaining what is likely to happen for a whole career. Our public discourse / politicians continually de-emphasise it, while vested interests attack the science. Nothing, literally nothing, is more important than starting to aggressively decarbonise.

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Gave an interview to @news.sky.com earlier this evening about heatwaves. I said I gave a very similar interview 10 years ago (that time to BBC) about heatwaves. Politicians have failed to act. Societies have failed to adapt. And here we are. We are in dangerous climate change.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Review of CH Waddington's influence on developmental biology and evo-devo: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... includes supp info with his 50th birthday songs!

Prior to this week, 10 hottest UK days were all in July & August. June 24th 2026 will probably leap to #2 hottest day of all time. Previous hottest June ever was on 28th in 1976 at 35.6°C. This is extraordinary. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new....

UK infrastructure was built for a different climate. There have already been many delays to trains this week because of the heat (e.g. rails expand & buckle while overhead power lines sag). Now National Rail essentially saying: don't bother trying on Wednesday & Thursday.

It's not rocket science is it. And you can be sure the car manufacturers were well aware that larger vehicles are more deadly. But they prioritised profits over pedestrian's lives.

There is the risk that some events at London Climate Action Week will be cancelled this week because of an extraordinary heatwave. The @metoffice.gov.uk has just upgraded to red alert on Wedneday with London at 40°C. Previous June record was 35.6°C. This is an emergency.

"For more than two decades, Mona Khalil protected the endangered sea turtles that laid their eggs on a beach near her bed-and-breakfast in Lebanon and kept predators away from the vulnerable hatchlings running to the Mediterranean Sea." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/w...

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT “NORMAL SUMMER WEATHER” FOR THE UK — ESPECIALLY IN JUNE! (Record is 35.6°C) We are seeing the effects of climate change due to human activity playing out. Image is the latest Met Office forecast for London

That it's a rhetorical question does not lessen its urgency.

We are hiring a postdoc to research Earth's Energy Imbalance using Earth system model simulations and satellite observations. I appreciate anyone spreading the word! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Three hikers died from apparent heat-related illnesses in the Grand Canyon on two separate days in the past week in the inner canyon, where temperatures can exceed 109 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade during midday hours, federal officials said. https://cnn.it/4fSFXBe