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"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social

Just unfathomable. News report about her case here: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi... www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

New post out: "The most dangerous man in America" Understanding "Trump's Prime Minister" Stephen Miller - the nexus of all the streams of right-wing thought and behaviour that embody the current regime. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Why does he? Beyond attempting to grab headlines, boost share price and grift, has anyone suggested combining space-based compute with Solar Radiation Management? Because the cooling fins/radiators needed will be huge. So you may as well block out the sun too 🤷 1/2 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵

🐆🍽️😦🎉 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

A great short talk by Earth Systems prof @jamesgdyke.info here (I haven't yet listened to the others) - 10:40 to 15:20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBCl...

Kids taken yesterday Journalists already arrested today ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week Nothing has changed.

Successive storms have submerged farms across the UK. This is going to increase so we must adapt. But adaptation without phase out of fossil fuels risks being pointless. www.jamesgdyke.info/bbc-radio-4-...

Reform Watch 3: racism, islamophobia, and sexism of Reform’s Redcar candidate The Reform candidate for an upcoming by election in Redcar and Cleveland has quit the party following revelations by Reform Exposed about his racist posts on Twitter/X northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Just 4 weeks until our MOOC starts! The first of three FREE and self-paced #C3S short online courses launches 23 Feb. 2026. Find, interpret & use climate data at work. No background in climate science needed. Register now: climate.copernicus.eu/online-cours... #CopernicusClimate

These sorts of stories are profoundly depressing. The cumulate impacts of trillions of tons of carbon dioxide pollution is melting fragile ecosystems which leaves them open to plunder by the machines of an extractive capitalism that will never been sated.

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww

AI risks driving us even deeper into dangerous climate change.

Despite the Trumps administration's effort to end clean energy in the US, almost all new capacity in 2026 will be from renewables, the EIA finds.

The regime is trying to dissuade people from doing what Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and thousands of patriots are doing: Exercising their First Amendment rights to protect their communities from DHS. Join the next ICE watch training to exercise your rights as federal agents terrorize our communities.

What will you learn at the CCNow Academy? A thread 🧵...

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Ever played the board game Pandemic? I think it contains a surprisingly good lesson for tackling the #climate crisis, especially in a moment of rising far-right politics. Here's why🧵

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

So that's 25% less of barely anything. Or in climate policy language: fuck all.

Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"Non-violence is a posture which demands witnesses. Self defence is a response which demands participation. Only one can protect us in life or death situations." Excellent (as ever) from @racheldonald.bsky.social. www.planetcritical.com/can-non-viol...

ICE agents terrorising Minneapolis provides a glimpse of the future for the US. Climate change could bring about the collapse of institutions & values. If you want a picture of climate breakdown, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever. www.technosphere.earth/no-war-on-a-...

They have only recently finished the coastal protection work that came after the destruction of the 2014 storm.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

This is an extremely difficult video to watch. It shows many ICE agents ontop of a man who while on the ground is shot 10 times. This follows him being pistol whipped (or hit with some object) in the head while subdued. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse. A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!” A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉

Go see this film ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “It’s a tremendous piece of work” “A powerful, thought provoking and inspirational film” “Many, many people need to see this” “It’s your first film, and yet still better than most #climate documentaries I’ve seen!”

There are no words for this. The family entered US legally & were awaiting a scheduled asylum application. They were taking their 7 year old daughter to the hospital. They never got there. They were kidnapped by ICE last week & are apparently being held in Texas. WTUF?

“If you want a picture of climate breakdown, then imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”

Just 1 day in Minnesota and 2 things are crystal clear to me. People are traumatized. And people are resilient. Far from backing down, Minnesotans are organizing—in a cold unlike any I've experienced in my life. Meanwhile, Corporate Democrats push through additional ICE funding. Here's my recap.

There's also been a shift in character in activism. In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact. In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.

The UK gov has finally released the Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security report. We face catastrophe. Why aren't politicians acting? I think some are - but in ways perhaps just as frightening. My latest for Technosphere Earth. www.technosphere.earth/no-war-on-a-...

We are facing an extremely serious threat. There is much we can do, but action will not happen until the public is informed. Please ask your MP to sign the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. #NEB2025 www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

There's nothing theoretical about it melting. In 2025 100 billion tons of it flowed into the North Atlantic. The long-term trend is over 200 billion tons a year. The big uncertainty is where is the tipping point (may already have passed) & how long melt will last (hopefully centuries).

Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast

As the article does actually explain, we do not have student loans - we have a sort of graduate tax in which 9% of earnings above a threshold is paid for 30 years. That's the calculation students need to make. i.e. forget about every paying it back. 1/2. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

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You've heard of the G20. Let me introduce you to the Grift20.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

New wood-burning stoves to carry health warnings in UK plan

China's gas demand is slowing as cheaper renewables skyrocket. Maybe you don't need the "bridge" fuel & can just move quickly to the other side 🤔 ... www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-wh...

Someone somewhere is collating all these incidents yes? Recording as many examples of ICE's actions that are illegal, unconstitutional etc?

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.