Every day this post becomes ever more correct

The critical thing to understand about this air conditioning debate is that fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for destroying the planet.

Iran was treated abysmally in this World Cup. I wonder how the U.S. will feel when a future host does this to one of our teams. Because that will happen. That’s the precedent that was set.

I managed to get Mariska Hargitay's epic dash to MSG onto her IMDB page!

This is evil collective punishment.

Pope Leo preparing for release of a new encyclical on artificial intelligence:

“Built for a climate that no longer exists” is a good phrase www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The responses to this video, from what I presume are US Americans, are strange. Who knows when this video was taken but what they are doing is incredibly dangerous and many Ukrainians have died. It is not a video game.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This devastating attack from the Court majority destroys protections for voters of color across the country.

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

“Darth Vader Looking To Become Even More Hated In The Galaxy, Takes Up Cycling”

"No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first..." "While city pools and splash pads consume almost 2 million gallons of water over the course of a summer, a single Exxon plastics plant consumes 13 million gallons per day." hmmm

Vanuatu’s climate change minister @rregenvanu.bsky.social wrote for Al Jazeera about what’s happening with talks to reduce emissions from shipping at the International Maritime Organization, happening this week and next in London www.aljazeera.com/author/ralph...

Important coverage by @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social. The other thing that stands out: three out of the six women are organising against fossil fuels. The award has underlined the importance of actions aligned to a key principle: primum non nocere. Do no harm.

Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world’s top environmental award https://aje.news/d1zgl2

"Air pollution acts as a silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years.” My latest piece for @theguardian.com on research on 396,000 people in the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Conditions whose onset sped up with air pollution include: Parkinson's, Dementia, thyroid conditions, diabetes, asthma, schizophrenia, high blood pressure, dystonia + bone fractures (related to links between air pollution + osteoporosis). share.google/t61ru2BTF1Il... 2/3

Peter on Maintenance Phase, as a treat

I run a public library, and our numbers are all going up: more people through the door, more items checked out, more computer use, and a ton of new item requests. Same thing happened during the 2008 recession.

It isn't obscure in library circles, and it should be obvious, but it does seem to confuse a lot of people when I note that a bad economy always sees a spike in virtually every library use statistic.

I spoke to Violet Coco before she left to participate in the biggest ever flotilla attempting to break Israel's siege on the Gaza strip. “The borders are still heavily controlled by Israel, and food and medicine is still heavily controlled,” said Coco, who is one of 15 Australians participating.

A 20 yo asked me if I knew about Pauline Hanson (an Australian politician, think Marjorie Taylor Green) and I laughed at told her I'd known about Hanson since before she was born. Then I thought for a moment and followed up with "that's not hyperbole."

Thank you to the night shift for your incredible work, tonight and every night.

Oh dear. The New York Times clever headline about NATO is entirely based on them getting its name wrong 😐 The A doesn’t stand for America, dudes.

Mother Earth is so fine dawg and she gives us everything we could ever ask for how can we be out here doing her like this

I want New Yorkers to take in the fact that we have to fight for $150 million more dollars to be allocated to our public libraries out of a 127 BILLION city expense budget. I just... [IT MAKES NO SENSE.]

In 1979 "Practically overnight, consumer demand turned from gas-guzzling large cars - Detroit's specialty - to gas-sipping small cars, largely built by Japanese companies." www.autonews.com/article/2013...

The 2026 Holberg Prize is awarded to Australian-British scholar Lyndal Roper of the University of Oxford for her ground-breaking research into early modern European history. holbergprize.org/laureates/ho...

Now there is an electric induction stove shortage in India www.reuters.com/business/ene...

'QLD Teenager Arrested For Displaying Lack Of Social Cohesion.'

Worth re-reading this from @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social written in 2024 on the anniversary of the horrific Christchurch mosque massacre The white supremacist Islamophobia normalised by hate groups like Advance, politicians like Pauline Hanson, institutions like police & media is getting worse

Hey, it's Flytrap Tuesday! This week, worker-owner @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social writes about how the media ignored evangelical support of Donald Trump--and now, we are all paying the price.

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

From gutting regulations, to axing research and infrastructure funding, to dismantling the country’s premier climate research center — #climate denial is at the center of Trump's government. So why are Democrats are "climate hushing" instead of pushing back?

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

'Fish levels'...

Progressive Greens win closely-watched election in one-time Labour stronghold, while right-wing Reform comes second.

"The ICJ’s 15 judges considered tens of thousands of pages of written submissions and two weeks of oral arguments during the court’s biggest-ever case, before delivering their verdict last year that states have a legal obligation to act on the 'existential threat' of climate change."

The US is pressuring other UN member states to reject a draft resolution by the island nation Vanuatu that supports a recent ruling by the International Court of Justice confirming that countries have a legal obligation to act on climate change. By @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social...

I just published the first edition of my newsletter Revelations, it includes highlights from my recent reporting on climate change, reading recommendations and updates on the archival research I’ve been doing on the links between the oil industry and rapture anxiety

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Group's co-founder declares ruling 'monumental victory' in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people.'

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

I’m up to 92 subscribers, please help me get to 100! #climate #exvangelical #journalism

Hi friends! I’m starting a newsletter to share updates on my writing. I’ll send out occasional emails with some of my recent articles and updates on the book I’m working on which is about climate change, religion and something called rapture anxiety. You can sign up here lyndal-rowlands.beehiiv.com

History will remember, as we flood, boil and parch. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...