Fires & Fascism showing at: Norwich, Cinema City Wed 19 Nov, 6pm www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail... @rupertread.bsky.social @helenb92.bsky.social @norwichgreenparty.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @noellonghurst.bsky.social @norwichfoe.bsky.social @timosbornclim.bsky.social

This looks great!

For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year. #Melissa

Its out! Our new Index on International Media Freedom Support (IMFS) - which ranks 30 countries on how actively they support #mediafreedom beyond their borders through diplomatic, funding and safety initiatives. Key findings here: jdem.org/the-imfs-ind... Full report here: jdem.org/wp-content/u...

Great piece by Kitty Cresswell Riol on the feminst power of the bicycle. If you are in Norwich then join us tomorrow (Weds 22nd Oct) on the Norwich Glow Ride at 630pm tomorrow outside City Hall.

10 days left to apply for this course! Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social! #envhist #energyhistory #envhum

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

It's the 'Scientists Responsibility Summit' today. Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CHINA Almost 40C Up to at 39.3C Jiannang,39.0 Jiangde,38.7 Quzhou,38.6 Chagshan,38.5 Jiangshan and Shangrao,48.4 Yunhe,38.3 Lanzi and Yushan,38.2 Nanfeng etc 83 new records of October highest temperature (36 Maxes+47 Mins) Almost 1000 in East Asia already!

As the government panics about bond market gyrations, its always useful to understand how the UK government actually finances itself: by creating new money, just like a bank. New paper with @AskerVoldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage Sign & share ⏬️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown. 🧵1/10

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

Great 'streamgraph' on the rise, fall and rise of nuclear in the UK.

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

Absolute must-read here from @amywestervelt.bsky.social “The question is not: who is the Joe Rogan of the left? But rather … who is the Rupert Murdoch of the left?

Thrilled to share my first PhD paper, Towards Modelling Post-Growth Climate Futures, out today in Environmental Research Letters. Grateful to my brilliant co-authors and supervisors @femkenijsse.bsky.social, Paul Brockway & Karen Bickerstaff. tinyurl.com/3xatxfkh

"Scientists and scientific institutions must defend academic freedom, and that must include the right for scientists to participate in legitimate peaceful protest" #StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

With the arrival of ‘Liberation Day’ I thought it might be useful to share a short thread of resources that have helped me to make sense of the MAGA / Trump / Musk project. The first is this piece in @theatlantic.com by Jonathan Rauch (1/8). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Really good piece on the complexity of the worklessness problem in Britain

I'm with Danya outlining why she moved to Ghost, and I launched my newsletter Meditationsinanemergency.com with Ghost, because I knew Substack had a lot of ethical issues--bullshit rhetoric to justify platforming hate speech & racism plus the backing of some of the worst people in Silicon Valley.

2024 was the hottest year on record 📈 TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉 #EndClimateSilence

Ontario is issuing a 25% export tax on electricity to the US, WSJ is reporting, in response to President Tariff there in D.C. This impacts millions in Minnesota, Michigan and New York, prices in New England are doubling Definitely making america great again!

Hear from experts on the challenges of climate communication in a polarised media landscape. Prof Saffron O'Neill @richardabetts.bsky.social @leohickman.carbonbrief.org 📅 Wed 12 March 2025 ⏰ 14:00-15:00 BST 📍University of Exeter (online attendance option) Register ➡️ https://buff.ly/3X4fPJe

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you know a woman starting out in sustainability, please do let them know about this event we're putting on - great chance to build confidence and contacts.

NEW: Trump is freezing money for clean energy — batteries, EVs, renewables, heat pumps, and more. Nearly 80% of manufacturing investments spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act have flowed to Republican congressional districts. w/ Lisa Friedman & @bradplumer.bsky.social 👇 Gift link in reply

1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

Good to start the week with the news that Trump has ONLY announced tarrifs of 25% on steel and aluminium. Feels almost normal.

your attention please HERE ARE THE FINALISTS FOR MINNESOTA'S NAME A SNOWPLOW CONTEST vote for your favorite (you don't need to be a MN resident): www.dot.state.mn.us/nameasnowplow/

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

Nice piece in the @financialtimes.com this morning about how Trump's "Drill, Baby Drill" strategy to reduce inflation is fundamentally flawed. Oil price drives activity, not rhetoric, and to drill the price needs to be high enough.

A reminder of this elusive climate win win. foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/ai-i...

I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.

Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Travel, flying and the climate crisis (Exeter). Our panel of local speakers will discuss various aspects of sustainable travel, from flying in academia, to why leading by example is important when it comes to choosing how we travel. www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

🚨Hugely valuable new research determines that misinformation is delivered and driven almost exclusively by radical right-wing actors for political ends.

I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

Hey @iea.org Is your Energy Sankey tool ever going to come back? The website still says it was going to be relaunched in early 2024.

Here's my visual explanation of why we have not yet reached 1.5°C even though 2024 was likely warmer than 1.5°C. 2024 shows us how close we are, but the underlying warming is still under 1.5°C.

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

This study adds to the growing body of evidence about the impact of solid fuel burning on air quality. Now how to change people's minds because I still see people proudly posting pictures of their cosy fire? As I said yesterday I am that disappointed guy... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔥 This is MASSIVE news! More than 75% of UK universities divest from the fossil fuel industry! That's thanks to 10 years of tireless campaigning from students putting on the pressure. ✊ Campaigning works. This shows our power! 👇

Can someone in London please nail this excellent piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social to the door of 10 Downing Street? Ta.

Last year we ran some events at the University of East Anglia imagine what a solarpunk university might look like. They went down well and so today we are repeating the 'Introduction to Solarpunk' talk. If you are Solarpunk curious please feel free to come along.Teams link here: bit.ly/3ATZsaw

Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄? Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year. First up @doctorvive.bsky.social's indispensable guide to talking climate action & fighting fossil fuel propaganda 🧵