If someone wanted to destroy the US automobile industry and tremendously strengthen the Chinese automobile industry, they wouldn't be doing anything differently than what Trump is doing now. China is now producing smarter, cheaper, cleaner cars than the US. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄? Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year. First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵

На днешния Международен ден на железопътния моделизъм напомням, че ако имате деца или пораснали деца, които харесват влакчета, всяка неделя сутрин на 1 ет. на Централна гара ще откриете нашия Клуб по ЖП моделизъм - България. И да няма Ден на отворени врати сме там.🚂 www.facebook.com/watch/?v=365...

Ето, дори американците откриха ЦУМ. Реекспорт на консумеризъм един вид. 🙃

Пример как настойчиви и ефективни граждански движения ЗАЕДНО с подкрепа от администрацията могат (макар и трудно и поетапно) да постигат резултати: www.climateka.bg/zona-niski-e...

Coincidence? (via #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly)

Офшорните вятърни генератори са толкова безсмислени, че дори държава, в която петролът буквално извира от пясъка, е решила да ги строи..

The decline of thicker #Arctic sea ice by decade in the month of December... this has wide-ranging impacts. More info on this data: climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...

За хора (вкл. мен) с нарцистична натура е много важно да имаме приятели и познати корективи - такива, които са критични и дори с ниско мнение за някои черти от характера ни и много от постъпките ни, и не ги е страх да ни го кажат. Това ни връща на земята. Тръмп и др. нямат коректив и всички страдат.

Trump ruins LEGO. www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/12...

Последното, което ще кажа за протеста, защото много тук се дразнят, че съм скептичен. Един протест НЕ Е движение. Движение е да бъдеш част от нещо и да работиш за него всеки ден, месец и година. Ако има движение за прогонване на мафията и модела й в БГ ще е СУПЕР. Сега има 1 протест срещу 1 бюджет.

Staggering numbers of people impacted as Indonesia takes its turn in the crosshairs of climate change driven extreme weather www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Rail decarbonisation is a technology problem that has been comprehensively solved for over a century, and that solution is ⚡️electrification⚡️. New battery tech and discontinuous electrification has now solved for the routes that are too hard to wire. Here I am in 2021 telling the TSC exactly this

Remember this one? I wrote “10 Keys to Making A Great City Plan” 10 years ago in @planetizen.bsky.social to give important advice to cities, and I generally still stand by it today, notwithstanding a few revisions and updates. But f*ck the Gretzky quote, since wow is that guy COMPLETELY awful.

"The #HockeyStick" | My recent conversation with #BBC's Hannah Fry for the "Uncharted with Hannah Fry" podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Когато Оруел ти намигне от телевизора...

НЕ съм на протеста, защото в много лозунги срещу данъците се насажда идеята, че ЕДНИ хора създават богатството, а други им го взимат. Вчера гледах как жени с жилетки съвестно събират кал с листа с ръце и чистят мръсотия от шахти в квартала. За много от "средната класа" тези жени "висят на помощи".🤷🙄

"I walked out moved, unsettled, and profoundly grateful for the scientists and diplomats who refused to be intimidated into silence three decades ago." Read Dr Delta Merner's blog on "Kyoto", a play about the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Lincoln Center.

Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia floods death toll passes 1,100

Напразни есенни копнежи: www.climateka.bg/noemvri-pod-...

Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

How many of us have been saying this, for what seems like ages? The writing was in the wall back in 2014 when Obama and Biden 'declined' to back calls for a NATO or, at least, coalition presence in Ukraine to deter a full-scale invasion attempt. But who listens to warnings from analysts anyway? 🤷‍♂️

"Starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest and wars are among the risks we face if we don’t take decisive action to limit further global warming and preserve nature, leading experts in #climate, food, health and security warned today in London" @nebriefing.bsky.social

"The phenomenon of acid rain was noticed in the 19th century but the threat was largely ignored. Alex Last spoke to Prof Henning Rodhe of @stockholm-uni.bsky.social about the research that alerted the world to the dangers of acid rain" BBC Audio | Witness History www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

AI makes everything worse, and science and all of us stupid. Authored by AI, reviewed by AI, edited by AI, published by AI. Next? cited by AI.

Стана студено и ето #автокотки..

Carbon Brief has published its 20,000-word summary of everything that happened at #COP30, incl: 🇧🇷 Brazil's leadership and around the COP 🤝 The ‘Global mutirão’ text 💰 A new tripling adaptation finance goal 💥 The JTWP's Belem Action Mechanism ⌨️ And so much more www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...

The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.

Read this and weep. A clear and depressing takedown of the Quisling Trump administration, its abject subservience to Russia and betrayal of Ukraine, and by extension, all of us in NATO. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”

Mr. Jekyll, when I shared the outcome of COP30 with him this morning. #caturday

Yes yes, surely we should not “single out” the leading cause of climate change when seeking to address climate change

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement. theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

One of the most difficult documentaries to watch on Russia's genocidal war on #Ukraine 🇺🇦, but a needful reminder, while Trump's America covers itself in shame, helping the aggressor. youtu.be/faaWEQ8lkGc?...

Many people think about cold in Northern Europe if the Atlantic Ocean current system #AMOC fails. But that wouldn’t be the only problem for Europe by far. This new study shows that severe drought is another one. 🌊

Dozens of countries have rejected a draft COP30 climate deal as too weak on the summit's final scheduled day.

This is very precisely the broken headspace of 'carbon offsetting' used by the worst polluters and the most performative capitalist carbon market trading companies. Assume the false dichotomy that you can only have renewable energy paired with more fossil infra, and it all looks lovely

We don’t need another delegation of European leaders flying off to Washington to kiss Trump’s ring now. We need them to get on the train to Kyiv and stand shoulder to shoulder with Zelenskyy.

So Americans are ready to please dictators and walk away from defending democracy and freedom. So be it. One day they will return. Meanwhile we Europeans need to defend Ukraine harder than ever before. We own it for our history’s sake.

A little piece of outreach I did not too long ago:

I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.

THIS!!!!!! (Former FM of Lithuania)

A few experts going right now: "hear me out, Budapest Memorandum, keeping Ukraine out of NATO, telling it to accept loss of Crimea, and pretending the Minsk Accords meant to save Ukraine's sovereignty were all mistakes, but if we now combine all this idiocy into a 28-point plan, it might work!"

It ain't much... www.bbc.com/news/article...

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⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Must have been the International Climate Negotiations Dumpster Fire Pavillion. #COP30 🔥🐶🔥 #fine

If only someone had imagined Russia would be capable of such a thing... 🙄