Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

Western Europe had its hottest June on record.🔥 Intense heatwaves broke temperature records, with peaks up to 9°C above average in France and Germany, according to Copernicus data. Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures. Climate change is here and we are feeling its effects

Interesting piece about divided Britain, which is mirroring what we see in the US. 53% prefer living in a diverse community, 47% said they preferred a more homogenous one. Close to the Brexit vote ten years ago.

Woken at 4am by wildfire smoke filling the house. Southeast Wales, one of the UK's wettest regions, is shrouded in smoke today. You can feel it in your lungs. The climate crisis is now.

Landscapes once entirely non-flammable habitats like natural forest or bog, now highly combustible open grasses/gorse or Sitka, coupled with increasingly frequent extended droughts due to climate breakdown. What could *possibly* go wrong? www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

End of an era for ITV could have implications for Irish viewers

The more than 190 wildfires now burning in northern Ontario are among an estimated 1,000 blazing from coast to coast. They have sent smoke spewing across a swath of North America, including Toronto, which at times last week experienced the worst air quality in the world.

The last time we had a day of significant rainfall (>1 mm) here in Herne Bay was the 27th of June. A common theme of the last decade here seems to be weeks of no rainfall like this almost annually with very little on the horizon.

Slowing down action on climate is a crazy move as temperatures skyrocket. The European Commission needs to accelerate, not slow down plans to reduce emissions. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fires are burning larger, hotter and fiercer. The Peak District blaze has set into the peat, meaning it can smoulder underground and flare up again easily. Severity indexes are off the charts.

For something to be technically a wildfire, it must reach 1 hectare in size. We counted grass/heath/crop/forest fires that might narrowly miss that distinction but still take huge resources to tackle. This is two weeks of Britain burning:

Been on the apocalypse beat this week. Surveying English and Welsh fire services, we count 250+ significant wildfires in the first two weeks of July, destroying thousands of acres: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Going with the flow: Renewable energy battery breakthrough 3D-printed battery developed at Queen's University Belfast could "make a genuine impact" on the road to net zero, www.bbc.com/news/article...

42% of UK garden space has been paved over & that's building urban heat, robbing wildlife of homes + surging runoff into drains, increasing flood risk + sewage discharge. De-pave Your Garden says even just using planting strips on your drive can make a huge difference. share.google/Dkb3FOi35hqp...

Conor here had to take a long pause in our correspondence about how he thinks I and all other immigrants, should be deported, because he was working abroad.

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Thanks everyone who supported the Critical Infrastructure Bill!

Smoke may be visible on the N4, close to the Hermitage Golf Course, as Firefighters from Dolphins Barn and Tallaght attend hay bales on fire.

Key Killarney National Park tourist route shut amid fight to contain wildfires

Here in Canada I experienced the smoke impact of huge forest fires for first time - horrendous. It’s beyond time to lessen / eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Adaptation... Where we are now. My god! 🔥🌎💥☄️

In the past 3 days in New York we’ve had wildfire smog from Canada turning the air yellow, and flash floods up to the waist, with people advised to stay indoors. But please remember, climate action (cutting emissions) is “too disruptive”.

Same story in almost every single urban center.

Climate breakdown isn't just an environmental issue - it's fast becoming a national security crisis. Our major new investigative series with Caroline Lucas starts Friday, exclusively for TRIP + members.

New figures provided by Uisce Éireann to Labour TD Ciarán Ahern show 57 data centres use almost 5 million litres of water a day on average

Spent this morning angrily cursing stupid AI data centres while watering my small allotment using my can. It's disgusting how much water they use when I water my plants just 3 times a week and they feed me for months.

I too do not love this

I try not to despair over the climate crisis, but it really feels like people in power everywhere have just completely blanked it out.

So not environmental breakdown then ?!?

You sometimes see Government TDs pointing out that Ireland isn’t unique in the world in having a housing crisis. But this graph in today’s Financial Times shows just how extreme ours is compared to the places elsewhere, which also describe themselves as a in a housing crisis.

No #WorldCup was so affected by #climatechange with dangerous temperatures, hydration breaks and now this - of course, these horrible climate change fueled #wildfires have much worse consequences.

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A 102-year-old woman has described as a "godsend" the support she receives during the current hot spell, amid calls from charities to support older and vulnerable people amid high temperatures

Orange hues dominated the sky and ash rained down on Toronto for the second day in a row, as wildfires continued to spread and rage in northern Ontario. Critics claim the province has lagged in its funding and preparedness for fires that have only gotten worse with climate change. Read more:

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“What is unfolding is what climate and forest scientists have been predicting for 30 years. That as the world gets hotter and drier, we are exposing forests to more and more risk, and the old strategies of fire suppression are simply being overwhelmed.”

Hazy skies from Chicago to NY because of wildfire smoke. A few years ago, this would've felt shocking. Now it's becoming routine. That's the scary part. The world is changing before our eyes, and we can't afford to normalize it. Speak up. Vote. The future doesn't have to look like this.

The Government’s first of two bills to introduce a state-led LNG facility has been passed in the Oireachtas. In short, LNG = more fossil fuels, more fracking, more environmental damage, more negative health outcomes, more climate-related disasters and higher energy prices.

Or much of a drop in public support. Fascinating example of elite consensus switching despite popular opinion.

Where is 1600 on this scale? Exactly!

New records for wildfire smoke concentration were set Wednesday in the Twin Cities, the Duluth area and in Grand Portage, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

My teenage neighbour just wandered past the window wearing a bandana on her face. I am going to offer her an N95. That is the kind of day we're having in Toronto, which is still 100 times better than a lot of communities in Northern Ontario are having.

I don’t think this is getting as much coverage as it should.

What the Carneys of the world ignore is even the business case for slashing environmental protections doesn’t work. I work for a small business. We won’t get foot traffic until the smoke clears. No one will buy a coffee, sit on the patio, anything. This hurts business, it’s bad for the economy.

Toronto has taken on an orangey hue as it grapples with a double-whammy of intense heat and wildfire smoke from hundreds of raging forest fires in northwestern Ontario. Follow for the latest.