" #Climate scientists have already warned that extreme weather events ... will continue to worsen as temperatures increase," said Renard Siew, climate change advisor to the Centre for Governance and Political Studies in Malaysia. "That is exactly what we have been seeing."

The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels -cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules) -public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program) -more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production - only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels

Generations from now, when historians study this period where we have perfect understanding of the problem, and brilliant, readily available solutions with all the resources necessary to implement them, they'll study cases like this to try to figure out why we kept drilling holes in our lifeboat.

Elephants need more space than zoos can provide. So where should they go? Europe's first large-scale elephant sanctuary is about to launch in Portugal, promising a place that the elephants can live out their final years with space and companionship www.ft.com/content/060a...

Europe’s water reserves are drying up because of climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A book and a train is a hell of a combination. *bonus points for the snowy landscape.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Shufu Miyamoto

After some time for reflection I think this is one of the biggest open questions that has a big impact on how much climate action we will see in Canada - unless I'm reading this wrong (?) it doesn't say the carbon floor will be $130 by April. It says there will be an agreement by April 1/

"ETH researchers estimate the cost of removing 1 tonne of CO2 from the air in the year 2050 to be between 230 and 540 US dollars. This is twice as high as previous estimates"

While US courts have not taken up the issue of whether all the "gifts" Trump has received are bribes, it look like the Swiss legal system might weigh in.

2 degree Celsius

Stellar reporting by @carbonbrief.org on what really happened with that 'roadmap' away from fossil fuels at COP30: www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-lea...

Heartily endorse this from @javierblas.bsky.social's latest column. OPEC is at its best when it commands the credibility of the market, and I don't know anyone serious who actually fully believes the current OPEC-published production figures. That's not great, and OPEC needs to fix it.

New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson. “Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Canada's former environment minister is resigning from his current ministerial role and says Carney's climate gamble will fail.

Carney has finally thrown some interesting cards in a gamble on his climate credibility. Will Canada and the planet win?

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the TWELFTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 15 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

My favourite COP30 take is actually not about COP30 and yet says the most important thing after COP30 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough" The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n

It must be said that a G18 statement of consensus on climate action (and so many other critical global issues) is better than no statement, which seems like the fate for G20 statement in 2026 hosted by the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

VIDEO: 🇹🇭 🇲🇾 Tens of thousands displaced by floods in Thailand and Malaysia Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia have been displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 people dead, officials said

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An apt historical precedent for AI: Fritz Haber is both the reason the world can support 8 billion people *and* directly responsible for the mechanized mass slaughter that is modern warfare. AI is the Haber-Bosch process of our age. behaviourchangecornwall.co.uk/the-legacy-o...

hot take: AI *should* be polarizing! * it's built on a murky foundation of thinking about copyright & is generally terrible for artists * it's also one of the best things to ever happen to software development * it's powerful tech with enormous negative externalities

Looking forward to Ed Miliband's explanation for the inclusion of per-mile fee on electric cars, while freezing fuel duty for petrol and diesel vehicles.

Please listen to Al #Gore: „We have to address the democracy crisis as part of our strategy for addressing the #ClimateCrisis.“ 👏👏👏 omny.fm/shows/zero/a...

Fall will be “falling” this week with Wild weather swings across the East. Makes holiday packing a pain with a 40-50° temperature swing from Mid to late week.

Scoop: Tesla co-founder JB Straubel's battery recycling firm Redwood Materials laid off dozens of staff, as the company shifts its focus to energy storage and critical minerals. This comes a month after Redwood raised $350 million for an over $6 billion valuation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...

There are no magic answers to good health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

There are no magic answers to good health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My latest for @rollingstone.com Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices. But in Baltimore, I met blue collar workers who are fighting back, preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future,” and defending offshore wind. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

CATL dropped its 5th-gen LFP — higher density, longer life, and another reminder why they’re the gravitational centre of the battery universe. Official specs sit around 205 Wh/kg, with some analysts whispering 210, but the message is the same: #LFP isn’t slowing down. It’s leveling up.⚡️ #Lithium

“Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a saviour. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.” 🌻👇

I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".

The data center boom is built on the assumption that AI chips will last at least five years. But we don’t actually know how long chips are good for.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 24,1948

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

FT: "The EU's industry commissioner, Stéphane Séjourné, has said the revised rules would probably stipulate that foreign investors had to recruit local workers and in “certain sectors like batteries” transfer technological knowhow." www.ft.com/content/a719...

COP30 came to a weak conclusion. But there was concrete progress on some of the demands Indigenous peoples brought, like for land designations and direct finance. Gift link:

What will the next generation say about COPs of the 2020s? Bloomberg Green's final dispatch from COP30 concludes: “How can a small island state force the EU to do anything? Multilateralism is the only way to give voice to those with less geopolitical power.” 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Almost 200 nations capped two weeks of fraught negotiations with an agreement on new efforts to help guide their transition away from the fossil fuels driving global warming. However, the accord dodged an explicit mention of the oil, gas and coal (🎁link)

'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 🇮🇷

Breaking: COP30 deal reached?

Not over until it’s over and lots depends on the final wording, but this sounds positive.