“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”

"Sadly, a hypothetical future of high consumption and high well-being is simply impossible, because high consumption is incompatible with remaining within planetary boundaries."

Imagine if (for whatever reason) the Trump administration cut the UK off from all US-based digital services tomorrow. No digital payments, no online shopping, no app stores, no social media, no Youtube/Netflix/Disney/Amazon/etc streaming services. Cloud storage. Search?!

The fastest and cheapest way to keep European money at home? Replace the $70billion we send to the US annually for fossil fuels with European energy in European homes, industry and transport.

Excellent point here that the “AI” technologies (possibly) useful for reducing emissions are quite different from the LLMs on which so many resources are being spent. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I recently saw a study where LLMs performed poorly at diagnosing and suggesting treatments for medical problems. Imagine how many variants of this kind of mistake there could be in medicine, how they could compound each other, and still be delivered with confidence. youtube.com/shorts/bsl46...

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Seems like yesterday. February 1996. I went to Pembrokeshire to take photographs of the oil spill impacts for use by eNGOs. I ended up helping rescue oiled seabirds. Sometimes you couldn't see one until a 'lump' in the crude oil moved slightly. It was horrific. You never get over it.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

“If Starmer wishes to show his government’s disdain for sexual abuse or the far right, logging off X would be a good start.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘’A resident whose business’s private well is polluted said they found out in November 2021 after being “unofficially” informed by an individual at the Environment Agency, and stopped drinking the water immediately. ‘’ 😮 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Does he do it for the money or because he truly believes in doing evil? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

ICYMI -despite promising just over a year ago to triple climate finance from developed world to poor and vulnerable countries, UK govt is now planning to slash climate finance by more than a fifth www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I wish I published this (from 2017) in Science or something, not as a blog post: "We are really bad at predicting Chinese emissions. Why do we think we know what happens next?" www.climatechangenews.com/2017/03/31/c...

“Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis…”

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

UK public funds for US tech companies to market their products at us.

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively. All due online by 2029.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

The worst people in the world doing evil and stupid things.

“wholesale power prices would have been 46% higher in 2025 if there had been no windfarms generating electricity. This is because windfarms push the most expensive gas plants off the system, reducing average wholesale prices.” www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-uks-...

The wind power secured in this auction will generate the equivalent of 12% of the UK‘s demand! That seems pretty good!

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

"This is not just a slight warming; it is a fundamental change in how people will have to survive on the continent. Once regions in Africa enter a state of almost continuous heatwaves, the human body will have no window of time to recover."

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

I'm looking forward to another episode of Question Time or News night with pundits opining on why Net Zero is too expensive, while the local news covers people in Somerset who may have to abandon their homes for good and farmers in despair about damage to their yields.

"We find that the principal drive for global warming acceleration began in about 2015, which implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury" - James Hansen et al. mailchi.mp/caa/another-...

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

The “Future of Energy” exhibit in Glasgow Science Centre is disappointingly (~11 years) out of date to the point of being misleading. The problem with coal is not that it will run out in 139 years!

"I don't see the evidence that this is green. What I'm seeing more is it could be made green in future, as long as somebody else does this, that or the other. “ Edinburgh Council rejects ‘green’ data centre. www.scotsman.com/news/controv...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS: Why the energy transition is disruptive, non-linear, hard to predict and often faster than expected. Our paper in Nature Reviews Clean Technology shows how feedback loops create virtuous and vicious cycles that can accelerate or block change. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Yup! ‘We’re not publishers! We just provide the platform! PS, here’s an algorithm that we’ve spent billions on that can select things by subject and here’s our advertising sales portal.’

One well publicized instance where a sudden refinery or power plant closure kills people because they don't have enough EVs or solar or whatever would set this fragile transition back for a very long time, in addition to just being morally reprehensible given that good planning could prevent this.

> “No, I didn’t make a mistake,” said the president of the racist meme posted on his social media account. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My thread on petrotech and gas build-out in the US -->>> bsky.app/profile/keta...

This is very concerning and is almost certainly being championed in the US by Trump's tech and oil backers, both of which see the UK as a battleground at the moment.

“I will leave this world without understanding why the international community chose to remain impassive while Israel perpetrated a genocide right before its eyes, broadcast live, minute by minute, massacre by massacre.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the reality. The British state MILKS immigrants ruthlessly for money. Thousands and thousands of pounds. And then declares they're all dangerous spongers.

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

These responses to Epstein are what I previously would have expected from basically anyone who was aware of his conviction. Why didn’t his other correspondents react like this?

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

The "global aviation regime [is] adept at shaping user practices & culture to enable & encourage unconstrained air travel… This has influenced the public’s perception of possible regulatory regimes…" "confront…artificial[] acceleration [of] demand." OPEN ACCESS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Big Oil is wrecking our seas & marine life is paying the price 🐬 We're working with scientists to lift the lid on the oil & gas industry’s dirty secrets, using marine strandings to expose the truth. The data will speak for the animals that can’t. 🚫 End new oil & gas: https://bit.ly/490ZLPq

Together, @oceanauk.bsky.social + @zslofficial.bsky.social examined research on harm to wildlife from 1000s of oil spills in UK waters, finding evidence of: - lung lesions in bottlenose dolphins - harm to the livers of minke whales - orcas + dolphins less able to successfully reproduce

youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0... “Now it takes planning to make sure you have at least a litre of soapy water with you when you go to a protest, walking your dog… leaving your home for any reason whatsoever… eating your breakfast… any place you might conceivably be pepper sprayed in the United States…”

I think this is representative of fossil-fuelled weather extremes reportage not just in Aus but in many countries, where (a) the cause, fossil fuels, is simply never mentioned and (b) the change is treated as essentially inevitable and un-mitigatable, all that's left is figuring out how to 'adapt'

The author of these big head children's books has got to be sweating every time a round of Epstein emails comes out

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible