The article, about "brazen behavior", uses 5 x the word "to steal" = taking w/out permission or legal right. We abuse w/out their permission hundreds of millions of animals every day. We imposed on the planet our invention of "legal propriety". Isn't human exceptionalism the most brazen behavior?

Beirut, 1982 — being bombed by the Israeli military during its invasion Your reminder that Israel has been bombing Lebanon since before Hezbollah existed

youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI?... Good to hear Gary talk about how the richest people use the most energy but are also basically price insensitive when it comes to energy use. This is a problem in a short term fuel supply crisis, but also of course, in the long term climate crisis.

“for a household using no gas or oil appliances, and powered by electricity, a 30% rise in wholesale gas and oil prices would translate into only a 1.7% rise in energy bills in 2035.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In tracking attitudes across society to immigration, culture/identity, I think there is emerging evidence of radicalisation within the toughest sixth of society, could rise to a quarter. That has various eco-system drivers (change in nature of X, the existence of GB News have different dynamics)

A carbon inequality stat @kevinclimate.bsky.social often highlighted went, if the richest 10% reduced their carbon consumption to about the level of the average European (2nd decile), we could cut emissions by about 30%. I imagine the same would apply to fuel shortages from the Iran war.

Ok, I asked. The change in heart was due to both a steady rise in climate disasters that could no longer be ignored *and* the right messenger: insurance companies. "They're so conservative it isn't even funny. And at the core of their business is risk. Are you going to call them a bunch of hippies?"

“What we are hearing already from developing countries is: why shouldn’t we tap into our own fossil fuel resources, if the UK is doing so?” one senior development official in an overseas institution told the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇

4/ Atmospheric CO₂ isn't just rising, it's accelerating. The growth rate has more than doubled since 1960: 0.27%/yr → 0.64%/yr. Whilst fossil fuel emissions are linear. Concentration is super-exponential. So why the acceleration?

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I began reading this thinking, no, Reform would put "free balloons for all" in their manifesto. But 'balloon releases' are obviously littering (though not obviously enough). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

there is some tension between jamming your subpar AI into every single one of your products and your OS along with making once-in-generation investments into it while specifying in your terms and conditions that it’s a non-essential toy, tbh

A computer you have to carry on your nose and ears all day and have to recycle and repurchase at great expense when the legs break or bend. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

He also spent 1 billion dollars killing wind energy projects that would have brought in a shit ton of money in jobs and revenue.

Stupid is right. The direction of travel could not be clearer. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I've created a new dashboard for The Climate Brink that is updated daily with ERA5 global mean surface temperature data. It includes daily anomalies, monthly and annual forecasts, and a bunch of interactive data visualizations: dashboard.theclimate...

I hope all those people who said the US had done no planning for war in Iran will now apologise. www.ft.com/content/744e...

We need far fewer cats and none of the "more than 30m pheasants released every year into the British countryside where they eat native insects, reptiles and amphibians." 👍

This has me so excited. The film of the National Emergency Briefing on climate and nature is coming out in just over a week! Check out the trailer below. Goggle-box for climate and nature briefings... genius! You'll be able to join over 1000 screenings across the country (more details to come).

Seems the US is inventing fancy new types of miscarriage of justice.

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

This is the situation we find ourselves in

Like a hole in the head.

Is "tech bros" a misleadingly innocuous term for those men (the richest men in the world) who control the technologies that mediate and surveil much of our daily lives, and who use their wealth and power against our interests.

Media coverage of climate change is shrinking — even as impacts grow more visible. 📉 A new report finds climate coverage fell 14% in 2025, with a 31% drop just last month compared to a year earlier. Researchers warn fewer stories can mean less public understanding. #MediaTrends #ClimateCoverage

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

My resignation letter

“when the US military and American manufacturers automated their factory floors, they consistently chose systems that were slower and more expensive but which moved decision-making away from workers and into management.” www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

> white phosphorus was used to burn more than 2,000 hectares (4,940 acres) of southern Lebanese countryside, “including 873 hectares of dense forest with gum trees and vast areas covered with oak and pine trees”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Why the US being a net exporter of oil won't protect Americans from price shocks: - Oil traded on global market - Low fuel taxes means rise in price of oil has bigger relative impact at the pump - Average American very reliant on oil: minimal public transport, fuel-inefficient vehicles, few EVs

My hunch: the reason we're hearing so much about the idea of granting oil & gas licenses during the price shock has nothing to do with the ability of those licenses to cut prices, and a lot to do with high prices making drilling a mature basin more profitable.

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

Crude oil isn’t fungible. 85% of UK crude is exported. It’s mostly not the kind that UK refineries need, and UK refineries don’t produce a lot of the fuels we use (eg diesel and jet fuel).

Astonising. The Guardian's financial editor arguing for more drilling in the North Sea Have you actually heard of climate breakdown and the mayhem it is causing @nilspratley.bsky.social ? www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

Embarrassing AI slip-ups and wind turbine syndrome made it into the final report. Interestingly, it found the solution to climate and energy disinformation is to take a similar approach as Finland and Estonia are to Russian war propaganda 😭🔌

“We are in a war, and a most severe energy crisis, and it would be perfectly easy to ensure all new homes have heat pumps now.” @janrosenow.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

75% of the world lives in fossil fuel importing countries. Every $10 oil price rise adds $160bn/year to the global import bill. The single biggest fix: EVs replacing imported oil in transport could save importers $600bn/year. Read the report: 🔗ember-energy.org/lat...

“Meta has generated high volumes of “junk” reports by overly relying on AI to moderate its platforms, investigators said. These reports were useless to law enforcement, and meant crimes could not be investigated, they said” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

With new UK Future Homes Standard today, reflect that a similar standard was scrapped by then-Conservative government in 2015 The more than 1.3 mn homes built to lower standards since mean UK requires an extra 20 LNG tankers per yr Bad decisions lower energy security eciu.net/media/press-...

Here is the graph looking at how worried the public is about climate change. In general, it’s high but going down (which I believe is a real risk, as the climate threat is getting worse). Notice anything though?

Climate impacts suck, but we should make the best of them. We should use them to help people understand the impacts on them and the dangers of climate change. Let me show you an example.

surely old donnie wouldn't abuse the fact he can make markets instantaneously move by multiple % points by posting. surely

War crime? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

If Kemi Badenoch thinks drilling the North Sea is the answer to the energy crisis that really should be disqualifying. If she understands it’s more complex than that, then why is she peddling such transparent bullshit to voters? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...