Even @microsoft.com admits its data centers are massively increasing its pollution footprint, with the company now consuming as much power as Denmark. #GreenSky 🧵 @ketanjoshi.co#GreenSky

a literal car dealer trying to sanction another country for wildfire smoke really gets at the essence of climate politics

So, to reiterate, future PM Burnham needs to listen, understand what Europe wants, and to start acting on that, realising that every individual step has to benefit Europe. With no change in the fundamentals, a different accent will mean nothing. Ends

6/7 @sioldridge.bsky.social challenges the claim that UK CCS is mainly for “hard-to-abate industry” when most projected spending is for gas power and fossil hydrogen. That is George’s point: CCS is a figleaf public subsidy for fossil fuel expansion. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The US is a predatory adversary trying to undermine our democracy and wreck our politics. I wish politicians here would call it out so that voters can be informed and face up to the hard choices that we have to make to respond. In trade, procurement, military and intelligence cooperation.

New data out today from the ABS shows Australians over the past 18 months really have been doing a lot more international travel. One country though seems to not be all that popular of a destination. Can't think why.

This is excellent analysis, and moving testimony. "the EU referendum was the moment a politics of blame was ratified at national scale."

if any ambitious politician wants to adopt a pet issue i think you would do well with "not only will i ban these things in the united states, if any other nation tries to launch one we'll shoot it down"

Actually flawless.

Even those in the Labour Party when claim to care about the climate crisis are set to bring about our destruction for profit. They must be replaced with people who care about our planet. Join.greenparty.org.uk

This is a great illustration why trying to solve climate change just with “abundant energy” is so wrongheaded. @heatmap.news @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social shows that the majority of tech’s rising emissions comes from not electricity, but embodied emissions, including the construction of data centers.

You do not have to take anyone's word for the state of crude oil shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. datalab.wto.org/Strait-of-Ho...

In the fifth year of Russia's genocidal invasion, with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians killed, millions displaced, dozens of cities in ruins, and 20% of the country under brutal occupation, Russia is now apparently "retaliating" for Ukrainian attacks, according to the New York Times

I think it was such a cravenly approval by the FCC because the report says that it disagrees with the risks put forward, but, at the same time, it also states that evaluating the risks is beyond the scope of the FCC. So who should be assessing these risks? 🔭🧪 www.iflscience.com/fcc-approves...

One way to put British citizens first might be to not deport, threat to deport, or imply you could at some point in the future deport their spouses?

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.

A new BMJ Analysis finds a UK-US trade deal could cost the NHS a potential £45bn in drug spending and nearly 300 000 excess deaths in 10 years. The deal sacrifices UK health and wealth, contrary to the rhetoric of government ministers, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social

A strange article in Nature, which appears to lay the blame for falling trust in science at the feet of ... scientists. Without a mention of the years-long assault on expertise by the media and politicians.

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

2 absolute WHOPPER quotes from data centre developers #1 is from Digital Realty, a massive data centre developer Just....soak this one in. Absolutely stunning "This year was the worst winter in the history of my home state, Colorado. It breaks my heart and now I’m developing 10 gas plants"

"In total the 74 proposed gas power plants that would serve data centers could emit over 662 million tons of greenhouse gases per year...more climate-warming pollution than Australia or France released that year."

When data centres plug into the grid, power generation has to increase. That often comes from coal and gas - and so, Google's reported grid emissions are accelerating too The pollution pumped out here causes stuff like heatwaves that kill thousands of people. This is unsafe and v v v dangerous

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ocean heat uptake has accelerated from the equivalent of ~5 Hiroshima bombs/sec (2020) to ~11 bombs/sec (2025). El Niño could amplify global heat, increasing the risk of record temperatures, stronger storms, floods and marine ecosystem stress.

🌊 The oceans have just set another record. New data show global sea surface temperatures reached the highest June levels ever recorded (20.9°C), surpassing previous records from 2023 and 2024. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our poor performance in goods since 2019 is a UK-specific problem. Between 2019 and 2024, the UK slipped from the world’s 11th-largest goods exporter to 14th. Since 2018, UK goods export volumes have fallen by more than any other G7 member. Read how we can regain our trading edge: buff.ly/yjP7R6Z

MPs criticising the US-UK Pharma Deal in the Commons this afternoon. This deal is a democratic scandal. @laylamoran.bsky.social up first saying the government has agreed to divert “an eye watering amount of NHS money to very large American corporations without a vote”

Just bought the audiobook. "A global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These aren't just possibilities but likely outcomes of our ongoing failure to stem greenhouse gas emissions ― and in our lifetimes. This alarming book explains why."

Amazing data, but this is only a partial list of climate solutions Take the top one - solar. Solar's only really a climate solution if it displaces fossil fuels, but actions that counter the fossil fuel industry don't feature in the list Campaigning of all kinds is a vital climate solution too!

A picture is worth a thousand words! bsky.app/profile/rich...

In case you missed it 👇

This is King's Lynn, where Reform want to end action on climate Areas in red are *already* below the annual flood level The black dot is the town hall where they'll debate the motion (once the extreme heat allows them to)

Yeah he’s not wrong about the choice And I choose climate goals.

FoM has never been stronger. Never. It is working brilliantly, and is not under threat at all. What happened was that Britons, collectively, removed themselved from that, stopped being European citizens, stopped contributing to the community, stopped applying European law. Own that choice 12

For the antidote to all this arrogant #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien, do listen to the new Cakewatch. The people in the article above and their attitude are the blockage on the UK joining. 13 bsky.app/profile/nial...

Without the various decisions, lobbying efforts, denialism and delay from specific people over the past few decades, this heatwave simply wouldn't have happened in the way it did

Hallelujah, @ottocr.at&@guitarmoog.bsky.social are back with Cakewatch, after an absence of 6 years If you're not familiar, it's a podcast which became a real favourite during the Brexit process, presented by two EU staffers. This was their taking stock A🧵 cakewatch.fireside.fm/tenyearslater

This man is absolute fucking poison.

Just spotted this very nice explainer on why carbon capture and storage isn't going to fix things. Just stop setting fire to stuff projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

For example bsky.app/profile/tanj... Plenty the BBC could have written about, there And these young and proudly ignorant and selfish people could have been handed a copy of the "In Limbo: Brexit Testimonies" books Ignorance is a confession, not an argument or a proud position to be platformed

And yeah. Creatively terrible of the BBC to platform this "I'm ignorant and proud of it" guff - literally, their argument is that because they choose not to know, they don't care - while so many testimonies of actual Brexit consequences and harms are readily available and actively underreported

It didn't use to be normal to hit even 32°C It's now happened every year since 2010 It certainly wasn't normal to hit 35°C It happened in just 10 summers in the 20th Century It's happened 9 times in the first 26 years of the 21st Century 6/

Wonderful. Well done, Professor Bueltmann. These stories, these lived experiences go under-seen & under-published. Because, in the end, the British are at fault for what they have chosen & done to cause them. And they don't want to face it. And nothing can get better while they don't see & face it.

My piece above is one example: pitched in various forms to various outlets, together with the launch of the archive and I did not even get a single reply. I appreciate that I have no special right to being published, but to me this, in itself, is an encapsulation of what this archive is about.

As I explain there, I hope I’ll be able to continue develop BLEA because I have a lot more data. I estimate that it’s close to 750k words overall, spread across around 7k respondents. This includes 250k worth of testimony from British citizen in the EU, who I am very keen to include next.

It's hard to describe how it felt the morning after, waking up to the news. Trying to choke down the tears of the inevitable, irreparable damage that would be done on the smallest of majorities. A savage wound, cleaving my generation's identity as Europeans from us. It is still devastating.

As soon as you read Barnier's words about the UK joining, you knew there'd be trouble. All the exceptionalists - incl. the likes of Best for Britain and Bremain in Spain jumped on this as a sign of European weakness. The UK could extract exceptionalist terms. #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien 1