Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My new video… Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Flashing Red: Planetary Health Check 2025 youtu.be/zLpYGk6nJrc?... #climate #ClimateEmergency #climatefinance #climateweek #climatechange #planet #Earth #weather

Clean air is a critical health issue. One in nine people around the world are breathing unsafe air. But this is a solvable problem. At #UNGA Clean Air side-event, stressed the need for collective action, with solutions across sectors and agencies, backed by finance: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

This is arguably one of the most complex steering scenarios in recent memory!! Two hurricanes(?), a stalled cut-off upper low, and a deep Greenland cold pool diving south. How all these factors interact with each other is driving the models (and meteorologists lol) up the wall!! 1/

On huomattava, että 1) Ei luotu freonipäästökauppaa 2) Ei luotettu yksilöiden toimiin 3) Ei tehty freonijalanjäljen laskureita 4) Ei kuunneltu freonijääkaappivalmistajia 5) Ei hassattu vuosikymeniä vähätellen ongelmaa Vaan kiellettiin otsonikerrosta tuhoavien freonien käyttö. yle.fi/a/74-20183077

From arson to carelessness: how humans set Europe on fire

Direct link btw fossil fuel producers and climate change established.

Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez: From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our w...

The race is on for everyone, everywhere to breathe clean air. On #CleanAirDay my message is simple: the race against air pollution can - and must - be won. Get it right and we can stop over 8 million premature deaths each year. Be part of the solution to #BeatPollution: www.cleanairblueskies.org

The Conversation: 5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

Yleisön ilmastonmuutoshuolen taso Euroopan maissa. Etelä-Eurooppa kärjessä, pohjoismaat häntäpäässä. Silti Suomessakin elää yhä myytti siitä, että meillä ollaan ilmastotietoisia, muualla pöljäillään sokeasti menemään.

This major new study from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has global implications, so it would be good to see it getting global media coverage rather than only a few Dutch outlets. We ignore such news at our peril! #Climate #AMOC #EndClimateSilence www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/golf...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... “The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that moderate increases in cumulative heatwave exposure increase a person’s biological age — to an extent comparable to regular smoking or alcohol consumption.”

Dr Hansen’s Climate Warning It’s worse than we thought. Seeing the forest for the trees.

This SINGLE WEEK of Spanish wildfire emissions surpassed ANNUAL total carbon emissions of each of the 100 lowest emitting countries in the world‼️ Carbon sinks are turning into sources We can’t expect nature to clean up our mess.

Excellent analysis.

20 straight days with 30 °C in Finland! Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33 degrees. Even the Arctic regions (e.g. Sodankylä Tähtelä) have seen three weeks above 25 °C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.

“a victory for our planet,for climate justice & for the power of young people to make a difference.The world must respond” #UN SG hails ICJ opinion on states' obligations in relation to the #ClimateCrisis More on the court's historic roadmap to #ClimateJustice👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New findings published Wednesday by the National Cancer Institute link tiny, toxic air pollutants to changes in lung cancer tumors at the genomic level in people who have never smoked.

"A new heat record for June of 46°C was set Saturday in the town of El Granado, according to Spain's national weather service." CSI shows this heat was made 3x more likely by climate change — & across much of Spain, would've been almost impossible without it. 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article...

The French DPA has published quite interesting report on the economic impact of the GDPR on cybersecurity cnil.fr/en/cybersecu... Cybersecurity: The Economic Benefits of GDPR | CNIL

🚨 Today, noyb has sent a cease and desist letter to Meta regarding its AI training plans in Europe. 👉 If Meta doesn't comply with the request, noyb could file an injunction – or launch an EU class action in the future. All the details 👇 noyb.eu/en/noyb-send...

The Hamburg DPA is urging EU users who don't want their personal data fed into Meta's AI technologies to "take action now" and has compiled a Q&A to guide them through the process. Meta announced its intent to restart this process earlier this week. datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-st...

All ‘public’ Facebook and Instagram posts and photos by Irish and European users to be switched on for Meta’s AI-training system m.independent.ie/business/tec...?

noyb takes Swedish tax authority to court for selling people’s personal data noyb.eu/en/noyb-take...

Eleven Member States object to EU Commission intention to withdraw equality law proposal www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents...

The Dark Side of the OMNIBUS “Future historians may well view the Commission’s embrace of the omnibus bill as the defining moment in a lost decade of European policymaking.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

Ulf Kristersson har tillsammans med konservativa partier i EU klubbat en plan för att kraftigt sänka ambitionsnivån i EU:s klimatpolitik. Om planen genomförs kan det öka risken för IPCC:s mest katastrofala scenarier.

NEW – Guest post: How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change | Dr Rachel Huxley, Dr Drew Shindell and Talia Caplan @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ccacoalition.bsky.social Read here: https://buff.ly/42mCfZP

🌡️ A record-breaking climate year in seven key charts. Discover the data from the Global Climate Highlights 2024 report: bit.ly/3DZs8jn #C3S #CopernicusClimate

Wie könnte das klimaneutrale Leben in Deutschland 🇩🇪 in 20 Jahren aussehen? Dieses kurze Video zeigt es! youtu.be/UixHyJO7zmg?...

📈 In 2024, greenhouse gases reached their highest annual levels ever recorded in the atmosphere. 🌁 Carbon dioxide concentrations reached 422 ppm, 2.9 ppm higher than in 2023, & methane 1897 ppb, 3 ppb higher. ▶️ All details, charts and data in the #GCH2024 report: bit.ly/40kQpcz

Top aktuell: Entscheidung des High Courts aus Irland, welche einen Windparks genehmigt. Das Gericht spricht hier von einem Klimanotstand und bezieht sich auf die Entscheidung des EGMR in Klimaseniorinnen - verdeutlicht die Relevanz von Grundrechten in Energiefragen www.courts.ie/acc/alfresco...

Dive into 2024's climate with data, charts and analysis on temperatures, greenhouse gases, sea ice extent and more in our Global Climate Highlights here 👉 bit.ly/40kQpcz

Volkswagen seemed to be storing car data, including location of drivers, on the cloud, without any encryption--revealing driving activity across Europe. Der Spiegel article doesn't say where data was--but could have been on AWS cloud servers in EU. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Suomen Akatemiaa vaaditaan ottamaan rahoituspäätöksissään ”turvallisuuteen liittyvät näkökohdat” huomioon ”tieteellisen laadun arvioinnin ohella”. Lausunnoissa paljon kritiikkiä ongelmallisen epämääräisestä säädösehdotuksesta. suomenkuvalehti.fi/mielipide/ku...

Europe’s conifer trees severely impacted by climate change; urgent action needed [Advocacy Lab Content]

“Data centers were responsible for 105 million metric tons of CO2 [..] About 4.59% of all the energy used in the US goes toward data centers, a figure that’s doubled since 2018.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/13/1108719/ais-emissions-are-about-to-skyrocket-even-further/

An interesting judgment, from back in July - national court applies the EU Digital Services Act against X in private litigation, ie the Act can be enforced without waiting for the EU Commission or national regulators to act. (The case involved the GDPR too) techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/m...

Important research on the use of algorithms for profiling by the Swedish Social Insurance authority #forsakringkassan. My contribution to this effort was reported by Svenska Dagbladet: www.svd.se/a/QMPexQ/fn-... www.linkedin.com/posts/vdignu...

Climate crisis

Neue Studie: Atlantikströmung "auf Kippkurs". Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023. scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...

"Henkilötietojen kerääminen ja julkaiseminen ei koskaan saisi vahingoittaa niitä henkilöitä, joilta se kerätään." @msalokannel.bsky.social ja Eveliina Ignatius kirjoittivat selvityksen oikeusministeriölle ihmisoikeuksiin peurustuvasta datan keruusta. urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

Eu parliament lead committees voted today on #EHDS. Opt-out possibility on all or some secondary uses of health data. Consent for genetic and proteomics data and for biobanks. Consent for data from wellness apps.