1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Finally, someone is saying it

Happy to have contributed to this year's report. It's very accessibly written and I'd encourage everyone to have a read!

New from my colleagues and me at PIK: ocean acidification has now crossed it's planetary boundary 🌊 the rest of the planet isn't doing so well, either... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very very important @oxfaminternational.bsky.social report on what needs to change to make the energy transition just and equitable www.oxfamfrance.org/app/uploads/...

I reckon a fossil fuel being heavily promoted at climate week is a bad thing

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

While a lot of focus has (quite correctly) been on the disaster that is 'AI', crypto continues to quietly build a time bomb under the global financial system

Janina Dill basically says that #Germany is - not applying international law and rules, despite claiming moral high grounds, - not filling the vacuum the US created by turning away from Europe, - losing its face and trustworthiness to the world, - leaving people in #Gaza abandoned. Disgusting.

Update of perhaps my favorite global climate policy indicator: The production gap report. In fact, the gap between countries' planned fossil fuel extraction and global climate targets has widened. Turning the tide on these indicators is essential for climate policy success. productiongap.org

Incredible to finally see people speaking the plain truth about the genocide in Gaza on mainstream TV

Quite blunt from the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025: "Solar Adds Hundreds of Gigawatts, Nuclear Remains Irrelevant in the Market" www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnis...

Australia is one of the countries in this list that plans to ramp up (not reduce) coal mining. The Labor party (which partly campaigned on climate action) is the party in power.

If Penny Wong is serious about the Australian govt wanting to *do something* to stop the #GazaGenocide, Francesca Albanese provided a handy list a couple of months ago. #auspol

It hasn't helped that the MSM so clearly got bored covering climate. They liked the disaster narrative around the 1.5 report and having figures like Greta but at the moment, because there's not enough catastrophe or excitement happening *right now* they just DGAF

Love me some subtle Dutch satire...

After burying a critical health report in lead mines and children’s blood lead levels for 4 years, the EPA wants the Mudgee community to trust it to protect kids from the Bowdens lead mine proposal. #RegulatoryCapture #LeadFreeMudgee www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry - Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, @influencemap.bsky.social thinktank says #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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We are hiring two new postdocs in Greenland ocean and ice sheet modelling to join our team at @bas.ac.uk! Apply by 8 October:

Someone's pet cat with the native wild red squirrel it just killed. Most cat owners have no idea of, or don't want to know, how much wildlife is slaughtered annually by domestic or feral cats. But it runs to 10s, possibly 100s, of BILLIONS of animals per year, and is a serious driver of extinction.

Nailed it. Labor is predictably awful.

Darkly appropriate for this moment in history, though

Australia has imposed 1,600 sanctions in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. 1,600. And Israel? About a dozen, against individuals and groups - but not on trade. It’s not that we can’t act against a genocide, it’s that we are choosing not to.

"You cannot insure against likely events" - precisely! It's not a matter of if, but when with many impacts of climate change, and I don't think people really understand the gravity of the consequences of this.

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

Sad news. I knew Bob a little. He was both a wonderful artist and activist. A gracious and generous man, fully engaged with the world. He entertained and enlightened, putting his star power to great use. His light shined brightly for decades. We will miss it. Sending love to his friend and family.

Damn. He was a generational talent. RIP.

Some are saying we shouldn’t commit to net zero “at any price”. Fair enough then, what is the price? The NCRA sets out some fairly serious costs for adaptation and is clear that these are less than the costs of inaction. It also is frank in its view that it is likely UNDER-estimating the costs.

Australia’s climate risk assessment prompts deluge of misinformation from the usual suspects - Temperature Check by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just circling back to this @albomp.bsky.social - when are we going to see sanctions and real consequences for these crimes? The standard you walk by...

Sarah Hanson-Young asks why govt keeps saying we “need” gas? Dr Richard Denniss “I would argue we don’t.” “We need no new gas & coal developments anywhere in the world” “To be clear, the Aus govt denies this science. The UN says it, the IEA says it, the Aus govt rejects it!”💥 #Estimates

The cowardice of American corporate journalism is really something to behold

Maybe start by not approving more fossil fuel projects.

This is *insane*. Not just the racism, but the fact that you can literally, gleefully, kill someone with your car and walk away clean. Disgraceful.

Oh no, stop, don't do it. Don't make yourselves even more electorally irrelevant 🙄

Weddell Sea looking extra warm...

Our article on the things that keep climate risk folks awake at night from Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment. May explain my insomnia. ….with @tasvo.bsky.social & Prof. Lucas Walsh @theconversation.com theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

This utterly valueless article reads like a parody of our media's steadfast determination to whitewash overt racism and bigotry. A thousand words that say less than nothing.

And the bigger the account, the more culpability. You might be the single reason others remain there, too.

It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue. You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist

"The publishers also found that less than 25% of authors disclosed their use of AI to prepare manuscripts, despite the publisher mandating disclosure for submission." I'm continually frustrated with the naivete of people in research who assume people will use these tools in good faith

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Congratulations to Ziman Zhang on this excellent PhD paper! 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A big part of why white centrist journos can call this a tragedy with a straight face is because to them it is; Kirk etc pose no viable harm to them, their interests, their fetishisation of 'robust debate' and both sidesery - this violence thus feels realer than the violence Kirk's views embodied

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Exactly. I must've gotten dozens of "you're the only reason I'm still on Twitter!" in the months before I finally left in October 2023. They meant it as a compliment, but it always struck me as confirmation that I was complicit in what that place was becoming, so I left. So can everyone else.

Ever heard of #AntarcticaInSync? It's a very cool initiative to better understand the Southern Ocean and it's icy continent.. Kicking off the second webinar now... www.antarctica-insync.org