👏Oslo City just issued its Green Mobility Plan for public consultation, ending 31. August: ▸ 85% of all passenger journeys will be made by walking, by bicycle, or by public transport ▸ Overall, traffic involving passenger cars, vans, and trucks must not increase in Oslo compared with 2025 ....

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.

Middle Palaeolithic flint tools from Ashkawty Tarik Cave in the Zagros Mountains. Made by #Neanderthals, they display features of both Zagros Mousterian and Levantine styles, hinting at contact with early modern humans. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #FlintFriday 🏺 #Archaeology

July 3, 1986 – House of Lords debate abt the atmosphere & fuel use… “To ask Her Majesty’s Government what weight they attach to theories that... the atmosphere could be so changed as to produce a greenhouse effect with serious results for most forms of life.” allouryesterdays.info/2023/07/02/2...

I have a whole selection of these fake Greenland ice core graphs used by climate deniers, but this is the first time I see this great cartoon by Patrick Hamilton ! Spread widely.

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

Fun fact: Zohran Mamdani was an early advocate for camera-based bike lane enforcement. In 2022 Mamdani introduced a NY bill proposing camera-based ticketing. I interviewed him about it. Mamdani: "We need harder barriers — but we also need to enforce [lanes] that are already considered protected.”

🚨🚨Europeans are increasingly pessimistic about the state of the world, but their belief in the #EU is riding high. A #Eurobarometer survey found 74 % of citizens reckon their country has benefited from being part of the EU. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

If vehicles keep swelling, cities “could lose between 8.5-14% of their on-street parking capacity by 2040. London and Berlin alone are each projected to shed around 100K spaces…in dense cities, it’s a major issue worldwide.” #Carspreading pushes out more than parking spots. Tax cars by the inch.

Dagens🎯📝: "Jeg tror, rejselysten bliver ved, indtil et kollaps bliver så voldsomt, at det medfører store strukturelle ændringer. Det er carpe diem nu. Det er svært for os at ændre os som art. Vi er vant til at flyve, så det gør vi. Og fornægtelse, benægtelse og fortrængning er i spil her".

Polish researcher Łukasz Drozda, Warsaw University, shows how radical and extreme right parties may effect our cities. Rare insight into how current shifts in European politics may change urban mobility policy. Two main patterns of change are emerging both focusing on motorist narratives.

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.

NEW: EU has ‘misdiagnosed’ competitiveness problem Increased investment – not deregulation and wage restraint – is the real route to a more successful European economy, research by @mazzucatom.bsky.social shows.

„Wir müssen den Klimawandel ernst nehmen und aufhören, ihn als politische Debatte zu begreifen. Das ist nichts, was erst in der Zukunft passiert – es passiert jetzt“, sagt PIK-Forscher Anders Levermann (@alevermann.bsky.social) über die Hitzewelle in Brandenburg. www.rbb-online.de/brandenburga...

The Swedish general election is in September. The government - right wing with confidence and supply agreement with the far right - has been polling badly the entire mandate period.

“Adaptation can no longer be treated as optional,” Professor Gupta says. Perhaps the best starting point would be here at home- with action from Oxfordshire's councils on local policy and housing stock? We wrote about council progress in addressing the climate emergency at the weekend, ICYMI.

Research, and importantly, actionable data, from Professor Rajat Gupta, will allow policymakers and developers to retrofit current buildings to comfortably withstand extreme heat. Along with other measures, and policies for new builds, homes and public sites could be adapted for climate resilience.

With another potential heatwave on the horizon, research from Oxford Brookes demonstrates that the UK’s built environment is dangerously incapable of handling the heat. Up to 10,000 excess deaths from heat could be avoided with timely action, two recent reports show.

Warme Ozeane #cartoon #karikatur

I was really ashamed when Denmark took over the presidency a year ago, without having submitted our Social Climate Plan. And we still haven’t 😔.

Asphaltwüsten wie diese heizen die Umgebung an Hitzetagen zusätzlich auf, verschärfen die Belastung für die Anwohner:innen. Was es braucht: Verpflichtende Vorgaben, dass es bei größeren Parkplätzen mehr Grünflächen und Schatten durch Bäume geben muss. #Hitze #Begrünung #Klimawandelanpassung

Despite what AI companies want you to believe, AGI is not inevitable. The race-to-the-bottom to build it is not inevitable. Losing control of our future is not inevitable. We can build AI that works for humanity, instead of replacing us. This is how 👉 betterpathfor.ai

”Det måste bli billigare att köra el-lastbilar för att klara klimatmålen” www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...

Morning, your #BadNewsOfTheDay are here. 1. #collapse is here, & it's starting in the oceans: "A record global average sea temperature in June had pushed the world into 'uncharted territory'. Daily sea surface temperature had surpassed the previous monthly highs." www.ft.com/content/857d...

"The fish have become a living proxy of the Colorado River's health. When they struggle, it often means the river itself is struggling. And in 2026, nearly every indicator is flashing red." @lukerunyon.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

In the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The source of the Colorado River is drying up. @rgauth999.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

trying desperately to finish one-two-three books before the summer holiday/Roskilde Festival at the end of this week, almost there but wish me luck anyway and see you soon!

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

Should you switch on a fan during a heatwave? The answer depends on both temperature and humidity. "The findings lend support to a simple public health message: Avoid fan use above ~40°C."

Car dependency is a public health crisis

Was wir jetzt tun, bestimmt Klima und Lebensbedingungen nicht nur für unsere Kinder und Enkel, sondern für viele Generationen. Es erfordert top Priorität und sehr rasches entschlossenes Handeln, um noch das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Haben alle Politiker die IPCC-Berichte verstanden? Gelesen?

In 2024, more than one in three French people denied the reality of human-caused climate change. But using the word “skeptic” is fallacious, because their attitude about climate denialism and climate disavowal as @jadinalexandre.bsky.social argues here:

Listen to this wonderful new episode of Power&Purpose, where @A_Sloat and I talk with @KerstiKaljulaid about what Estonia teaches us when it comes to hybrid war and democratic resilience Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/07Bw... Apple podcasts.apple.com/podcast/kers...

The AMOC is weakening with warming, but debate persists over how fast it could slow & whether a collapse is possible this century. PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social: "Consequences of an AMOC shutdown would be massive in many parts of the world." economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

Climate security, national security, energy security ... it's all becoming the same thing. The UK gets it.

Bossons Glacier this evening! 🧊🔥 Tmax in Chamonix (1,100 m asl) was 33°C today (at 6:00 pm, one hour before this picture was taken...)! Writing these numbers feels so surreal... 😱 We are CONSUMING the agony of a world that no longer exists.

Today is #GlacierLossDay 2026 for Swiss glaciers! 🧊🔥 The moment when the snow accumulated during winter has been used up and further melt affects glacier ice rather than protective winter snowpack ❄️⚖️ During last decades, this day occurred in August... ⏱️ Via @landervt.bsky.social 1/

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

10 years ago, the air outside Aldgate School didn’t meet legal limits. Children were breathing polluted air every day. I made it my mission to change that. Here’s the difference our bold policies have made ⬇️

5 years ago today, the temperature in Lytton, Canada reached 49.6C (121.3F) The next day the whole town burnt to the ground 50 degrees! In Canada!!! I really thought that might be a wake-up call

Under the Pines' Roar #Art #SynthArt #Nature #Mountains #AnnaBArt

"Europe needs to combine national and EU-level state capacity to construct comparative advantage and retain its position as a core industrial region of the world economy." Read csds.vub.be/publication/...

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Why it matters: if support for authoritarian rule has a social basis, it can spread quickly. When an exogenous lets people discover strongman rule is more accepted than they'd assumed, they may adopt — and pass on — those views. A worrying ingredient for antidemocratic cascades.

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Total media failure in one picture

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Lukashenko met Xi Jinping in Beijing days after holding talks with Putin. Belarusian state channels said Xi described China-Belarus relations as being at a historic peak, with the visit coming amid rising tension between Belarus and Ukraine. #Belarus

All tram service suspended in Leipzig, Germany due to the extreme heat, the bitumen grouts on the rails are melting. Please tell me how heat is a problem that can be fixed with ACs www.yahoo.com/news/weather... bsky.app/profile/70sb...