Latest painting: oil on panel, 70 x 100cm. I wanted to try and portray the hills as a place where I feel at home. #oilpainting #landscape #mountains #wicklowmountains #autumn #ireland #irishart

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

The Bureau of Land Management proposed to overturn a rule that conservation is an official "use" of public lands. As the comment period closes tonight, the folks at @westernpriorities.org analyzed the comments so far--> 98% oppose the rescission. infogram.com/public-lands...

!New #OpenAcess paper alert! Late Pleistocene atmospheric dust dynamics reconstructed from sediment included in ice wedges from #Batagay and Central Yakutia: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Worried about the global polycrisis? About food security, public health, or the degradation of democracies? Then you'll be interested in knowing that, as a matter of great urgency, the EU proposes a new package to enhance and simplify the production of... wine.

Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions

This looks worth reading: Mara McPartland et al. (2025) Climate of the Past @egu-cl.bsky.social doi.org/10.5194/cp-2... @egu.eu 🧪 ⚒️ 👩‍🔬 #PaleoSky

The development of the Pizol Glacier within a few decades – and there are still retards who claim that man-made #climate change does not exist.

@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat: "Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Electrify 50% of your industry, save €250bn/year on fossil fuel imports.¹ Relatedly: the EU sends €380bn/year to autocratic regimes for its fossil fuel addiction. ¹ @jamiesmythft.bsky.social's @financialtimes.com Energy Source newsletter

The Irish Times is hiring for this job, Head of Data Architecture and Machine Learning, but I can't understand what it is and how it relates to running a newspaper. Can you explain it to me please? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...

"The Taoiseach made his remarks at the Cop30 climate summit where the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, of which the Republic is a founding member, will host several events" We could be a wind power behemoth & he wants to tie us to US fracked gas. That's not security. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience

this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.

"The Hague’s fossil-fuel advertising ban is more than a policy- it’s a signal. By rejecting the normalization of fossil fuel promotion, the decision to implement a ban locally can challenge entrenched norms globally... FF advertising bans present a compelling opportunity for governments to act"

The sad thing is, I remember sketching changes in temperature and heavy precip distributions in exactly this way in the early 2000s, just to now watch it play out. The animation very much reminds me of an angry beast pulling on its chains; and they are tearing loose...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

This is a good article, worth reading. Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars. Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told

Martyn Turner

Gross

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

thanks Google AI!

Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost of business travel.

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

The Vietnamese Bach Ma Mountain Peak station recorded one-day rainfall of 1,739 mm - close to the global one-day record and perhaps a new record for the northern hemisphere. It is part of a deluge Viet Nam has seen in October, shattering 35 precip records. e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en...

Today I endeavoured to speak for the rivers, to provide a counter balance to the lobbyist's narrative on the polluting nitrates derogation. Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...

Farmers in Ireland are "doing a lot", but "more needs to be done", the European Commissioner for the Environment has said, as Ireland's four-year derogation from the Nitrates Directive is due to expire at the end of the year.

What a nightmare! Chinese astronauts can’t come home because space debris hit their return craft. The rapidly increasing amount of stuff we launch into space is something everyone should be aware of.

Which one is more English?

So the EP Agri committee, so adamant that consumers would be confused by labels saying VeggyBurger or Vegeterian sausage, have voted to allow booze producers to replace health indications with a QR code Transparency seems is a one way street. Leading away from healthier and more sustainable diets.

Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

We're told one of these land uses is 'productive', while the other is not. But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down. As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.

I was a climate reporter I got so tired of writing the same 3 paragraphs different ways in every single story it boils down to: stop burning stuff yes, it matters yes, us here, us too

Just relieved it isn't the clathrates yet

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.

“Ireland experienced the warmest spring & summer on record this year. It has been exceptionally mild for early November with temperatures in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, reaching 17.2 degrees on Thursday; 6.8 degrees above the average maximum.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement The world’s on track for 2.5–2.9°C 👉Emissions still rising 👉Pledges improving, not delivering 👉1.5°C dream fading - but 2°C is still possible if ambition doubles …and the next decade will decide everything www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Potentially unpopular opinion: Mandatory retirement would be good in politics, academia, and elsewhere.

"Pokrovsk is not the end of the story, but should be a wake-up call. “Russia has gained a sense of courage,” says intelligence source. “It is time for everyone at home + in the West to stop messing around.” Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Math.... what is it good for?

Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850? Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

COP30: Study reveals “highest possible ambition” for countries' climate pledges With COP30 kicking off on Monday, a new paper by Julia Schönfeld and Professor Joeri Rogelj provides a framework for assessing countries’ climate pledges 🧵 Learn more: ow.ly/CiB050XnMK2

📣 #StateOfClimate Update 2025 is out now 🌡️ From January to August 2025, average temperature was +1.42°C hotter than pre-industrial level, on track to be second or third hottest year on record. 🔗 Press release: https://bit.ly/3LoawS9 🔗 Full report: https://bit.ly/4qZR52q

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.