"Tice’s comments came in a combative interview where he threatened to walk out when presented with information from the [IPCC]. Tice…declined to name advisers who convinced him the scientific consensus was wrong." Extraordinary interview by @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @oliviarudgard.bsky.social

Reform UK won the most seats in May local elections and is polling at the top across the UK. If it gets into government, it will upend decades of climate and energy policy. On Zero, I asked deputy leader Richard Tice what evidence shapes those stances. Listen: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: github.com/orgs/communi...

Kudos to whoever made this.

After the 2023 marine heat wave, 70-75% “of our Caribbean sites had tipped from net growth into net erosion. They are now losing calcium carbonate faster than corals can add it. The threshold that earlier models had suggested might be crossed over during the next decade or so has already arrived.”

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

This is big. Former leaders, executives and professionals of the oil and gas industry are urging the government to reject the expansion of fossil fuel dependence. 👏👏👏 Read the open letter: https://theaus.in/4u2HOYc

Next week, on 13 May 2026, my office of all women at Johnson Legal will be heading to the High Court of Australia in Canberra for the first ever climate hearing in this Court. The judicial system is open to the public. More info here 👇👇👇 www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...

The NT government tortures children, with spit hoods, isolation and a youth ‘justice’ policy designed to take children from family and country. It’s all paid for by the Commonwealth that funds 80 cents in each dollar the NT spends. Time to make them accountable. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Last night, Israel seized 22 civilian boats and kidnapped ~180 activists in international waters. This includes several leaders from the Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee. List of abductees: globalsumudflotilla.org/sos/ (I count 180 here - Israel says they have 175, Greek media reports 211)

"every single day there are Israeli strikes.. 3 civil defence responders were trapped under the rubble & then declared killed in what appeared to be a double tap attack. These are not Hezbollah operatives, these are first responders" Lina Sinjab reporting from Lebanon.

Standards! Love 'em or hate em? 😁 10 grants of €5,200/month is on offer for open source maintainers to participate in standards development at the IETF, W3C, and ISO - applications close 19 May. Thanks to German govt @sovereign.tech that's deployed €24m into strengthening open source infrastructure

Last year a fossil fuel advocate said it was "complete and total paranoia" and "pure fiction" when climate groups warned Big Oil was lobbying for legal immunity. One year later, same guy says "we look forward to working with" Republican sponsors of the bill to give Big Oil immunity. 🤔

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

Invisible things. My @smh @ theage cartoon.

. @richarddenniss.bsky.social opens by pointing out that the Japanese govt actually raises more revenue from Australian gas than does the Australian govt! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVp...

So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔

A bumper year so far for data centre commitments = a bumper year for fossil gas, from the same hyperscalers supposedly committed to rapid decarbonisation. mail.latitudemedia.com/gas-for-data...

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

This is a very interesting comparison for Australia 🇦🇺, which uses real-time petrol prices and Amber’s electricity prices, and makes the most of EV smart charging, to compare the running costs of popular combustion-engine cars with those of electric models elitre.com.au/dollar

TONIGHT IN TEL AVIV: Ben Gvir’s police violently broke up an anti-war demonstration, arresting Standing Together co-director Alon-Lee Green & activist Nadav Oren. No matter how much they try to silence us, we refuse to stop protesting against Netanyahu’s cynical forever war!

🧵 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies often cited in UK media stories on oil and gas But how independent is it? Its staff includes director of major sanctioned Russian gas firm and researcher accused of pushing Kremlin talking points New on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️ Information on methods: wgms.ch/products_ref...

New reporting from @roycerk2.bsky.social shows US- and Japan-funded think tanks pushing for Australia to keep growing its gas industry. drilled.media/news/japan-t...

"Even an elaborate cheating scheme won’t be enough to deliver Orbán victory if the polls are correct." This is a big deal:

Israel just passed a law mandating death by hanging for Palestinians in rigged military trials voting 62-48 in the Knesset. Netanyahu turned up in person to vote yes. Ben-Gvir wore a metal noose pin on his lapel while the chamber erupted in cheers at the prospect of killing more Palestinians.

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

Our comrades in France have a proposal and plan for nationalizing Total, ending its expansionary fossil fuel agenda, and enacting a just transition. Instead the U.S. is paying this private corporation $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind and keep drilling for more oil and gas. Exactly wrong.

“Our main challenge now is securing enough EV supply to meet the growing waiting list.” No surprise? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Give how intermittent and unreliable oil and gas is proving to be once again, perhaps we should be looking to alternatives...

New report from @cleancreatives.bsky.social finds fossil fuels companies aren't bothering with ads pretending they're transitioning to clean energy anymore, they've shifting to selling us on the idea that fossil fuels are essential and permanent features of life: heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Where to begin with this

Fossil fuel price shocks due to the Strait of Hormuz conflict show the risk of oil import dependency 🛢️ Replacing imported fossil fuels in transport with EVs can cut fossil imports by a THIRD, reducing exposure to volatile oil markets. ember-energy.org/lat...

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amazing piece giving insight into the relationship between major fossil fuel companies and senior government officials. 130 direct, personal, text messages in 4 months between a Woodside rep and a DCCEEW deputy secretary. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... Doco maker speaks about the police brutality

Trumps tax breaks last year allowed Amazon to reduce their tax bill by 87%, despite profits soaring by 45% to nearly $90 billion.

"As a Jew, I will proudly stand to be arrested, ostensibly for antisemitism. I did not spend my 20s active against a regime using violence to subordinate rights and silence its critics only to spend my twilight years watching Australian governments do the same." - Stephen Heydt, SMH today

"The Police chose violence". Veteran journo and sports broadcaster Peter Lalor was at the Sydney Herzog protest, got pepper sprayed. His account #auspol michaelwest.com.au/peter-lalor-...

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

attending a protest = "antagonising police" is very literally and precisely the gaslighting doublespeak of the fascist Trump government. I really don't make that comparison lightly but this is systemic, deep institutional collapse

US Judiciary deletes a chapter on law and #climate science because apparently science is a left-leaning concept and MAGAs complained. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

Isaac Asimov was a founder of modern science fiction. His work and ideas inform almost everything. He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.

The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism. A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.