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“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

MIND-BLOWING STATS: A record two-thirds of new cars in China are now electric (NEVs*), while combustion-car sales have fallen by two-thirds since they peaked in 2017 – In 2020, ~95% of sales were combustion-engine cars – By Sep 2026, they crashed to 33% – On the flip side, NEVs hit a record 67% 🧵

NEW ANALYSIS: Expensive gas behind "nearly 90%" of rise in UK household electricity bills since 2020 + 77% of the rise in gas bills Contrary to what you've seen in media / political narratives, net-zero is "helping to shelter Britain from the impact of expensive gas", says @acjsissons.bsky.social

Driving at 5x the speed limit next to a primary school saves me 5 minutes on my commute to work

And I hope this is a picture of the two of them feeling it in their bones, particularly how eternally damning it is to let themselves be corporate captured by fossil interests

When you realise how history will judge you

Just a reminder - no matter what time of the night, wake me to let me know when the good news has finally happened.

Albo is genuinely no better than Scomo at this point www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

At the meeting in Tuvalu, Pacific leaders said the world must stop making false promises and end its addiction to fossil fuels. #cop31 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

[Founder's Briefs] The closure of USAID pulled nearly $1B from global conservation, halting community programs, anti-poaching patrols, and forest monitoring from Colombia to Kenya. A new report highlights 100 former agency-supported projects now urgently seeking new funders to survive.

This is so so bad

Excellent news from Austria! Vienna has become the first capital city to sign Greenpeace's pledge to get cities off gas by 2040, and move to 100% renewables Cites can help get Europe off oil and gas, cutting pollution and people's energy bills at the same time

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

Pretty clear from the replies the majority of people respond to this think David actually worked at Exxon, which would be something to behold

So the ultra-rich will continue to own our politics, and our country. Disappointing to say the least. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

He didn’t change. They did.

Good. Now we need action. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefighting helicopters. A cool space in every community. A maximum working temperature. And no new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea. We cannot negotiate with the science. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Climate breakdown isn't a political negotiation. It's a scientic reality borne out in lives lost and wildfires. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefight helicopters, a cool space in every community and a maximum working temperature.

Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

A fire now the size of 140 football pitches Drought in half of England & all of Wales Heat alerts across the country. Already 3000 dead from the heat. The crisis is here. We can see it, we can smell the smoke. We cannot sit by while government sit on their hands. www.lbc.co.uk/article/new-...

Our Prime Minister has had a lot to say today about subscriptions. Meanwhile, huge parts of the country are in drought. We're about to enter our fifth heatwave of the year, killing more people. Are we going to get anything from the Government? Literally anything?

I like that they gave hydrogen fuel-cell cars their own colour in the legend

Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"

Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.

The usual lies from climate deniers like Matt Ridley. Part of a broader pattern of paltering by bad actors like Bjorn Lomborg who misleadingly merge managed croplands & plains (which have seen decreases) with forests. See: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...

Across the country, wildfires are raging. The Prime Minister needs to call a COBRA meeting and treat the climate crisis with the urgency this moment calls for.

It's no longer just a passing #heatwave; it's a persistent state, made more than five times more likely by the impact of human-driven #climatechange. @climatecentral.org

it's the "just lie back and enjoy it" of climate denial

Extremely important investigation - I cannot emphasise enough how every single freaking day we are dealing with the consequences of the success of this lie. Gas is basically treated like it's not a fossil fuel, even among some climate / energy advocates. It is so so so bad

It's a grim reflection of the media's priorities that there's been seldom a word about who the new Environment Secretary is (Angela Eagle, by the way, who is surely an improvement on the dismal Emma Reynolds). The post should be up there with Home, Foreign and Defence. It's central to our wellbeing.

We don't bring back hope again by burning the planet and giving in to the fossil fuel industry. Hope and a plan is bringing in wealth taxes, rent controls and investing in renewables. That's how we make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

It's Day 1 of Andy Burnham being Prime Minister & Donald Trump is celebrating the destruction of our planet. Meanwhile Spain doubled it's renewables - before they had some of the highest bills in Europe and now some of the lowest bills. Labour need to stop appealing to Trump.

This would be a deeply irresponsible and destructive act at any time. To do it whilst we're having a third heatwave of the year and thousands of people have just died from extreme temperatures - makes it also politically incoherent. We urgently need to replace Labour.

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heatwaves are killing thousands in this country. Fossil fuels are an economic dead end. Approving new oil and gas drilling would be environmentally disastrous and economically illiterate.

Trump, the GOP and the polluters & plutocrats they answer to are responsible for the death and damage caused by this fossil-fueled disaster: www.reuters.com/business/env...

New drilling isn't just a catastrophic signal of us stepping back from our climate commitments, it also runs against the geological reality of an almost depleted resource. Our focus should be on cheap, clean fuel for the future - not propping up oil and gas. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Right now, the answer is: probably you. Pilot Energy, the company responsible for cleaning up the Cliff Head oil field off the WA coast, has collapsed into administration. The clean-up is estimated to cost $200 million. Unless the government steps in, that cost could fall on Aussie taxpayers #auspol

Albanese to say things that specifically infuriate Ketan www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

HEY!! Here's a brand new piece for @thepointau.bsky.social - on the amazing situation of the fossil fuel industry promising to sell safe energy but never having done so for FIVE DECADES All to the end of dumping their risk onto our backs: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

As swift parrots kept breeding in this forest, the government realised it had a problem - ABC News share.google/6MzSYZiQVEn9...

Norway, the world's #2 per capita exporter of fossil fuels, will be playing England in 41c heat today 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

"Getting Murdoched: climategate" | Article by Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson for #PearlsAndIrritations: johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07...

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not only does this mention fossil fuels, the social share text specifies human actions as responsible. This is good to see!

"24/7 renewables could happen sooner than you think | Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds" www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Five megawatt ferry charger in Oslo. Hope you like my song choice

Dark, glossy, unhurried. Glossy black cockatoos mate for life, nest in centuries-old hollows, and feast on she-oaks in the eastern coastal range forests of NSW. They rely on ancient forests and centuries-old hollows. Protect one, protect the other. 🖤