Climate John

About effing time! Now publish it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.

The climate crisis isn’t “coming.” It’s here. Record heat. Deadly floods. Vanishing ice. Collapsing ecosystems. We don’t need more warnings. We need courage, systems change, and action at the scale of the emergency. #ClimateAction #ActNow

The hottest summer on record. The worst arable harvest on record. A climate crisis already hitting communities around the world. Andy Burnham must rule out more drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank.

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

Eco chamber: climate emergency From the new Private Eye, out now.

In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.

Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

How polluters create a Circle of Denial on the climate & nature crisis. We need politicians with vision and courage to break it.

There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.

We need a rapid phase out of fossil fuels...

Q: "Are we ready for the age of global wildfires?" A: Not at all!

Sign it! Send it! "This El Niño driven warming will lead to significantly more global flooding, fires, storms, droughts, deadly heat events, dangerous turbulence, and most concerning, a significant threat to food supply chains, crops, and power grids." yellowdotstudios.com/elninowarning/

This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

A former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: BBC News are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿 Part 1 of 4.

1/7 After @georgemonbiot.bsky.social exposed deep flaws in carbon capture &storage—and the extraordinary sums this Govt is committing to it—CCS industry lobbyists and pro-CCS scientists responded. @sioldridge.bsky.social &I answer them here www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis: Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating Most of the UK media stories about the record-breaking heatwave that struck in June failed to mention the c...

‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say: Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war Economists are warning that a “super” El Niño weather cycle this year could cause a severe shock to global f...

Recent interview at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6w... (the biog’ is from many moons ago, but is still languishing in various places on the web).

“Climate change has been presented as some future problem for future generations. . . it’s not true. It’s us.” Prof Montgomery pointed to an intelligence report painting climate-accelerated nature loss as a risk to food, labelled opposition to net zero “clearly insane” www.ft.com/content/f059...

Breaking News! y-axis alert! Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures are now more than 3 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean, forcing an extension of the y-axis up to 3.5σ. And that line way at the bottom? That's 1988.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "This is a true predicament, not a solvable problem. In this light, it makes no sense to try to save the modern world. We are living a madness and must let it go." reeswilliame.substack.com/p/mything-ou...

Better prepare as best we can...

Britain ‘sleepwalking into a food crisis’ without urgent action, experts say: Industry figures warn of national security risk and call for ministers to address impact of extreme weather, inflation and Iran war Britain is “sleepwalking into a food crisis” caused by extreme weather, inflati...

My latest on substack: open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

"I'm becoming programmed right now, while my mind is still developing. But you've been programmed for a while."

An administration run by zealots and oil-soaked sellouts, engaged in an epic act of national economic self-sabotage.

If you are someone who thinks we are making real progress in terms of tackling the climate crisis, then read this excellent piece We are not exactly treading water, but we are not doing much more jacksondamian.substack.com/p/solution-d...

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

Every responsible decision maker in politics, industry etc. should read this. Or better yet the original WMO report it’s about (linked in the article). And then think very seriously: What am I doing to stop this? Is it enough? How do I want to be remembered? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The UK Could Be Quietly Heading for a Solar Power Revolution – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/03/19/t...

“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”

Thanks for this, @samsteindc.bsky.social. It's really hard to keep track.

To #RejectionIsland, to rescue an unused cartoon.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

Trump's lies vs. the last four weeks of extreme weather reality:

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anyone with savings, investments or a pension please take note...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🌡️ 2025 was the third-warmest year on record, with a global average temperature 0.59°C above the 1991–2020 average & 1.47°C above the 1850–1900 pre-industrial level. It was 0.13°C below 2024, the warmest year on record, and only 0.01°C cooler than 2023. @ecmwf.int ⬇️

This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com

Excellent video - watch! Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.