Peter Lipman

‘Hybrid weapon of war’: Why climate disinformation could be a growing public health threat Health and civil society organisations have called on 194 countries to make information integrity core part of climate and health policy, preparedness, response

It is a move more big firms such as Alphabet’s Google, Verizon and Intel have adopted as they have culled their workforces...especially as the public backlash to AI intensifies. Many tech firms have laid off staff en masse this year, including Netflix, Oracle, Meta Platforms, PayPal and Amazon.

"Reflecting the pressure companies face to shrink head count as they invest in AI-even if they aren’t sure which jobs the technology will eventually replace," Microsoft shedding about a quarter of its staff, or 60,000 people. Gift article www.wsj.com/business/mic...

The freaking CEO of an earth observation consultancy cannot generate a 7 frame clip of site changes without using Claude, honestly, what the screaming hell are we meant to do here

Copernicus has BUILT IN timelapse feature and it took me less than 10m to get a vid, and I spent like, maybe 2 minutes extending the last few frames So much data centre and AI critique is now being generated (FOR NO GOOD REASON) using the exact tools CAUSING THE PROBLEM and it makes me SO MAD

That site, btw, the Monarch Compute Campus, WILL ALSO BE POWERED WITH FOSSIL FUELS www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cate...

The main reason I made this is because I saw the CEO of an earth imaging company post a version that got spat out of Claude and he seems fairly proud of it Despite the fact Anthropic **is itself** destroying a rare chestnut grove for one of its data centres 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 futurism.com/artificial-i...

Quick and dirty, but here's a false-colour timelapse view of Finland's forest destruction for a data centre using Copernicus images. Red = vegetation No red = human structure link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/ravk Google's reporting here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Like getting Fujitsu to review postmaster deaths ... 'Sir David Bell, the "independent" antisemitism reviewer, was accused of Islamophobia in 2005. A pro-Israel charity has listed him on its council for ten years.' newscord.org/editorials/d...

As extreme weather drives climate migration in Bangladesh, secondary cities remain unprepared to protect arriving populations. A study warns that without supportive policies for housing & employment, moving away from environmental threats exposes families to risks. Fellow Usraat Fahmidah reports.

This is objectively very very funny

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

<<Insurance analysts are being pressured to downplay climate dangers in their models ... The allegations are “exceptionally serious” and, if true, would likely mean significant breaches of financial and prudential regulation>> giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

CALMING THE FLOOD-DROUGHT CLIMATE WHIPLASH www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/blog/the-wil...

On Lula's Victory - what Brazil's Presidential result means for the climate www.break-down.org/on-lulas-vic...

Top tech company leaders are meeting with religious leaders to further their own business reasons and not to engage with questions of faith, says Father Paolo Benanti who has been an AI advisor to two popes

#NaturalCapital & #NatureMarkets are completing the bullshit, offset-brainrot loop for "AI philanthropy" jfc

In her latest Wild View opinion piece our Co-founder and Chief Exec Rebecca Wrigley delves into how turning our countryside back into a natural sponge is the key to escaping this flood-drought whiplash👇

Yet one of the most powerful, cost-effective defences we have is nature itself. Rewilding can re-establish spongy peatlands, wet woodlands and free-flowing rivers, which in turn can repair landscapes, help secure our water future and build our long-term climate resilience.

In the summer, reservoirs drain, cracked earth threatens farming and flames increasingly threaten people and nature. Just months later, the narrative flips: autumn storms inundate towns, wash away topsoil, and prompt calls for higher concrete walls, deeper dredging and emergency pumping stations.

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

The numbers for potential climate harm from direct fossil-fuelled data centres are just phenomenal. It makes no sense to help them realise their dreams here

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

"In the face of the immense political influence of the Trump administration and the financial and digital power of Big Tech, grassroots movements showed that people organizing for democracy, social justice, and the protection of their territories can prevail" amazonwatch.org/news/2026/10...

I liked Digger but in a weird way I still agree with basically most criticisms of it? Including Adam's here which are very thoughtful and well put together:

Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable - but it makes it seem so As Ben Shread-Hewitt and I explain in this recent article...

"...inviting businesses to hoard labour and sink more investment into a fundamentally obsolescent technology is not the solution." Seem obvious.

Amazing news! #Adelaide tonight became the 24th jurisdiction in Australia to vote to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships🎆 #fossiladban commsdeclare.org/2026/10/27/a...

The growth in global greenhouse gas emissions has slowed, from 1.7%/year from 1990-2015 to 0.8%/year from 2016-2025. Nevertheless, global GHG emissions are still at record high levels. Progress? www.unep.org/en/publicati...

UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

FYI this the same thing bsky.app/profile/mewe... www.ibtimes.co.uk/three-year-o...

An Abdication of Responsibility: Why Advertising Firms Continue to Monetise Hate www.insidetrack.org.uk/releases/adh...

📣 A group of senior insiders from the UK’s biggest advertising firms write today that their industry is monetising hate influencers and groups who are making “enormous financial gain” from online ad revenue. Read the full memo at: www.insidetrack.org.uk/releases/adh...

It is so so so so so so unbelievably evil to manufacture an abuse-enabling product, and then intentionally chain that product to the function of a disability aid as a marketing / regulatory delay tactic. It blows my mind how evil that is. Meta is the worst

As I predicted a while ago, the media response to this is blaming the "fractious debate" and putting all responsibility on the community's tone, rather than the design choices and priorities of the corporation designing invasively, creepy products mostly used for abusive behaviours

I watched the box-office flop Digger last night and loved it. I was reminded that unless you’re rich/ powerful, our future will be satire about the new “norm” of climate disasters to laugh at so we don’t cry. And Australia is great source material with all the fossil fuel projects we approve.

Youth Climate Activists in Canada Are Putting Their Federal Government on Trial www.oneearthnow.org/p/youth-clim...

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Burnham in danger of sleepwalking into climate disaster, say campaigners www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Climate Activists Celebrate Lula’s Win in Brazil, but Warn the Fight Is Far From Over insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...

Latest AMOC data continues to show a weakening trend www.noc.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Climate emissions resulting from approving drilling at Rosebank, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down UK’s EV targets, cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years Greater than the annual emissions of 106 coal plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."