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Born at 325ppm CO2 iainball.co.uk
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"If everyone follows the lead of Trump and the fossil fuel industry, what happens when temperature increases push beyond 2C and 3C of warming? What does business-as-usual and return on investment look like in a world of rolling climate disasters, collapsing food systems, and surging migration?"

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Your periodic reminder that until economies get to net zero global temperatures will keep rising right up to and beyond the point where the Earth becomes practically uninhabitable for human civilisation.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Will be fascinating to see if BP attempts to explain how a strategy based on more fossil fuels and less renewables fits with a world on track for around 3C of warming and all that comes with it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ… From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

The more they pretend manmade climate change doesn’t exist, the worse it will get… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 13 days ago • 540 comments

20 Reasons Why Forests Are Important Help Us Breathe Home to Nearly Half of All Species Keep Us and Earth Cool Make It Rain Prevent Flooding Block Wind Clean Up Dirty Air Without Trees we would not exist Yet humans cut down 15 billion trees every year www.treehugger.com/reasons-why-...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Using AI to produce writing or art is like asking someone at the gym to lift weights for you. The effort is the point.

submitted 18 days ago • 30 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 17 days ago • 402 comments

Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report @climatepower.bsky.social says Story by @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Dry January From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Thought Cambridge Analytica was bad? The ‘Intention Economy’ will “sell our decisions ‘before we take them.” “Tools are already being developed to elicit, infer, collect, record, understand, forecast, and ultimately manipulate and commodify human plans and purposes.” www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

You can fill in this nightmare AI form slightly more quickly than it appears because the answer to most of it is “enforce existing copyright legislation” and “don’t steal” and “property is property” or “this is my job, fuck off.” You can cut and paste a lot.

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments

Doom scroll, meet doom loop

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I did a Q&A with Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, the director of the Centre for Climate Repair, on why and how ‘refreezing the Arctic’ could help us stumble our way through the climate crisis. www.climaterepair.cam.ac.uk/qa-shaun-our...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-scarie...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

A mash-up of climate and election reporting… www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-2...

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

“The human-caused climate crisis is just starting to pick up ferocity, and we need to quickly kill the fossil fuel industry before it kills us.” Must-read on Spain’s unnatural floods from @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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This is what Valencia looks like after its worst flood in living memory. Tell me again how climate protestors blocking traffic are the problem?

submitted 119 days ago • 18 comments

“Somalia has emitted roughly as much carbon dioxide from fossil fuels since the 1950s as the US economy does in an average three days.” Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems - but there's still hope www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

submitted 590 days ago • 0 comments

Check out how much red you see on this map for June 2023's sea surface temperatures (warmer than the 1981-2010 average), which were a record high. Data from ERSSTv5 at https://ncei.noaa.gov/products/extended-reconstructed-sst. 🧪

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“Something was fumbling and rattling at the latch of my recollection, while another unknown force sought to keep the portal barred.”

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