Charlotte Smith

More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.

Wild that articles like this are still being written without mentioning "climate" or "environment" one single time.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Mischievous hands': Indonesians blame deforestation for devastating floods Environmental experts and regional leaders said the tropical storm in the Malacca Strait that killed more than 800 people was just one of many worsened by climate change.

'Mischievous hands': Indonesians blame deforestation for devastating floods reut.rs/4ivspLn

Over 25,000 people have already signed the letter to Keir Starmer and national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... #NEB2025

'The Earthlycrumb Tragedies'

(with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid)

A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

Ep 27 - AMOC The evidence for and against the Atlantic's overturning current reaching a tipping point this century.

Iceland has assessed the possible tipping point this century of the Atlantic’s overturning circulation as a national survival issue.
I made a programme about how scientists have arrived at that conclusion.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
#amoc #climate #climatecrisis

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company.

One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean

TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting

Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?

TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."

An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.

Experts call for serious, long term climate action to prevent UK becoming 'ungovernable' UK policymakers urged to rise above 'comfortable short-term options' and adopt a 'World War Two level' of leadership on climate at National Emergency Briefing in Westminster

Really sorry to have missed this today. Looks like it was a hugely important event. Just hope people were listening.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4522495...

I just can't tell you how full of rage this whole story makes me. He told them repeatedly that he was filled with horror by museums retaining body parts and he taught them how to do the Yahi cremation-and-burial rituals so it would be done properly.

They removed and stored his fucking brain.

Between tearing babies from their parents' arms and traumatizing countless children, abandoning climate action and environmental protection, and loosing RFK on public health, the Trump Administration is engaging in quite a bit of child sacrifice. To their right-mania goals.

Putins Helfer Rücken Trump und sein Umfeld näher an Russland? Bedrohen Autokraten und Tech-Oligarchen die liberale Ordnung?

ZDF is now broadcasting the documentary I prepared with Johannes Hano and David Frum concerning the Russian influence operation targeting Musk, Thiel and other Silicon Valley South Africans, which was personally overseen and run by Vladimir Putin and was deemed hugely successful by the Russians.

National Emergency Briefing An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

This feels like a significant new approach - with serious expertise heft. Today’s briefing of MPs well-attended. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...

EV drivers face paying £255 a year extra under Reeves's pay-per-mile tax Green groups and carmakers sound warning after Chancellor announces 3p per mile levy on EV drivers from 2028

EV drivers face paying £255 a year extra under Reeves's pay-per-mile tax

Green groups and carmakers sound warning after Chancellor announces 3p per mile levy on EV drivers from 2028, but analysis shows that EVs will remain around £1,000 a year cheaper to run than petrol cars.

Budget: cost of energy crisis exceeds NHS England’s annual health… Higher energy prices over past four years have cost UK £183bn, with Government borrowing for support schemes adding estimated £2.4bn a year in interest for 14 years.

Budget: cost of energy crisis exceeds NHS England’s annual health spending

Higher energy prices over past four years have cost UK £183bn, with Government borrowing for support schemes adding estimated £2.4bn a year in interest for 14 years.
eciu.net/analysis/re...

Dozens dead as ‘once in 300 years’ storm batters Thailand Major commercial city near Malaysian border records 335mm rainfall in single day

Dozens dead as ‘once in 300 years’ storm batters Thailand with heavy rains and flooding

Flooding has affected 2.7 million people, with the city of Hat Yai, a major commercial hub near the Malaysian border, being hit especially hard, the heaviest in 300 years.

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

Graph showing global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 versus global carbon dioxide levels from 1979 to 2023. Includes a trend line indicating rising temperatures as CO₂ levels increase. Data from NOAA and NASA.

Imagine how scary it’d be if we didn’t know why global temperatures were rising.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Goddammit

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.

Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
AC/DC
Prince
Velvet Underground

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

🥳🙏🏼

Headline on The World at One just now:

"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".

Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?

This Natural Life - Sarah Perry - BBC Sounds The writer takes Martha Kearney to the rook and jackdaw roost at Buckenham Carrs, Norfolk

If you need a lift, listen to Sarah Perry rhapsodise on life, the universe and the mystery of Corvids www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

As of November 25th, Arctic sea-ice extent just hit a new record daily low and is now more than 32,000 km² below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016. Current extent is more than 1,360,000 km² below the 1991-2020 average.

Looks like it was well attended. Is there a link?