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Cover of book 'Clearing the Air' by Hannah Ritchie

People want more houses - somewhere else.

More energy generation - somewhere else.

Less taxation - plus public services.

More land for wildlife - but won't change their lifestyles to enable this.

I know I bang on about this book but it shows how illogical people are being

Markwayne Mullin & = @SenMullin X.com Working through the weekend with President Donald J. Trump. It's always an honor to be in the Oval Office— I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted.

Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.

Donald Trump’s economy. Where McDonalds is too expensive for 30-year-olds. The Golden Age.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A democracy fighting against an authoritarian movement.

The Democrats Try Out a Big Tent Or is it more “medium-sized”?

Democrats say there’s new room for compromise inside the party’s big tent, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social reports. But the party still hasn’t decided on which issues it will accept disagreement—and on which will it stand firm:

Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.

Far as I can tell, the five-year plan recommendations are the first time that the Central Committee has explicitly called for electrification of energy use. The previous five-year plans only had it in the energy sector plan, so elevating it to the top level is significant.

🇨🇳 🇺🇳 NEW | Report: Assessing China’s overseas coal power ban 4 years on

Following President Xi's 2021 pledge of no new overseas coal projects, 59.3GW of projects have been cancelled, or 6.1bn tonnes of avoided lifetime carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, yet loopholes persist

Artificial intelligence could dramatically improve weather forecasting An AI-based model outperformed every other in forecasting the Indian monsoon this year. This helped millions of farmers.

One area where AI has a lot of potential is in weather forecasting and climate modelling.

Fairly accurate weather forecasting, in particular, is something that many of us now take for granted.

From my latest Substack: www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/artificial...

The ensemble mean of Google DeepMind's experimental machine learning weather model had Hurricane Melissa hitting Jamaica 7 days out. That's very impressive.

An elderly man has had a syncope event and everyone else in the room rushed over to help. The president stands facing the camera without apparent curiosity or empathy about the event.

I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.

It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people.

I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table.

apnews.com/article/snap...

As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years

🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Interesting discussion about the new Ember report. The world is going electric, lead by China. The question for Europe and the Western world at large, how to respond? In which areas can we compete, and how? Or are we going to cede the world market to China?

Cleaning Up | Why There'll Never Be A Hydrogen Economy (*although Erik Rakhou disagrees)
cleaning-up-leadership-in-the-age-of-climate-change.simplecast.com/episodes/why...

Is green hydrogen a ‘miracle fuel’ or an expensive illusion? Can we decarbonize without it?

A Fond Farewell After more than 200 years of sharing wit and wisdom, the 2026 Farmers' Almanac will be our last edition. But our story stays alive in you.

The Farmers' Almanac is shutting down, Teen Vogue terminated its political coverage, and CBS News laid off its climate team. This has been a rough week for journalism.

#FarmersAlmanac #ClimateJournalism

www.farmersalmanac.com/fond-farewel...

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

What's the word for rounding up people and involuntarily putting them in camps?

It starts with the homeless.

Who wants to bet that it will end there?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Essential background here: "did climate change cause Hurricane Melissa" is an attribution question, and there are two main approaches to attribution. Probabilistic event attribution asks: was a Hurricane Melissa-like storm more likely because of climate change? Whereas storyline event attribution...

Fig. 2. Learning rates for technologies in the Performance Curve Database are seldom constant. (b) Past learning rate (i.e., the learning rate for the first half of points in the data series) versus future learning rate (i.e., the learning rate observed in the second half of the points in the data series) for the same technologies. The past learning rate is not a good predictor of the future learning rate as measured by the Pearson correlation coefficient for the learning exponent of 0.12 and not significantly different from 0 at the 5% confidence level. Outliers (not shown) include nuclear electricity (−109,−32), offshore gas pipeline (−59,13), crude oil (−87,55), and motor gasoline (−29,64).

Experience curves indicate that successful technologies reduce in cost by ~20% for each doubling of cumulative production.

However, we find that past learning rates are not very predictive of future learning rates, throwing many energy tech cost projections into doubt.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Who would have guessed that sending masked unidentified people out with weapons and a mandate to abuse people would lead to copy-cat wrongdoing?

I'm shocked.

ttps://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/

Strikingly, of the 45 Minneapolis Police officers whose videos we've just released, more than 24% have killed community members while on duty, and a large swath of other officers had numerous accounts of egregious actions against the community. 🚔

Climate change hits hardest poor people in hot places.

We need to help them not be so poor and help them not be so hot.

Neither climate change, nor malaria, nor malnutrition will decimate civilization.

Nevertheless, we need to solve all of these problems.

www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...

YouTube video by Simon Clark Good news from the latest renewables report

I like good news stories on our progress to a cleaner, greener, healthier, wealthier, fairier world.
Soak up 2 minutes of Wind and Solar PV sustainable renewable progress.
youtube.com/shorts/p7Jgm...

Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters

You might think honeybees are thriving – after all, we see hives everywhere. But their wild cousins are vanishing.

A scientist explains why unmanaged colonies are now classed as endangered across Europe. ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the… The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

SCOOP from me:

I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.

Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

'Total devastation': Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction, flooding in Jamaica The most intense Atlantic hurricane of 2025 made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica, on Tuesday, followed by a second landfall in Cuba early on Wednesday as the monstrous storm sliced across the Caribbea...

“It may take many days for the full damage assessment to be completed. However, based on expert analysis by AccuWeather, the preliminary damage and economic loss estimate for Jamaica is $22 billion.” The island’s GDP is under $20 billion. www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane...

Jamaica’s Grid Was Not Ready for Hurricane Melissa The massive storm underscores the challenges in keeping up with the quickening pace of climate change.

After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit.

Story @bloomberg.com, gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In 2019, 75% of US adults believed that same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt children. In 2025, that’s down to 61%.