"The reserve currently contains 415m bbl of oil, or ~ 20 days of US consumption, well below its 714m-bbl capacity. Drawing down too much of the oil too quickly could damage the salt caverns holding it. It would cost more than $20bn to refill."
www.ft.com/content/d546...
The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
While strategic petroleum reserves can cushion against immediate impacts of the US/Israeli war against Iran, people really have not prepared for fertiliser shortages and what that may mean for food cycles in the coming year:
(Source: Bloomberg newsletter 6 March)
As the Kurds who had depended on US support, were betrayed and massacred in their thousands in the 70s, Kissinger famously dismissed the deaths: "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."
04.03.2026 07:30 — 👍 34 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 3
"On Sunday, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that an Iranian drone struck an apartment inhabited by Israelis in Abu Dhabi near the Israeli embassy." i.e. intel personnel.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-t...
Old enough to know that all wars start with wildly fanciful claims of quick success. Including the US civil war (I’m not *that* old but I do read history)
02.03.2026 18:25 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The Pentagon is putting the responsibility on Trump.
02.03.2026 13:06 — 👍 74 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.
Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.
Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
One of the key problems with the coexistence of billionaires and a subservient media is that the ravings of mentally ill men are presented as headline news.
05.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 228 🔁 83 💬 14 📌 1
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
@thierryaaron.bsky.social argues
vulnerability to climate change isn’t fate - it's a political choice.
theconversation.com/preventable-...
Climate displacement in Wales as Council spends over £2.5million to protect residents
#Rhondda #ClimateChange #Wales
climatewithbrian.com/2026/02/02/w...
"The results also indicate that current #climate models underestimate the magnitude of the observed changes. This is caused most likely by a too simplistic representation of deep mixing processes in the ocean in numerical models"
#AMOC
#FasterThanExpected
ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
"Every summer in Europe, now, is getting unbearably hotter...If you are using excess deaths as a tool for measuring heat mortality, you are looking back 3yrs to get your avg... what happens when those No.'s are elevated every yr? Excess deaths are baked into the background data &the baseline shifts”
22.01.2026 07:16 — 👍 60 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 2Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
18.01.2026 00:16 — 👍 3791 🔁 1295 💬 34 📌 23
Week by week - Laura Kuenssberg is interviewing the party leaders.
When I agreed to come on the show, I was told Nigel Farage was also doing it.
He's now pulled out - and they've sent the deputy instead.
The same Nigel Farage who's refusing to debate me.
A pattern emerging...
From Palestine to Venezuela: We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis.
Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE
hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
03.01.2026 18:41 — 👍 1446 🔁 261 💬 23 📌 10Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
03.01.2026 07:20 — 👍 12369 🔁 4816 💬 79 📌 62A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
03.01.2026 10:17 — 👍 1453 🔁 527 💬 63 📌 41
The UK has 160 black professors (25% are women) out of a total of 22,885.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) offers funding opportunities, 81% of awards go to white applicants, 1% to black.
The statistics are likely to discourage black scholars from pursuing academic/science careers.
Need action.
Group of soldiers announce the removal of President Patrice Talon and all state institutions.
07.12.2025 09:30 — 👍 44 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 3
