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A cow who is feeling happy because I have taken the photo it will use for the cover of its psychedelic debut LP which it feels confident will get a five out of five star rating in Rolling Stone magazine.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts

My dog Sam contemplating his next move on an oversized chessboard somewhere on the grounds of the National Cathedral, I think by the St Albans school, in Washington DC. His light brown fur, by happy coincidence, is the same color as the white pieces.

Dog to d4 (and d5 and c5)

"Accidentally" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Conservation projects abandoned as rich countries retreat from climate fight | The Observer

It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature.

Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.

It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
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California has installed 17,000 MW of batteries connected to the electricity grid, up from 500 MW in 2020. 🔋🔌💡

Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.

We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

Chart: Carbon emissions are on a better — but not good — trajectory Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the worst-case warming scenarios seem unlikely. But there’s still a lot of decarbonization left to do.

The world is far from on track to meet Paris Agreement climate goals. But things aren’t as bad as they could be, thanks to the remarkable rise of renewable energy.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

China's carbon dioxide emissions have plateaued over the last year and a half: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
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Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home.

Nothing to see here, folks, just a “hoax.”

They fired all the competent artists

The files were under seal.

Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?

Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected.

MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.

If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.

Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢

Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Monbiot Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed.
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‘The tigers are hungry’: endangered but deadly, the world’s largest big cat is sowing fear in Siberia’s villages The spread of African swine flu among the wild boars the animals eat has led to the deadliest winter for attacks on people in the Russian region for decades – and a spike in tiger killings

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think “sources” are GOP staffers trying to make this happen

Experts reveal climate change drove extreme wildfire seasons across the Americas, making burned areas much larger Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts.

Wildfires aren’t necessarily happening more often, but they are becoming more intense.
A new international study shows that hotter, drier conditions are making it easier for fires to spread rapidly once they begin.
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#WildfireResearch

Or this is an attempt to manifest

Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets The Humane World for Animals, formerly the Humane Society of the United States, estimates that more than 20 million pets live in poverty with families.

Although SNAP can’t be used for pet food, the food assistance program helps low-income families free up money to purchase kibble.

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Deadly baseball-sized hail kills, severely injures thousands of birds in Texas The hailstorm swept through the area, causing severe damage.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A rats to riches story: Larry the Downing Street cat finds place in TV spotlight Popularity of Britain’s top mouser – ‘the guy to meet in No 10’ – to feature in documentary series

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
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I’m grateful for your insights.

Barbecue time!

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect? — Guardian US After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future

The company making money from the carbon offset market was wildly overstating its effectiveness. Investors found out and stopped investing. But many of the projects were in fact making a difference and reducing deforestation, and those are now at risk of dying.
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It must be suppertime. I don't care what the clock says. It lies
#Spike #Wednesdayvibe #Dogsofbluesky

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.