So many of my colleagues laughed at me for saying this… but… a few colleagues didn’t… and I think they saved a LOT of lives in the first few years.

We need clarity on big pharma’s tax breaks | Letters Letters: Pharmaceutical giants like GSK should be more transparent about the generous tax breaks they get from the UK government, says Mike Lewis

Corporate lobbyists have no shame.

The UK Government could ‘move up the value chain’ and establish well funded public centres that develop drugs up to the point at which production is scaled up for patients.

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

"So, then the old geezers go off to die and young people are left with 2°C of global warming locked in, out of their control, and both hands tied behind their back"
Dr James E Hansen
@drjamesehansen.bsky.social

youtu.be/XlyWEixy8p4

HISTORIC EVENT
Thousands of hot nights records smashed with insane margins (up to 5C+) allovoer South Asia
Some Incredible Record High Minimums
INDIA
28.6 Kavali
28.0 Nellore
27.4 Ongole
27.7 Chennai AP,27.0 Chennai
MYANMAR
26.0 Monywa
BANGLADESH
26.4 Katubdia
26.0 Feni
etc

The Global South needs between $310 billion and $365 billion in adaptation finance per year by 2035, whereas adaptation finance from rich countries was only $26 billion in 2023.

CO₂ removal will cost >$1000 billion per year, and will mainly benefit the Global South. Who's gonna pay that? No one.

A Qn for those living in the USA.

Trump seems to want to promote violence so that he can deploy the army.

As starving people are likely to steal food and / or resort to violence, could this be the goal of stopping SNAP? If so, can Democrat Governors and Mayors step in with food aid?

The carbon flow of BECCS. When BECCS systems are employed, a negative carbon flow from the atmosphere into storage is created. From: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953422000678

We can find suitable land with sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow plants, wait years to harvest the biomass and burn it for energy, hope to capture the CO₂ with carbon capture and storage technology, and find a suitable spot to bury the CO₂ permanently.

OR we can use solar panels.

Global GHG emissions showing a flat line at about 15MtCO2eq, where countries submitted, with a slight decline in emissions to 2035. A rising line from 35 to 55MtCO2eq shows global emissions, and the commitments at the last round of NDCs leading to flattish emissions.

Where are we on climate action?

The bottom black line is countries that submitted new commitments (on time), the dotted line is global emissions. Blue shading are the commitments.

That is the progress 10 years after Paris...

unfccc.int/process-and-...

🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.

The public is not being informed of the danger posed.

The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯

#EndClimateSilence

I wonder what happened in January? Anyone anyone

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Finally: me on why the discourse around targets and degrees has distracted from the bigger effort of trying to actually analyse whether countries and companies are giving this their all (Norway is not)

pca.st/episode/6551...

This man was part of a coalition of Reagan-era apartheid apologists who opposed U.S. opening talks with the African National Congress which he called a terrorist org. He has been a right wing activist for decades. His son was part of the Jan 6th mob and was convicted (later pardoned by Trump). 1/

The UK COVID inquiry is valuable simply in documenting the failures of the pandemic.

Establishing for the historical record that the public health and infection control bodies that grabbed control over COVID decision-making were negligent and out of their depth will make next steps easier.

deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming

- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels

Cool approach.

This is a genuine problem with UK politics and how it's covered:

The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

Our tax dollars supporting a golden ballroom and concentration camps but supporting health care costs is too expensive

"Let's say a particular Direct Air Capture plant will remove 4000 tonnes of CO2, if we look at that DAC plant as a time machine that takes us back to an atmosphere we had in the past, its an atmosphere that we has 3 seconds ago... it's very ineffectual" - Prof. @davidho.bsky.social

Regular reminder that people who say we should "return up nature" or go back to "living off the land" are essentially saying "I think 90% of existing humans should die, but I still want to come across as morally superior"

Industrial agriculture is VERY important, basically

Biofuels were meant to reduce emissions — but recent evidence shows they’re doing the opposite.

New data suggest that crop-based biofuels are worsening CO₂ emissions globally. 🧵1/3

The failure to decarbonize the global energy education system: Carbon lock-in and stranded skill sets The energy transition involves the transformation of professions and labour markets, which in turn depend on the availability of a workforce with the …

"The findings show that the rapid adoption of renewable energy worldwide is not matched by changes in higher education, since universities continue to prioritise coal and petroleum studies"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment Patients who got shots of mRNA before starting a type of cancer immunotherapy lived much longer

mRNA vaccines seem to work synergistically w/ cancer immunotherapy.

In patients, the vaccine acts like a siren that triggers the release of immune signaling proteins, instructing the immune system to attack tumors.

We need to funding for mRNA based therapeutics.
🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Accelerated glacier melt is threatening Europe's villages, rivers and economies Temperatures in Europe are increasing at twice the average global rate. As glaciers in the Swiss Alps disappear, Europe's biggest rivers are losing a crucial source of their summer water flow.

"the Rhone isn't the only river whose source is a glacier - the Rhine, the Danube, the Po - the continent's biggest rivers all start here. And when these glaciers are gone, Farinotti says, these rivers will be forever altered."

#ClimateEmergency

Predictable response to the petition against airport expansion: GrOwTH is what matters above all else (you poor misguided fools), other countries are doing it (so more wrongs make a right?) and technology will magic any environmental problems away (yeah and pigs might fly). To oblivion and beyond!