Rage Against the Miocene

Delighted to have Chris Packham opening the National Emergency Briefing. I'll be chairing as 8 experts give briefings on the lastest science and evidence.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations

Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"

Total insanity. Deeply illiberal and authoritarian. Snatching people who look different off the street on the off chance they might be illegal. Does Philips realise that this is the language of tyranny?

Political Scientist Vahid Abedini detained boarding flight as he traveled to the annual MESA conference

Farage is speaking at Venue Cymru tonight.

Last revamped in 2018 with £1.8 million of EU development money and another £1 million in business development cash.

Original development also received significant EU funding.

Farage, by contrast, will give Llandudno nothing but hot air and lies.

1/2 The “people’s broadcaster” is now overseen by private equity grandees, ex-CEOs of privatised utilities, investment bankers and assorted corporate heavyweights.

Hardly the broad public it claims to serve.

Horror stories of a ‘feminised workplace’ mask the real crisis in male identity | Finn Mackay Stereotypes that centre men’s worth in their work are strangling sensible debate, and letting down women too, says author Finn Mackay

"What men need to succeed in the workplace has nothing to do with the numbers of women employed – it has to do with job security, livable wages, affordable rents, reliable sick pay and flexible work around parenting and caring."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Now that we are likely to cross 1.5°C, there is increasing discussion on "overshoot".

There is a lot of uncertainties on overshoot, but there is one thing that we are 100% sure about:

GHG emissions need to go down >90% in decades for overshoot to be a reality.

www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

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...

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.

"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."

Please share with your MP #NEB2025

Used to be, one trait associated with integrity was the ability to acknowledge a mistake, apologize, and attempt to correct it.

"As scientists, we are duty-bound to speak plainly about the dangers that lie ahead.

We urge all our elected representatives to take responsibility for being fully informed and to join this critical @nebriefing.bsky.social on 27 November"

Please contact your MP via:
www.nebriefing.org

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

“I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers.” Heartbreaking piece by Tatiana Schlossberg, President Kennedy’s granddaughter and RFK Jr.’s cousin.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Diagram of reef systems showing the net nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes under different temperature conditions based on an ecosystem shift from carbon-capturing kelp to Herdmania grandis via tropicalization (white arrow) in midshelf reefs in the Solitary Islands region (eastern Australia). The scenarios show the amount of N2O emitted by Herdmania-dominated reefs where N2O values represent the upper and lower range in the region. These values are compared with other habitats in the region, such as estuarine areas calculated from rates by Murray et al. (2015) and marine sediment calculated from rates by Kelly et al. (2021). All values are displayed in tons of N2O per habitat per year (y−1).

As the planet warms, what was temperate is becoming tropical, and with that comes the corresponding species.
You have biodiversity effects, but biogeochemistry is also altered, with increased nitrous oxide production. 🧪🌊

Link: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Please hear me when I say that

1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements

2) they pre-date the age of social media

3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence

A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

Back to highlight this project that I hope will inspire all of us. In February, a few kind souls started distributing food & more to displaced families in Jabalia. And now you can help these fifteen families cope with winter.

Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

Stewart Lee: A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. It put me in mind of Nigel Farage The fly-tipping in Oxfordshire is threatening the health of the local river – just as 25 years of platforming the Reform leader in the media has polluted our national discourse

"Traces of our stupid civilisation stain the planet like vomit up the Downing Street wall of a Boris Johnson-era lockdown party."

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

I have such mixed feelings about the COP process. Is it an utter failure or should it be applauded for what it has achieved in the face of fierce resistance from incredibly wealthy and powerful interests?

CO2 was at 330 ppm when I started my PhD in oceanography at MIT in 1974. And yes, at the time, we well knew that CO2 was increasing, that fossil fuels were the main culprit, and that this was not good for the climate. I can't believe that after more than half a century, COP was not able to do more.

We had only recently passed 350 ppm when I started my PhD in Earth System Science, already a value understood to be dangerous and a threat to society.

And now, 33 years and 30 COPs later, we are at a value that is unprecedented for the past 3 million years and maybe even the past 8 million years.

Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Lovely work, using lipid isotopic labelling to trace the revival of ancient frozen microorganisms.

Microbes frozen for 40,000 years revive, reorganize, devour carbon - Earth.com share.google/pFWZEOpeO0M1...

The moral vacuity of signing up to "a “just, orderly and equitable” transition away from fossil fuels" because fossil fuel GHG emissions are incompatible with the 1.5°C goal, then immediately reaffirming that Australia will "continue to develop new fossil fuel projects"

JFC

In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy

“This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States,” said Pat Parenteau of Vermont Law and Graduate School. “Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.”

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI

Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.

One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.

What could go wrong?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.