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Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

The leaking of the video showing Israeli soldiers and their dog torturing and sodomizing a Palestinian prisoner/hostage in Sde Teiman desert prison has exposed to the whole world what Palestinians have known and suffered for the last 78 years on the hands of the so-called “most moral army”

This passage shocked me to my core.

The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!

Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction!

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

Stop Losing. This Strategic Framework Is How You Force Environmental Action. | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

I spent the last 20 years trying to bring environmental, scientific insights into the public eye and practical response. Much of this experience has been packed in this advocacy toolkit based on the Real Capital Framework. Free to use!
www.patreon.com/posts/stop-l...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More information, and the local advocacy tools are here. patreon.com/stephenhinton

YouTube video by Stephen Hinton Real Capital Advocacy

AI explains my work pretty well! Real Capital Frameworks can help local advocacy groups formulate their demands and communicate the scientific basis they stand on. @charliejgardner.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social youtu.be/LmlXyxmEYp0?...

YouTube video by PBS Terra You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise

"What's really important is the rate of sea level rise.

It's generally viewed that once you get above ~7-10mm per year, so that's something that will happen in the 2nd half of this century, that's when it becomes really very very challenging to adapt to"

Prof. Chris Stokes, @geogdurham.bsky.social

Communities rarely face hazards one-by-one. Hazards can trigger, intensify, overlap, or occur before recovery is complete.

❓What makes an effective early warning system?

🟦 Multi-hazard

🟧 End-to-end

🟩 People-centered

🔗 https://bit.ly/3J4saJO

@itu.int @ifrc.org @undrr.bsky.social

"Temperatures are rising at twice the global average, with intense heatwaves that are pushing society to the limits.

Human health, ecosystems & economies can’t cope with extended spells of more than 50 °C – it is simply too hot to handle" - @wmo-global.bsky.social

#MENA

wmo.int/news/media-c...

Regionen vill stänga utbildningar – elever går miste om andra chans - P4 Västerbotten Regionen planerar att lägga ner de allmänna linjerna på folkhögskolorna i Vindeln och Lycksele, vilket drabbar ett 40-tal elever som läser upp sina betyg ...

Rädda folkbildningen! #folkbildningen www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/folk...

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain

Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020

Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Economists have led capitalism astray with the dematerialisation myth. Like when Piketty said Q>R that more is earned on money than on selling produced goods and services people thought "good for them maybe I should get a trading app"

Vraiment!

@thierryaaron.bsky.social The thrust of this is to frame a normative approach to using natural resources. If companies want to use natural resources, what regulations should be in place to ensure that use is sustainable? Is using O2 to burn fossil carbon OK? What normatives can Science propose?

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

"The price of some foods hit by extreme weather are rising more than four times faster than others in the average shop...the price of butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate had risen by an average of 15.6% over the year"

Climate change is not a problem for our grandchildren, it's today's crisis

YouTube video by Just Have a Think This is not the video I had planned to make.

Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity

Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis

www.nebriefing.org
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The global oxygen budget and its future projection Atmospheric oxygen (O2) is the most crucial element on earth for the aerobic organisms that depend on it to release energy from carbon-based macromole…

Interesting idea, helping scientists engage policy makers is definitely valuable. But I think this e.g. also raises the danger of out sourcing to AI.

There is no scientific basis to the idea that O2 levels are dangerous

"O2 concentration will decrease from its current level of 20.946% to 20.825%"

That is why we are testing the AI approach to see what comes up. At the heart of this the concept that if the production system impacts natural capital it should account for if it its drawdown is OK. Burden of proof like for chemicals, and discussion of when will it be not OK?

How AI enhances the use of RCF to talk science to policy | Stephen Hinton Get more from Stephen Hinton on Patreon

For those who want to understand how AI can produce a brief to guide scientists to communicate their work to policy AI produced this short film. @charliejgardner.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/how-ai...

Some academics argue that we should not get political about the climate & nature crises - we should leave that to the politicians

So, how’s that working?

amazon's real emissions are far higher than its reported emissions

amazon's estimated emissions

Amazon stopped reporting its total energy consumption about two years ago, but I've estimated it here using the raw emissions data they've reported (and buried deep in hard-to-find places)

Their unadjusted emissions are many times higher than their declared:

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

Good point will be valuable to follow Icelands Climate Minister or Umhverfisráðherra Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson on this as he seems to be the main promoter in @nordenorg.bsky.social on this at the moment.

We should do one here in the Nordics. Followed by citizens assembly on questions like adapt now or later....that is the question.