"It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself" buff.ly/44yAOpo What we are doing is not enough. We have the solutions. Stop the delays and implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateWeekNYC #VoteGreen

Benefit/Pension/NHS Spending in the UK isn't high. In fact it is pretty low, just not low enough for the billonaires.

As Trump tries to wipe out endangered birds Other countries go in opposite direction to protect birds Rwanda's Grey Crowned Cranes recover to more than 1,400, compared with fewer than 300 when the national recovery programme began around a decade ago. rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…

France ordered big businesses to cover their parking lots in solar panels, and the businesses are embracing it. Carrefour is putting solar canopies over 350 of its store lots, 180,000 parking spaces, and using the power to run its supermarkets. Disneyland Paris started even earlier: its guest lot now has more than 80,000 panels over 11,200 spaces, producing about 17% of the resort's electricity. France passed the law in 2023 requiring most large outdoor parking lots to put renewable-energy canopies or other qualifying shade over at least half the lot. Many businesses don't pay a cent upfront. Carrefour isn't even fronting the construction cost. GreenYellow is financing the entire installation and operating it under a 20-year power agreement. Carrefour uses the electricity and says the project will significantly reduce its energy bills. The government estimates it could add up to 11 gigawatts of solar. In full sun, that's about as much as 10 nuclear reactors. The US has somewhere between 700 million and 2 billion parking spaces. Most of them are bare asphalt baking in the sun. Why aren't we doing more of this?

A reminder of why we got here…

Keep punching down Andrew. It’s the Tory way. Tax avoidance costs this country orders of magnitude more than the welfare bill but you’ll never go after those people. Those are Tory mates and donors right?

Your party took the national debt from £900 billion under the last Labour government to £2.1 trillion in just under 15 years, and now you’re lecturing the whole country about managing money? Fuck off.

Scientists virtually all anticipate global warming of 2°C (and rising to 2.5-5°C) by around 2038-39. We're in an age of massive and unstoppable warming, with emissions at record high extremes, habitat & wildlife destruction ongoing, and Earth's ocean and land carbon sinks ailing.

🥔 Chips are down – summer drought knocks over 3M tonnes off UK and Europe's potato crop Lost production could cost farmers over €800M as Europe faces one of its smallest potato harvests on record eciu.net/media/press-release…

Just 178 big oil, gas and cement companies have caused most global heating, releasing over 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 equivalent since 1854, scientists report. Over half has been emitted since 1986, when the danger to the climate was already well known. gizmodo.com/carbon-majors-em…

"Rather than degrading over time, natural systems become more effective over time." 🌿 Elizabeth Gray, CEO of the National Audubon Society, on why restored wetlands & mangroves outperform grey infrastructure the longer they're left to grow. Watch more on @WeDontHaveTime.

RT @SteB777: This is incredible. We don't just need a wealth tax, we need to make the wealthier pay tax.

1.8°C of warming is now effectively locked in. On our current trajectory, we are heading beyond 3°C well before the end of this century. We are running out of road. Action at a scale that matches the climate emergency unfolding around us is now essential. project-syndicate.org/commen…

RT @SteB777: Our current leadership, with the current unfolding climate and ecological emergency, and the forthcoming Super El Nino, are to…

From a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours! That's what Polo just did near Mexico's west coast — an absolutely remarkable display of rapid intensification.

A hotter and hotter ocean represents a dead ocean and a dead ocean represents a dead planet “So, in many places around the world we will see never-before-experienced heat extremes, with all their consequences on health, food security and water stress,” We have pushed Earth to the abyss and still expect normal theguardian.com/environment/…

It looks like the Arctic melt season is done, with Arctic sea-ice extent hitting its annual minimum on Sept. 13th at 4,458,885 km², the 11th lowest minimum on record. For those who have been waiting for a Blue Ocean Event since 2012, there's always next year. Stay tuned!

With global temperatures quickly falling, this year saw 88 days with the global surface temperature above 16.5°C, the second most on record. The record holder is 2024, having 92 days above 16.5°C. The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 100 days above 16.5°C in 2027.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "Doom is ... the emotional and intellectual experience shared by all who realize the dangerous future into which we are presently plunging ourselves, our descendants, and our fellow creatures." thriftbooks.com/w/life-after…