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November 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Our world is so much more complex and wondrous than the myth of human supremacy would have us believe."

www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-all...
Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be
Even the smallest sea slug feels pain. That means we have a responsibility not to inflict it.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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On Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainians light a candle at 4 pm
and place it on the windowsill to honor the millions who died in the 1932-1933 famine.

🕯️4 pm in Ukraine
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Personal hot take: it would have been much preferable if these talks *actually collapsed". The UNFCCC COP process is *manifestly* not fit for purpose and *must* be reformed. But with this "last ditch agreement" any prospect of reform has been stymied. Yet again.
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"We know that we did not create this crisis – they did – but we are the ones who are suffering."

"They don’t listen. They don’t want to listen."

"Sometimes I feel that this process has lost its humanity. Sometimes it’s like we are arguing with robots."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s like arguing with robots’: negotiators on the state of Cop30 talks
Three representatives of developing countries speak candidly about meetings behind closed doors in Belém
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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@carbonbrief.org reporting members of the "coalition of the willing."
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Nepal, Netherlands, Panama, Spain, Slovenia, Vanuatu, Tuvalu.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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🧵 This is a truly interesting piece by @scottsantens.com on the first-ever, proper introduction of Universal Basic Income #UBI.

Find the core facts below. The text gives you lots more interesting information and background.

scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
scottsantens.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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My exclusive interview with Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay on leading the first carbon-negative nation and why the West must do more: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’
Exclusive: Tshering Tobgay says his country is doing ‘a lot more than our fair share’ on climate and west must step up ‘for the happiness of your people’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here's the first draft text from the COP. There are just TWO mentions of "fossil fuels”, both as minor parts of options about more meetings, reviews and other bla, bla, bla.

It really seems to be one big 'discourse of delay'.

unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
unfccc.int
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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My latest for @science.org: A remarkable set of high-resolution climate model runs, computed over 900 (!) days of supercomputing time, are revealing how warming-induced changes to Earth's wind patterns due can prime huge spikes in extreme rainfall.

But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.
High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet, turbulent future
With details as fine as short-term weather forecasts, model achieves newfound accuracy
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"The voices speak of the future, of goals, of funding, coming and going with the haste of those who have a clock in their soul."

"The monster of haste from non-Indigenous society hasn’t entirely consumed me. I fear it nonetheless."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The haste feels contagious … I fear it’: a Xipaya journalist on attending Cop30
An Indigenous journalist’s experience of entering the belly of Cop where time does not flourish, it is consumed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
To find out what's next you have to pay Elsevier €36. Academic publishing is a greed-fueled obscenity - much like the fossil fuel, chemical, advertising, tech and other money-hungry industries that are destroying our planet and our future.

Is there no end to more? How much is enough?
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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frame: rich people get rich by being smart

Negation: rich people get rich by being evil

Kirby: money works like mass, it is drawn towards the largest accumulations, and most of our stories about it are rationalizations
this is why I keep repeating ad nauseum that money is mass and billionaires are black holes.

they are a structural feature caused by an attracting force. they occur when there isn't enough force pushing the money apart. it's not about the individuals
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Do you strongly support the concept of universal basic income? Do you enjoy editing videos and especially enjoy making video essays? Would you like to have your own basic income that enables you to focus on such video work in advocacy of UBI? Please DM me and include a link to some of your work. TY!
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This is a post about non-linear climate damages.
a wave has such a great long start before it leaps, all round the world it runs, and then comes the spring!
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
To put this into perspective, in 2020, during the worst of the covid lockdowns, global CO2 emissions dropped by 5.4%.
My fear is scientists will just sit by & be complicit. Saying you are for 1.5C or net zero is not ambition.

If rich country GHG or CO2 emissions are not dropping at >5% per year, they are not remotely consistent with 1.5C, nor net zero in a reasonable time frame.

Scientists need to point this out.
Rich, historical polluter countries that had the highest legal responsibility to take climate action failed. And now some of these same countries are speaking about '1.5C ambition'. What a charade
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you don't pay your subscription, granny dies again. Or you could use the free version, in which granny tries to sell you health supplements every five minutes.
For real, check this out. Evil.
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It certainly looks like it accelerating. The next El Nino will be interesting. Unless, of course, your house burns down, or gets flooded, or your crops die, or you lose your insurance - then it'll just be horrible.
Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Who says there's never any good climate news? It may be weak soup, but its soup.
The most common question I was asked by journalists: "was there anything that surprised you"?

"Well, no, because I work on this everyday".

Now I have found the surprise... Carbonation, the uptake of CO2 in cement, has turned a corner because cement production is dropping!
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Seems to me we've been rolling a lot of 6s lately - and there seems to be a big gap between policy and action. And with impacts worse than expected, 3C may be the new 4C.

And don't get me started on irreversible planet-changing tipping points or the other 6 planetary boundaries that we've crossed.
These six studies show a central estimate of warming from 2.4C to 2.9C, with large climate system uncertainties due to climate sensitivity and carbon cycle feedbacks; its possible that current policy warming could be as high as 4C if we roll 6s on the proverbial climate dice.
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦"

𝘈 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺. ⁣

𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩?
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"I would want to see emissions going down for several years before I would stand up on a building top and shout that emissions have peaked"

Please take note of my wise words...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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"Climate justice resists the disproportionate power of large multinational companies, & prioritises the needs of people & communities. It demands that decarbonisation and emissions reductions are linked to transformative public investments in basic services that every community needs and deserves."
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM