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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 2d

There is a carbon price, it's just that the polluters aren't the one to pay it.

Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good thing from a risk-based pricing perspective. But also so hard for people that are now paying $12k + difference in conditions. This is one of the true costs for Californians of wildfire.

Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 2d

CA FAIR plan seeks 35.8% rate increase.

#climaterisk

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 3d

With the Conservative Party and Reform UK planning for the UK to join Russia by pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights, here is a checklist of what those rights are and what they would be ripping up:
#EHRC #humanrights

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 6d

The area of Manchester where the horrific antisemitic attack took place is one of the few in the UK where Jewish & Muslim ppl both live in large numbers. We must learn from & follow how these communities support each other, as we condemn the attack & send love & solidarity to Jews across the UK

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 7d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 6d

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 6d

It's amazing how many people don't (or won't) understand that adding green energy has NO effect on ameliorating climate change unless fossil fuels are reduced. If its just feeding additional demand then its not green - its greenwashing.

Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 6d

There is something wrong with our information ecosystem.

"Production of fossil fuels AND green energy is needed to power the future," says investment firm with $400 billion in fossil fuel investments.

The article cites their "research" with not one mention of their conflicted interests.

BlackRock says fossil fuels AND green energy are needed for future

The fund manager says soaring global energy demand will require more fossil fuels and also more renewables, creating opportunities for investors across the market.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 6d

Also Dublin...

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 6d

🇮🇪🇵🇸 #BREAKING | Irish people protest at Dublin Port in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla participants and Gaza 👇

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 6d

The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time.

That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 6d

On precision vs accuracy amid uncertainty...

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 7d

We finally have a new paper out looking at how summary statistics from the AR6 scenario database are highly dependent on the sampling of the database.

High profile statistics are often more representative of the model fingerprint, not the physics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Two curves show how the median is different depending on the scenario.

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Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social · 7d

DOUGHNUT 3.0 IS HERE! 🎉

Today, DEAL is launching the latest update of the global Doughnut, now monitoring trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot across the 21st century.

#DoughnutEconomics
Check out the link below to see all the resources and dive in:

Doughnut 3.0 is here | DEAL

The Doughnut, updated, now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century

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Brandon Keim @brandonkeim.bsky.social · 7d

"I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago," wrote Jane Goodall, "when I looked at the pork chop on my plate and thought: this represents fear, pain, death."

Best as I can tell, not one obituary or article on her passing mentions this fact. It's worth knowing. news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 7d

I was in China during Tiananmen Square and a canadian friend recorded 30 hrs of mostly US TV news about the protests and massacre. I found it at least as twisted and wrong as the CCP-approved CCTV coverage, and have avoided TV news ever since! I do read a lot, though.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 7d

Can I ask - why did you stop being an avid newsworm? Was it a conscious decision, or did you just become less interested?

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 7d

"There's artificial intelligence. And there's actual intelligence."

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 7d

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 7d

"It is only by returning to the heart that a true ecological conversion can take place.” This transformation means shifting “from collecting data to caring; from environmental discourse to lifestyles inspired by faith and love of God.”

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Pope Leo XIV's Full Speech at Raising Hope for Climate Justice Conference | 10 years of Laudato si'

YouTube video by EWTN News

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 7d

'Donkey addressing the lions' (Baroque photograph by Aiko Bongolan).

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 8d

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate.

"Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 8d

"Many of the at-risk properties have been built since 2020."

This predictable disaster-to-be meets every single definition of the concept of 'stupidity'.

It's also a clear example of gross negligence by the planners, regulators, builders, and others involved.

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Areas on Dublin’s northside among most at-risk from ‘extreme coastal events’

New analysis raises likelihood that thousands of properties will become uninsurable

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 9d

"Wank-speech is motivated, not by a desire to communicate or make a fact known, but by feeling: it aims to make the person speaking, in one way or another, feel better about themselves."

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An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 10d

First the orcas, now the squirrels. After centuries of specicide, the revolution against human supremacy has begun.

I, for one, welcome our new furry overlords and offer them stale bread as tribute!

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Vicious squirrel attacks sends 2 victims to the emergency room

Two people had to seek medical attention following a vicious squirrel attack that "came out of nowhere" and left a neighborhood looking behind their backs.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 14d

This isn't some abstract purity gripe about who gets credit. This is the normalisation of forklifts in the intellectual gym - the further transformation of mass formal learning into a performative ritual. Its a giant step down into the darkness of idiocracy. A great leap for the forces of stupid!

Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 14d

Universality is also much more fair to those who work hard and pay taxes. I mean, if someone is helping to pay for a service or subsidy, surely its only right that they should be able to access it too. They should get something for their money.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 15d

The conscience of the world made starkly clear. This man is an instigator, architect and perpetrator of genocide, and he belongs in The Hague.

LadyFluffyOrca 📎 🇵🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 15d

This is a thing of beauty

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