The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
A first-in-the-nation clean energy project will soon double in size as the Trump administration moves forward with a Biden-era grant for geothermal.
The U.S. has had a central role in ensuring the accuracy of the world’s long-term measurements of carbon in the atmosphere. Amid President Trump’s threats to climate research, global scientists are looking for alternatives.
Water scarcity is the most serious, but not the only, climate challenge for the Arab region. A new international report shows rising risks of deeper droughts, widespread crop failures and mass population displacement within decades.
Iran’s record drought and cheap fuel have sparked an #airpollution crisis – but the real causes run much deeper
By @sanammahoozi.bsky.social et al
@theconversation.com
theconversation.com/irans-record...
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
Five years after a destructive storm forced Iowa’s only nuclear plant into early retirement, NextEra Energy has partnered with Google to take the first steps toward a 2029 reopening.
The administration is doubling down on fossil-fuel dependence, and it's regular families who pay the cost-
Soil scientists the world over need to take a look! Could this also be a quantum leap in our ability to estimate nitrous oxide emissions from soils at scale, which are currently basically guesstimates?
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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...
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Sharif. Sharif and his wife came to Egypt prior to the war to get IVF treatment- which was successful and they had twins Husam and Ahmad. Husam has a congenital heart disorder. They have not been able to go back but also cannot work in Egypt.
I used to have to teach the NSS: What's in it, what it means, how it was produced.
In this administration, documents mean nothing. Our national policy is whatever stray voltage is crossing Donald Trump's brain pan at any given moment. The NSS and other such documents are meaningless.
The Trump Administration and their Republican facilitators are deep into self-parody.
This is why they so dislike the comedians.
The comedians might say something as a joke, but then the Republicans want to implement it as policy.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
"This new portal gives Californians an easy and safe way to speak up, share what they see, and help us hold people accountable. No one is above the law.” — @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom
The headline could have been:
"Trump Looking into Options for Eliminating Social Security Retirement Benefits"
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/e...
Is anyone working on a constitutional amendment to remove the pardon power from US Presidents and to make it clear that a President is subject to criminal prosecution?
The Founding Fathers never conceived that we would have a criminal President protected by colluding Senators.
We now have an unprecedented level of income & wealth inequality.
It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.
More reaction from #Cop30
- Rich countries failed to finance progress
- Countries are failing their legal duties (ICJ)
- “Loss and damage” money for recovery after climate disasters has been overlooked
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: #Cop30 avoided total failure with last-ditch deal
- It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a vital last-minute concession
Read how it all went down
By Fiona Harvey
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Small typo here: it’s falling land use emissions that have counterbalanced rising fossil emissions!
Falling fossil emissions have largely counterbalanced rising land use emissions over the past decade, leading to a plateau in global emissions. However, land use emissions remain quite uncertain, and gains made recently in reducing deforestation must be maintained.
The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels.
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom).
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
These estimates build on a broader literature of current policy estimates that I reviewed in a recent paper in Dialogues on Climate Change earlier this year: journals.sagepub.com...
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.
