BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵

1. Time has run out to avoid 1.5°C (now sure to hit in the 2020s) and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. 1.75°C will be exceeded soon after with dire 2°C expected by 2030-2050 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env…

2. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe. Biodiversity destruction is a core part of the reality of industrial capitalism. Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.🧵⬇️ x.com/ClimateBen/sta…

Great work.

@jason Lower taxes is sacrificing? What do you envision yourself sacrificing in this scenario?

A huge thank you to everyone who came out and voted Green today. Thank you to all our amazing candidates for running, our members and volunteers for canvassing and everyone behind the scenes who made this campaign possible 💚

I'm looking forward to Elon Musk's comments on Chinese politics, his views on Chinese leaders, and his opinions on who should actually be running China. Elon, you've done Europe, Canada, Japan, and elsewhere: tell us what you think about Chinese politics today. Please.

EU Earth observation satelite system Copernicus warns you: 2024 was the warmest year on record and the first to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial level. The Global Climate Highlights Report 2024 urges us for a bold climate action to protect our planet. 🌱#EUSpace #ClimateAction

Well done to these young scientists developing a €200 red light camera that sends the photo to the Gardai This would change the driving culture of Ireland, make the roads safer and save lives!! thejournal.ie/low-cost-red-l…

#ClimateChange must be prioritised Judge Humphreys said An Bord Pleanála “recoils in horror from the logical implications of this and demands the right to continue business as usual”. “But an immediate end to business as usual is a precondition for planetary survival.”

A beautiful day happily going about place and this happens. I didn't want to lose my cool, or good day feeling. Had they apologised and understood that babies in buggies, children on bikes all had to go out on the road into a bus lane. Actions have consequences, and think beyond

When questioned why I advocate so hard for cyclists, safe cycle paths and against lazy, bad, and dangerous, murderous drivers it’s because I want my partner to come home safe, I want a 6 yr old girl to come home safe, I want the students, workers, grandparents, everyone home safe

Never leaving this place

Bill Ackman, you may right on the substance but you totally brown-nosed till now- like most billionaires - to this lunatic and fascist President. Only now when your personal wealth is at risk of being wiped out you are coming out and complaining about his tariff policy and

Look at what humans can do

Today is judgement day for Strand Road!! Join us this evening for the iBikeDublin cycle at 6pm, supporting this vital piece of infrastructure for Dublin

The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) #animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

WOW: Jonathan Haidt got info from inside TikTok admitting how they target kids: "The product in itself has baked into it compulsive use... younger users... are particularly sensitive to reinforcement in the form of social reward and have minimal ability to self-regulate effectively"

In any other European city, in the heart of the main nightlife area, this would be pedestrianised and filled with tables for outdoor dining. In Soho, London, this space is used by 6 privileged individuals to store their private property in a public area Westminster City Council