UN urged Sweden not to issue a licence for an iron-ore mine in the Gállok region, home of the Sámi people, saying “the open-pit mine will generate vast amounts of pollution & toxic waste & endanger the protected ecosystem including reindeer migration” ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…

One day you’ll need to explaining to your kids, friends and family that you where there - violently defining the fossil industry - in the middle of a climate crisis. Shame on you! #LuetzerathLebt #keepitinground

Har granskat högerextrema i omgångar. Blev kategoriserad som ”landsförrädare” av Visbymördaren, fick jag veta då utredningen släpptes. Nu har jag granskat skogsnäringen - och får epitetet igen - av en företrädare för biobränslebranschen, i konversation med en från Skogsstyrelsen.

We live in a world where migrating out of the periphery to escape imperial plunder is a crime, but systematically plundering the periphery is considered perfectly normal and legitimate. (1/2)

Important piece by ⁦Martin Gelin⁩ about a disturbing development in Sweden: that ”journalists covering domestic politics now have to fear for their safety.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is a headline from Save the Children today. The death and suffering that the Israeli regime has inflicted on Palestinians is monstrous beyond words.

GRANSKNING: Hundratusentals kronor har slussats från fossilbolaget Exxon Mobil till tankesmedjan Timbro. Nu kan Dagens ETC och Supermiljöbloggen äntligen offentliggöra dokumenten som bevisar transaktionerna. etc.se/story/dokument…

Nice Carbon Brief guest post from Alex Bradley about new Antarctic ice sheet processes that could revise sea level rise estimates upwards carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the…

Never mind our infrastructure, our landscape isn’t able to cope with the intensity of rainfall we’re getting now. Northern Italy this evening.

Zermatt🇨🇭 tonight. 8 days after the last severe flood.

Catastrophic flooding in Swiss Alps overnight. Reports of several villages cut off, severe damage to critical infrastructure and people missing. Images via tio.ch

This is why people in the path of Atlantic Hurricanes need to prepare for extreme destruction coming their way. Record amounts of surface heat fuel record strong storms!

Flera döda i Schweiz och Frankrike efter våldsamma stormar. sverigesradio.se/play/artikel/8…

Gaza now has the largest number of child amputees in history.

🚨 Collapse of the land carbon sink in 2023 🚨 As the CO2 growth rate reached a record high at Mauna Loa, we set up a low-latency analysis of the carbon budget and found that plants and soils absorbed almost no CO2 last year GlobalCarbonProject Gianpaolo Balsamo arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447

BREAKING: According to preliminary data from the ERA5 dataset, this past Sunday, July 21, 2024, was the hottest day in Earth's recorded history, with an average global surface air temperature of 17.09°C (62.76°F).

Läs lina burnelius i Dala-Demokraten ”Att använda gran-barkborren som ett alibi för att kalhugga en lövrik blandskog håller inte. Det vet Sunne kommun men som så ofta använder man det verktyg som skogsnäringen kan allra bäst; fara med osanning” dalademokraten.se/2024-07-24/gra…

160 000 bönder har mist sina jobb pga klimatkrisen, enbart i Marocko. Landet har nu drabbats av torka sex år i rad. Vattenministern (!) meddelade i juni att 1,5 miljoner kubikmeter vatten avdunstade varje dag, efter den varmaste vintern på över 80 år omni.se/a/XjjvLo

The only complex life we know to exist ANYWHERE in the universe. Being obliterated so that shareholders can amass imaginary wealth. It’s as heartbreaking as it is shameful.

"The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating"