Be like Greta Thunberg, take direct action. buff.ly/3vGuhcy

Earth’s temperature has risen by an average of 0.08° Celsius (0.14° Fahrenheit) per decade since 1880, or about 1°(2° F ) in total. It can be said louder, but not clearer! Climate action NOW!

🔓 #FREELOUIS, FFS 🏎️ Louis McKechnie has been imprisoned since 3 July for a total of 204 days after storming the Silverstone circuit and disrupting the British Grand Prix. Louis is also known for invading the pitch at Goodison Park during the Everton v Newcastle game in March.

“Human civilisation is no longer run by humans. It is run by profit and algorithms, both completely selfish, non-human entities that have zero ethics or social and environmental conscience. Human life is already of no value within this matrix” #polycrisis #Dystopia #capitalism

Global oil companies are reporting 2022 as their most profitable year in history. Meanwhile, the planet continues to burn as household budgets shrink. We must change course. The only credible direction to take is away from fossil fuels & towards renewable energy.

“The hybris of human civilisation is unfortunately only visible from a distance. Only those who have briefly rejected the mass-manufactured luxuries and lullabies of the system can begin to see the planet-eating machine we have created” #ecology #overshoot #polycrisis

I'm at city hall. the council chamber has been cleared twice for people disruptions, but this time many haven't left, and neither have most media. here a sample of what people are saying:

Last year I received an email from Megan Phelps-Roper, estranged daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church. She asked if I'd give an interview for a podcast on J.K. Rowling, the world's foremost champion of backlash to trans rights. I agreed. This was a serious lapse in judgment.🧵

Can certain actions that break laws be justified in court as necessary forestall climate change? It would be a self-defence argument, but for the biosphere. I’d especially love to hear reactions of any lawyers, judges, law profs. allard.ubc.ca/about-us/event…

“A controlled dismantling of the most wasteful and destructive pieces of our civilisation is the bare minimum we ought to do to slow down the #ClimateCrisis . The alternative is to suffer the most cataclysmic apocalypse of hunger and war, which erases everything we hold dear”

‘We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP’ grist.org/business-techn…

Spain's farms are dying. Their pastures are disappearing. Their livestock is becoming too expensive to even feed. Their ministers resort to calling for the EU crisis mechanism to be triggered. The #Climate crisis is now an EU farming and food supply crisis.

After ten years of environmental journalism, it now takes me a significant mental effort to look this year's news in the face. reuters.com/business/envir…

BREAKING: June 2023 has blown away all prior records for the month of June, coming in at a staggering 0.16C above the prior record set in 2019. It was around 1.46C above the typical temperatures we saw in June in the preindustrial era (1850-1899).

🔥📈BREAKING NASA 📈🔥 The Earth Energy Imbalance from NASA satellite data broke through 1.8 W/m² (12-month mean)! This is faster than I expeced. More than many experts thought possible. I called this the most important graph in the world. A lot more heat is accumulating!

Golf courses in Spain use more water than Madrid & Barcelona combined Each hole requires more than 100,000 litres of water a day to maintain the greens An elite pursuit that wastes precious natural resources theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

The idea that overpopulation is one of the main causes of the ecological crisis has gained traction in some circles. However, this perspective poses significant problems from a human rights standpoint and may divert attention from the true causes and solutions of the crisis.

NCEP has placed Earth's average temperature yesterday as the hottest single day thus far measured by humans. This is driven by the combination of El Niño on top of global warming, and we may well see a few even warmer days over the next 6 weeks.

My new favourite climate graphic From Jane Morton Jane Morton's excellent free booklet 'Don't Mention the Emergency?'

"the results emerging from the models are far too benign, even implausible in some cases. It’s as if we are modelling the scenario of the Titanic hitting an iceberg but excluding from the impacts the possibility that the ship could sink" actuaries.org.uk/news-and-media…