Ciaran Mundy
@ciaranmundy.bsky.social
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Pro Gaia, anti fascist. I'm for transforming cultures of violent domination into cultures of respectful harmony.
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ciaranmundy.bsky.social
"I served in the Royal Air Force for 19 years. I feel it's important to be here because, whether or not you agree with the tactics of Palestine Action and others, the reality is that our government is complicit in genocide at the highest level"
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kevinclimate.bsky.social
Short comment on 'carbon trading' climateuncensored.com/what-role-fo...

Paris 1.5°C needs >20% cuts in global emissions every year - starting now!
For Paris 2°C, it’s ~8%.
Which country/company/institution can exceed these rates?
Only those that do have any real “emission space” for carbon trading.
What role for carbon trading? - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a senior civil servant who asked me to provide a short comment on the concept of emissions trading schemes in general, and on the
climateuncensored.com
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ketanjoshi.co
"Currently, data centres in China use between 0.9% and 2.7% of the country’s annual electricity, according to different estimates"

"By 2030, China’s data centres are projected to consume anything from 400TWh to 600TWh of electricity, with associated emissions of perhaps 200MtCO2e"
Explainer: How China is managing the rising energy demand from data centres - Carbon Brief
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has driven the “surging” growth of data centres in China, with associated increases in energy demand and emissions
www.carbonbrief.org
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kateraworth.bsky.social
A little town in Sweden - Tomelilla - is pioneering what it means to put Doughnut Economics into practice. This could well become inspiration to many towns and villages seeking to create a different kind of future... @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town
A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla
www.theguardian.com
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oliverescobar.bsky.social
📚 new open access book: "Climate Assemblies - New Civic Institutions for a Climate-Changed World" 🌍

✅ 25 co-authors examine the state of the field and the reasons behind the growing hope and hype about climate assemblies

✅Free PDF available here 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Climate Assemblies - New Civic Institutions for a Climate-Changed World
Edited by Oliver Escobar and Stephen Elstub
Published by Fe Gruyter

Book cover depicts the globe, with people gathering around it
Colours: yellow, black an d blue
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ketanjoshi.co
check this out: here in Norway we tax cars (including EVs!) by weight

www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/wei...

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
ciaranmundy.bsky.social
This warning, as clear as can be, before I was born, a decade before the moon landings ⬇️
allouryesterdays.bsky.social
"Even if the oceans absorb CO2 much more rapidly than has been assumed here, the accumulation of C02 in the atmosphere will become an increasingly important problem through the centuries."

Gilbert Plass and his damn truth-bombs.
"Thus it appears that most of the additional C02 that is released into the atmosphere will stay there for at least several centuries. Even if the oceans absorb Co2 much more rapidly than has been assumed here, the accumulation of C02 in the atmosphere will become an increasingly important problem through the centuries."
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ketanjoshi.co
Equinor spent a decade offering hollow promises with CCS then dropping them, and now its hollow promises for electrification are seeing the same fate.

Ultimately, the company's main climate harm come from the products it sells, not how it manufactures them for sale.

www.nrk.no/vestland/res...
Equinor will drop two projects with power from land
High costs are causing Equinor to shelve plans to electrify the Snorre A and B fields in the North Sea off Florø.
The company states this in a letter sent to the Ministry of Energy, which E24 has seen.

Equinor is currently carrying out electrification projects on the Snøhvit, Troll, Oseberg and Njord fields.

Electrification is controversial because it takes up power resources on land.

On Monday, the Center Party submitted a representative proposal to the Storting to stop all further electrification of the shelf with power from shore.
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gillmartin.bsky.social
Fundamentalist, fascist misogynists - and friends of Farage and The Reform Party.

#roevwade #reform #abortionrights

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
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davidho.bsky.social
“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”
wriclimate.bsky.social
🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC
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jamesbridle.bsky.social
“They have issues around hunger, poverty, mass unemployment – and we’re getting them to commit towards some fancy projects like using drones and AI.” @lighthousereports.com on The Tony Blair Institute, Oracle, and Larry Ellison. A fairly disturbing read archive.is/mKi7s
archive.is
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valmasdel.bsky.social
- Most offset programs overestimate their impact by a factor of 5, 10 or +
- Credit quality is a problem despite efforts to address additionality, leakage, double counting, injustice, verification and permanence
- Overcrediting an intractable problem

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?
This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...
www.annualreviews.org
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to #methane reduction targets

- Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’

- NZ has 5 million cows and 23 million sheep

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets
Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’
www.theguardian.com
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dougparr.bsky.social
Greenpeace UK says high fees for offshore wind developers to lease the seabed is an abuse of monopoly power by Crown Estate

High fees push up the price of offshore wind & will act as a tax on energy bills, to fund the monarchy & lower taxes

It's time it stopped

www.ft.com/content/c29c...
Greenpeace threatens to sue Crown Estate for pushing up UK energy prices
Cost of offshore wind increased by monopoly ownership of seabed, alleges campaign group
www.ft.com
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volts.wtf
We love guns more than kids. I don't see how you can interpret this as anything other than a diseased country in the latter stages of destroying itself.
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laurielaybourn.bsky.social
Pick of the week!

Thanks to @theguardian.com for listening!
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elisafadda.bsky.social
I often ask my students,

"How do you know that's false?"

"Well, I know humans have 5 fingers"

"So, how do you trust this same algorithm to complete your assignments when you do not know the answer?"
clairezagorski.bsky.social
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues. An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”. An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg. An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.