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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 10h

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
#climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 5h

Nordic Noir at the British Museum is fabulous and free of charge

Large print of a colourful flame on a black background by Ragnar Kjartansson

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: EU and NATO states continue to take steps to increase European defenses against covert and overt Russian attacks. FT reported on October 9 that four NATO officials stated that NATO states are discussing more forceful responses to Russia’s increasingly provocative actions. isw.pub/UkrWar100925

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

The rupture “raises fresh doubts about whether Trump, operating with a hollowed-out national security team and a fragmented China strategy, is prepared for Beijing’s latest power play.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Euronews @euronews.com · 1d

A Russian overnight drone attack on energy facilities in the Ukrainian Odesa region left hundreds of thousands of people without power on Saturday. Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK said that power has been restored.

#EuropeNews

Power restored to Ukraine's Odesa following Russian overnight attack

A Russian overnight drone attack on energy facilities in the Ukrainian Odesa region left hundreds of thousands of people without power on Saturday. Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK said that power has been restored.

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Sirens: A Bombshell Production @sirenspod.bsky.social · 4d

New mini with the brilliant @erinsikorsky.bsky.social to dig into her new book Climate Change on the Battlefield. What is the threat militaries are facing from climate change? How is it shaping the landscape they operate in? And what are they doing about it? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Climate Change on the Battlefield

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/08/2025 · 27m

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 2d

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 2d

Artificial intelligence–powered cameras to detect wildfires — already in use in the western U.S. — are now operating in Minnesota for the first time. Installed by Xcel Energy in Mankato and Clear Lake, the devices scan for smoke and heat to provide alerts to utilities and first responders.

AI cameras now scanning Minnesota skies for early signs of wildfire

Artificial intelligence–powered cameras to detect wildfires — already in use in the western U.S. — are now operating in Minnesota for the first time. Installed by Xcel Energy in Mankato and Clear Lake...

www.mprnews.org

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve called so many things “tipping points” that the public can’t tell when one really tips. Antarctic sea ice may have just crossed a threshold for real. The crisis is clearer than the language.
apple.news/A5tAA09s3SQm...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas — New Scientist

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

apple.news

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

www.ft.com/content/013e...

The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate

The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries

www.ft.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this!

Council on Strategic Risks @councilonstrategicrisks.org · 2d

📘 Climate Change on the Battlefield

Join CSR for a virtual talk about CCS Director @erinsikorsky.bsky.social's new book, “Climate Change on the Battlefield,” which offers a comparative look at how global militaries are responding to #climatechange.

📅 Wed, Nov. 5 | 9:30am ET
⬇️ RSVP and learn more:

Book Event: Climate Change on the Battlefield: International Military Responses to the Climate Crisis - The Council on Strategic Risks

Join the Council on Strategic Risks for a conversation about Center for Climate and Security Director Erin Sikorsky’s new book, "Climate Change on the Battlefield."

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Michael Noble @nobleideas.bsky.social · 3d

PODCAST: Always listen to Shift Key.

Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 3d

If you want to understand what's going on with China's electricity system and emissions goals, don't miss this one!

Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 4d

NEW on this week's Shift Key, @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessedjenkins.com talk with UC San Diego's @michaeldavidson.bsky.social about China's climate progress, how its electricity markets work and what to make of those coal subsidies.

Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is not an isolationist, not a realist, and not interested in "great power competition." Read @dhnexon.bsky.social: "The Mirage of Great-Power Competition" open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...

The Mirage of Great-Power Competition

How an attempt to normalize Trump's first-term foreign policy launched a thousand articles

open.substack.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 3d

Oh c’mon. Good for the UK defense and intel chiefs for the analysis, bad on the politicians for trying to hide it. Suppressing this report doesn’t make the risk go away.

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 3d

NEW: We often hear about aviation's impacts on climate change - and, by extension, everyone - but climate change *also* has a surprising array of impacts on aviation!

My latest: www.thereengineer.pro/p/noisier-ta...

Noisier take-offs, engine wear – planes are flying straight into climate change

Emissions-spewing aircraft are far from immune to global warming

www.thereengineer.pro

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 4d

As a longtime Bombshell and now @sirenspod.bsky.social fangirl, I was so delighted to join @emsetc.bsky.social and Radha Iyengar Plumb for this mini episode!

Sirens: A Bombshell Production @sirenspod.bsky.social · 4d

New mini with the brilliant @erinsikorsky.bsky.social to dig into her new book Climate Change on the Battlefield. What is the threat militaries are facing from climate change? How is it shaping the landscape they operate in? And what are they doing about it? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Climate Change on the Battlefield

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/08/2025 · 27m

podcasts.apple.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 5d

Great news on solar and wind. Hate to be a downer, but the decline in hydro, especially in Europe due to droughts and heat, according to Ember -- is concerning, and a trend that will likely increase in the next few decades.

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

apnews.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 6d

Don't get me wrong, I bop along to Swift's songs regularly and enjoyed taking a group of preteens to the movie version of the Eras tour like everyone else. But I also think the new album's not great, and the marketing around it is enshittification capitalism like everything else.

Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 6d

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"The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content."

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 6d

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"The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content."

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 6d

Great @billmckibben.bsky.social piece on the natsec benefits of solar. This is exactly what @councilonstrategicrisks.org has found in our Renewable Energy is National Security project -- countries that invest in clean energy are more resilient in today's competitive geopolitical environment.

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

open.substack.com

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 7d

Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials said on Sunday, as rescue workers raced to reach cut-off communities in remote mountainous terrain ➡️ u.afp.com/SmTh

Photo taken and released by the Nepali Army on October 5, 2025 shows army personnel carrying a landslide victim evacuated by a helicoper following heavy rain-triggered landslides and floods in Nepal

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 11d

This Air Force cover of Miley Cyrus’s hit song Flowers? Lethal.

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 8d

Greater love hath no parent than the one that spends Saturday morning in McLean at a training to become a debate judge.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 9d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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