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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 2d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

The sun is woke.

An Immense Solar Project Just Got Canceled Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 4d

NOAA data show Mauna Loa was about to be deluged, but perhaps the US government shutdown has saved it just in time?
robbieandrew.github.io/ppm/

Graph showing: Weekly atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa, in the style of Hokusai.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 4d

The desperate vague fluff from AI boosters about how world-changingly useful LLMs could be *one day*, even though they aren't right now, reminds me of Zuckerberg's fever-daydream ads for his VR hat

Meta ad, firefighters in hallway in flames viewed through AR goggles. "With the metaverse, firefighters will one day be equipped to rescue people faster"

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 3d

Never trust pledges – unless they pledge BAU

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power reut.rs/42BhtoJ

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve.

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 4d

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 4d

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 4d

So bloody useless

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 3d

#cardependency

Drivers merge into expressway lanes after passing through the 36-lane Wuzhuang toll station at Chuzhou, in China’s Anhui province, as they make their way back home near the end of an eight-day National Day holiday, on October 7, 2025.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

Whether it's sincere or bad-faith, it is pretty simply true that AI-mania is providing an easy rhetorical cover for the US government actively worsening the use of fossil fuels

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 4d

Your offsets at "work"

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 5d

“‘We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale,’ said Stephen Lezak, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Smith School. ‘We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.’” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 5d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 5d

I'll see your creepy robot-hugging pillow and raise you a surveillance tribble.

"Moflin: always by your side." A young woman takes a selfie while holding a furry surveillance device. "Your Smart AI companion: A calming presence. A quiet reassurance."

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 5d

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 5d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 4d

'In any case, the changes in CO2/GDP in the last 10 years are very disappointing (hence no peak).'

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 5d

Why didn't Chinese fossil CO2 emissions peak in 2013?

It looked like Chinese emissions might peak in 2013, after declines in 2014 & 2015, but since then, improvements in the CO2 efficiency of the economy slowed significantly.

CO2 will peak if efficiency improvements return.

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The figure is a simplified Kaya Identity. The bars are the contributions to growth from GDP, Energy/GDP, CO2/Energy, and when you add the bars together you get the black dot, CO2 growth. For a given GDP, if the improvements in Energy/GDP and CO2/Energy are greater than the GDP growth, then emissions go down.

Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 4d

Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses

Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 5d

The E.U. is mandating the treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters.

But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are pushing back.

An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack

Earlier this year, a European Union directive mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, whi...

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 6d

🌊 Marine heatwaves and the carbon cycle

A new study shows that marine heatwaves can disrupt food webs and carbon transport in the NE Pacific.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes - Nature Communications

A decade of BGC-Argo and plankton records shows North Pacific heatwaves reshape food webs and trap small particles in midwater, slowing deep-ocean carbon export. Impacts vary by event, underscoring the need for sustained ocean monitoring.

www.nature.com

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 6d

'New Zealand’s oceans are warming 34% faster than the global average, with NZ$180bn (US$104bn) worth of housing at risk of flooding, a new report about the nation’s marine environment has revealed.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 8d

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

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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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 8d

Cory Doctorow: 'The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations…that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to.'
'You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly.'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 9d

Related: 'Human centred design considered harmful'
www.jussipasanen.com/human-centre...

Human centred design considered harmful – Jussi Pasanen

Human centred design is anthropocentric design. By focusing on humans only, we frame out the rest of the living planet, and ignore its ongoing destruction.

www.jussipasanen.com

Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 9d

'Design today has clearly been struggling through a long existential crisis. The realisation that the field has been so fully co-opted by capital as a mechanism for making more useless stuff has hit hard.'

Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 9d

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

on.ft.com

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 10d

'This choice [to keep people in poverty] is driven by two imperatives. The first is a deep, ancient and irrational belief that poverty is a vice that must be punished. The second is the bosses’ need to keep us in a state of fear, so that people continue…stressful and demeaning work for lousy pay.'

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10d

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 10d

'We are not doing anything like enough here in the U.S. to turn inevitable climate migrations towards sensible, equitable outcomes. To be blunt, there really isn’t any plan at all to do so ...'

'This future — of plummeting values and expensive safety — may not be far off now.'