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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Global fuel subsidies may top $1 trillion this year — amid $100 crude, elevated borrowing costs and strained budgets. “.. we don’t see a very clear pathway out of the three-pronged crisis,” he said. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026
Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're wounding Nature. Of course Nature is going to fight us back. And, at species level, we get what we deserve.
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#OTD in 1901, #EnricoFermi was born. His scientific work stands out for originality and range. He was an exceptional scientist, capable of lightning-fast intuitions, but also a tireless worker, deeply human towards colleagues, students, family, friends. A thread.⤵️ ⚛️🔭🧪 #HistSci #Physics
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While facing the threat of an export ban?
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is another nice size comparison map. While New Guinea and the UK appear to be of the same size on a Mercator map, NG is three-times the size of the UK. Source: buff.ly/3kx978C
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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we know because data, EV batteries last as long as the car itself. Even with this data and real world evidence. My MiEV is 17 yrs old this yr on its original battery, the stupid myth of EVs needs battery replacement (insert timeframe here) still persist. insideevs.com/news/809604/...
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These Battery Cells Were Tested After 14 Years Of Hard Work. They're Good For Another Decade
CATL supplied the cells for the world’s first large-scale battery energy storage project. Fourteen years later, not one of them has been replaced.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/
A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: "Just build more solar and batteries" I see this comment many times in my social media feed. The problem: The slogan undersells the problem. It also undersells the solution. The good news: we already have most of the tools we need. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-proble...
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The problem with "just build solar and batteries"
Why the easiest story about the energy transition is misleading.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
While all the talk has been about 2027 being odds on to be the globes hottest year on record (as post-El Nino years see a global boost in warmth), 2026 has quietly slipped into a "more likely than not (ie >50%)" chance of becoming the globes hottest year. dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#global
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D. @hmqxwkn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inflicting pain IS the point arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
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D. @hmqxwkn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nucleare entro il 2034. Si accettano scommesse sul numero di anni di ritardo: avrà 2, 3, o 4 cifre? it.euronews.com/2026/09/23/l...
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Italia, ok definitivo al nucleare: approvata la legge delega
Il Senato ha approvato la legge delega sul ritorno dell'energia nucleare in Italia. Il provvedimento affida ai decreti attuativi i dettagli su sicurezza, rifiuti e tecnologia da usare. Il governo stim...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From The Borowitz Report.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Draw a circle 4,000km circle around Yuxi, China, and you capture over half of humanity. The area has long been home to fertile river plains, monsoon rains. Intensive farming sustained dense populations here for millennia. Today’s megacities were built on that foundation. Source: buff.ly/9kffaNN
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
European gas is above €82/MWh - the highest since late 2022. Hormuz remains largely shut and gas storage is at 68% going into winter. None of this started in Europe but we pay for it. The only exit is using less gas. Heat pumps, electrified industry, insulation.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Deaths in New York and New Jersey this century. Two events stand out. Source: buff.ly/DNyuDvI
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Put south at the top and Brazil takes centre stage! Colours show species richness per 100 km², with green marking the richest areas. Brilliant use of cartography by Brazil’s public statistics agency, IBGE. More of this, please! Source: buff.ly/puQ3B50
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Andrea Bettini @andreabettini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Agosto 2026 è stato il mese più caldo a livello globale da quando si rilevano dati. Pareggiato (o leggermente superato) il record di luglio 2023. L'Europa occidentale ha vissuto l'estate più calda mai registrata: +2.54°C rispetto alla media, 0.56°C più del record precedente del 2003. Dati Copernicus
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 04/09/2026
NEW – How this summer’s heat and drought impacted crops in Europe – in six charts ✍️ Written by @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/E1uI8OA
Changes in cereal production in 26 EU countries between 2025 and 2026. Malta is excluded due to a lack of available data. Source: European Commission.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Summer 2026 is, by far, the hottest ever observed in France, surpassing 2003 by 0.8°C. Only 5 days below normal, compared to 86 above With +3.8°C in June, +3.7°C in July, and +3.3°C in August, France had never chained together such anomalies before. Kudos:Serge Zaka and dataclimat. hr
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Impossible to Inevitable! Electric heavy transport has crossed from technical possibility into commercial scaling. EV heavy trucks reach 27% market share in China in Q1 2026. China's 2030 sales share goal for EV heavy trucks is 40%. It will smash it. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ... #energysky
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Electric Trucks Have Moved From Impossible to Inevitable | OilPrice.com
Global sales of zero-emission trucks and buses rose 86% in 2025 to more than 520,000 vehicles, with battery-electric models overwhelmingly dominating.
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Alberto Agliotti @albertoagliotti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Con la fine dell'estate meteorologica, che per convenzione va dal 1° giugno al 31 agosto, possiamo finalmente dire addio alle ondate di calore estive. E dare il benvenuto a quelle autunnali.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/09/2026
August 2026 was the warmest August on record in the the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset, at 1.65C above preindustrial levels. This beat the prior record set in August 2024 by a fairly wide margin (~0.14C).
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Suddenly due process matters.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/08/2026
Distributed solar power, the most potent tool available for bottom-up economic development & empowerment, is racing across Africa.
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The take-off in African solar that official statistics can't yet see | Ember
Africa installs a record 17 GW of solar in 2026 - three-quarters of it is distributed solar, which is largely invisible.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The car industry didn’t see this coming. In 2015, 330k fully electric cars were sold globally, about 1% of the market. In 2025 it was 14m, close to 1/5 of all new cars. The fleet on the road tells you about the past. Sales figures tell you about the future. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...
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The car industry didn’t see this coming
From Norway to Nepal, current sales reveal a transition far further along than the stock on the road suggests.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Earth has been this warm before during the last 300,000 years. The scary part is the current speed of warming. Past swings unfolded over millennia. Today’s warming occurred in decades. Even allowing for smoothed ice-core proxies, the rate of change is immense. Source: buff.ly/VcD9E13
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Caldo estremo in Sardegna Oggi, 27 agosto, la Sardegna registra l’ennesima giornata invivibile di questa opprimente estate 2026. Valori diffusamente superiori sii 40 gradi con punte di 45-46 gradi. Nonostante le ore perse di luce, il caldo riesce comunque a raggiungere valori estremi…1/3
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"This administration will not sit back and let reckless projects create higher utility costs, a weakened energy system, and unnecessary harm to the environment.” Amazing levels of Orwelling double-speak
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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 21/08/2026
Sub-surface temperatures in the Pacific have now reached a staggering 11.1°C above average. Whilst El-Nino development has temporarily slowed due to an uptick in easterly trade winds, strong westerly wind bursts over the next 1-3 weeks will re-initiate rapid development.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
what a chart
China's electric car exports now far outstrip all US car exports

When the strait of Hormuz closed, Chinese EV exports exploded
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Cominciano i botti. Nelle prossime ore entrerà nel vivo la fase perturbata che interesserà, tra oggi e domani (venerdì) il Nord e il medio-alto versante tirrenico. Gia stamattina primi nubifragi in Liguria. 1/2
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D. @hmqxwkn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
not now, panama canal :( www.euronews.com/2026/08/21/p...
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Panama Canal to reduce shipping as El Niño fuels drought in lakes
The operator said it does not rule out further restrictions on shipping depending on how much it rains in the coming weeks.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Historians Reveal Terra-Cotta Army Result Of Perfectionist Sculptor Screwing Up Soldier Statue Thousands Of Times theonion.com/historians-reveal-terr…
Historians Reveal Terra-Cotta Army Result Of Perfectionist Sculptor Screwing Up Soldier Statue Thousands Of Times
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Love this a
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This wonderful world map by Gerhard Mercator was first published in 1587. This is a reprint from 1623. Marvelous piece of work! The source features a super high-res scan you can zoom into: buff.ly/2Mz2mbt
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/08/2026
Really silly to see people grasping at straws against the reality of global climate change by still using examples from July 1936 (or 1976). The reality is increasingly obvious. Graphics are from slides in a presentation of mine, which use NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 data (and their 1951-1980 baseline).
Screenshot of a slide showing two global maps with temperature anomalies in either July 1936 or July 2026. July 2026 is much warmer than 1936, except for a small region in the central United States during the Dust Bowl.Two maps side-by-side (June 1976 and June 2026) for surface temperature anomalies. It is much warmer globally in 2026 than 1976, which is more isolated for the heat extreme over the UK.
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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"The union says it’s stopping because Tesla bought out every one of its striking members" We don't hate Tesla enough electrek.co/2026/08/13/t...
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Tesla defeats Sweden's IF Metall union after 1,021-day strike
IF Metall is ending its Tesla strike after 1,021 days, the longest in modern Swedish history, saying Tesla bought out every striking worker.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Image of the D.C. reflecting pool full of green algae.
"Have they tried using Ivermectin?"
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Drying rivers in Europe could force shut down of nuclear reactors www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Drying rivers in Europe could force shut down of nuclear reactors - ABC listen
The drying up waterways have exposed a critical energy problem.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
July 2026 Globally,according to NOAA, was the WARMEST JULY ON RECORD on par with 2024. In particular, North America,Asia and Africa had their hottest July in history. Ocean Temperatures were also record.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Human flesh-eating screwworms brought to you in 2026 by Elon Musk and the Trump regime.
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Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/08/2026
Preliminary data shows that we may have set a new all-time record high for the daily global average sea surface temperature. The warmth in the ocean has already been quite remarkable over the last several months this year. Find more of our briefing graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie... 🌊
Line graph time series of daily global mean sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently at record high for this time of year. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If August ended today, it would be the shortest August on record.
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