Facebook and Google have never paid. And we have long stopped asking Big Tech to clean up their streets. Big Tech's problems are at the core of their revenue model. The only thing that will redeem us is a radical reform of our online information ecosystem. Over the past ten years, we have therefore devoted ourselves fully to legislation that enforces tough rules, and to raising awareness of users. our campaign last year sounded: love technology, but on my terms.

However, over the past fifteen years, the Big Tech platforms have become so dominant that they have had a negative impact on public debate and the rights and freedom of their users. From arbitrary content moderation and unwanted interference, the amplification of extremist content and privacy violations: it's not just that we sent an invoice to Facebook and Google in 2019 for the hours we spent 'fixing' the misery they caused.

.. The power of technology should be in the hands of the people who strive for it. With regard to digital technology, in particular the right to privacy and freedom of communication are essential to increase the power of people and to curtail that of governments and companies.

Many people are rightly concerned about this entanglement of Big Tech and Trump. The men behind the tech companies mirror themselves to Trump and behave more and more shamelessly. It is absurd that they determine the limits of our public debate. We have been warning for years about the harmful influence of these platforms and their founders, ...

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How the MI Healthy Climate Corps is working towards a cleaner environment

Do you remember how 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded
Well, it seems like nearly every day of January 2025 has topped it.

PLUS we're discussing the farcical "election" in Belarus and Britain's crackdown on climate protesters.

Listen on your favourite platform here:

To Hot To Be Cool. Rock for Climate.

Webinar on polar and why it's such a stupid idea...
The paper it's based on is available here. But the key points basically say it all.

The vast majority of people want climate action

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New paper in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment using mediated data:

The impact of on the nearly threatened taxa Elaeocarpus munroi (Wight) Mast. inhabiting in the forest of the Western

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India may face warmer Feb, wheat crops are at risk, warn experts

Time to rethink our borders.

This article from WIRED provides a much-needed wake-up call about the impending reality of mass climate migration.

The key takeaway is that we need to start planning for this inevitable shift now, including investing in infrastructure, developing international agreements, and ensuring the rights and dignity of those who are forced to flee their homes.

Just got this text, shits getting serious not bad at my house, but I hear its pretty crazy out on the streets. Stay safe North Queenslanders!

A new free e-course at the University of Calgary wants to tackle misinformation and disinformation about climate change.

Why do in the most remote, pristine parts of Amazon die There is no place to hide from .

De Canadese multinational heeft het ministerie van Economische Zaken vorig jaar onder druk gezet om de onder de toe te blijven staan, blijkt uit onderzoek van Argos. 'Het bedrijf zei dat het nog gas heeft liggen onder de Waddenzee', zegt onderzoeksjournalist Nina van Raaij, 'waardoor het besluit het direct zou raken.'

Cold snap coming to southern , but preceded by a warming of temperatures, above 0C overnight to 8C tomorrow. How do we protect our plants from this wild weather

Cover everything in fertilizer My potted Christmas tree is still inside - last one died in last years January cold snap. Am trying to wait until it gets a little more reliably warm. This tree is a baby.

The unpredictability of

"An experimental, student-created sidecar for a mini cargo bike dubbed the MONoPOLE TOoLCAR popped up on Instagram, and it looks incredible. With a swiveling pivot that seamlessly integrates into the bikes urban design, this is a prototype we hope to see in production. For more on this experimental project, read on"

Expanding Heathrow is incompatible with net zero heres the evidence

The UK government is set to back , the countrys busiest airport, and to expand two other airports near London: Gatwick and Luton. The move is designed to support the governments mission to grow the economy.

Air transport is notoriously hard to decarbonise. Unlike the energy system, or even road transport, there is no renewable alternative to switch to immediately. If electric or hydrogen planes become reality, it wont be for many years yet. Therefore its not clear this airport expansion can fit within the UKs legal and arguably moral requirement to cut emissions and remain within its carbon budget.

It certainly goes against what the governments official advisory body the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recommends. The CCCs to parliament stated that: No airport expansions should proceed until a UK-wide capacity management framework is in place to annually assess and, if required, control sector GHG greenhouse gas emissions and non-CO effects.

Those non-CO effects of aviation include water vapour, soot and other gases like nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide, all released directly into the high atmosphere where they help form . Estimates suggest they could .

In 2019, the last year of pre-COVID, domestic and international aviation accounted for around 8% of the UKs total emissions. The non-CO effects makes aviation a larger contributor to climate change than that number suggests.

The sector itself struggles to build a coherent decarbonisation roadmap based solely on to things like or, in a recent example from EasyJet, . The demand side taking fewer flights, frequent flyer levies, or restrictions on domestic flights as have been introduced in France is rarely mentioned.

Unfortunately aviation is a prime example of the where any improvement in efficiency has been wiped out by increased demand. With a growing global middle class pursuing a higher consumption lifestyle, aviation emissions continue to grow even while other sectors have shows some efforts to reduce their own.

The UK has mandated that synthetic aviation fuel (SAF), a more sustainable alternative to regular jet fuel, must make up 10% of aviation fuel by 2030. But only 1.2% of aviation fuel is currently SAF and the industry has to show it can scale up in time. Indeed, the sectors own plans for growth will through synthetic fuel, delivering a neutral effect at best.

The consumer-facing airport sector has also been accused of greenwash. For instance, Luton Airport recently published adverts making the claim that its own expansion would be stopped if it did not meet stringent environmental targets. However, the found that consumers would naturally believe that would include air traffic and not just terminal operations (a terminals heating or lighting is, of course, largely irrelevant when its core business is as emissions-intensive as flying).

The difficulty of decarbonising aviation while the sector still grows is exemplified by the governments recently launched on adopting the Corsia carbon offsetting scheme for international flights and how it might work with existing cap and trade schemes. All of which encourage or excuse excess emissions through a charging mechanism.

Growing pains

Kickstarting economy growth and Make Britain a clean energy superpower are two of the UK governments . However, by expanding airports in support of the former, it risks failing the latter.

A by thinktank the New Economics Foundation shows that airport expansion could balance out all of the emissions saved by the governments clean power plans by 2050.

There is evidence that airport expansion can bring some of the economic benefit that government needs. However, another New Economics Foundation report has found that air travel is no longer a catalyst for . So the economic benefits of a new runway are really confined to the airport operation itself projects for engineers and builders, service jobs for people living near Heathrow, and so on.

Aviation is the privilege of the richer part of society, both globally and within the UK. Figures from shows the richest 50% of the global population produces 90% of the aviation emissions.

While many more UK residents have experienced flying than in the past, most flights are still taken by a of the population, which will typically capture the largest share of any new capacity. Each year, around half of British residents do not fly at all.

The focus on London airports for the largest scale expansions will shift the balance of the economy further towards England, and increase inequality within the UK economy. And while these plans might bring some of the GDP gains the government is desperate to deliver, all the evidence shows they will be at the expense of its environmental targets.

This article was by , Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Policy, and is republished under Creative Commons license

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With most countries not on course to meet their climate commitments, there are serious questions about whether the global momentum to tackle climate change can sustain a second Donald Trump assault.

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After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories.

George Monbiot accuses govt -

"A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can contribute to climate change, according to new research out of The University of Texas at Austin".

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Let's think about what happens when a CO2 molecule absorbs an IR photon. It doesn't hold it for very long before colliding with an N2 or O2 molecule. When that happens, the extra energy in the CO2 transfers to the other molecule as kinetic energy. That faster movement feels warm to us.

Earlier we said that at night there can be a large amount of heat released at night. The heat from our CO2 molecule joins in with the heat being released.

(Note: there are many possible scenarios that can be be involved in all of this heat transfer between different types of molecules. An assumption is that we don't need to look at all of them the principal path will get close enough to reality that many other scenarios will have heat coming from a different source, but will basically fit into this pattern If you come up with something substantially different, post it.)

That original CO2 molecule is still floating around but no longer has the extra energy. But sometime it will likely collide with another IR photon, and the same process will repeat.

We're going to make an assumption: all of the CO2 molecules always carry the energy from a photon. It's not true, there will be some amount of time before getting another photon from the ground or ocean, from a "nearby" CO2 molecule, or some other source. This is we will get an energy larger that what will actually be needed to cool the atmosphere.

All of the heat that enters our area of the atmosphere comes from CO2 absorbing IR photons. How much energy is Use the normal formula for mass, specific heat, and temperature change, using only the mass of CO2. We need to expend 20 TWh per year, based on pre-2022 heating rates. That's 0.02 C each year to hold the temperature constant.

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Shell withdraws from big N.J. wind farm that Trump wanted dead and gone

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Theres a bit of rain in Townsville right now. Feels eerily similar to the 2019 floods. Even down to happening the same week of the year.

""... As if our planet is a Magic Pudding that can keep pulling another 10 years out of its backside.""

The clever, wily, green industry is used to dealing with the most obscene obstacles. Weve seen it all before. In fact its core to the work with do challenging the laws of physics and science to reverse the damage weve done over the past 200 years and calming a furious Mother Nature.

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Whether youve been drinking alcohol or abstaining, its been an exceptionally dry January in the Seattle area.