Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger » Yale Climate Connections Recent studies link human-caused warming to more powerful, more destructive storms worldwide.

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind

"... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity."

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It's in small text so just so we're clear:

EQUIVALENT TO THE ENTIRE SOLAR CAPACITY OF SPAIN

Restricted Mythos AI model reaches unauthorized users, triggering Anthropic probe American AI developer Anthropic said Tuesday it was investigating unauthorized access to Mythos, its powerful model which the company itself worries could be a boon for hackers.

Anthropic is investigating unauthorized access to its restricted Mythos AI model, which was intended for select tech firms to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities before broader release.

Bowel cancer immunotherapy clinical trial follow-up shows zero relapses Patients with a specific type of bowel cancer who were treated with a short course of immunotherapy before surgery instead of post-op chemotherapy have remained cancer-free after almost three years of follow-up, according to new results from the NEOPRISM-CRC clinical trial led by a team from UCL and UCLH.

Nearly three years after a short course of pre-surgery immunotherapy, patients with a specific genetic type of bowel cancer have shown no relapses, indicating durable cancer control.

A protest in cartoons The Hormuz Dance - The Hemlock chalice

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

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Central Banks will raise interest rates and solve it.

A study by Climate Central found a human-caused intensity increase ranging from 3%-12% for 2024’s Atlantic hurricanes.

I've closed my Google account in December.

Substack is gross AF

Zack Polanskis green party could get 12 MPs in Labour rout at next general election, shock poll reveals.

We're not here to be disappointed with Labour.

We're here to replace them.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Always, always, follow the money, for it does not tell any lies.

Orban’s defeat shows that when we stand together against the politics of hate and division, hope wins and the far right friends of Farage can be defeated.

Data centers can increase pollution, raise utility costs, and burden entire electrical grids.

I am proud to be an original cosponsor of the Power for the People Act to hold data centers accountable for their own electrical costs and establish incentives to reduce their impact on the power grid.

These “leaders” are mass murderers. Killers

Psychopaths who enjoy inflicting pain and suffering

This is key to political understanding: austerity causes a rise in support for the far right.
BTW, austerity is *not over*, unless you accept the meaningless official definition. A meaningful definition is "a decline in public services caused by a shortfall in funding". catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf

Reported 2025 drug overdose 'spike' was an illusion, new study finds In June 2025, several mainstream media outlets reported a surge in U.S. drug overdose deaths in early 2025 that was based on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Recent analysis shows the reported 2025 spike in U.S. drug overdose deaths was a statistical artifact, with overdose deaths continuing to decline since August 2023.

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability

The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

People who expect precision in science should hold themselves to that standard when they speak about economics or politics.

For example, “degrowth” does not mean “recession.” It means shifting production away from the sectors accelerating climate change towards those that create public good.

Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...

"Private equity funds and related asset managers own water companies, apartment blocks, student accommodation, care homes, children’s homes, funeral parlours and more"

This debt-driven parasite must be stamped out if the UK wants its public services to survive

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"Rescue teams work at the site of an Israeli strike in the Jnah area of Beirut, Lebanon [Reuters]"

Photos: Destruction after Israeli strike in Beirut’s Jnah area
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Jeff Bezos' Editorial Board Calls Trump's AG Pick, Who Lobbied for Amazon, 'Qualified' The Washington Post's editorial board gave a thumbs up for Trump's attorney general pick Pam Bondi, who previously lobbi

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General.

Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist.

Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

UV light method offers repeat recycling for acrylic plastics without the environmental cost A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by researchers at the University of Bath.

A new UV light-based process enables efficient chemical recycling of acrylic plastics at lower temperatures, maintaining material quality and reducing environmental impact compared to conventional methods. doi.org/hbvr2x

Combining the robot operating system with LLMs for natural-language control Over the past few decades, robotics researchers have developed a wide range of increasingly advanced robots that can autonomously complete various real-world tasks.

A new framework integrates large language models with the robot operating system, enabling robots to interpret and execute natural-language instructions across diverse real-world tasks. doi.org/hbtv7k

Nicotine e-cigarettes found to be more successful in helping smokers quit A new analysis of existing studies co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher finds that nicotine e-cigarettes consistently help adults quit smoking, a conclusion that emerges with striking agreement across nearly a decade of studies.

Nicotine e-cigarettes are linked to higher smoking cessation rates than traditional nicotine replacement therapies, with quit rates 20% to 40% higher over at least six months. doi.org/hbtzqg

At present, politics is downstream from money.

"When China crossed 1,500 kWh of electricity consumption per person, coal was 10 times cheaper than solar. Today, as India reaches the same threshold, solar plus storage costs half as much as new coal."

Wow.

Study finds 40% of European gas stoves leak cancer-causing benzene while turned off Benzene, a compound linked with leukemia and other blood cancers, is leaking from gas stoves in Europe, a new study finds.

Benzene, a known carcinogen, has been detected in unburned gas from European stoves, with concentrations significantly higher than those typically found in North America. doi.org/hbtx5n

Study of 11,000 tumors maps 134 DNA damage signatures across 16 cancers A team of cancer genomics scientists from The University of Manchester and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, forensically examined the genetic make-up of tumors in 16 different cancers.

Analysis of nearly 11,000 tumors has mapped 134 DNA damage signatures across 16 cancer types, potentially expanding eligibility for targeted and immune-based therapies. doi.org/hbtx56

Extreme climate outcomes could still occur with just 2 °C of global warming Moderate global warming creates a risk of climate impacts that are more severe than the most-likely impacts of high global warming.

We model the average. Reality delivers the extremes…

Low-probability, high-impact scenarios at 2C can rival typical impacts at 3–4C

Key risks: Crop failures, extreme rainfall and flooding, increased wildfires

Key lesson: plan for the extremes, not the mean

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