New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

We could just ... not let them do this.

Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action - Energy, Sustainability and Society Background For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied...

Our new research reveals how the world’s largest fossil fuel companies undermine renewables in their corporate communication.

Powerful corporations reinforce negative misleading narratives to reinforce fossil fuel dependence and slow down shift to renewables.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I agree, Kostia. And referring to the substack cited, clarity in writing does not necessarily mean deeper or better philosophical knowledge.

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

John Lennon with a guitar - text: imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one.

Fixing Academia Dion Kramer & Berend van Der Kolk

This book has thoughtful reflections on the current state of academia from the perspective of NL-based early career / 'young' scholars. My colleague @dionkramer.bsky.social has a provocative chapter on abolishing competition in research funding. vuuniversitypress.com/product/fixi...

Quote of the day while reading works on time, law and nature: "Practicing critique in fossil modernity means staying with the rubble." @afolkers.bsky.social

Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes Over 100 international law experts sign letter on Iran War, UN Charter, and international humanitarian law.

Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes.

Read the letter here:

www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

BREAKING 🇵🇸🇬🇷 Greek shipping companies are secretly arming and fuelling Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, reveals a new report from the Palestinian Youth Movement, Progressive International and Energy Embargo for Palestine.

Trump's description of the Iran nuclear deal was a lie. It would NOT have meant Iranian nuclear weapons. Iran agreed to stringent enrichment limits, exporting 97% of its enriched uranium, and inspections going far beyond usual IAEA safeguards. But Trump pulled out -- and here we are.

🧵Last week Meloni lost her only structural reform proposed in 4 years of “long” gov life.

However, the thing that is pressuring her govt rn is not the justice referendum, but the implications of the current ME war and the fact that Meloni lacks instruments to deal with it.

Indeed, energy biting 🛢️🔌

Accounting for these emissions even outside the climate treaties could still be relevant for future compensation claims under general state responsibility.

The international legal framework of the climate treaties fails to account for the GHG emissions caused by (grave) illegal acts of states. This is a gap that the war on Iran is clearly showing.

It seems to me the inevitable for doctrinal legal research. Originality will be more and more difficult to achieve.

Middle East war: why attacks on gasfields like South Pars are a major escalation Strike was first time a fossil fuel energy production facility has been hit. But why is it significant and who does it affect?

8 days later, it's obvious that this should apply to all belligerent states bombing each other's fossil fuel extraction infras.

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

Satellita data are able to reveal hidden plumes of methane leaking from fossil fuel infrastructures. US and Turkmenistan among the biggest leakers. International GHG accounting frameworks could and should include these emissions. Accuracy is key to know who's eroding our depleting carbon budget.

A great piece. 'Surplus legitimacy' explains a lot abt the current juncture. However, I don't think that on Gaza or Iran we're really dealing with the indeterminacy of IL. And calling for illegality now is abt planting the seeds for forms of justice in the future -perhaps a distant one.

Beyond the human loss and devastation which we all see, I hope someone is estimating the greenhouse gas emissions from bombed oil assets and vessels in Iran. These should be attributed to the US' emission record. Just to set the record straight for future compesation claims under international law.

Co-chairs Statement on The Hague Group Meeting on Accountability and the Enforcement of International Law in Palestine. 4 March 2026.

The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere.

The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

And bye, bye blended learning...

Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, and Cultural Rights: The Case of Bonaire On the 28th of January, the District Court of the Hague rendered its judgment in the case of Greenpeace v. the Netherlands. The case addressed the Dutch State’s mitigation and adaptation obligations t...

Flore Heinrich and I have co-authored a blog on @ejiltalk.bsky.social on the recent judgment in the Bonaire case, focusing on how the District Court of The Hague approached cultural rights in the context of climate change and implications for future litigation: www.ejiltalk.org/climate-chan....

🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨

NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.

The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements—a review The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements—a review, Ritchie, Paul D L, Steinert, Norman J, Abrams, Jesse F, Alkhayuon, Hassan, Arnscheidt, Constantin W, Bochow, Nils, Chapman, Ruth R, Clarke, Joseph, Dennis, Donovan P, Donges, Jonathan F, Flores, Bernardo M, Garbe, Julius, Högner, Annika, Huntingford, Chris, Lenton, Timothy M, Lohmann, Johannes, Lux-Gottschalk, Kerstin, Milkoreit, Manjana, Möller, Tessa, Pearce-Kelly, Paul, Pereira, Laura, Quinn, Courtney, Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich, Stuenzi, Simone M, Swingedouw, Didier, Van der Laan, Larissa N, Zickfeld, Kirsten, Wunderling, Nico

Review of how “minimising the magnitude and duration” of overshooting 1.5C could decrease the risk of surpassing climate tipping points

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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States can withdraw from the BoP at any time. However, the one billion US dollars that some of them might have paid to secure a permanent spot will stay! In the words of the inaugural Chairman, this sounds really like a ‘bad deal’ for states! 10/10

Now, what would happen if, say, a member of the EB, most loyal to the ‘inaugural’ Chairman, vetoes such a decision even in a case of evident incapacity? The BoP would be simply blocked, unless amendments to its text are passed. But these require the confirmation of the (incapable) Chairman! 9/10