Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics

We have six weeks' worth of Kerosene. Experts call for a European-wide, concerted effort to save aviation fuel & develop a triage system. They point out the importance of cargo, aid, & medical flights. And what are people worried about? Their holidays.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp was paid $6.8 BILLION in 2025.

Palantir itself only made $1bn in profit.

What is he being paid for?

It's certainly not for making money.

No need for any advanced biowarfare viruses or experimental shit. America's leaders are so monumentally stupid, so block-headedly ignorant, that they will actively help Iran conduct an unimaginative, entry-level biowarfare campaign to kill American soldiers.

Global drought extremes in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface. Near-record warming substantially increased evaporative demand, triggering widespread meteorological and soil moisture drought,...

Global drought extremes in 2025

In 2025, global annual drought affected ~30% of the global land surface.

Drought is no longer just about rainfall.

It’s about temperature and evaporative demand.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.

We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.

"Falling" emissions from China...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Even senior Conservatives know that Brexit was a sham and a disaster. Unfortunately Badenoch dare not admit it in case they lose even more votes.

Meme: I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don't know how to do that. Gus Speth Shared Planet: Religion and Nature, BBC Radio 4 (1 October 2013)

So Trump is going to win, then? 🫨

Let us hope so indeed....

I have reservations about some of the Green Party's political aims.
But when they are right, THEY ARE RIGHT!
We should prioritise building solar panels on existing buildings or, like the French, in car parks, not on farming land (wherever possible).

It's all in the open. There really is no reason to wonder why they keep propping up the mad king.

It's a shame that the SEC doesn't exist anymore....

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

Top cleantech news! Top cleantech news from CleanTechnica.

Top Cleantech News Of The Day! us2.campaign-archive.com?e=bd20ad31b7...

Exactly...

...MI5 enquiry. They would have given advice (but not a ruling).
In this case, most members of the public would have said 'Only send Mandelson to represent us at the Court of King Donald if you insist...we don't think it's a great idea.'
But MI5 have no powers of coercion.

I suspect the problem arises from our British way of doing things.
Talk of success or failure in the vetting process is to portray a multi-faceted, multi-hued system (full of deliberate ambiguity) in a cut & dried sort of way which lacks necessary nuance?
The FCO would have done routine...

Small encouragement...

The biggest contextial fact about immigration is that record spikes were followed by dramatic falls

Just 1/6 people understood immigration had stopped rising by last summer. Will produce a 2026 number next month

It will fall < 100k this year and zero/below in 2027

Why Americans Need to Get Much Angrier About Donald Trump Hope is not a strategy and my fellow Americans need to wake up to the far greater damage to the US this President could still cause, argues Alexandra Hall Hall

Why Americans Need to Get Much Angrier About Donald Trump

Hope is not a strategy and my fellow Americans need to wake up to the far greater damage to the US this President could still cause, argues Alexandra Hall Hall

“The climate crisis is not a problem of the 1%. It is a problem of the 100%”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

Mamdani delivers a master class every time in how to communicate politically.

""I think people are sick of being told they can't have healthy rivers and seas, just because powerful financiers want to keep making money from our water bills.

"Our government is listening to them [water companies] but not to us,""

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What does it mean when 84% of almost 30,000 Daily Mail readers think we should rejoin the EU?

www.dailymail.co.uk/...

1000 Nuclear Reactors That's how much solar and wind electricity could be plugged in.

Now that we're friends with China:

Solar manufacturers, mainly in China, are now capable of producing 350 to 500 nuclear-reactor’s worth of cheap solar panels per year (1000 GW to 1500 GW).

Yes, per year. Takes at least 10 years to build a reactor

leahy.substack.com/p/1000-nucle...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?