"The British Isles are not immune to the effects. Places we’ve got food from will dry up. Land use here will be changed. Water dependencies are exposed. Crops that started off well will fail to thrive. Productivity will be disrupted. Regular patterns of growing and consuming will be forced to change

With the latest set of El Niño forecasts, NOAA's CFSv2 model needs to get a larger y-axis scale 😯

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Anger remains white hot in Whitehall over Olly Robbins sacking Keir Starmer’s decision to oust senior official may have knock-on effect for No 10’s relationship with civil service

"Even under the Conservatives there was more respect for the civil service and even Liz Truss getting rid of Tom Scholar was more of a ‘new broom’ approach and about wanting her own staff, rather than this sort of public humiliation towards one of his own appointments": former senior No 10 official.

What does it look like if you include all the emissions on our imports? Does it include flights?

15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.

We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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Fanatical Brexiter and key Brexit negotiator, Lord David Frost, was, in 2024-5, a senior fellow of the Danube Institute which was funded by Orban and promoted his far-right ideology.

Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices Data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March, with Norway leading way in terms of switching

Iran War accelerates formation of the Green Entente www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Russia's internal affairs minister Kolokoltsev arrived in North Korea.

It's likely that he's going to ask Kim Jong Un for morre ammunition and/or missiles.

What will North Korea ask from Russia in exchange is the question.

Péter Magyar:

Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions.

This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General.

Unbelievably, Keir Starmer can now be compared to Boris Johnson The Prime Minister was once a man with a reputation for integrity and decency

It is preposterous and honestly rather shameful for Starmer to act so upset over the Mandelson affair. He is basically attacking Robbins for doing precisely what he wanted him to do inews.co.uk/opinion/unbe...

With a fuel shortage looming, some (including the leader of the German Left party, below) are calling for saving fuel by cancellling short-haul flights spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Sounds like a good idea but the problem is: it will save *very little fuel* - SHORT THREAD

This video was shared 7 months ago.

What are Boeing and Airbus doing?

❌ A package of measures to be agreed at an EU-UK summit in July will, by the government’s own estimate, increase UK GDP by just 0.3 per cent over the next decade and a half.

🇪🇺 It is time for this government to be much bolder on Europe, it is time to talk about EU membership.

7/ "You can laugh all you want, but the Ukrainian leadership is preparing to win this conflict. They’ve discarded all other options and staked everything on a military solution.

1/ Ukraine's increasing dominance in drones is reportedly leading to individual Russian soldiers being attacked by 20 or 30 drones at once. Russian warbloggers say that Ukrainian drones are operating with impunity while their side faces a shortage. ⬇️
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1/ Russia's continuing difficulties in the war in Ukraine is leading to multiple warbloggers admitting that the war effort is failing. The latest entry in the genre comes from Alexander Karchenko, who says that ordinary Russians are more concerned about the "price of a latte". ⬇️

26/ "This is not being reported to our superiors, painting a rosy picture for the leadership/management/command and the media. The situation is particularly dire along the Dnipro River and in the Zaporizhzhia-Dnipropetrovsk direction.

CSU so:
Das Aus vom Verbrenner-Aus! Zurück in die Steinzeit!
"Ab jetzt gilt wieder der Wettbewerb der besten Antriebstechnologien."

👇😎 der Gewinner
"Ein massiver 600-Tonnen-Liebherr-Bergbaubagger wurde von Diesel auf Elektroantrieb umgerüstet."

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Exterior shot of a detached, newly restored house in the countryside

Hampshire house hits 70% energy saving via #Enerphit

A deep retrofit of a 1930s house on the Hampshire coast is a pitch-perfect example of how to transform old dwellings without needing an extension, creating a cosy home that uses two-thirds less #energy than before.

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As a badly insulated 1930s house dweller, this was a good read. At present I'm pondering replacing the cement render to make our house more breathable rather than airtight.

Ukrainian drone strike sparks major fire at oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai Ukrainian drones reportedly struck the Tuapse Oil Refinery in southern Russia's Krasnodar Krai during an overnight attack on April 20, as Kyiv continues efforts to disrupt Moscow's war funding.

⚡️Update: Ukraine strikes oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai for 2nd time in a week, sparking major fire, General Staff confirms.

In addition to the oil refinery, Ukraine struck the Hvardiiske oil depot in Russian-occupied Crimea, as well as two landing ships of Project 1171 and Project 775.

Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source

It's 2026. The question isn't which thing can we burn to produce electricity that is slightly less worse than the other things we burn.

Building new infrastructure to burn things in 2026 is peak stupidity and greed.

Luckily solar, wind and storage are cheaper.

Just watched higher ed in the US turn into a sad farce, as the right destroys academic freedom for all save bigotry, moving to bankrupt any uni that still allows their staff and students to demand racial justice, protest war crimes or defend the trans community. Now Labour is on the same ugly track.

1/ Ukraine's success this year in stalling Russia's offensive, and driving Russian forces back in some places, has prompted increasingly bleak assessments from Russian warbloggers. In a lengthy series of posts, Yuri Kotenok warns that Russia's war effort is faltering badly. ⬇️

Tuapse oil refinery this morning.

Tuapse refinery 🔥

Tuapse 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥