Paddy McCully

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

Questions?

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.

Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV www.wsj.com/business/ret...

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

The Atacama Desert in Chile was in full bloom following a spell of unusually wet weather. See photos from the AFP photojournalist Javier Torres:

This might have seemed menacing at the start when he was planning his new Reich, but now everyone can see he’s a loser on every front it just comes across as pathetic, a weak, little man desperate to appear tough.

"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

India is installing half a million rooftop solar sets *per month*. That's phenomenal. www.ft.com/content/8b70...

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "it is unimaginable that any month in the last few thousand years, maybe 100,000 years, has more [Precipitable water] in the atmosphere than August 2026." www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...

But Hunter Biden’s laptop something something

Wild stats from China’s car market in Aug: ICE sales down 40% y/o/y; plug-ins 65% of sales. Reason given is partly high fuel costs #ThanksTrump!

"Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago." "a 26 percent drop in the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2025"

Climeworks' Mammoth facility in Iceland removed 675 tonnes of CO₂ in the first half of 2026, almost 6x as much as in 2025. If they keep it up, that'll be 1350 tonnes a year*. That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄 *Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠

Nailed it

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026 Output by oil, coal and gas plants 174.6bln kWh to 94.2 bln kWh, while renewable energy production grows by about one quarter during same period www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...

An "L" has fallen off the podium at the Republican midterm convention

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Former USAID disaster-response chief @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social suggested that the Trump regime’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID, including the SERVIR program, impacted flood prediction and early warning systems in Nepal and made it way more deadly.

This is a lovely-terrible piece

I miss the Enlightenment

“Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status… felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE placed on him after Trump canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants…” What have we become? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. this all looks like an example of the Trump Administration extending its creeping crony statism beyond U.S. shores.” @wsj.com #venezuela 🇻🇪 www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

The sheer force and scale of the Nepal landslide is far beyond anything I've seen before. New footage from @ pilulaespacial on IG.

Fuck Google Maps

Japan has worked hard to get the rest of the world hooked on LNG as a fuel. They invest heavily in US oil and gas fields as well as the LNG export terminals. How's that going for the people of Japan? LNG - good for oligarchs, really bad for the rest of us.

The score settling inside the MAGA ranks has great entertainment values, but it serves to highlight the essential lawlessness of ICE.

Your moment of Zen

45% annual growth of PV in Africa!!! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“The ongoing conflict in the Middle East demonstrates that we must urgently reduce imports of LNG and other fuels,” Thai Energy Minister Akanat Promphan said. “We need to build a cleaner and more self-reliant power system.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.

Also Lake Superior could become Lake Canada Is Superior

Well done San Francisco Chronicle for such a sadly rare piece of perfect framing of a climate story

MAGA is a cult of utter fucknuts

These early modern depictions of the five senses are often very allegorical and moralistic. But then there's Jan Miense Molenaer, The Five Senses: Smell, 1637 (Mauritshuis). Yes indeed.

How do you sleep @thespectator1828.bsky.social

🇭🇷 Croatia hit by largest-ever wildfires, — Reuters

Burnham: “This summer has shown beyond doubt that climate change is not a far-off prospect but with us today… I know people are deeply worried about the climate crisis… This govt will rise to the moment & build a better, fairer, greener & more resilient Britain” www.independent.co.uk/voices/andy-...

Artificial intelligence could help oil and gas companies spew as much as 13 times more climate pollution, per a new study — dwarfing the climate impacts of data center energy use. heated.world/p/ais-climat... via @emorwee.bsky.social

a crow's shadow crosses the withered grass the world burns

I’ve almost had enough of this kleptocratic fascist shit

So the publisher of Axios needs AI to help him read 19th century novels (in English) as he can’t deal with the “wordy, old prose”.

U.S. airstrikes killed 153 civilians and wounded nearly 250 others during an operation targeting militants in Yemen last year, a Pentagon review found.