Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️
This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.
In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
Met Office - weather and climate
Ian Dunt
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...
Disturbing scenes
Still, we can sleep sound in our beds knowing that the government has banned two pro-Palestine podcasters from speaking in Shoreditch
ryan cooper
David Rothschild
Akshat Rathi
the sound of the AI bubble popping getting louder and some of us will feel pretty vindicated for this particularly inane moment in declining US hegemony
🚨 WATCH: Police come under attack at protest in Southampton over the arrest of Henry Nowak
Credit: Ay_audits on YouTube
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Politics UK
Why is it so hard to establish a viable European battery industry?
The short answer: old economic thinking is lagging new geopolitical realities
Change is happening...but slowly
Great piece by @joeloclimate.bsky.social
www.climatechangenews.com/2026/05/26/a...
Norway's Morrow Batteries set out to challenge Chinese producers, but a cash crunch forced it to file for bankruptcy
Something must be causing these insane record-breaking temperatures, but I've read three newspapers this morning (Mail, Times, Telegraph) and they appear to have absolutely no idea what. How baffling. Sure they're working on it
China's EV charging volumes were up a whopping 69% in April, showing a significant acceleration even from the pre-crisis growth trend and showing how a shift to EVs is mitigating the oil crunch. Urban rail and taxi ridership increased 6% and 7%.
