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“ART IS THE ATTENTION WE PAY TO THE WHOLENESS OF THE WORLD.” Guy Davenport
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“ART IS THE ATTENTION WE PAY TO THE WHOLENESS OF THE WORLD.” Guy Davenport
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Buy Art
My dad sells some of his art here, by the way (including a few postcard sets of this series which haven't quite sold out): michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Buy Art
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I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
www.tom-cox.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
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I prefer to use this figure from www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/prod... showing the record from satellite altimetry, as it highlights the overall acceleration in global mean sea-level rise. A lot of the short term wiggles are due to year-to-year fluctuations in snowfall on the ice sheets.
December 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I prefer to use this figure from www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/prod... showing the record from satellite altimetry, as it highlights the overall acceleration in global mean sea-level rise. A lot of the short term wiggles are due to year-to-year fluctuations in snowfall on the ice sheets.
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It may seem a bit non-intuitive, but ice loss from Greenland will affect Australian coasts more than ice loss from Antarctica. This is because removal of a large mass of ice from any location distorts the Earth's gravity field so that the biggest effect on sea-level is in distant regions.
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It may seem a bit non-intuitive, but ice loss from Greenland will affect Australian coasts more than ice loss from Antarctica. This is because removal of a large mass of ice from any location distorts the Earth's gravity field so that the biggest effect on sea-level is in distant regions.
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Australia girt by sea
So is #Antarctica
As ice melts from global warming and sea levels rise, there'll be a lot more sea to go around
Antarctica ice mass melt average rate ~150B tons/year
Greenland melt 270B tons/year
bsky.app/profile/prof...
#Thwaites
So is #Antarctica
As ice melts from global warming and sea levels rise, there'll be a lot more sea to go around
Antarctica ice mass melt average rate ~150B tons/year
Greenland melt 270B tons/year
bsky.app/profile/prof...
#Thwaites
🧪🧵 Future change to #ThwaitesGlacier, Antarctica constitutes the largest uncertainty in #sea-level rise forecasts. The Science Coordination Office of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration recently issued a briefing document summarising some key findings - thwaitesglacier.org/findings
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Australia girt by sea
So is #Antarctica
As ice melts from global warming and sea levels rise, there'll be a lot more sea to go around
Antarctica ice mass melt average rate ~150B tons/year
Greenland melt 270B tons/year
bsky.app/profile/prof...
#Thwaites
So is #Antarctica
As ice melts from global warming and sea levels rise, there'll be a lot more sea to go around
Antarctica ice mass melt average rate ~150B tons/year
Greenland melt 270B tons/year
bsky.app/profile/prof...
#Thwaites
Earth’s frozen regions are sending a clear warning about climate change – but politicians are ignoring it
theconversation.com/earths-froze...
theconversation.com/earths-froze...
Earth’s frozen regions are sending a clear warning about climate change – but politicians are ignoring it
The warning lights from the cryosphere have been flashing red for several years and governments and policymakers ignore this at their peril.
theconversation.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Earth’s frozen regions are sending a clear warning about climate change – but politicians are ignoring it
theconversation.com/earths-froze...
theconversation.com/earths-froze...
Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
theconversation.com/bird-flu-war...
theconversation.com/bird-flu-war...
Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.
theconversation.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
theconversation.com/bird-flu-war...
theconversation.com/bird-flu-war...
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The arrogance of US fossil fuel companies on full display: Greenpeace Intl (not a US entity!) filed an anti-SLAPP vs Energy Transfer in the Netherlands & Energy Transfer is asking a U.S. court to interfere @alleenbrown.bsky.social reports for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/SLAPP-u... 🧵
Greenpeace Fights for Survival Against a Fossil Fuel Giant’s $345-Million “SLAPP” Suit
Energy Transfer’s lawsuit set up the First Amendment battle of the year and threatens to silence support for grassroots protest against the fossil fuel industry.
drilled.media
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The arrogance of US fossil fuel companies on full display: Greenpeace Intl (not a US entity!) filed an anti-SLAPP vs Energy Transfer in the Netherlands & Energy Transfer is asking a U.S. court to interfere @alleenbrown.bsky.social reports for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/SLAPP-u... 🧵
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Kushner’s Serbian boondoggle collapses amid corruption scandal
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open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Kushner’s Serbian boondoggle collapses amid corruption scandal
This week, Jared Kushner abruptly canceled his plans to build Trump Tower Belgrade after the project became enmeshed in a criminal corruption scandal involving Serbian government officials.
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Kushner’s Serbian boondoggle collapses amid corruption scandal
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open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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Anyway, it is rather disappointing there is so little literature on old growth forests. The fact there is so much confusion and uncertainty on this issue is disappointing, and I would say largely a framing issue based on the way forest modelling and reporting work.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Anyway, it is rather disappointing there is so little literature on old growth forests. The fact there is so much confusion and uncertainty on this issue is disappointing, and I would say largely a framing issue based on the way forest modelling and reporting work.
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1 hour 8 minutes? You probably don't have the time. But in case you do, here is a recording of my @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar at @exeter.ac.uk earlier this week in which I talk about overshoot, consequences and possible ways forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbH...
GSI seminar 10DEC25 1080
YouTube video by James Dyke
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
1 hour 8 minutes? You probably don't have the time. But in case you do, here is a recording of my @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar at @exeter.ac.uk earlier this week in which I talk about overshoot, consequences and possible ways forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbH...
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An interesting legal case for climate change responsibility here.
Survivors sue Shell in landmark case over deadly typhoon in Philippines
Survivors sue Shell in landmark case over deadly typhoon in Philippines
Survivors sue Shell in landmark case over deadly typhoon in Philippines
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
An interesting legal case for climate change responsibility here.
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They can do this because the industry is highly concentrated with players who hold monopoly power in other fields. What’s missing here is how much risk is being foisted onto communities hosting data centers.
Big Tech are renting AI data centre capacity to: 1. Spread the large financial risk across other companies, 2. Hedge against poor uptake of AI in the coming years & 3. Record data centres as an operating cost, not as debt. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...
How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
They can do this because the industry is highly concentrated with players who hold monopoly power in other fields. What’s missing here is how much risk is being foisted onto communities hosting data centers.
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2/ For more info and maps of who owns the peat soils in the Fens - and in the English uplands - see my investigation 'Who Owns Our Carbon?', here: whoownsengland.org/2021/11/15/w...
Who owns our carbon?
A new investigation by Who Owns England has found that 1 million acres of England’s deep peat, our single largest carbon sink, is owned by just 124 landowners. That amounts to 60% of England&#…
whoownsengland.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
2/ For more info and maps of who owns the peat soils in the Fens - and in the English uplands - see my investigation 'Who Owns Our Carbon?', here: whoownsengland.org/2021/11/15/w...
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#Rainforests in #Africa are poorly studied compared to the #Amazon yet demand for #palmoil and #mining is growing threatening #forest animals. Take action! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸🤮🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/09/01/a...
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#Rainforests in #Africa are poorly studied compared to the #Amazon yet demand for #palmoil and #mining is growing threatening #forest animals. Take action! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸🤮🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/09/01/a...
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Returning our water to public ownership
Is it time for our water companies to be taken back into public ownership? MP Clive Lewis and the organisation Compass certainly think so
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Is it time for our water companies to be taken back into public ownership? MP Clive Lewis and the organisation Compass certainly think so
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Returning our water to public ownership
Is it time for our water companies to be taken back into public ownership? MP Clive Lewis and the organisation Compass certainly think so
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Returning our water to public ownership
Is it time for our water companies to be taken back into public ownership? MP Clive Lewis and the organisation Compass certainly think so
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Is it time for our water companies to be taken back into public ownership? MP Clive Lewis and the organisation Compass certainly think so
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
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Rob Reiner, who was killed on Sunday, built a remarkable acting and directing career that went far beyond his comic origins. David Sims on his quiet brilliance and always surprising versatility:
Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling
The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins.
bit.ly
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Rob Reiner, who was killed on Sunday, built a remarkable acting and directing career that went far beyond his comic origins. David Sims on his quiet brilliance and always surprising versatility:
The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
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“If the aggressor receives a reward, he starts to believe that war pays off,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy warns against rewarding Russian aggression after ‘intense and focused’ peace talks – Europe live
Ukrainian president speaks in Dutch parliament ahead of crucial EU meeting on use of frozen Russian assets
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“If the aggressor receives a reward, he starts to believe that war pays off,” Zelenskyy said.