Peak ODA (via @UNCTAD)

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Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

Because people are correctly interpreting MAGA’s use of the terms “DEI” and “woke” to mean Black.

"Air pollution from animal farms is linked to almost eight times more premature deaths than coal-fired power plants."

The animal ag industry gets away with such a massive amount of pollution that doesn't get anywhere near the attention it should.

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

Ooft, this FT climate graphic of the week

"First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows"

www.ft.com/content/6...

Please send help. Cirrus has turned into a seal pup. Will set up a go fund me to retrieve his legs.

📣 New: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies. 



This means "open" AI… isn't very open.

📄 From me, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @smw.bsky.social in Nature:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Left me with many great questions.

What would you do if the persona you love is changed by updates ? How do you duplicate them when the platform on which they exist shuts down?

If these relationships are clearly meaningful, can we leave them to companies? Should they always design for happiness?

So... Green NGOs can be paid by the EU to do research & write policy briefs; but then they can't show those results and briefs to policy makers or talk to policy makers about them.

And of course, the fossil fuel lobby will have to play by the same rules, right? RIGHT?

Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.

Coming soon: I’ll be hiring a PhD candidate to explore regions in Germany disproportionately affected by floods & droughts, focusing on cross-sector impacts and using NLP-driven datasets #academicjobs

The bit on COP30 is worrying. How will you host an inclusive and ambitious conference when there literally aren't enough rooms for everyone to stay? Leaving aside the sustainability of building new hotels, it's not hard to predict who will struggle to find a place: youth and the Majority World.

National 2030 renewable targets still fall short of the additions needed to meet #3xRenewables in all regions.

These commitments also fall behind industry projections, suggesting that governments are not reading themselves for a step up in renewables 🎯

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'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.'
My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

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