Nick Brooks
@npjbrooks.bsky.social
Adaptation professional. Aspiring swordsman. Supporter of Sahrawi self-determination. Norfolk boy. Director of Garama 3C Ltd.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
This makes me kinda proud.
"The Handmaid’s Tale came about thanks in part to a winter spent in a fisherman’s cottage in Blakeney, Norfolk, in 1983, which was so grim she abandoned the novel she was working on.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...?
"The Handmaid’s Tale came about thanks in part to a winter spent in a fisherman’s cottage in Blakeney, Norfolk, in 1983, which was so grim she abandoned the novel she was working on.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...?
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This makes me kinda proud.
"The Handmaid’s Tale came about thanks in part to a winter spent in a fisherman’s cottage in Blakeney, Norfolk, in 1983, which was so grim she abandoned the novel she was working on.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...?
"The Handmaid’s Tale came about thanks in part to a winter spent in a fisherman’s cottage in Blakeney, Norfolk, in 1983, which was so grim she abandoned the novel she was working on.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...?
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92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...
‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...
So, I thought I’d try using the built-in Wordpress assistant to generate an image for one of my web-pages, as it didn’t want to upload an actual word cloud I’d generated. I think my job’s safe for now.
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So, I thought I’d try using the built-in Wordpress assistant to generate an image for one of my web-pages, as it didn’t want to upload an actual word cloud I’d generated. I think my job’s safe for now.
Think of this when you do your plastic recycling. Better to avoid plastic altogether where you can. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...?
‘A broken system full of criminality and death’: the podcast lifting the lid on what happens to the UK’s rubbish
Turkey’s recycling centres treat vast amounts of the UK’s waste – and rely on refugees who work in conditions so unsafe that hundreds have died. A new podcast uncovers the sinister side of what happen...
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Think of this when you do your plastic recycling. Better to avoid plastic altogether where you can. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...?
Indeed, catastrophic climate change, including a decent chance of shutting of the Atlantic circulation and plunging the UK & northern Europe into a mini ice age as the rest of the world eats the resulting excess heat, is the explicit policy choice of the right, and they want us to vote for it.
The high emissions trajectory is what Reform and the Tories now want to set us on. It would literally destroy British society within a century. This should really be better known. Or even mentioned in our media.
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
September 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Indeed, catastrophic climate change, including a decent chance of shutting of the Atlantic circulation and plunging the UK & northern Europe into a mini ice age as the rest of the world eats the resulting excess heat, is the explicit policy choice of the right, and they want us to vote for it.
Our next Norwich (UK) (Climate) Emergency Drinks gathering will take place tomorrow (Thu 12 June) from 7:30pm. If you fancy mixing with people working on, active about, or just interested in climate & related issues, send me a message and I'll give you the details.
June 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Our next Norwich (UK) (Climate) Emergency Drinks gathering will take place tomorrow (Thu 12 June) from 7:30pm. If you fancy mixing with people working on, active about, or just interested in climate & related issues, send me a message and I'll give you the details.
I've written a short piece on LinkedIn about the UK's recent endorsement of #Morocco's autonomy plan for occupied #WesternSahara, and why this is a major foreign policy error. It links to the much longer article on my blog. www.linkedin.com/pulse/uks-la...
The UK's latest foreign policy error
On 1st June, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) released a UK-Morocco Joint Communiqué realting to an ongoing strategic dialogue between the two countries. The Communiqué included...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I've written a short piece on LinkedIn about the UK's recent endorsement of #Morocco's autonomy plan for occupied #WesternSahara, and why this is a major foreign policy error. It links to the much longer article on my blog. www.linkedin.com/pulse/uks-la...
The 1 June UK-Morocco #JointCommuniqué announced by #DavidLammy & the #FCDO states that #Morocco’s 'autonomy plan' is “the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting resolution of the dispute” in Western Sahara. It isn't. Here's why. nickbrooks.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/l...
June 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The 1 June UK-Morocco #JointCommuniqué announced by #DavidLammy & the #FCDO states that #Morocco’s 'autonomy plan' is “the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting resolution of the dispute” in Western Sahara. It isn't. Here's why. nickbrooks.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/l...
My latest article, in response to the strategic dialogue between the UK and Morocco, announced on 1st June.
Lammy’s short-sighted betrayal
The British government recently signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Morocco in which it endorsed Rabat's plan for governing the occupied, non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara in exchange for access to public infrastructure contracts, contrary to international law and numerous UK resolutions. Children in Auserd refugee camp near Tindouf, Algeria. Last December I spent a week in a refugee camp in the Algerian desert.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My latest article, in response to the strategic dialogue between the UK and Morocco, announced on 1st June.
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Happy to share my first piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on "Settler Tourism in #WesternSahara and the Commodification of Occupied Territories", where I take aim at @ryanairofficial.bsky.social & others and draw comparisons with Trump's plans for Palestine as Riviera
opiniojuris.org/2025/05/23/d...
opiniojuris.org/2025/05/23/d...
Development as Domination: Settler Tourism in Western Sahara and the Commodification of Occupied Territories in Trumpist International Law
[Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, where she researches demographic engineering, displacement, and inter…
opiniojuris.org
May 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Happy to share my first piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on "Settler Tourism in #WesternSahara and the Commodification of Occupied Territories", where I take aim at @ryanairofficial.bsky.social & others and draw comparisons with Trump's plans for Palestine as Riviera
opiniojuris.org/2025/05/23/d...
opiniojuris.org/2025/05/23/d...
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The 1990s adoption of neoliberalism by the centre left really ought to be seen for what it is: the successful capture of liberal politics by what is straightforwardly a eugenicist, far-right ideology. It's just that almost no one did the reading.
One thing I’ve been anecdotally seeing amongst a lot of left-of-centre parties internationally is the lack of a genuine alternate economic vision at all, and chasing the same neoliberal agendas of the right-of-centre parties, shifting continuously rightward.
thekaka.substack.com/p/bernards-s...
thekaka.substack.com/p/bernards-s...
Labour commits to same debt & surplus targets as National
Greens eye $88b of wealth distribution
thekaka.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The 1990s adoption of neoliberalism by the centre left really ought to be seen for what it is: the successful capture of liberal politics by what is straightforwardly a eugenicist, far-right ideology. It's just that almost no one did the reading.
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OUT: You can’t connect extreme weather to climate change
5Mn AGO: You can’t connect extreme weather to fossil-fuel companies
IN: 🎁🔗⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
5Mn AGO: You can’t connect extreme weather to fossil-fuel companies
IN: 🎁🔗⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scientists Tally Oil Majors’ Climate Damage With Eye to Legal Liability
New research breaks down economic losses from global warming and attributes them to individual companies. It could bolster lawsuits against big emitters.
www.bloomberg.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
OUT: You can’t connect extreme weather to climate change
5Mn AGO: You can’t connect extreme weather to fossil-fuel companies
IN: 🎁🔗⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
5Mn AGO: You can’t connect extreme weather to fossil-fuel companies
IN: 🎁🔗⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This is research for impact - great support for climate litigation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is research for impact - great support for climate litigation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trump has now sold out the Ukrainians, the Palestinians, and the Sahrawis, in each case giving the occupier exactly what they want with no push-back. Not exactly hard-nosed negotiation from an expert deal maker. Rather spineless capitulation by a weak mind too easily impressed by aggression.
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Trump has now sold out the Ukrainians, the Palestinians, and the Sahrawis, in each case giving the occupier exactly what they want with no push-back. Not exactly hard-nosed negotiation from an expert deal maker. Rather spineless capitulation by a weak mind too easily impressed by aggression.
The Day After Tomorrow is better each time I watch it. Sure, the science is beyond dodgy, but its treatment of the political economy of climate inaction, differentiated vulnerability, fragility, embedded adaptive capacity, and complex impacts, is exemplary.
February 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The Day After Tomorrow is better each time I watch it. Sure, the science is beyond dodgy, but its treatment of the political economy of climate inaction, differentiated vulnerability, fragility, embedded adaptive capacity, and complex impacts, is exemplary.
#Adaptation isn't about preserving the status quo, but about managing inevitable and often painful change. Our new paper on 'curating transformation' looks at lessons from heritage management for wider adaptation & managing losses & damages (open access). www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation and minimize losses and damages - npj Climate Action
Heritage conservation recognizes that losses and damages cannot be entirely prevented, that decisions about what to keep and what to let go are fundamental to maintaining values for future generations...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#Adaptation isn't about preserving the status quo, but about managing inevitable and often painful change. Our new paper on 'curating transformation' looks at lessons from heritage management for wider adaptation & managing losses & damages (open access). www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Do any of my #climate / #adaptation contacts have expertise in communications from parties to the UNFCCC on other parties' NDCs? DM me if so. Thanks.
December 11, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Do any of my #climate / #adaptation contacts have expertise in communications from parties to the UNFCCC on other parties' NDCs? DM me if so. Thanks.
Saw a sobering presentation about demining in Western Sahara, followed by another on Moroccan drone attacks on civilian targets, by the Sahrawi Mine Action Cooperation Office this morning. These are the types of drones being used by Morocco in incursions in the Sahrawi controlled areas.
December 4, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Saw a sobering presentation about demining in Western Sahara, followed by another on Moroccan drone attacks on civilian targets, by the Sahrawi Mine Action Cooperation Office this morning. These are the types of drones being used by Morocco in incursions in the Sahrawi controlled areas.
Folks, if you're planning a holiday in Morocco, please consider that you'll be supporting a military occupation & the attempted erasure of the Sahrawi people's culture, identity, and presence in their homeland. Sent from a refugee camp housing Sahrawis displaced by Morocco's aggression.
December 3, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Folks, if you're planning a holiday in Morocco, please consider that you'll be supporting a military occupation & the attempted erasure of the Sahrawi people's culture, identity, and presence in their homeland. Sent from a refugee camp housing Sahrawis displaced by Morocco's aggression.
If getting rid of people was the way to solve climate change, the first to go wouldn't be the poor - it would be the better off high emitters, including many of the proponents of the 'overpopulation' narrative, and, indeed, you and me.
🚨I'm seeing some climate accounts posting overpopulation stuff, so I've removed the paywall from my article on the subject: Overpopulation Is A Racist Trope.
'Overpopulation' Is A Racist Trope. It's Time We Laid It To Rest
A new movie satirises the myth that climate change is a consequence of too many people. In the real world, our overpopulation obsession must be euthanised.
climatelaundry.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:41 AM
If getting rid of people was the way to solve climate change, the first to go wouldn't be the poor - it would be the better off high emitters, including many of the proponents of the 'overpopulation' narrative, and, indeed, you and me.
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If you have any reach on Bluesky, please consider reposting so I can find old and new friends (and then I’ll follow you back 😊).
I'm Alexander Verbeek and publish about the climate crisis, environment, the beauty of nature, science, walking, sustainability, wildlife, photography, water, and energy.
I'm Alexander Verbeek and publish about the climate crisis, environment, the beauty of nature, science, walking, sustainability, wildlife, photography, water, and energy.
November 14, 2024 at 9:09 AM
If you have any reach on Bluesky, please consider reposting so I can find old and new friends (and then I’ll follow you back 😊).
I'm Alexander Verbeek and publish about the climate crisis, environment, the beauty of nature, science, walking, sustainability, wildlife, photography, water, and energy.
I'm Alexander Verbeek and publish about the climate crisis, environment, the beauty of nature, science, walking, sustainability, wildlife, photography, water, and energy.