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.

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.

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...

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.

Weaponry sold to Morocco for its occupation of Western Sahara, and its suppliers.

From the Sahrawi National Museum, here is a breakdown of the provenance of land mines planted by Morocco in Western Sahara 🇪🇭

Hanging out with jurists, lawyers, public prosecutors and the like to address the legal aspects of the conflict in Western Sahara, with a focus on natural resources, climate change, climate justice, and #adaptation.

I'm off to the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria, to talk to international jurists about how the impacts of climate change interact with, and are amplified by, the Western Sahara conflict.

So, everyone's here now, I hear. I might become active again, now there is a larger and more diverse ecosystem. I'll try and stick to climate justice, resilience, Western Sahara & other interesting stuff, and minimise personal gripes. No promises though.

I'm breaking my long social media fast to shamelessly plug all the fun new climate change adaptation training offerings at my little firm, Garama 3C Ldt. Have a look - the world urgently needs to up adaptation ambition, and we can help!
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Unfortunately, AI drawing tools are not yet up to depicting the figure on the cover of Hobbes's Leviathan as Winnie the Pooh. So I'm left with this sort of thing. But I'm no AI tool expert. Maybe someone else can do better.

I've wasted more time than I should trying to generate AI art that captures the essence of Jordan Peterson's philosophy, and it's all the fault of @iandunt.bsky.social (and Dorian Lynskey, but I don't think he's here yet).

This graphic from IISD's coverage of MENA Climate Week, to "...inform the first global stocktake(GST) of the Paris Agreement ahead of the UNFCCC COP 28..." Something tells me some people there aren't serious about Paris. enb.iisd.org/middle-east-...

Concerns about solar waste are overblown and no reason to stick with fossil fuels, which produce orders of magnitude more waste. From Mirletz et al. (2023). www-nature-com.uea.idm.oclc.org/articles/s41...

I thought some of you might like this take on our government's abandoning of climate policies, by the brilliant Cold War Steve. He doesn't appear to be on here, so I've lifted this from the other place. He's done a good ageing job on Sunak.