I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...

Climate denier: 2000 years is not enough to see a trend!

Also climate denier: There's been no warming for 5 years!

Time spent in nature boosts health & happiness. Many societies embrace this principle and I hope others, including my own, will embrace it more & more moving forward www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Today is a good day to remind you that new fossil fuel developments are "incompatible" with 1.5C, according to a comprehensive analysis of scientific research

www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-f...

New Paper about climate change impacts on electricity consumption and energy burden. Improving AC efficiency reduces cooling needs by up to 70%. Even so racial minorities have energy burdens >6%. W/@costasamaras.bsky.social and others. #energy #energyPoverty
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of the best parts of the WGA deal: AI has now hit a brick wall in Hollywood, *and that includes adaptations.*

Based on the deal, AI can't be source material. So if you're a publisher, AI novels or graphic novels or whatever just became that much less appealing because *they can't be optioned.*

What are carbon offsets? How are they supposed to work? How can things go wrong? Team Carbon Brief have answers in this brilliant in-depth Q&A, inc this handy diagram:

interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...

It's not just that we're breaking records in the climate this year, it's that the margins by which those records are being broken are themselves records (and not by a small margin either).

Almost all carbon offset projects are junk.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...