World's longest-serving (56 yrs) environment journo. On Y Post, Observer, Indep, Telegraph. Also in Mail, i, Sun, Guardian, BBC, E Standard, Open Democracy etc.
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Data centres in the US and Europe are greatly increasing CO2 emissions by building their own fossil fuel power stations, concludes a new report. And UK chancellor John Healey has just given them leave to do precisely that as a “temporary” measure.
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Good news. Eight years ago Cape Town was on the very edge of disastrously running out of water. Since then, through sensible conservation measures, it has cut water use by 40%, achieving security. One of many cities’ measures to adapt to climate change.
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Well I am dashed! Trump has caused CO2 emissions to fall this year, after rising fast over the past decade! But not through any action he has taken on climate change. It’s down to his war on Iran and the closure of the Straits of Hormuz….
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Solar power is booming in Africa. Imports of solar panels into most of the continent have almost tripled in the last two years, while Morroco has recently doubled its manufacture of them. The result is to greatly increase electric power capacity.
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We are “in the foothills” of a new landscape dominated by cyberattacks, says the head of the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. He warns people to expect a “huge rise” in the number of incidents because “there are so many vulerabilities out there”.
theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…
Almost 40 measures against data centres were approved by voters in the US midterm elections, in a major setback to the huge developments.Every proposed moratorium on building them - with just one exception - was passed. There were 14 in Ohio alone.
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Malaria is spreading around the world, reversing progress against the curse, thanks to climate change and aid cuts, says this medical scientist and expert in monitoring the disease. She expects it to get worse, partly through the super El Niño
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theconversation.com/climate-…
Over half (56%) of US midterm voters say data centres were crucial or very important in determining their vote: only 13% said they were not a factor. Three quarters said they would oppose one being built near them, similar revolts imminent elsewhere?
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This is an absolute must-read. A terrific, witty and important piece by @jenoconnell on how Silicon Valley plutocrats cosied up to Trump, and how their sycophancy - and cash contributions - may now come back to bite them.
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Standby - in the next few months - for AI’s “Chernobyl” warns Nobel-prizewinning godfather of the technology, Geoffrey Hinton. He expects an imminent disruption of the world’s energy or banking systems, causing global chaos.
futurism.com/artificial-inte…
Global renewable energy capacity is set to soar by over 50% per cent over the next five years, reports the International Energy Agency. And developing countries outside China are expected, for the first time, to match the growth rate in developed ones.
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Climate deniers cite increasing numbers of polar bears around Churchill to show the species is healthy and unaffected, But they have come to the town because declining sea ice forces them to do so. In fact numbers have halved in the region since 1979.
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Hugely importantly it’s increasingly looking as if China’s CO2 emissions have peaked. They fell sharply last quarter. Admittedly the closure of the Straits of Hormuz had some role in this, but emissions have now been declining since March 2024.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi…
87% of EU people want governments to prioritize the transition to clean energy, finds a poll by the European Investment Bank, who adds it would cut costs. But the EU and most countries are dragging their feet. Yet again politicians are way out of touch.
oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N…
This doesn’t seem to have had enough attention. Whatever happens with Rosebank (and I am sure it should be refused), this move by @andyburnham and his ministers should be much more important in the longer term - and fulfils the Labour Manifesto pledge.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
Looks to me as if this covers Mar E Lago…..
Fueled by El Niño, several feet of rain floods Florida: “I’ve NEVER seen anything like this” wapo.st/4il1JOV @BenNollWeather @MatthewCappucci @washingtonpost
Ah, NOW we know why he lost so badly! Talk about a Jonah……
Liz Truss goes for dinner at Mar-a-Largo on the night of Trump's Republican wipeout in the midterm elections.
A suitable place for a desperate, failed ex Prime Minister.
@trussliz @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives
Seabed mining will have long lasting effects on the ocean floor. Researchers have found disturbance to its ecosystem, and even intact tracts of the vehicles used, on the bed of the Pacific 44 years after a test there.
phys.org/news/2026-11-impact…
Now we know it’s serious! Kellogg’s has had to reformulate Rice Crispies because of climate change. As it’s identified as a cereal killer can we hope that politicians will finally snap (and crackle and pop) out of their negligent torpor and take action…?
irishtimes.com/food/2026/11/…
It’s little reported, but green issues lay at the heart of two of the Dem’s biggest victories last night. Data centres were decisive in the big wins in Texas, while rising cancer rates believed to be caused by pesticides, were key in Iowa.
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