Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

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Henry Mance (@henrymance.ft.com)

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply https://www.ft.com/content/19f155b1-8b12-491a-bbc5-a3bdb2a2e607?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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I mean, one would hope this war will lead to developed nations further accelerating a move to renewables, but I am not an optimistic man.

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The genuinely developed nations (which is to say, EU countries) almost certainly will, although most of them have probably been moving as fast as humanly possible on that front already.
 
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Pocket said:
The genuinely developed nations (which is to say, EU countries) almost certainly will, although most of them have probably been moving as fast as humanly possible on that front already.
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Good point, and the European Commission has already asked member states to take it seriously:
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Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social)

The European Commission is urging people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf...
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I wish our (UK) government was more proactive though. It seems frightened of the media, which bashes “woke” renewables pretty much daily.
 
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Met Office - weather and climate (@metoffice.gov.uk)

Today is now the hottest day in May on record for both England and Wales with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35.1°C and Cardiff Bute Park reaching 32.9°C 🌡️
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Horrifically, record-breakingly, hot in the UK today. Made worse by the inherent humidity of our summers, and our infrastructure being designed for mild weather.
 
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www.scientificamerican.com

Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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Unpaywalled(if the site is working): https://archive.ph/2026.06.02-17225...akes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/

tl;dr:
Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data.
The station in the Atlantic’s Irminger Sea has gathered crucial data on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which some scientists suspect is weakening—if it collapses, the weather effects could be devastating.
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NovaSaber said:
Not just failing to maintain/renew/whetever, but actively removing it.

There were Captain Planet villains who wouldn't go this far out of their way to make things worse.
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This is exactly what people mean when they talk about the Boomer generation wanting to take the world with them. It's not just Trump, though I think he's the pinnacle of the attitude, but the whole generation gives zero ***** about those of us left behind when they finally die off.
 

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So how did everybody enjoying there (definitely not the result of global climate change) spring?
 
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