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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

I'm a meteorologist. Let me kill this one personally.
Weather and climate are different math problems.

Weather is chaos... tiny errors blow up, so we top out around 10 days. Climate is statistics... the boundaries of the system under known physics.

I can't tell you if it'll rain in Boston three Tuesdays from now. I can tell you July will beat January every single year. One is a coin flip. The other is knowing 1,000 flips land near 500.

And "a degree or two is nothing"? The last ice age, a mile of ice over Chicago, was only ~6°C colder than today. We're ~1.4°C warmer in 170 years. That's not modest. That's geologically violent.

The physics doesn't care about your wind turbine aesthetics.

[David Miliband @DMiliband]

The bottom line?

This could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record without urgent international action.

More in the IRC’s Flash Alert: https://t.co/xkWkjWTcrr

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

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[GCSE.com @gcsecom]

Austrian glaciers disintegrating due to climate change. https://t.co/OLQ0xPoSFy

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

I think that is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen.

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

1 million views, deserves 1 billion more. 👏👏👏👏

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Alex Thomson is in Tenerife, about to set off on a 8 day expedition investigating how a collapse of the Atlantic current could cool northern and western Europe.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Right Now, Not just Americans but whole world can see it, what Carl Sagan saw back in 1995.

[GCSE.com @gcsecom]

Teachers! Are you using the Earthshot Prize to help teach your subject?

[The Earthshot Prize @EarthshotPrize]

A glimpse at our camera roll this year - from behind-the-scenes to the breakthroughs, and everything in between.

[Met Office @metoffice]

If you've not been a fan of the shorter days, here is some good news - today marks the earliest sunset of the year for most of us!

So the sun will be setting a little later each day from now on 🌞

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The only “peace plan” that makes sense is the one from Sanna Marin, Finland’s former Prime Minister:

“The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine. That is the way out of the conflict.”

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Nish Kumar’s joke should be funny, but it’s not, because it’s too close to the truth.

Immigration has become the endless decoy.

Every crisis 👉bills, energy profiteering, climate breakdown, corporate greed gets reframed as “immigration”.

It’s distraction politics, and it’s working far too well.

We promised we wouldn’t let it happen again after WW2. Yet here we are, watching rights stripped, foreign interference ignored, and the same dark forces we warned about re-emerging in plain sight.

[GCSE.com @gcsecom]

Teachers - are your schools telling the COP Story?

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

🗣️ “With time increasingly running out…the urgency has never been flashing red in quite the way it is here.”

In our latest @Channel 4 News FourGround newsletter, Chief Correspondent @alextomo looks at what COP30 might bring as it officially gets under way today:
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[Andrew Harmsworth FRAS ☀️ @harmsy]

Science teachers! Prepare for the statutory offering of Triple Science! 1/3
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[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 BREAKING: The City finally admits it 👉Brexit broke Britain’s money machine.

Treasury’s new figures show:
💸 UK productivity has crashed since Brexit.
🏦 £1 trillion in banking assets have fled to the EU.
📉 City output once the driver of UK growth is now dragging it down.
💔 Result: a £20 billion hole in the public finances.

Even Chancellor Rachel Reeves now admits Brexit caused the slump but refuses to fix it by rejoining the Single Market.

This isn’t just about bankers. When productivity falls, everyone pays:
Lower wages 💷
Higher taxes 📈
Worse public services 🏥

Brexit didn’t take back control, it took away Britain’s future earnings.

The money machine is misfiring and Labour’s red lines mean it stays that way.

https://t.co/Yy9nyvGyAN

[road.cc @roadcc]

If you ever needed proof of the benefits of a lifetime of cycling and a penchant for red wine...

“Miracle” 77-year-old cyclist falls down ravine in France – and survives for three days drinking wine from shopping bag
https://t.co/Bj6ixrUAZn #cycling

[Andrew Harmsworth FRAS ☀️ @harmsy]

🚀Physics teachers! Come and work in the heart of Cambridge, home to more Physics Nobels than anywhere in the UK. 🤝 https://t.co/StqygoOgaQ

[Co-operative News @coopnews]

‘There’s never been a more important time to be purchasing on fair trading terms and fair working conditions’

@FairtradeUK CEO Eleanor Harrison talks to Co-op News for #FairtradeFortnight

#Fairtrade #coops

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