Henleys legs required amputation while he wrote this :
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed
Lesson : The game is ruthless, but regardless I will maintain my composure
Learn life
📣 #StateOfClimate Update 2025 is out now!
The update combines consolidated data for the year 2024 with preliminary data for 2025 to date where available.
Press release: https://t.co/r9jotegXAq
Full report: https://t.co/jVRcamfwQY
As we approach the end of the year, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years.
Find out more in our news release 👇
https://t.co/qeu7xb8EMp
- This post shares a viral video captured by passenger Eric Thimba during a Kenya Airways flight, where Captain Ahmed intentionally routed the plane for a rare overhead glimpse of Mt. Kilimanjaro's snow-capped summit and Reusch Crater.
- Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895 meters, is a dormant stratovolcano that last erupted around 360,000 years ago; its equatorial glaciers have shrunk 85% since 1912 due to rising temperatures, per a 2002 Nature Geoscience study.
- The footage evokes wonder through aerial scale, with viewer replies noting the crater's ash pit as a volcanic vent, underscoring the mountain's geological intrigue visible only from high altitudes.
"In 2025, it has been noticeable that the idea that we are heading towards 3°C or more – with a global food-and-water crisis triggering social conflict, state failure, large-scale displacement, war and systemic collapse – has become more mainstream.
For example, at a UK National Emergency Briefing on 27 November 2025, an audience of 1250 including 100 parliamentarians heard from ten leading UK scientists, who did not mince words. Professor Kevin Anderson told the briefing:
“We are going to see a rise of about 2°C by the middle of the century. But now there is a small but very real risk that we could hit 4°C by the end of the century. The prospects of 3°C and 4°C of warming are absolutely dire. We cannot risk that at all. It’s extreme and unstoppable and beyond any safe zone that has nurtured civilisation. We are going to be seeing unprecedented societal and ecological collapse. We are going to see escalating geo-political instability and rising military tensions. And there will be no real economy to talk about. There is no ‘reduction in GDP’. We’d be looking at systemic collapse.”"
The EV transition in action 🚗🔋
In 2019, only a handful of countries had more than 10% EV sales share
Fast forward to 2025 and the landscape has changed dramatically.
China, the world's largest car market, crossed over 50% this year with many other markets growing rapidly.
DENIAL MUST DIE
1.9-3°C hell 2041-60
Global warming is accelerating wildly. There's no reason to think the extreme rate of change will abruptly and immediately stabilise at 0.27°C/decade until 2035, then drop to 0.1°C/decade up to 2045, then stop, and suddenly become.. cooling.
BREAKING 🌍🌡📈
The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050!
Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action
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Fossil-fuel extraction massively outweighs critical mineral mining needs (quite literally)
– We dig up tens of billions of tonnes of stuff every year to produce coal, oil & gas
– Raw-material extraction for critical minerals would be a fraction of that, even under net-zero
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Africa's Critical Minerals Powerhouse
The Continent Holds the Keys to Green Tech Map highlights producers/reserves:
DRC: Cobalt, Copper, Niobium, Tantalum
South Africa: Platinum Group Metals, Manganese, Vanadium, Rare Earths
Zambia: Copper
Namibia: Lithium
Tanzania/Zimbabwe: Graphite, Rare Earths
Ghana/Gabon: Manganese
Rwanda/Burundi: Tantalum
From EV batteries to renewables Africa is indispensable.
#CriticalMinerals #Africa #Mining #GreenEnergy #SupplyChain
A decade ago, the world found the courage to adopt the #ParisAgreement - a pillar of hope for humanity.
Today, we must find courage once again.
The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of our time.
Together, we can - and we must - build a livable future for all.
https://t.co/VBf6BlEyg0
One retracted study doesn't cancel climate science
The critical takeaway is that all the literature on climate and economics points in the same direction, even if it disagrees on the particulars: A hotter planet is one with less economic growth
https://t.co/TgfWERDMeE
2011 UNEP's second Gap Report for limiting warming to 2°C, had global emissions peaking before 2020, and a rapid decline afterwards. The science hasn't changed. The goal posts have been. There no budget to burn more 'allowable' carbon. By today's science (IPCC AR6), emissions had to be in decline by now- for 2°C. https://t.co/dM75HlniVk
#emissions #climatechange #globalwarming