Global temperatures in 2023 were really weird.

For almost every other year we can pretty reliably predict temperatures (red dot and bars) based on the long term trend, the prior year, and the El Nino / La Nina conditions at the start. For 2023 this model completely breaks down:

İstanbul, 28 Haziran 1934

.Chris Skidmore shows in his resignation statement the best side of our democratic tradition. He has decided that his principled opposition to new oil and gas exploration means he cannot in good conscience remain a Tory MP, or indeed an MP at all, when the government is about to…

It is difficult to see how this text will help to achieve the deep and rapid cut in emissions we need by 2030 to keep 1.5c alive

With so many countries backing clear language on fossil-fuel-phase-out, who does this text actually serve?

#COP28

“December 9, 1917 is one of the most difficult, painful and heartbreaking historical days that Turks have experienced.

Today, British armies have given one of the greatest gifts to the Christian world before Christmas by capturing Jerusalem, which had been under Ottoman rule…

I'm of the view that this piece from James Hansen and 17 others last week is one of the most important published on the state of the climate crisis in years. A 🧵

Act!

One has to appreciate Obama's frankness in both questioning what he did or did not do, and admitting the intractability of the issue. Very few former leaders are willing to do so.

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr).

Barberini Mithraeum; a hidden jewel in the historic center of Rome, Italy.

Mithraeum was discovered by chance in 1936 in the basement of the Palazzina Savorgnan di Brazzà, in the back garden of Palazzo Barberini, and is one of the best preserved places dedicated to the god…

It's become a bit of a cliche to call it a paradox or a contradiction that China is building staggering amounts of both new clean power generation and new coal power plants.

It only is one if you fail to grasp the scale of China's electricity consumption growth, as most people…

Terrific new article on historic patterns of socio-economic development across Turkey's provinces since 1913. Three 'clubs of convergence' regarding development patterns from west to east, which I'd like propose labeling as: Turkey in Southern Europe; Anatolia; and Middle East

This just arrived in the post- feels like quite a big moment. ‘To The City’ will be out in February. #ToTheCity #Istanbul ⁦William Collins Books⁩

These countries absorb more carbon than they emit.

We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ItCanBeDone

#ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #renewables #rewilding #nature

'It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.'
~Vandana Shiva.

RT if you agree.

#ActOnClimate #climate emergency #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal

Stay in Istanbul long enough, and you will watch the contours of your past being erased: for Engelsberg Ideas I wrote about Istanbul's constant cycle of demolition and rebuilding
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-e…

This Tory government's aim to 'max out' on North Sea fossil fuels up until 2050 is the most duplicitous and cynical abuse of power, and a devastating lack of vision and leadership. Can't wait to see them gone. thenational.scot/news/23690757.…

Cowley, 2017 and 2023. Without claiming that the 'after' building is one of the wonders of the world, this is absolutely the right approach to urban supermarket sites - surely there are opportunities for pursuing it more widely.

'Self-flagellators to the left of us and outright cynics to the right, let’s not forget that green policies, too, are designed to help “ordinary people”.' thetimes.co.uk/article/going-…