NEW: Secret panel. Secret meetings. Public policy.
A federal judge says the Energy Dept broke the law by secretly assembling climate skeptics to write a report downplaying global warming—then using it to gut climate protections.

Science in the sunlight or politics in the shadows—you can’t have both. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/climate/energy-department-climate-ruling.html?smid=url-share #climatechange #press

NEW: Secret panel. Secret meetings. Public policy.
A federal judge says the Energy Dept broke the law by secretly assembling climate skeptics to write a report downplaying global warming—then using it to gut climate protections.

Science in the sunlight or politics in the shadows—you can’t have both. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/climate/energy-department-climate-ruling.html?smid=url-share #climatechange #press

As the world speeds towards 2C of global heating, the risks of extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points are increasing fast. But current economic models used by governments and financial institutions entirely miss such shocks. This is because the models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the climate system into uncharted territory.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flawed-economic-models-mean-climate-crisis-could-crash-global-economy-experts-warn

As the world speeds towards 2C of global heating, the risks of extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points are increasing fast. But current economic models used by governments and financial institutions entirely miss such shocks. This is because the models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the climate system into uncharted territory.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flawed-economic-models-mean-climate-crisis-could-crash-global-economy-experts-warn

"AI’s inextricable materiality is central to its environmental impact. From energy-intensive computation to the extractive demands of hardware and infrastructure, AI technologies are deeply embedded in global material and ecological systems. Examined through a socio-political lens, these environmental dimensions raise pressing justice concerns. This paper argues that discussions of AI’s environmental impacts must move beyond efficiency metrics to incorporate a global climate justice perspective within AI ethics, with particular attention to unequal global impacts. The paper unfolds in three sections. First, it demonstrates how AI’s environmental footprint across its full lifecycle, from development to deployment, constitutes a global climate justice concern. This includes analysis of energy use and water consumption in data centres, as well as the geopolitical implications of mineral extraction for hardware. Second, the paper examines what applying a climate justice perspective to AI ethics entails. Drawing on political philosophy, it focuses on two core dimensions of justice: distributional (who bears the costs and benefits of AI’s environmental impacts) and procedural (who is included in, or excluded from, decision-making about AI development and deployment). Together, these dimensions inform a set of conceptual and normative tools for assessing the AI-climate nexus, with particular relevance to Global South contexts. Finally, the paper grounds this discussion in a case study of India, illustrating how AI development intersects with climate vulnerability and global environmental inequality. The paper concludes by reflecting on how a climate justice approach can clarify the ethical stakes of AI’s environmental impacts and contribute to more inclusive and globally relevant AI governance."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-025-00949-5

#AI #AIGovernance #ClimateChange #GlobalSouth #ClimateJustice

"AI’s inextricable materiality is central to its environmental impact. From energy-intensive computation to the extractive demands of hardware and infrastructure, AI technologies are deeply embedded in global material and ecological systems. Examined through a socio-political lens, these environmental dimensions raise pressing justice concerns. This paper argues that discussions of AI’s environmental impacts must move beyond efficiency metrics to incorporate a global climate justice perspective within AI ethics, with particular attention to unequal global impacts. The paper unfolds in three sections. First, it demonstrates how AI’s environmental footprint across its full lifecycle, from development to deployment, constitutes a global climate justice concern. This includes analysis of energy use and water consumption in data centres, as well as the geopolitical implications of mineral extraction for hardware. Second, the paper examines what applying a climate justice perspective to AI ethics entails. Drawing on political philosophy, it focuses on two core dimensions of justice: distributional (who bears the costs and benefits of AI’s environmental impacts) and procedural (who is included in, or excluded from, decision-making about AI development and deployment). Together, these dimensions inform a set of conceptual and normative tools for assessing the AI-climate nexus, with particular relevance to Global South contexts. Finally, the paper grounds this discussion in a case study of India, illustrating how AI development intersects with climate vulnerability and global environmental inequality. The paper concludes by reflecting on how a climate justice approach can clarify the ethical stakes of AI’s environmental impacts and contribute to more inclusive and globally relevant AI governance."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-025-00949-5

#AI #AIGovernance #ClimateChange #GlobalSouth #ClimateJustice

🚨 New Video: AI Is Not A Tool. It’s A Weapon.

Silicon Valley is racing to automate your life. They want you to write without reading and code without thinking. They call it progress, but the reality is built on a foundation of theft, exploitation, and deceit.

In this video, I talk about why I refuse to use generative "AI" on Terminal Tilt. We look at the human cost in the Global South, the industrial-scale theft of creative work, and the environmental reality of a plagiarism machine.

100% Human made. No AI.

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGD27wtF4Rg

📺 PeerTube: https://gnulinux.tube/w/rPQ7FpsjyEv4AQxoiDnWTB

Support the mission: ☕ https://ko-fi.com/terminaltilt | https://liberapay.com/terminaltilt

#TerminalTilt #NoAI #YouTube #PeerTube #Video #AI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ethics #Privacy #Environment #ClimateChange #HumanRights #LaborRights #FOSS #Linux #HumanMade #SmallCreator #QueerCreator #DisabledCreator #DigitalSovereignty #TechEthics #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Microsoft #CoPilot #Google #Gemini #Antropic #Claude #ClaudeCode

"‘Emotional traps’ and fake experts: How to spot climate disinformation in 2026"

#Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/01/30/emotional-traps-and-fake-experts-how-to-spot-climate-disinformation-in-2026

"‘Emotional traps’ and fake experts: How to spot climate disinformation in 2026"

#Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/01/30/emotional-traps-and-fake-experts-how-to-spot-climate-disinformation-in-2026

This is absolutely devastating news.
Slapton Sands, and the road that runs (ran) along its length, known as Slapton Line are a magnificent part of the South Devon coastline.
The Line separates the sea from Slapton Ley, a freshwater nature reserve.
Torcross, at the western end of the sands, is a bustling little hamlet with a pub that is popular with locals and tourists alike, and which serves some of the best fish and chips in England.
It looks like this is now all going to be lost.
Devastating.

#Devon #ClimateChange

https://www.kingsbridge-today.co.uk/news/devastation-and-destruction-for-slapton-line-875551

This is absolutely devastating news.
Slapton Sands, and the road that runs (ran) along its length, known as Slapton Line are a magnificent part of the South Devon coastline.
The Line separates the sea from Slapton Ley, a freshwater nature reserve.
Torcross, at the western end of the sands, is a bustling little hamlet with a pub that is popular with locals and tourists alike, and which serves some of the best fish and chips in England.
It looks like this is now all going to be lost.
Devastating.

#Devon #ClimateChange

https://www.kingsbridge-today.co.uk/news/devastation-and-destruction-for-slapton-line-875551

AHEAD OF THE GAME...

China is installing wind and solar power equal to five large nuclear plants every week.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #China

AHEAD OF THE GAME...

China is installing wind and solar power equal to five large nuclear plants every week.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #China

Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth tax, if new tax rules are agreed under the UN.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/01/fossil-fuel-firms-may-have-to-pay-for-climate-damage-under-proposed-un-tax

Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth tax, if new tax rules are agreed under the UN.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/01/fossil-fuel-firms-may-have-to-pay-for-climate-damage-under-proposed-un-tax

The advantages of #goats for future adaptation to #ClimateChange: A conceptual overview

by Nazan Koluman Darcan and Nissim Silanikove, June 2018

Highlights

• The advantages of goats to adapt climate change.
• Direct and indirect effects of climate change.
• Benefit from goats capacity to emit less methane.
• Future perspectives of goat farming for alleviate climate change effects.

Abstract:

"The economic importance of goat production has been increased during the last decades all over the world, predominantly in countries that are routinely exposed to harsh environment. Goats have numerous advantages that enable them to maintain their production under extreme climate conditions. Principally, goats have higher capacity than other farm raised ruminants to effectively convert some feed sources into milk and meat. In addition, goats emit less #methane than other domestic ruminants. Based on these advantages, we came to the conclusion that goat breeding will play an important role in mitigating and adapting to Climate change (CC) in harsh environments. The impacts of CC on goat production can be analyzed by considering direct or indirect effects of CC. The direct effects take into account goat’s physiology and their interaction with ambient conditions, as well as issues such as the optimal use of natural resource and waste management. Indirect effects consider limitations on goat production from political, social and economic considerations, which are mainly intended for decreasing the greenhouse gas emission effect. In this paper the advantages of goats for future adaptation to CC will be considered."

Source [includes snippets]:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921448817301098

#SolarPunkSunday #DairyGoats #GoatFarming #GoatCheese #AnimalProducts

#ClimateDiary Storm #Chandra in UK, extreme winter storm in US, above 48°C in Australia, a suppressed UK national security report on ecosystem collapse: yep, things really are in full swing. #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/27/storm-chandra-uk-severe-flood-warning-devon-ottery-st-mary-rain-wind?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#News: Nature's pharmacy is vanishing! 🧐🔥 #Climatechange is destroying the medicinal #plants billions rely on for health. We must protect Indigenous wisdom and stop the #palmoil #mining and meat #ecocide 🌴☠️🚫 #HumanRights #Deforestation @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/natures-vanishing-pharmacy-how-climate-change-is-reshaping-traditional-medicine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer