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Here's an updated view of the 12-month running mean global temperature, which is a simple metric that provides insight on climate change and climate variability.
+ Graphic from global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-change-in…
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…Zachary Labe
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After limits on production and regulating chemicals prevented agreement at UN talks in Geneva, where to next for the fight against plastic pollution?Tim Schauenberg (Deutsche Welle)
Decadal trends in August sea ice thickness across the #Arctic Ocean, where red shading corresponds to areas of thinning ice. The largest declines are north of Greenland and in the East Siberian, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas.
Simulated by PIOMAS; doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0436…
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#plastic
#environment
#pollution
#science
#news
#bbc
#world
#planet
The latest round of UN-led talks have ended in deadlock, with disputes over plastic production and recycling.Esme Stallard and Mark Poynting (BBC News)
They say, 'Do not idle the engine.' Oh, please—cancel all roadworks, make public transport free all day, and allow people to take paid days off work. You greedy, short-sighted bureaucrats have completely lost the plot—who you are, how you got here, and where you’re even headed.
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#climate
#london
#climatechange
#uk
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#environment
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City Hall says strong sunshine and hot weather are expected to trigger high ozone levels.James W Kelly (BBC News)
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The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes intensified by global warming are the biggest factor driving these declinesMichael Le Page (New Scientist)
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The UK's seas have had their warmest first seven months of the year on average since records began.Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt (BBC News)
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Phoenix, Arizona set a new all-time August high temperature earlier this week, with a clear climate change connection as our Climate Shift Index (CSI) system reached level 5 across nearly the entire Southwest.
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The Climate Shift Index® (CSI) Global Map shows the influence of climate change on local daily temperatures around the world.Climate Central
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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 428 ppm in July 2025
10 years ago July averaged about 401 ppm
Preliminary data from NOAA at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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what I want to know is how total air composition has changed over the years.
Is there less oxygen % ?
Moon 20250807
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Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 97%
#moon
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I suppose there’s earthlight—or more accurately, earthshine—but you can’t see it in this image. As you know, the Moon is illuminated by sunlight. When it’s a crescent, you can sometimes make out the faint outline of the dark portion. That subtle glow is called earthshine, caused by sunlight reflecting off Earth and softly lighting the Moon’s night side.
The world's nations are hoping to sign the first global plastic treaty to limit plastic pollution.Esme Stallard (BBC News)
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use #RSS.
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Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already readMolly White (Citation Needed)
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But the explosion in newsletters is overwhelming as a reader. Instead of one paper with a dozen writers, you’ve got a dozen newsletters scattered across your inbox.
What if you could curate your own custom newspaper? All your favorite writers, no spam, no surveillance.
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Although I regularly read about “the death of RSS”, RSS is still alive and well, and I’ve been using it for more than a decade. Here’s how you can too.
#RSS
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1. Choose an RSS reader. I use Inoreader, but there are a bunch of options out there (free and paid, mobile/web/desktop). Switching between them is pretty easy, so you don’t have to agonize over this too much.
#RSS
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2. Add your sites. Try searching for feeds on the newsletters/blogs/websites you read the most (like Citation Needed!) You can even put in YouTube channels, or Mastodon or BlueSky feeds.
If you need ideas, I publish some of my blogroll: mollywhite.net/blogroll/
#RSS
Some websites don’t publish RSS feeds — often paywalled websites or newsletters. Increasingly, RSS readers are incorporating features that allow you to send newsletters to your feed reader via email, and there are also services like Kill the Newsletter that can do this for you.
#RSS
3. Read! As you use RSS more, you can make different “newspapers” for different purposes.
#RSS
And don’t forget to support writers — whose subscription reminders may be less noticeable in RSS feeds. Most newsletters allow you to pay for a subscription but disable email delivery, if you (like me) prefer to read in your RSS reader rather than your email client.
#RSS
RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries.
#RSS
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Citation Needed has a full-text RSS feed regardless of whether you subscribe, so consider adding it to your feed reader! citationneeded.news/rss/
And consider signing up for a pay-what-you-want subscription to help me continue this work. citationneeded.news/signup/
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So, here's what I've been looking for ever since ditching Opera 12 as e-mail/RSS client:
A local RSS client (easy, most e-mail clients will do, plus a lot of browser extensions) which stores its data on what's been read or not in one handy directory that can be easily synced across all my devices (using e.g. syncthing, which I have going), in such a way that it works on bith Linux and Android.
The beauty of RSS is that no 3rd party needs to know what I'm reading, and having an online RSS aggregator kind of defeats that purpose unless I self-host, which is a fairly high barrier to entry if you ask me. I could deal with it but I'd prefer not to.
@mwl
This was a terrific write-up. I read Cory's piece when it was published, and tried a reader. But it would just launch a web browser, which kind of defeats the point of a quick overview without surveillance. I didn't realize that wasn't the way they all worked, until I read your piece. Now I'm running Capy on my LineageOS phone, and it's working beautifully.
I run some servers, and I'm thinking I should have them publish to (a private) RSS feed instead of sending me email.
Here's my take on why the much-maligned RSS feed is the technology we need for accessing the chaotic, confusing internet of 2025.Andrew Blackman
a few additions to your great thread.
1) one way I use (though not as much a I would like to) mastodon’s rss feeds is to subscribe to my “bookmarks” feed from my mastodon account in my rss feed. That lets me bookmark anything I find that I want to refer back to later while avoiding the many other posts in my feed less suited for an rss reader
2) I wonder if someone could add a “support your writers” feature to an rss reader that pulls out the support links from your specific feeds
@monospace hmm, just checked my YouTube channel and it’s still surfacing a feed: youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?c…
could it be an issue with your reader?
Don't need convincing. What I need is a list of reliable, reputable, preferably free RSS readers.
I do live by the reader I have now btw. Why anyone would not use one is beyond me.
Skip the algorithms and create a private feed reading experience with RSS, Podcasts and more. Get Vivaldi Feed Reader here.Vivaldi Technologies
indeed, RSS has its values!
If one wants RSS (or Atom) feeds of sites that don't support feeds, they can be created using RSS Bridge. A very customizable way to create notifications about changes on pages. Something for the technically inclined to perhaps host on their own device or for public consumption
I love the newsletter format. It's not a neverending stream — you read to the bottom of the thing and you're done. I don't like them coming in email, though. Email is for other things. Also, some of my newsletters don't arrive. They get filtered as spam.
RSS is great for news, and I direct my newsletters to an RSS reader when I can. But that often does not work so well.
I wish more newsletter publishers made sure to have RSS feeds for their newsletters.
Is OpenRSS the only RSS provider with issues with Inoreader? I wonder if others have better experience than them (OpenRSS) or if it is specific to OpenRSS.
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.fed.brid.gy
Thank you for writing this, and especially for a general audience! Make RSS a norm again!
@FontsInUse has long provided RSS feeds for many aspects of our site. Not just the Blog and Uses, but also any typeface, designer, foundry, or tag. It’s a great way to get notified on stuff you care about.
appologies if this is something that's already come up, but do you know if any readers are looking into integrations with things like webmentions or syndicating shares to the fediverse or similar?
One big thing that makes it harder for me as an artist to go all in on RSS is that community is 90% of what I do. Not just financials either - I rely on critters commenting on my pieces in public. It's both a huge motivator and a big part of why I think my work is valuable.
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Black August starts soon. Usually I have others to participate with me, but since I don’t, I’m calling on those of you out there to get together in your cohorts, do 100 of something everyday with me for the month of August, and tell me how its going for you. Burpees, push-ups, sit-ups, a mile run/walk, 100 of some exercise for 31 days with me, that’d be rad! The key is unity, solidarity, so try to do them at least with one other person. You can split things up and make 100 squats into 50, plus its more fun together, and that’s what its about, what we can do together!
Love, rage, and solidarity
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For the next three years I'll have the (additional) post of Frank Jackson Professor of the Environment at Gresham College, giving a series of free public lectures on Earth and how it works. All will be freely available online. You can see their whole programme here:
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Fabulous!
Congratulations ... looking forward to it.
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Rich people deciding if a democratic nation survives.
reuters.com/investigations/mus…
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Rich people deciding if the earth remains habitable.
theintercept.com/2022/06/30/su…
Rich people deciding whose faith dominates.
desmog.com/2024/10/23/trump-pr…
Rich people deciding who lives or dies.
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The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities.Geoff Dembicki (DeSmog)
and stupid. Stupid counts for a lot.
(Ok, stupid is shorthand. Shorthand for unthinking, uncritical, unimaginative, selfish, meanspirited, arrogant, there’s more but it’s late.)
Why I 🧡 the web.
Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
Draw and create your own fish. Share your fish creations, vote on others, and watch them swim.DrawAFish.com
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Thousands are being forced to work in Myanmar's illegal scam centres. Can no one stop it?BBC
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