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Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burnsReading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satireapp.prospectmagazine.co.uk

One rule for thee, and another for me? We are told the University of Exeter is at risk because of falling income, but management salaries & consultancy costs have risen markedly. What's going on? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisisAs teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeterdemocracyforsale.substack.com

Yes, and what has been driving the very hot weather in the UK, Europe and elsewhere...? www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Suffolk wildfires: What caused them to take hold?Parts of East Anglia around Suffolk have experienced an extended period of dry weather creating the conditions for wildfires.www.bbc.co.uk

This is their plan. This has always been their plan. Perhaps by the end of this year we will see them argue why climate change means we need stronger borders.

While the University of Exeter redundancy disaster staggers forward, a reminder that this is not about numbers in spreadsheets but people's lives. lizzywilliamson.substack.com/p/on-redunda...

On RedundancyFour weeks ago, the university that I have been working at for 9 years announced massive, unjustified, reckless job cuts, predominantly targeting the humanities, arts and social sciences.lizzywilliamson.substack.com

Oh no! And we lost Bill Oddie recently too.

Glorious (& ultimately quite positive review) of Nolan's The Odyssey by Emily Wilson: "The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...www.lrb.co.uk

If you haven't already signed, then please do. There is a small window of opportunity to stop the disastrous plan to cut up to 200 academic jobs in Exeter (most - but not all - in humanities & social sciences). www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Sign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeterwww.change.org

I'm never going to get a front cover of Nature, so this may be as good as I get.

There are people who will tell you with a perfectly straight face that climate change impacts are not that bad, nothing to panic and rapidly phase out fossil fuels about. And anyway this destruction is about failure to adapt so it's sort of their fault.

Maybe the way to 'get around this' is to actually write something.

Limiting warming to 1.5°C was initially motivated by efforts to protect small island nation states from disastrous sea level rise. It's clear we have greatly underestimated loss and damage to the world's richest nations. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

More than 200,000 people flee or lock down as wildfires sweep France and Spain‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of Cap Ferret on French coast and Spain declares national emergencywww.theguardian.com

Only seems like yesterday BP tried to pass itself off as an 'energy company' with all the Beyond Petroleum guff. Now it's just Beyond Parody as a money grabbing moral vacuum.

For years fossil fuel companies argued that gas was a bridge fuel. What they didn't say was that it was a bridge to climate breakdown.