#ClimateDiary Really thinking of everyone in Jamaica as the island is bracing itself for #hurricanemelissa

All the more so because I have a PhD student there right now, researching coffee production past and present in the Blue Mountains. She says her building has strong walls but needless to say I am very anxious for her and everyone she is with. Also this year’s coffee harvest! As ever, having a human connection makes it all the more real.

https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-haiti-cuba-c33102eb52bc8dfec08bdcd20968ca1d

#ClimateDiary The UK #GreenParty now has over 150,000 members- ie we have more than doubled our membership since #ZackPolanski became leader on 2nd September - overtaking first the LibDems, then the Conservatives (who have 124,000) last weekend. I am too tired at the moment to get truly excited, and it’s only the beginning - so much work, so much organising to be done by all of us- but it’s quite something. #UKPolitics

#ClimateDiary The UK #GreenParty now has over 150,000 members- ie we have more than doubled our membership since #ZackPolanski became leader on 2nd September - overtaking first the LibDems, then the Conservatives (who have 124,000) last weekend. I am too tired at the moment to get truly excited, and it’s only the beginning - so much work, so much organising to be done by all of us- but it’s quite something. #UKPolitics

#ClimateDiary Really thinking of everyone in Jamaica as the island is bracing itself for #hurricanemelissa

All the more so because I have a PhD student there right now, researching coffee production past and present in the Blue Mountains. She says her building has strong walls but needless to say I am very anxious for her and everyone she is with. Also this year’s coffee harvest! As ever, having a human connection makes it all the more real.

https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-haiti-cuba-c33102eb52bc8dfec08bdcd20968ca1d

Has anyone heard of this Dutch smart phone? It seems environmentally friendly and modular.
https://www.fairphone.com/nl
"The Fairphone (Gen. 6) with /e/OS
This release offers a privacy-focused experience with /e/OS. It is an open-source operating system without any Google apps or services. It is designed to limit data tracking. The /e/OS release comes with a set of default applications for core functionality and uses the App Lounge for access to a wide range of Android apps. Please note that not all Android apps are compatible with /e/OS."
#ClimateDiary #bcorp #surveillance #fairphone

Has anyone heard of this Dutch smart phone? It seems environmentally friendly and modular.
https://www.fairphone.com/nl
"The Fairphone (Gen. 6) with /e/OS
This release offers a privacy-focused experience with /e/OS. It is an open-source operating system without any Google apps or services. It is designed to limit data tracking. The /e/OS release comes with a set of default applications for core functionality and uses the App Lounge for access to a wide range of Android apps. Please note that not all Android apps are compatible with /e/OS."
#ClimateDiary #bcorp #surveillance #fairphone

🧵 3/3 #SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #blumen #FleurisTonFil #ClimateDiary

Talked to a couple of citrus experts and was told not to worry about the citrus below blooming in late October - none of these cultivars require a cool season to flower and that they’ll just keep blooming as long as the weather is warm. It’s almost 80F/27C today.

Pics were taken today.
Fukushu kumquat
Shikuwasa
Nippon orangequat
Thomasville citrangequat

#ClimateDiary Just wanted to reflect here a bit on how I seem to be going through my longest phase yet of, somehow, well, not caring so much about climate change. I hope this will end, but it’s given me a lot more insights and understanding of others who do not care - whether they ever used to or not. Everyone has different reasons of course, but for me broadly two factors have come together here

1. Overall state of world. I feel so profoundly gloomy about so many things that 1/3

#ClimateDiary 3/3 all this i know is symptomatic of how things are. I wish i could remember who once said that really this is or should be #CollapseDiary - so true! and of course all of this is interrelated anyway. And it’s ok if sometimes climate is a bit more in the background.

Anyway, just wanted to explain why i have been finding it hard to engage with #ClimateDiary again recently!

#ClimateDiary 2/3 I think subconsciously i have rea ch d conckusion that, well, other things will unravel first, or at least alongside the climate, or are already unraveling.

2. When i really cared about climate and mobilised everything around this, i had the great, great privilege of a (i thought) secure job. Now i have three part time fixed term and not particularly well-paid jobs. I am doing ok, but I can’t deny that this is having a huge impact on my ability to care about climate.

#ClimateDiary Just wanted to reflect here a bit on how I seem to be going through my longest phase yet of, somehow, well, not caring so much about climate change. I hope this will end, but it’s given me a lot more insights and understanding of others who do not care - whether they ever used to or not. Everyone has different reasons of course, but for me broadly two factors have come together here

1. Overall state of world. I feel so profoundly gloomy about so many things that 1/3

@urlyman More people care about this than you think. A minority of people are doing the actual flying for starters. Keep going. #ClimateDiary

439,568 ha burnt since beginning of year in 1628 fires; 14.11Mt of CO2 emitted since the beginning of the year CO2 emissions were 9.59 Mt during the same period of last year.

https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/projects-and-activities/natural-and-man-made-hazards/fires/current-wildfire-situation-europe_en

Said it here before, but it is terrifying and depressing how the huge increase in catastrophic floods and wildfires just in the last couple of years - the fact that we are really right in it - has NOT led to any kind of collective realisation, a turning point on climate action. On the contrary, it seems to lead to both overwhelm and zoning out AND 1/2

https://news.sky.com/story/at-least-176-dead-after-flash-floods-hit-india-and-pakistan-13412122

Said it here before, but it is terrifying and depressing how the huge increase in catastrophic floods and wildfires just in the last couple of years - the fact that we are really right in it - has NOT led to any kind of collective realisation, a turning point on climate action. On the contrary, it seems to lead to both overwhelm and zoning out AND 1/2

https://news.sky.com/story/at-least-176-dead-after-flash-floods-hit-india-and-pakistan-13412122

439,568 ha burnt since beginning of year in 1628 fires; 14.11Mt of CO2 emitted since the beginning of the year CO2 emissions were 9.59 Mt during the same period of last year.

https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/projects-and-activities/natural-and-man-made-hazards/fires/current-wildfire-situation-europe_en

Alaska’s capital city of Juneau is urging many residents to evacuate, bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters flowing downstream from a basin dammed by the area’s Mendenhall Glacier, with the event being driven by climate change amid glacial retreat, according to a federal agency.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/alaskas-juneau-glacier-flood-record-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other