RE: https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/116540334002344674

Looking at the UK local election results, one thing stands out to me.

The Right’s greatest success is a Left that’s afraid of itself.

Global sea temperatures were the second‑highest ever recorded in April, raising concerns that a developing El Niño would intensify extreme weather.

For context, April 2024 was the warmest on record, followed by April 2025.

Across Europe, Spain reported its warmest April on record, while parts of eastern Europe experienced unusually cold conditions.

#climate #extremetemps

If you missed the news, the UK held local elections on Thursday. I live in a traditionally Conservative area and, given the party’s recent decline Reform made a noticeable leap.

County-wide, the Liberal Democrats came out on top.
But in our Ward, we’ve been out campaigning for the Green candidate, a wonderful and committed in the community person.

And we had a second mission: keep Reform out.
And… WE DID IT 💚

As you can see from the chart below, it was anything but easy.

#UK

While we fixate on wars and geriatric online outbursts, South Asia is being scorched by a record‑breaking heatwave that has driven temperatures to dangerous highs, disrupting daily life for hundreds of millions.

Heatwaves are no stranger to the region’s pre‑monsoon season, but the intensity, duration and geographic spread of recent heat events are unprecedented.

#climate #extremetemps

https://asmc.asean.org/asmc-seasonal-outlook/#

While researching something else, I stumbled on this illuminating 2017 words by Jeff Bezos.

"I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space. ... It's a passion, but it is also important."

Don't look at the horrifying labour condition at the local Amazon centre. Look at the shiny rocket instead. Ignore the problems of this world. Everything will be better in space.

https://www.space.com/37572-jeff-bezos-trillion-people-solar-system.html

Before climate change became political, there was Santa Barbara.

Today, I'm writing about how a 1969 offshore oil blowout in California shocked the American public and helped create the EPA and modern environmental law.

Nixon, Vietnam, and a catastrophe that forced the United States to look in the mirror.

https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/the-black-tide-that-made-america

Are smartphones and other digital distractions really eating away at our attention spans?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Our brain’s ability to concentrate is not shrinking.
Our environment — and the habits it trains — is.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01407-w

As all classical Star Trek fans know, the show tackled some of the toughest questions in the universe.

So here Captain Picard raises an issue that, sooner or later, we too will have to face in some form.

#StarTrek #AI

The COP process has long been held hostage by petrostate vetoes.

Could this week in Colombia be the moment when climate politics begins to move in a different direction?

“This week’s article from The Climate Historian. 👇 Thank you, as always, for your support. It makes this work possible.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/what-happened-in-colombia-this-week?r=1qy42b&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Why does the English‑speaking world seem so spectacularly unhappy compared to everyone else?

My amateur guess: only about 20% of the world speaks English, yet roughly 60% of the internet is in English.

English speakers aren’t inherently more miserable, they just have much more misery to absorb and recycle in the online world.

What do you think?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/03/19/the-anglosphere-is-increasingly-miserable?itm_source=parsely-api

Here's the report: https://www.worldhappiness.report/