Global warming does not negotiate with right wing populism.

"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs

Enfinium submits plan for full-scale carbon capture at Parc Adfer EfW

I asked the Director of the murkily-funded Net Zero Watch why the fossil fuel industry invests so much money in propaganda, junk science, and misinformation. This was his response. When people show you what they are, believe them.

There are so many hateful, far-right X accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers accumulated since 2022 constantly attacking the U.K not because they have better arguments, but because X’s crypto-fascist owner has gamed it for them. But, you already knew that. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel. To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense. Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh

Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'. Okay.

We obtained hundreds of documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial in Latin America and all across the Global South. Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component: www.newscientist.com/article/2502... Research paper: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Two houses on the same street, both with drives. Yet just one of them reduces flood risk, retards heatwaves, and lights up the neighbourhood with welcoming greenery. We’ve lost millions of front gardens to overpaving in recent decades. We need to reverse that trend urgently.

Two houses on the same street, both with drives. Yet just one of them reduces flood risk, retards heatwaves, and lights up the neighbourhood with welcoming greenery. We’ve lost millions of front gardens to overpaving in recent decades. We need to reverse that trend urgently.

October is the least warmed month and reached +1.55°C during a La Niña! The past 29 months were +1.57°C on average, 0.32°C above the same 2015-2017 period, indicating a 0.4°C/dec warming rate. That's more than a doubling from the 1970-2010 warming rate. Even(?) we might have underestimated this.

Europe doesn’t need saving. There’s a reason half the world holidays here and the other wants to be our fellow citizens.

Banging crust on the 50% rye bread I’ve just baked…🤌

Bicycle Still the World’s Most Efficient Way to Travel — 52 Years After It Was First Proven. momentummag.com/bicycle-stil...

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

Onshore wind farms currently occupy around 0.02% of the U.K. To place that in context, Jeremy Clarkson’s farm occupies around 10% of the total area of ALL onshore wind turbines in the U.K. Many of these turbines are also keeping British farmers in business.

The poorest man in France is richer than Elon Musk.

The poorest man in France is richer than Elon Musk.

Watching the @Lionesses warm up with England legend IanWright on punditry duties pitch-side. The mothers of football 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Vs The kings of football 🇧🇷 Let’s have it! 🦁🦁🦁

Playing football will make you a lot happier, but it won’t make you any better looking…😬

1/ In 2024, Flamanville 3, France’s newest nuclear plant, came online after a 12 year delay and four-fold cost increase from €3.3 billion to €13.2 billion. The €10 billion cost overrun alone could have delivered twice Flamanville’s output from solar power…a decade earlier.

As you were warned, the right weaponises freedom of speech to put itself in position to violate yours.

Society A is ‘rich’. Society B is wealthy.

Hayek, amongst other things, failed to grasp that a large proportion of the population of liberal democracies would happily trade freedom for materialism; hence the rise in popularity of sinofuturism.

Convinced tweets of ‘left wing’ accounts on X are deliberately suppressed by Elon Musk’s algorithm. X is like two people at Speakers’ Corner. You can both say what you want, but one is a gifted a loud speaker by the richest man in the world and the other is hidden behind a tree.

Pitfield Street, Hackney, before the urban forestry programme I delivered. Pitfield Street, Hackney, afterwards. Things can get better. 🌳

Painting, drinking alright claret, and chuckling at Pride and Prejudice on BBCSounds. Couldn’t be happier.

‘Lack of investment in grid capacity putting strain on Netherlands electricity grid, but don’t worry because the Dutch are investing at least €200 billion in resolving the issue.’ There @BBCNews; fixed your misleading headline for you…👍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

When your year runs from October to September, this is what annual temperatures up to 2025 look like. We are reaching the point that anyone eyeballing graphs can see acceleration of global warming. No more statistics and natural variability corrections needed.

CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Chinese companies have stakes in National Grid and Thames Water as well as plans to build Britain’s largest wind turbine manufacturing facility ⬇️

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Everyone needs a thinking and drinking chair. This is mine. Let’s see yours.

This changes everything! The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years. More: www.patreon.com/posts/141034...

Growing the green economy makes good sense. Growing the fossil fuel economy so that predatory corporations can make more money doesn't. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Kyiv Independent spent several days with one of the International Battalion of Ukraine’s Azov Corps' drone crews to document how these foreign fighters have integrated into Ukraine’s ranks and adapted to modern drone warfare. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIE0...

Musk is committed to bringing down the democratically-elected U.K government and, alongside turning Twitter into a megaphone for his deeply sinister worldview, he’s using the full force of his billionaire’s cheque book to fund our democracy’s enemies.

We need to get back there #GlobalClimateMajority ubyssey.ca/opinion/powe...

The destination is clear. The timing is not. We are systematically redirecting a deeply flawed energy system built on dependence and combustion to one built on European investment, resilience and efficiency. 1/3

This football injury is my proudest achievement since winning the school cup for history 27 years ago. #ArgyleSoccerTrendies #DefendersUnion

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

I’ve noticed X is now full of right wing politics grads making money off tweets bemoaning our long lost history of designing and constructing heavy infrastructure and grand buildings. Do they realise *they* could have just studied engineering? Easier to tweet than do, though. Amirite?

One of the big misconceptions about class in Britain is that the working class are noisy and boorish while the middle class are mannerly & respectful. In public settings, I consistently find the upper middle class to be the noisiest, space-hungriest, & most domineering social group.

For my next decree, wonderful adventure playgrounds for every child in the land. Public luxury, from the cradle to the grave.

🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter "Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social