Greens win in Kent.

Strange Times!!

Rare orchid brought back from brink of extinction. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Storm Claudia brought lots of rain leading to flooding as well as widespread travel disruption Top totals include Mount St Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire recording 96 mm since Friday 14th November 0700 am👇

🎉 Green WIN! 🎉 💚 Congratulations to Mike Dunn of North Somerset Green Party on being elected in Long Ashton ward!

🎉 Green WIN! 🎉 💚 Congratulations to Peter Campbell of Canterbury Green Party on being elected in Wincheap ward!

Councils struggle to deal with the seemingly never-ending tide of rubbish thrown from vehicles along the A12 : www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NASA GISS LOTI mean global surface T was 1.27C above the 1951-80 mean :

Greens surge ahead in landslide by-election victory www.thecanary.co/uk/2025/11/1...

Today we remember.

Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008 First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...

It is a pivotal moment in our history. So what needs to happen at COP30? 💰 Climate Damages Tax to make the polluters pay ⚖️ Fund climate justice for the Global South ❌ Keep fossil fuels in the ground 🌳 End deforestation by 2030 ⏩ Global just transition now

“Greens in the Senedd can deliver real change for Wales,” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💚 Anthony Slaughter speaking at the Wales Green Party conference this weekend.

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

Litter pick today along my usual stretch of road in #Rivenhall - only about 200 mtrs long - & this was the result. A pile of the usual garbage thrown from vehicles by selfish, ignorant people whose names are not known but who buy from fast outlets including McJunk, KFC, Wild Bean Cafe.

The brass neck of Farage - Reform UK & himself are on BBC routinely. He has been on BBC Question Time 38 times. And if its possible to have 2 brass necks - he is also a presenter on GB News, which is in effect Reform's house TV channel. Perhaps he really wants his own channel.

Would the discovery of a super-advanced alien civilisation end Human Exceptionalism. Discuss.

Let's check in on the guy in Russian occupied Donetsk that uses Instagram to sell the apartments of murdered Ukrainians for local gangsters. This one even comes with all the personal belongings, such as cooking utensils and blankets.

For those enjoying the race to the bottom, Arctic sea-ice extent is second lowest on record for the date, as of Nov. 8, 2025, just over 100k square kilometers above the record low, set in 2016. <personal pronoun> <verb> f&%king <past participle>.

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them” #RemembranceSunday2025 #LestWeForget

Further rural spots gain 'dark sky friendly' status. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At least 7 candidates so far to be Mayor of #Essex : www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sunspot Number is 107 - with huge active area Earth facing :

We had school assemblies in that church. And we behaved at (nearly) all times.

I've got that 'above the trendline' feeling this morning, and haven't even had a cup of coffee yet. Here's the latest on the 3-year running average for global sea-ice extent.

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

Mr. "I Don't Take Responsibility At All" thinks the MASSIVE BLUE WAVE was because he wasn't on the ballot, not a Major Referendum on his 2nd Term. Turns out folks prefer feeding the hungry over building expen$ive, tacky Ballrooms. Looking forward to the midterms... 🌊 #AccountabilityIsComing

I said yesterday that the chancellor was laying the ground for her budget as hard choices for everyone but the wealthiest.⁣ And now the chancellor is reportedly going to cut vital funding for desperately needed home insulation to cut bills.

Trump's economy is a failure. It demonstrates his commitment to greed and grift rather than the well-being of our country. While billions are sent to Argentina and opulent parties are thrown, American families suffer. I urge the U.S. Supreme Court to stand up for the rule of law.

Largest Full Moon of 2025 tonight. At midnight, Full Moon beams down from altitude of 60 degrees - almost as high in sky as the Full Moon can get from here in #Essex Because the Moon is near the closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit, it is also that bit larger and brighter than usual.

@jamesabbott2024.bsky.social Sky Notes for November : www.dunmowbroadcast.co.uk/news/2558739...

The median date for global sea-ice extent to hit its annual maximum is November 2nd. That was yesterday. It's looking like 2025 may end up with the second lowest global sea-ice maximum since records began in 1988, behind only 2024. And 2016 is just barely higher. Stay tuned!

Trump winning a Nobel Prize for Physics is as likely as a cow actually jumping over the Moon.

For those following global surface temperature anomalies, October 2025 is going to finish 1.50C above the pre-industrial baseline and 3rd hottest on record since 1940. Which also means that October, 2025, is likely the 3rd hottest October in the last 120,000 years.