So here are some thoughts on this heatwave: against fatalism, against inevitability, and against the fossil fuel industry's ongoing efforts to ensure they do as much damage as they can over the coming decades. These fossil-fuelled extremes emerge from decisions we can identify in recent history

A green economy that works for everyone is not only possible but necessary - Andy Burnham take note! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I cannot imagine how horrendous most hospitals & care homes are feeling for staff & patients. It was bad enough 14 years ago, during hot spells, when I was still in clinical practice. Time we got serious about upgrading our infrastructure.

Climate breakdown isn’t just an environmental crisis, it’s a class one. We need rapid decarbonisation, serious investment in adaptation, and workers’ rights that include a legal maximum workplace temperature.

Trams in Sheffield are all postponed due to the heat. REDUCING EMISSIONS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE AND PUTTING IN MITIGATION IS NEEDED NOW. If you don't care about health impacts perhaps you might care about the huge economic impacts. It's economic idiocy not to get to net zero as quickly as possible.

Not all Unite members work for airports, oil companies or car manufacturers, and may be more interested in a survivable future for their kids than protecting the corporate interests of major polluters. If that’s you, someone has started a petition for you to sign here: www.change.org/p/stop-unite...

This is exactly what I've been thinking! Presumably would also be a boost to the economy on several fronts.

The heatwave in western Europe is the most severe and widespread ever, with almost half of Europe’s largest cities experiencing their worst ever heat stress, a combination of high temperatures and humidity. Unless we stop burning fossil fuels, future heat conditions will become even more extreme.

⚖️ Victory! A French court has ruled TotalEnergies must limit its climate polllution. Big polluters must cut emissions and align with 1.5°C - and it’s enforceable. No one is above the law 🌍🔥

Today, we launch a series @drilledmedia.bsky.social has been working on w/ @propublica.org for almost two years, looking at how Big Oil used universities to turn the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself. The first two stories are out now: projects.propublica.org/carbon-captu...

Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

Europe will have to import an extra 100 million barrels of expensive, unreliable, intermittently-available and deadly fossil fuels, if it chooses to keep buying oversized cars uploads.transportenvironment.org/production/f...

While many other billionaires have reduced their climate giving, Michael Bloomberg just announced $590 million in new environmental commitments that will support renewable energy industry associations, marine protected areas, coral reef restoration, and air quality programs in major cities. Bravo 👏

BBC News - UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

Anti-Muslim attacks. Doesn’t seem to be getting the same attention as when the alleged perpetrator is non-white.

This heatwave brought to you by BP.

🥗Vegetarian and vegan diets are still a hard sell. Fortunately, the science on how to change this is getting clearer. Here, we examine how a few leading food providers are boosting uptake of plant-based options➡️ go.wri.org/plant-based-...

The energy grid makes MASSIVE profits Electricity North West - 88% owned by Spanish Iberdrola £45 million dividends last year Cadent Gas owners include Australian Macquarie, Chinese wealth fund Last year every household paid £38 for their dividends TAKE IT BACK weownit.org.uk/makerfield-c...

"This year is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". He would be rolling in his grave if he saw what's become of capitalism today!" Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social National Economics Foundation neweconomics.org youtu.be/-LhsxyjO5Mg?...

Instead of locking children out of a toxic swamp, the government should force big tech to clean it up... https://goodlaw.social/5w7z

How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years

Reform UK accused of causing gridlock “chaos” and forcing rat-running drivers to “bomb” through narrow streets thanks to new cycle lane works

Almost all the excitable coverage I've heard of Musk becoming a trillionaire has failed to mention his enthusiasm for fascism, and his actual fomenting of racist violence on our streets a few days ago. Does nothing mean anything anymore? I feel like I'm going mad.

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

Exclusive: first govt plan for cycling and walking in England since the Johnson era contains some actual targets - including that 60% of all pupils walk/cycle/wheel to school by 2035. Transport sec Heidi Alexander says a lot of the push is based on public health. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

If houses had been set on fire *by* ethnic minority people, I suspect the BBC would have somehow rediscovered the active voice

There last few weeks shows how deeply principled and decent people can be, even when going through the most terrible pain. Their grace stands in stark contrast to those who would exploit their suffering for political gain.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

Driven by Musk, fuelled by Restore Leader Rupert Lowe and whipped up by the fear mongering rhetoric of Reform and their media outlets. This is what happens when you stir hatred against migrants. It end with burning homes and cars and children fleeing for their lives

Global health advocates are calling on #FIFA to end its Coca-Cola World Cup sponsorship by 2030, warning that football’s biggest stage is being used to market sugary drinks linked to obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. ⚽🥤 ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @vitalstrategies.org 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

You want to know about this website. www.bankingonclimatechaos.org

“For the first time in 130 years Denmark will not have an agriculture minister. In their place will be a minister for nature and animal welfare” Extraordinary wins by environmental & animal welfare groups in Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I often wonder why politicians don't talk more about the cost & consequences of not taking action on public spending decisions. Or reframing as investing.

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

The media & political classes (left + right) tend to guess wrong about the public - who have a *much* stronger common sense consensus on civic "inclusive nativism" than most of the commentariat seem to realise

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nothing to dislike about this vision of the future ❤️

As strategic authorities gain control, can we expect to see better tailored health services that improve people's lives? @mubj.bsky.social​, from the West Midlands Combined Authority, and Katherine Merrifield explore potential impacts of devolution on UK health outcomes ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4o6VRtL

Well done Fiji defending your beautiful country against waste colonialists. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Violent far right rioters attacked police. That's what happened.

NEW @iea.org data: clean energy investment is now more than double fossil fuels. $2,155bn vs $1,008bn in 2025. The crossover happened around 2016. Since then the gap has only widened. What was a narrow lead a decade ago is now a >2-to-1 split.

Can renewable electricity really power us 24/7? New storage tech says yes. With new battery chemistry, giant batteries in Australia to pumped hydro in Wales, the biggest barriers to clean energy are starting to fall – even on windless winter nights. Stephen McNair explains...

Let's all go and buy her book 'Careless people'.

‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”