The leader isn't Labour's problem Their problem is that people elected them to reverse the damage done by the Tories Whereas they just carried on doing more damage They need to tax wealth and invest in public services And challenge the oligarchs dominating our economy And focus on fairness

Extraordinary that this ‘promise’ was made by governments without the explicit knowledge of their populations. Global CO2 removal using safe tech will ‘require the construction of the world’s second biggest industry, after oil and gas“ (>$1 Tn / Yr). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.

Fascinating that Nick Robinson names Robbie Gibb as the instigator of the coup at the BBC He was promoted to ensure that Brexit went ahead He is the sort of shadowy character who is essential to the unpicking of democracy This should be the end of his time on the BBC board

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

"On July 20, the Tehran Water Authority reported that the capital’s reservoirs had reached their lowest point in a century, and last week, the authority’s head warned that dam reserves could sustain the city for only two more weeks if the dry spell continued."

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history. We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK Government is feeding an authoritarian cuckoo. Calling non-violent protesters terrorists, locking them up, then banning them from meeting friends or internet communication after release. These tools of repression will be used by the fascism they’ve fed. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

A powerful investigation but a namby-pamby headline Elon Musk is not 'boosting the right'; he is driving fascism here and around the world Our squeamishness around the use of the word fascism is undermining our ability to defeat it news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".

Our November issue is available at journals.iucr.org/d/issues/202... On the cover: recent studies demonstrate that the range of samples suitable for cryo-EM single-particle analysis is expanding towards increasingly more native samples. Read the review at shorturl.at/mitjg

So many of my colleagues laughed at me for saying this… but… a few colleagues didn’t… and I think they saved a LOT of lives in the first few years.

Corporate lobbyists have no shame. The UK Government could ‘move up the value chain’ and establish well funded public centres that develop drugs up to the point at which production is scaled up for patients. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"So, then the old geezers go off to die and young people are left with 2°C of global warming locked in, out of their control, and both hands tied behind their back" Dr James E Hansen @drjamesehansen.bsky.social youtu.be/XlyWEixy8p4

HISTORIC EVENT Thousands of hot nights records smashed with insane margins (up to 5C+) allovoer South Asia Some Incredible Record High Minimums INDIA 28.6 Kavali 28.0 Nellore 27.4 Ongole 27.7 Chennai AP,27.0 Chennai MYANMAR 26.0 Monywa BANGLADESH 26.4 Katubdia 26.0 Feni etc

The Global South needs between $310 billion and $365 billion in adaptation finance per year by 2035, whereas adaptation finance from rich countries was only $26 billion in 2023. CO₂ removal will cost >$1000 billion per year, and will mainly benefit the Global South. Who's gonna pay that? No one.

We can find suitable land with sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow plants, wait years to harvest the biomass and burn it for energy, hope to capture the CO₂ with carbon capture and storage technology, and find a suitable spot to bury the CO₂ permanently. OR we can use solar panels.

Where are we on climate action? The bottom black line is countries that submitted new commitments (on time), the dotted line is global emissions. Blue shading are the commitments. That is the progress 10 years after Paris... unfccc.int/process-and-...

🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings. The public is not being informed of the danger posed. The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯 #EndClimateSilence

I wonder what happened in January? Anyone anyone

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Finally: me on why the discourse around targets and degrees has distracted from the bigger effort of trying to actually analyse whether countries and companies are giving this their all (Norway is not) pca.st/episode/6551...

This man was part of a coalition of Reagan-era apartheid apologists who opposed U.S. opening talks with the African National Congress which he called a terrorist org. He has been a right wing activist for decades. His son was part of the Jan 6th mob and was convicted (later pardoned by Trump). 1/

The UK COVID inquiry is valuable simply in documenting the failures of the pandemic. Establishing for the historical record that the public health and infection control bodies that grabbed control over COVID decision-making were negligent and out of their depth will make next steps easier.

deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming - 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with" - Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare - We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels

This is a genuine problem with UK politics and how it's covered: The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Our tax dollars supporting a golden ballroom and concentration camps but supporting health care costs is too expensive

"Let's say a particular Direct Air Capture plant will remove 4000 tonnes of CO2, if we look at that DAC plant as a time machine that takes us back to an atmosphere we had in the past, its an atmosphere that we has 3 seconds ago... it's very ineffectual" - Prof. @davidho.bsky.social

Regular reminder that people who say we should "return up nature" or go back to "living off the land" are essentially saying "I think 90% of existing humans should die, but I still want to come across as morally superior" Industrial agriculture is VERY important, basically

Biofuels were meant to reduce emissions — but recent evidence shows they’re doing the opposite. New data suggest that crop-based biofuels are worsening CO₂ emissions globally. 🧵1/3

"The findings show that the rapid adoption of renewable energy worldwide is not matched by changes in higher education, since universities continue to prioritise coal and petroleum studies" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

mRNA vaccines seem to work synergistically w/ cancer immunotherapy. In patients, the vaccine acts like a siren that triggers the release of immune signaling proteins, instructing the immune system to attack tumors. We need to funding for mRNA based therapeutics. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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"the Rhone isn't the only river whose source is a glacier - the Rhine, the Danube, the Po - the continent's biggest rivers all start here. And when these glaciers are gone, Farinotti says, these rivers will be forever altered." #ClimateEmergency

Predictable response to the petition against airport expansion: GrOwTH is what matters above all else (you poor misguided fools), other countries are doing it (so more wrongs make a right?) and technology will magic any environmental problems away (yeah and pigs might fly). To oblivion and beyond!

"This year’s report card, the fifth in the series, is sobering: Not one of the 45 indicators assessed is on track to achieve its 2030 target" - @worldresources.bsky.social #StateOfClimateAction2025 #ClimateEmergency www.wri.org/insights/cli...

Good initial steps to training the Green workforce the UK needs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

Yep. But then this has been part of my day for months. But today felt more like we are winning. Keep pushing back!

The Profit Extraction Model of UK Free Zones Phase 1 (Years 1-5): Public subsidies flow in, glossy announcements Phase 2 (Years 5-10): Complex structures mature, opacity increases Phase 3 (Years 10-15): Profits extracted, promises unfulfilled

In case they forget the appropriate response, here is a reminder...

“Kids”

Dr Oksana Tarasova, a @wmo-global.bsky.social senior scientific officer, said: “There is concern that terrestrial & ocean CO2 sinks are becoming less effective, which will increase the amount of CO2 that stays in the atmosphere, thereby accelerating global warming.”

Great to see folks with #IAQ / #CleanAir expertise go through explaining the limitations of poorly designed research & questionable conclusions. Here is @barryhunt008.bsky.social's 🎯 take on that paper... threadreaderapp.com/thread/19781...