The problems feel big. The days are short; the nights are long. It’s easy to despair. But despair is a gift to the powerful. It keeps you quiet, keeps you small. In 2026, let’s turn despair into DETERMINATION. If we all do a little, we can achieve a lot. It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Capitalism demands that we spend more and more on stuff every day, every month, every year - until we have brought destruction upon ourselves and the planet If we don't accede to this it is - apparently - bad news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Can’t wait for all the primetime political interviews re 2025 record temperatures on bbc r4 Today this morning.

A Scott-Warren sandwich, from the Daily Mail, 17 December.

This is what happens when non-climate scientists write about the climate crisis without really understanding where we are or where we are headed Unjustified optimism If the world is just 2.5C hotter in 2100, I will eat my hat, or would if I wasn't 6ft under www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's great to hear that polar bears are endlessly creative and adaptable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump says Europe is useless, weak and dying. But the Old World is quietly doing a much better job of building a liveable tomorrow than the USA. Just ask Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal.

IN PHOTOS | Atmospheric river ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Below is 'before' and 'after' of website of the US-EPA, after the Stalin-esque purge of facts that the Dear Leader isn't happy about. Those whom the gods would destroy, first, they make mad. Will discuss this & other topics around 5.30 on my weekly environmental slot on The Last Word on Today FM

“The scientists do not know exactly what has caused this pandemic, but Cano said humans were ‘probably involved’ in the distribution of the disease. Current theories about its transmission include shipping, changes to currents and abnormal wave activity.” 🦠🪸 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

3:04 of catharsis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1c...

...human activity is pushing Earth into a climate crisis that could threaten the lives of up to 6 billion people this century, stating candidly: “We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.”

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

🐝 The @biggive.bsky.social’s #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE! 🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact. 🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED! 💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

seems the COP30 venue has a sense of humour.

"The pace of change is already at about a 30% decline. This just tells you how critically urgent carbon emissions reductions are, because we need to give this overturning circulation every chance of not tipping over what seems to be a very perilous & near tipping point" #ClimateEmergency #Antarctica

In case you missed it: my follow-up video op-ed responding to ongoing conversations surrounding the COP30 climate conference and seemingly widespread misconception regarding how harmful 2-3°C of global warming would actually be for human societies, economies, and global ecosystems.

Cruel. Callous. Cowardly. The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are. We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box. Reject the hate. Reject them. This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Projection looking out 13-15 years (2ºC) The climate chaos freight train is coming for this place.

swimming against the tide as usual...

Britain’s Climate Wake-up: Inside Westminster’s National Emergency Briefing – I speak with co-organiser Nick Oldridge. Is Your MP going? youtu.be/hDu88eJI3ps @nickoldridge.bsky.social

We're just getting started. Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires. If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment. Join.greenparty.org.uk

3C of global warming means many feet of sea level rise, fundamentally altering coastlines and swamping megacities home to 100s of millions. It means heatwaves that in humid regions could become, literally, unsurvivable for those outdoors without access to active cooling. [11/n]

🥳🎉 “This is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"

In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health. Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...

I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson. Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks. Piss him off instead and Join.greenparty.org.uk

too much textual bibliography for one day.

"I have never seen such drought or scarcity of rain as this year... We used to get snow up to a metre high. Now, it's been 10 years since we've seen any. #Lebanon 🇱🇧 #ClimateEmergency

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Victoria Embankment.

A modern monster, from Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, More and More and More: An All-Consuming History (2024)

POWER STATION is coming to Cambridge, Arts Picturehouse, Monday 13th at 6, followed by a Q&A. www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

on the assault on net zero down under -- strangely it also fits the UK very well. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN Another day >34C with dozens of records smashed (see list below). The heat is just going to be MUCH worse next days with hundreds of records expected. Summer will go on in the southern half of Japan for many weeks to come. AC 24/7 all October.

1- UNBELIEVABLE HEAT IN CANADA🇨🇦 Dozens of records smashed in pieces Mins up to 20.7 Atikokan,19.7 Geraldton etc (left) TMaxes: 30.8 Pembroke,30.5 Hamilton and St Clothilde, 30.3 St Anicet, 30.1 Muskoka,30.0 La Tuque and Maniwaki,29.7 Earlton,29.6 MONTREAL etc. (right) HISTORIC

Red alert in Antarctica m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwn3...

perhaps Israel could show a bit of respect by stopping the killing of civilians?

Brilliant speech from @zackpolanski.bsky.social - investing in climate, stopping the boats thro safe & legal routes, introducing a wealth tax on the very wealthiest, challenging privatisation, building community & spreading a #PoliticsOfHope @greenparty.org.uk #gpconf

"the prosecution refused to agree to any facts on the #ClimateCrisis to be included... Agreed facts exist precisely to establish the uncontested backdrop against which actions are judged... by excluding them the CPS is not only stripping away essential context but effectively denying reality itself"

"We can no longer pretend that we are sleepwalking into climate catastrophe. We are doing it consciously, with our eyes wide open." @profbillmcguire.bsky.social focuses on politicians, but what about the rest of us? Or did we open our eyes briefly, then decide we'd rather just keep them shut?

A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

“To be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me” - Dr. Levke Caesar, co-lead of Planetary Boundaries Science Lab

Et tu, Ed? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The US president said of the UK: “‘They have tremendous oil left that hasn’t even been found yet. And what a tremendous asset for the United Kingdom, and I hope the prime minister’s listening because I told it to him three days in a row – that’s all he heard: ‘North Sea oil, North Sea’”

“With current trends suggesting warming up to 3°C this century, using all of the safe geological storage wouldn’t even get us back to 2°C,” said lead author Matthew Gidden, research professor at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland.