You can’t afford a coal mine. You can’t afford a gas turbine. You can’t afford an oil rig. Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can. But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.

"The Hague’s fossil-fuel advertising ban is more than a policy- it’s a signal. By rejecting the normalization of fossil fuel promotion, the decision to implement a ban locally can challenge entrenched norms globally... FF advertising bans present a compelling opportunity for governments to act"

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

If your objective is change, you don't give the people working to prevent change the biggest seat at the negotiating table

Planting the AMOC Bomb 💣 outside Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day #AMOC 💣You refused to warn the people💣

Their response, following my complaint on behalf of XR, was that disclosure would have “the potential to damage the reputation and distress trustees” and that “the greater public interest lies in withholding information”

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.

I've never wanted anything so much as for climate change to be a hoax So I guess I have that in common with denialists

BREAKING🚨: BP announced £1.7 billion in profit just days after Jamaica was hit by the strongest hurricane in its history. They’re cutting billions from renewables and doubling down on oil and gas. The same company that calls itself “Beyond Petroleum” is cashing in on destruction.

COP 30: La Via Campesina’s Manifesto – Land and Rights for Those Who Cool the Planet! https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/cop-30-la-via-campesinas-manifesto-land-and-rights-for-those-who-cool-the-planet This manifesto is our roadmap at this decisive moment […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Only 40 years too late

Why are our politicians so reluctant to ride this wave?

500 govt meetings with oil lobbyists last year ✓ 22 new oil fields pending ✓ 8 fields in or next to marine PROTECTED areas ✓ Our govt considering the true ocean impact ❌ Game over. The #OilFieldFiles are public. 📧 Email your MP to stop this → act.oceana.org/page/171529/...

I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to! My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇

We decide to re-make the world — not governments or corporations, but ordinary people with extraordinary courage. 📅 Nov 15–16, 2025 💻 Online Festival 👉 tinyurl.com/rev21festival

🚨 BREAKING: EU countries have agreed to a weakened 2040 climate goal and have set a new target for COP30. Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Utterly scandalous that climate activists are prevented from mentioning climate change in their defence Even worse when one group is and another isn't, yet they're accused of the same offence Our legal system is being turned into a joke

It's never fun to think about the future of tropical forests

"Microsoft’s VP for energy, Google’s chief investment officer, OpenAI’s Altman, Amazon’s VP for global data centres, & Nvidia’s senior director of corporate sustainability have all publicly supported the idea of their companies relying on natural gas as an energy source for AI data centres"

😢 "Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems. The world took his theory as gospel. 1/n

Lots of anti-net zero noise, but a major new report from SBTI shows the number of companies with net zero targets has surged and those with goals in place are reporting multiple financial, operational, and reputational benefits. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521250...

🚨 BREAKING: STONEHENGE SPRAYERS NOT GUILTY 🧯 A jury has found the two people who sprayed cornstarch over Stonehenge, plus the person who drove them, unanimously not guilty. ➡️ Press release: juststopoil.org/2025/10/31/t...

"History shows us that there is no single way humans have eaten and no predetermined way we should eat. Diets are a product of the world we live in... the questions we should be asking are not about what our ancestors ate but about what rational decisions we can make about our future" Fascinating

Yes. There is far too much emphasis on if a species is still extant and not enough on loss of abundance (obvs extinction matters a lot, but by the time you are down to the last few dozen on conservation life support simply being extant is a very low bar).

Hooray!

The protestors of yesteryear are revered as heroes, there are statues of them in Parliament Square Today's protestors are locked up I love this action by Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/monumen...

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

Governments spent US$956 billion on net fossil fuel subsidies in 2023, more than triple the annual amount pledged to support climate-vulnerable countries. Fifteen countries spent more subsidizing fossil fuels than on their entire national health budgets. @thelancet.com www.who.int/news/item/29...

Nearly 6 feet of rain in 24 hours? Wtf has been unleashed

Whenever I take the train past a solar farm, people say what a disgrace it is to have it on good agricultural land They say nothing about the golf courses, fields of Halloween pumpkins, or strips of fields left as cover for pheasants They're the victims of oil and gas propaganda

UK Politics. The "Reform lead" in opinion polls is propped up by older voters.

ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million. Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.

This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together But it's a story with an under-recognised hero 🧵 1/

In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock Today they are outweighed 1 to 20 Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There's a narrative that renewables make electricity bills higher But that narrative is pushed by the fossil fuel industry, and it's a lie

🌍 In the 1850s, humans and their livestock weighed about as much as all wild mammals 🐋🐘 combined. Today, they outweigh them nearly 20 to 1. A quiet biomass revolution. Life reshaped to serve one species. #Anthropocene #Biomass #WildlifeLoss #Beef

UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 : Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn** Don't believe the wind power haters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods They were supercharged by climate change Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵 www.scri.org.uk/derailment

The UKs #climate pledges are assessed as "insuffient" by @climateactiontracker.org meaning that they put us on track to miss even the 2C target of the Paris Agreement. The UK must up its ambition & accelerate climate action, not hit pause as some morally corrupt politicians have recently claimed

Research is of litle use if decisionmakers don't pay attention to it Please sign!

I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice. Long 🧵😊

This is what gets me about tropical deforestation It's not just that something of immense value gets destroyed It's that the people destroying it get so little for their trouble The economics of it all is fucked

If you were looking for one of the lowest cost ways of preventing climate change, you might head for the “deforestation frontier” in the Amazon rainforest. economist.com/the-americas...

The oil industry lied about climate change science. The oil industry lied about water contamination from fracking (still does!) The oil industry lies about carbon capture. I could go on. My point is, don't believe them. Ever. They say they want to stop methane emissions. Sure.

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

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lying bastards

This is HUGE A court has ruled that TotalEnergies has misled consumers by presenting itself as a “major player in the energy transition”. It is the first judgement in the world ruling an Oil & Gas major has misled the public by greenwashing its image. www.clientearth.org/latest/press...