Just a dusting of snow on the #Dartmoor webcam this morning. DartCam: share.google/MJM2VTc9fUTo... Some light snow showers coming into South #Devon, just missing #Totnes 😌 Lots of ice out there, though ❄️

OK, crash course in oil. Oil has two main gradings, viscosity (light or heavy) and sulfur (sweet or sour). A light (low viscosity) and sweet (low sulfur) oil is easier to process into gasoline and other products than a heavy and sour one, so the light & sweet oil commands a premium price.

SOUTH AMERICA RECORD HEAT January Heat record allover South America Colombia (Cartagena hottest nigh) ,Ecuador (36.4 El Coca), Brazil (several records in 3 States )... Close to records also in Chile (38C in the South) and Patagonia. January started with a boom

‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US

Schumer: "It makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

“Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil.” — President George W. Bush, State of the Union, January 31, 2006

Trump just said what it is all about. The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.

BREAKING: Ed Davey’s response to Keir Starmer’s statement

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: “Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law.”

Oil, conflict, and climate change – there is a direct connection.

This wind farm is on the Gobi Desert. One day's wind power generation in Gansu reached 227 GWh. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #RenewableEnergy #GreenNewDeal

This video falsely claims to show US strikes on the Fort Tiuna military site in Venezuela this morning. In fact, it shows Iranian missile strikes on Israel during the 12-day war in June.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

But I'm back to work Monday... Booked an emergency dental appointment mid-week just in case there's a resurgence 🤞 In the mean time, I'm sick of lying down indoors; out for a local walk in #Dartington to raise my spirits 😊 Carefully #pacing to avoid the #PEM of my #LongCovid

...but #KubiosHRV says I'm Ready (66%) and #EliteHRV gives me 9 out of 10 Readiness and a better Heartrate Variability figure, with near-perfect balance between my Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous Systems 🤔

Not convinced that the dental infection is completely gone, despite a second week of antibotics. Borderline 'Stability' according to #VisibleHealth despite loads of Rest 🤔

Trump: "We're there now, but we're going to stay until such time as the pop -- proper transition can take place. So we're gonna stay until such time as -- we're gonna run it essentially."

"We are going to run [Venezuela] until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition" to another Government, Trump says. "As everyone knows the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust for a long period of time". Says he will run it better.

Very hard to see how he can “run” Venezuela without ground forces. Says US wants oil resources - is prepared to “do a second, bigger wave”

Trump: “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can have a safe, proper, transition…so we are going to run the country until we can have a safe…judicious transition.” So Trump, for the time being, is effectively saying for now he’s also President of Venezuela.

Trump says the US “will run Venezuela until proper transition” to democracy.

India, Saudi Arabia and Argentina are among the ~70 nations that did not submit updated climate plans to the UN’s in 2025, despite the 2015 Paris Agreement’s requirement that countries do so every five years. www.climatechangenews.com/2026/01/02/i...

“In these decisive hours, receive all my strength, my confidence, and my affection. Let us all remain alert and in contact. “VENEZUELA WILL BE FREE!”

“To Venezuelans abroad: we need you mobilized, engaging governments and citizens around the world and committing them, starting now, to the great operation of building the new Venezuela. 2/3

Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado: “Venezuelans, the hour of freedom has arrived. “Today we are prepared to enforce our mandate and take power. “To Venezuelans inside our country: be ready to carry out what we will very soon communicate to you through our official channels. 1/2

Not convinced that the dental infection is completely gone, despite a second week of antibotics. Borderline 'Stability' according to #VisibleHealth despite loads of Rest 🤔

BREAKING: Keir Starmer says he needs to "establish all the facts" before commenting on the capturing of Venezuela's President by the US "What I can say is that the UK was not involved in any way in this operation"

UK 'not involved in any way' in US strike on Venezuela, Starmer says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Colombia sends armed forces to Venezuela border amid concern over refugee ‘influx’

Fifty new houses going up on a greenfield site near my tiny village, not a solar panel in sight. No infrastructure, almost no public transport. Pig ugly to boot. Why are we allowing this?

"So Mr Trump, what was it that first attracted you to the country with the world's largest oil reserves?"

Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.

“Analysis by The Times” uh oh the Times Toaster Tester has got the crayons out again and you’ll be amazed to learn that it looks real bad for LTNs!

Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants on their way to Europe capsized off the coast of Gambia, the West African nation’s leader said, setting off a frantic search and rescue operation.

The fact the man with his finger on the nuclear button is constantly being asked to take cognitive tests should concern every man, woman and child on planet Earth.

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

After this, no one should doubt Trump’s intention to invade Greenland. The EU needs to step up fast.

Rory Bremner mocks President Trump's attack, "I don't believe in regime change except in Venezuela.. Iran.. Greenland"

BBC's Lyse Doucet, "President Trump said he wanted to put that in the past: forever wars, intervening in countries to topple their regimes, that was all in the past. That this was not going to be his approach" "Well, he's certainly upended that today (with the attack on Venezuela)"

The U.S. just kidnapped a foreign leader and his wife. Venezuela doesn’t produce Fentanyl, but they do have the world’s largest oil reserves. This is the war the $23 million Big Oil gave to Trump bought.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Venezuela - a question I asked in the #HouseofLords last month. Hoping we will get a stronger, clearer reaction this time from the UK government about the US attack, which cannot conceivably be legal under international law nataliebennett.org/latest/venez...

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Trump confirms the US has captured Maduro and his wife. This was done without congressional approval. It’s an act of war. You do not need to like or approve of the Venezuelan regime to disapprove of Trump’s actions.

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.