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Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media. #timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis www.nebriefing.org Please share.

Why are jury trials under attack by the UK government? Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

' A defendant's right to a jury trial would be restricted to prevent them from "gaming the system", Lammy also said. ' WTF is that supposed to mean?!? Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant based on their conscience - THAT IS THE SYSTEM #BlueLabour 🤮

50 years later, it's beyond time to start paying attention.

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...

Europe’s water reserves are drying up because of climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This new report from the Grantham Institute is crucial. And it's quite striking to see it published... it seems to indicate people are willing to consider policy ideas long treated as taboo. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

In Western Australia, news editors see record breaking high temperatures as a justification for bikini photos Not an opportunity for good journalism to foster discussion on fate of our planet in relation to #climatechange Every time Brain dead humans Hottest start to summer in #Perth on record

'The Earthlycrumb Tragedies' (with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid) A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵

Unfortunately their economy is run off fossil fuels but nonetheless Rojava is an inspiration for all the reasons stated below.

Have ANY UK media covered this at all?

It is extraordinary how misinformed some borough councillors are about the energy transition These are public servants making important decisions that affect people's lives and the future of our country, and they believe stuff that isn't true The Mail and Telegraph have done so much damage

Finally, @mikebernerslee.bsky.social asks for people to raise their hand if any of the speeches told them something they didn’t know We need “WWII level of leadership as if survival of our society depends on it… because it does” Long and important pause. They have been told, now we know they know

Climate scientist @kevinclimate.bsky.social says “we need to eliminate fossil fuels”. Societal and ecological collapse at 3-4C warming. For <2C, the UK has 7 years of current CO2 emissions. Drax and CCS are delay tech. Heat pumps, good public transport, and deep cuts of aviation are essential.

The National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social in Westminster today is a call to action for politicians. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social started with “let’s work on creating hope, where there isn’t much of it left”

"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough" The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

Rachel Reeves will boost Farage and his fascist friends - by delivering a budget built on a dangerous fairy tale. It's the household budget analogy. The dirty secret of every billionaire-friendly government since Thatcher. Top economist @richardjmurphy.bsky.social explains..🧵

Can't keep having activists aquitted by a jury of their peers now can we? If we don't defend our civil liberties they'll be taken away.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

"The carbon level has reached 426 parts per million – well over scientists’ “safe” limit of 350. According to them, the planet is heading to oblivion. All that time news editors have told me not to be too downbeat. This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves.”

Absolutely perfect to see Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese at the G20 together: both fossil fuel expansionists cosplaying as brave climate heroes www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39D...

Amazing truth telling from - checks notes - the Beano

A major Middle Eastern state talking about its capital city is ecologically untenable. I can’t help thinking this should be bigger news.

Is your MP attending the National Emergency Briefing on 27 November? - really vital they all go. 🚨Email your MP now🚨

The Global South is paying the price for a crisis they didn’t create. Today we brought their voices to the heart of Wimborne. As COP30 sidelines them, we refuse to let their truths go unheard #COP30 #ClimateJustice #ThisWorldIsOurs

🚨 New draft 🚨 We built an LLM-enabled system to measure greenwashing scores in 1 million worldwide Facebook ads. We found vast networks of Facebook pages sharing pro-fossil fuel messages & show that ads are targeted at left-leaning areas with fossil fuel investments. Link: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

An important new book from @commscholar.bsky.social looks at native advertising, a practice allowing fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads as journalism in mainstream outlets. It adds a hugely overlooked piece to the convo about corporate influence in media www.exxonknews.org/p/these-ads-...

This Thursday Join the MEGA picket to Stop Rosebank! ✊ 📍DESNZ, SW1A 2AW. 🕐 8am, Thursday 20th November. #StopRosebank Stop all new #fossilfuel projects. #ClimateCrisis

Iceland did something after the 2008–09 crash that the US, UK and EU pretend is impossible as Trump and his vile ilk ride rough shod over our democracies. It confronted and punished its corrupt bankers and failed politicians. And rebuilt a fairer society from the rubble. 🧵

'A shutdown of the AMOC “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore in view of the evolving science over the past years,” said @rahmstorf.bsky.social , a physical oceanographer and climatologist who has studied the AMOC at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social '

Jeffrey Epstein continued to wield power and influence at the highest levels of global politics even after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a 14-year-old. Our society is deeply sick. But we don't have to be ruled by pedophiles, narcissists and sociopaths.

""The Monnow broke its banks - that is unprecedented in Monmouth." But no mention of why from BBC news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How to rapidly scale the heat pump market? “The main hurdle is the price ratio of gas to electricity. [Reforming taxation of energy] would unlock a much more market-driven transition.” That’s what I told the FT. Excellent piece.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” This is the unbelievable story of the man who said those famous words, Frederick Douglass. Born a slave. Died a global resistance leader. 🧵

The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country. We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A #climate activist who served 1 of the longest prison sentences in British history for peaceful protest has just won his appeal against deportation. If he'd been unsuccessful Marcus Decker, a German national, would have been first person to be deported from the UK for peaceful protest. Great news!

Copenhagen 2009. Humanity's last chance to avoid collapse? Obama claimed partial victory. The ambassador for 130 developing countries' responded with "the most important briefing the world never heard". Obama's deal meant "Certain death for Africa, certain devastation of island states".

Am struck again at how the 'debates' over bias and balance in climate reporting at the BBC and elsewhere should have been treated much more seriously. The populist and authoritarian right are now using playbooks they spent decades developing to oppose climate action on pretty much everything.

This will be the Robbie Gibb of the BBC, 'responsible for upholding the independence of the BBC'. Yeah, right.

Burning trees is not a climate solution

I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all . @nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧

In 2020 @wwf.panda.org identified the 100 global cities expected to suffer the greatest rise in water risk by 2050- home to at least 350 million people! We've already seen several megacities just days away from running dry. Here's a🧵 with eg's

"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"

@joeroganhq.bsky.social is spreading climate denial and disinformation. Let’s help get him on board saving a livable climate — spread this widely. Send it to people who listen to him. #climate

Pro-business mainstream media carries a heavy weight here, too. And I wouldn’t describe that as centrist, but as anti-environmental , or even more accurately, anti-life.