👏 Well done to #RiverMoleRiverWatch for your outstanding work this year. Just back from a v successful AGM. Great speakers, clear (& mercifully rapid) trustee reporting, tea on tap, & a walk with picnic by the river. 🏞️ @sirgeogy.bsky.social #loveyourriver

Great AGM on Saturday .. Thanks to everyone for coming and our great line up of speakers.

Meanwhile

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden. The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite. The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk? To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics The warnings are there for us all to see

The “cost” of cutting UK emissions to net-zero is less than the cost of a single fossil-fuel price shock www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-net-zero...

"It's snowing, there is no climate change": Climate myths are a growing problem on social media, but the science is clear. The Planetary Boundaries Science Lab teamed up with PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social to cut through the top 5 myths around climate change. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mla...

Today's #sunset time in #reigate is 15:52 which is the earliest it gets. Great news, we are turning the corner. The bad news is that the #sunrise time continues to get later and doesn't start heading in the right direction until 3rd January!!

We know how important great content is for raising #flood resilience awareness. From written resources to graphics, we create engaging, flood-related content tailored to your website or project to help spread the message further. Find out more 👉 thefloodhubpeople.co.uk/flood-resili...

💧 River Mole October results are out! Late rain diluted pollution as flows rose — a brief, seasonal lift. But 80% of our 1,000 tests still show the river failing water-quality standards. We’ll keep pushing for real change. ☔️✅ www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/river-m...

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I think the odds on the USA would be much shorter.

Food is too expensive, controlled by billionaires. Energy is too expensive, controlled by billionaires. Housing is too expensive, controlled by billionaires. Wages are too low, controlled by billionaires. I'm going to blame... immigrants.

Cooking fats, oils, food scraps, and even wet wipes can build up in drains and pipes, leading to blockages and sewer flooding in homes and gardens. 🚫💧 🧻 Remember to only flush the 3 Ps: Pee, Poo, and Paper, and always bin cooled fats, oils and grease instead of washing them down the sink.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Beautiful iridescence over Reeth, North Yorks

‼️Flood alerts issued preemptively for River Mole due to Storm Benjamin from early hours 23 October for Upper and a bit later for Middle Mole : use links below to find details. check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/... check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

🔗 Read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's full story www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...

More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election @carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors. He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years, My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US 2/

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Why didn't the River Mole dry up this summer? Remember my post on historic vanishings thru the Mole Gap? Despite the record dry spring & low flows, it kept flowing! No vanishing like '76/'22. Here's a quick review on why it didn't dry up. www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/will-th...

🚨 Despite Thames Water’s recent upgrade at Merstham STW, our latest tests show contaminants >2× the legal limit and Bad water quality status in Redhill Brook. Wastewater treatment is still failing to deliver improvements needed to protect the River Mole www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/redhill...

🚨 Despite Thames Water’s recent upgrade at Merstham STW, our latest tests show contaminants >2× the legal limit and Bad water quality status in Redhill Brook. Wastewater treatment is still failing to deliver improvements needed to protect the River Mole www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/redhill...

The 2nd edition of “Vatnik Soup — The Ultimate Guide to Russian Disinformation” is officially out! You can order your copy here: vatniksoup.com/en/books/

In today’s Vatnik Soup REBREW, I’ll reintroduce an American political commentator and pro-Kremlin propagandist, Tucker Carlson. He’s best known for his promotion of crazy conspiracy theories and for his support of authoritarian regimes around the world. 1/24

Throughout his career, Tucker has shed skins like a snake, from bow-tied political pundit to far-right crusader to full-blown anti-American conspiracy theorist. Every reinvention serves one purpose: keeping himself rich, relevant and at the center of the outrage machine. 24/24

Amazingly enough, it seems like the claims made in a book listing the successes of Brexit might not be quite right... presumably also the book doesn't include how UK exports haven't risen since 2019, and UK immigration has, when I seem to remember the promise was of the opposite.

September’s River Mole water quality snapshot is out! Low river flow = higher pollution concentration. Phosphate & nitrate both worryingly high — 80% of streams in Moderate-Poor-Bad status. Ammonia off scale in a few badly behaved streams. Read more www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/river-m...

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

History repeats.

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry.

"Hurricane #Humberto to batter Britain"... not quite as simple as that. Notwithstanding if it were to reach the UK it would be Ex-Humberto, the deep low that arrives at the weekend may contain some portion of Humberto but actually spawn from a completely different initial low.

Super day with SERT & EA testing water quality on Redhill Brook at Mercers Park, Moors nature reserve and into Redhill: interesting catchment wrt geology, quarrying and landfill. Delighted Simon Elson could join us as his expertise was invaluable. plus great coffee at lovely Aquasport cafe 👍

Post I wrote on impact of Gatwick Airport expansion on the River Mole in 2023 ..still valid so posting here again. themolestory.com/2023/10/20/g...

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

📣🦦It's World Rivers Week... on Sunday 28 Sept River Mole River Watch will be at the Stepping Stones, Box Hill with South East Rivers Trust. Please come and see us by the river.

📣🦦It's World Rivers Week... on Sunday 28 Sept River Mole River Watch will be at the Stepping Stones, Box Hill with South East Rivers Trust. Please come and see us by the river.

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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Permits: Permission to Pollute? How one brook in the Mole Catchment is polluted by sewage effluent from a treatment plant with a permit. We have found that some permits are not fit for purpose and are woefully failing to protect our streams. www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/permits...

River Mole Summer health report : after driest spring in 100 yrs, a parched June + August a wet July saved the river from potential eco-crisis. But 80% of streams still failed water quality standards and some hit record levels of pollution. Full story👉 www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/river-m...

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We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.