“The good news is - the oil companies aren’t pretending they are transitioning anymore” Cracking futurenauts episode with former oil industry professionals

The climate crisis is driving up food costs - whilst big oil profits soar

"we have never experienced El Niño on a planet already so hot from human-caused climate change." www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

New decarbonisation targets will save households £1,400 a year on bills Also, happily, they'll increase the chances of there being food to buy with all the money you save!

Jeremy Clarkson has pivoted from abusing climate activists and denying climate change to accepting its real but insisting that there's nothing we can ever possibly do to stop it. FFS What are we meant to be celebrating or welcoming here? Defeatism is as lazy as denialism

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

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“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform

Further evidence the net zero economy is one of the few parts of the economy that is booming. Truly insane that now is the time politicians start attacking one of the only sources of growth for UK businesses. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530440...

Reeves examines using private sector funds to build new towns. It is PFI renamed as public-private partnerships (PPP). The state guarantees corporate profits for decades. £1 private investment results in £6 govt repayment. Cheaper for govt to borrow. It can issue public bonds.

England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

If TfL can put huge rapid chargers on the carriageway of London’s busiest roads, there’s no excuse for other authorities not to do same. As we rightly gear up for an EV revolution, we should be resolute that charge points don’t belong on pavements. @livingstreets.bsky.social @londonls.bsky.social

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"I just want to say this, no matter what some people would have us believe, solar panels, heat pumps and EVs are not 'woke'. They are common sense." That's top UK gov't official Ed Miliband. I'm trying to imagine a cabinet-level US official saying the same.

“A potentially important finding in my full deck, and one I think is genuinely new, is that a message explicitly connecting climate impacts with the rising cost of living moves climate salience up pretty markedly”

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Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather

Bad dreams in the night. Not sure whether the extreme heat in May and Britain’s total unpreparedness and disinterest in what is coming, or the jackboots and concentration camps fascism being promised by the Reform government our media are conspiring to midwife in is freaking me out more

Can't think of many things more likely to rip the country apart that introducing some even more vicious version of ICE and carting away 5-10% of the working age population.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

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Great to join @ruthmottram.eurosky.social on Radio 4 Today this morning, discussing the UK heatwave, emerging El Niño and impacts of human-caused climate change www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (02:35:30) Heatwaves will keep getting more severe if we keep heating the planet by burning fossil fuels

I try - I really do - not to be too judgey about peoples’ ignorance. But all these people I am passing (3 so far on this short walk!!) in zone 2 in London who are sat in their cars in full sun with their engines idling to run the air conditioning AND THE WINDOWS ROLLED DOWN make me want to scream

I installed air to air heat pumps on the top floor of our house last year, replacing gas central heating radiators in the bedrooms. Currently feeling like this is one of the best decisions I have ever made

I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism

Burning fossil fuels has made this heatwave hotter. True for the UK today, and everywhere else, all of the time.

Just the headline contains all the information needed

Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us? One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.

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ICYM - Almost all – 98% – environmental claims and commitments made by meat and dairy companies over 2021-24 could be categorised as “greenwashing” - research paper #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

4 years ago, we opened the Elizabeth line 💜 Today, it’s the UK’s busiest railway - transforming journeys across London and beyond, making them faster, smoother and more connected than ever. Here’s to many more years of moving the city forward.

"Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories & Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point" Edgerton's obituary for Starmerism www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

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🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

A comment following my interview with Rob Cooper climateuncensored.com/the-climate-... was: "It would be good to occasionally hear a climate expert that doesn’t spout all the other left wing axioms ... more chance of convincing right wing policy makers." An important point with my reply attached.

Now the old people urgently looking for a loo will also be subject to the genital inspectors before they’re allowed in. What a time to be alive

In all the locals analysis, you might have missed the fact that in two councils, the party which won the most votes failed to win the most seats. And 13% of votes went to parties who won no seats on their council. Welcome to British democracy, boardgame edition www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Yet another survey showing how most of the public really do like renewables and clean energy projects and understand why they are needed. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530118...

Meanwhile, Shell’s shareholders rejected an AGM resolution requesting disclosure on how the company would fare under scenarios of declining oil and gas demand. BP blocked an equivalent resolution from a vote What are they afraid of? via @influencemap.bsky.social influencemap.org/insight/BP-a...

Anti-austerity was 1) correct 2) organically arising from the public 3) urgently required 4) frantically opposed by the horrific assclowns imposing austerity and others who seeking to profit from it, and 5) destroyed by Labour people who worked very hard to ensure the Tories won the next election.

My people you are allowed to link to the articles and you SHOULD do that because outlets like @motherjones.com and @wired.com and journalists like @mollytaft.com who wrote it all benefit from those visit Don't be like the techbros! www.motherjones.com/politics/202... www.wired.com/story/chevro...

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I am so furious about the toilet BS, which creates a totally bizarre environment in which nosey people can stop anyone from having a wee. What sort of govt feels good about creating the means to stop people having a wee? We need more free public toilets, not ways to make it harder to go to the loo

As there is increased nervousness about the availability of jet fuels in Europe the German government makes flying cheaper by lowering aviation taxes.

He’s a good Mayor who mostly does good stuff, and gets an unbelievable, wholly unwarranted amount of abuse for his efforts

2% of LE26 Labour voters consider voting for Reform at the next election. Less than 1% of Reform voters consider Labour. Yet, Labour continues to target exactly those voters. Literally, politics for the 1%. Meanwhile, 42% of Lab voters consider the Greens. After already having lost tons to them.