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We will not be able to adapt our way out of 3°C of global warming (4°C to 5°C in Europe). Economies will have crashed. Politics will be very different. Authority will have lost control. Violence will be everywhere. So wake up and halt climate change, now, whilst we still stand a chance.

History shows where devaluing an entire racial group leads. Well, I say "history". We can see right now what the dehumanisation of Palestinians leads to.

Global Lancet study counts almost 3 million climate change-related deaths

I am old enough to remember when it was agreed that 2 degrees warming would spell real trouble. And now the boiling frogs are saying an extra degree can be adapted to... This is copium for the Fafocene. It's going to get very fugly quite soon. www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/e...

Folks! 🗳️Do not mail your ballot! Drop it off in a ballot box or at your board of elections.

Europe's crops took a hit this summer from heat and drought. Six charts show how it affected everything from potatoes to olives. #agriculture

Petition 'calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge Scottish Government to expand the provision of Gaelic Learners Education in all local authorities so it ensures that all young people have the opportunity to learn Gaelic regardless of where they live' 1/3 petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Turning Point UK was supposed to be a youth movement All it's ever done is appeal to middle aged thugs

Et tu, Guardian? Disappointing to see this given their generally great climate coverage. (fixed it for them)

Judge orders Trump to be deposed in his lawsuit against BBC by 11 December www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Europe’s far right is idiotically attempting to crush legislation designed to deal with the climate change crisis.

I frequently observe that AI companies engage in the “strip mining of our souls” through their unauthorized capture of our creative expressions & personal information to build their humanity-enfeebling products. Also important to recall they also engage in more typical forms of strip mining.

"Datacentres ultimately have very little benefit for others except the datacentre operator.” I just asked the government in #HouseofLords HOW MUCH of these technologies we can afford? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A Somali Minnesotan saved 20 children when the school bus driver suffered a medical emergency. "I really felt like it was my duty," Ebro Ahmed,27. "it’s kids we’re talking about, you know. Even if I were to die, it would still be worth it." Remember when a racist tries to defame an entire group.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

🐝 🪰 How can we track change across the UK's insect pollinators? A new paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social outlines how we're generating robust metrics to monitor pollinator trends at a national scale. Another key milestone for PoMS! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 1/

The Daily Mail has long since given up been a newspaper, more a mouth-piece for hate, bile & climate denial nonsense. The so called "Eco-zealots" include the UN which yesterday called on all countries to "pull out all the stops” to cut emissions to the internationally recognized 1.5 degree target.

You might like to remember this next time you hear someone claiming that net-zero is driving up bills

JACKDAW: Why did the UK govt say yes? And what might that mean for Rosebank? 🧵 Govt says Jackdaw won't cut bills, will only create 27 jobs & any tax take is subject to "broad uncertainties" It admits "legitimate" concerns over impacts on UK climate leadership – and risk of higher global emissions

On going ahead with Jackdaw "@zackpolanski.bsky.social.. says this is a betrayal of all of our futures.. do you really think this is the right thing to do?" Miatta Fahnbulleh: "Well look I do.. we have seen that climate change is here.. heat waves, wild fires, drought.. its a pragmatic decision"

The problem is not really Jackdaw, which is pretty small. The problem is the UK's plan to transition away from fossil fuels is still not ambitious and detailed enough. The problem is if Rosebank follows. The problem is if every country develops one last fossil fuel project we're all screwed.

Plenty of utter BS from the government and FF supporters being used to justify this monstrous decision Every tonne of CO2 we don't emit counts - and every tonne we do takes 400,000 years to completely remove from the atmosphere Politically inept too www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Another “self-made” billionaire story: Vivek Ramaswamy, his mom, and the failed Alzheimer’s drug that made him rich. Yet he’s still neck and neck in the Ohio governor race. These midterms really are a choice between oligarchy and democracy in America. oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-vivek-...

The IPCC is pretty clear that if we want a safe climate there can be no new oil and gas. But every country thinks it has some special reason for why it should be the exception

Bad, bad, bad #climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Nigel Farage jokes about “banter” and allegations of his racist or antisemitic behaviour at school around 40 years ago. Thirty-four former schoolmates have made such allegations; Farage denies the claims. The audience at Reform UK’s Christmas party laughs along. Why isn't the BBC playing this?

You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign

UK govt can get information about your bank accounts if you get universal credit, pension credit, employment support allowance. Court order not needed. You won't be told, can't appeal. Same won't apply to enablers of illicit financial flows. No financial privacy for old, poor, sick, unfortunate.

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Simple answer - the majority right wing media not only let's him get away with it but continues to promote him... while many in Labour - for the most part - arw too timid to call him and his disgrace of a party out. Burnham has it in him. Needs to take the fight to Reform

How is Farage not entirely finished as a politician? He survives party gaffe after gaffe with ever thicker layers of gaslighting time & time again. Will the news media never give up this golden goose & consign his career, once and for always? #ArrestFarage #FarageRiots

Sharing this poem again tonight in light of the terrible news that Douglas Dunn has died. A huge loss for U.K. poetry...

A message from his Uncle “ I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him.” www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

The decline of Newsnight, at a time when we need detailed and decent investigative and foreign reporting more than ever, is so depressing. Marshall is more than an ex singer. He’s Paul Marshall’s son - of GB News, Unherd, Speccie - & is on ARC Forum advisory board

We are delighted that our Glen Finglas Estate is involved in this important programme.

A beautiful new edition of this vivid memoir of a childhood in Aberlour Orphanage. And a great addition to the @aberlourcharity.bsky.social Archive held @unistirarchives.bsky.social www.stirlingcollections.org.uk/archive-coll...

At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …

An Otter "working it" along the River Add, Argyll

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

WE WON. Lead in gunshot will finally be banned across the EU! Just now, the European Parliament approved in plenary the Commission's proposal to restrict lead in gunshot. This decision ends years of debate on one of Europe's most persistent forms of lead pollution.

NEW – Factcheck: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder ✍️ Written by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/CIGaq6y

FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵