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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 2d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 1d

💚 A massive thank you to the ART FACTORY. They created so much, not only for XR, but for others in the ecology of movements too.

Their generosity, skills and #imagination helped others too - they were always willing to reach out, helping many groups to achieve #socialchange.

#Artivism

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 1d

YouGov: Labour voters are significantly more likely to trust the Greens than Labour on the environment (72% vs 43%), poverty (49% vs 38%), keeping promises (45% vs 35%) and protecting minority groups (55% vs 47%).

It's why thousands are joining the Greens every day: join.greenparty.org.uk

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Scientist Rebellion Germany @scientistrebger.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow: Scientists Responsibility Summit!

What is the appropriate stance of scientists in the polycrisis? Let's develop practical paths for a transformative role of academia.

🏛️Attend in-person at HU Berlin: blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
💻 Streaming (Webex): tinyurl.com/nh5kpt4e

Scientists Responsibility Summit
Berlin
11. October 2025 9:00-18:00
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin
https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsresponsibilitysummit/

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 2d

NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge

Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

I'm old enough to remember when BP went Beyond Petroleum

Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social · 2d

A new Nature article using GEM data (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) found that the top 250 oil and gas firms own just 2% of the world's renewable power. #renewables 💡🧪

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather bites
#climate
eciu.net/media/press-...

Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather…

New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests

eciu.net

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Robbie @huckfling.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah @greenparty.org.uk.

Even that dude from Free Solo couldn’t scale the membership graph of the Greens under @zackpolanski.bsky.social

UK Green Stats @ukgreenstats.bsky.social · 3d

There you go!

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

"One source told the Guardian they feared [the report] was being suppressed because the government was unwilling to face the issues raised."

If this is true it's the most flagrant dereliction of duty and breach of the social contract imaginable. Their job is to keep us safe, that's the deal

Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

"The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away"

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Great point - it's absurd

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed - I really hope they can make it work, because we'll need it. Atmospheric concentrations are already dangerously high and need to be brought down somehow

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

"The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away"

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 3d

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry

But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 3d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 3d

Sea defences protecting 38,000 static caravans at sea level will fail by 2040 ...
www.lincsonline.co.uk/skegness/rep...

Replacing sea defences will cost ‘billions, if not tens of billions’

Efforts to secure huge sums needed to urgently replace the East Coast sea defences have begun.

www.lincsonline.co.uk

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 3d

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time I had an h-index of, like, 27"

@charliejgardner.bsky.social

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 4d

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 4d

If the US says it's justified in attacking boats from Venezuela suspected of being part of a plan to get Americans hooked on harmful substances, then anyone else is justified in taking out LNG tankers leaving US ports openly part of a plan to get rest of world hooked on a harmful substance. Right?

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 4d

I recently wrote about how the US natural gas (methane) producers desperately need the world to get hooked on LNG imports. They need new markets for their gas. Why? From @ember-energy.org :

"global gas generation also fell (-6.3 TWh, -0.2%)"

The world is using less gas.

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

ember-energy.org

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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · 5d

Global efforts to stem #biodiversity loss have failed repeatedly. Drawing on the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report, @annelarigauderie.bsky.social et al. explain why past efforts failed, outline 5 key strategies to address this issue, & highlight roles for everyone doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Title, authors’ names, and first page of a perspective paper about biodiversity loss and the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment

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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 4d

🔥 Climate hazard paper published!

Using nationally representative survey data from 142 countries (N = 128,093), I find that people who have experienced a climate-related hazard are more likely to consider climate change a 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 🧵

Link: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

The @iea.org's guess at the variable renewable energy share in various countries by 2030 - Denmark will be around 78%.

None of this was meant to be even remotely possible!!

iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/48ecc...

a chart showing various VRE shares by region

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 4d

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve. Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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