Peter Lipman
@peterlipman.bsky.social
I've been a teacher, a co-operative worker, a lawyer and external affairs director at UK charity Sustrans, and am the former chair of Transition Network, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Common Cause Foundation.
How the British military props up the oil industry ... And how the oil industry influences the Ministry of Defence abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/how-the-br...
How the British military props up the oil industry
And how the oil industry influences the Ministry of Defence (long read)
abolishwestminster.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
How the British military props up the oil industry ... And how the oil industry influences the Ministry of Defence abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/how-the-br...
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When Angela Merkel tried to address this demographic decline with migration, the backlash was wild.
But we know Germans are willing to commit long term economic suicide for short term ideological reasons.
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But we know Germans are willing to commit long term economic suicide for short term ideological reasons.
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German population set to shrink 5% by 2050
Europe’s largest economy faces steeper demographic decline than previously estimated, says Ifo
giftarticle.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM
When Angela Merkel tried to address this demographic decline with migration, the backlash was wild.
But we know Germans are willing to commit long term economic suicide for short term ideological reasons.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
But we know Germans are willing to commit long term economic suicide for short term ideological reasons.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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I really hope everyone understands that this antiscientific nonsense that totally ignores tipping points, first of all the AMOC. Shameful stuff tbh.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating
Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I really hope everyone understands that this antiscientific nonsense that totally ignores tipping points, first of all the AMOC. Shameful stuff tbh.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life)
billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
An El Niño is brewing
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.
billmckibben.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life)
billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
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Excited to watch this!
As @jason-watkins.bsky.social rightly says "I absolutely agree fundamentally that privatisation of the water industry has been a disaster"
Dirty Business begins on (publicly owned!) Channel 4 on 23 Feb, 9pm 📺
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
As @jason-watkins.bsky.social rightly says "I absolutely agree fundamentally that privatisation of the water industry has been a disaster"
Dirty Business begins on (publicly owned!) Channel 4 on 23 Feb, 9pm 📺
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Dirty Business — could this TV drama be the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office?
David Thewlis and Jason Watkins star in a powerful new Channel 4 series about the scandal of river pollution and its tragic consequences
www.thetimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Excited to watch this!
As @jason-watkins.bsky.social rightly says "I absolutely agree fundamentally that privatisation of the water industry has been a disaster"
Dirty Business begins on (publicly owned!) Channel 4 on 23 Feb, 9pm 📺
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
As @jason-watkins.bsky.social rightly says "I absolutely agree fundamentally that privatisation of the water industry has been a disaster"
Dirty Business begins on (publicly owned!) Channel 4 on 23 Feb, 9pm 📺
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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Trump admin has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from U.S. cities. “The administration finally realized the amount of resistance that was coming up was more than anyone anticipated.” The deployments have cost more than $496 million. - reports The Washington Post
February 17, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Trump admin has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from U.S. cities. “The administration finally realized the amount of resistance that was coming up was more than anyone anticipated.” The deployments have cost more than $496 million. - reports The Washington Post
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A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/p...
Citing Orwell’s ‘1984,’ judge orders Trump administration to return slavery exhibits removed from Philadelphia museum | CNN Politics
A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historic...
www.cnn.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:32 AM
A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/p...
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Similar playbook to leaded gasoline — GM and Standard Oil literally created Ethyl Corporation in the 1920s to suppress cleaner alternatives. Pattern's ancient.
February 17, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Similar playbook to leaded gasoline — GM and Standard Oil literally created Ethyl Corporation in the 1920s to suppress cleaner alternatives. Pattern's ancient.
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Disgraceful - the government should remove South West Water's licence
Last year it was rated red ("significantly below target") for environmental performance for the *14th year in a row*
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
Last year it was rated red ("significantly below target") for environmental performance for the *14th year in a row*
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
🚨 🤢 HALF TERM... and raw sewage is being dumped straight onto the beach at Widemouth Bay. 🤮
I’ve seen footage this weekend of young children playing just metres away from the sewage...
This is completely unacceptable.
I’ve seen footage this weekend of young children playing just metres away from the sewage...
This is completely unacceptable.
February 17, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Disgraceful - the government should remove South West Water's licence
Last year it was rated red ("significantly below target") for environmental performance for the *14th year in a row*
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
Last year it was rated red ("significantly below target") for environmental performance for the *14th year in a row*
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
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“A govt. that arrests journalists for speech is a govt. declaring war on the First Amendment...”
@kimwehle.bsky.social breaks down Don Lemon’s prosecution while explaining the Face Act under Trump’s war on free speech. Lemon is set to appear in federal court today.
Read: zeteo.com/p/will-trump...
@kimwehle.bsky.social breaks down Don Lemon’s prosecution while explaining the Face Act under Trump’s war on free speech. Lemon is set to appear in federal court today.
Read: zeteo.com/p/will-trump...
February 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
“A govt. that arrests journalists for speech is a govt. declaring war on the First Amendment...”
@kimwehle.bsky.social breaks down Don Lemon’s prosecution while explaining the Face Act under Trump’s war on free speech. Lemon is set to appear in federal court today.
Read: zeteo.com/p/will-trump...
@kimwehle.bsky.social breaks down Don Lemon’s prosecution while explaining the Face Act under Trump’s war on free speech. Lemon is set to appear in federal court today.
Read: zeteo.com/p/will-trump...
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Royal Mail delivered letters from your doctor, family and friends, 6 days a week for decades.
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels
Staff and customers tell the BBC prioritising parcels can mean missed NHS appointments and late payment fines.
www.bbc.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Royal Mail delivered letters from your doctor, family and friends, 6 days a week for decades.
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"Each El Niño event in recent decades has gotten steadily worse, because each one drives the temperature to a new record. ...We are ever further into the great overheating." billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
An El Niño is brewing
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.
billmckibben.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM
"Each El Niño event in recent decades has gotten steadily worse, because each one drives the temperature to a new record. ...We are ever further into the great overheating." billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
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Big Tech says AI can solve climate change. The actual data says not so fast. Learn why/how so many claims about AI’s climate benefit are a hoax 👇
beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...
beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...
February 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Big Tech says AI can solve climate change. The actual data says not so fast. Learn why/how so many claims about AI’s climate benefit are a hoax 👇
beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...
beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...
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@novaramedia.com report on the witch hunt against Francesca Albanese based on a doctored video attributing statements to her she did not make
As Francesca says, false accusations of antisemitism are made in order to shelter Israel from accountability
As Francesca says, false accusations of antisemitism are made in order to shelter Israel from accountability
February 17, 2026 at 9:04 AM
@novaramedia.com report on the witch hunt against Francesca Albanese based on a doctored video attributing statements to her she did not make
As Francesca says, false accusations of antisemitism are made in order to shelter Israel from accountability
As Francesca says, false accusations of antisemitism are made in order to shelter Israel from accountability
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That I read interview after interview, speech after speech on security, energy, migration, or geopolitics, wondering why climate change wasn‘t mentioned in them at all sums up the job we have to do. None of these issues are monocausal, of course. Without climate, though, they can‘t be addressed.
February 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM
That I read interview after interview, speech after speech on security, energy, migration, or geopolitics, wondering why climate change wasn‘t mentioned in them at all sums up the job we have to do. None of these issues are monocausal, of course. Without climate, though, they can‘t be addressed.
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As one example, longer-term past #AMOC evolution has been reconstructred by analysing heat content and temperature changes in the subtropical and tropical Atlantic at mid-depth, which correlates with #AMOC strength:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
February 17, 2026 at 9:07 AM
As one example, longer-term past #AMOC evolution has been reconstructred by analysing heat content and temperature changes in the subtropical and tropical Atlantic at mid-depth, which correlates with #AMOC strength:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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February 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
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I see David Runciman, the 4th Viscount of Doxford, has not withdrawn from Schloss Elmau Symposion w 'reactionary fascist' (JD Vance) Curtis Yarvin
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
Politische Debatten
Politische Debatten und Symposien über die Freiheit und ihre Feinde
www.schloss-elmau.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
I see David Runciman, the 4th Viscount of Doxford, has not withdrawn from Schloss Elmau Symposion w 'reactionary fascist' (JD Vance) Curtis Yarvin
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
How climate change is reshaping crop agronomy www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-...
How climate change is reshaping crop agronomy - Farmers Weekly
Evidence from long-term trial data and climate modelling shows that warmer summers, wetter winters and more extreme weather events are affecting yield
www.fwi.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 11:18 AM
How climate change is reshaping crop agronomy www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-...
What’s the state of this Starmer-led nation? Speak to angry voters in Gorton and Denton and it all becomes clear www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s the state of this Starmer-led nation? Speak to angry voters in Gorton and Denton and it all becomes clear | Owen Jones
I had so many conversations with people fed up with all the chaos, deceit and U-turns. Politics must respond to this disenchantment, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM
What’s the state of this Starmer-led nation? Speak to angry voters in Gorton and Denton and it all becomes clear www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax
A new report on AI greenwashing, analysing the rhetoric and evidence behind the idea big tech will solve climate change
ketanjoshi.co
February 17, 2026 at 8:41 AM
NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
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Stürme, Überschwemmungen und Hitze werden mit zunehmender Erderhitzung häufiger und heftiger. Während die globale Durchschnittstemperatur seit Beginn der Industrialisierung um etwa 1,4 Grad gestiegen ist, ist Europa ungefähr 2,4 Grad heißer geworden.
Leugnen bringt’s nicht.
www.taz.de/!6154994
Leugnen bringt’s nicht.
www.taz.de/!6154994
Klimawandel „höhlt Fundament der EU aus“: EU-Expert*innen fordern Anpassung an 3 Grad Erderhitzung
Der wissenschaftliche Klimabeirat der EU fordert eine einheitliche Strategie zur Klimaanpassung. Die werde aber ohne Klimaschutz nicht ausreichen.
www.taz.de
February 17, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Stürme, Überschwemmungen und Hitze werden mit zunehmender Erderhitzung häufiger und heftiger. Während die globale Durchschnittstemperatur seit Beginn der Industrialisierung um etwa 1,4 Grad gestiegen ist, ist Europa ungefähr 2,4 Grad heißer geworden.
Leugnen bringt’s nicht.
www.taz.de/!6154994
Leugnen bringt’s nicht.
www.taz.de/!6154994
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Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice
Spot the pattern?
Spot the pattern?
February 17, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice
Spot the pattern?
Spot the pattern?
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"The British museum has removed the word 'Palestine' from some displays in its ancient Middle East galleries..."
Milena Veselinovic reports
Milena Veselinovic reports
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 AM
"The British museum has removed the word 'Palestine' from some displays in its ancient Middle East galleries..."
Milena Veselinovic reports
Milena Veselinovic reports