Peter Lipman
peterlipman.bsky.social
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.
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A bunch of reactionary centrist pundits have decided that climate change isn't that big of a deal anymore. These climate scientists strongly disagree.

Hmmm ... how to adjudicate? 🤷
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid.

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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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"ETH researchers estimate the cost of removing 1 tonne of CO2 from the air in the year 2050 to be between 230 and 540 US dollars. This is twice as high as previous estimates"
"The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped.

This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"
Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped
The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by ETH researchers on the basis of new calcu...
ethz.ch
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Fidel Castro died on this day in 2016.

A Foreign Office document, classified for six decades and only recently released to the National Archives, reveals British diplomats secretly discussed the “disappearance” of Castro with the CIA👇
www.declassifieduk.org/cia-discusse...
CIA discussed assassination of Fidel Castro with UK officials
Exclusive: British diplomats advised the CIA on the impact of killing the Cuban leader, just as the US was preparing a massive covert action campaign against Castro.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage.

He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.

The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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the @ec.europa.eu Commission tacit support for fungibility, against strong @ecb.europa.eu objections, gave us Eurodollar stablecoins: hoard in profitable US, run on stronger moneyness EU, necessitating close, potentially subordinating,
coordination with US authorities
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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new 'Transatlantic Faultlines' report for @europarl.europa.eu -

on why we should worry less about tariffs, and more about AI Minsky moment, Eurodollar stablecoins/digital Euro and state capacity to compete in a world of transformative state projects

www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.

About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment www.gravityisgone.com/the-un-clima...
The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I’ll say it—I don’t think COP30 went very well

www.gravityisgone.com/the-un-clima...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Did you know, the founding document of the UN climate process says you have to be nice to fossil fuel producers.

Anyway, please sign up for this newsletter, even free is great, thank you!

www.gravityisgone.com/the-un-clima...
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"It is for us to remember that our fate as humans flows with the rivers. A wounded, polluted river means a wounded, polluted present and future. What can we do now so that the Indus and other rivers flow freely and unpolluted?" roundglasssustain.com/wild-vault/i...
Sher Dariya: The Mighty Indus River | Roundglass | Sustain
A sacred life force for the people of Ladakh, the Indus is now wounded by a dam, pollution, climate change, and threats to its wildlife
roundglasssustain.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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"Generative AI is just like calculators and people criticised them too!!!!"

NO

www.instagram.com/reel/DRQAZDj...
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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📣New data shows London cycling is soaring:

📈 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 daily journeys
📈 that's 43% up from 2019

🚲Cycleway Network grows to 431km (up from 90km in 2016)
😎 & 76% of London cyclists feel safe our routes

🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲

bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Hani Mahmoud reports on the challenges facing Palestinians in Gaza as they try to recover the thousands of bodies buried beneath the rubble.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Nothing says unbiased more than pandering to the far-right clearly...

"The BBC were asked by this paper whether there had been any similar discussions about securing the support of voters for other parties in the UK, but they did not identify any examples"

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM