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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 20d

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’

Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.

The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29d

🚨Last weekend, Reform UK held their party conference in Birmingham, and as expected, it was a magnet to a range of conspiracy theories and wild, fringe ideas. 🧲

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...

Inside Reform's conference: conspiracy theories galore – HOPE not hate

Walking around Reform UK’s conference on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September, one thing was clear: the party is utterly unfit to govern. Most peculiar...

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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reform says it wants to drill in the North Sea so the UK is not dependent on foreign oil.

Is that why its climate panel is sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a U.S. think tank funded by ExxonMobil? 🤔

www.desmog.com/heartland-in...

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · Jun 21

NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️

We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.

The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · Aug 19

💥NEW: We can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK.

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EXPOSED: Britain First’s “March for Remigration” led by convicted people smuggler

HOPE not hate can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migran...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 12

“Unhinged plastic production is the petrochemical industry’s plan B. They know the world is moving away from fossil fuels” says Panama's Juan Carlos Monterrey-Gomez “They have infiltrated these negotiations, trying to safeguard their profit"

#plasticstreaty
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Deadlock in UN plastics talks raises fears of watered-down deal

Panama's climate envoy said his country would reject a weak deal on plastics at the UN talks held in Geneva

www.climatechangenews.com

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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

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DeSmog @desmog.com · Aug 7

🔴 NEW 🔴

How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution

A flagship media workshop partnered with an industry group backed by Shell and ExxonMobil.

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How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution

EU grant money was used to fund a media workshop on plastic pollution that was run in partnership with a fossil fuel lobby group, DeSmog can reveal. The event, held in May, came at a crucial time – ju...

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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · Aug 4

How can you square an ambition to win the league with having lowest wages to revenue ratio in the league?

How do you justify constant ticket price rises and removing senior concessions?

Instead you have a tedious and hard to follow abstract conversation about football governance.

Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · Aug 4

There are so many questions Spurs would like to ask Levy.

It's a shame none of them were asked here.

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Daniel Levy: Ange, Thomas Frank & The Future of Tottenham | The Overlap Exclusive

YouTube video by The Overlap

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Nice article; poor headline.

It is both too late to save some things and time enough to save others. The Earth System has numerous feedbacks, both positive and negative. Tipping point thresholds are diverse - we've crossed some already but many can be avoided.

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Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change

Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · Jul 16

Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.

A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.

https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Jul 15

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · Jul 9

Hurricane forecasting has doubled in accuracy during the past 15 years thanks mostly to NOAA researchers at the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami.

Guess which scientific lab the new Trump budget is going to zero out entirely.

And not just this lab but *all* NOAA labs.

Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · Jul 9

Chart below 👇

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jul 9

This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated

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Meta has been accused of using faulty data to train an artificial intelligence climate tool, with scientists claiming the Big Tech group raised false hopes about the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale.
The tech company said last year that it had helped researchers with the elusive problem of identifying materials to efficiently remove carbon dioxide from air, by publishing a “groundbreaking” data set on which it also trained free-to-use machine learning models.
But none of the 135 materials that Meta’s research said could bind CO₂ “strongly” had that characteristic, while some did not exist, according to researchers from Heriot-Watt University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more,” said Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering at EPFL, describing some of Meta’s results as “nonsense”. “You get the impression that the Big Tech mentality is do first, think later.”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Apr 25

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre

“appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight"
@selc.bsky.social

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a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site

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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · Jul 7

Climate reasons to be fearful:

1. Labour wastes £££ on (oil&gas fave) carbon capture

2. Tories drop net zero

3. Rise of Reform UK (climate deniers)

4. Media outlets bought by fossil fuel investors (Spectator & Telegraph)

5. Trumpland influence on UK

Read more 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/07/04/c...

Climate Progress and Pushback: 365 Days Under Labour

The July 2024 general election saw a major shift in the UK’s approach to tackling climate change. The incoming Labour government made ambitious pledges to cut emissions and switch to green energy, wit...

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · Jul 5

#SaharanDust transport across the Atlantic over the past 10 days as latest plume reaches the Caribbean on 5 July shown in PM10 surface concentration anomalies from #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol alerts aerosol-alerts.atmosphere.copernicus.eu?view=3d&lat=... #airquality @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Jul 6

🧊 Ice sheets are melting faster

A 31-year satellite study shows sharp rises in meltwater from Greenland and East Antarctica, regions once too cold are now hotspots.

This could speed up sea-level rise and threaten ice shelf stability.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #ClimateChange 🧪

Rapid increases in satellite-observed ice sheet surface meltwater production - Nature Climate Change

Surface melt is an important component of ice sheet dynamics, but for many remote regions the melt rates are mainly known from models. Here the authors present satellite observations of melt rates for...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Jul 4

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠

www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thurrock council has debts of close to £1bn, but it has still been able to pay top London law firms to support an injunction stopping climate protests.

Turns out the council had help from government to pay their legal bills last year.

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Revealed: Michael Gove Threw Money at a Broke Council to Crush Climate Protest | Novara Media

As an Essex council cut a poverty hardship fund and cancelled a new medical centre, Michael Gove gave it money to pursue an injunction against climate protesters. Joe Sandler Clarke reports.

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · Jul 3

Honestly, I've been saying it for a while, but Polish solar is one of the most interesting stories in renewables in the world right now.

www.thereengineer.pro/p/eastern-eu...

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · Jul 3

Big milestone in Poland, where renewables overtake coal
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Renewable energy reached 44% of Poland's electricity production in June

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Jul 3

To help understand air pollution health effects, researchers at Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering quantified how the amount of submicron particles in the air has changed over the past 25 years.

Read more about their study on PM 1 across the United States: bit.ly/46lFSRE

Tiny and toxic: Researchers track smaller air pollution particles across U.S. skies

To help understand air pollution health effects, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis quantify how the amount of submicron particles in the air has changed over the past 25 years.

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