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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 New blog: US nuclear weapons return to the UK ready for the RAF

SGR’s Dr Phillip Webber explores the implications of the UK’s purchase of nuclear capable F-35A and the return of US nuclear weapons to Lakenheath.

www.sgr.org.uk/resources/us...

US nuclear weapons return to the UK ready for the RAF

The UK government has announced a new nuclear role for the Royal Air Force using US bombs and aircraft. Dr Philip Webber, SGR, explores the disturbing implications of this surprise announcement. Respo...

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 1d

“Outside the event, the public outrage at the profiteering from suffering and injustice around the world was palpable.”

SGR campaigner Laura Shewan reflects on the atmosphere outside DSEI 2025 - the world’s largest military technology exhibition.

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The DSEI arms fair: notes from the front line

Laura Shewan, SGR, reports from the recent protests in London outside the world’s largest ‘exhibition’ of military technology. Responsible Science blog, 6 October 2025

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 1d

Join us for our free, online conference where we explore their overlapping interests and how we can challenge them 👇

📆 Wednesday 15th October, 16:00 - 18:00 BST

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Reserve your free ticket – Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom

Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - The 'cyber elite' - tech corporate leaders, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos - are embracing many policies from the far right i...

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 1d

What do the far right, tech bros, and fossil fuel companies have in common?

From favouring policies like deregulation, energy intensification, and militarisation to constructing shared enemies such as the ‘woke’ climate agenda and, ironically, ‘elites’ - it turns out, quite a lot! 🧪

Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Polluter and Cyber Elites - A lethal Alignment?

This year's conference explores where the interests of the far right tech bros and major polluters coincide - and what we can do to challenge them!

Join us on Wednesday 15th October, 16:00 - 18:00 BST

www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 5d

“It is unambiguous and it is clear climate change is playing a role. These aren’t just bigger fires, they’re fires occurring under increasingly extreme weather conditions that make them unstoppable.”

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Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable

Of 200 fires in the past 44 years, half of the fires that cost US$1bn or more were in the last decade

www.theguardian.com

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 6d

Badenoch and Reform stand with the profiting polluter elites, not working people.

Renewable energy = cheaper energy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

Join us online for this urgent conversation:

📆 Wednesday 15th October, 16:00 - 18:00 BST

Register below👇

www.sgr.org.uk/events/pollu...

Polluter and cyber elites - a lethal alignment?

Our 2025 conference will again be on Zoom and free to attend.

www.sgr.org.uk

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

The climate crisis and inequality are intertwined, and while tech can help, it can also deepen divides.

Emily Ghosh explores what an equitable transition would look like in the age of polluter and cyber elites. 🧪

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

The AI boom promises convenience, but at what cost?

Award-winning science communicator and author Dr Simon Clark argues that the energy and water demands of the requisite data centres are enormous, and that this poses great risks in a grid yet to fully decarbonise. 🧪 #AI

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

James Parr, founder and CEO of Trillium Technologies, makes the case that tech is never neutral, and that while AI can solve some of our greatest challenges, the notion of ‘AI for good’, left unchallenged, also risks harm. 🧪 #AI

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

SGR’s Dr Stuart Parkinson sketches out three areas where the interests of the polluter and cyber elites overlap to undermine human security and prosperity: energy intensification, deregulation & militarisation.

Campaigners across climate, peace and human rights must unite to challenge them. 🧪

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

Our first speaker, Astrid Nilsson Lewis (Oxfam Sweden), makes the case that extreme wealth fuels climate breakdown, with polluter elites keeping us hooked on fossil fuels while the poorest pay the highest price.

Astrid argues that it’s up to governments to break this cycle. 🧪

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Polluter and Cyber Elites - A lethal Alignment?

This year's conference explores where the interests of the far right tech bros and major polluters coincide - and what we can do to challenge them!

Join us on Wednesday 15th October, 16:00 - 18:00 BST

www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 9d

“When you consider the ecocide alongside the genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.”

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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 12d

SGR has joined 100s of organisations and individuals in signing the joint appeal to world leaders on this International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Sign the appeal below.👇

Peace is in our hands.

www.nuclearabolitionday.org/joint-letter

#NuclearAbolitionDay 🧪

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 13d

📖 New book: Work Psychology and the Climate Crisis

by SGR Co-Chair Jan Maskell

Explore the psychological impacts of climate change on organisations and individuals and how psychological principles can drive effective responses.

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

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Work Psychology and the Climate Crisis | A Handbook of Principles and

This book explores the psychological impact of climate change on organisations and individuals, encouraging the reader to consider the ways in which they can

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 13d

As Trump’s UN speech made clear (once again), the world can no longer look to the US for leadership.

From climate denial to Tylenol misinfo, his politically expedient war on science and observable reality will only make the world more vulnerable.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump UN speech: Six years ago his audience laughed, this year they were silent

The US leader's address was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, writes James Landale.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 16d

Here's a reminder of what a 'fair carbon budget' for the UK looks like:

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The UK’s fair carbon budget will run out in 2027: here’s the evidence

Dr Ian Campbell shows how, on current trends, Britain’s carbon emissions will, within two years, exceed its fair share of the estimated global total that will breach the 1.5°C Paris target. He outline...

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 16d

Hard to see how the UK gov’s air travel policies square with their existing commitments to ‘net zero’ by 2050 - let alone staying within our fair share of carbon emissions, which we are set to blow past by 2027 🤔

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary

There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 We are excited to share our 2025 conference line-up:

Astrid Nilsson Lewis, Oxfam Sweden
Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR
James Parr, Trillium Technologies
Dr Simon Clark, Science communicator
Emily Ghosh, SEI

📅 15 Oct 2025 | 4–6pm BST (online, free)

Sign up:
www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
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Scientists for Global Responsibility 2025 Conference. Polluter and cyber elites: a lethal alignment

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 20d

🚨TOMORROW: How does militarism drive the climate crisis, and why is it ignored in UN climate talks?

SGR's Stuart Parkinson will join global experts making a feminist call for demilitarisation in the UN climate process.

📆 19th September, 2PM UTC

Sign up now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 21d

🚨TODAY in London 🚨

Join SGR and others standing up for science, peace, and planetary security at the "Trump Not Welcome" demonstration ✊

📍ASSEMBLE: 2PM Portland Place W1B
📍RALLY: 5PM Parliament Square

stoptrump.org.uk/protest/
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 22d

Military spending is soaring, and so are emissions.

Yet poor data lets governments shirk responsibility.

As Dr Stuart Parkinson argues, we must demand transparency, disarmament, and peacebuilding if we are to avert catastrophic climate change.

theecologist.org/2025/sep/16/...
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Declaring war on the climate

Spending on the world’s militaries is climbing rapidly. A major new report shows how this surge is affecting carbon emissions.

theecologist.org

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 23d

10/ Read the full report below 👇

www.sgr.org.uk/publications...

Military spending rises and greenhouse gas emissions: what does the research say?

With military spending climbing rapidly around the world, this report assesses and compares the results of 11 recent studies which have tried to estimate how such spending rises will impact greenhouse...

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 23d

9/ The conclusion:

❌ Increased military spending directly undermines global climate goals.

✔️ More must be done to support robust emissions reporting, including on emissions from war-fighting.

✔️ Peacebuilding, arms control & disarmament are effective climate policies.

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