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Somnous Butler 🍃🌲🌹🐝🦋 @somnousbutler.bsky.social · 1d

And still they ignore the best carbon capturing machine is just right outside and serving its purpose.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

📢 🚨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...

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Ecoanarchist @ecoanarchism.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 1d

EXCL: PM facing Labour rebellion over Digital ID.

No10 setting up "outreach" meetings to win over unhappy MPs.

MP says: "Overtures from them won’t shift people and those who support it think No.10′s reverse Midas touch has tainted it for another 5 years.”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Keir Starmer Facing Mounting Labour Rebellion Over Digital ID Cards

MPs believe Downing Street's "mishandling" of the policy has set it back five years.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Climate Change @euclimate.bsky.social · 1d

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact | The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

https://www.europesays.com/2476708/

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact | The …

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact | The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle. - EUROPE SAYS

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact | The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas

www.europesays.com

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 1d

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 1d

And, yes, wildlife, we need to stop washing nitrate + phosphate into a river where salmon are perilously close to becoming locally extinct.

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 1d

Jobs working directly on the river - fishing guides, boating, watersports, but also, cafés, pubs, hotels, tourist attractions - many small + medium size businesses depend on a clean river. Their interests need to be considered as well as those of the companies who run intensive farms.

WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 1d

Jubb explains there's always been a balance between farming + river health, but the growing number of intensive chicken farms in the area has tipped that balance so that the river is losing out, fish are losing out, wildlife is losing out, businesses that rely on a thriving river are losing out:

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.

Tweet from Amy Klobuchar that reads:
“27 million pounds of chicken
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.”
Below the text is an image showing trucks on a highway with a banner labeled “CANCELED” and a caption: “Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.” The source line reads: “From projects.propublica.org.”

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Somnous Butler 🍃🌲🌹🐝🦋 @somnousbutler.bsky.social · 1d

She is. And the worst MP ever. She never bothers to answer or even stay in the area that she is meant to represent. I honestly want her stripped of her title as MP. At least that would be one less issue.

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Francis Sealey @globalnet21.bsky.social · 1d

Thousands join biggest-ever UK environmental lawsuit over river pollution

The biggest legal claim ever brought in the UK over environmental pollution in the country has been filed at the High Court.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 3d

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is

New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

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Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · 3d

#Ontario’s electricity emissions are climbing fast — putting the province off-track to meet its 2030 climate goals.

Why are we still burning gas instead of scaling up #renewables?

Read More [via @globalnews.ca ] shorturl.at/1uFtE

#onpoli #climatenews

Electricity emissions sinking Ontario’s climate goals, internal docs say | Globalnews.ca

Back in October 2024, the Ford government was on course to exceed its 2030 target of getting greenhouse gas emissions at or below 28 per cent of their 2005 levels.

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Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) @bjerknes.uib.no · 2d

🧪⚒️ Always exciting when we have a PhD.defence!
On Friday, Wanyee Wong @NORCE and the BCCR will defend her thesis "Sea ice in the Nordic Seas during Dansgaard-Oescher events"🌊 @scienceandtechuib.bsky.social

Text on picture of sunset over the Arctic Ocean: During the last ice age: Between 40.000 and 35.000 years ago, Earth's climate underwent rapid and dramatic fluctiations. Photo: Ellen Viste

Text over image of sea ice in the Arctic: To investigate the role of sea ice more closely, Wanyee Wong analyzed biomarkers from a sediment core retrieved from the eastern Fram Strait. Photo: Ellen Viste

Text over image of calm ocean surface covered with thin pancake ice: The results show that changes in sea ice did not always follow the same pattern as in the broader Nordic Seas and the North Atlantic. Photo: Ellen Viste

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly 400 marine mammals have washed up sick or dead on California’s Central Coast since June. Leptospirosis, toxic algal blooms, food collapse. The ocean itself is becoming uninhabitable for the life it holds — and most deaths go unseen. #RacingToExtinction

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Marine mammals are dying in record numbers along the California coast — Los Angeles Times

It's been a doozy of a year for marine mammals, who have been dying in record numbers along the California coast. Volunteer rescue crews are traumatized and fatigued, but refuse to give up.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

Carbon offsetting suffers from deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve says review paper from Oxford Uni

“We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 2d

Great news on solar and wind. Hate to be a downer, but the decline in hydro, especially in Europe due to droughts and heat, according to Ember -- is concerning, and a trend that will likely increase in the next few decades.

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 3d

It's difficult to check (registration is by product, not constituent), but last I looked there were well over 100 herbicide chemicals registered for use in Australia.

So why are we running a free advert for the latest one?

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3d

We've been spraying it on our farms, gardens and roadsides for 50 years, but the world's most used weedkiller is starting to run out of steam. But after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D, Roundup's owner says it has an alternative.

German chemical giant to release Roundup alternative in Australia

We've been spraying it on our farms, gardens and roadsides for 50 years, but the world's most used weedkiller is starting to run out of steam. But after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D, Roundup's owner says it has an alternative.

www.abc.net.au

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

As renewables overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity, what did we get from the Tory conference?

- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea

They are so out of touch!

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 3d

And the astronomical cost to clean up PFAS pollution, even were production to cease today, let alone if we continue to permit these chemicals to spew into the environment.

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Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe

Exclusive: Costs of UK cleanup will reach £9.9bn a year in UK if emissions of ‘forever chemicals’ remain uncontrolled

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 3d

The project exposed intense industry lobbying to prevent a ban on PFAS forever chemicals on a scale, "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together".
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Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation

Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter arguments made by fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation

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Mr MT @mremtee.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC have some very powerful images to illustrate the point.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 3d

"All global modelled pathways that limit warming to 1.5°C (>50%) with no or limited overshoot, and those that limit warming to 2°C (>67%), involve rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade."

#Sufficiency

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

Limiting warming to the Paris Agreement targets requires rapid, deep, and in most cases, immediate reductions in GHG emissions. Net-zero is achieved with emissions reductions, as shown in the graphic. Implemented policies overshoot the targets.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 3d

The #foreverlobbyingproject was nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament!

🥂 It was an honour to be a part of this project, congrats to @stephanehorel.bsky.social and everyone involved.

WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 3d

We're honoured the Forever Lobbying Project that Watershed was part of, led by @stephanehorel.bsky.social + in association with @corporateeurope.org has been nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament.

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The Forever Pollution Project, The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS Pollution on the environment, science and politics

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting thread about predicting vs imagining the climate future
(both facets of forecasting)

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d

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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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely a petition we can get behind, launched by our friends at Animal Aid.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Ban greyhound racing

Greyhound racing kills and injures dogs. From 2017–2023, 1,230 dogs died trackside, many more were destroyed, and there were over 31,000 injuries. We believe it’s time to follow Wales and ban this…

petition.parliament.uk

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