Paddy Hillyard

@paddyzemia.bsky.social

600 followers 420 following 77 posts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology. Human Rights and climate activist, former chair of Independent Water Review Panel, Zemiologist. Latest book: Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy. https://www.beyondthepalebooks.com/ .. more

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Sociology 21%

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Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Gerald Friedman, Nancy M. Wingfield , and 2 more Diane Ravitch, Gerald Friedman, Nancy M. Wingfield, Paddy Hillyard, David Darmofal

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14h

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 18h

Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!

$126/MWh in 2030!

New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!

New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!

Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky

Reposted by Paddy Hillyard

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 11d

3C of global warming means many feet of sea level rise, fundamentally altering coastlines and swamping megacities home to 100s of millions. It means heatwaves that in humid regions could become, literally, unsurvivable for those outdoors without access to active cooling. [11/n]

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 14d

#Melissa is now one of the strongest storms ever in the Atlantic!
In my career I can’t say I’ve seen a more text book structure.
Winds 175 mph, Gusts 200 mph
Pressure: 906 mb, Cat 5.
On its way to #jamaica tonight and tomorrow.
Prayers for all to stay safe!

Reposted by Juan Cole, Paddy Hillyard

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15d

Hurricane Melissa could be one of the most worst hurricanes on record for Jamaica...and it's a textbook example of how climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous: explosive intensification, slow movement, and massive rainfall.

If you know any there, please make sure they’re prepared 🙏

Did Climate Change Cause This Hurricane?

YouTube video by The YEARS Project

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Martin McKee, Stephan Lewandowsky, Steve Peers , and 2 more Martin McKee, Stephan Lewandowsky, Steve Peers, Anand Menon, Paddy Hillyard

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15d

The Trump Action Tracker has an update!

Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.

www.trumpactiontracker.info?

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pmchoan.bsky.social @pmchoan.bsky.social · 16d

#SpéirGhorm #IrishBookWeek #Day8 📚💙

An Irish Book I discovered at a bookshop event.

I picked up #TheGhostLimb by @clairemitchell.bsky.social at the #DromoreBookFestival - organised by the legendary @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social. Claire was joined onstage by @lindaervine.bsky.social that night.

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Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social · 16d

Excellent review of For & Against a United Ireland by the ever-illuminating Katy Hayward
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride: Arguing to end apathy of ‘undecideds’

Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride demonstrate the importance of free and reasoned deliberation

www.irishtimes.com

Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 18d

‘The verdict in Belfast is not the end of the Bloody Sunday story. It is merely the latest chapter in a decades-long struggle between truth and concealment, between families seeking accountability and a state that denied it.’
John Finucane, M.P.
Tribunemag.co.uk

Tribune

Tribune is Britain’s oldest democratic socialist publication, offering leftwing perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

Tribunemag.co.uk

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Robin Percival @robinpercival.bsky.social · 18d

There are more questions which now need addressing. What action will be taken against those who committed perjury during the Saville inquiry? What action will be taken against the MoD who destroyed tge weapons used by tge murderers even after they were told not too by Saville

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Robin Percival @robinpercival.bsky.social · 18d

The acquittal of soldier F came about according to Justice Lynch because F would not give evidence & refused to answer police questions. Also the statements of other soldiers who had been with soldier f had committed perjury and altered their statements under pressure of the MP.

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Robin Percival @robinpercival.bsky.social · 18d

The Bloody Sunday massacre was the biggest mass murder of British citizens since Peterloo, Manchester in 1819. Let that sink in. Not only was no one convicted of the murders but the colonel in charge of the Paras was given an honour.

Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 18d

Soldier F found not guilty in Bloody Sunday murder trial.

So no convictions for the murder of 13 people during an anti-internment March in Derry in 1972. So much for the rule of law in the UK?

‘And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in winter.’
The Road to Derry, Séamus Heaney, 1972.

Bloody Sunday: Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial

Soldier F - who cannot be named - was accused of murdering two people in Londonderry in 1972, plus five counts of attempted murder.

www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Anthony Burke, Paddy Hillyard

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19d

Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing

The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...

Polluting and costly: growing gap between PHEV claims and reality
The gap between real world and official PHEV emissions is widening
WLTP emissions
Real-world emissions
PHEV models emissions
gCO2/km
2021
50
35
0
38
3.5 times
134
2022
33
4 times
137
2023
28
5 times
100
120
139
140
In the real world, PHEVs have similar emissions than conventional hybrids and combustion vehicles
WLTP emissions
Real-world emissions
150
139
135
166
100
PHEV
ICE and HEV
PHEV
ICE and HEV
+500€
0
20
40
60
80
PHEVs operating cost are 500€ larger than what carmakers data suggest
Source: T&E analysis of 2021-22-23 OBFCM data collected by the European Environment Agency, EEA car registrations 2021-23, EAFO, Weekly Oil Bulletin
T&E

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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 21d

John FitzGerald's @irishtimes.com article today grossly misrepresents scientists, science & economics
–No, scientists do not say "eliminate all cattle from our fields" [our?]
–Sci critiqued CCAC "climate neutrality" test
–CCAC's key scenarios also show deep methane cuts
– 🇮🇪 dairy is NOT "efficient"

Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 21d

"Because the agricultural sector makes almost nothing from beef, while milk is very profitable, such a change would not greatly affect farm incomes."

The argument used by Economists to advocate for an unjust & unsustainable approach to Ag emissions ⬇️
www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

Cutting the entire cattle herd to reduce emissions makes no economic sense

Limiting methane emissions is a good thing but agriculture is producing other, more damaging, greenhouse gases

www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Paddy Hillyard

David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 22d

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels.
#climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

We’re Touching 1.9°C - And It’s Only 2025

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate by climate scientist Dr Karsten Haustein shows that, this week, the Earth ...

www.lyrebirddreaming.com

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 23d

The second annual Global Tipping Points Report, with contributions from 160 scientists in 23 countries, finds that Earth has already crossed its first catastrophic tipping point: coral reef die-off. By @readfearn.bsky.social for The Guardian…

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

buff.ly

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 28d

Our planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 29d

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Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · Oct 3

Outrageous. So much for the rule of law in the US and internationally. Frightening times.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Oct 3

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Pamela Samuelson, Juan Cole , and 9 more Anna O. Law, Pamela Samuelson, Juan Cole, Alan Richardson, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Dana R. Fisher, Erin O’Donnell, Toni Haastrup, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Paddy Hillyard, Dunlap

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Oct 3

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President of Ireland @president.ie · Oct 3

Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Manchán Magan president.ie/en/media-lib...

Reposted by Steve Peers, Paddy Hillyard

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Oct 3

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · Sep 30

Claire and Siobhan Brown making the case for Public Inquiry into their father Sean’s murder at Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Fringe event at 6.30

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Sep 21

10 years ago, there was only a single 'leathceann' (windswept) birch tree in the foreground.

Now, there's a full-on exploding diverse native rainforest, none of which was planted. All it took was fencing out sheep.

Let's rewild the world 🌏

Reposted by Fabrice Ardhuin, Paddy Hillyard

Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · Sep 20

I'm sorry, but this is unjustified, optimistic, drivel

Governments across the world are turning away from green measures and FF corporations are expanding operations

Best we can hope for is a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea levels eventually up 20m

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Something is working’: UN climate chief optimistic about green transition

Exclusive: Simon Stiell believes economic benefits will compel countries to speed up climate action

www.theguardian.com

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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · Sep 16

Michael D’s finest moment: the President of Ireland calls for Israel to be excluded from the UN.

Why can’t other leaders speak the truth about Gaza like this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsZ...

President Higgins suggests Israel should be excluded from the UN

YouTube video by RTÉ News

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Tobias Lock, Patrick O’Brien , and 9 more Steve Peers, Tobias Lock, Patrick O’Brien, John L. Cotter, Ben Worthy, Tom Griffin, Rory O’Connell, Aoife O’Donoghue, Geoff Pearson, Colm O’Cinneíde, Paddy Hillyard, Markus W. Gehring

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · Sep 16

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text:

caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · Sep 16

MI5 admit to spying on Belfast-based journalist’.
@Irishnews.com

For more on MI5’s lawlessness, cover-up and lack of accountability in Northern Ireland, see my book: Decades of Deceit. @beyondthepalebooks.com

Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · Sep 14

This image distortion is what Mussolini did for his march on Rome in 1922.

Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · Sep 14

Musk sharing an AI generated image of the Arc de Triomphe with loads of England and Union flags thinking it's London is peak information disorder.

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