Peter Garbutt
@petergarbutt.bsky.social
I'm 73, happily married. Vegan. I'm a dad and a grandad. Sheffield, UK.
Climate catastrophe. Civilisational collapse.
Degrowth will help. Sustainable communities will help. Sortition will help.
But capitalism won't, Political Parties won't, the media won't
Climate catastrophe. Civilisational collapse.
Degrowth will help. Sustainable communities will help. Sortition will help.
But capitalism won't, Political Parties won't, the media won't
Pinned
Much though my heart cries out to donate to Palestinians on this platform desperate for food, I'm a pensioner and have a limited income. I give to a charity, and I join protests and vigils to show my solidarity with you.
Your plight often brings me to tears, I feel helpless.
Your plight often brings me to tears, I feel helpless.
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Its always all about the riches of the land- the oil, the minerals. Always.
December 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Its always all about the riches of the land- the oil, the minerals. Always.
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Russia has lost most of the satellite group used to detect missile launches, with only one of six Tundra-class satellites still operational, Pavel Podvig, a Geneva-based expert on Russian nuclear weapons said.
Russia loses most of its missile-warning satellite group — media
Russia has lost most of the satellite group used to detect missile launches, with only one of six Tundra-class satellites still operational, Pavel Podvig, a Geneva-based expert on Russian nuclear weap...
english.nv.ua
December 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Russia has lost most of the satellite group used to detect missile launches, with only one of six Tundra-class satellites still operational, Pavel Podvig, a Geneva-based expert on Russian nuclear weapons said.
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Oligarchs Have Been Stealing From You Since You Were Born
This middle class has been dwindling in size since the 1970s. This is due to wage stagnation. The richest 1% took your pay raises.
The Oligarchs now control most News Sources and filter what you hear.
Tax The Rich!
This middle class has been dwindling in size since the 1970s. This is due to wage stagnation. The richest 1% took your pay raises.
The Oligarchs now control most News Sources and filter what you hear.
Tax The Rich!
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Oligarchs Have Been Stealing From You Since You Were Born
This middle class has been dwindling in size since the 1970s. This is due to wage stagnation. The richest 1% took your pay raises.
The Oligarchs now control most News Sources and filter what you hear.
Tax The Rich!
This middle class has been dwindling in size since the 1970s. This is due to wage stagnation. The richest 1% took your pay raises.
The Oligarchs now control most News Sources and filter what you hear.
Tax The Rich!
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December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Chemical fire retardants (CFRs) include substances such as PFAS + chemicals linked to hormone disruption + damage to reproductive health. Now, a new report from @fidrango.bsky.social
asks if CFRs are making smoke in fires even more harmful:
www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-...
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asks if CFRs are making smoke in fires even more harmful:
www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-...
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Use of flame retardants and the dangers of increased fire smoke toxicity to UK firefighters’ health - Fidra
‘The use of certain chemical flame retardants in UK consumer products, including furniture, mattresses, textiles, electronics and building construction materials, increases fire smoke toxicity, posing...
www.fidra.org.uk
December 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Chemical fire retardants (CFRs) include substances such as PFAS + chemicals linked to hormone disruption + damage to reproductive health. Now, a new report from @fidrango.bsky.social
asks if CFRs are making smoke in fires even more harmful:
www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-...
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asks if CFRs are making smoke in fires even more harmful:
www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-...
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I highly recommend the videos on ocean currents by Jonathan Sharples, Professor of Oceanography at the University of Liverpool.
Here he covers the AMOC:
youtu.be/eZzpvLz4yAk
Here he covers the AMOC:
youtu.be/eZzpvLz4yAk
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning
YouTube video by OceanClimateAtUoL
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I highly recommend the videos on ocean currents by Jonathan Sharples, Professor of Oceanography at the University of Liverpool.
Here he covers the AMOC:
youtu.be/eZzpvLz4yAk
Here he covers the AMOC:
youtu.be/eZzpvLz4yAk
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Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 29, 2025 ~ Tomorrow and tomorrow ...
"Here at the end of 2025, we are already living with the consequences of delay. Flooding, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are no longer rare events; they are becoming features of normal life."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
"Here at the end of 2025, we are already living with the consequences of delay. Flooding, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are no longer rare events; they are becoming features of normal life."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
The end of 2025 must be the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’
We should admit that widely-mandated climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality - and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to...
www.resilience.org
December 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 29, 2025 ~ Tomorrow and tomorrow ...
"Here at the end of 2025, we are already living with the consequences of delay. Flooding, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are no longer rare events; they are becoming features of normal life."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
"Here at the end of 2025, we are already living with the consequences of delay. Flooding, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are no longer rare events; they are becoming features of normal life."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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In this year’s #PlanetaryHealthCheck (www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...), the #OceanAcidification boundary has been assessed as breached for the first time. What does this mean? Nice explanatory piece in “Dialogue Earth”, with input from PIK researcher Levke Caesar.
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
Explainer: The latest science on ocean acidification
In 2025, scientists warned the ‘planetary boundary’ for ocean acidification had been crossed. This is what that means and why it matters
dialogue.earth
December 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
In this year’s #PlanetaryHealthCheck (www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...), the #OceanAcidification boundary has been assessed as breached for the first time. What does this mean? Nice explanatory piece in “Dialogue Earth”, with input from PIK researcher Levke Caesar.
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...
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If you’re not yet following all the extreme rain events and extreme heat events all across the planet, it’s time to start.
Here is an example of the extreme rain/snowfall events in California:
Here is an example of the extreme rain/snowfall events in California:
🔴⚠️⛈🇺🇸A very hard #Christmas time for southern #California:six counties in state of emergency and 40 milions people under #flood alert due to atmospheric rivers hitting the state since yesterday. ⬇️latest 24hrs seen by #GOES18+rainviewer via @zoom.earth #ClimateEmergency
December 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you’re not yet following all the extreme rain events and extreme heat events all across the planet, it’s time to start.
Here is an example of the extreme rain/snowfall events in California:
Here is an example of the extreme rain/snowfall events in California:
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HISTORIC HEAT IN NIGER & KENYA
Records broken and rebroken every day allover the country
Never happened anything like this
Today record again at Magaria with 39.0C
KENYA has also broken records everywhere this month:Coast,plains,highlands
Today 38.1C Garissa
It will get worse
Records broken and rebroken every day allover the country
Never happened anything like this
Today record again at Magaria with 39.0C
KENYA has also broken records everywhere this month:Coast,plains,highlands
Today 38.1C Garissa
It will get worse
EXTRAORDINARY HISTORIC
Record pulverized allover Africa
40.6 Garoua
CAMEROON HOTTEST DECEMBER DAY IN HISTORY
40C in Ghana,Chad,Niger,Nigeria
All days of the month records smashed allover the region.
It's BY FAR the most extreme event ever seen in the tropics and will get worse
Record pulverized allover Africa
40.6 Garoua
CAMEROON HOTTEST DECEMBER DAY IN HISTORY
40C in Ghana,Chad,Niger,Nigeria
All days of the month records smashed allover the region.
It's BY FAR the most extreme event ever seen in the tropics and will get worse
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
HISTORIC HEAT IN NIGER & KENYA
Records broken and rebroken every day allover the country
Never happened anything like this
Today record again at Magaria with 39.0C
KENYA has also broken records everywhere this month:Coast,plains,highlands
Today 38.1C Garissa
It will get worse
Records broken and rebroken every day allover the country
Never happened anything like this
Today record again at Magaria with 39.0C
KENYA has also broken records everywhere this month:Coast,plains,highlands
Today 38.1C Garissa
It will get worse
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Q: Can you say any more about the explosion in Venezuela that you mentioned in a radio interview. Did the military do that?
TRUMP: Well, it doesn't matter. But there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. We hit the area.
TRUMP: Well, it doesn't matter. But there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. We hit the area.
December 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Q: Can you say any more about the explosion in Venezuela that you mentioned in a radio interview. Did the military do that?
TRUMP: Well, it doesn't matter. But there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. We hit the area.
TRUMP: Well, it doesn't matter. But there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. We hit the area.
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We are killing fellow humans in the future.
428.19 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 28-Dec-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We are killing fellow humans in the future.
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"New True Edition"
via Trevor Martin
via Trevor Martin
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"New True Edition"
via Trevor Martin
via Trevor Martin
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Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia
Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia
Warnings of extreme fire danger in SA regions, while Tropical Cyclone Hayley tracks towards WA
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia
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“Climate-related disasters caused severe economic harm in 2025, with the 10 most costly responsible for damage exceeding €100 billion.”
The true costs are MUCH higher & rising fast.
They want us to think we can’t afford to change to address the #ClimateCrisis. The truth is we can’t afford NOT to.
The true costs are MUCH higher & rising fast.
They want us to think we can’t afford to change to address the #ClimateCrisis. The truth is we can’t afford NOT to.
Ten most costly climate-related disasters this year caused €100bn damage
Californian wildfires were the most expensive financially
www.irishtimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“Climate-related disasters caused severe economic harm in 2025, with the 10 most costly responsible for damage exceeding €100 billion.”
The true costs are MUCH higher & rising fast.
They want us to think we can’t afford to change to address the #ClimateCrisis. The truth is we can’t afford NOT to.
The true costs are MUCH higher & rising fast.
They want us to think we can’t afford to change to address the #ClimateCrisis. The truth is we can’t afford NOT to.
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something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
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ICYMI - the latest monthly status on greenhouse gas levels...
For more NOAA data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
For more NOAA data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
December 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
ICYMI - the latest monthly status on greenhouse gas levels...
For more NOAA data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
For more NOAA data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
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Apparently “fox hunting divides rural Britain” is trending on the apps.
pure misinformation, given that official pollsters’ findings indicate 80% support for the ban.
The interests of an aristocratic minority still hold sway over UK laws and enforcement.
Question why this is tolerated.
pure misinformation, given that official pollsters’ findings indicate 80% support for the ban.
The interests of an aristocratic minority still hold sway over UK laws and enforcement.
Question why this is tolerated.
December 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Apparently “fox hunting divides rural Britain” is trending on the apps.
pure misinformation, given that official pollsters’ findings indicate 80% support for the ban.
The interests of an aristocratic minority still hold sway over UK laws and enforcement.
Question why this is tolerated.
pure misinformation, given that official pollsters’ findings indicate 80% support for the ban.
The interests of an aristocratic minority still hold sway over UK laws and enforcement.
Question why this is tolerated.
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Pay attention Brits
Liz Truss, who served 44 days as UK prime minister, goes full Curtis Yarvin.
Interviewing Yarvin on her new podcast, she calls for overhauling UK government to fit his vision.
“I agree with you, having spent 10 years in the system, you need to start from scratch,” Truss tells Yarvin.
Interviewing Yarvin on her new podcast, she calls for overhauling UK government to fit his vision.
“I agree with you, having spent 10 years in the system, you need to start from scratch,” Truss tells Yarvin.
December 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Pay attention Brits
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It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.
Pluto’s icy Mountains.
Thankyou NASA ☺️
Pluto’s icy Mountains.
Thankyou NASA ☺️
December 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.
Pluto’s icy Mountains.
Thankyou NASA ☺️
Pluto’s icy Mountains.
Thankyou NASA ☺️
December 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM