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Prof Bill McGuire
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Volcanologist, climate scientist, writer, broadcaster, activist, socialist, best-selling author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE. Born @ 313
Home town, Llanelli (South Wales) - lives in the wonderful Peak District
Website: billmcguire.co.uk
Having investigated this, Southern Water have now found themselves guilty

“We are very sorry this has happened and are doing everything possible to investigate and resolve the problem" they said

This is criminal and the company and individuals MUST pay

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The truth is, they haven't just lost their enthusiasm - they are actively rowing back on green policies

Facing future hothouse hell and societal collapse if we continue with business as usual now, they have decided to follow this path anyway

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"300,000 families and individuals.....are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness, including sleeping on the streets, in tents or squats, or stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation"

Completely unacceptable in the 21st century England

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK
Exclusive: Homelessness charity planning to buy properties as it can no longer rely on access to social housing
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
What utter drivel

What every kid needs to hear is not how to be an entitled, obnoxious, English toff, but how to find food and survive in a Pliocene climate with a broken society

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Tutor sought for £180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman'
The advert seeks
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November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"the modern political cycle really is: a twisted wheel, spinning faster than any of us yet understand" @JohnHarris1969

The real 'fun' will start when this collides - in the next few decades - with economic and societal failure driven by climate breakdown

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Welcome to 21st-century politics: a bitter revolt against power that will consume Labour and the Tories | John Harris
A mood of turbulence and insurgency against the two main parties has been building for years, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Bank of England executive has insisted that UK banks are still showing a “vibrant” commitment to climate goals despite the recent demise of a global net zero target-setting group"

Greenwashed bollox - as you would expect from these parasites

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK banks still committed to climate goals, Bank of England executive insists
Exclusive: David Bailey plays down concerns after HSBC and Barclays quit UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This dire government is so set on the destruction of British nature that it refuses point blank to listen to any arguments in its support

We are going to have to fight for every field, every wood, every bat and every newt 💪

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant

Pure insanity

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What utter BS is this?

Southern Water investigating themselves

Seriously - you couldn't make it up

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
Southern Water is being investigated amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
On the BBC News front page, you can find out how two prisoners were accidentally released last year, about a TV celebrity's cancer surgery, and about how to make veggie meatball soup

But no mention AT ALL of the COP30 climate summit

I am lost for words

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November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You can't juggle climate action with any other 'priorities', because if we don't act now, climate breakdown will make EVERYTHING else far, far, worse

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lula’s balancing act: Cop30 Amazon summit juggles climate and social priorities
Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
You can't juggle climate action with any other 'priorities', because if we don't act now, climate breakdown will make EVERYTHING else far, far, worse

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lula’s balancing act: Cop30 Amazon summit juggles climate and social priorities
Brazil’s president welcomes world leaders while navigating divided government, promising action on deforestation and emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is how 21st century fascists treat human beings

While the world looks away

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
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November 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"He said that Labour had to prove to people that it was a “modern party facing the future, delivering for modern Britain”

Is this some sort of sick joke?

I've never heard such drivel

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Read my lips you silly man

No it isn't. What planet are you living on?

We are already commited to at least a Pliocene climate

Pretending otherwise is not helpful

Nor does it mean we stop fighting

TELL THE TRUTH

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
With a return to the Pliocene locked-in, the only meaningful question is, will we stop there or maintain BAU until a return to the Middle Miocene becomes inevitable or - ultimately - the early Eocene?

If the latter, this is what the UK will eventually look like
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Presumably, and unlike the @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, they are not greenlighting huge, new, road tunnel projects

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders
From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are crafting their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Exxon CEO Darren Woods will headline a Cop30 launch event in Brasilia.....called Pragmatic Business Solutions for Carbon Accounting and Emission Reductions"

As I have said and written many times, the COP process is now an ineffectual compromised farce

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A perfect piss-take from @stephencollins.bsky.social of all the AI (machine learning) nonsense that's everywhere these days

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
"Increase taxes for working people, or make the super-rich pay their fair share? The answer seems obvious – but not to Labour"

Yes, yes, yes 👍😀💪

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Increase taxes for working people, or make the super-rich pay their fair share? The answer seems obvious – but not to Labour | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
Rachel Reeves has unnecessarily blocked her options of what to include in her budget, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
What a marvellous photo from @guardian 😀

It's made my day 👍
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"Britain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings..."

More appalling genocide facilitation by this truly dire government

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM