James Brennan
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Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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BBC News - Rights of Hampshire rivers recognised in council votes
Something wonderful is happening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Something wonderful is happening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rights of Hampshire rivers recognised in council votes
Waterways have the right to be free from pollution and to regenerate, two councils declare.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
BBC News - Rights of Hampshire rivers recognised in council votes
Something wonderful is happening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Something wonderful is happening
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Excellent news: our legal action has succeeded. The government is changing its policy on the export of waste tyres, to stop them being diverted into highly polluting and dangerous pyrolysis plants. @fightingdirty.bsky.social
is a tiny group, getting big wins.
fightingdirty.org/fighting-dir...
is a tiny group, getting big wins.
fightingdirty.org/fighting-dir...
Campaign Win! Environment Agency Admits Failings in UK Tyre Export Regulation, Changes to be Introduced Following Fighting Dirty Action | Fighting Dirty
Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has today welcomed the findings of a long-awaited internal review by the Environment Agency, which confirms the EA failed to ensure it was fulfilling its le...
fightingdirty.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Excellent news: our legal action has succeeded. The government is changing its policy on the export of waste tyres, to stop them being diverted into highly polluting and dangerous pyrolysis plants. @fightingdirty.bsky.social
is a tiny group, getting big wins.
fightingdirty.org/fighting-dir...
is a tiny group, getting big wins.
fightingdirty.org/fighting-dir...
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
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If the BBC was doing its job, it would note in its coverage of Reform that 92% of the party's donations come from the fossil fuel industry.
ICYMI: the UK's Trumpist Reform party has launched a new campaign attacking renewable energy in Lincolnshire, the county most at risk from climate change.
Reform UK declares war on Lincolnshire's net-zero projects - BBC News
MP Richard Tice and Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns say they will fight green energy plans.
www.bbc.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
If the BBC was doing its job, it would note in its coverage of Reform that 92% of the party's donations come from the fossil fuel industry.
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Great piece by @hertsgaard on climate coverage. It's been driving me nuts how little the press are connecting the dots.
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change—but They Should Be Afraid
Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Great piece by @hertsgaard on climate coverage. It's been driving me nuts how little the press are connecting the dots.
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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What the news isn't telling you about the US floods:
July 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
What the news isn't telling you about the US floods:
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This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater.
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders
World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almo...
news.exeter.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater.
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse
A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...
www.sciencedaily.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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There are very few questions to which war is the answer, and Iran's nuclear enrichment is not one of them.
June 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
There are very few questions to which war is the answer, and Iran's nuclear enrichment is not one of them.
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Happy summer/winter #solstice and #showyourstripes day
Presenting the @edhawkins.org #climate and #ocean stripes at #UNOC3 in Nice. Dress embroidery highlighting biodiversity loss in a warming, acidifying, over-exploited ocean 🌊🧪⚒️🌏🌡️
Presenting the @edhawkins.org #climate and #ocean stripes at #UNOC3 in Nice. Dress embroidery highlighting biodiversity loss in a warming, acidifying, over-exploited ocean 🌊🧪⚒️🌏🌡️
June 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Happy summer/winter #solstice and #showyourstripes day
Presenting the @edhawkins.org #climate and #ocean stripes at #UNOC3 in Nice. Dress embroidery highlighting biodiversity loss in a warming, acidifying, over-exploited ocean 🌊🧪⚒️🌏🌡️
Presenting the @edhawkins.org #climate and #ocean stripes at #UNOC3 in Nice. Dress embroidery highlighting biodiversity loss in a warming, acidifying, over-exploited ocean 🌊🧪⚒️🌏🌡️
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It’s #showyourstripes day. Do you know how much climate change has impacted your community?
In northern california, this means increased risk of wildfire, increased health impacts of heat and smoke, and impacts on our natural places on land and in the sea. 🌎 🌊 🌲 showyourstripes.info
In northern california, this means increased risk of wildfire, increased health impacts of heat and smoke, and impacts on our natural places on land and in the sea. 🌎 🌊 🌲 showyourstripes.info
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It’s #showyourstripes day. Do you know how much climate change has impacted your community?
In northern california, this means increased risk of wildfire, increased health impacts of heat and smoke, and impacts on our natural places on land and in the sea. 🌎 🌊 🌲 showyourstripes.info
In northern california, this means increased risk of wildfire, increased health impacts of heat and smoke, and impacts on our natural places on land and in the sea. 🌎 🌊 🌲 showyourstripes.info
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C'mon , let's get fossil fuel ads banned . . . first step , a debate in Parliament . Will you be the 100,000th signature on my petition ? Sign at govpetition.uk/700024 – almost there !
May 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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George Monbiot wrote this 6 years ago this week.
The profiteers are bleeding us dry, making our public services into their piggy banks. This just can't go on.
It's common sense: public services should be in public hands. 🚆📮💙🚍🌊⚡️
weownit.org.uk/privatisation
The profiteers are bleeding us dry, making our public services into their piggy banks. This just can't go on.
It's common sense: public services should be in public hands. 🚆📮💙🚍🌊⚡️
weownit.org.uk/privatisation
April 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
George Monbiot wrote this 6 years ago this week.
The profiteers are bleeding us dry, making our public services into their piggy banks. This just can't go on.
It's common sense: public services should be in public hands. 🚆📮💙🚍🌊⚡️
weownit.org.uk/privatisation
The profiteers are bleeding us dry, making our public services into their piggy banks. This just can't go on.
It's common sense: public services should be in public hands. 🚆📮💙🚍🌊⚡️
weownit.org.uk/privatisation
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"Trump states outright that he’s not interested in free trade and doesn’t care about the impact his tariffs have on markets.
What he wants is control: control over supply chains, control over capital flows, control over the behaviour of rival states."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...
What he wants is control: control over supply chains, control over capital flows, control over the behaviour of rival states."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...
Trump’s Tariffs Are About Power, Not Prosperity
The ruling class doesn't care about free markets or free trade - all they have ever wanted is control.
graceblakeley.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"Trump states outright that he’s not interested in free trade and doesn’t care about the impact his tariffs have on markets.
What he wants is control: control over supply chains, control over capital flows, control over the behaviour of rival states."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...
What he wants is control: control over supply chains, control over capital flows, control over the behaviour of rival states."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/trumps-tar...
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1. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...
Investor Memo - Inside Track.pdf
drive.google.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
1. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...
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133 years ago this cartoon was drawn, it is truer today than it ever was.
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
133 years ago this cartoon was drawn, it is truer today than it ever was.
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The UK edition of THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS is out on Thursday!
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
October 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
The UK edition of THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS is out on Thursday!
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."
Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).
Bill McKibben👇
1/2
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This trailer of the blockbuster Hollywood legal film Michael Clayton with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, has all the legal environmental and societal ingredients for a 2025 legal thriller - but it’s set in 2007!
March 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This trailer of the blockbuster Hollywood legal film Michael Clayton with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, has all the legal environmental and societal ingredients for a 2025 legal thriller - but it’s set in 2007!
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Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story!
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
March 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story!
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
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Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank
Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank
BYD reveals new platform with charging speeds of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s superchargers
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly…
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank
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Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.
March 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.
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The USA is not a place I feel inclined to visit anymore…
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The USA is not a place I feel inclined to visit anymore…