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Predictable and desperate, untruthful, Trump style rhetoric from Starmer in the papers today.

The choice is clear.
Business as usual with the politics of despair, or a politics of hope with @greenparty.org.uk @walesgreenparty.bsky.social

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I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers.

He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.

Trumpian
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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427.05 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 06-Dec-2025
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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.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Oooh, they've named it the "Hubbard Glacier Earthquake"

Might get some glacier movement/landslides visible on satellite in the next pass of Sentinel-2 or Sentinel-1.

#earthquake #alaska #akwx
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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426.75 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 04-Dec-2025
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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.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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If the line gets any steeper it’s gonna start going backwards in time.
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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The end of coal in California ⬇️
Something to be thankful for!

Utah's largest coal-fired power plant—the Intermountain Power Project, located in the west desert near Delta and serving southern California—stopped burning coal at mid-day on Wednesday, just in time for Thanksgiving. 🔌💡
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Welcome to the start of meteorological winter! Check out how December temperatures have warmed around our planet over the last four decades...

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Most football fans don’t realise just how many millions of litres of water it takes to keep a pitch game-ready every season. ⚽️💦
Learn how new pitches are helping #Everton and @Hednesford Town FC tackle water scarcity, flooding and pollution in the latest episode of Waterfall 🎧⤵️
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

'The surge in #solar use has also pushed Pakistan to renegotiate its LNG contracts with top supplier Qatar and cancel cargoes supplied by Italy's Eni, Moriani said.'
Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
Pakistan's rooftop solar generation will for the first time exceed power demand on the country's electrical grid during daytime hours in some major industrial regions next year, a senior government of...
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.

By my count, that is now the TWELFTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 15 separate articles).

I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
"We are happy to correct the record."
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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You may remember, of course you do, how a certain 'independent' analyst got a jump in exposure by claiming that the grid was inches away from falling over in January.

Well, Ofgem looked into that day too and have released their analysis; TLDR: gas plant tried to screw the system.

Little 🧵below
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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NEW | A single carbon removal project at a biomass power station In the UK could cost £30 BILLION in government subsidies.

This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.

https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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“The year featured a record number of violent incidents over water around the world, far surpassing the 355 in 2023, continuing a steeply rising trend. The violence more than quadrupled in the last five years.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
Violent conflict over water hit a record last year
Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine and the Middle East.
www.latimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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From 2030*, passengers of private jets departing from the Netherlands will pay a flight tax of €420 to €2,100, depending on distance. So far, they only paid €29.40, just like ordinary airline passengers.

Yay for Dutch parliament!
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...

*) PS Why only then?
Tweede Kamer wil vliegbelasting voor privéjets 14 tot 71 keer verhogen: 'Toonbeeld van verspilling'
De Tweede Kamer wil dat passagiers van privévliegtuigen veel meer vliegbelasting gaan betalen. De Kamer heeft zojuist een voorstel van GroenLinks-PvdA aangenomen, waarin de vliegbelasting voor privéje...
www.rtl.nl
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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If that sounds confusing, it is! But as I say, it's worth getting your head around it in the end.

You can split your SPL into blocks. I've done it in two, one short block after fully paid pat leave, and a big block at the end of my wife's maternity leave.

More info here
www.gov.uk/shared-paren...
Shared Parental Leave and Pay
You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, st...
www.gov.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The v big news is that the govt has jettisoned the principal objective of "maximising economic recovery of offshore oil & gas" for the O&G regulator (the NSTA), replacing it with objectives that align with the govts broader socio-economic & climate objectives. An eminently sensible, welcome move
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November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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426.01 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 24-Nov-2025
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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.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It happened when the eyes of UK climate campaigners and journalists were on Brazil - but why did the flooding of Monmouth go so under the radar even among those of us who focus on extreme weather?
As extreme floods become more common we need to talk about them more, not less!
Storm Claudia puts Wales under water – why did these record-breaking floods barely make the news?
On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, Jude Rogers heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly the disaster was hardly referred to in Westminster and the national press
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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In the Netherlands, we have the OV-fiets system, seamlessly connecting bike rental to train travel. On small stations, there's a bike rental 'vending machine'. Scan your public transport card, and it offers you a bike. On returning the bike, the machine asks if it was in good condition. Brilliant!
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM