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Girly swot, paying attention to the pale blue dot.
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As we head into the 3rd heatwave of the summer, *please* take just 2 moments to sign this petition calling on government to help our communities adapt & prepare for the impacts of #climate change. We are not safe — we need to be #SAFER @climatemajority.bsky.social
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
July 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Sigh.
Not a lot of love for the press at the tipping points conference

Rockström says the media is “getting it very wrong, seriously wrong”

Dr Carlos Nobre points to a lack of coverage of the impacts of the degradation of topical forests, noting the "tremendous risk of epidemics and pandemics”
June 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Please do watch.
Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone.
You're going to need a bigger prison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
YouTube video by Double Down News
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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The Amazon is being destroyed by a most deadly trio:

• Livestock farming
• Organised crime
• Climate breakdown

If the planet's biggest rainforest ecosystem is lost, we're lost too. Our fate is totally inseparable from that of the natural world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The summer of 1976 was a freak.

What we’re living through now is the new baseline, says The Bear.

The more we cling to rose-tinted memories, the less prepared we are for what’s next.
“Remember ’76?” isn’t a climate argument
Britain’s 1976 heatwave was an outlier in a stable climate – not proof today’s crisis is normal
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Are you a journalist writing about a current heatwave?

The images you choose are critical to the story.

The @climateoutreach.bsky.social team have shown some ideas here which help stress the risks rather than the typical ice creams: www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...
How do you photograph heat? - Climate Outreach
www.climatevisuals.org
June 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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New paper shows the pace of global warming has roughly doubled since the 1980s.

Led by @piersforster.bsky.social, over 60 scientists have worked to update "Indicators of Global Climate Change" - including PIK researchers @wflamb.bsky.social and Jan Minx.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Pace of warming has doubled since 1980s
19.06.2025 – The rate of global heating in the period 2012-2024 has roughly doubled from the 1980s according to the latest peer-reviewed update of “Indicators of Global Climate Change” published today...
www.pik-potsdam.de
June 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world.

Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story.

And, we've had hotter UK summers since.
June 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Oh 🫢
given the wild flak that renewables got in the aftermath of the spanish blackout a few weeks ago, I think it would have been good for media to lead with the fact that the investigation found they were blameless, and it was conventional (gas, coal, nuclear) power plants that screwed it up
June 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Oil prices spiked due to more aggression from a country currently committing genocide.

Renewable energy prices were unaffected.

Do you like entrusting your country's economy to the whims of genocidal maniacs?

If not, you have options.
June 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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A poetic, powerful closing from @helenczerski.bsky.social:
Earth, seen from far away - during the Apollo missions or soon again with Artemis - is not defined by a flag or a radio signal.
There is one colour for our planet, and it's blue: our 'signature on the universe.' #Humanists2025
June 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Israel is enacting ' the final solution' in Gaza as all internet, electricity and water is cut off and everyone is distracted by Israel's warcrimes elsewhere and AIPACS incursion on American rule of law.
Don't stop talking about Palestine.
June 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted.

Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions.

This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected...

🧵 1/8
June 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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We can't ignore stats like these.

In 2025 the UK has had a record numbers of wildfires and now warmest sea surface temperatures.

We need to drastically reduce our carbon emissions if we're going to resist climate collapse. Choosing sustainable transport is an important step towards that.
This is phenomenal.

Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.

It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
May 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
'MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster
bylinetimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.
May 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The disaster agency is defunded… Trump is not only accelerating the crisis, but ensuring the catastrophic results are more destructive, costly and fatal.
The Extreme Weather Report, May 15, 2025: This is your weather on fossil fuels, during an increasing perilous situation in the US.
May 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Oh my goodness. How awful is this presenter? Well done @rupertread.bsky.social Outstanding … grace in the face of utter stupidity. 💚
May 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Something's wrong when scientists have to protest outside Parliament to be heard, whilst ministers hold cosy meetings every day with lobbyists for the companies destroying our environment.
#ScienceToPolitics #ScientistsForSurvival #ActOnFacts
@mikebernerslee.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Scientists speaking outside Parliament
YouTube video by Simon Oldridge - Environmental Content
youtu.be
May 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
💚 Happening now ☺️
We did it!!
Here we are about to BRING SCIENCE TO POLITICS

Thank you to the ~200 scientists who have joined us today, many of whom are in Parliament RIGHT NOW, speaking with politicians.

More updates to follow
📸 by Denise Laura Baker
May 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM