Oliver Lamford
@oliverlamford.bsky.social
A co-ordinator for Nature by the Taff, a nature group building local appetites for change and ecological living in South Wales.
Studying MSc Sustainability and Ecology at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth.
Studying MSc Sustainability and Ecology at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth.
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Crazy mid-November snow melt episode in the Pyrenees! ❄️🔥
Tourmalet: 2115 m asl 🏔️
This foreshadows what we will soon experience:
Winter heat waves so strong that they could damage the entire snowpack! 😱📈
📷 @meteopyrenees.bsky.social
Tourmalet: 2115 m asl 🏔️
This foreshadows what we will soon experience:
Winter heat waves so strong that they could damage the entire snowpack! 😱📈
📷 @meteopyrenees.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Crazy mid-November snow melt episode in the Pyrenees! ❄️🔥
Tourmalet: 2115 m asl 🏔️
This foreshadows what we will soon experience:
Winter heat waves so strong that they could damage the entire snowpack! 😱📈
📷 @meteopyrenees.bsky.social
Tourmalet: 2115 m asl 🏔️
This foreshadows what we will soon experience:
Winter heat waves so strong that they could damage the entire snowpack! 😱📈
📷 @meteopyrenees.bsky.social
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Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
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Over 2/3 of primary energy is wasted as heat.
The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.
The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Over 2/3 of primary energy is wasted as heat.
The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.
The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.
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“The public are being told by reporters that climate scientists are warning that we must stop burning fossil fuels, but those who still buy print newspapers are bombarded with adverts suggesting everyone else is enjoying long haul flights and luxury cruises,”
buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.
UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage
Space devoted to promoting flights, cruises, SUVs, and the oil industry dwarfed the column inches given to last year's U.N. climate summit, study finds.
www.desmog.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
“The public are being told by reporters that climate scientists are warning that we must stop burning fossil fuels, but those who still buy print newspapers are bombarded with adverts suggesting everyone else is enjoying long haul flights and luxury cruises,”
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Dear Britain:
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Dear Britain:
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
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BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Don't blame the bats, Labour – you're not just damaging nature but your own poll rating too
It wasn't meant to be this way. Sixteen months on from winning a massive majority, off the back of a manifesto that promised 'to restore and protec...
www.politicshome.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Am struck again at how the 'debates' over bias and balance in climate reporting at the BBC and elsewhere should have been treated much more seriously. The populist and authoritarian right are now using playbooks they spent decades developing to oppose climate action on pretty much everything.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Am struck again at how the 'debates' over bias and balance in climate reporting at the BBC and elsewhere should have been treated much more seriously. The populist and authoritarian right are now using playbooks they spent decades developing to oppose climate action on pretty much everything.
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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
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Iranian capital [Tehran] faces water rationing and evacuations if it doesn’t rain soon, president warns
apnews.com/article/iran...
apnews.com/article/iran...
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Iranian capital [Tehran] faces water rationing and evacuations if it doesn’t rain soon, president warns
apnews.com/article/iran...
apnews.com/article/iran...
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When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
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This is the single most important way that the Labour government could connect up climate action with reducing inequality, and also having a chance to undermine support for Reform in 'red wall' places. Barmy to cut it on every possible ground. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is the single most important way that the Labour government could connect up climate action with reducing inequality, and also having a chance to undermine support for Reform in 'red wall' places. Barmy to cut it on every possible ground. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Join us TOMORROW when @julespretty.bsky.social will be leading an important discussion on 'How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises'. Register to attend online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Join us TOMORROW when @julespretty.bsky.social will be leading an important discussion on 'How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises'. Register to attend online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
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This is absolutely appalling.
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is absolutely appalling.
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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For anyone interested in Nature in the UK, this is really, really depressing reading. Despite all our efforts over the past decades (site protection, farming schemes), wild plants, an essential element of the natural world, are disappearing before our eyes. britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...
A new vascular plant Red List for Great Britain
| British & Irish Botany
britishandirishbotany.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
For anyone interested in Nature in the UK, this is really, really depressing reading. Despite all our efforts over the past decades (site protection, farming schemes), wild plants, an essential element of the natural world, are disappearing before our eyes. britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...
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📢 40+ NGOs have written to the PM urging him to uphold the Aarhus Convention – the cornerstone of environmental justice
The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably
The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📢 40+ NGOs have written to the PM urging him to uphold the Aarhus Convention – the cornerstone of environmental justice
The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably
The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably
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Too much out there repeating vague notions that nature protection & restoration will combat climate change
It really depends on what is protected & restored, & what the comparison is
We need to massively reduce emissions, not wave the magic wand of ‘nature’ as the solution
It really depends on what is protected & restored, & what the comparison is
We need to massively reduce emissions, not wave the magic wand of ‘nature’ as the solution
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Too much out there repeating vague notions that nature protection & restoration will combat climate change
It really depends on what is protected & restored, & what the comparison is
We need to massively reduce emissions, not wave the magic wand of ‘nature’ as the solution
It really depends on what is protected & restored, & what the comparison is
We need to massively reduce emissions, not wave the magic wand of ‘nature’ as the solution
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Neither the government nor the media are taking Musk seriously enough, given his commitments to doing whatever he can to socialise violence in our country by the various means available to him (money, platforms, voice)
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Normalisation? Musk saying civil war inevitable in UK (at least third time) + socalising violence (the second time) is mostly not considered newsworthy.
He wrote: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die"
He wrote: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die"
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Neither the government nor the media are taking Musk seriously enough, given his commitments to doing whatever he can to socialise violence in our country by the various means available to him (money, platforms, voice)
bsky.app/profile/sund...
bsky.app/profile/sund...
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
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Tiktok full blown theatre of information warfare for Moldova elections. If you think your country is immune to this, think again. If you think this poses a distinct threat to democracy your laggy country needs to tackle, write to your MP.
Almost as large as the 2023 Russian TikTok operation @dfrlab.bsky.social and BBC Verify uncovered targeting former Ukrainian Def Min Oleksii Reznikov, though arguably more sophisticated, as the Moldova op used full-blown AI-generated videos rather than AI-generated voiceover audio.
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tiktok full blown theatre of information warfare for Moldova elections. If you think your country is immune to this, think again. If you think this poses a distinct threat to democracy your laggy country needs to tackle, write to your MP.
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as a polls and spreadsheets guy, i endorse this message.
i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
as a polls and spreadsheets guy, i endorse this message.
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Forces trying to keep us locked into expensive gas & oil have shifted their argument.
Now the dramatic effects of climate change are so clear, they’re trying cast doubt on the solutions.
Another reason the National Emergency Briefing on 27th Nov is long overdue.
www.nebriefing.org
Now the dramatic effects of climate change are so clear, they’re trying cast doubt on the solutions.
Another reason the National Emergency Briefing on 27th Nov is long overdue.
www.nebriefing.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Forces trying to keep us locked into expensive gas & oil have shifted their argument.
Now the dramatic effects of climate change are so clear, they’re trying cast doubt on the solutions.
Another reason the National Emergency Briefing on 27th Nov is long overdue.
www.nebriefing.org
Now the dramatic effects of climate change are so clear, they’re trying cast doubt on the solutions.
Another reason the National Emergency Briefing on 27th Nov is long overdue.
www.nebriefing.org
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I’m going to make a prediction here: no one will thank the Labour government for this ‘achievement’. It will be bad for the country and it will never be enough for the racists. It’s lose-lose
How low will it go?
@jamesbowes01.bsky.social's detailed analysis projects net migration will collapse: from its peak of nearly a million to perhaps just over 100K in 2026.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
@jamesbowes01.bsky.social's detailed analysis projects net migration will collapse: from its peak of nearly a million to perhaps just over 100K in 2026.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I’m going to make a prediction here: no one will thank the Labour government for this ‘achievement’. It will be bad for the country and it will never be enough for the racists. It’s lose-lose
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People think “we” are not making progress on climate change because its politics are polarized.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
People think “we” are not making progress on climate change because its politics are polarized.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.