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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 4h
Tropical storm Isaias has formed Set to become 1st hurricane 🌀 of the N Atlantic season As often the case when these storms develop, it creates a bit of uncertainty as to how weather patterns will evolve downstream later this weekend/early next week in the N Atlantic/NW Europe
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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 06/10/2026
We're delighted to be part of this exciting project! Saltmarshes do so much. They support wildlife - from migrating birds to natterjack toad - lock away carbon, and benefit coastal communities.🌿 Gathering new data is a key step in understanding these habitats so we can protect and champion them.
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Carbon tracking tower put on Caerlaverock saltmarsh
It will track how much carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere by the saltmarsh on the Solway Firth.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 17h
And Niño 1+2 region anomalies are at a stunning 5.3C, far above any prior year.
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 21h
And used electric car sales up 32%! Used diesel cars down 13%, petrol down 6%
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 06/10/2026
Today is the 117th consecutive day somewhere in the UK has recorded a temperature of 20°C or higher. The 11th of June was the last time we didn't reach this threshold. Fresher air comes in on Wednesday allowing temperatures to fall, and likely to stay just below 20°C.
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Much needed, though locally heavy rain S UK next 24hrs Then a colder NW airstream for Weds/Thursday...until now the S of the UK has reached atleast 20C as a max every day since June 11th
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Mark Jones @mgjones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The bit of honesty that has so far deserted all our politicians is that taxes on income have to increase." 👇
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026
I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things: – Sound – Shining – Penguins – Traitors – Matchboxes – Eyeball
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Six Things, Volume 168
Sound | Shining | Penguins | Traitors | Matchboxes | Eyeball
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This would be an interesting move ahead of energy bills climbing to £2,000 a year. The Warm Homes Plan (and CCS and hydrogen) are also meant to be political cover for Burnham's 'pragmatic' approach to more North Sea drilling.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/10/2026
September 2026 was the second warmest September on record (after 2023's "gobsmackingly bananas" month), coming in at 1.63C above preindustrial levels in the ERA5 dataset.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 02/10/2026
Another "need to extend the y-axis" moment... Average temperature in Central England for Jan-Sep for each year since 1772. It is 0.8°C higher in 2026 than any other previous year.
Timeseries of average Jan-Sep temperature for Central England with huge jump up in 2026
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
France’s ongoing drought has once again pushed soil moisture further below historical levels than any previously recorded drought. Uncharted territory.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/10/2026
The UK had its joint-fourth warmest September on record, according to provisional figures. 🌧️ Near-average rainfall for the UK, but with regional variation. ☀️ Sunshine amounts closer to average for many. Details in the 🧵
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...And the Matterhorn’s bare snowless slopes are more than a striking image… www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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There's something 'highly unusual' about this photo of the Matterhorn
Experts say it is unusual for the 4,478m peak to be snow-free at this time of year, with climate change considered a key factor.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies "…in its simplest form, what we see right now is that we took an ice cube out of the fridge and it's just melting in front of our eyes." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#VHSfeature In 2024, Matthew Bostock spotted a familiar object at a tip in Derby. Don’t fear, it wasn’t another ET cartridge - it was a BBC Microcomputer! He saved it from being recycled and it was subsequently donated to the NVM
BBC Micro computer, photographed from above.
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 30/09/2026
An exceptionally deep extratropical cyclone for the time of year just west of Ireland. 953 hPa on the 12 UTC Met Office analysis. Helping drive strong warm advection to its east which has brought exceptionally high temperatures to parts of the UK yesterday and overnight ahead of the cold front.
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking about the impact of the triple lock on the state pension can be confusing as there's a number of interacting moving parts (earnings, inflation, 2.5%). 🤷‍♂️❓ But here's a visualisation that hopefully might help...1/5
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Insects do far more than feed wildlife - a major new global study found insects provide shelter, chemical defences, sanitation and other vital benefits to 1000s of animal species. Scientists warn insect declines could have far-reaching impacts across ecosystems. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3mm3a6x2
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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"AI will emit six times as much CO2 in 2030 as in 2025, according to a study by a group of experts. " So where are all these revolutionary solutions to the climate crisis AI is supposed to bring us? So far as I can tell, they're not even trying.
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Temperatures in the Central Pacific El Niño region are the hottest ever measured (top panel), and far above any other El Niño at this time of year. But, if you adjust for the warming of the global ocean, the current trajectory is not so different from other very strong events.
Two panel plot showing daily time series of temperature anomalies in the Central Pacific Nino3.4 region during the last four strongest El Niño events without and with correction for changes in global ocean mean temperature.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time to join the Pheasants’ Revolt… DEFRA have launched a Call for Evidence on the environmental & animal welfare impacts of the gamebird industry. If you care about this, PLEASE submit evidence - this @wildjustice.bsky.social blog tells you how: wildjustice.org.uk/defras-call-...
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Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebird releases; what exactly is it asking for? – Wild Justice
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's high atleast 28.1C...remarkable for late September
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Dan Harris @roostweather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here are all the official SYNOP sites (03xxx group) which recorded their #warmestdayoftheyearsofar on 29th September 2026. @Petagna @GregDewhurst @metoffice
Image #1
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🐝 🪰 How can we track change across the UK's insect pollinators? A new paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social outlines how we're generating robust metrics to monitor pollinator trends at a national scale. Another key milestone for PoMS! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 1/
Collage of images featuring bee on flower, UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme logo, a person carrying out a FIT Count on flowers, and a landscape of moorland with a pan trap monitoring system in place.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A relative lack of rainfall means that our reservoirs are struggling a bit here in SW England Just 24% full now at one our larger reservoirs Wimbleball
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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still, at least all the people urging drastic reductions in migration will congratulate the government for enacting their policy preferences, acknowledge this inevitable trade-off and not make opportunistic attacks on the government for having lost control of the public finances.
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
26C this Tuesday... only 2C above the average height of summer UK maximum temperature 🌡... .. oh hold on a minute (Height of summer being 2 months ago)
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The size of *one* of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, versus Exeter cathedral 🤯 From this useful piece profiling the local campaigns against it: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A diagram comparing the size of one of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, with Exeter cathedral. Source: Guardian piece linked to in post.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Been reading about terror birds. They died out about 100,000 years ago, were up to 10 feet tall, 350 kg, flightless, could run faster than an ostrich, and had sharp sickle toes for grabbing prey and huge beaks for jabbing them to death. And people complain about gulls.
A terror bird skeleton. Big head, big feet, long neck.
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve updated the long-running (starts 1866) CRU Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). This lets us compare the currently developing El Niño with earlier events including 1877-78. 2026 has developed very quickly, similar to the 1997-98 one. Thick line is 3-month running mean, with y-axis reversed.
1866-present timeseries of Climatic Research Unit SOI with some major El Niño events marked.
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Polo. Simply incredible.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1. Commuting by car is afaik quite bad for your wellbeing. Especially for longer commutes and/or where there is congestion. I know a lot of people (inc. me) complain about the impact of cars on other road users. But they're also quite bad for drivers!
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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A view of Earth from JUICE. On Sept 27/28 ESA's JUICE mission will pass Earth for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter. It may be bright enough for astrophotographers worldwide. Before close approach it will pass through Earth's shadow. JUICE will study Jupiter's icy moons. #astro 🔭
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aalborg now has 241,000 m³ of hot water storage, the largest in Denmark, plus 150 MW of electric boilers and a 177 MW seawater heat pump. That's 217 MW of flexible demand, holding one to three winter days of heat. District heating in Denmark is becoming a critical flexibility resource.
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is also a significant human cost to managing moorland fueload by burning it (along with diverse environmental costs) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 🌍
Screenshot of paper entitled: Prescribed moorland burning in Great Britain exposes 2.3 million people to PM2.5 levels exceeding the WHO 24 h guideline limit
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Y'days post: How should the government meet its Golden Rule when debt interest increases? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/how-... Why it makes more economic sense to raise taxes rather than cut spending in the first intance.
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How should the government meet its Golden Rule when debt interest increases?
As you are almost certainly aware, the government is having to pay much more in interest on its debt than it used to do. Here is a chart b...
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Simon Proud @simonsat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cat 5 Hurricane Polo, seen 22nd Sept by the OLCI instrument aboard Sentinel-3B. Polo rapidly intensified and now has ferocious winds OLCI is designed to look at the Earth's oceans, seas and lakes - but thanks to a great design is also super useful for monitoring weather too @esa.int @eumetsat.int
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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