Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialStef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 03/09/202610. Saw the signs - ACOUSTIC One of my best songs imo!! Dark and mysterious acoustic version in full on YT (link in bio) Scored 5 goals in football last night 011
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20847501188
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026With big thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social, here's my discussion today with Lord Jackson about North Sea oil and gas. Tape your jaw to your face before watching. Really. 77714252
allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The UK Government - climate cowards more than blatant liars. They buried their heads in the sand and then tried to stop everyone else seeing by kicking sand in their eyes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under StarmerEl Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers 032
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Autumn poem just dropped. 11434136
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialAdam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Congrats @desmog.com @geoffdembicki.bsky.social @tjjordan.bsky.social Katie Claire www.desmog.com/2026/09/18/d...desmog.comDeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and DelayDeSmog and its partners have won three awards for investigations exposing corporate tactics to delay climate action at the 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog’s global ... 03113
allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When graphs become terrifying. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sup... 000
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialStef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 16/09/202612. LIVE FROM MY ROOM Yesterday I recorded 8 stripped back acoustic songs in my room, trying to capture something raw where I was just having fun! Available on bandcamp + YT 🎧 Expect mistakes, tape warbling and songs that needed to see the light of day for a while Got football again tonight!! ⚽️ 011
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'm not a religious person, but if there were such a thing as the Antichrist, he would do what Trump does every day. Destroying our beautiful planet and the lives of its people for the sake of A. profit and B. a vengeful urge to destroy what other people love. So yes, demonic is the right word. 41907262
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster 2103239825
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales. 22424162
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/09/20261/ "Every fraction of a degree of warming matters." True, and a dangerous platitude. It quietly suggests warming is a smooth dial, where each tenth of a degree costs about the same as the last. It doesn't. The later ones cost far more. Here's why. 🧵 516992
allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Don’t scare the sheep with the truth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comPolanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in fullGreen leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis 000
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/202680 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing. 9533551384
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026The latest Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature (preliminary) is 2.78°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, marking the 99th consecutive daily record, a full 0.79°C higher than the previous daily record set in 1997. The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 3.0°C by the end of September. 16434228
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt 491821642
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism Germany is facing the imminent prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the United States. My new piece:steady.pageWarnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against TrumpismGermany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S. 9412157
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders. 391765683
allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Some good news for once: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Britain’s Yellowstone’: restoration project aims to take the greed out of land acquisitionInvestors in Emblehope Moor will get their financial returns – and then it will be given to community or charity owners 010
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialLeon Simons @leonsimons.com · 04/09/2026🚨The most important NASA graph in the world has another 6 months of data, and it looks even worse. 🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled over the past 26 years! 10215124
allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Paul Marshall, the principal owner of GB News, likes to write about liberalism and freedom. But whose liberty and whose freedom? His mouthpiece lies and lies again about climate facts. Without a respect for fact, liberty and freedom are fantasies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFrom ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwavesThousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials 000
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialArvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A geologist and a systems engineer walk in to a bar... ...and start arguing about whether we can actually pump enough CO2 underground to hit net zero. That's more or less how this paper got started with @hdaigle.bsky.social. Read on to find more: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...iopscience.iop.orgCan we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and realityCan we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind P 923064
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026On my train to London yesterday the tannoy urged me "if you see something, say something" That's exactly why I came See it, say it... sorted? 36713
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026And still the UK gaslighting continues. Keep people furious about immigration. Keep them fighting each other. Keep them looking anywhere but up. Meanwhile, the climate is screaming. 42%: immigration 13%: climate & env Distraction. Division. Demoralisation. It works. www.ipsos.com/en-uk/immigr...ipsos.comImmigration remains Britain’s biggest issue as concern about climate change and the environment risesThe August 2026 Ipsos Issues Index shows that immigration continues to be seen as the biggest issue facing Britain. Forty-two per cent of Britons name immigration as an important issue facing the coun... 15269118
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"Because just a few countries dominate global maize production & trade, simultaneous production shocks in these countries can have tremendous impacts on global markets. We show that such synchronous shocks are rare now but will become much more likely if the #climate continues to warm"pnas.orgFuture warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks | PNASMeeting the global food demand of roughly 10 billion people by the middle of the 21st century will become increasingly challenging as the Earth’s c... 14118
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialStef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 01/09/202609. Varispeedin’ Sending out the feelers on this idea, speed every song up 10% and you’re walking on sunshine!! Been out with laryngitis for a week, had muesli this morning 011
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This was my take James: climateuncensored.com/response-to-... … ie. similar to yours.climateuncensored.comResponse to Open Letter to DESNZ about Rosebank & Jackdaw - Climate UncensoredResponse to a letter from Stephanie Loo, Myles Allen & colleagues to the DESNZ Secretary of State about offsetting continued fossil fuel production with 14316
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Emit today & fix it tomorrow. Proposal by Loo/Allen/etc for new N.Sea oil & gas developments to be conditional on fossil-fuel execs promising to neutralise emissions thro' future CCS & “engineered removals”. static1.squarespace.com/static/6356a... My response: climateuncensored.com/response-to-...climateuncensored.comResponse to Open Letter to DESNZ about Rosebank & Jackdaw - Climate UncensoredResponse to a letter from Stephanie Loo, Myles Allen & colleagues to the DESNZ Secretary of State about offsetting continued fossil fuel production with 1310548
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialLady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hello. I was raised in a death cult. These people are in a death cult. 1003697732
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialJustin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026👇 vote.org 4344131689
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us. 8435631473
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialStef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 25/08/202602. Early stages A new song called Open Eyes 👁️👁️ My best clothes are now in the dryer 011
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGrace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 25/08/2026No new North Sea drilling - with or without CCS substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comThe CCS Escape Hatch for North Sea DrillingSupporters of CCS technology say we can mitigate the climate impact of drilling in the North Sea. The science says otherwise. 56828
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026thank you! 121
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialWolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“News value criteria”, “news relevance”, “newsworthiness”? These are increasingly obsolete frameworks in an era of accelerating earth system changes. If the below isn’t “news” while it affects all “news” you’ll ever hear - what is? 10296125
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Selling the oil and gas from new North Sea fields would generate £28.7 bn And burning it would cause £119-336 billion in economic damage Yet there's nothing special about those fields, I bet you'd find similar figures for any fossil fuels. That stuff is deadlytheguardian.comClimate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis showsExclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK 314066
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We do not build the reservoirs needed to store the rain that falls here. We do not build strategic food reserves needed to maintain provision in hard times. We failed to build effective stores of PPE, to protect us in pandemics. This country has long been governed by people who do not prepare. 29038511052
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialChris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Anyone else get this earlier? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687 51650245
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialNational Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026For those considering watching the People’s Emergency Briefing - a film about the climate & nature crisis, you can find a screening here: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map For more testimonials: www.nebriefing.org/testimonials #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUpnebriefing.orgNational Emergency BriefingAn unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from nine leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. 21713
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Successive governments' failure to ensure our food supply is secure goes beyond complacency and into outright denial. This is not a game. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comBritain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George MonbiotThis summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 31656259
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialSimon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Let’s create that tipping point: 🔸 Sign the petition to get a parliamentary debate: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... 🔸 Host a screening of our film in your community / workplace: www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film www.theguardian.com/membership/2... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp 03022
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialNational Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Please share with family and friends to get the petition to 100,000 for a parliamentary debate. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #NationalEmergencyBriefing 07574
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835222210
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...theguardian.comDon’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feelThere are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen 1021969820
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...charlieangus.substack.comWhat Keeps Me Up at NightRising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather 20741291878
allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Has anyone come across a comparison of Trump’s anti-academic plans with China’s Cultural Revolution or with Pol Pot’s purges in Cambodia? Did criticism by intellectuals motivate revenge. Is a comparison warranted and can anything be learnt by example? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWith their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner MüllerThe administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress 030
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths". 893297659726
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It's time we stopped calling them "moderates". They are extremists in service to capital. And many of them appear to hate and fear the left of their own party far more than they hate and fear the Republicans. Like Starmer's Labour "centrists" (extremists) in the UK. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...nytimes.comModerate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant LeftOne moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism. 671324395
Reposted by @allursparrot.bsky.socialOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Any politician who says we couldn't avoid coming climate disasters but voted for £millions in oil & gas subsidies is lying "This week the temperatures in Nino 3.4 are the warmest ever recorded for early august and almost the most above the average for any day of the year." via Dan Satterfield 10543247