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Molecular Biologist with expertise in CCUS and cancer biology.

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Stef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
10. 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
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With 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.
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allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The 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/...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Congrats @desmog.com @geoffdembicki.bsky.social @tjjordan.bsky.social Katie Claire www.desmog.com/2026/09/18/d...
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DeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and Delay
DeSmog 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 ...
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allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When graphs become terrifying. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sup...
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Stef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
12. 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!! ⚽️
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'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.
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George 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
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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David 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.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1/ "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. 🧵
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allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Don’t scare the sheep with the truth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 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.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026
The 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.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026
So 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
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Warnings 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:
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Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism
Germany 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.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In 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.
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allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Some good news for once: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Britain’s Yellowstone’: restoration project aims to take the greed out of land acquisition
Investors in Emblehope Moor will get their financial returns – and then it will be given to community or charity owners
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Leon 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!
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allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Paul 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/...
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From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials
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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A 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...
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Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality
Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind P
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On 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?
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And 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...
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Immigration remains Britain’s biggest issue as concern about climate change and the environment rises
The 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...
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Dr. 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"
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Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks | PNAS
Meeting 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...
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Stef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
09. 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
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This was my take James: climateuncensored.com/response-to-... … ie. similar to yours.
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Response to Open Letter to DESNZ about Rosebank & Jackdaw - Climate Uncensored
Response to a letter from Stephanie Loo, Myles Allen & colleagues to the DESNZ Secretary of State about offsetting continued fossil fuel production with
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Emit 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-...
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Response to Open Letter to DESNZ about Rosebank & Jackdaw - Climate Uncensored
Response to a letter from Stephanie Loo, Myles Allen & colleagues to the DESNZ Secretary of State about offsetting continued fossil fuel production with
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hello. I was raised in a death cult. These people are in a death cult.
50 Nerds of Grey®
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Remember when they spent years telling us to panic over the hole in the ozone layer and then suddenly just stopped talking about it and nobody ever mentioned the ozone layer again?
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What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👇 vote.org
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The 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.
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Stef Dale @stefdale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
02. Early stages A new song called Open Eyes 👁️👁️ My best clothes are now in the dryer
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 25/08/2026
No new North Sea drilling - with or without CCS substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The CCS Escape Hatch for North Sea Drilling
Supporters of CCS technology say we can mitigate the climate impact of drilling in the North Sea. The science says otherwise.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026
thank you!
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Wolfgang 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?
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Selling 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 deadly
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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows
Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We 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.
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anyone else get this earlier? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
For 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 #TimeToStepUp
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National Emergency Briefing
An 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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Successive 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...
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Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot
This 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
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Let’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
“The greatest question we confront, possibly the greatest question humanity has ever confronted, is whether we can hit the social tipping points before we hit the environmental tipping points.”
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Please share with family and friends to get the petition to 100,000 for a parliamentary debate. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Graphic with the NEB flag logo saying the country deserves the full picture - sign the government petition for a televised briefing
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today 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...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Despair 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...
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Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel
There 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
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We 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...
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What Keeps Me Up at Night
Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather
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allursparrot.bsky.social @allursparrot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Has 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...
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With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It'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...
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Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Any 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
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