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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/09/2026

Privatisation has failed for 40 years. It's wonderful to have a prime minister who understands this Let's be clear: public control IS NOT public ownership. Public control still allows dividends to be taken out and prices raised. The public is demanding public ownership of our key public services

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/08/2026

That’s why this is my pinned post.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/08/2026

Yes, Cdns are paying attention. How can we not, under smoke-filled skies? But worry isn’t enough. If we don’t know what to do, more disasters just leave us feeling even more helpless. To catalyse action, we need to know: 1. what’s happening, 2. why it’s happening, AND 3. what we can do about it.

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Canadians' climate change concerns rebound amid wildfire season | CBC News

The percentage of Canadians who see addressing climate change as a top priority spiked this summer after years of it taking a back seat to other issues, recent polling has found.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 31/07/2026

Imagine UEFA's statement about FIFA's plans to sell off the World Cup, but replace all the references to FOOTBALL with WATER Can you now see the absurdity of water privatisation? Andy Burnham has called the FIFA president to go. But our water is still in private hands: vist.ly/5d5x8

The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in water, water changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the infrastructure, every decision on sewage dumping and every decision shaping the future of water is no longer driven by what best serves the public, but by what best serves shareholders. This model has no place in water. Britain's future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return. Nor can the interests of households, communities and the environment become surordinate to investor returns. Britain cannot mortgage its future for financial gain. The public.'s position is clear. We will never lend this model our legitimacy. No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

1/ Kemi Badenoch says she isn't a climate denier. Let's take her at her word. Here are five findings she wrote around this week as though they don't exist. 🧵

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Half the country officially in drought - the 3rd in 5 years. Fires raging across Europe. Battles being fought over AI data centres, New episode of *When Nature Becomes A Security Threat*,my podcast series for @therestpolitics.bsky.social, out now. It couldn’t be more timely. Pls do give a listen

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Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

cumulative line chart showing that UK newspapers have published 251 editorials criticising Ed Miliband since the start of 2024

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Andrew Prosser @andrewprosser.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The 20th Century was a deadly Age of Extremes for humanity in its own right. We are now responsible for the 21st Century Age of Nature Extremes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'Extreme' marine heatwave expected for parts of UK with risk to sea life

Scientists fear that high sea temperatures could have wide-ranging consequences for marine life.

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Chris #ChangeEverything #VoteGreen @chrisl86.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling" Sickeningly stupid and short-sighted...but then they are being funded by the 1% that profit from more oil and gas... #ClimateActionNOW #MakePollutersPAY #TaxTheSuperRich NOW! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

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Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling - Carbon Brief

UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

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Andrew Prosser @andrewprosser.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Air pollution affects everyone’s health. It’s linked to a range of health problems throughout our lives – from premature birth and childhood asthma to heart and lung disease, diabetes and strokes in later life. I’ve pledged to be a @Global Action Plan Clean Air Champion on #CleanAirDay

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Andrew Prosser @andrewprosser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is promising news, so far. The next best steps would be for Thames Water to be taken into Special Administration, and broken up into a number of smaller publicly-owned organisations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue deal

A government spokesman tells the BBC that the current offer "does not do enough to protect consumers or the environment".

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

2 in 5 local Facebook groups and over four-fifths of X searches featured at least one piece of misinformation in their last 1,000 posts. Of 19 Nextdoor locations studied, 3 were found to contain misinformation.
Nearly 1 in 26 (4%) of news related posts on Facebook were misinformation; on X the ratio is over 1 in 4 (28%)
Places in local authorities with no or limited local news outlets (e.g. ‘news deserts’) had nearly 3 times as much fake news as a share of all posts as average on Facebook groups, albeit based upon 12 groups worth of data.
Conversely, places with a relatively high number of local news outlets (‘news oases’) have half as much misinformation as average, again based upon a limited sample (13 groups).
Places with local elections, on average, saw more misinformation in the run up to polling day than they did earlier in the year. Misinformation as a share of all posts increased from 0.12% to 0.15% (26% increase) and as a share of news grew from 8.2% to 12.9% (56%).
The rate of misinformation seen across four Gorton and Denton local Facebook groups was 26 times higher than in the wider Facebook analysis – 3% of 1,000 posts were identified as fake news, compared to 0.1% nationally. This is driven by far more news related posts on these groups, and a near doubling of the share of them being classified as misinformation.
Three in five misinformation posts (61%) in places with local elections in the week of the vote related to national politics or council issues, compared to 28% in the wider national analysis earlier in the year.
1 in 5 ‘fake news’ (19%) posts analysed on Facebook groups related to local issues, including planning, transport, local services and council politics. Our case studies revealed how planning applications could be misinterpreted into the “council selling off the beach”, or how local authority communications can be faked.
A third (32%) of misinformation found on X was anti-immigration or Islamophobic, far ahead of the next most common, h…

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is rapidly warming the El Niño region. This is how El Niño forms - it’s not new, it’s just supercharged. This matches most computer model forecasts for a historic El Niño pattern, throwing Earth’s climate patterns off-kilter. Expect robust effects of El Niño to begin this summer… 2/

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Happy International Day of Biodiversity! 🌿🐝 Last month I met with @ukyouthfornature.bsky.social's creative young campaigners to talk about why pesticides need to buzz-off! Special shout-out to the model tiny town showing what a pesticide-free future could look like (need one for the office!) 👏👏

Image is a group photo with Sian at the centre. On the left is a campaigner wearing a giant inflatable bee costume. The group is stood in a room in the Houses of Parliament, with a patterned wallpaper background. They are smiling and holding signs that read: "Poison is not a policy" "Ban the poison, back the bees" "Toxic-free towns now" "No to pesticides in public spaces"

Image is of sian leaning over a tiny model town, smiling. In the foreground of the tiny town, a road with a zebra crossing can be seen.

Image is a close up of a roundabout in the tiny town. A fox is stood beneath a tree on the roundabout next to a sign that says "Your Wild Streets UKY4N".

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/05/2026

Special administration of Thames Water is affordable. The Conservative government had a plan to cut 40% of Thames Water's debts. We can cut more. But EVEN IF this government pays off all of Thames Water's £17bn debts, this would be 'trivial' for the bond markets.

Graphic illustrating Thames Water's debts compared to UK's national debt. Highlights the scale of debts in a grid format.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

JUST RELEASED: 14 million battery-electric cars sold globally in 2025 says @iea.org. China: 8.2m. Europe: 2.9m (28% of new cars). Norway: 97%. US flat at 1.2m. In 2015 the world sold 330,000 BEVs. Ten years later, 14 million. Long-read coming on Bright Spots 👇 janrosenow.substack.com

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm absolutely delighted that Cabinet has agreed to pilot a locally-led filtered Quiet Lanes policy to improve rural active travel. It's innovative and I'm so proud of my role in it alongside others. Do share, AT policy enthusiasts (short thread) mycouncil.oxfordshire.gov.uk/%28S%2803u25...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

1/4 Govt needs to get ahead of upcoming fuel crisis in UK & elsewhere Climate & transport groups are calling for ban on private jets, a frequent flyer levy and ban on main short haul routes where direct train exists Would save nearly 1 M tonnes jet fuel per yr www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners

Climate and transport organisations warn ministers not to ‘sleepwalk into crisis’ amid Iran war oil and gas shortages

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Bogs store so much carbon and are a huge water sponge. Accumulating at about 1 mm per year, UK bogs can be >8 m deep, as long as our corer in this photo. As you cross a bog, you walk upon 8000 years worth of carbon, slowly sequestered but vulnerable to catastrophic release by drainage and warming.

Beown and green patches of grass and shrub, covering the surface of Cors Caron bog in western Wales. Beneath, Sphagnum thrives. In the centre of the photo are three scientists, holding an 8m shaft, which they will soon drive into the peat to collect a core from which ancient climate can be reconstructed.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are… Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

2024, The Sun led with several stories regarding Starmer receiving clothes & glasses from a Labour donor who is in the House of Lords. 2026, The Sun hasn’t published one single story about Farage receiving a £5m gift from a crypto currency billionaire Reform donor

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

There's no mystery about why Farage, Trump, Boris Johnson and others of their stamp get away with things that would instantly destroy any leftwing politician: they're protected by the oligarchs they serve, who own most of the media and intimidate much of the rest.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/05/2026

Carbon dioxide averaged nearly 431 ppm in April 2026 (new record high) 10 years ago April averaged about 408 ppm. Preliminary data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... This is really concerning, and it isn’t going away. The longer we wait, the worse the impacts get and the harder they are to address.

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through April 2026. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 431 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🚀 Heat pump sales are surging across Europe and high fossil fuel prices appear to be a key driver. Q1 2026 data from the European Heat Pump Association shows: 🇩🇪 Germany: +34% 🇫🇷 France: +21% (300,000+ units in just one quarter - the largest market in Europe) 🇫🇮 Finland: +71% in March alone

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Sounds good: The secret is out as Ford races to build a new truck nearly as fast as a Mustang, travel around 300 miles on a charge & feature in-car tech to compete with Tesla and China. It’s aiming for a 2027 launch & a price around $30,000, the cost of a Toyota Camry… www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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The Secret Team Blowing Up Ford’s Assembly Line to Make a $30,000 Electric Truck

The automaker brought together Silicon Valley techies and industry misfits in a quest to beat China at EVs.

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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye @samcaseyr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

As ever, Private Eye quietly exposing foolish decisions on local government funding & disastrous long term consequences . Austerity has crippled this country in every possible way

Text from private eye column on cutting council tax valuation offices from 82 to 35 and linked to backlog of valuations

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Britain’s hyper-partisan press has long been notoriously unreliable, & prone to publishing falsehoods. Yet for many years UK TV & radio were held to much higher standards, and were, to some extent, an antidote to the worst excesses of other media. Sadly this has started to change. /1

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Tell your MP to help fix Ofcom – Stop Funding Hate

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

BP's profits for the first three months of the year up from $1.38bn to $3.2bn (£2.4bn) following a surge in oil prices. Up from $1.38bn to $3.2bn (£2.4bn), fuelling inflation, poverty and misery for millions. Bonanza for execs and shareholders. No UK curbs on profiteering.

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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher

The energy giant said it had seen an

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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Economists keep issuing reports that forecast who is going to be made redundant and when. When will they start designing an economic system which will work post full automation? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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AI puts one fifth of London jobs at risk - City Hall report

Women, young people and those with higher educational levels are among the most exposed, report finds.

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