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Annie Leymarie

@annieleymarie.bsky.social
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Nature / Climate / More-than-humans / Degrowth / Social justice / Food, Farming and Land Use / Energy / Retrofits / Transport... with typos London

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The right’s “nO moRE taXeS” refrain is such bullshit. Tax is good! Tax is how we get all the good things that we all rely on. We just need to make tax fair. Tax capital gains, tax the rich. 🎨 @slanecartoon.bsky.social
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Tristram Wyatt @tristramwyatt.bsky.social · 9h
Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...
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The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.
We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 12h
Glacier Carré (La Meije) 2008 | 2018 | 2026 The iconic ice patch punctuating La Meije (3983 m) south face and its normal route (3600-3780 m) could not resist the insane 2026 summer! 😪 Our cryospheric heritage is literally being destroyed before our very eyes! 🧊🔥 📷 PNE and Félix de Montety
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 13h
Perhaps Neanderthals could eat the rich? (or at least their wives and children... www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/n...)
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 14h
So pleased to hear this confirmed in the PM’s speech. Big congrats to @makevotesmatter.bsky.social and all who’ve campaigned for it! At last we have a chance to restore trust in our politics with a system where “everyone’s views count and everyone’s vote matters” 👏👏👏
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Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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Possible @wearepossible.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW 🚨 | Our polling with @MoreInCommon_ finds that 79% of Brits back a fair tax on private jets. ▪️Backed by voters of all parties ▪️Believed to be good for the economy ▪️Seen to be fair Read more: bit.ly/4dOWqV1
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Majority of British voters back private jet tax to help fill Budget black hole
Exclusive: Polling by More in Common has revealed support for a new tax on billionaires as chancellor John Healey attempts to balance his books in next month’s Budget
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Luke Kemp @lukekemp.bsky.social · 16h
Today, 'Obsolete' by @garrisonlovely.bsky.social is released. I've called it "The best book on AI I've read" and I think it will be the most important book of this year. It's message is simple: AI is an elite project which is attempting to render us all obsolete. www.obsoletebook.org
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Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It
Is AI a bubble or humanity's last invention? Impossible or inevitable? Obsolete cuts through the hype to answer all the AI questions you have, while raising some you probably aren't prepared for.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 14h
Critical must-read El Niño info.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026
This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year
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The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño
El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 16h
“We’re exhausted. Many new fires are appearing,” said Hartarto, as his fire truck hummed in the background. “The impact is worse than what I could have imagined.” Our imaginations will be tested.
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Indonesia’s Worst Fire Season in Years Tests Prabowo Budget Cuts
Toxic haze continues to spread across Singapore and Malaysia, as a blockbuster El Niño and land-clearing practices create tinderbox conditions
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 16h
Planting trees is only one part of the equation. We need them to actually survive.
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Give trees a chance
Development-planted trees have consistently shown to be faring poorly, according to recent surveys.
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Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 17h
Just booked my pass for next summer
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Grish Majethiya's Train Journey
Alt: Grish Majethiya's Train Journey
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 17h
When big corporations can sue governments for BILLIONS for protecting people and the climate, we all pay the cost. It's time to put an end to this. Join the global movement against ISDS. 15-17 October 2026: stopisds.global/en/
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 19h
“There is a certain threshold when there is no more stopping the total breakdown of the AMOC.” PIK’s @rahmstorf.bsky.social explains how global warming could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AMOC by adding more freshwater to the North Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 17h
BREAKING: Miliband ‘looking at’ whether Palestine Action ban was sensible, argues mass arrests 'unintended' Foreign secretary's remarks at Labour conference come after arrests made at protest against ban on the direct action group. www.middleeasteye.net/news/miliban...
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Miliband ‘looking at’ whether Palestine Action ban was sensible, argues mass arrests 'unintended'
Foreign secretary's remarks at Labour conference come after arrests made at protest against ban on the direct action group
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 18h
Internal documents show European Commission ignored its own advice to maintain a bloc-wide combustion engine ban in cars and instead caved to automakers & national capitals Short-termism at work as tech wave rolls out. So China will dominate 21st century car-making www.politico.eu/article/comm...
politico.eu
EU Commission ignored its own advice before weakening car CO2 rules
An internal document warned that it was too early to call the 2035 target unachievable, despite arguments from carmakers that they needed relief.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 20h
Crown Estate is the owner of England's seabed and charges offshore wind farms to use it But the way it has charged in the past has raised costs and looks like monopoly profiteering And it will add up to £38 to energy bills in the future, according to Oxford Uni www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Crown Estate sea bed auctions could add £38 a year to energy bills
The business that manages the King’s land has put wind farm projects at risk with move away from capped fees for developers, a University of Oxford study warns
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 18h
"This balance between personal freedom and the freedom of others is already precarious but in the face of global crises it is especially under strain. Liberalism cannot govern economic inequality or ecological disaster except by pitting the freedom of future others against the currently privileged."
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A leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von Redecker
Die Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far right, says writer and philosopher Eva von Rede...
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We invite everyone (nonscientists) to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Add your name and share widely. Endorsement helps show public concern about the future of our planet. forms.gle/vAARd7mv2yS7...
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Matterhorn SE face 27th sept. 2026 We are leaving a desert to next generations... 🔥 📷 Via Niko Froitzheim
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In an attempt to cover up AI’s outsized environmental impact and justify the ongoing use of fossil fuels, Big Tech and Big Oil are making the case for Carbon Capture and Storage. CCS is an expensive failure. We must see through this self-serving greenwash… www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/25/d...
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Data Centers and Carbon Capture: A Dangerous Alliance
Carbon capture and storage is an expensive failure. So why is Big Tech teaming up with Big Oil to add it to data center projects?
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 21h
📢 We're Hiring: Executive Director 🧪 For over 30 years, SGR has promoted science and technology which contributes to peace, social justice, and environmental sustainability. Can you help us take the next step? Deadline: 5pm GMT on Monday 9th November 2026. www.sgr.org.uk/pages/vacanc...
Advert for a new executive director position. £42123 pro-rate and home working allowance. 15 hours per week with potential to increase. Permanent role. Apply by Monday 9th November at 5pm.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 21h
Beware: warm laughter is contagious
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 21h
An economic ideology that treats satisfying financial markets as more important than meeting human need increasingly relies upon fear because its promise of prosperity is failing. When insecurity is already widespread, however, threatening people with more insecurity eventually stops working. 👇
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 21h
Based on current building patterns 115,000 new homes will be built in England’s flood zones in the next 10 years Many could become uninsurable in the future due to the risk of flooding, says Insurance company Aviva Which would make those houses essentially useless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Aviva boss warns more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 21h
New polling: climate change is back in people’s top priorities
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New polling: climate change is back in people’s top priorities
Persuasion UK has released polling on climate salience following the UK’s hottest summer to date. Climate is now in people’s top five issues.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed Miliband: "I want to say, to the millions of people in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you" So why are you still arresting them?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon emissions into real-world climate impacts like heat exposure and coral bleaching, looks super useful. ➡️ carbonimpactstracer.com
theguardian.com
New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused
Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's great that the National Trust are pressuring the government to make climate resilience a national priority But the National trust have a gazillion members, and could/should be a powerful political force Is a petition really an adequate response to this emergency?
campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk
I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY WORLD RECORD AGAIN We are witnessing something crazy with thousands of records smashed allover Asia every day of the month. 47C again in KJWAIT today MINIMUM 34C Kuwait City Port LATEST 34C MINIMUM EVER RECORDED IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Worse tomorrow !
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
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Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 28/09/2026
There are clear parallels between today’s AI debate and how the world tackled the threat from nuclear weapons.
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AI companies could learn safety lessons from the history of nuclear weapons
There are clear parallels between today’s AI debate and how the world tackled the threat from nuclear weapons.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Just Days Before Brazil Election Another of many reasons why to avoid using Facebook novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/facebook…
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Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Just Days Before Brazil Election
Meta briefly disabled ads on the Facebook page of Brazil’s leftwing president on Friday – just days before he faces a far-right challenger in national elections.
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Richard Hebditch @richard.hebditch.org · 27/09/2026
Good to see some action on empty homes. Number of empty homes has risen by over 50% since 2016 & some estimates put it over 1.2m, affecting most regions. (see www.actiononemptyhomes.org/the-last-dec...)
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A UK ban on peat and peat-containing products "must be the most widely supported piece of legislation that hasn’t actually made it into law." 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jet fuel: 12,000 Wh/kg. Modern batteries: ~300 Wh/kg. Even with motor efficiency, jet fuel holds 20x the power per kg. Worse: planes rely on getting lighter as they burn fuel. Electric planes spend energy hauling dead battery weight all the way to landing. It's a physics wall.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I miss David MacKay. In his no-nonsense way he showed that one long-haul return flight a year uses more energy than a 1 kW heater on all year. "A 10% improvement? Yes, possible. A doubling of efficiency? I'd eat my complimentary socks." If only more people were pro-arithmetic. We have to fly less
withouthotair.com
Ch 5 Page 35: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air | David MacKay
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘And under Andy’s leadership, we …call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank. We call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza. We call out Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. And we match words with actions.’ EM Great speech now end proscription of Palestine Action?
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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Sandra L Lester 🇨🇦 #KillBill22 @sandrallester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ads for Gibney’s doc, Musk, have been banned on most social media, so let’s get the word out here. “Musk” is a four-hour look at a title character who attempts to control the conversation in various ways, including with alleged suppressions on X, which he bought in 2022. It opens in theatres Oct. 9.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We could do what prof Paul Behrens and many other experts advise: shift to plant-rich diets such as the EAT Lancet planetary health diet, which would enable us to free for nature, in the UK, an area nearly the size of Scotland? Compare land use for built environment and livestock (inc. overseas):
Land used for all major types of land use in the UK, taken from https://nationalfoodstrategy.org/
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If only there were some way to avoid this. “Europe’s next energy crisis will be from a completely new threat: peak oil. An August report from The National Interest warns that Europe’s next energy catastrophe will come from a decline in oil and gas exports from key producers.”
oilprice.com
The Next Global Energy Crisis Won’t Come From Just One Direction | OilPrice.com
Hormuz, record heat, and grid failures show energy threats no longer come one at a time. Here’s why resilience planning needs a systems-wide rethink.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every glaciated region on the planet lost ice for four years in a row now. From 2023–2025 alone, glaciers lost around 1,400 gigatonnes of ice, equivalent to roughly 560 million Olympic swimming pools (the official weird measure for anything water related). Source: bit.ly/WMOStateofWa...
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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Catalyzing transformative change: Social tipping points for sustainable futures Positive tipping dynamics may help accelerate decarbonization, nature regeneration, and more sustainable patterns of production and consumption. Tue Sep 29, 2026 · 3:00 p.m. (CEST) www.bigmarker.com/cellpress-so...
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Catalyzing transformative change: Social tipping points for sustainable futures
Social tipping points, moments when shifts in behavior, norms, policies, technologies, or institutions become self-reinforcing, are attracting growing attention in sustainability science. Positive tip...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The UK’s annual contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine fell from $18m (£13.6m) in 2024 to $9.3m (£7m) last year and just $4m (£3m) this year, The i Paper has learned"
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We can assume the summer of 2027 will be unusually hot in the Northern Hemisphere. Given this, health care systems and hospitals should prepare for surges of patients with heat stroke, cardiovascular events and kidney disease." www.almendron.com/tribuna/the-...
almendron.com
The Super El Niño Is About to Unleash Weather Chaos. Get Ready Now
In March, satellite sensors began to detect an enormous wave traveling east along the Equator below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. As it moved toward the coast of South America, the wave pushed …
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new study indicates that used EVs hold a clear advantage over gas-powered vehicles in terms of reliability, with the electric advantage growing as the miles add up. cleantechnica.com/2026/09/27/u...
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The Case For Buying A Used EV Is Better Than Ever
Car dealers in the UK can add reliability to their sales pitch for used EVs, as supported by a new study of standard road safety tests.
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