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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
With the planet now heating at 0.4C a decade, the idea the world will be just 2.7C hotter by 2100 is pure fantasy Like 1.5C before it, the 2.7C figure is being used to massively underestimate the dire straits we are in, and to play down the desperate need for action NOW
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Richard D. Gregory @richgreg3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record Nearly 1/2 of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️🐦 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record
Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
IMO, the Marine Conservation Society does more harm than good. It mis-rates species & spreads confusion, when it should be telling us to eat less fish/simply stop. Now, FFS, it has given bluefin tuna a green rating, despite v little data. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2
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Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not just for *years* to come... "Even if global temperatures go above 1.5°C and then come back down, sea levels will keep rising for centuries..." sealevel.nasa.gov/news/283/the...
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The Seas Will Keep Rising, Even If the Planet Cools
NASA Sea Level Change Team releases "Sea Level Rise Under Overshoot"
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Can you revive a zombie river? Our cities are full of rivers that have been buried in concrete after industrial pollution filled them with filth. But there's a global drive to bring them back: to "daylight" these forgotten rivers. I had a lovely day out in Sheffield today, seeing it actually happen.
Helen and six of the members of the Sheffield Castlegate project team, all in hard hats and fluorescent jackets.A worksite with a 12 metre wide trough dug into the ground, currently reinforced with large yellow metal bars across its width.
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blendingtolearn.bsky.social @blendingtolearn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes, he did start making the point but failed to pursue. Inexcusable given the idiocy of what was being argued.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 10 A little more than 700m years ago, the Earth was a giant ice-ball. What thawed it? CO2 building up over millions of years Even the deepest freeze was ended by carbon — the lever we're now yanking Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #DeepTime
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Fuck your children's lung development - Vote Reform". If populist election slogans were honest.
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Bradford Council leader 'confident' of scrapping Clean Air Zone fees
Stephen Place says he is still committed to "stop charging people" for driving around Bradford.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...
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'Delighted': Yorkshire businessman's care home company seals £1.1bn deal with US firm
A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm delighted to say that, after many years anguishing over the desperate state of Killarney NP, I'm seeing a partial ecological recovery, like this wild baby arbutus tree. Such positive signs can only mean one thing: the NPWS must finally be taking a more proactive approach to invasive sika deer.
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Your Enemy are Not travelling by small boats but by Private jets … 😡🤬
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💫✨🌟Mare🌟✨💫 @utexas-96.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Asking for a friend
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Extinction Rebellion France @xrfrance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Merci aux lycéen·ne·s 🫶
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Random Tuesday: Finger Heart Thanks
ALT: Random Tuesday: Finger Heart Thanks
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“techno-optimist” scientists [engaged in] less civic actions and protests, signed fewer petitions and engaged in less advocacy. .....also less likely to reduce the number of flights they took, cut car usage......." You know who you are - and should be ashamed www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
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Keith Alexander @keithalexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s monstrous that people would consider trying to kill 1000 beings that are hundreds of years old and take 150 years to even reach sexual maturity, purely because they interfere with fishing for halibut. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark
As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species
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blendingtolearn.bsky.social @blendingtolearn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵
In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🦇 Hello October! In the UK bat world, more mating is taking place, and building up fat reserves is becoming crucial to survive the winter season. Bats are seeking suitable hibernation sites, and beginning periods of torpor.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Tory party goes full-on climate denier and nature hater Pure lunacy 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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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ecocidal fucking lunatics.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 2 Fossil fuels are just old sunlight - stored solar energy from deep time that we're now burning all at once. The sun already sends us 10,000x the energy we need. We're digging up the past instead of making the most of the gift above #FateOfTheWorld — please reshare + tag 2
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blendingtolearn.bsky.social @blendingtolearn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#TogetherUnstoppable #FateOfTheWorld
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We think these bat bricks for new builds are a great example of how innovation and creativity can help wildlife! 🦇
Bat brick for new build home, with bat logo
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Mark Hagen @markhagen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For people who don't understand what is wrong with this motion, there's a good explanation here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ah, but he was a proud warrior of the anti-clean air jihad. A martyr in the war on woke.
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🦇 Despite autumn being a quiet time for bat activity, Halloween means bat decorations are everywhere. We think this is the perfect time for bat lovers to celebrate bats and raise awareness! Learn more: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
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Halloween for bats - Support Bats - Bat Conservation Trust
Despite autumn being a quiet time for bat activity, Halloween means bat decorations are everywhere. We think this is the perfect time for bat lovers to ...
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why the country is in the state that it’s in. They’re not holding certain people accountable for their crimes. That includes those that are sitting currently, and those that have sat in public office.
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Alick Simmons @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A side effect of restrictions imposed on miscreant landowners is the reporting of numbers killed under an individual licence. On one estate over 1000 birds! OUR native birds killed on an industrial scale to serve the narrow interests of a tiny minority. And do we get a say? Do we f***
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"This is the opposite of how science ought to work." George Monbiot on those pushing "false and dangerous" cures for #MECFS, "entrenched" in their beliefs and doubling down rather than admit the "great harm" to the lives of thousands of people.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please watch this crucial discussion about the scale of Earth's energy imbalance. The numbers are shocking. Thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCR...
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12 Hiroshima Bombs Every Second
YouTube video by Facing Future
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This despite record global temperatures & extreme weather events. It didn't happen by accident. It's a predictable consequence of Trump/GOP assault on the media coupled w/ plutocratic capture of media outfits and platforms.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Telegraph has published my letter responding to a column by James Rebanks. I argue that the pastoral idyll can obscure destructive and wasteful land use. They changed one thing though: I pointed out that the headline accused me of waging a "sheep culture war", not the article. archive.ph/pgEGB
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch
Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants
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Emma Howard @emmahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After a poultry plant shut down in July's heatwave, the UK's meat industry trade body called for processing sites to have "continuous access to water, irrespective of wider pressures on local supplies". When those sites use more water than Brighton, that matters. www.grilled.media/data-meat-in...
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Data: Meat plants use more water than the population of Brighton
As meat processors demand priority access to water during drought, exclusive data reveals the industry's water use
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/@did:plc:cod...
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Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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 sophistica...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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blendingtolearn.bsky.social @blendingtolearn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elephants use bentonite clay to treat themselves. I learnt about its extraordinary properties from elephants and now I use it too.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
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SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As ever, the most vulnerable workers are in the front line as climate breakdown continues to hammer home labouroutlook.org/2026/09/18/t...
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The climate crisis is already a workplace issue – Red Weekly Column
"If this crisis is to be resolved and its already severe impacts minimised, there must be a transition planned with and for workers. Trade unionists cannot afford to sit this one out."
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tax their arses off www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy
Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A green lacewing gracing my window. Can you imagine life without wild nature? It would be dull, lifeless, empty.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Since the ultra rich are very good at hiding money it is time to start heavily taxing mansions, luxury yachts, private plane landings and grouse moors. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Either we ask the very rich to pay more in tax or the burden will fall on the rest of us - Andy Brown
It is said that the most likely way to make a small fortune is to start out with a large one. Starting with money, connections and an expensive education is also the most likely way to become very ric...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“From Bordeaux to Paris, via Rennes in Brittany and Die in the southeast, thousands – 120,000, according to organizers – turned out ‘for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.’”
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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Not acting on climate change means a certain World War in the lifetime of anybody born from now on.’ Scientists explain that climate change is a far bigger threat than governments are telling you:
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 26/09/2026
Climate rallies to be held across France on Saturday after record-breaking summer
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Climate rallies to be held across France on Saturday after record-breaking summer
More than 260 demonstrations are planned nationwide to demand an emergency climate action plan. Environmental activists who first called for these protests have since been joined by non-profit organizations, unions and political parties.
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Extinction Rebellion Boston @xrboston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New post on the #UN, Antonio Guterres' farewell speech, and the importance of #hope and fighting #climatechange xrboston.substack.com/p/the-climat...
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