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Donald Coppen

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Biotech (ret.) & PhD biologist My own opinions expressed here Zero/ single post accounts will be muted, blocked & reported as spam #RuleOfLaw #AskForEvidence #ClimateChangeIsReal #ShowYourStripes #VaccinesWork #NAFO #SlavaUkraine

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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously? How obvious does a #bot account have to be? Reported, muted, blocked.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We should be able to have old polluting cars on the road for as long as we want, air pollution be damned.
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UK Government Petitions @petitions.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New petition: "Statutory right for domestic abuse victims to separate from joint mortgages" Deadline 25 March 2027, created by Claire-Louise Milne #NewPetition
petition.parliament.uk
New petition: Statutory right for domestic abuse victims to separate from joint mortgages
Create a statutory right for domestic abuse victims to unilaterally separate from joint mortgages, with specific protections against arrears, damaged credit and their abuser refusing to pay, sell or cooperate; ensuring a joint mortgage cannot be used as a tool of post-separation economic abuse.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Over the last 365d record high temperatures have outnumbered record lows by: Daily: 5:1 Monthly: 19:1 All Time: 21:1 This isn't just "weather", this is #ClimateChange. #ClimateChangeIsReal
@NOAA
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Think I can hear the getting-ever-louder sound of many pigeons coming home to roost. #IranWar #OilCrisis www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026
There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/09/2026
Doctors Say Digging Own Grave Keeps Bones Healthy After Menopause
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If we’re all not to risk being burnt out of our homes each and every summer going forward, this needs to become law. Especially those ridiculously dangerous sky lanterns (which are just dumb incendiary devices).
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The world’s scientists breathed a sigh of relief this week as temperatures in the UK dropped below 35 degrees, meaning that everything is fine and we can go back to burning fossil fuels forever without any worries. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1682, August 2026.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@clivejonesmp.bsky.social - I hoe that you will be able to support this bill again to give the terminally ill the ability to choose a dignified death.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@bloomberg.com It is outrageous that you, along with other notable news outlets (eg @wsj.com) been excluded by US Treasury from attending the upcoming #G20 meeting. Clearly Bessent doesn’t want to be held to account. Action of a weak man. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
US Treasury Bars Reporters From Some Outlets From G20 Summit
The US Treasury Department excluded journalists from several media outlets, including Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal, from coverage of this week’s Group of 20 finance ministers summit in A...
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Apple is reportedly sending a new batch of notifications alerting targets of spyware. If you have received one, we wrote a post on what to do next, and how to get help. You can also contact me directly on Signal at +1 917 257 1382. techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/y...
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
July 2026 was the driest for England and Wales since records began 190 years ago. It was also the UK's sunniest July on record. For England and Wales, it was the sunniest calendar month ever observed. My solar panels would agree. #ClimateChangeIsReal #ClimateCrisis www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
bbc.co.uk
UK weather: Driest July on record for England and Wales
The month of July has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny for most of the UK as Tomasz Schafernaker explains.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Good article which highlights the poor relation in #ClimateChange, adaptation. Cost-effective policies for this could be easily implemented that would rapidly help those most affected & help regain support for #NetZero.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yet another piece of evidence for the adverse effects we can expect on food supplies in the #UK as a direct result of #ClimateChange. #ClimateChangeIsReal
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Good article, highlights how trump & his inner circle made some basic mistakes in their hubristic approach, the lack of any strategy, conflating Iran with Venezuela, slow to respond to the plan not working.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Great example of how expanding residential #solar + #storage is leading to falling #electricity prices for all consumers & reduced peak summer power demands. “Solar ate coal’s lunch and now batteries are eating gas’s dinner.” #RenewableEnergy www.ft.com/content/af10...
ft.com
Australians ‘going gangbusters’ on Chinese batteries in renewable energy shift
Clean energy, backed by storage, now makes up about half of the country’s energy supply
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@meghbaynes.bsky.social - you’ve yet to post here so I guess you probably won’t see this but your @thetimes.com article on eco homes was totally misleading - see below. I had thought journalistic standards were higher at The Times (recent exposé of farage corruption), but this just doesn’t cut it.
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 04/07/2026
"I wouldn't wish that on anyone." Poppy's mum was denied choice and suffered at the end of life, despite access to great palliative care.  Dying people deserve compassion. MPs must uphold their democratic commitment to them - and us all - and back the assisted dying bill.
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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Global ocean temperatures hit a record high for June, according to the latest Copernicus Climate Change Service & Copernicus Marine Service data. Over the past three years, oceans outside the polar regions have been 0.35–0.73°C warmer than average. El Niño pushed June to a new record.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 29/06/2026
Just one possible outcome... but the GFS weather forecast model is suggesting 40-41°C is possible in the UK around 7th July. This is a long-range forecast with significant uncertainty, but the fact that we are even seeing such values fairly regularly in the forecasts is extraordinary.
GFS for 7th July
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
#Evolution by #NaturalSelection is #amazing
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#ClimateCrisis? What #ClimateCrisis? Current UK weather together with global high temp records outnumbering lows by nearly 5:1 just demonstrates #ClimateChangeIsReal and impacting us today.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#ClimateCrisis? What #ClimateCrisis? Current UK weather together with global high temp records outnumbering lows by nearly 5:1 just demonstrates #ClimateChangeIsReal and impacting us today.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“The president…began making vandalism claims over the weekend, after problems at the reflecting pool appeared to be getting worse, with visible tears in the pool’s new flooring and algae blooming despite cleanup efforts.” Think I know where the vandal lives. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Trump Administration Steps Up Law Enforcement Presence at Reflecting Pool
The president alleged that vandals damaged the pool, but the administration has provided little evidence to support the claim.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 22/06/2026
The UK summer of 1976 was an extraordinary heatwave for its time. On the 50th anniversary, we look back to learn about what that event can tell us today. For those who experienced the heatwave it is engrained in the memory, but it gives us a stark warning about future extreme heat for the UK.
Heatwave 1976-2026. Our memory. Their future.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Love this ad from @libdems.org.uk - farage is one of the few to make out personally from #Brexit. Leaving the #EU has failed, making the UK poorer. We need a closer relationship with them if we’re to significantly raise living standards and help address the #CostOfLivingCrisis.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Europe has already cut its energy bill by 29% but nobody talks about it. EU energy use in 2024: 854 Mtoe. Without efficiency gains since 2000 it would have been ~1,103 Mtoe. That's energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. New policy brief out today 👇 www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A great success story for the reintroduction of beavers, into London of all places, which has led to reduced flooding in nearby residential areas due to the new wetlands the beavers have created with their dams. #NatureIsAmazing www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
How eight beavers solved a decades-old Tube flooding problem
The creatures were reintroduced in 2023 after being hunted to extinction 400 years ago
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trump: UFC fighters? I could fight them both, but I’d win easy. They’d be black and blue… like my hand… which is a totally normal colour for skin. New Private Eye on shelves now.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@royalsociety.org - cancel #Musk fellowship. His continued presence shames British science.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Great article from @marketwatch.com - #SpaceX looks to be a house built on sand (hot air promises of jam, not tomorrow but, many years into the future, if ever). Wall Street claims its worth $135 a share but last October it was valued internally at $42. www.marketwatch.com/story/here-a...
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You can now vote to choose the faces on the new bank notes from the Bank of #England. This series focuses on #UK #wildlife and there are plenty of great choices! @bbowt.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social app.keysurvey.co.uk/f/41844465/6...
app.keysurvey.co.uk
Help us celebrate the UK's wildlife
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/06/2026
Memories of the Summer of 1976 endure in the British memory, 35.9 °C, parched fields, standpipes in the streets. 50 years on and, in the last decade alone, temperatures above 36 °C have been recorded on six days in the UK and the UK’s highest record temperature now stands at 40.3 °C.
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Solar Energy UK @solarenergyuk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Britain sets solar record as households take control of energy bills 💸 New government figures published today confirm a record year for solar deployment, as households and businesses across Britain respond to the energy crisis by generating their own power. #SolarEnergyUK
solarenergyuk.org
Britain sets solar record as households take control of energy bills
Solar Energy UK  28 May 2026  New government figures published today confirm a record year for solar deployment, as households and businesses across
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Rejoin petition has just hit 💥90,000💥 signatures!
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Important to remember that it's not just right-wingers who are unable to accept hard data, it's an issue with the left too. In both cases the strong emotional attachment to a dogma outweighs anything that can disprove it.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“Putin harms the German people. Putin harms Europe. Putin is killing people in Europe.” - Jürgen Hardt, member of the German Bundestag from Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), addressing the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Every Reform UK Councillor that has gone, with reasons. This is superb:
refukked.lovable.app
Lovable App
Interactive online bingo card keeping track of the local election Reform UK exits
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Rejoin petition jumped from 70K to 75K yesterday. It needs to hit 100K by June 8th when the petition closes in order to get a debate in Parliament. The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is June 23rd.
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Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Wednesday's @theguardian.com cartoon #Farage #ReformUk #AndyBurnham #MakerfieldByelection #Brexit
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
And now 6 times @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 04/05/2026
This issue is not going away. We demand action.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Detailed article on the huge rises in insurance costs for many US households due to the increasing number & intensity of natural disasters but not once does it mention the driving factor - #ClimateChange. @wsj.com see it but they just can’t say the words “climate” & “change”. Wilfully obtuse.
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Over the last year recorded global all time record temperatures: - maximum highs outnumbered max lows by 2.75:1 - minimum highs outnumbered min lows by 6.77:1. This isn’t hard to understand - #ClimateChangeIsReal www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/data...
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Donald Coppen @donaldcoppen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Great to see the tide is really turning, something that trump’s war with Iran will only make all the more urgent as energy security becomes front & centre in the minds of governments globally. www.ft.com/content/d525...
ft.com
Global clean power growth points to permanent shift, analysts say
Evidence grows of structural move away from fossil fuels to meet rising electricity demand
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Remembering Amal Khalil
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What you get with Reform UK. Spread the word.
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