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Henry Adams

@henryadamsuk.bsky.social
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Retired ecologist. Education: Imperial & UEA. Interests: Many: wildlife, the outdoors, cycling, protecting wildlife & environment/climate. End fossil fuels!

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Norwich FoE @norwichfoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR 🙅‍♂️ We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Text reads: 120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to SCRAP Palantir contracts. Palantir provides support to warmongers, drains our public wealth, deepens our dependence on tech billionaires. WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR.
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Putting the start date back four years makes the already dubious economic case for expansion even more questionable. That’s before even considering the fact that anything we might gain from expansion is vastly outweighed by the huge social and environmental cost”-T. Bosworth, FoE. shorturl.at/jsUS6
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Burnham dodges questions on Heathrow third runway as project faces four-year delay
Airport chiefs say 2035 deadline unachievable with 2039 more likely as critics say delay makes case for project ‘even more dubious’
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re in Liverpool for #labourpartyconference. Andy Burnham says he’s empowering people to tackle the climate crisis. Welcome words - but we want to hear how Labour will get the UK off costly oil and gas, stop billionaires profiting while people and planet pay, and secure a fairer future for all.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social If Labour truly want to "reunite the progressive voter coalition" they MUST prevent #Jackdaw, #Rosebank and any other new offshore oil & gas development fro going ahead. Climate security is national security.
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Labour must reunite progressive voters to win the next election, says Lucy Powell
The deputy leader wants the party to take advantage of a split on the right and not be embarrassed to show its values
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Manchester Friends of the Earth @mcrfoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Demand an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. Ask your MP to say no to new oil and gas. That means no to Rosebank and a full, permanent ban on fracking action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/deman...
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Demand an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects
Take action The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, climate breakdown is impossible to ignore. Yet Prime...
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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, at the Labour Party Conference, we joined climate justice organisations and campaigners to demand the UK government says no to Rosebank oil field. Rosebank won’t lower energy bills or deliver secure jobs. Prime Minister Andy Burnham must #StopRosebank now.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miatta Fahnbulleh at LCEF fringe, Labour conference: the decisions on Rosebank and Jackdaw are mine to take, they’re a quasi-judicial decision, based on a set of clear tests - if I get it wrong I can be judicially reviewed. Ultimately the North Sea is a declining basin, 90% has gone…
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israeli attacks destroyed most of Gaza’s #wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage. That sewage is now contributing to a worsening algae crisis affecting Israeli desalination facilities and cutting their #water supplies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Israel facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plants
Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis
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bellhui1b.bsky.social @bellhui1b.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"They're Arresting the Holocaust Survivors" for Supporting Palestine against the Zionist Genocide and calling it a Terrorist Act? Hey, Mr Burnham wake up and smell the Irony!
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Henry Adams @henryadamsuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Hundreds Defy Palestine Action Ban at Burnham’s First Labour Conference
Elderly protesters were arrested under the Terrorism Act outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool. Harriet Williamson reports.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Deed and the Zone: How Trump came to "own" Gaza europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deed-a...
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The Deed and the Zone: How Trump came to "own" Gaza
How a decade of freeport paperwork explains the resolution that gave Gaza away
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Consort (she/her) @consortjso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much love, respect, gratitude for and solidarity with the protestors in Liverpool today. Thank you ✊🏼🙏🧡 #LiftTheBan #WeDoNotComply @defendourjuries.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2658533...
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'Shameful attack on free speech' as protestors arrested outside Labour conference
Arrests have taken place outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool after protestors held up signs referencing Palestine Action, in what…
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A message for Andy Burnham from Rob Del Naja (Massive Attack), Huda Ammori (Co-Founder, Palestine Action), and Michael Mansfield KC. Deproscribe Palestine Action. www.wedonotcomply.org
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rob’s arrest comes as a video is published from himself, Palestine Action Co-Founder Huda Ammori, and Human Rights Barrister Michael Mansfield KC calling on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to Deproscribe Palestine Action. bsky.app/profile/defe...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Police arrest pro-Palestine Action protesters including elderly man outside Labour party conference More than 200 protesters sat outside the conference in Liverpool in support of the banned group www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Police arrest pro-Palestine Action protesters outside Labour party conference
More than 200 protesters sat outside the conference in Liverpool in support of the banned group
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We organised blood tests for people living near a chemical factory in Thornton-Cleveleys where we uncovered high emissions of PFAS forever chemicals, including internationally-banned, cancer-causing PFOA. Last night, BBC News spoke to people as they received their test results:
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The insidious nature of PFAS pollution - people who've only ever tried to do the best for their family's health realising something harmful has crept in. ITV News covered the tests we ran on PFAS levels in people's blood in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire: www.itv.com/news/2026-09...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Huge #ElNiño projected to cause 450,000 heat deaths in next six months - New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action - Experts say some of António Guterres’s possible successors could be ‘disastrous’ for efforts to tackle #climatecrisis Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action
Experts say some of António Guterres’s possible successors could be ‘disastrous’ for efforts to tackle crisis
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’ - António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨 🚨 🚨 ‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak 🚨 🚨 🚨 - The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
After a scorching summer, the UK is now bracing for a season of potentially devastating rainfall But homeowners may be stunned to learn that the insurers helping them deal with the fallout of flash floods are fuelling the climate crisis
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Insurance firms help flooding victims mop up. They also make flooding…
Major insurers are fuelling the climate crisis while benefiting from a scheme that helps cover their flood losses
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn - report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
European Union countries gave more subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewable energy in 2024 (latest data) #energycrisis energy.ec.europa.eu/news/energy-...
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Energy subsidies report highlights further reduction in 2024
Total energy subsidies in the EU in 2024 amounted to €340 billion, 5% down on 2023 and significantly lower (-25%) than at the height of the crisis in 2022 (€ 457 billion), according to a new Report on...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The climate crisis ... is the most profound intergenerational power imbalance of all. One generation consuming the future of the next." UNSG António Guterres at UNGA Plus: Guterres interview by @fionaharvey.bsky.social #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘It’s my duty to tell the truth’: UN chief on the climate crisis, capitalism and reasons to be hopeful
Before his final general assembly, António Guterres speaks about why he put climate at the centre of his UN tenure
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 18/09/2026
Any additional emissions from a UK gasfield are incompatible with climate targets.
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Granting a new gasfield licence does not guarantee energy security
Any additional emissions from a UK gasfield are incompatible with climate targets.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
Read Mikhal Zygar on Umar Kremlev, the oligarch who helped pay for Don Jr's wedding zygaro.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This article also confirms my points from a couple years ago about blue hydrogen. "Blue hydrogen will never be clean and attempts at carbon capture will always be expensive. Blue hydrogen was always just a ploy by the gas industry to find another use for natural gas (aka methane)..."
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Oil and Gas Industry Admits Blue Hydrogen is Too Expensive
In 2021, I wrote how the economics of blue hydrogen would not work in an article titled, “The ‘Big Lie’ of Blue Hydrogen Starts With Ignoring Basic Economics.”  Blue hydrogen is the theoretical produc...
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A lot of good info in this piece but this line deserves attention. "This is the key reason why gas-fired power plants and other gas-fired processes, at least in their existing form, are some of the worst targets for any form of carbon capture." Carbon capture doesn't work. Another reminder.
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Yara's CCS project shows limitations of Blue Hydrogen and Ammonia
Yara's fertilizer plant in Sluiskil in the Netherlands is the second customer of the Northern Lights CO₂ storage site in Norway. While it is one of the largest CCS projects in Europe, it avoids only a...
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Mark Norman @mark60.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stinging rebuke for the Climate Change Committee from @kevinclimate.bsky.social: ‘A credible climate advisory body must be willing to say when a politically attractive policy is incompatible with the UK’s climate commitments.’
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Write to your MP today to tell them: no new oil and gas. action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/deman...
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Demand an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects
Take action The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, climate breakdown is impossible to ignore. Yet Prime...
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our message is simple: in a world that's already burning, we shouldn't be drilling for new fossil fuels. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Burnham urged to reject new North Sea drilling days before first Trump meeting
Almost 600 climate scientists, health professionals and conservationists have warned against approving the Rosebank oil field
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s time to level the playing field and limit donation amounts to political parties. A greener and fairer future for everyone depends on it. Friends of the Earth is independent and non-party political. We campaign for people and planet regardless of which party is in government.
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Megadonors - including ones with ties to the fossil fuel industry - are influencing British politics. People in the UK should have the confidence that our democracy works for everyone, not just the super-rich. 🧵👇 #ukpolitics #megadonors #britishpolitics
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN 49.0C Red Sea AP SAUDI ARABIA MINIMUMS >35C. 48.0C Aswan HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY EVER IN EGYPT 45.5C Abu Simbel 48C also in SUDAN Never happened anything like this anywhere in the world in mid September. And:It will get worse
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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Every aviation scenario the UK Government has published overshoots the carbon budget Parliament has legislated, before a third runway at Heathrow is even taken into account.” (And even that budget is wildly out of line with 1.5 or 2C)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
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Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
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Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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Henry Adams @henryadamsuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-13...
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Over 130 lawyers warn UK sanctions on Israeli settlements don't go far enough
UK action on Israeli settlements falls far short, lawyers and former judges tell Prime Minister Andy Burnham in letter
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Detlev Helmig, an atmospheric scientist with air quality program Boulder AIR, said, “The analyses of our monitoring data provide evidence that oil and gas operations in the Loving area are a likely source of atmospheric releases of radioactivity.”
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Studies Link New Mexico Drilling to Radiation, Air Pollution, Health Risks
Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation's largest oil fields.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can read my latest piece in @theguardian.com here 2027 is going to be grim www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world. And we are far from ready for it | Bill McGuire
One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worse, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mapped: the £150bn megaproject that aims to protect Britain from energy shocks Thousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term #netzero www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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Mapped: the £150bn megaproject that aims to protect Britain from energy shocks
Thousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term and opponents are mobilising
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