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James Harvey

@jamhar.bsky.social
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Eco-zealot, cyclist, cat called Gideon, bushcraft, activism, that sort of stuff.

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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 29m
Andy Burnham's speech. Was it a great oratorical performance? Yes, probably. Was it radical? I don't think so. Some thoughts. selfpropelled.life/2026/09/30/a...
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Andy Burnham’s speech: Radical? I don’t think so.
Andy Burnham’s speech. I listened to it. I thought it was probably one of the best oratorical performances from a Prime Minister I’ve heard in the last 20 years. He actually made it seem like he ca…
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Norwich Cycling Campaign @norwichcycling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great turnout at today's Kidical Mass ride. 😍🚲 #KidicalMass #KidicalMassNorwich 📷 Simeon
Riders of all ages on the Kidical Mass Ride.Riders of all ages on the Kidical Mass Ride.Riders of all ages on the Kidical Mass Ride.Riders of all ages on the Kidical Mass Ride.
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The Global Eye @theglobaleye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#BREAKING | 🇹🇭 — Bangkok declared flood disaster zone after nearly 300mm of rain Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt on Saturday declared all 50 districts of the capital disaster-affected areas as persistent heavy rain caused widespread flooding.
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What if politicians shouldn’t be making most of the decisions in the first place? A bit of anarchism, Citizens Assemblies, Socrates, bottom-up democracy, and Gideon staging a coup. I don’t have the answers. But I increasingly don’t think what we have is working. selfpropelled.life/2026/09/22/w...
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What if politicians didn’t make the decisions?
I keep thinking about something. Please don’t groan, I can hear you. Why are politicians constantly trying to work out what they need to do to get people to vote for them? We have focus groups, opi…
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
✅ #Burnham's £30m: helpful. 📢 But statement is weak when UK climate action is not in line with science, nor world we now live. 🤐 And when Govt won't tell us how ministers were advised in setting the carbon budget. 🚨 See Carbon Reckoning's case being filed next week 👉 bsky.app/profile/dran...
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As a project manager I am used to managing risks. I'm not sure how we manage these, or even if we can. We are living in a mad world of our own making. Perhaps we need to Just Stop. New blog: selfpropelled.life/2026/09/17/m...
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Mad World
All around me are familiar facesWorn-out places, worn-out facesBright and early for their daily racesGoing nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are fillin’ up their glassesNo expression, no exp…
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was going to write about politics and corruption again today. I couldn't face it. And I think what I wrote instead is better. It really helped me, and helped reconnect. I'm quite proud of this one, actually. It's about belonging, and what that can mean. selfpropelled.life/2026/09/04/b...
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Belonging
I went and sat under a yew tree today. I’ve been doing that quite a lot recently. All Saints Church in Salhouse is only a short walk from my house, and has become one of those places I go whe…
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧵 1/13 🔦 What the Government won't tell you on climate. 🔒 It buried its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 📈 Now it won't tell us how it sets carbon budgets that let emissions roll on ⚖️ So we are taking it to Court 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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James McAsh @jamesmcash.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our local MP, Miatta Fahnbulleh, faces a choice: protect the planet and the people of Peckham or prioritise the profits of polluters. Help her make the right one. Tell her: No New Oil & Gas. Sign the petition 📝 www.southwarkgreenparty.org.uk/nonewoilandgas
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's too late for non-radical futures. A slide from a recent talk by @kevinclimate.bsky.social on the stark choice that faces us. You can view the whole talk here: youtu.be/ABptBPMWitU
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The likely explanation of this is that they simply don’t have an adequate plan. That’s why they won’t allow us to know their plan: because they barely have one. (That’s why they have tried to suppress the National Security Assessment on ecosystem collapse and the DEFRA ‘critical systems’ report.)
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
selfpropelled.life
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
This morning I am grateful for last night’s rain, bringing relief to the countryside, plants and animals, humans included. Because we are animals, with the same fundamental needs all animals …
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Still gobsmacking that Andy Burnhams response to the deaths from the climate crisis has been to pledge to try & stop the sale of single use barbeques. A monumental mistake. Time to do the right thing. Fund our firefighters & say no to new oil & gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis
More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s ok everyone. Burn’em has banned sale of disposable BBQs. We’re saved. Nothing about more support for Fire Services or emergency response and mobilisation, or confirming no new oil or gas drilling in North Sea. And it’s just a ban on the sale. Not the use. FOR F*CKS SAKE. What’s it gonna take?
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1/ So Rosebank would pay to store 62.5 MtCO2 (2.5/yr) whilst Rosebank generates 250MtCO2 in same 25 years Even if CCS works (a very big IF), then this is a great deal for Equinor, Shell, Ithaca Energy, Delek Group and Eni AND a very bad deal for the planet. One reason why CTBO is non-starter
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Seen in #Hastings
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We opened the box. And wonders came out. At first, what came out looked miraculous. We reached deeper. Then... selfpropelled.life/2026/08/12/p... (New blog post)
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
UK has just set a mediocre carbon budget - a business-as-usual pathway; it doesn't follow the science or Paris agreement. We need to change this in the UK and every other country to slow down climate crisis. Help &support the #CarbonReckoning project to do this www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1/ 🚨New piece out co-authored with Ben Shread-Hewitt on the EU's adaptation framework and the risk of a 3°C world. Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. Here's a 🧵on some key points. Thanks @climate-risk.bsky.social for publishing this article.
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How the EU adaptation framework vastly underplays the risk of a 3°C world
Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable - but it makes it seem so
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
1/ @mjflepage.bsky.social argues in @newscientist.com that more North Sea drilling doesn't matter for the #climate, because what counts is how much we burn. He's usually excellent as a climate writer and I found the piece a real let-down. A thread on why. 🧵
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hugely important letter to PM Andy Burnham from @kevinclimate.bsky.social &Tyndall colleagues. Rapidly shrinking global carbon budgets were ignored when Govt set the recent Seventh Carbon Budget - now a key ground in #CarbonReckoning legal case www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... (see below)
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...
Quote from the letter - the link is in the post.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hugely important letter to PM Andy Burnham from @kevinclimate.bsky.social &Tyndall colleagues. Rapidly shrinking global carbon budgets were ignored when Govt set the recent Seventh Carbon Budget - now a key ground in #CarbonReckoning legal case www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... (see below)
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Another BBC story about Reform UK Ltd accepting money from someone convicted of fraud. They talk about integrity & cleaning up politics, yet repeatedly take money from convicted fraudsters. Are they effectively laundering money in return for political influence? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK
Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A letter to the Prime Minister from the #𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 experts in today's @financialtimes.com. Please share. Link to a zoomable image: www.nebriefing.org/media With thanks to Business Declares. #TimeToStepUp #NationalRenewal
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Britain has entered a new climate reality, and the Government hasn't grasped it. Last week I led a debate on extreme heat and the cross-government action needed to protect us. Here's some of what I said.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As ICJ AO turns 1️⃣🎂, see below, #CarbonReckoning has launched a fair share climate case in the UK, and support similar cases from communities around the world 👇 ⏯️ WATCH to find out more youtu.be/B8I4q-hWUys?... ⚖️ SUPPORT our case here www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Andrew Boswell Carbon Reckoning project CEC webinar Challenging UK climate action- international law
YouTube video by Climate Emergency Centres
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#CarbonReckoning welcome yr appt @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social & yr essay that is clear on UK international obligations👇 cdn.prod.website-files.com/62306a0b42f3... Our fair share case is because your dept didn't follow this with 7CB: www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BREAKING 🚨: reports suggest Andy Burnham could approve new oil and gas fields, including Rosebank. Is he REALLY going to cave into the demands of the profiteering oil giants and Trump? Or is he going to stand with people facing soaring bills and a worsening climate crisis?
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
2/7 We support Monbiot’s central point. UK carbon capture is not chiefly about cleaning up unavoidable industrial emissions. It is being used to justify a major new expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure, underwritten by decades of public subsidy - when it is not needed. www.lut.fi/en/news/rese...
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Researchers agree: The world can reach a 100% renewable energy system before 2050 | LUT University
Research from LUT University and 14 additional leading international universities suggest that the new system would be based largely on solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and dire...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1/7 After @georgemonbiot.bsky.social exposed deep flaws in carbon capture &storage—and the extraordinary sums this Govt is committing to it—CCS industry lobbyists and pro-CCS scientists responded. @sioldridge.bsky.social &I answer them here www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
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Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters
Letters: The predicted £264bn cost by 2050 could be even higher, plus renewables avoid a far higher total of emissions than can be captured, writes Andrew Boswell, while Simon Oldridge calls out veste...
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's deeply irresponsible of Reform-led councils, like the one here in Suffolk, to be taking backward steps on climate and nature. Firefighters are battling extreme heat while Reform councils stick their heads in the sand to please their political donors.
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Irresponsible Reform-led councils.
It's deeply irresponsible of Reform-led councils, like the one here in Suffolk, to be taking backward steps on climate and nature. Firefighters are battling extreme heat while Reform councils stick…
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So excited to see this! Over 4 episodes I cover the hugely alarming conclusions of the Joint Intelligence Ctte Report, shamefully suppressed by Government, & explore its implications for our food and water security. @nebriefing.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A heatwave. Water restrictions. A food factory in a “critical situation”. Animal welfare at risk. The UK food supply chain affected. Yet the article doesn't mention climate change or emissions once. We need to start joining the dots. The BBC needs to do better! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chicken factory in 'critical situation' as water use restricted
2 Sisters Food Group says it faces animal welfare issues amid South West Water supply restrictions.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“Having a plan based on reality is the least we can do.” Our supporters want climate policy led by science, not political convenience. Help #CarbonReckoning challenge the Seventh Carbon Budget: www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The latest heatwaves seems a good time to share @allouryesterdays.bsky.social's reflections on how to respond to the last heatwave tldr: organise (but with less awful meetings)
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After the heatwave - What is to be done? - All Our Yesterdays
It’s too hot, this minute, to do anything. It’s too hot to march, it’s too hot to rally, it’s too hot to launch any dense, detailed footnoted report urging government (local, national, global) to Take...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thanks for this really insightful article George CCS is a fossil fuel stitch-up - now with data centres. More data centres ⏩ more gas+CCS ⏩ more LNG ⏩ more methane ⏩ more heat🔥 Burnham has a chance to stop this spiralling - data centre moratorium, move CCS funding to green economy, no Rosebank
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hmmm...
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What if…Farage steps down, claims establishment smear campaign. Outrage erupts, amplified by bots, echo chambers, conspiracy theories, foreign influence, far right. Civil unrest follows. Two weeks later he returns as "voice of reason", demands general election, and rides chaos into Downing Street.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today's the day! The heat has relented and Reform finally have their chance to persuade King's Lynn and West Norfolk' Council to turn their back on climate action I'll be live-tweeting from the debate
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Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency
A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism
First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Unsere Kinder und Enkel werden uns bitter verfluchen. Die #Erderhitzung lässt sich auch durch Nullemissionen nicht zurückdrehen, nur die weitere Erhitzung stoppen. Denn CO2 bleibt Jahrtausende in der Luft. Kipppunkte kommen näher. Es wird kein Zurück geben.
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James Harvey @jamhar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Oh the irony, passengers sitting on planes complaining about delays due to storms, which have been made more frequent & extreme due to climate change, which in turn is caused by emissions from things like flying. We really are screwed if people can't join the dots. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hundreds of Heathrow and Gatwick flights delayed due to thunderstorms
More than 600 flights have been delayed at Heathrow and Gatwick, many due to stormy weather south of the UK.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🧵/1️⃣ 🚀 Past £10,000 — incredible, thank you! And on the day MPs debate the 7th Carbon Budget. We're getting ready to take the case to court. Next stop: £15k to launch the legal challenge. Help us get there 👇 #CarbonReckoning www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
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Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Much of Europe is sweating in an exceptional heat wave. Heat in Europe has increased 4 times more than in other mid-latitude areas, which has been linked to the Atlantic #coldblob in several studies. #AMOC Slide from a talk I'm about the present at London Climate Action Week #LCAW2026. 1/
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Iceland has declared #AMOC collapse a national security threat, the first country to bring a #climate tipping point before its National Security Council. The UK, to the best of our knowledge, has not yet followed suit." nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications...
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