Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But no mention of #Climate. The biggest threat we have to health, food, water…. Odd & disheartening. 0102
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yup. Almost no/one makes this valid comparison. And solar panels don’t leak methane from old uncapped drill sites. At average methane leakage rates, 10,000 abandoned wells will have a near-term climate impact equivalent to 20,000 cars on the road each year 0114
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"That doesn't seem to me to make sense” Aviva boss says the risk of flooding is "absolutely increasing", but 115,000 new homes will be built in flood zones in the next decade. Doesn’t make sense to anyone except developers & Local Councils’ planning depts. #Money 061
Reposted by Jill BelchSir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hugely wealthy git who donated £3.2m to the LEAVE campaign which succeeded in damaging Britain moans that taxes will need to rise 1124754
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not sure we can wriggle our way out of this one…. #ClimateCrisis 04416
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026UK doesn’t stockpile food. Only 25% medicines made in UK (eg 90% penicillin imported) UK -net importer of all fuels. Energy supplies depend on undersea cables/pipes. UK -no fertiliser chemicals. Govt preparedness 2023 “In a UK power outage, govt unable to maintain critical services inc food & water” 222
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Human folly…. and GREED “World Food Programme warned 50m people will be pushed into acute hunger. Extra heat from El Niño will cause deaths of 450,000 by Feb ‘27. Thats in addition to those killed by the wildfires, droughts, floods it will bring – & add further to deaths caused by global heating.” 022
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Scotland measures deaths differently from England/Wales It adds deaths after post mortem drug tests ONS modelled what would happen if missing cases adjusted for & found officially published England/Wales death rate increasingly underestimates the probable rate in England/Wales. Awful for whole UK 110
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We are getting there… No matter what the doubters say. Clean air will save countless lives #AirPollution #EVs 130
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026About time the people in the UK got to see more than the 14 heavily redacted pages of this report. Miliband said: “The countries fit for the future will be those that see climate and nature as intrinsic to economic and national security” 142
Reposted by Jill BelchThe Economist @economist.com · 20/09/2026Not long ago Danes were amongst the most pro-American of Europeans. Just 7% called America an ally in a poll this summer bit.lyDonald Trump drops demands to own Greenland, but the harm has been doneA revised defence pact with Denmark and Greenland is a modest improvement, but annexation threats were a costly blunder 1026761
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Awful. Only word for it. Globally, the only decline in #emissions since the Paris agreement came in 2020 because of the Covid pandemic shutdowns interrupting human activity, when they fell 7%. 041
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026An ‘Insect Armageddon’ What can we do? - Let some grass grow long, plant insect-friendly flowers - ‘Leave the leaves’ over winter - Turn outside lights off at night - Buy peat-free plants, peat free compost - Buy organic - Leave your garden as wild as you can stand www.instagram.com/p/DdekA1kjIb... 044
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first item on the new PM’s list. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...you.38degrees.org.ukDear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-richJust sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first it... 052
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is a disgrace. Why should consumers finance expansion of a monopoly’s assets (the #NationalGrid) through higher bills while shareholders simultaneously receive growing dividends & ultimately benefit from the increased value & earnings of that enlarged asset? 064
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Great news. But why then is Scotland paying one of the highest energy rates in Europe? #Yes 021
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“The gathering raises much bigger questions about UK’s rising anti-abortion movement, the funding behind it, & how it’s converging with the racial politics of population & identity. “Their vision is for a world where women can’t make choices about our own bodies” #RIPWomensRights 121
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Good news Trump forcing consumers to pay for ageing coal plant saying “cheap energy” Coal ➡️ x2 CO2 as gas+pollution (PM2.5, SO2, NOx, Mercury) Company wanted to shut it to save Michigan customers $600m. Instead, Trump ordered it to remain, costing $295m, which Utility Co is recovering from customers 122
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Minor source of #pollution” I don’t think so, @telegraph. 153
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And yet @andyburnham just rolled back the limitations on political donations. Our country will soon be overtly run by the very, very rich. RIP #Democracy. 122
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It doesn’t matter, @BBC, if the science says #guga nos wouldn’t have been ‘materially affected’ by the hunt It’s just bloody cruel… Thanks to >106,000 people who signed the petition, baby birds won’t be ripped from the nest by hooks then have their head bashed in for ‘tradition’ 042
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Do the maths folks.. Tackling #AirPollution & climate change together would boost global GDP by 2.8% by 2035. This compared with more than 2% of GDP spent on subsidies for fossil fuels in 2022, which contribute to harms when burnt, and about 9% added costs on healthcare in 2023. 044
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A temporary increase of 2oC with El Niño…. Practice for the real thing estimated by 2040. Maybe it’ll make folk act??? SSP5-8.5 gives a best estimate of 4.4°C by 2081–2100 if we continue to emit as we are doing. #Climate 031
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...you.38degrees.org.ukStop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition. 041
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I just cannot believe the American people tolerate this utterly disgusting post from their President. 000
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There is something wrong with this man. Bet some in Iceland wishing they’d voted ‘yes’…. 021
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Yes! Spain wants the EU to tax oil and gas company profits to fund measures to adapt to climate change, after drought and wildfires ravaged western Europe during the region’s hottest summer on record. 0114
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The UN Environment Programme said in its latest report on Wednesday that the planet would surpass 1.5C of warming above the pre-industrial level “likely within the next few years”. Tbh we are headed to almost 4oC if we don’t act now. Unliveable…. #climate 031
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Oh and by the way, says our Govt, stock up on essentials because of…..#ClimateChange 131
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“Tice & Farage claim net zero would be economically ruinous - simply wrong. They say UK is acting alone in cutting emissions - untrue. These are pernicious myths. They have obscured scientific fact - net zero is the description of where you need to get to, to stop the climate crisis getting worse.” 032
Reposted by Jill Belch#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-...crowdjustice.comCarbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate LawCarbon 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. 2118103
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#AirPollution will claim so many lives from this #wildfire. Yet it’s ‘drill baby drill’. Honestly, the human race are behaving like lemmings…. still burning fossil fuels with the world burning too. 031
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Isn’t it awful to watch what the rich will do to hold on to their cash, rather than pay a fair share. #TaxTheVeryRich 183
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Tasmanian govt assessing 100 dead little penguins on King Island. Then the govt withdrawing researchers from Macquarie Island due to “psychosocial risk” of witnessing mass seal deaths from H5N1 in seal breeding season. Started with intensive poultry farming. 010
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026So here is a science based report. From the UK Government. It’s frightening. Seen it in the millionaire owned, fossil fuel linked media? Nope. Don’t you find that strange? #Ecosystems 62011
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Some suffered months-long lice infestations & misdeclared death tolls, others found to have overused chemicals & deployed unsafe unauthorised equipment. No farms had their 'green tick' accreditations removed, unless voluntarily. One previous auditor from another area described findings as “the norm” 021
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Risks of increasing nuclear capacity are high. “Policy makers & public should consider 4 types of risk: climate, security, capacity & financial. Nuclear plants are not climate resilient, pose real security risks, contributes to grid overload during electricity generation peaks & is very costly” 131
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026#DIPHTHERIA Starts like ordinary sore throat. Then bacteria produce a powerful toxin that kills tissue in your child’s throat. Dead tissue builds into a thick, membrane over the windpipe so it’s difficult to breathe Toxin also harms heart, kidneys & nerves, paralysing breathing muscles. Vaccinate 🙏 121
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026#GlobalWarming melts permafrost, & glacier falls, killing those below -Horrendous. But that’s not all -summer gentle melt, then winter freeze ➡️water to valley dwellers. Gone now. “>2 billion people rely on glacier & seasonal snowmelt for freshwater, supporting agriculture & livelihoods.” UNESCO 041
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Burnam… a man of the people? His people want #PoliticalDonations cut. A clear large majority want this. But….. Have YOU a spare £500k to lobby??? No? But the rich do. 030
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Baseline #GlobalWarming that made last month the second hottest July on record on land & the hottest on record at sea means heatwaves are striking on top of already elevated temperatures. We are in real trouble…shame we didn’t act when Big Oil discovered what they were doing in the 1960s. 031
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Fatih Birol, a leading energy economist at the International Energy Agency: “new drilling in #NorthSea would not change much for the UK's energy security or bring down energy bills. UK would still be reliant on oil and gas imports, with prices set internationally” 062
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Don’t call me a socialist. Call me someone that cares about others. #TaxTheVeryRich 061
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For goodness sake! Just nationalise them. They are bankrupt. Just take them over… #WaterIsAHumanRight 041
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Note they’d rather spend their cash preventing the tax, than paying a share of their wealth to help folk struggling with the cost of living. Wealth they cannot spend in their lifetimes. #TaxTheVeryRich 021