Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed 5 Dec 1994. United States, UK & Russia committed to respect Ukraine's independence, sovereignty & existing borders, & to refrain from threatening or using force against it. 071
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...thelancet.comThe Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to healthThis report from the Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health lays out a foresight-driven, health-focused approach to identifying and prioritising major threats to global health over... 011
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026May I suggest we all read this? Evidence based Frightening Action needed right now. The report estimates that limiting warming to approximately 1.8°C rather than 4.4°C could prevent 1.89 billion disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) being lost by 2100. 111
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven”. The Ferret. 021
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Let’s hope it’s not too little, too late. And yet still it’s ‘drill baby drill’… Heading for 3-4o temp rise. Lemmings. The public need to wake up & protest at the money grabbing focus on burning fossil fuel when so many better alternatives exist. 082
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Also with 23andMe we are discovering we are many mixtures. My surprise was the level of Neanderthal 😂 010
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And democracy is not based on ‘time’ but on the wishes of the people… 000
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There's a curious irony in a week when one American AI company is discussing banning cruelty towards machines, while the American government is debating broadcasting the killing of a human being. What sort of society we are creating when cruelty becomes acceptable entertainment. 060
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I agree. I can’t express sufficiently the revulsion I felt reading this…. 010
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Does anyone else think the utter contempt shown by the Tories of the people of Scotland is shocking… 12611
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Anyone else as horrified, and disgusted at this as I am? We don’t need to bring the visuals of violence into our lives anymore than man’s inhumanity to man is already doing. 231
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s many more £s if we take into account #Brexit. Where are the unredacted Russia files? 012
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Honestly. They just don’t care. Because they get away with it. We need regulators with teeth. SourceMaterial report in 2023 & 2024 permitted levels for chemical releases exceeded hundreds of times. Documents show spills included cyanide, benzene & heavy oils - into the air & local waterways. 152
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When invited, go get your #Covid vaccination. Recent study has shown 2400 heart attacks & 1600 deaths prevented in those 75 & over, even in folk with no evidence of Covid infection. That’s about 1 death averted for every 600 people vaccinated over 8 months. 033
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 1114
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 1124654
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not sure we can wriggle our way out of this one…. #ClimateCrisis 04718
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comHow resilient is Britain?As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy 011
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 · 24/09/2026I wrote at the time but I’m in Scotland and my SNP MP replied yes awful… 110
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/blog/compara...analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.ukComparability of drug-related death statistics across the United Kingdom – Government Analysis Function 010
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 · 24/09/2026mailchi.mp/theicct/wher...mailchi.mpWhere did the global EV market stand in 2025? 000
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 · 13/09/2026That was my thought but he must be raging now as it won’t be £70m! Watch out for the deluge on social media paid for by this. 010
Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Indeed. Let’s not go back to that era of 1952 with the coal induced great smog of London - killed 40,000. 121
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