Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026My resignation letter 7939031010
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Ignorance is power. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 21573234
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Neil Ward @profneilward.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"Without significant increases in UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food" - says Joint Intelligence Cttee. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #afnnetwork.bsky.socialtheguardian.comBiodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warnEcosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt 17267129
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"theconversation.comFor the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas projectThe results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified. 5347156
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/01/2025A little list ... 2019279
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024There is a lot of talk about ‘food security’… So I wrote this (and it got a sexed up headline :-) unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...unherd.comA food apocalypse is coming 1812752
Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃 @lm-04.bsky.social · 21/12/2024unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo... Some interesting points @herdyshepherd.bsky.social 👌🏻unherd.comA food apocalypse is coming 010
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2024What’s the word for when you’re conditioned to have such low expectations that your employer will do anything nice for you, that you’d be grateful for an unbroken chair to sit on? 🤨 36914
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 21/11/2024In this @theguardian.com column, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social perfectly summarises why carbon credits for soil are not a good idea. Yes, we need to protect soil carbon, and we may increase it through good soil management, but promising golden mountains is flawed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1021882
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024This is not Valencia, this is the town Tenbury Wells UK. There are very real consequences for all of us of ignoring 40 years of warnings from NASA & the world’s leading scientists. Reminder: as the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture meaning rainfall intensity increases. #climatechange 381212567
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Left: Extreme flooding across the UK this week Right: Risks from the UK climate change risk assessment in 2012 and 2021 - notice how there are many more 'high', and 'very high' (>£1 billion per year in damage) risks. We have been taken off guard in just how fast & hard climate can hit the UK! 1166
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25/11/2024UK agriculture is grappling with land pressure, policy shifts, rising costs, and balancing food production with environmental sustainability | Richard Joneswestenglandbylines.co.ukA reflection on UK farmingUK agriculture is grappling with land pressure, policy shifts, rising costs, and balancing food production with environmental sustainability 35819
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 22/11/2024The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise. theconversation.com/we-have-offi...theconversation.comWe have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissionsYour organisation should probably ditch offsets too. 15426190
Reposted by Louise Morton 🍃💚🍃Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/11/2024Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 20, 2024 ~ Category 11? "Hurricanes over the last five years were, on average, one extra Saffir-Simpson category more intense than they would have been in a world without ocean warming caused by climate change." www.climatecentral.org/report/2024-...climatecentral.orgClimate change increased wind speeds for every 2024 Atlantic hurricane: Analysis | Climate CentralClimate change increased maximum wind speeds for every Atlantic hurricane in 2024, according to a Climate Central analysis based on new, peer-reviewed research. 09020