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Some media outlets will have you believe that the right don’t lean in to neo-nostalgic visions of rural Britain, whilst ignoring the real issues impacting us (catastrophic loss of public services, poverty, demographic shifts, climate and nature collapse).

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In good news, we picked up a polecat on the trail cam this week.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Peter Thiel + IQ obsessed tech bros = eugenics

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You often hear that the Welsh uplands are naturally treeless — too high, too wet, too exposed — and that the evidence for it is upland tree cover declining from the late Mesolithic, before farming even arrived. In Eryri, the pollen record shows the opposite. 1/🧵

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Natur i Bobl Nant Ffrancon New project for nature restoration across 1,635ha of upland bog, heath, rivers and wildflower grassland, with ring ouzel, pine marten and otter as indicators. Delivered with local communities, tenant farmers and volunteers. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/...

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Brexit benefits: import taxes! I had to buy something in from Germany. Purchase price = 212,38€ / £180 Customs charge = £78.33 😡 45% tax. Can I send an invoice to Farage? He’s got a few quid knocking about.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What’s that? You don’t want the nerd reich to dictate what our future will look like? You rather the AI future was human centred? Cool. Sign this: stoptheracetoreplace.org/en

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Over on the other place neoliberals are telling people recycling is bad, single use plastic is great and landfills are beautiful. Somehow I don’t think the ex exec director of the Adam Smith Institute is saying we should consume less, but instead use more fossil fuels via virgin plastic. Insane

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michael mezzatesta @michaelmezz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Economists say that “green growth” can stop climate change, but their solutions only address carbon emissions. With this lens, @timparrique.bsky.social says electric SUVs sound great – until you factor in material extraction, land use, and other consequences born by communities in the Global South.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“EACH DAY HUMBLE (Exxon Mobil) SUPPLIES ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT 7 MILLION TONS OF GLACIER!” Time Magazine advert, 1962. They knew.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just 20 years ago 1 year before the iPhone Everyone present in the moment It’s so sad to be a living witness to how social media has detrimentally changed how people experience events Does our generation - that experienced a pre and post digital world - have a name? youtu.be/6bvoi8urTzk?...

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nothing connects you more to the drought than living off-grid for water. Remarkably our spring supply continues to flow, but this last heatwave has hit hard. We are now in the tank depletion zone. Hopefully this coming week brings significant rainfall.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Reversing the effects of drainage and restoring peat bogs is the right policy, as is establishing broadleaf woodland in the uplands. The contrasting history of burning in Scandinavian peat and British reminds us in drought peat is vulnerable to fire risk. pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Southern Scandinavia and the Baltics exhibit more peatland
burning from 10 ka to ~7.5 ka in terms of PRS, presences/absence
and z-score values (Fig. 4J and K). This early Holocene trend is more
subtle in burning of the wider landscape, with slightly elevated
burning 10 to ~8.5 ka (Fig. 4L). These higher levels of burning are
likely linked to climate and perhaps changes in vegetation. Pollen
reconstructions suggest this region was warming during this
period, with the HTM between ~8 and 6 ka (Davis et al., 2003;
Mauri et al., 2015). However, aquatic plant macrofossil evidence
suggests that early Holocene (11.7e7.5 ka) summer temperatures in
Fennoscandia were ~2 C higher than is suggested by pollen reconstructions (Valiranta et al., 2015 € ). In terms of vegetation, an
increased abundance of flammable coniferous taxa at ~9 ka e as
evidenced at Iso Lehmalampi and Etu-Mustajarvi in southern
Finland (Supplementary Table 2; see Sarmaja-Korjonen, 1998) e
may have contributed to greater burning at that time. Similarly, a
regional transition to broadleaf dominance from ~8 to 6 ka may
have mitigated burning during warm conditions (Brown and
Giesecke, 2014; Feurdean et al., 2020b). An increase in peatland

Peatlands in Britain and Ireland broadly initiated in the early
Holocene, from 10 to 8 ka (Morris et al., 2018), but we were only
able to reconstruct peatland burning from 4 ka to present owing to
a lack of data prior to this. Peatland sites showed consistently low
PRS and presence/absence values throughout, despite changes in
wider landscape burning (Fig. 4AeC). The comparatively humid
climate of Britain and Ireland (Fig. 7) likely mitigated peatland fire.
From the mid-Holocene, burning in the wider landscape appears to
be primarily influenced by human activity rather than generally
cooling summer temperatures from ~6 ka onwards (Davis et al.,
2003; Mauri et al., 2015). Increased burning in the wider landscape ~5 ka (Fig. 4C) may be linked to the human use of fire to clear
woodland (Ryan and Blackford, 2010). Similarly, Neolithic population growth from ~5.5 ka is clear in the archaeological record and is
associated with a trend of reduced forest cover that has continued
to the present (Woodbridge et al., 2014). Decreased burning in the
wider landscape from ~2 ka to 0.5 ka may be linked to the conversion of forest to agricultural land, resulting in landscape fragmentation and a loss of fuel for wildfires (Fyfe et al., 2003; Marlon
et al., 2013). PRS charcoal values decrease from 0.5 ka to present,
whereas z-score and presence/absence values drop initially
(0.5e0.2 ka), before increasing slightly from ~0.2 ka (1750 CE) to
present (Fig. 4A and B). Cooler, wetter conditions in Britain and
Ireland during the LIA (Swindles et al., 2013; Webb et al., 2022)

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Not the first time I’ve said it, but Ben Goldmsith’s association with the rewilding movement is toxic. It doesn’t matter how deep his pockets are, his hard right environmentalism is in conflict with the social justice values rewilding needs to keep as it’s core. Today he posts this:

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

James Rebanks on the drought in UnHerd. Whilst I avoid Unherd (part of Paul Marshall’s right wing culture war media empire, bought with fossil fuels to further his politics) I thought this worth a read. While he’s right about soil he’s wrong on a number of points. Six things:

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It’s sickening to see how cynical certain groups are, weaponising the wildfires. MA here sharing climate denier Viscount / Lord / Baronet Matt “King Coal” Ridley’s nonsense article blaming rewilding. (Not forgetting Ridley crashed Northern Rock, costing taxpayer £2 billion) Ridley quotes: (1/n)

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

10 mins away on the bike meanwhile… the result of some winter “improvement” (drainage) works by a nearby farm. This is how climate change is affecting the wet and windy hills of North Wales at 1,000ft.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Despite the intense drought here in North Wales, I’m pleased to see my hands off (no mulch, no water, no cutting back) approach to planting up a birch and alder copse is working ok so far. About 10% loss from what I can see in amongst the “weeds”.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Climate fatalism is the socially acceptable form of climate denial. And it is all too common.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Nearby a 200 cow dairy + 80,000 chickens in a river SAC already failing on phosphorus just got approved. Approved due to a counterfactual: beef and sheep out so it’s “betterment”. Chicken muck from 80,000 broilers now “exported” but no legal obligation on where. Stock moves indoors onto slurry.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

‘I don’t usually get personal about people I disagree with, but I will in this case because I just don’t like him and want he stands for so I need to discredit him in any way I can’. Or something.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Aramco is a supervillain": I wrote about the Saudi Aramco ads plastering the World Cup, and how they're part of Mohammed bin Salman's master plan to make you love Saudi Arabia and stay hooked on its oil — with help from FIFA and Trump: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/world-cup-...

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'Aramco is a supervillain': How the Saudis weaponized soccer

Mohammed bin Salman has a master plan to make you love Saudi Arabia. Trump and FIFA are helping.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Denial of heat stress and related deaths is the new “let the bodies pile high”.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Devastating to see the swallow nest in the wood store broke off during the night, whole thing on the floor including 4 tiny chicks only a few days old 😭 Can’t help but link it to the extreme heat and lack of rain. No mud to keep maintaining the nest, despite our best efforts. Time to try again?

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Good news. It’s now Farage vs Binface. No better representation of the “man vs the establishment ™️” battle he wanted.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Dale Vince giving credibility to Reform is nothing but harmful.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Carbon Brief’s database of 1.8 million climate studies > Facebook as a source.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The only grouse moor in Wales… THE hotspot for bird of prey persecution. This is why I have no time for the “sport” of the shooting industry. They kill anything that may harm their income or their entertainment. It needs to end.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“The UK Government is not moving fast enough to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to protect households and businesses from volatile fossil fuel prices.” UK is failing to meet its legal Paris obligations. from @thecccuk.bsky.social report out today. www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

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Progress in reducing emissions 2026 report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee

Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 36 (1) of the Climate Change Act 2008. This report was laid…

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yes. It is getting hotter. It is climate breakdown. 🌡️ ‘warm’ days (≥25°C): up ~63% 🔥 ‘hot’ days (≥28°C): more than doubled 🥵 ‘very hot’ days (≥30°C): more than trebled (2014–23) vs the 1961–90 baseline: Met Office, State of Climate report.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Starmer want to water down the 80% by 2030 target to 50%. 96% of new car sales in Norway in 2025 were EVs. Even on the easy stuff, Labour are so dreadfully lacking in ambition.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So does this group chat feature on @bsky.app going to mean it becomes even more cliquey on here?

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

how about the social media platforms are re-categorised as publishers which they completely fucking are and they’re responsible for what’s published

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The best video I’ve watched on the AI discussion in a long time. A must watch.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It was obvious that Labour weakening the EV mandate was a problem. Now we can see the effects: - 17m tonnes more CO2 - More expensive to run and maintain - Slowing in the transition www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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UK urged not to further weaken EV rules as CO2 impact revealed

British vehicles will emit extra 17m tonnes of CO2 by 2030 due to loophole allowing sale of more PHEVs, data suggests

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Silage cutting in full swing. It’s also a critical time for the success of ground nesting birds. I made a graph of the inverse correlation between the two.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another benefit of having a heat pump is a good quality, well located, reliable and accurate outdoor thermometer. Today it maxed out at 31c. 300m elevation, North Wales. In May. Another record of our changing climate.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Reform UK won the most seats in May local elections and is polling at the top across the UK. If it gets into government, it will upend decades of climate and energy policy. On Zero, I asked deputy leader Richard Tice what evidence shapes those stances. Listen: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Reform Deputy Leader Tice ‘Fundamentally’ Rejects Climate Science

In an extensive interview about climate change and energy policy, Richard Tice dismissed the threat of global warming and doubled down on fossil fuels.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“The climate crisis is a public health emergency that threatens humanity’s very health and survival. And if we don’t act more quickly and comprehensively, many millions more people could die” Katrín Jakobsdóttir, chair Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health. Are governments listening?

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Just watched Our Land in Chester all about @righttoroam.bsky.social. A great cinematic doc worthy of the big screen. Whether you agree, disagree or are undecided about the campaign I urge you to seek it out and get it watched. Nadia Shaikh is so inspiring.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The quality of our high profile “interviewers” are so bad. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is right. No country has a “right to exist” (international law). It’s a politically loaded question, a rhetorical trap. Utterly lazy “journalism”

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