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Phil Cope

@phil-cope.bsky.social
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🇬🇧 Artist and Scientist with a Ph.D in chemical physics. More interested than interesting. Currently studying for an MA in fine art.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026
2026 really was a fundamentally different summer to 1976 in terms of temperature across the UK and Europe Data: ERA5
Comparing 1976 and 2026 summers in NW Europe
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A direct line can be drawn from the fossil fuel corporation CEOs in their smart suits and swanky offices, to the brutal deaths of the terrified people you can see in these films Himalayan glaciers are collapsing, and meltwater lakes breaching, due to global heating www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Hundreds missing, including 291 foreign tourists, after deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border
In Tibet, CCTV captured a wall of mud and water hitting a border crossing. The missing in Nepal include more than 100 from India and 12 from the UK.
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Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Pleased to have two pieces in this exhibition at @fronteer.bsky.social
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Fronteer @fronteer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On Saturday we are opening our doors to 'Small Works', a lively and eclectic mix of small scale beauties from artists across the UK, working across a variety of artistic styles and disciplines. Here are all the artists involved 👀
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stockfttp.bsky.social @stockfttp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Felt v much the same. Emergency alerts are that; this looks too close to PR by a gov under pressure thats been largely AWOL through 5 heatwaves & many wildfires. Alerts as temps are widely due to fall 10-15 degrees & many will see some (if wholly insufficient) rain rather ironic
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UK weather: Significant drop in temperatures this weekend as heatwave ends
Temperatures will tumble this weekend with the weather feeling noticeably cooler as the fifth widespread heatwave of the year comes to an end.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026
The alert system is for when immediate action is needed in response to a very specific threat. It’s not a watch, it’s a warning. It is for when the wildfire is two miles from your house and not controlled and you need to RUN. It is not for the message the govt should have been running all summer.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Long form interview on @novaramedia.com - covering a wide range of climate issues: from the science to the politics, the climate leadership prospects of the new PM and the dangerous soft-pedalling by many climate academics/experts & much of the mainstream media. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFo...
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Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Chart showing the US has more wind power installed than any country in the world, apart from China
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petercracknell.bsky.social @petercracknell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you're a #British citizen, or a #UK resident, consider signing & sharing this UK Parliament petition, created by Chris Packham, which calls for the UK Government to hold a UK-wide briefing on climate & nature risks. #climate & #nature petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.
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‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says
Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 05/07/2026
Our heatwaves will get hotter and hotter and hotter until we get to global net zero greenhouse gas emissions and so stabilise the climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peak temperatures during June heatwaves of 1976 and 2026Night temperatures during June heatwaves of 1976 and 2026
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?
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Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Some thoughts: Many of the mooted big solar farm projects are located in places close to existing grid connections from old coal fired power plants. www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/on-g...
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On grid! The reason why Lincolnshire is attracting so many solar projects
Lincolnshire is becoming a hotspot for solar farms.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."
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Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Is this current trajectory of having solar panels installed on all 🇬🇧schools in about 100 years time an example of what Tony Blair describes as “Net Zero zealotry”?
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 23/06/2026
Happy birthday to the heatwave of 1976 which began today 50 years ago, peaking at 35.9°C. If a comparable heatwave happened in the current climate it would be 3-4°C hotter, peaking at 38-39°C. And the actual forecast is for temperatures of 38-39°C in the next few days with a red heatwave warning.
The summer of 1976 translated into a warmer climate.
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Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Red Kite in Cambridge
Red kite flying over urban buildings
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.
Farage with a pint in a football shirtSame picture
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MarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
1/3 Fishing gear kills more marine life than any other form of ocean plastic. Lost nets alone threaten 66% of marine species, every sea turtle species, 50% of seabirds, whales, sharks, dolphins. The fishing industry’s deadliest hidden legacy. 🌊
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Pellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This hit me so hard this week.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI.  Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your are…
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It
A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.
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Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The electricity grid in Great Britain is currently producing more than 100% of our demand from low carbon sources. Sadly we’re not quite running the grid entirely without fossil fuels, I think this due to regional shortfalls, and the need to keep the grid frequency stable at 50Hz
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Left: Kemi Badenoch says if we drill today that money could be used to subsidise energy bills Right: Kemi Badenoch says no one is suggesting that if we drill today the money would subsidise energy bills
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
He makes a persuasive case.
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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
1of2: Some acceleration is captured in the shrinking budgets; ie. 1.5°C nothing meaningful left & for 2°C ~12ys of current emissions &🤞on some feedbacks. So Paris 2°C still valid, but requires ~8% per year cuts in global CO2, ie. ‘emergency’ level reductions for which there’s no political appetite …
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Monday - Send more troops Tuesday - Say we’re ending war Wednesday - Send more troops Thursday - Say ending war Friday - Send more troops Saturday - Golf Sunday - Golf
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Iran War Shows That Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels Is ‘Delusional,’ UN Climate Chief Says. The Iran war’s disruption to the global energy market should be a wake-up call for countries that continue to rely on fossil fuels. @keertigopal.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1603202...
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Iran War Shows That Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels Is ‘Delusional,’ UN Climate Chief Says - Inside Climate News
Price spikes from the war highlight the necessity of the renewable energy transition for stability and national security, the U.N. official says.
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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It’s almost as if insulting your allies, imposing tariffs on them, threatening to annex their territories, was a really stupid idea.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The “special relationship” always been imbalanced.Trump’s merely ripped the tactful veneer off it. IMO, Starmer was right not to join the Iran offensive; but also right to adapt to changing circs by committing defensive resources now. We didn’t want this war, but must now try to limit its impacts.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 03/03/2026
“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”. Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US... But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’ It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.
BBC News webpage. 

Headline: “the saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos”

With image of waves smashing into the rail line running along the shoreline at Dawlish Warren.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 14/02/2026
China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Estimates of the economic costs of Brexit continue to grow. Now showing UK economy between 6 and 8 percent smaller than it would have been. That in turn means £60bn lost tax revenue every year. Think what a difference that would have made to tax & spend decisions …
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector. Still looking.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
A real shame if this photo went viral again today.
Trump and Farage
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump (and right wingers in Britain & EU) often claim that the USA economy outperforms “sclerotic” Europe. A more comprehensive comparison gives a different perspective about the quality of life in each:
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Save this, it's perfect.
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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Cannot stop thinking about the people I met in Calais. They deserve so much better. @greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social
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Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Framing the woods no. 1. This is the first in a series of framing devices make for a local private woodland using material from that wood. It is designed as a trail for the Forest School groups that use the site.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 20/11/2025
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks By Nafeez Ahmed
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Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool" "This is sociopathic behaviour" "He is toxic, misogynistic, racist" "I'm not a fan of Trump" Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
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