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Prof. Rob McLeod

@robscot.bsky.social
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Professor of Building Physics and Sustainable Design at TU Graz 🇪🇺...Pracademic, Author, Adventurer and Activist! Comnecting the dots... #IndoorAirQuality #Ventilation #BuildingPhysics #Resilience #ClimateCrisis #Health&Wellbeing #SocialJustice

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 6h
I keep seeing Carney stans saying building fossil fuel infrastructure is a way to deal with Trump's threats. Really? Canada has to build infrastructure that'll last decades and won't even be finished for years to deal with a threat that'll be gone within 3 years? Your fear has made you very stupid.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Scottish Government has been urged to take 'immediate action' to end public contracts for companies with links to Israel
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Scottish Government urged to take 'immediate action' to end Israeli-linked contracts
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This raises a genuine question for me... If climate change is now considered a threat to national security, and certain entities are knowingly aiding and abetting climate change. It follows that these entities are a threat to national security...ergo terrorists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So the moral of the story is, that if your job title is "Spy Chief" people actually listen to you; whilst if you're an actual "Climate Scientist" it's "lalalaa we can't hear you" 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the goal of DEI is actually far bigger than "preventing genocidal ideas from taking root"... but I'll happily accept that as a significant benefit!
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“If a bridge is washed away, it has the same impact whether it’s done by [a foreign power] or the climate,” ..."Countries should absolutely be treating this as a national security issue.” #ReleaseTheFullReport www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good to see Foreign Secretary presenting the findings of the suppressed Joint Intelligence Report on ecosystem collapse to other governments. But when is it going to be shared with the rest of us? We can’t prepare for what we don’t know - it should be published in full
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 22/09/2026
When nature suffers, so does humanity. One million species are at risk of extinction, and ecosystem degradation is affecting 40% of the global population. Explore how nations can tap into the power of nature to build a more sustainable future: www.unep.org/facts-about-nature-cri…
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"NAZA – directed by the Israeli film-makers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham and produced by the #Guardian – is a chilling documentary about a mass slaughter that was authorised at the highest levels of government"... #NAZA #GAZA www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing
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Sonja Hartl @sonjahartl7.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
1/5 Heute ist UN #CleanAirDay Angenommen, für Trinkwasser + Lebensmittel gäbe es plötzlich keine verbindlichen Regeln mehr. Unvorstellbar. Bei #Innenraumluft ist das Realität: Wir atmen ~11.000 l Luft/Tag, verbringen ~90 % unserer Zeit drinnen + teilen diese Luft meist mit anderen #IAQ
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Labour haven't changed. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Going live shortly with Jeremy Corbyn for a vital conversation. Watch live 👇🏽 youtu.be/kRO6XuEmqR4
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Jeremy Corbyn and Zack Polanski on Gaza, Burnham, and the Media
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.
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Alvin WD @alvinwd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nah the way Mahmdanis team are killing personal communication needs to be studied. Because, guess what, when you are working for the people and doing what the people want you don't have to hide what you're doing. So you can be proud and communicate well. Write that down.
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 14/08/2026
"They're selling snake oil again. Carbon capture is a pseudo-technology that's designed to maintain the status quo. It barely exists outside a laboratory, but whole swathes of academics still continue to work on it. Almost no one is working on radical emissions reductions for climate emergency."
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Unprecedented heat, CAUSED BY THE UNPRECEDENTED BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS FOR THE PAST 250 YEARS, has affected much of Europe this summer and this week will be no exception🌡️🙄
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#FAFO
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/08/2026
‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
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‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026
As always: attacking basic infrastructure like energy, water etc is an attack on civilians
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"For more than 25 years, following Unilever’s acquisition of Ben & Jerry’s in 2000, the Foundation operated without corporate interference. That has changed rapidly in the last year, particularly since Ben Cohen’s public solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza" www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/ben-jer...
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Ben & Jerry's Foundation forced to close after 40 years as corporate owner tightens grip - Alliance magazine
The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation says it will shut down at the end of the year after its corporate parent cut off funding and evicted its workers.  Food giant Unilever, owned of confectionary brand Magnum...
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Mamdani told The New York Times that his administration’s legal department was discussing the possibility of Netanyahu’s arrest if he visited New York, saying he believes the Israeli premier “belongs in The Hague.”" www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260720-mam...
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Mamdani says ICC warrant against Netanyahu should be ‘taken seriously’
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be “taken seriously,” …
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Takes a special kind of thinking to see the wild fires raging around Europe, thousands of deaths from this year's heatwaves (so far) and conclude "we need to expand drilling in the North Sea to give us the economic power to transition to renewables"
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Buckle up... a super El Niño is brewing. The remainder of this summer and next may be hotter and stormier than anything you have experienced yet! #ClimateChaos + #ElNiño www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#Polycrisis is a mood killer 👇
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Electric bills are way too high — particularly PG&E — and plug-in solar is a great way to lower those bills. I’m authoring legislation to allow Californians to easily use these devices; it’s currently quite hard, if not impossible, for people to do so.
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California bill backs plug-in solar as PG&E rates soar, and renters could save on power
"Anyone can access it to harvest sunshine and generate immediate energy savings."
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Q: What does being a good politician mean to you? Mamdani: I think it means delivering.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Not getting it right” is what you say about an underbaked cheesecake, not a policy stance on an ongoing slaughter that has claimed at least 73,000 Palestinian lives. Tellingly, Burnham still will not call what happened and is happening in Gaza a genocide." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Don’t believe Andy Burnham’s PR machine
As his empty Gaza apology clearly demonstrates, he will not bring the radical change Labour really needs.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@andyburnham Are Labour going to start looking at preventing Covid infections and follow the Covid inquiry recommendations? Everyone is at risk from long covid and clinically vulnerable remain unsupported. It’s been 6 years! #CleantheAir #RollVaccines #Ffp3inHealthcare
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Foreclosures increased 21% in the first half of this year. Student loan defaults are at a record high. Total household debt is also at a record high of $18.8 trillion. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. “New Golden Age” for whom?
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congresswoman AOC has introduced a bill that would ban Supreme Court Justices from accepting lavish gifts from the ultra wealthy. Love that, but what I find insane is that this isn’t already illegal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
At 250 years, we should not still be fighting for the right to vote… Should we?!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or simply sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Donald Trump wants to stoke so much fear and hatred that people forget this. Do not.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.
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Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Any good decision-making relies on advice. Heads of government will have doctors brief them on public health, economists to guide financial decisions, military chiefs to warn of security threats. The climate and planetary challenges we face today are no less relevant than these issues..."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/07/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.
Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can.

Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment.

A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand – and get through the heat – together.
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Three ICC judges sue Trump over the unlawful financial sanctions imposed on them, in retaliation for executing their duties in relation to the warrant issued for Netanyahu's arrest... www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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ICC judges sue Trump over US sanctions
Three judges argue the measures imposed on them amount to unlawful political retaliation over the court's investigations into Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Bayer has spent the last decade fighting more than 100,000 lawsuits filed by people who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma they blamed on exposure to the glyphosate weedkillers, and the company has paid out billions of dollars in jury awards and settlements." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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US supreme court blocks thousands of lawsuits over Roundup maker’s pesticide warning labels
The case, Monsanto v Durnell, specifically dealt with claims that the company failed to warn users of product risks
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.
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Why Spain’s electricity bills have fallen during an energy crisis
Homes and business are benefitting from Spain's commitment to clean energy.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pleasure to be at UNISON conference in Brighton. To bring our communities together - we need to end Rip off Britain. And that starts with tackling extreme wealth.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Switzerland did it. France have done it. It's time to get the US/Israeli Spy Agency Palantir out of Europe.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It feels strange that humanity dreams of finding life on distant planets while forests here vanish every day. A forest takes decades to grow, to cool the air, protect wildlife, and create peace—yet only moments to destroy. The most important world is the one we already inhabit.
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Lush Forest Stream with Wooden Path
ALT: Lush Forest Stream with Wooden Path
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Mayor Mamdani Is The Way ; Forward.........💪🏻
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