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Low-carbon living & bird finding in TG42, East Norfolk. Patch 328, finds 302, patch finds 287 (latest PGP). Flight-free for 19 years 😁 tg42lowcarbonbirding.wixsite.com/tg… Hardcore will never die, but you will.

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 5h
13 years ago nearly. The Eastern Yellow Wag at Eccles in Oct 2013. I first heard it in a rainstorm. Thought it was going to be a Citrine until we saw it on the deck. A very striking bird! Martin Garner called it a straightforward tschutschensis. #norfolkbirding
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 17h
"Earlier this summer mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika virus and dengue were found breeding in homes in east London" Oh joy! Another perk of global heating www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16h
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 11h
TL:DR Yes.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 11h
news.sky.com/video/drone-...
news.sky.com
Drone footage reveals scale of Spain floods
Spanish media reported the death of a 102-year-old woman after heavy rain caused severe flooding in the eastern Spanish region of Castile-La Mancha.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 18h
Markedly declined in east Norfolk and also across the UK. Both breeding and wintering populations are in long-term declining, probably due to a northerly retreat as the planet warms.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The scope and magnitude of climate extremes across Europe this past summer is frightening.
insideclimatenews.org
Europe’s Extreme Summer Triggered Cascading Climate Shocks - Inside Climate News
A summer of record heat, severe drought and compounding impacts tested Europe's infrastructure and resilience.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 19h
😮🤷‍♂️🙄 Carry on burning fossil fuels. And don’t look up!
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 19h
Seeing more and more of these wankpanzers. Dangerous to children & other road users, produce more emissions & damage roads & the environment. “Big cars are seen as practical, safe and stylish, and sales are growing” We are so fucked. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy
In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.
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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't attack your neighbours, attack people further away like we do
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
. Useful advice this week for newsrooms and all of us from the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall - Applicable to: The Fairford mystery and The Fly Dubai near-disaster: "It's quite foolish to try to guess what was going on."
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/10/2026
Breaking News! y-Axis Alert! With yesterday's preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature spiking to a new record at 29.975°C, the y-axis was raised to 30.5°C. Meanwhile, the Niño 3.4 anomaly now sits at 3.33°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Until tomorrow ...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026
Here's to rocking your Thursday. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7V...
youtube.com
Terminal Velocity: we're so cooked
YouTube video by Tony Weston
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026
Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chose hope! labour.org.uk/updates/stor...
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ptarmigan are another iconic highland species in deep trouble as the climate warms. Their favoured habitats are shrinking & disappearing seeing them move to higher peaks. Decreasing snow cover exposes them to predators & unpredictable weather is disrupting breeding. It’s a bleak outlook.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart.” #Switzerland 🇨🇭 #ClimateEmergency
theguardian.com
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The nature of east coast seawatching has changed markedly as the seas have warmed. Numbers are dramatically down and distributions are very different from 20-30 years ago. Skuas and waders in particular appear to be in freefall. #ukbirding
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Crazy. And surely beyond the point of being able to stop the total loss of Swiss glaciers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, Iran paid several clowns to hire three vans, decorate them with dodgy logos, drive to Fairford at night, steal some fuel, ring the police themselves, and hang around for over an hour to be arrested? For what? Piss off.
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Listening to radio at 02:30 can really wake you up. Trying to live with the constant daily threat of the collapse of the cryosphere above you; the ice, the snow, the permafrost. Listening to the river, watching for the water colours to change. And praying. That's me awake for the rest of the night.
bbc.co.uk
BBC World Service - Assignment, Nepal: In the shadow of a glacier
The 1000-year-old Himalayan community now facing an existential threat
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Three a.m. reading? +7.4°c. UK is +7.4°c over its 30 yr 30/9 average, and now it's raining? I need a walk round the block to clear my head.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "A general warming trend is expected because of rising greenhouse-gas emissions, but this sudden heat spike greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical climate models that rely on past observations." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And piss off again. The level of corruption involved in the Man City cheating was stratospheric as it was in the ridiculous, insincere attempts to delay the legal process. He’s a Friend of Saudi too, I guess. umlegacypressqsefc.com/andy-burnham...
umlegacypressqsefc.com
Andy Burnham would be ‘really concerned’ to lose Manchester City owners from English football
City have been found guilty of “sham payments”, artificially inflating their revenue and reducing their costs by more than £900m.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lol. Piss off.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporti…
jonathancook.substack.com
Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
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Claudia O'Keeffe @cyokeeffe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Struggling to recall the last time a terror suspect called 999 himself. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself
He made the call almost an hour before a farmer also called police after seeing men in balaclavas.
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Yael Kahn @yaelkahn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UK regime desperate to vilify Iran by false claims, while actually participating in illegal war against Iran from Fairford. UK participates in the Genocide of Gaza & Yemen. By allowing arms sales to terrorist Israel, UK facilitates ethnic cleansing of West Bank & Lebanon substack.com/@jonathancoo...
substack.com
Jonathan Cook (@jonathancook)
UK police can hold terrorism suspects for 14 days without charge. Had police any grounds to believe the men arrested outside RAF Fairford had even the slightest terrorism connection, they would not ha...
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Local weather forecasts are hinting at 25, 26°c tomorrow. But look at the night here (s-e England) Tues into Weds. Midnight and it's still flippin' 20°c. Only dropping to 19°c at 02:00. The last 2 days of Sep. Then 21°s every day 1st wk of Oct. This is fine.. weather. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/me8
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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'i once got the president of the united states to congratulate us on the arrest of some doggers we found in a lane in gloucestershire'
bob mortimer reading a prompt card on would i lie to you?
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s highly apparent that something didn’t go to plan in Fairford (for the authorities). The responses from the UK govt, the US govt and the media has been amateurish, comical and dishonest. Still, it reminded me briefly of Four Lions. youtu.be/d23TGmzAw3A
youtu.be
Four Lions - Dancing in the moonlight
YouTube video by Sinak4
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R Del @delexical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still really struck by Frank Gardner on BBC News this morning putting Russia in the frame for an operation at Fairford. It made not a lick of sense.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026
what if we kissed ... in the middle of the night near RAF Fairford
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Would they really release terrorist suspects on bail?? This stinks to high heaven. '…the five men arrested near RAF Fairford are being released on police bail following "extensive interviews".' www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
bbc.co.uk
RAF Fairford suspects to be released on bail, head of counter-terror police says
Five men - all UK nationals in their 20s who live in London - were arrested under the Explosives Act and on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act on Sunday morning.
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Dr. Uncle Beard 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you call the emergency terrorist hotline but it's after 5pm
static.klipy.com
Oh Dear Moment
Alt: Oh Dear Moment
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This blokes just bursting with war. Absolute bollocks.
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grahamwarren @grahamwarren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Fairford thing is going to be all about stolen diesel isn't it?
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So Molumby, in the middle of a match, asks officials to listen to chants made by Israeli supporters but because he didn't say the magic word "racism" no further investigation can take place. This is utterly pathetic by UEFA.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Molumby asked match referee Harms Osmers and the fourth official Florian Exner to listen to alleged monkey chants from the tiny number of supporters in the stadium...According to reports, UEFA said that Molumby had not explicitly mentioned racism to the officials" www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
rte.ie
Alleged racism against Idah will not be investigated
An alleged racist incident involving Ireland goalscorer Adam Idah will not be investigated by UEFA because it wasn't explicitly mentioned on the pitch.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well of course it won't. Allegations of racism are anti-Semitic. Probably.
irishtimes.com
Allegation of racism by Israel fans towards Ireland’s Adam Idah will not be investigated
Uefa delegate informed FAI that investigation cannot be opened as the correct protocols were not followed
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FlackoWeasel 🧀 🇪🇪 ! @flackoweasel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you <3. I just love their songs SO much and their rhythms! Here is an example why i love them so so much!! We get them sing only 1 month so I have to use EVERY change! bsky.app/profile/flac...
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israeli fans in racist chants shock. Not quite made the BBC yet… The Irish players told the referee to listen to the abuse but it will not be investigated. 🤷‍♂️
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sociopaths.
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Bernie Banter @berniebanter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ireland 3. Israel 0. Breaking: Ireland declared institutionally antisemitic by Board of Deputies, Rabbi Mirvis and Maureen Lipman.
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T1mJ1m @t1mj1m0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BBC still can't say 'Genocide' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
No handshakes between Republic of Ireland and Israel players before Nations League game
The Republic of Ireland and Israel players do not shake hands with each other before Sunday's controversial Uefa Nations League game in Hungary.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/09/2026
Breaking News! Code: FUBAR!!! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature for September 25th was 29.822°C. This breaks the previous highest temperature ever recorded in the region of 29.815°C, set on November 17th, 2015. The Climate 8-ball is exiting, stage right.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here comes some good old fashion Terror Pretext for UK to join the US in whatever the next phase against Iran is...
cnn.com
UK police arrest five men on suspicion of terror offenses near air base used by US forces | CNN
UK police arrested five men close to an airbase in England that is used by US long-range bombers on suspicion of terror and explosives offenses.
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