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Steve Brown

@thatstevebrown.bsky.social
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Green Party member. Retired, now OU student. Born at 318 ppm CO2.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Fuck it. Just announce it. We own the Government and news media plus the NFL just started so no one's paying attention. Now let's hit the links."
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is a critical point that’s repeatedly ignored. If you’re under 45 there’s a good chance you’re still working in 2050 when we should be at net zero. If you’re under 25 there’s a good chance you’re alive in 2100 when current trends suggest we’ll be at 3C of warming and all that comes with it.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oops!! I think we can safely say, then, that these are going to be given the green light So, everyone in Holborn & St Pancras, you know where to put your cross @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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North Sea gasfield decision likely delayed until after Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Greens accuse Labour of hiding position to avoid criticism before contest, in which Zack Polanski is standing
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026
Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Great to see Novara interviewing Kevin. No-one else in climate debate comes close in terms of combining no-bullshit insight with walking the walk personally (not gallivanting around the world spewing emissions for peer esteem).
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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Excellent coverage on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight about the #ClimateCrisis. Especially clear analysis from Nick Bridge of @chesc.bsky.social
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...
Quote from the letter - the link is in the post.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fixed it for you, @thetimes.com!
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 25/07/2026
You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Brilliant news. Miatta Fahnbulleh is by far the best person Andy Burnham could’ve appointed to this role. The energy transition will accelerate. bsky.app/profile/poli...
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Dr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Over 800 wildfires are burning across Canada right now. Canada also holds more than a quarter of the world's boreal forest and is warming at twice the global average rate. The smoke is the part getting attention. Here is everything else. 🧵
A severe crown fire burns through a boreal forest at night. Tall conifer trees are engulfed in intense orange and red flames, with charred trunks visible in the foreground against the wall of fire behind them. Photo by Stefan Doerr.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is REALLY important. “Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll.” They want you to think you’re alone. You’re not. #ClimateCrisis
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Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same
That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll....
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism
First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform
MELTING TICE

RICHARD TICE, Reform
UK's deputy leader and spokesman on energy and climate, made an extraordinary appearance on Bloomberg's Zero podcast last week. A few things soon became clear: firstly, he hasn't read the science.

Tice claims the UK. is "almost
unilaterally" beggaring itself by choosing low-carbon power (tell that to China, building hundreds of gigawatts of solar and wind each year). He hasn't read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) summary for policymakers. He says "thousands" of scientists disagree with accepted climate science but wouldn't - couldn't? - name any scientists who'd advised him.

He thinks net zero will bankrupt Britain (jobs in clean energy are growing faster than much of the rest of the economy). He threatened to walk out twice - once when presented with the IPCC's summary. When asked about batteries, which store solar and wind power safely and cheaply until the evening peak, he said: "We don't need batteries. It's ridiculous."

Reform UK has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries, for God's sake. Its policy is "drill, drill, frack Lincolnshire".
Once again: Reform
is largely funded by fossil fuels.

The main defence Tice wielded was that the IPC recently abandoned its always implausible
"RCP8.5" scenario - the worst-case, which predicted coal use doubling or tripling this century.
İronically, Tice himself is the British politician who would do more than anything else to bring about that polluted world.

'Young Windy'
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/05/2026
Kew Gardens broke its all-time June temperature record in May.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Rejoin petition jumped from 70K to 75K yesterday. It needs to hit 100K by June 8th when the petition closes in order to get a debate in Parliament. The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is June 23rd.
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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"The one pane of glass narrative outlines that Earth is not a planet we live on. It is a pressurised cabin with a single irreplaceable window. Every ton of CO₂ scratches a crack in that glass. You wouldn’t hammer the Artemis capsule window. Why do it here?" www.linkedin.com/posts/phoebe...
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Why we need to treat Earth like a spaceship | Phoebe Barnard
"The one pane of glass narrative outlines that Earth is not a planet we live on. It is a pressurised cabin with a single irreplaceable window. Every tonne of CO₂ scratches a crack in that glass. You w...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Chris Miller, Lincolnshire County Council's head of environment, said 85% of defences would be unreliable after 2040."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...
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A Question of Margin
And there's so very little.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's so exciting to see the Green Party break through in Wales. I went to the Senedd to speak about Anthony and Paul's plans to tackle both the cost of living and the climate crisis. This is just the beginning. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.
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Steve Brown @thatstevebrown.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Looking forward to this session at the #hayfestival - included in the online pass www.hayfestival.com/p-25203-andy...
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Andy Burnham, Ellie Chowns and Patrick Maguire talk to Julie Etchingham - Hay Festival
A panel of political experts analyse the impact of the May election results.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🚨New article My first for nationalpreparednesscommission.uk, co-authored with Ajay Gambhir, @asranetwork.org, on what the latest #AMOC research means for UK national security. The UK's risk machinery still isn't pointed at the problem🧵 nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications...
The blind spot gets bigger: what the latest AMOC research means for UK national security
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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John O’Farrell @johnofarrell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’ve actually trained Babs to growl at Reform voters… #dogsatpollingstations
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash" I'd say there's always the option of criminalising the holding of what is literally the crime currency, and which exists for little other practical reason than that
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Renters across the country are crying out for real action from this government as they watch their living costs skyrocket. But half-measures won't cut it - we need permanent, loophole-free rent controls to tackle the affordability crisis and end rip-off Britain.
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban owns the media. He controls the information environment. He rigged the electoral system to make defeat next-to impossible. The govt of the most powerful country on earth tried to bribe Hungarian voters in his favour. It didn't work.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 08/04/2026
zack polanski said this on lbc like 2 months ago when the subject of nato came up and all the sensible 'centrists' mocked him.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happened
Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The mainstream is catching up with Zack. But they will pretend not to notice that they're now saying what they were vilifying him for saying a couple of weeks ago.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Mar-a-Lago just flipped blue. Democrat, Emily Gregory, beat Trump’s endorsed guy in the district that literally includes his house.🤣
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Zack Polanski will use a major speech on his economic policy to describe the UK as a country where successive governments have turned it from a manufacturing economy to one where the basics of life have been privatised and are rented back at crushing cost. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski
Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisation
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system. If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate. We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it. This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage. Because it's all he has left.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Billionaire-owned media celebrating the industrial slaughter of human beings by machines as a wondrous leap forward.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Immigrant reports from a hostile environment. All she wanted was to make a better life for herself.
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