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Iain Turner

@wild-service-tree.bsky.social
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Sustainable forestry 🏞️ woodland ecology, 🌳gardening 🐝 joined the Green 💚 party in Autumn 2025. 🇺🇦

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 11h
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Recommended reading: "Renewables are just being added on top of fossil fuels." Wrong comparison. Demand grew 75% since 2005 regardless. Without wind and solar, power sector CO2 in 2025 would have been 28% higher. Excellent analysis by @zekehausfather.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/what-if-th...
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 5 Favourite denier myth - volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans Ask me or any other volcanologist — false Volcanoes: ~300 million tonnes CO2/year. Humans: 130 times more Please pass on the truth. Share and tag 2 others #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable
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Iain Turner @wild-service-tree.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is an insane policy move by the Tories. A must read is, Professor Bill McGuire's book The #FateOfTheWorld. #Renewables are critical, no more oil & gas.
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Fossil fuels are just old sunlight - stored solar energy from deep time that we're now burning all at once. The sun already sends us 10,000x the energy we need. We're digging up the past instead of making the most of the gift above 

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 4 Dinner-table science: Carbon and CO2 are not the same Multiply CO2 by 0.27 to get Carbon value In 2023 we emitted ~40bn tonnes CO2 = ~11bn tonnes carbon Knowing this is how you catch a misleading stat Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 2 Fossil fuels are just old sunlight - stored solar energy from deep time that we're now burning all at once. The sun already sends us 10,000x the energy we need. We're digging up the past instead of making the most of the gift above #FateOfTheWorld — please reshare + tag 2
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Peter Sinclair @peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're all going to find out what a Kelvin Wave is. Learning Physics through catastrophe thinc.blog/2026/09/16/w...
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What is a Kelvin Wave? California is About to Find Out
Above, local California station has coverage of one way in which El Niño will exert strong effects on the state, including Coastal Flooding, which is already underway.It’s called a Coastaly T…
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Iain Turner @wild-service-tree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#BigTech's data centres use as much power as millions of homes and guzzle our water. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Zero water waste 🗣️ Local community consent Sign Foxglove's petition to stop data centres harming our communities & environment now. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
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Ban data centres that harm our communities and climate
Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 3 74% of Brits say climate change is important. 62% want the UK among the world's most ambitious. We're not a fringe. We're the majority — we just don't feel like the powerful collective we are. Time to feel it. Please share + tag 2. #TogetherUnstoppable #FateOfTheWorld
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING Green Party calls for Thames Water and South East Water to be taken into public ownership WITHOUT COMPENSATION by Christmas Thames Water is insolvent, and South East Water has repeatedly failed to supply water to thousands of homes This is wonderful from the Greens
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is the Burnham government attempting to silence Good Law Project’s criticism of Palantir in the NHS…? Orwellian.
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Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our planet is heating faster than at any time in the geological record. That's terrifying. But here's the hopeful part: most of us are worried and want action — we just stay silent, assuming no one else cares. 7 in 10 people rarely or never talk about it. So the silence feeds itself
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please watch this crucial discussion about the scale of Earth's energy imbalance. The numbers are shocking. Thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCR...
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12 Hiroshima Bombs Every Second
YouTube video by Facing Future
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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
☀️ Solar can produce about 23× more usable energy per acre than biofuels. Same land. Far more energy. That’s a pretty remarkable example of what technological efficiency can do. And the panels don’t need to be replanted every year! #Solar #CleanEnergy ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share this post to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives. Thank you 😊🐝
A bumblebee on a yellow dandelion
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026
Over 85,000 people have asked their local NHS Trust to say no to Palantir. Time is running out, so every email counts. Will you email your local trust and ask them to stand against Palantir? notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema…
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You can taste the land": the Somerset farmer bringing wildflowers back to cheddar Tom Calver has sacrificed milk yields to give his cows a more varied diet of plants and believes the result is better cheese and richer farmland. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘You can taste the land’: the Somerset farmer bringing wildflowers back to cheddar
Tom Calver has sacrificed milk yields to give his cows a more varied diet of plants and believes the result is better cheese and richer farmland
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every glaciated region on the planet lost ice for four years in a row now. From 2023–2025 alone, glaciers lost around 1,400 gigatonnes of ice, equivalent to roughly 560 million Olympic swimming pools (the official weird measure for anything water related). Source: bit.ly/WMOStateofWa...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Iain Turner @wild-service-tree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"When faced with skyrocketing pesticide and nitrate levels in its drinking water supply, the city of Munich, Germany bypassed expensive chemical treatment plans and chose a radical path: they tackled the contamination at its very root." via Thefarmacyreal www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Iain Turner @wild-service-tree.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Plenty of fungi to see this Autumn in Devon #fungi #nature
Fungi on a moss cover stump
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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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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New oil and gas projects are incompatible with the Paris Agreement. End of story. "governments plan to produce about more than double (120%) the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and 77% more than would be consistent with 2°C"
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2025 Press - Production Gap
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The most severe impacts will be when climate shocks intersect with weak health systems, limited access to health care, food insecurity, displacement & humanitarian crisis" #ClimateEmergency = #PublicHealth emergency phys.org/news/2026-09...
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UN warns super El Niño a 'significant' threat to world health
El Niño represents a "significant" threat to global health, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as the world braces for a cycle of the climate phenomenon predicted to be the most intense on record.
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Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wind turbine generator design that uses no rare earth magnets. www.renews.biz/onshore-wind...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me: "Are you a victim of your own success? Wouldn't you be better off if Keir Starmer were still prime minister? Zack Polanski: "No one would be better off if Keir Starmer were still prime minister." Watch Zeteo UK's interview with the Green Party leader at our live event: zeteo.uk/p/zack-polan...
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NewPostNews @wabrahamwashington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"solar panels used to run between $5 and $6 per watt of generation capacity. That was 26 years ago. Today, Jones says solar panels sell for just 12 cents per watt"
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Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It's Almost Unbelievable
The cost of solar panels has dropped to just a few cents per watt, thanks to a massive supply of photovoltaics flooding the market.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Unless we stop them ... "Despite remarkable growth, renewable energy sources fall far short of satisfying future global energy demands should industry growth & business trends remain as they are today Hydrocarbon fuels will still make up ~70% of the global energy portfolio in 2050" via Robert Shulke
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Industrial heat without burning fossil fuels? Use cheap renewable electricity to heat cheap materials. Store the heat. Use when needed. It’s already happening: 50+ thermal battery projects have been built worldwide. More here: janrosenow.substack.com/p/thermal-ba...
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Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here.
Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 20/09/2026
Electric vehicles used by public bodies across Wales are estimated to be saving up to £1.9 million a year in energy costs and avoiding the purchase of more than two million litres of diesel
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Electric vehicles saving Welsh public sector up to £1.9m a year, analysis finds
Electric vehicles used by public bodies across Wales are estimated to be saving up to £1.9 million a year in energy costs and avoiding the purchase of more than two million litres of diesel. The Welsh...
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Iain Turner @wild-service-tree.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to ‪@electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to the government not to back down on putting a cap on how much they can donate into the Representation of the People Bill action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Battery electric vehicle share of the car market rose past 30% in the EU in August beating any suggestion that appetite for EVs is waning. There were 203,000 electric cars registered in 16 of EUs key markets, a 54% increase on the same month in 2025 www.electrifying.com/blog/article... #ActOnClimate
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One in three new cars in Europe are now EVs, beating industry forecasts
Electric share of the new car market in Europe passed 30% in August this year
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Chris #ChangeEverything #VoteGreen @chrisl86.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The UK government has made £30 million in grants available through Great British Energy for community-owned renewable energy projects." NOT NEARLY FAR ENOUGH! 🤦‍♂️ www.energyvoice.com/renewables-e...
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Great British Energy kickstarts 'community power revolution'
The UK has announced £30m in funding for small schemes with plans for "mandatory" stakes sales of large renewable energy projects.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Half of England's Grade 1 agricultural land is in the Fens, and almost all of it is already at or below sea level Our biggest breadbasket, home to 400,000 people, and it could be lost within decades Surely this deserves a bit more attention?
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Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change
The Fens are a food-growing powerhouse, but the landscape only exists thanks to humans holding back the sea.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Microplastics act like a “Trojan horse” delivering pollutants, pesticides and bacteria through the soil, a five-year multinational research project has found. (Guardian)
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Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins
Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots for interaction between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals
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ARMATURES but it's Halloween (1978) @armaturesmusic.bandcamp.com · 14/09/2026
A friend of mine set up this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77... Capturing winter rainfall for use during increasingly dry summers could reduce demand on mains water, ease pressure on reservoirs and help reduce flooding.
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Petition: Require new homes have rainwater harvesting systems & fund retrofitting in homes
Mandate all new homes to have rainwater harvesting systems and fund grants to retrofit them in existing homes. Capturing winter rainfall for use during increasingly dry summers could reduce demand on ...
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Iain Turner @wild-service-tree.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dor beetle Geotrupes stercorarius amongst the moss and leaf litter #nature
Dor beetle Geotrupes stercorarius amongst the moss and leaf litter
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘A damning report by the National Audit Office this month urged greater collaboration between the government and the agricultural sector, arguing that Defra had “largely relied on the private sector to manage disruptions to food supply”.’ www.thetimes.com/article/959c...
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Have heatwaves and war put Britain’s food supplies in jeopardy?
Production has been ravaged on farms and we may not be able to rely on imports to fill the gap. What are the solutions to agriculture’s growing crisis?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What neoliberalism did to the UK. 25.3m people, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Richest 1% has more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 families hold more wealth than 34m people. Can't grow economy on mass poverty.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The silver washed fritillary evolved to lay its eggs in the bark crevices of oak trees. When the caterpillars hatch, they drop to the ground and seek out dog violet, the plant they evolved to eat. No oak or violet, no silver washed fritillaries. Get it? That's why native species matter: evolution.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New report, commissioned by Real Estate:UK - UK’s untapped commercial rooftops could become a major new source of solar energy generation with enough output to match that of 20 Hinkley Point C nuclear power stations. eibi.co.uk/news/commerc...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neoliberals want to cut social security, silent on subsidies to banks. Since 2006, Bank of England has paid interest on central bank reserve deposits to commercial banks. The EU & the Swiss stopped similar practice in 2023. UK still paying, £100bn in last 3 yrs. There are better uses of £100bn.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11/09/2026
As of September 10th, the Nino 3.4 anomaly is now 2.94°C (preliminary) above the 1991-2020 baseline, setting the 104th consecutive daily record, a full 1.09°C above the previous record for the day, set in 1997. The Climate 8-ball is gobsmacked.
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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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Iain Turner @wild-service-tree.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Large pale cream coloured bracket fungus fruiting from a dead ash tree #fungi #nature
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧵1/ Very grateful to @graceblakeley.substack.com for this guest blog on how promoters of carbon capture and storage (CCS) are trying to give Andy #Burnham a deceptively neat-looking get-out-of-jail-free card to drill Rosebank and Jackdaw. This thread explains its flawed carbon accounting
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