Wind is a whisker off of 60% of UK electricity supply this evening. Super nice! Via grid.iamkate.com
Dr Ben King 🌍
@benking01.bsky.social
Long Covid & PE recovery. GeographyTeacher. Sustainability & Climate Change. BSc Env Science & Physics (Stirling). Soil Erosion PhD & Geog PGCE (Exeter). Tuba player. Devon, UK
Please help us get the petition for a televised emergency briefing to 100,000 signatures. That will secure a Parliamentary debate - for a major boost in awareness. If you’ve signed, please ask friends and family. 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp
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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Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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Lying here on one of our friends' giant sofas, with all windows and doors of their lovely bungalow open, listening to the regular clatter and whistle of steam trains crossing the Hookhills Viaduct up above and reading my book. Well and truly in Holiday mode now 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DXym6Ob...
...and something I'm watching for the first time, as I've only just noticed it 🤔 Evidence of a slight Parasympathetic swing / dominance, combined with VERY HIGH SDNN... Looking back at months of EliteHRV data I can see that this can often be followed the next day with a HRV drop 🤔 Interesting!
Extreme weather is now the new normal. The Prime Minister must act like this is the emergency it is.
This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat
Protect your health and that of those around you, because the government aren’t stepping up. Wear A respirator - ffp2/3 Open Windows #CleanTheAir - Use. a Hepa air purifier Vaccinate if you can afford it. Risks are to all #Longcovid #Airborne #Vascular
BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · yesterdayCovid infection levels in England have jumped this week, although remaining at historically low levels. With 1 in every 1549 people in England now infected as of 2 August, we have increased the BuDS Covid infection risk level from Low to Moderately Low. A thread 🧵 buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Dear Everyone That Doesn’t Do Anything To Prevent That Mild™️ Thing We Don’t Talk About, Your brain is not spare. You will need it. Do something today to protect it. Kind Regards Doc B
Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · yesterday
"Grocers are already bringing in more products from abroad because of the poor conditions at home" But the time is coming - soon - when countries will hold onto their own And the UK imports getting on for half its food www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farmers warn shoppers face smaller and more expensive vegetables due to hot weather
This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
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Maybe there would be more of a national conversation on climate change if the government wasn't trying to imprison anyone who takes to the streets to kickstart such a conversation
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · yesterdayAppreciate this is 'make it make sense' howling into the void, but the failure (with some exceptions) of government, politicians, media, and business to point at the heatwaves and fires and state 'this is why climate action matters' is a serious problem. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
Covid infection levels in England have jumped this week, although remaining at historically low levels. With 1 in every 1549 people in England now infected as of 2 August, we have increased the BuDS Covid infection risk level from Low to Moderately Low. A thread 🧵 buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 2 August 2026
The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 2 August 2026
buds.org.uk
Actor Olivia Williams at the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Central Hall last November, addressing 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, faith, sport and the media. Has your MP joined this call yet? www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp
Ignoring the reality of a situation isn’t helping. We knew in 2020 it was vascular and it still is! bsky.app/profile/elho...
Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 2mo agoBBC in 2020. www.bbc.com/news/health-...
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterdayBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
BBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
I already had my Samsung watch to go with my phone, it has some health/sleep monitoring features, but it's not really optimized like that - but it DOES display the Notifications from Visible without checking my phone. The Garmin I have is geared more towards fitness, but it has "Body Battery"...
A lot of people who died of COVID despite ivermectin would like to have a word but they’re a little too dead.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoRon Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."
We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.
Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".
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Rand Paul is a liar, and I'm sick of people only partially correcting him.
In 1966, a British scientist warned Shell that burning fossil fuels was likely causing climate change. Shell's response? Keep it secret—then fund climate denial instead. Read DeSmog's new investigation here: buff.ly/WoS1Cav
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of…
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I’m intrigued by the recent resurgence of the ‘Long Covid is not real’ nonsense we saw back in 20/21. The refusal to learn is one thing, but the dismissal of reality is another. Long Covid is too painful, too common & too present in many people’s lives to be denied. The story is hard to rewrite.
#LongCovid is not a ‘subject’ to dispute. It’s a health condition that changes people’s lives. Definitions can evolve & that’s not an excuse to dismiss the illness itself. Diagnostic criteria for diabetes have repeatedly changed over time but no one takes u seriously if you say diabetes in disputed!
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoLong covid is a disputed subject, at best.