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Caroline Lucas: The shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see

The intelligence services now believe nature collapse is a security threat. For a cabinet determined to sacrifice the environment for growth, was that too uncomfortable a truth, asks the former Green ...

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THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 5d ago

Why did the British government suppress a report warning that ecosystem collapse must now be treated as a core national security threat? That’s what Caroline Lucas explores in a column for the Nerve and in her new podcast When Nature Becomes A Security Threat, from The Rest is Politics.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties. ...summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us."

Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.

The most memorable cup of coffee.

I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live

Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant

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During drought Ancient Woodland is a safe haven for everything that lives Shelter, shade, massively cooler, food, & even after no rain for weeks, the water table is not far from the surface We leave them to it, including the world’s supply of Bank Voles gorging on blackberries

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

BBC presenter: We all know the seas are warming-up…Anyone taking a dip this summer might appreciate that! 🤮

These people will never go to Ukraine or speak to Ukrainian leftists fighting Russian fascism because if they did their whole world view would fall apart. Same goes for the far right ironically enough, and I’m not a fan of horseshoe theory.

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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This would be an absoloute hockeying - hell of a result for Labour in a contest that didn't look comfortable 2 months ago.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 5d ago

Second Round: Craig | LAB: 64% (-2) Astley | RFM: 36% (+2) Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 30 Jul. Changes w/ 7-12 Jul.

A study I co-authored in 2023 found ExxonMobil’s predictions of global heating over the following decades to have been mostly accurate, as skilful as independent academic and government models, and also very much at odds with its public statements on the matter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?

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I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer

The El Niño’s engine room is still firing on all cylinders. Upper-ocean heat in 180–100°W surges past 2.5°C, fueling the intensifying event. Brace for impact. Data: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

Full credit - genuinely impressive to not go with the flow and bother trying to make an appeal to reason in the Telegraph these days on this. Don't normally care for his output, to put it lightly, but this is important

i've outrun more than a few wildfires in my time and i thought of typing up some advice on doing that but honestly what can i even say because. this many wildfires in regions that do not normally get wildfires like this is a direct result of bad policies and failure to act on climate change.

and write to your politicians. vote for parties and people who take climate change seriously. make personal changes if you can but remember that the bulk of environmental impact is from large corps, and that needs to be controlled with policy. vote and campaign.

Andy, Andy. Climate change? (The irony of your name, mate.) #burnham

Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

Only just got to see this. It contains a remarkable graph. Appears that Councils stopped building houses...and basically nobody took their place.

@michael-s-marshall.bsky.social · 3w ago

1) Andy Burnham wants to pivot the Affordable Housing Programme away from housing associations towards councils. This FT article highlights several associated challenges. Previous attempts to boost social rented delivery show us that these challenges are real. www.ft.com/content/354e...

The Reform donations story is obviously exploding right now, and it just so happened that on Thursday I spoke to Ben Habib, Reform's former deputy leader, about what he knew and what he thinks of Farage now. It's worth a watch, it's pretty excoriating. Some key bits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_L...

Ben Habib reveals the truth behind Farage's by-election battle

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And the numbers continue to climb…

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight, taking the total forced out of their homes to 220,000 as the flames have crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Hello governments. See the irony here?

Recommended read: Sara Yassi – chair of the UK’s youth delegation to COP30 – warned in the Los Angeles Times that “air conditioning alone won’t save us from killer heat”.

Contributor: Air conditioning alone won't save us from killer heat

Climate control isn't the problem. The mistake was designing cities that require more and more energy to cool our homes each year.

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This is my silent scream of a reminder that when the state collapses the burden falls on women…and middle aged women the most. Fixing social care - even just a little - would free up a hugely experienced (and dynamic!) part of the workforce.

Here's my new poem from this week's issue of The Spectator. I do hope you enjoy it...!