Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.
ChayBristol
@chaybristol.bsky.social
Green, science education, geriatric delinquent. Despise brexit and colonialism, anti-racist. Born at 316ppm. Zionists, MAGA, Brexiters, anti-vaxers, racists instantly blocked. #RejoinEU #AbolishTheMonarchy #Stopthewar .
Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat
Of course the UK governments don't know where research is! They know almost nothing about it! No-one is in charge, no-one has a plan, no-one is steering: that's one of our main problems.
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 13h agoGovernment ‘doesn’t know where research capability lies’. Contractions in the university sector need to be understood, former government science adviser says. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
I hate this so much. Farage said this would be immigration week, and here are all the headlines talking immigration, and not positively. Could someone in power, for once, just stand up to this shit 🤬
"German police assault a woman during a peaceful pro-Palestine protest in Berlin"(QNN) #Germany #Palestine
NHS England admits its paperwork hid that #Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data - thenextweb.com/news/nhs-eng... just as we warned
NHS England admits it hid Palantir’s access to patient data
NHS England admits its paperwork failed to disclose that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data in the Federated Data Platform.
thenextweb.com
In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate
New petition: "Require green rooves and solar panel shelters in all car parks" Deadline 4 February 2027, created by Carol De Storm #NewPetition
New petition: Require green rooves and solar panel shelters in all car parks
Require all car park operators to build green roof and solar panel parking shelters which could reduce the need to use farmland for solar farms and support biodiversity.
petition.parliament.uk
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.
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...
🧵90 years ago, the British Mandate authorities issued the Collective Fines Ordinance in Palestine, empowering district commissioners to impose collective fines on the inhabitants of entire towns and villages, either in cash or in kind: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...
The British Issue the Collective Fines Ordinance (4 August 1936)
Event - The ordinance gives the district commissioner the right to levy collective fines in cash or kind (livestock, produce such as cereals) upon all the...
palquest.org
Over 300,000 Haitians targeted for ethnic cleansing as as white nationalist Trump regime guts asylum rights www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Over 300,000 Haitians targeted for deportation as Trump administration guts asylum rights
The administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as it imposed a new rule allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications to be sent into deportation proceedings without an ...
wsws.org
Institutional investors on North Sea drilling: “If what you’re trying to achieve is the trifecta that most governments appear to be looking for ... affordability, energy independence and decarbonization,” then increasing North Sea drilling “doesn’t achieve any of those."
Investors Raise Alarm on Prospect of More UK North Sea Drilling
Institutional investors are raising concerns over the prospect of UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham supporting more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
bloomberg.com
Under a new pilot scheme, badgers are being trapped, tested for bovine TB, and killed if positive. But there's no solid evidence that this stops the spread of bovine TB in cows. The science points to cow-to-cow transmission, not badgers, as the real problem.
The BBC news has been rammed full of Farage and his anti-immigration, hate fired nonsense all day. I do wish they'd speak to people like this, instead.
Refugee Council@refugeecouncil.bsky.social · 6d agoLord Dubs was just six years old when he escaped Czechoslovakia following the Nazi invasion. He was one of 10,000 refugee children whose lives were saved by being taken in by Britain from 1938-39. Watch his remarkable life story: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...
Yup. Also, Bhattacharya censored a CDC study because it showed that Covid vaccination works (this goes against MAHA ideology) & ended research that does not fit with Trump's anti-DEI ideology & put an NIH staffer on leave because she criticized the harms of his reforms. He hates freedom of speech!
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d agoThis is jaw-dropping from the administration that ordered mandatory hantavirus quarantine against CDC's advice and blocked Americans from returning home because of the Ebola outbreak
There are big moneys being invested in engineering a racist, fascist coup in this country. The BBC has capitulated to it, if you listened to R4 this evening. This is an exceedingly dangerous moment.
Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 2d agoThe MoD: 'sending the Navy to stop the boats is a risk to life' GB News: 'saddle up boys, time to launch our own vigilante warships' GB News push out narratives attacking migrants, refugees & asylum seekers every day. #smallboats #reform #farage #operationfortress #navy
The Data Centre Land Grab: How Britain Is Being Carved Up for Big Tech — Without Your Consent Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating. open.substack.com/pub/european...
The Data Centre Land Grab: How Britain Is Being Carved Up for Big Tech — Without Your Consent
Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating.
open.substack.com
Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.
"War" by Bob Marley adapts Haile Selassie's words. In June 1936, Selassie gained global renown addressing the League of Nations in Geneva, warning member states about Mussolini's fascist invasion of Ethiopia and the dangers of ignoring international aggression
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Asylum seekers reveal the scale of ‘frightening’ abuse, including being told to ‘f**k off home’ Read more: trib.al/jhqWfRT
As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
theguardian.com
Every country should ban these bastard things, and fine or imprison anyone found using them. And specifically ban their own security forces from deploying them.
Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 4d agoGermany to ban Meta’s Pervert Glasses? Hamburg’s Data Protection Office warns that recording people in public with smart glasses violates privacy laws. The tiny LED indicator light isn't prominent enough to prevent secret filming in public spaces. 1/2 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...