New post: With climate change now visible all around us opponents of action are changing tack. Dismantling their new attacks helps identify a hidden structure in political argument that is often used to try and kill popular + necessary policies. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/how-to-kil...

How to kill a popular policy

Opposing action to tackle climate change is getting tricker.

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I was a comms intern at NRDC in 2004. I remember writing back then about how climate change was not just gradual warming but was going to cause increasingly frequent and extreme weather events. Yesterday I was writing basically the same thing and realized I've been saying this for over two decades.

2-way protected bike lane enthusiast@seachanger.bsky.social · last wk.

this is annoying of me to post, but i really was dead scared about this climate reality in like 1997. people are surprised that the earth's habitability could break down within a human lifespan but the science was mostly all there 30 years ago and available to anyone willing to reckon with it

Glaciers in the Himalayas are rapidly retreating under climate change, leading to widespread formation and expansion of glacial lakes and increasing the risk of glacial lake outburst floods. To date, more than 388 GLOF events have been documented in the region 😰 Source ⬇️

Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Glacial lakes and GLOFs in a warming Himalaya-Karakoram region: current understanding, challenges, and the way forward

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Michael LaFrance@mlafrance.bsky.social · last wk.

A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet. Initial report say it may have been caused by a glacial lake rupture.

According to official statistics, If you include the emissions associated with everything consumed in the UK, no matter where it is made, the total in 2023 (most recent year for which figures are available) is 699 Mt CO2e. That is a 24% reduction since 1990. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/envi...

Lovely to see Londoners enjoying the nice weather (as per Reform/ Richard Tice/ climate science deniers). Insurance premium increases are going to be fun too.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2w ago

Londoners Find ‘Horrendous’ Cracks in Their Homes After Successive Heat Waves - Insurance claims tied to subsidence hit a record last quarter $ #climatecrisis 1/2 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Something seemingly on no politician's radar: In the UK countryside, most houses are heated by oil. Right now, 95% of our village has about 500 liters of super-flammable heating oil in their gardens. During wildfire-season. We should prioritise people moving from heating oil to electric heat pumps.

Anyone else get this earlier? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687

Did anyone else get this message?

I'm about to subscribe to Zoho business software suite. Do I know anybody who already uses it and would like to share their referral code?

🔥Most people are serious about climate change and want to see action around it. Why then is it there very little progress in Scotland? 🥵 Read @davehawkey.bsky.social in @thetimes.com Thunderer

Fires and deaths rightly get headlines, but it is food shortages and skyrocketing prices that will exert the greatest long-term threat - poor nutrition and health, greater poverty, the class divide becoming a chasm. news.sky.com/story/uk-rec...

UK record for number of days above 30C broken, as new heatwave approaches

Temperatures of at least 30.6C were recorded on Sunday, bringing the total number of 30C days in 2026 to 35 - a new UK record. Farmers are warning of a crops "disaster" and food shortages as a fifth h...

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2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.

Enjoy this ethereally beautiful sequence of responses to key climate science denial tropes, as performed by @ johnjohn_phipps on Instagram.

Is the SNP's position on oil profits more extreme than Trumps?

The Telegraph is running a sensible article today (feels newsworthy in itself!) Written by it's "world economics editor" Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, it includes this gem of a chart. A picture is worth a thousand words

🚨 NEW: @danneidle.bsky.social claims Scotland’s 48% tax rate has lost public revenue. But is this actually true? My new deep-dive says no – Dan’s analysis doesn’t prove anything. It’s a long read, so buckle up 🧵

It's been 1yr since I installed a Grant HP290 heat pump and @newarkcylinders.bsky.social in my house! 🏠 Space heating SCOP 4.8 🚿 DHW SCOP 4.3 📊 Combined SCOP 4.7 💰 Running cost on Agile with battery: £567/yr 🛢️ Previous oil boiler would cost £2k to deliver same heat (72% saving)

The climate change theory of everything strikes again.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.

What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

If only there were something we could do about the biggest threat that fuels almost all the other threats.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.

What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Nine million tonnes of grain have so far been lost across Europe in the drought. France‘s maize harvest lowest in 50 years. Romanian farmers have lost over a million acres of crops. 20,000 people dead, including 2200 in UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe

Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation

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One of Count Binface's manifesto pledges is to move the hand dryer in the gents at the Crown & Treaty pub in Uxbridge. Here is said dryer. (Chris Mason gets £270,000pa for this sort of stuff.)

Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?

The gas distribution network as art. Only in traditional Glasgow tenements. I hope heat network pipe work in these closes will be received as positively.

TnmntTiles@tnmnttiles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Glasgow #WallyClose #Tenement #Tile #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Photography #Photo Bsky post: 02/07/26

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

Yep - looking at you, ‘Glasgow Carbon and Energy Masterplan‘, Glasgow City Council, (undated).

Rachel Cunliffe@rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.

This is a useful resource for the coming week. On a related point - does anyone know of any studies that measure the impact of shading on roofs from rail-mounted PV systems?

Alex Ingram@nutty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

37 degrees in London for three days is it? YIKES. Time to review the Shade the UK list of ideas again to see if there’s anything further I can do on the flat. (Main thing is getting at least a temporary canopy up over the sunny patio, I suspect) So many ideas: www.shadetheuk.com/overheating-...

The data is in: London’s ULEZ and T-charge didn't just cut traffic pollution—they directly reduced emergency hospital admissions. According to a new study from Imperial College London, central London saw emergency admissions drop by 3% per year after the clean air zones launched.

Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests

Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones

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Context for Belfast riots

The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable. Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities. Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.

Worse than futile. Actually fueling the hate business model.

Chris Carus@chris-carus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Scottish Government also needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.