Joe Taylor
@climatejoe.bsky.social
Trying everything to give my children a future. Another world is possible.
Is Amol Rajan auditioning for a column in the billionaire media? What other explanation can there be for the questions he asked Miatta Fahnbulleh MP this morning? Here's what he should have asked: dustandjoy.substack.com/p/is-amol-ra...
Is Amol Rajan auditioning for a column in the billionaire-owned media?
I can't understand the questions he asked the UK's new energy secretary this morning in any other context
dustandjoy.substack.com
It's my birthday today. I definitely shouldn't listen to Radio 4 on my birthday but I turned it on briefly while I was in the shower and of course it was the daily "let's destroy our children's future" segment on Today so then I had to write this. dustandjoy.substack.com/p/is-amol-ra...
Is Amol Rajan auditioning for a column in the billionaire-owned media?
I can't understand the questions he asked the UK's new energy secretary this morning in any other context
dustandjoy.substack.com
The BBC are actively campaigning for new oil and gas to be exploited in the North Sea. Claims they are neutral are utter garbage.
Joe Taylor@climatejoe.bsky.social · 3d agoFull article with audio clips here:
A strong claim but a hard one to deny when you listen to the clips.
Joe Taylor@climatejoe.bsky.social · 3d agoI can’t believe In writing this but have a listen to the clips I’ve collated below and tell me it’s not true.
I can’t believe In writing this but have a listen to the clips I’ve collated below and tell me it’s not true.
Dear @frediotto.bsky.social, I write to you as a parent and activist about your interview on Today this morning (I will be writing elsewhere about Dharshini David's appalling line of questioning). I understand there is a strong social pressure not to frighten the horses in these interviews...
The @theguardian.com glorifying flying across Atlantic to see a movie!! 🙈 As Europe burns.😥 mediasovereignty.org/petition/
India's Cockroach Janta Party started as a meme about a judge's insult. It ended with the education minister resigning and the government using tear gas and painting over graffiti in panic. Founder Dipke's last words at the site: "This is not the end. We will meet again soon."
The science was right. In 1988, Dr Syukuro Manabe predicted the Mediterranean region, North Africa and Southern California would all dry out in summers due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. In 2021 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with two others for reliably predicting global heating.
"As Mayor of Greater Manchester, you oversaw the declaration of a #ClimateEmergency & argued that local government lacked many of the powers necessary to deliver the pace of change demanded by the climate challenge. As Prime Minister, those powers now rest with you"
Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · last wk.Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...
In the 1970s locals occupied the Duke of Infantado's unused estate in Marinaleda, Andalusia. It's now farmed as a cooperative - everyone including the mayor earns the same wage of €47 a day. Housing costs €15 a month. Unemployment is close to zero. Another world is possible.
This keeps getting worse until we stop burning fossil fuels 🔥 #KeepItInTheGround
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last wk.🔥🔥🔥Newspaper frontpages🔥🔥🔥
He echoes Tory and Reform talking points, ignores the Green Party’s position and gives former BP execs a friendly platform. Nick Robinson has played a key part in the campaign for new oil drilling in the North Sea - a former tabloid journalist explains.
Bizarrely and disgustingly, the BBC have been more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. I’ve been collecting examples and I asked former journalist for the billionaire media Steve Tooze to explain what’s going on here.
Media Tell The Truth@mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 2w agoA former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: BBC News are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿 Part 1 of 4.
"The rightwing press often warns about environmental campaigners, pro-Palestine activists or British Muslims becoming radicalised. But increasingly it seems that the rightwing press itself has been radicalised." 💯👋
The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
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Here's Andy Burnham committing to a fossil fuel phase out and the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social last year. The science is extremely clear, we already have far more fossil fuels than can be burned if we are to stay within the Paris #climate targets & prevent catastrophic warming.
Oil Change International@oilchange.org · 3w agoDeadly heatwaves are hitting the UK. This is not the moment for more oil & gas. Burnham just backed a global plan to phase out fossil fuels. Now, reports suggest he'll back new North Sea drilling—a big reversal + mistake for the economy, climate, & UK. financialpost.com/pmn/business...
I wonder what Radio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya thinks about the Today programme. The rest of Radio 4 is crammed with strong climate and nature coverage, then you’ve got a bunch of scientific illiterates on Today echoing the billionaire media and lying about the UK’s contribution.
Media Tell The Truth@mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 3w agoIn 2021, @climateactiontracker.org assessed 36 countries to see whether they were on track to stick to the Paris Agreement and keep global heating to 1.5C. Just one of them was: The Gambia, a small country in West Africa. Two months later they revised their plan and were no longer compliant. 😢
Will Ed Miliband go down in history as one of the few politicians who actually did what needed to be done? Or will he trash his reputation for all eternity?
Joe Taylor@climatejoe.bsky.social · 3w agoMy message to Ed Miliband: I have two young children and what I want more than anything is for them to have the opportunity to grow old on a broadly liveable planet. Since 2009, you have been a pretty solitary example of someone in a position of power in the UK who has made that more likely.
My message to Ed Miliband: I have two young children and what I want more than anything is for them to have the opportunity to grow old on a broadly liveable planet. Since 2009, you have been a pretty solitary example of someone in a position of power in the UK who has made that more likely.
Remembering that time Obama thought the Paris Agreement was an agreement to massively increase production of fossil fuels and now extreme heat is ruining Independence Day. Happy July 4th everyone.
One woman sparked a revolution in Egypt. In January 2011, 26 year-old Asmaa Mahfouz filmed herself, alone, no protection, and said she’d stand in Tahrir Square with a banner even if no one joined her. A week later, hundreds of thousands did. 18 days later, Mubarak was gone.
Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat. Only 10% think their compatriots feel the same. They want you to think you’re alone. You’re not.
These newspapers want to destroy the UK and our children's future.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
A mother gave birth to a baby with damaged lungs. The doctor accused her of smoking. She'd never touched a cigarette - but she lived 6km from a manganese smelter. She fought it and shut it down. Now the new owner wants to reopen it and bulldoze farmland for two coal mines.
Funny way of saying "Global CO2 emissions from the energy sector rose by 1.1% to 35.8 gigatonnes of CO2." 🤔😒📈
Ember@ember-energy.org · last mo.☀️ NEW | Renewables were the LARGEST source of global energy supply growth in 2025, for the first time outside a recession. Renewables grew by 10%, adding 3.3 exajoules to total energy supply in 2025. Solar alone delivered 71% of that rise. 🧵1/3 🔗 www.energyinst.org/statistical-...
3,400 people die on a single extremely hot day in India. 30,000 in 5 days. Most of the poor aren't even counted. The study calls that a conservative estimate. Mass death is here. My heart is breaking. www.euronews.com/2026/06/10/h...
Extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths per day in India - study
Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.
euronews.com
1995: Nigeria executed Ken Saro-Wiwa for opposing Shell's destruction of Ogoniland. 2008: The company was alerted to 100+ ruptures since 2008 but ignored them. 2026: Their leaky pipelines are still operating across Nigeria. This is the death project in action. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shell pumped oil through Nigeria pipeline for years despite pollution evidence, documents show
The oil giant says the documents ignore the critical context of the complex operating environment at the time.
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