"Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?" Of course they won’t - Lib Dems with >70 MPs barely get a mention www.thenational.scot/news/2646829...

Former BBC News director slams broadcaster's 'bizarre' Reform coverage

A FORMER BBC News director has criticised the broadcaster's coverage of Reform UK's latest welfare plans branding it "bizarre".

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Anyone know how I can access the underlying dataset of a specific home’s energy performance certificate? I am a retrofit coordinator and domestic energy assessor

When they are not busy paying themselves huge bonuses, Thames Water's bosses are trying to convince the public it would be unaffordable to take them into public ownership Of course the experts completely disagree Demand Andy Burnham nationalise Thames Water: vist.ly/5encg

“As the prime minister tours every region of the UK, it will be hard to miss the impacts of this extraordinary summer: wildfires, drought, parched farmland & people struggling to work in extreme heat" - Emma Howard Boyd Now Burnham must act on the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘Real struggle’ to tame New Forest blaze as UK set for hottest summer on record

Key tourist route closed and residents rallying round as battle against wildfire expected to go on for several days

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Today I, and other UK climate scientists, sent an open letter to the Energy Secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, asking her to take serious note of the science when making a decision about the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil fields @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social

"The reality, however, is far from this. Expanding aviation capacity is fundamentally incompatible with the UK’s climate obligations under the UNFCCC" - Prof. Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social #ChoosingToFail #PlanetOnFire 🔥

Campaign against Climate Change@campaigncc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gatwick chief executive claims the process "carefully tested and scrutinised every aspect of our expansion plans". <government waves hands, sprinkles technofix fairy dust over massive climate impact, chants "economic growth" three times and closes their eyes to ignore heatwaves, wildfires & floods>

Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Certainly England post 2008 feels Malthusian; but does this paper offer insights into the gas/oil to renewables transition now occurring?

Juan Moreno-Cruz@jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jevan Cherniwchan and I have a new working paper—one we’ve been working on for a long time—on how energy transitions shaped societies in the past, and what they may teach us about the present and future. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

The science is crystal clear - there can be no new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Andy Burnham must stop Rosebank, stop Jackdaw and make polluters pay for the destruction they are causing.

A rather Faragesque image methinks.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Maybe vertical drinking is a crucial aspect of British life, and it's appropriate for Downing Street to intervene. In the meantime, however, Number 10's howling silence about the climate emergency - amidst drought, fire and crop failure - continues. #Priorities www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵

I’m feeling light-headed. A favourable great British Energy article in the Telegraph. The worm has turned! apple.news/AMZXTu01EQEy...

Opinion: Britain will soon be Europe’s energy powerhouse — The Telegraph

The UK’s winning mix of nuclear, oil, wind and solar should please both sides of the culture war

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Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

Fossil fuel industries get an estimated 7 trillion in subsidies. We are paying for our own mass death and destruction.

Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness

Is there a housing estate agency or one which has “future proofing” filters - ie it will only show houses with heat pumps, dbl/triple glazing, air cooled, air conditioned, passivhaus etc - essentially, I’d like a house suitable to live in for the next 20 years 😆

FromFB: BOOM! There you go! Now make them pay for every drop of water at consumer rates, and prove they are sustainable and won't use every drop available... then we can talk. 😼

This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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57% of UK voters said they felt the Labour government has not been doing enough to protect nature & climate The same proportion thought Starmer had performed badly on nature www.businessgreen.com/news/4533134...

Poll: Most voters want Andy Burnham to accelerate UK climate and nature action

More in Common polling highlights deep public concern about climate impacts and nature loss, with more than half feeling Labour's efforts to date have not been ambitious enough

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Air cooling with an MVHR: Anyone with experience of retrofitting a Zehnder ComfoClime 24 onto a ComfoAir Q350? Does condensation form on the supply ducts? Can it be managed? Do ALL the supply ducts need to be insulated?

“It argues that news coverage of the heatwave increasingly overlooks the fundamental ‘why'”. pressgazette.co.uk/news/climate...

Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave

Connection between greenhouse emissions and extreme heat in UK 'indisputable'.

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If the whole planet went to complete solar & wind energy we could stop global warming in 5 years. 5 years,folks. The oil & gas industry would be relegated to machinery only.

Defra breached law, with Tory govt was in office, when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says. This is one outcome of capture of the state by corporations, and secrecy. Govts pursue economic growth, not resilience, at almost any cost.

Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024

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I feel pump envy coming on…

John Smillie@johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 2mo ago

6.1 COP, 37 decibels. CO2 refrigerant 👀 www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/29/p...

What are British cities like Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, York, London, Glasgow, …. Doing about this? Great job creation opportunity. Anyone in UK government know?

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

German cities are tasked with planning their way out of fossil fuel heating. The first 223 plans reviewed show fossil fuels gone by 2045. District heating rises from 16% to 40%, heat pumps reach 38%, and heating demand falls by a third.

Did I see that Passivhaus is deemed to meet the Future Homes Standard (suggesting that it is better than FHS)? We have lots of straw, now there’s the opportunity!

Joe Giddings@joegiddings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is very welcome. A huge council housing programme is needed to solve the housing crisis for everyone. It will bring down costs for councils, for renters, and for homeowners, by deflating the market. Now lets build them biobased and passivhaus www.placenorthwest.co.uk/burnham-to-m...

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Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · last yr.

I'll briefly explain why you should build and renovate with bio-based materials, even if you don't want to save the climate. #heat #heatstress #heatisland #hitzeaktionstag

passivhaus does this without fancy gadgets while resulting in buildings that are far more comfortable, and better protected from air and noise pollution... oh and they use far less energy as well. bonus. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/s...

Buildings May Soon Have ‘Immune Systems’ That Fight Airborne Disease

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It's a massive failure for security, climate & the long term health of UK vehicle manufacturing industry It also tells every industry from chemicals to social media platforms that if you don't want to comply with regulations, just invest in lobbying to water them down cos this govt will cave ENDS

Hey Passivhaus experts, should I try and achieve EnerPHit? Currently airtightness 1.77 ach-1, heat demand 26kWh/m2 @21C, air leaks from roof OSB (remove wood fibre, paint airtight from inside, reinstall ?), garage door (make gge airtight instead), Internorm front door. What is the benefit?