Glenn Vowles
@enviroman.bsky.social
For equality, fairness, sustainability, humanism. Opposing over-exploitation of people & planet by the super-rich & rich. Bristol based. Open University Tutor, Environment, 25+ yrs. Green advocate 45+ yrs. https://conserverliving.blogspot.com/
So much for the 'carbon dioxide is good for plants' and 'carbon dioxide is plant food' irrelevance that #climatecrisis deniers come out with. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Vegetables to get smaller and more expensive due to hot weather, farmers warn
This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
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For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk
Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition
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Communities formed around rivers, settlements grew near springs and care was taken… not because it was spiritual or symbolic, but because people knew that without clean, living water, nothing endured.
Nature Lake
ALT: Nature Lake
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Odd piece by CB. The idea that regulation of reactor cooling water discharge back to rivers as negligible is very odd - survival of river ecology is key. New cooling towers means significant river water loss via evaporation in an increasingly water-scarce world. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ho...
Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves - Carbon Brief
Amid a slew of misleading claims, Carbon Brief explains how key power sources - nuclear, gas, solar, wind - cope with extreme heat.
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We are in a fossil fuelled climate crisis hole & we keep digging eg allowing yet more airport expansion. 'Campaigners have lost a bid to take their legal fight against the government over plans for a two-runway operation at #GatwickAirport to the Court of Appeal...' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Campaigners denied appeal against Gatwick Airport expansion
An application to stop the two-runway operation is rejected, with judges calling it "unarguable".
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More from the BBC on Europe's extreme weather problems. (Showing that #nuclearpower also depends on the weather to operate). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia are also grappling with the effects of a series of prolonged heatwaves and low rainfall.
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It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic. The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
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The world crossed a major solar milestone - three terawatt (TW) threshold of installed solar capacity. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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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...
Just a few days to go until the World Humanist Congress in Ottawa! This quote comes from keynote speaker A.C. Grayling CBE, a towering figure in contemporary philosophy, he's authored over 30 books on ethics, reason and secular life.
In the face of ramping climate impact - Shell does moral, intellectual, and fiscal hypocrisy. www.thetimes.com/business/com...
Shell sells European wind and solar in green energy retreat
Oil and gas group strikes deal to sell onshore business to France’s TotalEnergies, covering operations across the continent
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Quality over quantity. Meaning over noise. Life over capital. Just keep making the turns, little and big, day in and day out, that's how we rejoin a life-sustaining trajectory.
Join us Aug 12th at 12pm ET for the next Multisolving Moment. A free online gathering of people around the world responding to crisis by nurturing webs of relationship where we explore topics of mutual interest. This month's theme is "Seeds that Germinate in Crisis." us06web.zoom.us/meet...
Remember that a human has many intelligences, relational, somatic, emotional, energetic, intuitive, and linguistic. And even amongst the linguistic flavor there are so many ways to use words, including to capture the fruits of the other intelligences.
"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 🔥
Gatwick Expansion: A Direct Assault on Climate Commitments - Climate Uncensored
Comment on UK Government announcement of Gatwick Airport expansion by Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr. Lois Pennington, of Tyndall Centre, University of
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Campaign against Climate Change@campaigncc.bsky.social · yesterdayGatwick 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>
Take care where you travel and when. France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & other holiday destinations have heatwaves, wildfires, drought caused by human-induced climate crisis (due to our fossil fuel burning and massive land use changes). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert
Some 19 major Italian cities - including Rome, Milan and Naples - are already on red alert, and by Monday all but two will be.
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Most sea-crossing #migrants are driven by a mix of conflict, poverty, and environmental stress. The UN Refugee Agency reports that three out of four displaced people globally come from countries heavily impacted by climate risks. www.un.org/en/peace-and...
At the crossroads of crisis How the climate crisis worsens displacement and conflict | United Nations
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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.
Today, 34.1% of the European nuclear capacity is shuttered due to climate impact.
"By now, limiting warming to ~1.7C requires the same transformational change that limiting warming to 1.5C would have required in 2018-2020"
Overshoot: challenges and choices after we exceed 1.5°C
YouTube video by CMCC Channel
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Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵
Move on, nothing to see here - just explosives used to increase water flow for essential nuclear power plant cooling ... 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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A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
The #ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis are intimately interlinked. Which on this dreadfully nature-depleted islands, we particularly cannot afford www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fish in Norwich river killed by heat and drain water, say experts
The Environment Agency believes the fish were killed as a result of the heat and drain water.
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40% of SE European nuclear capacity offline amid drought montelnews.com/news/c65ea15...
40% of SE European nuclear capacity offline amid drought
About 40% (2.44 GW) of southeast Europe’s nuclear capacity is offline as Danube drought forces Paks, Cernavoda reductions; governments urge savings amid heatwave.
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"Like many other aspects of human health and disease, #skin health will be significantly affected by the environmental, social and psychological consequences of #climate change."
The impact of climate change on skin health | MJA
Australia’s leading general medical journal, MJA publishes high quality research and commentary to inform health policy and influence medical practice in…
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#Diversity is a foundational human condition. “The discovery reinforces the idea that human evolution in Europe was not a linear process, but rather a complex scenario in which different populations with distinct evolutionary histories coexisted” www.sci.news/otherscience...
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins | Sci.News
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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Rather than allowing humanists to contribute to Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the BBC's current format requires all speakers to frame political and current affairs commentary through a religious or scriptural lens. Yet half of the UK is non-religious so why not let us speak?
A #systemic approach, joining the dots between the interconnected, interdependent ecological, social, economic and political systems is vital. We must end over-exploitation or it will end us.
National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here. But the solutions exist. Communities are watching the People’s Emergency Briefing and discussing what to do next with neighbours and MPs #EarthDay Screenings www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
