surely there are non-former Nazis out there who we could elect

Modo Energy has flagged that a beast is waking up on the network. Coalburn 1, a 500 MW / 1GWh battery is flicking on & off now as seen in the Balancing Mechanism, beating Thurrock at 300 MW into 2nd place. A 500 MW BESS is a huge tool for NESO to call on, but it won't hold the record for long.

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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Interesting analysis of the Telegraph’s recent flirtation with climate change reality. Possible factors: good (/s) old editorial like of noise, new ownership, Tory infighting. It concludes - wisely - with a quote from @leohickman.carbonbrief.org to be cautious about this supposed change of heart.

Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?

Flurry of articles has raised eyebrows and prompted a response from Kemi Badenoch defending stance on net zero

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⭐ New paper in @natclimate.nature.com: Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action ⭐ Excited to share this from @samhampton.bsky.social, me & @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, bringing together evidence on how influence operates in the context of climate action. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action - Nature Climate Change

Individuals and groups shape others’ attitudes and actions through social influence. This Perspective articulates a research agenda of social influence for climate action, synthesizes existing evidenc...

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What a weird word of use - ‘failed’. I failed to crash my car last week. I failed to miss my train yesterday. Etc. etc.

BusinessGreen@businessgreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

EV100: Over 70 per cent of large corporates failed to purchase diesel or petrol vehicles last year businessgreen.com/ne...

Can this really be true? Astonishing if so. If this lasts it's a very bad sign indeed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

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Wildfires at least twice as likely in France and at least 2️⃣0️⃣❎ more likely in Spain - @WWAttribution.bsky.social study “Climate change doesn’t light the spark for wildfires, but it certainly provides the fuel." @gredmondking.bsky.social

Fantastic to see the publication of the ACCESS Adaptation and Resilience Task Force's new report: "Putting people at the centre of UK climate adaptation and resilience", co-led by CAST's Prof Irene Lorenzoni (University of East Anglia) & Dr Rory Walshe (Government Office for Science). 👇

Putting people at the centre of UK climate adaptation and resilience

This report summarises evidence on how placing people at the heart of climate adaptation policy and action can improve outcomes.

gov.uk

Electricity costs much less on days with lots of wind or solar generation. Without wind and solar power, electricity would cost far more.

Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices | Carbon Commentary

We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs. I looked at two sources of data and plotted one against the other to test whether there’s any trut...

carboncommentary.com

Poor water management is just the tip of the...oh.

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fun fact: as part of their Water Resources Management Plans, water companies are required to assess the full range of options for securing water supplies, which includes... ...towing *icebergs* up the Thames

Individual & systemic change are 2 sides of same coin. “…We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems, and that this agency should be actively leveraged to achieve meaningful climate change mitigation.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation - Nature Climate Change

Climate debates often frame individual behaviour and systems change as distinct pathways to action. We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems...

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Fun fact: as part of their Water Resources Management Plans, water companies are required to assess the full range of options for securing water supplies, which includes... ...towing *icebergs* up the Thames

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2d ago

This wasn't on my adaptation bingo card. "Romania used 180kg explosive to blow rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Can’t remember where you parked your car? Only 31,900 places to look.…🤔 Not bad as a metaphor for America in the Anthropocene…

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

I completely missed this. As part of Trump’s planned rebuild of Dulles (because playing with his toys is basically all he wants to do these days) he says he wants to build a parking garage that would be 60% larger than the current largest parking *lot* in the world?

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

Listening to Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net always feels shocking, because he so clearly articulates an objective reality that is aggressively concealed by almost the entirety of the media industry, not least the financial press.

Frank Mc Girr@vhsteacher.com · 2d ago

Excellent long-form interview about AI. With Jon Stewart and @doctorow.pluralistic.net the writer and activist who coined the term "enshittification"—the process by which digital platforms gradually become worse for users as they prioritize profits and business interests. youtu.be/-dAIJRjb-Bw

BBC News - How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight fire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight fire

As Europe faces its worst wildfires in decades, Australia offers lessons in disaster preparedness.

bbc.co.uk

There were 27,391 new UK solar installations in June 2026, the second highest monthly installations volume on record, adding 132 MW of capacity And we've got plug-in solar coming at the end of August! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/31/u...

UK solar capacity hits 22.8 GW as market prepares for plug-in launch - pv magazine Global

The UK added over 2 GW of solar capacity in the 12 months to the end of June 2026. With new plug-in solar regulations soon to take effect, a UK wholesaler boss tells pv magazine plug-in solar is a gre...

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Almost 4 C warmer than average. Not pre-industrial average, but 1991-2020 average.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s now official: June–July 2026 was the most anomalously warm two-month period ever recorded in France by a staggering margin. France is now virtually certain to record its warmest summer on record.

Just about made it to the end of the Netflix documentary, “Grenfell Uncovered”. Negligence. Greed. Injustice. It’s incredible to think that *nobody* has yet faced criminal charges for what happended. Instead, Eric Pickles was elevated to the House of Lords. #72

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

ft.com

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Mexico now exports more hardware for data centres than it does cars - quite the reshaping of an economy... New, with Christine Murray www.ft.com/content/ac32...

In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate

A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Burnham's first mistake

The problem with his education plan

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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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The most powerful onshore wind turbine in the UK has been installed - 6.2 megawatts. www.rechargenews.com/technology/v...

Vestas breaks UK wind sector record at Scottish project

6.2MW model installed at Scottish onshore wind farm indicator of industry's trajectory towards ever larger units

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