Our daughter went from being entirely housebound and mostly bedridden to being 80-90% functional within 3 weeks of starting Acetazolamid for her IIH. #LongCovid and #MECFS must be psychosomatic! 🤪
Jenny K
@knitty19.bsky.social
Climate. Tree-hugger. Degrowth. Dysautonomia. PoTS. ME/CFS. Knitter. Lives in Chessington, but not in the World of Adventures.
We can now see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the UK. Meanwhile, the rightwing press are pushing for more drilling in the North Sea, and Badenoch is banning Tory candidates who support net zero. Cool cool bsky.app/profile/meto...
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2w agoHave you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Another interesting statistic. Between 1980 and 1999, 35°C was reached just 5 times. It was rare & exceptional. Between 2000-2020 we reached 35°C 18 times. Between 2020-2025 we reached it 23 times. The same number in 5 years than we achieved in 40 years. Talk about a step change.
Global Temperature Change Over Time
ALT: Global Temperature Change Over Time
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The lack of urban trees across the UK is a public health emergency. We need vastly more green shade (and we need to nurture it through ever more brutal summers).
Heatwave: UK's overheating towns and cities rank way below European…
Only Hastings and Guildford rank above European average for urban tree cover, with Manchester leading large cities in England
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Temperatures peaked at 35.2°C today at Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire This means 2026 has now broken even more temperature records 🌡️
New data shows that Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 25% from June 2024 to June 2025, after plateauing for several years, as electricity use surged to power artificial intelligence heatmap.news/daily/micros...
Microsoft’s Climate Pollution Surged 25% Last Year
Plus, the Trump administration appointed a new “beacon of rational thought.”
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Hang on, fellow humans, this could be an "interesting" year. Stay safe, reduce your emissions and carbon footprint even if you can do only a little, help keep the future a tad cooler. Yes, there are bigger issues than individuals' impacts, but a lot of us doing a little adds up to a lot. 🧪🌎🦤
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 4w agoBreaking News! Code: UFB!!! It's official! The "Super El Nino" has begun, with Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperatures now 2.0°C (3.6°F) above the 1991-2020 baseline. The Climate 8-ball is getting racked.
The red oak at Kew is a graphic reminder of how vulnerable our beloved indigenous trees are to climate change. 😭💚
Heatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dying
British trees struggle to survive as temperatures get higher, and many die.
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"Analysis found European heatwave killed >20,000 people... likely more than 5,000 excess deaths in France, 4,500 in Germany, 3,000 in Spain, 2,700 in Italy, 1,070 in Poland and 862 in the UK between 22 and 28 June." #ClimateEmergency = #PublicHealth emergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...
England has just had its hottest June on record, Met Office data shows
Chief scientist says dangerous heatwaves, which are getting more likely, ‘bring home the implications of climate change’
theguardian.com
I just want to point out that temperatures over land (where we all live) have warmed over twice as fast as ocean surface temperatures. The latest update through 2025 is... not great 🥴 Graphic created by www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temp...
Can’t say I recall ever seeing this before. More than half of France’s 30+ year-old weather stations set/tied their monthly high-temperature record in May 2026. Some did so as many as 9 times. Unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.
England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮 Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C). Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.
Burning fossil fuels has made this heatwave hotter. True for the UK today, and everywhere else, all of the time.
For millenia, for the whole of the Holocene epoch, we have built housing, reservoirs, roads and rail, and agriculture to live in a climate that no longer exists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050
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UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say
Successive governments have failed to prepare the UK for extreme heat, the climate watchdog says.
bbc.co.uk
The Solent in Southern England is now heavily contaminated with 'forever chemicals' from sewage "This is one thing I don’t necessarily pin on the water companies because they don’t have the capacity to treat for them. That’s why they should be banned at source.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England
Study of Channel finds levels of toxic Pfas in Solent at 13 times safe limits in some places, with much coming from treated sewage
theguardian.com
The leader isn't Labour's problem Their problem is that people elected them to reverse the damage done by the Tories Whereas they just carried on doing more damage They need to tax wealth and invest in public services And challenge the oligarchs dominating our economy And focus on fairness
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
"The change shows how ambitious policymaking can directly improve health in large cities." I visited Paris this month briefly and it was striking how clean the air was - and how much quieter it was - compared to visits a decade or more ago.
Françoise Bahoken@fbahoken.bsky.social · 11mo agoC’est tout. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Huge congrats to Chris Ponting and the whole Decode ME team on their preprint on #genetics of people with #MECFS! Pre-print plus li'l video before we get into a deeper dive. Vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S5u... Preprint: www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... 🧪 🧵
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The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
npr.org
It's time for your monthly climate change update: 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Graphic by zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Hearing a lot lately that since the UK emits only 1% of greenhouse gases that we shouldn’t bother cutting emissions. Truth is that over 90% of nations in the Paris Agreement can make that same claim. We are not special. All countries must play an ambitious role, & no time to lose
Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*. "Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!" Peak trains:
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn0 - Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience
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