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Your regular reminder that there ISN’T a “war on cars.” Any objective observation in most cities however, would conclude that for 60+ years there’s been a war on every mobility choice EXCEPT cars. And that’s been bad for EVERYONE, including drivers. Poster via @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
Apologies, in the initial post I put a photo from Sumy by accident. Mykhailo's video is here 💔
Olena Halushka@halushka.bsky.social · last mo.Ukrainian scientist and physics professor Mykhailo Vysotskyi posted this heartbreaking video. "My home. My apartment. My bedroom. Library. Cabinet. The life of several generations. The archive we had been collecting since late XIX. Thousands of books, many thousands of photos. Unique manuscripts.
'A soup of toxic waste': E.coli levels in Thames '30x higher than usual' after sewage discharges during heatwave. Execs are rewarded for endangering biodiversity, human and marine life. Sewage dumping the result of decades of infrastructure neglect. Customers fleeced to pay dividends.
'A soup of toxic waste': E.coli levels in Thames '30x higher than usual' after sewage discharges during heatwave | LBC
A level of 58,000 E. coli per 100ml of river water was found following heavy rainfall earlier this week
lbc.co.uk
I still think this is one of the most egregious acts of Treason ever committed….
Phang: Inside his order, Judge Sullivan said that I am likely to succeed on the merits of my lawsuit, which speaks to the bigger success. Because the ultimate goal is the entirety of the Epstein files being produced, including the shit that Blanche continues to sit on…
Rise in NHS hospital admissions following private treatment in Scotland. Those who can afford it are using private hospitals for treatment. When something goes wrong or not covered by insurance, they are dumped on to the NHS. Profits privatised, costs socialised. archive.ph/7MFAb
Rise in NHS hospital admissions following private treatment in Scotland
There have been at least 293 such cases over the last five years
scotsman.com
-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."
Our world as it approaches 1.5C above preindustrial temperatures. Our children face futures of 4C. “It is not possible to survive that sort of change.” Dr. Will Steffen
Defiant and hopeful outgoing Colombian environment minister Irene Vélez Torres, co-chair of the Santa Marta TAFF Fossil Fuel Phaseout conference, delivering their report at #LondonClimateActionWeek. Watch 1/2
Reminder of Great British Patriot!! Nigel Farage, laughing his socks off as the pound crashed on the night of the EU Ref 10 years ago Making the rest of us poorer
Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5
Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?
Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff
Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government
theguardian.com
Europe is currently experiencing an unprecedented heat wave. The US government is paying companies to stop plans for wind farms. Tech companies are building mountains of energy-sucking data centers. This is unsustainable, literally www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
10 years ago, after narrowly winning the referendum, Boris Johnson confessed, "We didn't have a plan for what to do next" "We didn't think it was our job to have a plan" 10 years later, Brexit continues to be a disaster
Alistair Campbell after the 2016 Brexit referendum, "Just shocked that we've made such a catastrophically stupid decision. And the world is looking on thinking: didn't you used to be a serious country?" "It's a catastrophe and we're only at the beginning of the consequences playing out"
- Above 5°C, effective human extinction is locked in. We are on that path. /6
- Time doesn't stop at 2060. At those temperatures, natural feedbacks — clouds, ice, permafrost — accelerate. There is no equilibrium. There is only continuation. 5/
Hansen also shows Earth's albedo has already darkened by 0.5% — an extra 1.7 W/m² of absorbed solar energy. The system is already running hotter than the models admit. 4/
Your 'doom quote' for today: "There is now the probability that within a few years the North Pole will be ice-free for the first time in 10,000 years, entering what some call the 'Arctic death spiral.'" www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-farewell...
A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the... book by Peter Wadhams
Buy a cheap copy of A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the... book by Peter Wadhams. Based on five decades of research and observation, a haunting and unsparing look at the melting ice caps, and what th...
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
Weeds like yarrow, plantain, ramsons or dandelions that grow without work and inputs for free are more nutritious than lettuce we can get from a supermarket or raised beds. Lawns have the same ecosystem function as a carpet. Kids have a public football field where I live to play and socialize.
Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 6mo agoNo inputs like compost fertilizers. No chemicals. No digging. Leave nature alone... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nice to see some higher-profile coverage of what entomologists have been saying for years: if you're keeping honeybees, esp without sufficient plantings, you're outcompeting native bees, who are the pollinators that really need saving. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Column | Good news: We saved the bees. Bad news: We saved the wrong ones.
Honeybees have never been in danger of extinction. But scientists are finding that they can accelerate the demise of native bee populations.
washingtonpost.com
The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury. See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
"We find that the principal drive for global warming acceleration began in about 2015, which implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury" - James Hansen et al. mailchi.mp/caa/another-...
