This is a fair-minded and useful primer on the real questions about Net Zero, and if all Badenoch was doing was questioning the implementation of the policy, she would have a point. BUT...

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · yesterday

In which I argue that, er, Kemi Badenoch has a point about something.

The most foolish comment ever made publicly by the British newspaper editor Allister Heath, of the Sunday Telegraph. ‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’. medialens.substack.com/p/lets-just-...

‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham's 'Pragmatism'

‘Britain can’t stop climate change.

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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?

NASA: Warming Effects of Carbon Pollution since the 1800s. Wait for it. Since human’s industrialized the Earth has warmed 1.5°C/2.7°F due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels, changes in land use, and the feedbacks of both. This may not sound like much but 1/

Appreciate this is 'make it make sense' howling into the void, but the failure (with some exceptions) of government, politicians, media, and business to point at the heatwaves and fires and state 'this is why climate action matters' is a serious problem. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Summertime silence

The right of British politics has stepped up its attacks on climate action in recent weeks, so why has the rest of the political spectrum largely failed to seize the 'teachable moment' presented by cr...

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The UK is forgetting the dull bit of climate change policy @jillongovt.bsky.social tells us why the Treasury needs to take the lead on how we adapt to the heat www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/uk-f...

The UK is forgetting the dull bit of climate change policy | Institute for Government

The Treasury needs to take the lead on how we adapt to the heat.

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Proper sense in a FT editorial. Come on PM. Easy wins right here.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d ago

Time for Andy Burnham to smile on UK science ft.trib.al/YaGOWfr | opinion

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

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

NEW: Big new feature from me about offshore wind farms as anchors for wildlife! For example: seals swimming *into* turbine towers to, apparently, hunt fish - and scour protection at the base of turbines used by sea creatures as a dwelling place. atmos.earth/science-and-...

The Sea Life Making a Home in Offshore Wind Farms | Atmos

Offshore wind farms can pose risks to birds and marine life. But their foundations also serve as artificial reefs, offering essential habit.

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On the Today programme Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf claimed “almost 1%” of, or “one in 100”, people crossing the Channel via small boat are dying. That’s not correct. The data we have suggests the actual proportion is closer to one in 1,000.

How many people die trying to cross the Channel in a small boat? – Full Fact

Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf told the Today programme that “almost 1%” of those crossing the Channel via small boat are dying, but the actual figure is much less.

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Farage admits he discussed returning as Reform leader months earlier than previously stated

Farage admits he discussed returning as Reform leader months earlier than previously stated

Admission may undermine Farage’s account of circumstances surrounding £5m gift from crypto billionaire * UK politics live – latest updates Nigel Farage has admitted he held talks about the possibility of returning as Reform UK’s leader months before the 2024 general election, potentially undermining his own account of the circumstances in which he received a £5m gift from a crypto billionaire. It was reported at the weekend Farage had struck a deal with the party’s then leader, Richard Tice, and the convicted fraudster George Cottrell to return to frontline politics. Continue reading...

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"Plants on a building doesn't make it sustainable, any more than a basil leaf on a steak makes it vegan" 😎 @barnabascalder.bsky.social Plants as buildings >> plants on buildings. www.dezeen.com/2026/08/03/r...

"Plants on a building doesn't make it sustainable, any more than a basil leaf on a steak makes it vegan"

Plans for a large new building in Rotterdam to encourage people into more ecological lifestyles should be scrapped, writes Barnabas Calder.

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I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants 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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We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

In his press conference Nigel Farage once again demonstrates that he has nothing but crude racism. #ReformUK

The funniest - and least discussed - aspect of this is that Farage, having reportedly told RefUK he'd only lead them if compensated for the £1m a year income he had outside politics, pocketed their five million, then kept earning from outside interests at the same rate anyway. He scammed even them.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d ago

Important, because Farage's defence for not declaring Harborne's £5m 'gift' has always been very specific: he did not decide to stand until 3rd of June. Turns out this deal was struck mid-May (confirmed by RefUK) and facilitated by Farage's other big donor, convicted felon 'Posh' George Cotrell. 🧐

“The question is not whether #ClimateChange caused the heatwave, but how much hotter and more dangerous heatwaves have become because of GHGs, primarily from burning fossil fuels.” “The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions.”

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

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Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

Since some folk are back on covid lessons, here's what I find most interesting - that the vast majority of people and countries reacted and adapted magnificently, but that this has broadly been forgotten in our modern day grumpy online culture.

I wonder whether anyone on the board of either STFC or UKRI had bothered to read what Andy Burnham has said about the “unaccountable state”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics | Editorial

Editorial: Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans

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If someone you know is persuaded by Farage's fearmongering over footage of migrants crossing from Morocco to Ceuta, tell them this: Third-country nationals in Ceuta do not have free movement to mainland Spain or the rest of the Schengen area. Spanish officials say over 25K have already returned.

This week's revival of soft climate denialism means we get to dust off the old climate crisis game theory calculation: If they're right and we pursue net zero unnecessarily we misallocate some capital. If we stop decarbonising and they're wrong we get global catastrophe and economic collapse.

Potsdam Institute for #ClimateImpactResearch PIK @PIK_Climate NEW study shows global crop models have underestimated how rice responds to extreme heat. After correcting models in line with data from 214 observed experiments,... 1-2 #limateaction pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Here's a thread I posted at "the other place" a few years ago on the 25th anniversary of the #HockeyStick: 🧵

From @neelkolhe.bsky.social:We dive into a new method attempting to use the red glow of the hydrogen alpha spectral line to try to detect dark matter annihilation and decay in dwarf galaxies! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/07/25/hydrogen-alpha-dark/

Crossing red lines to detect dark matter.

We dive into a new method attempting to use the red glow of the hydrogen alpha spectral line to try to detect dark matter annihilation and decay in dwarf galaxies!

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The Australian newspaper: the planet is fine, climate change and other enviro crises are overblown or a hoax. Also The Australian: adopting EVs will destroy the planet #climatecrisis #auspol

Climate change is coming for nuclear power plants.

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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Drought declared across whole of Wales as conditions 'deteriorate' …and is on course for its driest July on record in 190 years And the BBC manages to write the entire article without mentioning climate change once. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperatures

Wales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.

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