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A network of constituents partnering with MPs to get Net Zero sorted. www.mpwatch.org Briefings for SAF CCS Water & Planning and infrastructure bill here: https://www.mpwatch.org/climate-briefing
1/ Kemi Badenoch says she isn't a climate denier. Let's take her at her word. Here are five findings she wrote around this week as though they don't exist. 🧵
True. Questioning net zero isn't the same as climate denial. But "it's a bad plan" only gets you halfway there. The other half is producing viable alternatives that actually align with the science and cut emissions, not just delaying action. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
Net zero scepticism is not climate-change denial
You can accept the science but still question the laws, subsidies, targets and prohibitions that are meant to solve the problem
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🔇Spain declares climate change a national emergency. The UK should not wait for similar catastrophic impacts to happen in the UK - but get ahead and stage a televised emergency briefing. Enter postcode to see if your MP has joined the Parliamentary Call: www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
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For MPs and Peers to express support for briefing the nation on the threats from climate & nature breakdown to the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
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Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d ago++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
So many smart people opining like complete idiots in the face of life threatening climate change for people in this country and across the world. @telegraph.co.uk & @thespectator1828.bsky.social are the climate deniers extraordinary. What a waste of education!
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6d agoThe Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."
This is the letter that the current Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has written to the Telegraph in response to yesterday's column by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. Note how she - yet again - doesn't actually explain how she would tackle climate change 🤔
🌊Water shouldn't be a commodity. It should be a public good. Over 160,000 people have signed a petition demanding a referendum on public ownership of water - enough to force a debate in Parliament on Monday 14th September. Help me fill the room: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask your MP to attend the water debate
People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend th...
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Exactly. There will be no new normal. The weather will keep becoming more extreme until the world decarbonises. We might have the odd calmer year but the trend will be more extreme. So today’s UK weather is the least extreme we can ever expect. Time to finally WAKE UP.
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · last mo.NO! It's going to keep getting hotter year-on-year, decade-by-decade Until we stop pumping out greenhouse gases and positive feedback loops and tipped tipping points have finished with us And the temperature will stay elevated for many thousands of years www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
If this is true, then perhaps we will begin at last to get a global alliance to take climate change seriously @rupertread.bsky.social @drandrewboswell.bsky.social @nebriefing.bsky.social
Ed Miliband indicates development and climate will be at heart of UK foreign policy
Exclusive: Foreign secretary to take up World Bank seat and play active role in shaping changes to global lender
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Awful image that made the @theguardian.com Saturday front page.
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last wk.One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.
Great early sign 👇🏽from @andy-burnham.bsky.social & @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on social care that fits with the collaboration MPW believes essential to deal with all the crises coming at the UK.
My interview earlier this evening on #BBCNews about the climate change-fueled wildfires currently ravaging Europe and the myths about them promoted by Trump: www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxC...
Michael Mann on BBC News Discussing Climate Change-Fueled Europe Wildfires (7/25/26)
YouTube video by Michael Mann
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This would have been a month-long scandal on Fox News if Obama or Biden had done this. They are burying the death count because they want people to forget that war actually has a cost. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...
Iran War Widow Says 'Nobody Has Reached Out' To Explain Husband's Removal From Death Toll
Jamiah Gonzalez-Swinton gave a tearful interview after her late husband, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, vanished from the Pentagon’s public casualty count.
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The extraordinary wildfire outbreak across Oregon, eastern Washington, and southern British Columbia has become even more alarming amid critical fire weather conditions. Over 500,000 acres have already burned in OR & WA alone, and that number could be >1 million acres by Mon.
We re big fans of #StewartLee (& @thenerve.news and on this one he definitely hits the nail on the head. We trust that great MPs like @edmilibandmp.bsky.social And @labourlewis.bsky.social are fighting tooth & nail against the fossil fuel misinformation
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 2w agoNEW Stewart Lee column I wanted a King of the North. Not a King of the North Sea Is Andy ‘Burn Them!’ Burnham really going to approve more oil drilling? This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
"Sunny Jim" in Private Eye nails the Tories' new approach to climate change...
These kind of reports are going to get more frequent until we hit a proper food crisis. The combination of food & fuel shortages & prices mean the UK is vulnerable. @adamvaughan.bsky.social is a good scientifically based reporter in spite of working for @thetimes.com & #Murdoch
“When I hear people in the west preaching fatalism from our more comfortable position, I feel it is a terrible betrayal of those women who are desperately trying still to heal and rebuild our world” @natashawalter.bsky.social on not giving in to climate fatalism www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-wa...
The Clacton Tapestry rivaling the Bayeux for drama. Hopefully the results of this battle will be better for the UK.
A former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: BBC News are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿 Part 1 of 4.
Read Stewart’s brilliant piece here: www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: In a world full of Farage’s ‘pure cold rage’, are we surprised that politicians are being killed?
The shocking death of Ann Widdecombe was greeted by the kind of incendiary far-right speculation and rhetoric that only increases the risk to those in public life
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NEW Boris Johnson and the billionaire Leaked documents appear to reveal a previously undeclared trip made by Boris Johnson with crypto and defence billionaire Christopher Harborne to the heart of war-torn Ukraine Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @charlienotold.bsky.social 🔗 Link ⤵️
Are you a kick-ass designer who can help make scientific information about climate change and climate solutions come to life? If so, we’re hiring! drawdown.org/careers/seni...
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We need @andyburnham.bsky.social to stick his word now on #ClimateChange
Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative@fossiltreaty.bsky.social · last yr.“The Fossil Fuel Treaty is not just a plan—it’s a lifeline,” said Mayor @mayorofgm.bsky.social Burnham, joining Massive Attack to endorse the call just before a sold-out show in Manchester on #WorldEnvironmentDay2025. This is the moment music, activism, and leadership united for climate justice.
So excited to see this! Over 4 episodes I cover the hugely alarming conclusions of the Joint Intelligence Ctte Report, shamefully suppressed by Government, & explore its implications for our food and water security. @nebriefing.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
The Rest Is Politics@therestpolitics.bsky.social · 3w agoClimate breakdown isn't just an environmental issue - it's fast becoming a national security crisis. Our major new investigative series with Caroline Lucas starts Friday, exclusively for TRIP + members.
To be clear: This is funding for what the State Department calls "civilizational allies" - MAGA-aligned people and parties in Europe, who share their disdain for human rights and their preference for ethnically pure societies and a totally unregulated internet
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3w agoThe State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...
Climate Stress May Lower Soybean Seed Quality ->SeedWorld | More on "Climate stress soybean nutritional quality" at BigEarthData.ai | #Seed #Climate
Climate Stress May Lower Soybean Seed Quality
A new AI-supported study suggests elevated CO₂, heat and drought may increase soybean production, but reduce starch and protein levels in the seed. A study published in Food Research International has analyzed how three climate pressures — increased carbon dioxide (CO₂), high temperatures and drought — could affect soybean quality. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive modeling based on experimentally verified data, the study found that soybeans exposed to all three factors could produce 50% more beans, but with lower nutritional quality. The study was led by scientists from the Laboratory of Ecological Plant Physiology (LAFIECO) in the Department of Botany at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Biosciences (IB-USP) in Brazil. Researchers found that soybeans exposed to the triple climate impact had 20% less starch and 6% less protein. They also recorded a 175% increase in amino acid content. “That increase in amino acids was unexpected. We don’t even know the effect of it on animals. We need to understand the effects of the triple impact on protein metabolism, which is very important for soybeans used in animal feed. We’ve seen that protein decreases in drastic climate change scenarios. Additionally, the bean loses starch, meaning less energy,” summarizes...
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