These oil giants are part of the reckless lobby pushing the fantasy that more drilling in the North Sea will bring our bills down - when all it will do is fatten the bank accounts of big oil corporations like BP, while households in the UK agonise over rising energy bills. 1/2

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h ago

Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.

Car dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice. In December 1974 the town board of East Spencer, North Carolina, voted to stop funding the regional bus service serving Salisbury, Spencer and East Spencer. ...

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads

Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution

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Truly surreal that the response to the Tories and Reform arguing for less climate action and more gas reliance in the middle of record heatwaves and a gas supply shock hasn’t been ‘are you high?’

"We need to take the role of trees and green spaces in our towns and cities more seriously – these aren't just nice-to-have, they are critical infrastructure." Read the latest research from Priestley Members on trees in urban areas: climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/tree-co...

Tree cover is key to cooling cities - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

Trees in urban areas are highly effective in reducing harmful heat exposure and improving outdoor comfort in cities, according to a new study led by Priestley members.

climate.leeds.ac.uk

I think this is why I have found the recent heatwave so despair inducing - there's no sense anyone has any plans to try and stop this from just getting worse

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · yesterday

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...

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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Brought to you principally by the oil and automotive industries. Every time you use a combustion engine or burn a fuel, you make it a little worse. Every single time.

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2d ago

July 2026 was an exceptional month for the UK's climate statistics, with records challenged or broken for rainfall, temperature and sunshine. Read more in our press release ⤵️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

China's future is on BICYCLES. They realized cars were too big, created gigantic congestion, polluted the air, etc. CHANGE! 10+ yrs creating SAFE BICYCLE infra. Everywhere. Connectivity. Chris Bruntlett, Int. Relations Dutch Cycling Embassy has been showing transformation. Below, Beijing. Thanks!

We designed cities for cars, and we wonder why nobody walks anymore. It’s like draining the lake and wondering where the fish went.

In either case, unless you genuinely need such a thing for your work, I will think of you as an immoral person if you own one. And I believe we should all start thinking that way.

"These heatwaves are grimly exposing the UK's lack of resilience" greenallianceblog.org.uk/2026/08/03/t...

These heatwaves are grimly exposing the UK’s lack of resilience

The UK was wracked by record rainfall and flooding earlier in the year, hard to remember now in the midst of successive deadly heatwaves and mounting threats to food production due to drought.   We…

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Two thirds of all the climate impacts we experience comes from fossil fuel combustion that produced energy that was NEVER USED BY PEOPLE. It was dumped as waste heat and noise, because the conversion process is so comically inefficient that is inherently funny, and fossil fuels are inherently silly

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 11mo ago

From my file on the IEA's world energy outlook. "Primary energy" = what goes in "Final energy" = what comes out a The space in between: mostly lost energy bc burning fossil fuels is absurdly wasteful. So in the net zero scenario, that gaps closes to zero --->>

The penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

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Over the past decade, Beijing has experienced one of the most remarkable cycling renaissances in the world, powered by an innovation that has quietly transformed everyday mobility: dockless bike-sharing. Millions of residents suddenly rediscovered the joy of the bicycle, without needing to own one.🧵

No-brainer, which is one of many reasons the anti net-zero stuff on the right is economic illiteracy as well anti-science.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5d ago

5/ The UK's fiscal watchdog agrees. OBR, July 2025: 3°C of warming costs the UK economy about 8% by the early 2070s. Cutting emissions costs far less than the damage from not doing it.

We're on track for the driest July for almost two centuries. Fire crews have been battling some of the worst wildfires ever seen in Britain. This isn't weather. It's a climate crisis. https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/firefighters-battling-worst-wildfires-ever-seen-in-britain

Firefighters battling ‘worst wildfires ever seen in Britain’

Large swathes of the country are now at ‘exceptional’ risk of a blaze after the driest July for more than two centuries

observer.co.uk

Hurry! The deadline is 11.59pm on Tuesday 28 July (tomorrow!) 👇️ National Highways are already trying to break its promises to protect ancient woodland at the Lower Thames Crossing. Tell them to keep their word and respond to the consultation.

Stop National Highways breaking its promises to protect ancient woodland at Epping Forest

National Highways are seeking to break the promises they made to protect ancient woodland at Epping Forest. Because of the extra air pollution caused by the increased traffic due to the Lower Thames…

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Beijing’s bicycle comeback might be one of the world's most significant urban cycling revivals. After decades of decline, its mode share has climbed back to almost 30%, supported by over 3,200 kilometres of infrastructure, extensive bike-sharing systems, and an ambitious program of street redesign.🧵

A moral blight? Well, as @mateosfo.bsky.social says, "they're leading killers of [people] and the leading cause of climate change; they specifically design their products to kill people; they also design their products to transfer wealth to the oil industry; .. they continue to destroy our cities"

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Tariffs are going to isolate GM, force it to stick with ICEs far longer than the market wants, and eventually destroy it. Which, fine. The US auto industry is a moral blight.

According to the data from flight trackers July 23rd was the busiest day for commercial air travel ever recorded, and in other news, as this summer of extreme heat continues multiple countries are being consumed by wildfires, but that is probably just a coincidence.

The next front in The War on Cars: car reduction strategies. It's not enough to just add bike lanes and pedestrian space. Cities have to actively reduce the amount of cars that flood their streets. A lot of that can be done by going after parking.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · last wk.

10,000 fewer on-street car parking spaces. That's the pledge from Amsterdam's new coalition government over the next four years. While many cities still argue whether change is possible, Amsterdam is reclaiming its public realm one tree, bench, bike rack, terrace, playground, and garden at a time.

This new study finds that the total death toll in Europe during the June heatwave exceeds 20,000 people. "This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat." Pre-print here: zenodo.org/records/2108...

The British public think climate change is a bigger global threat than mass migration.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

“As the GDP case for expansion has evaporated, and the environmental damages will be significant, it’s unclear why this is proceeding. The winners from the scheme are the foreign shareholders who, as things stand, will be gifted a guaranteed return in exchange for taking on minimal private risk.”

Heathrow expansion would take thousands of jobs from other UK regions, report finds

Airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if third runway goes ahead, DfT economic paper shows

theguardian.com

We don't have to look outside Britain to find how England's water should be run In the UK, Scotland has the lowest water bills, invests the most in infrastructure, and pays out NO dividends Andy Burnham and Angela Eagle, do the right thing - take Thames Water into special administration

This is a former editor of the Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper commenting over on Twitter...

In south-western France, the largest forced displacement of people since the Second World War; thousands of hectares ravaged by flames; fire storms (pyrocumulonimbus clouds); the fire closing of Bordeaux; a tragedy that has been looming for years due to inaction in the face of the climate threat 😱

Fixed it for you, @thetimes.com!

‼️Breaking: Almost three-quarters of English riverbanks have no right of access. Our new investigation has found that 71% of riverbanks in England have no right of access on either bank. www.theguardian.com/environment/...