Citizen. Environmentalist for 1/3 of a century. Researcher
#pollution
#climate
. Professor Vascular Medicine. Likes people. Believes in equality, fairness, truth
To all the people saying "they should have locked the Just Stop Oil protesters up for longer", enjoy your weekend.
But please remember that you wouldn't have a weekend, or any other fundamental right, were it not for protesters who were reviled by people like you.🧵
Why,
@BBCNews
is there nil on your site about thousands marching, yet you reported extensively on a couple of 100 marching against ULEZ?
#Bias
Thousands march in London to urge leaders to tackle wildlife crisis
Not sure how the mainstream press are missing this, can’t find a single report over past month (except Le Monde), as we have hottest global sea surface temperatures EVER recorded.
#ClimateCrisis
Who to believe 🤔
Canada contradicts Badenoch claims on trade talk. She claims she was engaged in trade talks with Canada, talks Ottawa insists don’t exist. The Canadian high commissioner has written to Govt to stress they didn’t happen
#AshamedToBeBritish
I have complained to the BBC, please join me, and will take it to OFCOM. BBC did the same by ignoring the 40,000 people at the climate weekend a couple of years ago, yet they reported on a march of about 100 people demonstrating against ULEZ
Why no reporting of this,
@BBCNews
when all other major outlets did? Even in France.
60m birds lost in a generation over Europe. Insects, which pollinate 1/3rd of all our food, down by nearly 70% in 10y in UK.
Please complain to BBC, then OFCOM.
A lot of talk about the decline of insects, but it's actually scary.. as a kid I remember swarms of ladybirds, vast clouds of midges, long grass alive with daddy long-legs, earwigs in every nook & cranny, plus a once common insect I haven't seen in years... the Lacewing... 😔
“Do people need two-and-a-half-tonne vehicles to take their children to school?”
SUVs use 1/4 more energy than medium-size vehicles. They generate almost 1bn tonnes of CO2 emissions annually – the amount by which we overshot our Paris agreement targets
This MUST be protected!
The vast bog in north Scotland that helps fight climate change, it contains more than double the carbon of all of UK forests combined
A team has been bidding to make it the planet's first peatland with world heritage status
Astonishingly severe sentencing by Judge Hehir on the case against the
@JustStop_Oil
campaigners.
Five years for one, four years each for the four others. What happened to free speech?
They were trying to protect our planet. They are not violent. They are despairing.
Yay for him!
Chris Packham launches legal challenge over UK’s watering down of climate policies. He has applied for judicial review of govt’s decision to ditch timetable phasing out petrol/diesel cars, gas boilers, & minimum energy ratings for landlords
Why are we still opening new oil fields? Why?
Hottest ocean temps in 400 years an ‘existential threat’ to Great Barrier Reef. Coral analysis shows recent extreme temperatures wouldn’t have happened without manmade greenhouse gas emissions from
#FossilFuels
Iran announces nationwide shutdown due to soaring heat.
Many cities and towns across Iran have sweltered for days in heat as high as 40C (104F), with the mercury rising to 50C (122F) in the southwest city of Ahvaz
#ClimateCrisis
I’m calling on
@Keir_Starmer
&
@UKLabour
to invite key climate scientists to present current (frightening) data to his new MPs so ALL are aware of where this
#ClimateEmergency
is headed. No more climate denial in Government. We are almost out of time.
Truly frightening!
“Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly, we could be in uncharted territory. Planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than
#climate
scientists expected.”
Schmidt, climatologist & director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies
“If fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you then you don’t fully understand it. Reality is that our world has never in its entire history heated up as rapidly as it is now. Nor have greenhouse gas levels seen such a precipitous hike”
Grant Shapps, "It would be a mad policy not to grant these oil and gas licenses."
António Guterres, "Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness."
Who do you believe?
A climate denier put a ‘community note’ on my post yesterday, reason- ‘there is no climate change”
“I’m a UK farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops.
#ClimateCrisis
is making farming unsustainable, food security will suffer too.”
More peaceful protestors jailed today. Let’s see what the rioters get, who seriously assaulted police, burnt cars, & attacked a mosque & looted.
If it’s not more than 5 years, UK justice has serious questions to answer.
Just Stop Oil activists jailed.
@sbattrawden
Great! In NHS/Uni management I got fed up with sharing an idea in committee & then a guy would say it after me, & the chairman would say ‘what a great idea’. To him. After about 3 years I got fed up & now say ‘I just said that’. Causes confusion, mortification & embarrassment 😊
As if we hadn’t noticed….why is it happening? Who owns the media?
Study from University of Loughborough confirmed what many already suspected. Media coverage outside of the top 2 parties during the General Election was skewed in favour of Farage & Reform
Something has gone wrong for insects, charity. Buglife said it feared that invertebrates faced an extinction crisis, & without them humans & other life forms could not survive.
Research confirmed there had been an insect decline of 37% over 50 years.
Fantastic!
EU Parliament votes to criminalise most serious cases of ecosystem destruction. Countries have 2yrs to put into law. CEOs can get 20yrs imprisonment.
Guess it’s another reason Tories & big business owners wanted
#Brexit
disregulation.
This is a shocking statistic with a clear message - don’t burn wood!
Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%. People who use a wood burner on >30 days a year have a 68% increased lung cancer risk
#AirPollution
What age will your children be?
Mine will be younger than I am.
My grandchildren will be in their 20s
Atlantic Ocean Conveyor likely to Collapse before 2050, say Climate Scientists.
#ClimateChange
is the cause.
The consequences will be devastating.
The only way to stop the 8am call debacle is to have more GPs. Why don’t you start training more
@SteveBarclay
, if you had started 12yrs ago and carried on what Labour were doing you would have had 6 years (circa 20,000) of more GPs out in our
#NHS
Jeez. Just when you thought you had heard it all Health Secretary
@SteveBarclay
launches the Government’s latest con on GP appointments. Who came up with this absolute boll****!
Never underestimate just how thick this Government thinks we all are
We are in trouble. 2ft sea level rise minimum.
In 2 New Studies, Scientists See Fundamental Climate Shifts in Antarctica. A steep decline of sea ice seen, & seawater intrusions beneath Thwaites Glacier could explain its melting outpacing projections.
UN Forst said: “I fail to see how exposing Mr Shaw to a multiyear prison sentence for being on a Zoom call that discussed organisation of a peaceful environmental protest is either reasonable or proportionate, nor pursues a legitimate public purpose” 🧵
Please,
@ScotGov
buy this for us? It says can be developed as tourist area. But we need it wild. Please, please, please, buy this for the nation.
Loch Lomond conservation estate for sale for £4m.
Sunak took £500,000 worth of private jet trips in less than a fortnight and he seems to think it’s fine
It’s not fine, not for tax payers and not for the
#Climate
!
Don’t get mad at
#Climate
activists, get mad at those destroying our world for
#Greed
#FossilFuel
sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn/day profits. Total since 1970 $52tn, ➡️ power to “buy every politician & system” & ⬇️action on climate crisis” says analysis author
Mapped: The record number of polluted spots swimmers are urged to avoid ahead of Christmas swims. A record number have the worst quality of water new figures show, with swimmers urged to stay away for the sake of their health
#Sewage
#Pollution
.
Scientists declared back-to-back days in July were hottest ever recorded. To do so, they analyzed 100 million data points. Climate deniers, who measured zero data points, think they are wrong.
World Had Hottest Day Ever in July. This Is How Scientists Know
How BigOil is manipulating the way you think about
#ClimateChange
. The best way to reduce CO2 is to stop burning
#FossilFuels
not to spend billions of dollars developing an entire new industry devoted to sequestering carbon in all kinds of complicated ways
UK running low on water. Excellent article on disaster of privatised water supplies
They bought monopolies with no debt, handed £1.5bn to make improvements, borrowed £60bn since 1989 not for new investment but to pay >£70bn dividends to company owners 🧵
Anyone else feeling the gloom & doom? OMG
Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, study suggests. The shutting down of vital ocean currents, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc), would bring catastrophic climate impacts.
Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Research documented declining nutrient value in some staple crops due to rising atmospheric
#CO2
levels; Testing of rice found that higher CO2 levels reduced its protein, iron and zinc content.
#ClimateChange
Heatwaves affecting world’s oceans, destroying kelp, seagrass & corals & killing swathes of sea-life like “wildfires taking out huge forests”.
Ocean heatwave days tripled in recent years
Florida ocean records ‘unprecedented’ temperatures of a hot tub
When it’s gone, it won’t come back. Bit like the planet…
Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave
Reported temperatures on continent in midwinter reach 28C above expectations on some days in July.
“World is heading towards 2-3oC of warming. This sets Earth on course to cross multiple dangerous tipping points that will be disastrous for the world. To maintain liveable conditions on Earth we must do everything possible to prevent these tipping points”
40% of lung cancer in non smoking women related to wood burning. Calls to ban wood-burning stoves in UK by 2027. Campaigners are calling for a ban on wood-burning stoves in UK homes by 2027 due to serious health & environmental worries.
Up to 150 public swimming pools in the UK could be offered an innovative way to cut their energy bills by recycling heat from computer data processing centres after a £200m investment by Octopus Energy into a green tech firm.
#climate
.
It started with Cameron stopping plans for solar panels on all new houses & continued to this. Tories don’t care. Do they think their money will save them as climate crisis escalates every year?
Europe burns while Tories’ net zero plans go up in smoke
Well done us!
Renewables produce more than 100% of Scotland's electricity demand for 1st time. Data from the Scottish Government shows that in 2022, the equivalent of 113% of Scotland’s gross electricity consumption was generated from
#Renewable
sources.
Sound familiar?
@UKLabour
please STOP funding this
#Climate
damaging monster.
Drax Group to give shareholders £300m windfall as profits rise. Owner of North Yorkshire power station earned £393m in government subsidies for biomass 🧵
And no-one in power seems to care. Do people not understand what this means?
The last 12 months have all been over the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees of global warming, according to a new analysis of temperature data.
So climate deniers who say ‘it’s a scam’, where are you now?
#NotAClimateScam
Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows. Copernicus
#ClimateChange
Service says results show a ‘large & continuing shift’ in the climate.
Ever wondered what happens in UK if the AMOC shuts down?Uk temperatures would drop by 3.4°C. Rainfall during growing season would drop by 123mm. That drop is enough to reduce UK's percentage of arable land from 32% to just 7%.
#ClimateCrisis
A true
#ClimateCrisis
indeed, & we merrily continue to burn
#FossilFuel
Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point. Collapse in system of currents that regulate global climate would be so speedy adaptation would be impossible.
Amazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'. It experienced its worst drought on record in 2023. Villages became unreachable, wildfires raged & wildlife died. Scientists worry events show world's biggest forest is approaching point of no return.
The data is now official: 3 years’ worth of rain fell within two days. Scientists on Greek TV discussing the possibility of the formation of new, permanent lakes in the area. It is a new planet.
#ClimateAction
#ClimateCrisis
#climatecatastrophe
Light at night affects not only insect behaviour, but bats, moths & other nocturnal beings. it’s bad for us too.
We need a ‘switch off’ policy for not needed nocturnal light
Leaving streetlights on all night makes leaves tougher & harder for insects to eat
Please, no
#climate
denying comments unless you too are a climate scientist.
Mediterranean heatwave would not have occurred without human-induced climate change, say climate scientists.
It follows 13 months of extreme global heat, each setting a new record
About time the evidence was listened to.
Immediate rethink sought as report condemns badger cull. Culling to combat bTB condemned as “one of greatest veterinary errors of our time.” In the document authors say is cruel, wasteful & “fundamentally wrong”.
Worried yet?
‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming to the brink. It’s grappling with 1 of the most serious water crises in its history. The island, largest & most populous in Mediterranean, is at risk of desertification
#Climate
Yup, scientists know, strange how a lot of the public still in denial.
Kew Gardens prepares for
#ClimateChange
tree loss. >50% of 11,000 trees at risk before end of century. They have already started to replace them with species found in warmer countries.
New Zealand’s sea temperatures have hit record highs, outstripping global averages threefold in one region, and prompting alarm over the health of the country’s marine life and ecosystems.
#ClimateEmergency
Drax power station responsible for 4x more carbon
#emissions
than UK’s last remaining coal-fired plant last year, despite taking >£0.5billion of taxpayers’ money. Its shareholder profits last year exactly equated to what taxpayers paid it.
#StopDrax
🧵
Can’t believe folk won’t listen to the science. Doesn’t it worry them that folk who ACTUALLY know about
#Climate
are putting up with abuse like this to try to help us?
Police water cannons are yet again turned on the scientists. Today an estimated 10,000 peaceful protestors in the Hague, are demonstrating against Dutch government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, totalling at least 37.5 billion euros a year.
Tropical Glaciers in Andes Are Smallest They’ve Been in 11,700 Years - if you think this is unimportant - think again. Summer melt of glaciers feed the valleys. If there is no glacier, there’s no summer melt & the valleys will dry out & die.
#ClimateCrisis
After 30 years, I’m finally saying what I’m not supposed to say about
#ClimateChange
Veteran BBC analyst Roger Harrabin was encouraged not to ‘sap the will of the public’ by reporting the full extent of dismay among climate scientists
Important 👇🏻
@JustStop_Oil
protesters’ jail terms potentially breach international law, UN expert says. Long sentences to 2 protesters for scaling bridge are potential breach of international law, &risk silencing public concerns about environment🧵1/3
I grieve for my children & grandchildren
CO2 levels in atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced
"We've experienced hottest year & ocean temperatures on record. Now CO2 levels are increasing faster than ever" NOAA
How many more fires, how many more floods, how many more landslides, droughts, crop failures, ice melt before the world agrees to STOP new
#FossilFuel
?
How long?
Do we have that long?
Awful! Don’t let anyone tell you more people die from cold than heat. For past 5y huge numbers dying from heat stress compared to cold
More than 550 hajj pilgrims die as temps exceed 50C. Officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress.
340 flood alert & floods in England, Yellow weather warning for ‘millions’. Cows drowning, rail & road disruption. Cold plummets below -43C in Finland, power cuts in Sweden. as Germany & France face floods. Welcome to the new normal of
#ClimateChange
Billionaire Andrew Forrest in scathing attack on oil & gas industry. Australian magnate-turned-green-evangelist says companies & countries that don’t stop burning
#FossilFuels
will have ‘blood on their hands’ & takes out ads in tomorrow’s papers saying so.
“We would all rather be wrong than right on this,”
That is the one thing that climate deniers don’t understand.
Climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating
#ClimateCrisis
Yes! At last. Do this, please.
Taxes on
#electricity
should be shifted to gas so that people feel more benefit from using green technologies like
#HeatPumps
in their homes, the government's climate advisers say.
Zac Goldsmith: “I don’t think you can understand & care about gravity of this (
#climate
) issue & at the same time be willing to take your foot off the accelerator for political expediency, I just think that would require you to be a monster.”
Firefighters continue tackling 'mile long'
#wildfire
near Inverness. This one follows on from one near Cannich in the Highlands, which began on May 28 and is believed to be one of the largest in the UK ever.
#ClimateCrisis
We should all be terrified of Trump. He has repeatedly claimed
#ClimateChange
is a “hoax.” His Project 2025 calls for expanding US oil drilling, shrinking footprint of national monuments, terminating clean energy incentives & ending
#FossilFuel
regulations
@ShaunLintern
When they tried to cut management they just called them ‘clinical’ managers and kept them on. Flatten the NhS management. Those at the coal face are bright, intelligent humans - use them!
'People are telling lies about climate change' …. WE know this, good to see it in the mainstream news.
Are we FINALLY going to see some action on resilience & mitigation?
COVID: why UK’s autumn vaccine strategy could fail patients as hospitalisations rise. Reducing those eligible, using up older pre purchased & less effective vaccines, startlingly poor availability of paxlovid, an effective antiviral. That’s uk strategy.
@GeorgeMonbiot
@Shivajihimself
It’s absolutely bizarre -the Govt, the press all ignoring a major flare of covid. They even stopped measuring it in waste water last month so no one will actually know. Just excess deaths. Note BHF announcement of massive increase in cardiac problems? 👇🏻
Incredibly sad
New fossil fuels 'incompatible’ with 1.5C goal. There is a “large consensus” across all published studies that developing
#FossilFuel
fields is “incompatible” with the 1.5C target, says International Institute for Sustainable Development
Australia: Record December heat in Sydney as temperatures hits 43.5С. The temperature, recorded at Sydney Airport on Saturday, was the highest temperature recorded at the same weather station since records began in 1929.
#Climate
Excellent
Major
#polluters
could be jailed for up to 20 years under "ecocide" bill proposed in Scottish Parliament.
If successful, would make Scotland 1st part of UK to enforce tough penalties for
#ecocide
- the mass destruction of environment.
Colombians told to shower with a partner as drought hits capital water supplies. Bogotá brings in water rationing saying city could run out in under two months.
I’m fed up with mega rich destroying our economy thro Brexit but then escaping its impact
This man ardently supported
#Brexit
. Then moved his tax residency abroad
In 2020, Ratcliffe changed tax residence from UK to Monaco, estimating saving £4 billion tax
All those trees, all that landscape - gone for ever
#HS2
given an "unachievable" rating by official infrastructure watchdog. The red rating, in IPA's annual report on major projects, states: "Successful delivery of the project appears to be unachievable
What a 3C world would look like. Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet
World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns
London Underground,
@SadiqKhan
?
Paris Metro's makes green energy from turnstiles. As a commuter passes through a turnstile, kinetic energy is generated as it spins. A mini turbine in the turnstile captures this energy & converts it into electricity
Number of 'very hot' UK days of 30C heat or above has trebled. Uk's climate is getting wetter & warmer.
Heatwaves & floods have "a profound impact putting a strain on healthcare, damaging infrastructure & crops & disrupting our daily lives".
#ClimateCrisis
European Environment Agency says chemical
#pollution
has role in 25% of new cancers. UK Royal Society of Chemistry pushing for x10 reduction of UK permitted level per individual PFAS from 100ng/L to 10ng/L.
We need to protect our children. Write to your MP
Toxic PFAS forever chemicals detected in 64% of children's clothing, according to a study carried out across 4 continents. The most commonly found forever chemical was PFOA - which is banned globally & classed as a carcinogen by the WHO.
Where are all the butterflies this summer? Their absence is telling us something important.
#biodiversity
#pesticides
#climate
Surveys reveal a sharp drop in numbers on numberplates in UK. The scale of decline is staggering, a drop of 78% 2004 to 2023.
Surprise!
News & media mostly quiet after UN chief calls for ban on ads for
#FossilFuel
. The Guardian contacted 11 news organisations & tech firms who run fossil-fuel ads, seeking comment on Guterres’s call. Most did not respond, only 2 choosing to comment
My heart breaks for Hawaii 💔
"I said, 'we've got to jump out of the car & run' because the traffic wasn't moving. They didn't want to. I ran for my life & they stayed. 3 friends & 2 dogs died. I saw one friend dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal."
@Depheruk
So good of you! I’m ashamed of the UK Govt. what on earth have we come to. I’m seeing rickets, hypothermia… it’s so Dickensian! Again, well done. You are a star!
USA and others spending billions on carbon capture machines which they say will reduce carbon and save humanity
Its a con to keep Big Oil flowing
World’s largest direct air carbon capture facility will reduce CO2 by .0001% of 36 billion tons of CO2 emitted per year by humanity
The richest 0.1% in uk emit 22x more from transport than low earners, & 12x more than average. People who earn >£100,000 travel at least double the distance/yr compared with those on incomes <£30,000.
Most deprived 10% responsible for lowest
#emissions
.