Buried 30 paragraphs into this abysmal BBC piece blaming renewables for the high cost of UK electricity is the actual reason it's so expensive, which is fossil gas. But Justin Rowlatt seems uninterested in this detail.

Scottish Greens pledge £200 million for nature restoration Scottish Greens pledge £200 million for nature restoration - The Scottish Greens have pledged to treble Scotland’s Nature Restoration Fund to £200 million, expanding support for community-led and land...

Love Scotland's nature? With more Scottish Greens in the next parliament we could treble funding for nature restoration, creating vital habitats for beavers, birds, badgers and more to thrive #VoteScottishGreens

Hope Wins! Scottish Greens.

Greens beat Reform! 💚

Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and our friends @greenparty.org.uk on their historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton.

We will never let the politics of hate divide us. The Greens will always put people and planet before profit.

Today the Scottish Parliament will vote on @markruskell.bsky.social's Bill to ban greyhound racing in Scotland. 🐶

This cruel 'sport' results in the deaths of hundreds of dogs a year in the UK and is only legal in a handful of countries.

It's time to end it in Scotland for good.

We did it. Swift bricks into law.

We made Scotland a better country for these beautiful birds.

Thank you @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social!

More to come from @scottishgreens.org in today's final sessions for the Natural Environment Bill today - watch this space!

Breaking. Safe homes for Swifts. MSPs have voted to back a Green amendment to install low cost swift nesting bricks in all new buildings above a certain size.

Swifts are in serious decline, with their UK population falling by 66% since 1995.

Moments ago MSPs backed our amendment to install low cost swift nesting bricks in new buildings.

This small act will make our communities more liveable for birds and help swifts recover.

Blow to SNP as MSPs vote to remove entire section from flagship nature bill THE SNP Government has been dealt a major blow after MSPs voted to remove an entire section from its flagship nature bill ...

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I am delighted that my colleagues across the Parliament supported my amendment to ensure that no government can run roughshod over our nature protections. This is a win for nature.

This bill
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NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned

Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)

What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts

www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Hannah is a formidable campaigner who will win her fight to give swifts a home 💚

I’ve been delighted to work with her and @RSPBScotland and have now lodged an amendment to the Natural Environment Bill to require swift bricks in new homes in Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🪶

🚨NATURE IS UNDER ATTACK!

The government wants to scrap vital nature protections and allow companies like theme park operators to destroy natural habitats!

👉 greens.scot/DefendScotla...

New law says large landowners need to set out biodiversity plans, in ‘big step towards a Rewilding Nation’ - Trees for Life Find a Grove Login

Great news for nature🌳 Yesterday MSPs voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity and adapt to climate breakdown, as part of the new Land Reform Bill.

Read the full story 👉 bit.ly/4hyl3Gl

📷James Shooter/Rewilding Britain

Despite their temporary support for climate targets, the Conservatives have never backed the action that's needed to tackle the climate emergency.

Now they're dropping all support for meaningful climate policy, to serve the financial interests of their wealthy donors.

Utterly shameful.

The Housing Bill, introduced by Scottish Greens, has passed!

✅ Rent controls
✅ The right for renters to keep pets
✅ The right for renters to decorate
✅ Increased council tax on second homes
✅ Support for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
👇 And more

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Motherfucking wind farms…

Heatwave is wake-up call for action on climate emergency On Saturday I sat at Glasgow Queen Street station listening to an interesting announcement over the tannoy system – trains will be running late as they are being “speed-restricted” due to overheated t...

Climate change is already making our day to day lives more difficult and more expensive. Public transport, crop yields, our health - it's all suffering.

We have the solutions. But things will only get worse until governments start listening to the science and stop making excuses.

“Ideological Sludge”: How New Zealand Is Quiet Quitting Climate Action New Zealand once stood out as a world leader on climate change. In June it became the first country in the world to abandon a commitment to phase out oil, gas and coal.

New Zealand used to make headlines for its bold climate commitments. The gutting of those commitments is equally bold, but not getting much attention outside NZ. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, read @roycerk2.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/new-zea...

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT “Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

Dog days ☀️

Flow chart of the "fossil fuel spin cycle" showing the 5 narratives the industry shifts between: 1. We keep you safe, 2. We make your life work, 3. Economy vs. Environment, 4. We're part of the solution, 5. We're a great neighbor

I've been talking about this for years but the fossil fuel industry has five key narratives, they haven't changed much in decades, and they just shift between them/combine them depending on what is happening in the world. Made a quick and dirty flow chart to illustrate it:

2. The renewables-based electrified world is reliant on products, not commodities, because sun and wind are free. While resources like oil are controlled by those key states endowed with them, just about anyone can contribute to and benefit from the supply chain to build solar and wind equipment.

Greyhound racing is a cruel sport that is dangerous for dogs.

Latest data from across the UK shows:
🚨109 dogs died trackside in 2023
🚨4,238 injuries were caused to greyhounds

Today, Scottish Greens introduced a bill to end greyhound racing in Scotland for good.

Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast.

Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.

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The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK

Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking

YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS

Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

The impacts of climate activism We review 50 studies on the impacts of climate activism. We present the existing evidence in a map of what we know about climate activism and its impa…

✊🔥🌍If you ever wondered why to engage into climate activism : review of evidence
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"There is strong evidence that climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage in a pro-climate direction, but this varies by context and the tactics employed."
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Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows: Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage. 1 NATURALIST: And now It is my great honour 2 NATURALIST: to reintroduce the first wild beaver back into Britain 3 [Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.] 4 BEAVER: Well, well, well. 5 BEAVER: Look who's come crawling back. 6 BEAVER: Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya? 7 BEAVER: Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*? 8 BEAVER: I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head… 9 BEAVER: First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free… You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya? NATURALIST: I'm so sorry I…I… 10 BEAVER: “Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…” Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*? 11 NATURALIST: I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure… 12 BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]: Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage. NATURALIST: Done. [ends]

beaver's return

Such recklessness, treating it all so glibly

CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’ - Carbon Brief The UK should cut its emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040 under its...

To no one's surprise, UK newspapers are full of truly dreadful - and, at times, outright bizarre - "reporting" of the Climate Change Committee's new carbon-budget advice.

For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage...

www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...

A serious programme of climate action is both necessary and possible - and as the UKCCC have shown today it will bring big benefits for household budgets, and it can be done at lower cost than previously thought; equal to a small fraction of the military spending that Starmer announced yesterday.