Oh, and then there’s this:

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Flow chart highlighting the need to regularly reclassify pheasants as livestock or wildlife according to their treatment, from rearing and releasing to feeding and shooting, in order to make the practice legal.

Can’t vouch for its accuracy but even if only some of this pic is correct, it shows the legal tangle necessary to make shooting pheasants legal. And presumably the correlation between our lawmakers and those who call massacring animals for fun ‘sport’.

(Sorry can’t credit artist.)

Find a screening near you. Urgent viewing.

This diagram shows the incentive structure of a world built to engineer its own destruction

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us.

And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Hoping some country would go against the “let’s make everything worse by lowering fuel taxes”-trend and instead *raise* taxes on aviation, and then use funds e.g. for faster decarbonisation of road transport.

Double saving of fuel and socially fair too.
#dkgreen #dkpol #dktrp

First post in a recent tweet by the Pope, citing the huge inequality in wealth across the world.

Wouldn’t have expected to be reposting the Pope, but hard to argue: huge inequality is at the heart of the climate crisis as well, where a few hoard gross excess and thereby rob the many of sufficiency. It’s a moral problem that seems to demand over-riding our most primitive instincts.

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024

Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live In Short, When buying a car costs less than your train journey Tom’s London to Bristol train ticket cost £218 – so he bought a car and drove instead.

💯

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say Climate diplomacy figures warn North Sea drilling would encourage fossil fuel exploitation by developing countries

Important piece in the Guardian today about the outsized influence that the UK’s approach to fossil fuels, including approving new oil & gas fields, has on the rest of the world, especially on countries in the global South

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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At noon yesterday and on Monday, more than a third of UK electricity was from #solar

The future could be bright...

HT
@solarenergyuk.bsky.social
www.neso.energy/data-portal/...

My son is about to take his 40th flight - we are extreme day trippers Rhona Paton started a group sharing tips for extreme day travellers which now has over 30,000 members.

Could there be a better example of the need for climate education and a #frequentflyerlevy?! 🙄

My son is about to take his 40th flight - we are extreme day trippers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says Marcos Orellana, a special rapporteur, found lax environmental standards and lack of oversight allowed pollution to accumulate

"Living in a [toxic] sacrifice zone means losing the right to die of old age.”

The nauseating reality of global injustice: the poor pay for the excesses of the rich, including with their lives.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing?

The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise.

A thread. 🧵👇

Important thread below on another suppressed expert report👇

When faced with difficult news, Government’s instinct seems to be to head-in-the-sand.

But these aren’t distant threats that can be ignored.

It’s time for a televised emergency briefing to the nation.
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🚨Screenings up & down UK from April🚨

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One flight can wipe out the carbon savings from many everyday changes.
For people who fly, it’s often the biggest part of their carbon footprint.
Choosing trains, ferries or coaches can make a huge difference.
#FlightFree

Time and time again surveys of heat pump owners show that the vast majority of people are happy with their heat pump.

Here's data from Canada, a place known for its very warm winters. cleanenergycanada.org/report/heat-...

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war.
This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

CO₂ removal should not be used for luxury emissions. Moving a traveling circus around the globe and all the other activities associated with F1 are definitely luxury emissions.

Exactly. And this is why using biofuels for aviation is such dangerous policy.
We have limited biofuel capacity. Using it to keep planes flying instead of heating homes is a choice that will look insane when the next energy crisis hits.
Fly less. Heat homes. It's not complicated.

Government to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secure The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.

This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space.

"In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."

40% of US rail freight is also fossil fuels, mostly coal. Wind coal down and you free up a lot of rail resources! Some of which could be converted to fast electric passenger trains, which in countries with modern transport infrastructure are faster than air travel for most trips under 1000 miles.

The Talk

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Climate Scientist Reacts to AI Overlords Artificial Intelligence is here, and it's changing the world. But when it comes to climate change, whether those AI changes are going to save us or doom us depends heavily on who you ask. I take a…

This is SUCH a good @climateadam.bsky.social video - the quotes here from tech CEOs are beyond belief. I didn't even know about a bunch of these......go watch:

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Graph of Human Develppment Index, a UN metric that combines per-capita GDP, education, and health, vs. annual energy use per person. Each dot is a country. HDI increases with energy use to a point, then saturates. The US is twice as far to the right on energy use per person as the "kink point" where energy use stops influencing HDI. The UK and Switzerland are near the kink point, using about half the per-capita energy of the US, but have better health and education outcomes.

The United States uses about twice as much energy per person as Switzerland or the UK. The US also has worse public health and life expectancy. Few countries use more energy per person than the US. Most of them are, like the US, petrostates.

The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳