- @carbonbrief.org continues to chronicle the very normal state of right wing politics / media in the UK

Large areas of 'very' and 'extremely' poor air quality recorded due to wildfires in Spain and France - landscape fire smoke kills an estimated 1.5 million people a year #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Why the climate-denying right-wing politicians and press hate Ed Miliband so much 👇 Great piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

Heat kills #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The record humid heatwave in the US over the Fourth of July weekend is so extreme it would have been *impossible* without the #climatecrisis, finds @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuels...

Saudi Arabia being Saudi Arabia at the UN climate talks in Bonn #climatecrisis @enb.iisd.org enb.iisd.org/bonn-climate...

The deepest protest ever ... @greenpeace.org used an underwater robot to deploy a message to global leaders from 2,300 meters below the surface of the Arctic Ocean

Wild boar piglets That's the post www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy Friday! 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/...

TIL that binturongs exist and they smell like buttered popcorn and baby binturongs are called binlets HT to Guardian's weekly email newsletter www.theguardian.com/environment/...

more from Simon Stiell at UNFCCC #climatecrisis “Some responses to the fossil fuel crisis – incredibly – argue for doubling-down on the cause of the problem and slowing the shift to renewable energy. Even though it is clearly cheaper, safer, and faster to market. This is completely delusional.”

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why, writes @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - Those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation are telling the exact opposite of the truth #energycrisis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Analysis: Clean energy will cut UK gas imports by [much] more than North Sea drilling #energy By @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org et al www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...

The scale of #solar farms in China is mindblowing ... and they are planning to double it #electrostate HT @carbonbrief.org www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

A logging bill masquerading as wildfire protection - Despite its name, the US 'Fix Our Forests Act' would fast-track logging, weaken environmental safeguards, and do little to protect communities from wildfire By @drjamesehansen.bsky.social & Dan Galpern mailchi.mp/caa/fix-our-...

“I am taking care to watch over all the decisions taken here about me,” Mother Earth has told the Guardian ... #COP30 #climatechange www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Deliberate delay inside the UN climate talks is as bad as continuing to pump emissions into the atmosphere. Doing both - as Saudi Arabia does - is even worse,” say Dr Joanna Depledge and colleagues #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 6/7

Yet Saudi Arabia is also making a whirlwind switch to renewable power at home. In another contradiction, slowing climate action worsens the impacts on a desert kingdom where its 36m people already contend with conditions “at the verge of livability” #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 5/7

For decades Saudi Arabia has fought harder than any other country to block and delay international climate action - a diplomatic “wrecking ball” saying that abandoning fossil fuels is a “fantasy”. #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 4/7

But climate action, principally getting the world off fossil fuels, is seen as an existential threat to Saudi Arabia: its economy and even its ruling royal family #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 3/7

Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Aramco, the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas last year, is a colossal cash machine. It keeps the authoritarian kingdom afloat #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 2/7

“Either we decide to change by choice, together, or change will be imposed by tragedy. We can change. But we must do it together” — Andre Correa do Lago, #COP30 president, in a letter to negotiators at the start of the UN meeting HT @coveringclimatenow.org

btw now I have 30,000 followers ... many thanks to you all, and for your interesting and useful posts and replies I'm not sorry I dumped Xitter as thanks I give you a perfect Cornish wave, painted by Andrew Giddens andrewgiddens.co.uk/product/gree...

Lead pollution persists in the 21st Century and could get worse - review paper www.nature.com/articles/s43...

ICYM - @thomaspiketty.bsky.social on why the #climatecrisis cannot be ended without reducing inequality 👇 www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Timeline cleanse Wildlife photographer of the year 2025 gallery www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hey insect lovers Can anyone tell me what this little beauty is? It’s about 2cm wide