Lisa Marriott

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

In other news we are wrecking the joint and those who are making money out of it are happy to carry on as if everything was normal.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Duracell E-Charge to invest more than £200m in UK EV charging infrastructure Battery giant selects the UK to debut new EV charging venture, and targets at least 500 charge points this decade

Yes, they're gimmicky, but they do look pretty cool. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520271...

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

More than 24,000 properties better protected from floods, Government says The Environment Agency completed work on 151 flood schemes across England between July 2024 and 2025.

🏘️ 24,000 homes and businesses are now better protected from flooding due to the Labour Government’s funding.

🌹And investing a record £10.5 billion over the next decade means more homes and businesses will be protected against flooding.

👉 Read more: linkly.link/2GKgW

Forgive me for straying towards hyperbole here. It is incredible to think we had more coverage of Rachel Reeves crying at work than a former MEP taking bribes from Russia.

🌍 Excellent news! The JNCC and @thecccuk.bsky.social have signed an agreement to strengthen collaboration between our two statutory scientific advisers on nature and climate.

The climate crisis cannot be solved without solving the nature crisis—they need joined-up solutions.

🔗 tinyurl.com/y9crhwe9

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong' No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

"No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire"
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

Climate action is the only economic growth story of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern

- Fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this story would sink "normal" politicians
but with Farage (and Boris before him)
Normal rules don't seem to apply

Thanks, Matthew. And in further news today bsky.app/profile/pete...

No flights 5 yrs ✅
(Mainly) vegetarian diet ✅
Car free - try, but v difficult where we live
EV - next car (waiting for current elderly car to give up. Apparently greener than replacing early)

All need to do what we can

But Fossil fuel Co drive focus on individuals vs their responsibility

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

📢 OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025

In this new report, we provide a check on the status of critical Earth system #TippingPoints and opportunities in #PositiveTippingPoints across sectors.

➡️ Full report: global-tipping-points.org

#GTPR2025 #COP30 @exeter.ac.uk @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs under way, as world reaches first tipping point With global warming set to breach 1.5°C, world dangerously close to further catastrophic tipping points T...

“Only with a combination of decisive policy & civil society action can the world tip its trajectory from facing existential Earth system tipping point risks to seizing positive tipping point opportunities.” - Prof. Tim Lenton, @gsiexeter.bsky.social

#ClimateEmergency

Irony is dead

Page 7 of the @theguardian.com
One slim RH column.

A story about Le Carré 2.5 columns and photos. Interesting but really? Ahead of existential threat to humanity?

Until and unless MSM starts putting this higher up the news agenda we will struggle to get support for net zero. 😰

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

Marvellous story

Working class hero airbrushed from history in favour of toff academics

And not for the first time

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

"The Treasury....plans to gut green rules with amendments to its planning and infrastructure bill – ditching the precautionary principle, slashing species protections and curbing legal challenges"

Indefensible

This must be fought tooth and nail

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Plant-based diets significantly reduce environmental impact, produce 75% less heat-trapping gas, use 75% less land, generate 75% less water pollution than meat diets. Following a vegan diet lowers greenhouse gas emissions requires 3x less H2O than meat eaters, contributes to a sustainable future

Fish / marine animal-free diet reduces plastic pollution by over 75%, meaning that far fewer of our fellow animals will be entangled in or ingest the plastic pollution

Good climate news this week
1 Global: Renewables generation surpasses coal for 1st time
2 Global: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
3 Global: Solar and wind generation grew in 1st half by more than overall demand increased in the same period

1/5

v interesting
? perception that it’s “not for us”
? expectation that eg opera is expensive (no more so than premier football)

I was encouraged to go with a Uni friend (benefits of mixing with people with different tastes & experiences) and have loved it since.

Thank you for this - the link to the Minski article too; it’s fascinating.
My academic background in in biological science, but I find economics v interesting; there are some similarities in the way that the systems respond to change and equilibrium.

Russia and the rise of the radical right Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

#Immigrants in London 🙏

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds