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Jason Scott-Warren

@jes1003.bsky.social

Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge; climate activist. Coordinator of http://royalsocietyletter.uk and https://gmcletter.wordpress.com/

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We're just getting started.

Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires.

If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment.

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30.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1228    πŸ” 344    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 16

3C of global warming means many feet of sea level rise, fundamentally altering coastlines and swamping megacities home to 100s of millions. It means heatwaves that in humid regions could become, literally, unsurvivable for those outdoors without access to active cooling. [11/n]

30.10.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 281    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...

πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰ β€œThis is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"

28.10.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.

Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...

21.10.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
Jeremy Clarkson article that says if you can't sort out your teeth you can't sort out the country.

Jeremy Clarkson article that says if you can't sort out your teeth you can't sort out the country.

I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson.

Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks.

Piss him off instead and
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19.10.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2673    πŸ” 504    πŸ’¬ 338    πŸ“Œ 104
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too much textual bibliography for one day.

16.10.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lebanon's worst drought on record drains largest reservoir Lebanon's hydroelectric plants tied to the Litani basin have been shut down, causing financial losses and intensifying electricity rationing.

"I have never seen such drought or scarcity of rain as this year... We used to get snow up to a metre high. Now, it's been 10 years since we've seen any.

#Lebanon πŸ‡±πŸ‡§
#ClimateEmergency

15.10.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

11.10.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6598    πŸ” 2401    πŸ’¬ 279    πŸ“Œ 89
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Victoria Embankment.

11.10.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A modern monster, from Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, More and More and More: An All-Consuming History (2024)

09.10.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Power Station plus Q&A | Showtimes and Tickets Green Screen presents Power Station + Directors Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell Q&A Tour Ritzy, Brixton - Sat Oct 11Cambridge Arts - Mon Oct 13Phoenix, Oxford - Wed Oct 15 Dukes at Komedia, Bright...

POWER STATION

is coming to Cambridge, Arts Picturehouse, Monday 13th at 6, followed by a Q&A.

www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

08.10.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets β€˜straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

on the assault on net zero down under -- strangely it also fits the UK very well.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

07.10.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN
Another day >34C with dozens of records smashed (see list below).
The heat is just going to be MUCH worse next days with hundreds of records expected.
Summer will go on in the southern half of Japan for many weeks to come.
AC 24/7 all October.

05.10.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
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1- UNBELIEVABLE HEAT IN CANADAπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
Dozens of records smashed in pieces
Mins up to 20.7 Atikokan,19.7 Geraldton etc (left)

TMaxes: 30.8 Pembroke,30.5 Hamilton and St Clothilde,
30.3 St Anicet, 30.1 Muskoka,30.0 La Tuque and Maniwaki,29.7 Earlton,29.6 MONTREAL etc. (right)

HISTORIC

05.10.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Emergency in Antarctica as fears grow that we passed a tipping point
YouTube video by New Scientist Emergency in Antarctica as fears grow that we passed a tipping point

Red alert in Antarctica
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwn3...

05.10.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

perhaps Israel could show a bit of respect by stopping the killing of civilians?

04.10.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brilliant speech from @zackpolanski.bsky.social - investing in climate, stopping the boats thro safe & legal routes, introducing a wealth tax on the very wealthiest, challenging privatisation, building community & spreading a #PoliticsOfHope @greenparty.org.uk #gpconf

03.10.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 463    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2
Six Just Stop Oil supporters found guilty after Judge denies all legal defences – Just Stop Oil Six Just Stop Oil supporters who were denied all legal defences by the Judge, were found guilty of public nuisance at Southwark Crown Court today, after peacefully climbing gantries on the M25 in 2022...

"the prosecution refused to agree to any facts on the #ClimateCrisis to be included... Agreed facts exist precisely to establish the uncontested backdrop against which actions are judged... by excluding them the CPS is not only stripping away essential context but effectively denying reality itself"

03.10.2025 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hopeful Pessimism Why β€œhopeful pessimism” is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitment

press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

01.10.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hopeful Pessimism Why β€œhopeful pessimism” is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitment

press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

01.10.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"We can no longer pretend that we are sleepwalking into climate catastrophe. We are doing it consciously, with our eyes wide open."

@profbillmcguire.bsky.social focuses on politicians, but what about the rest of us? Or did we open our eyes briefly, then decide we'd rather just keep them shut?

30.09.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain

A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

26.09.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

β€œTo be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me”

- Dr. Levke Caesar, co-lead of Planetary Boundaries Science Lab

25.09.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6
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Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge Exclusive: Energy secretary examining ways to allow oil and gas exploration without breaking manifesto promise

Et tu, Ed?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

25.09.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The US president said of the UK: β€œβ€˜They have tremendous oil left that hasn’t even been found yet. And what a tremendous asset for the United Kingdom, and I hope the prime minister’s listening because I told it to him three days in a row – that’s all he heard: β€˜North Sea oil, North Sea’”

25.09.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

β€œWith current trends suggesting warming up to 3Β°C this century, using all of the safe geological storage wouldn’t even get us back to 2Β°C,” said lead author Matthew Gidden, research professor at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland.

24.09.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

closing today -- be the 11,000th!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

24.09.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Is the fossil fuel industry nearing it's end?

Is the fossil fuel industry nearing it's end?

Despicable propagandists in the billionaire media howl that oil + gas workers hate action to tackle the climate crisis.

But a major new survey shows that UK fossil fuel staff are DONE with their dying industry.

They want out β€” and they want a worker-led #JustTransition to another world🧡

23.09.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

last chance to sign!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

23.09.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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