Tim Smedley

Fascism in its purest form.

The great 2025 solar boom One massive thing is going really well, according to veteran climate campaigner Bill McKibben

Some rare good climate news: wind is vying to be the cheapest form of electricity generation there is, and solar adoption figures have surpassed all expectations, writes @timsmedley.bsky.social.

Thanks for reading and sharing Emma!

There IS good happening in our world!

I highly recommend #reading Tim’s article if you’d like to learn about progress being made in an area it’s truly needed 💚

#GoodNews #News #Positivity #Optimism #Climate #Care #Nature #NatureLovers #Sustainability #Solar #Environment #ClimateAction #ClimateHope

“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America," the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

He could not be that ignorant. How callous. What an insult to the life of Jamal Khashoggi.

Spain’s Renewable-Energy Boom Loosens Gas’s Grip on Power Prices Soaring renewables output in Spain is weakening gas’s grip on electricity prices, setting the country apart from much of Europe where fossil fuels still dictate the cost of power.

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average"

Imagine having cheaper power

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Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

Thames Water's bidders ask to be excused from fully complying with rules on pollution until 2035-40.

Rule of law?

Anything given to TW can't be denied to others. Sewage will be dumped. Customers will be fleeced. Returns will be extracted.

One law for corporations, another for lesser mortals.

How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels The country’s residents installed 200MW of balcony solar during the first half of 2024. It’s becoming an increasingly popular way to take climate action…

🇨🇦 Ahem, #Canada? 👋

How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with #solar panels
The country’s residents installed 200MW of balcony solar during the first half of 2024. It’s becoming an increasingly popular way to take #climate action in Germany.

#Energy
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

The great 2025 solar boom One massive thing is going really well, according to veteran climate campaigner Bill McKibben

Want some truly good news?! Solar energy is booming like never before! Several countries have already doubled their solar capacity in 2025 alone (including China! 🤯☀️)

Me for @prospectmagazine.co.uk feat. @billmckibben.bsky.social & @ember-energy.org

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

When China makes a climate pledge, the world should listen Beijing has a track record of only promising what it plans to deliver. But too often the world’s attention is elsewhere.

Having promised to peak emissions this decade, barely 50 years after it began to industrialise in earnest, China looks set to achieve that. And in the process, become a world leader in wind power, solar energy and electric vehicles. theconversation.com/when-china-m...

Line graph titled "Global electricity generation from wind and solar is quickly catching up to gas power." The vertical axis shows the share of electricity generation (%) ranging from 0% to 25%, and the horizontal axis spans from April 2019 to April 2025. Two lines are plotted: Black line for gas power, which remains fairly stable around 22–24% throughout the period. Green line for wind and solar, which rises steadily from around 7% in 2019 to meet gas power at about 21% by April 2025. The graph shows wind and solar generation catching up to gas by the end of the timeline, and set to soon surpass it within coming months. Source: Monthly electricity data, Ember.

And wind & solar will surpass gas generation (globally!!) any month now, having lagged by close to 20% just six years ago. This is rapid progress, people! As McKibben writes in Here Comes The Sun, “Everything is going wrong, except this one big thing.”

A multi-panel line graph titled: "20 African countries imported a record amount of solar panels in the 12 months to June 2025. Rolling 12 months imports of solar panels from China, megawatts." All graphs show a sharp increase in imports in 2025. Each small graph represents a different African country, showing solar panel imports from January 2021 to June 2025. The countries shown are: Top row: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC) Second row: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya Third row: Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone Bottom row: Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia source: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa

Couldn't fit these @ember-energy.org graphs in the piece, but check out just how rapidly solar is taking off in Africa. You love to see it:

The great 2025 solar boom One massive thing is going really well, according to veteran climate campaigner Bill McKibben

Want some truly good news?! Solar energy is booming like never before! Several countries have already doubled their solar capacity in 2025 alone (including China! 🤯☀️)

Me for @prospectmagazine.co.uk feat. @billmckibben.bsky.social & @ember-energy.org

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Talk about an opening paragraph. About sums it up!

There once was a boozer from Bristol,
Who thought he could hold in his piss, till
He got in the car
And travelled too far
So he wee-ed in a bag in the footwell.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Podyssey Season 2 @alexpodyssey.bsky.social is now very close to reality - threshold is being able to pay production costs and expert contributors for 10 episodes (season will be 20 episodes, but will pick up numbers/support as it goes).

Please, become a monthly supporter.

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The New Climate. New(s)letter #20 Going in circles: the economy, food choices, composting and weather patterns

This month's The New Climate newsletter, for your perusal. Lots of good climate stories from a truly international team of writers. 🌍

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Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

A fun repost for a change

Wtf is this headline!!

Killed by whom, ghosts????

YouTube video by Climate Ages When Earth’s Freezer Broke: 340 Billion Tons of Carbon Escaped

11,000 years ago, Earth’s “freezer” broke.
Approximately 340 billion tons of ancient carbon escaped into the air, warming the planet even faster.

Sound familiar? The same thing is starting again today.

🎥 Watch the story:
youtube.com/shorts/UPqKG... 🧪 #SciComm

Claude Monet - 'The Wooded Path', 1865, oil on canvas.

This is a 'small' lignite mine on the former GDR border, the scar is so deep and wide. With it's own cloud ceiling in the morning. 150Mt CO2 emitted and it still emits by sitting there with exposed, once sequestered carbon.
Burning stuff is the past. Don't live in the past.

This is the real threat to free speech.

Sadiq Khan here, "going to sharia law" in London 🙃

Film poster with same details

Free entry to see the documentary ‘Fires and Fascism’ in Camden, London

26th Sept
18:30
£ FREE
Q&A with director (me)

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