David Parslow

Sheep are disappearing from our hills and our dinner plates Have we have passed "peak sheep" in the UK?

Great!!

Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

That 👆... Still, if it can continue to trend down nature can restore itself. Sheep don't make sense economically or no of calories either

Long 🧵 tl;dr:

- Global ag commodity markets are integrated
- Biofuel policies raise ag commodity prices, causing ag to expand
- This leads to land-use change emissions
- We need to get off fossil fuels ASAP! But beware “solutions” that just swap fossil emissions for even higher land emissions

It's as if someone is making a quick buck... as they have forever!

While governments are talking about subsidies to bring down fossil fuel costs costs, they are quiet about the other big lever: asking and subsidising demand reductions.

I'll explain why this lever may be more effective:

Climate Viz of the Month January 2026 Hi all! Sorry for the delay in posting my first blog of the year. I’ve been spending a lot of time updating my visualizations with data through 2025 (and in some cases 2026). This mean…

My next 'climate viz of the month' blog is available, which looks at a global animation of snowfall in 2025: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-.... Snow is a key climate indicator, affecting the Earth system, ecosystems, and society in many important ways. #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

Some of the key science was done by the oil and gas companies themselves. This means the actual solution – fossil fuel phase out - which has been staring us in the face all this time, still represents the surest route to safety. 8/11

I sometimes find people surprised by my sense of optimism about the future. I seem to be wanting to take possible solutions off the table. What’s left? My answer would be: reality. For decades we have known that if we continue to pour greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, we risk catastrophe. 7/11

This is correct.

Agreed. It's going to be a big shock for a lot of people

and a superb tree!

Er, and oil companies always use these, and their own manufactured, situations to inflate and boost profit way up!

11 countries leading the charge on renewable energy | Climate Council Here are the top eleven countries using renewables—wind, electricity, geothermals—to lead the way to a low-carbon, zero emissions future.

Countries with sane leadership have long ago accelerated alternative energy sources.

www.climatecouncil.org.au/11-countries...

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

The money being piled into Reform by 1 person is immoral. Expect them to flood every media outlet with this hateful drivel. How this is allowed is incredible. Surely, we need to pass a law to cap donations and have a fair, open debate. I know, I'm naive

Most of the mainstream media is...CH4 might be an exception in the UK. We're just fed shitte and soundbites...

We're on track to sail past 2C...TPs are very much in the crosshairs. Governments already know this; their own scientists have laid it out for them very clearly. Their short term ism and vested interests propaganda will ensure an unstable world for coming generations. We all must demand change NOW!

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly During the last decade, the rate at which Earth warmed increased substantially After removing the influence of known natural variability factors, the increase of the warming rate is statistically...

The paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Almost there…

It is easy to think of nature as existing elsewhere - in reserves, in other parts of the world, places we fly to on holiday

Which can mean we think responding to the biodiversity crisis is simply about conservation actions

Rather than the fact that our society is based on the exploitation ofnature

Unfortunately they will find this out way too late

and that's exactly what the entire world needs to be doing!

Thirty years of glacier grounding line retreat in Antarctica | PNAS The Grounding Line (GL)—the transition from ice grounded on the continent and ice afloat in the ocean—is a sensitive indicator of glacier stability...

A multiple-satellite study of Antarctica’s grounding line area show a loss of 12,820 km2 over the last 30 years. Grounding lines are the contact points where continental ice sheets anchor to the seabed, slowing their flow into the oceans.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#Antarctica #sealevelrise

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Nature Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

The closer we look, the more we see how much worse our predicament actually is.

Millions of coastal dwelling humans will be on the move soon.

We are absolutely NOT prepared.

#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise

Ah bless; it's OK he'll think something else in 30 seconds...

Future agricultural policies need to integrate biodiversity targets into smart farming npj Sustainable Agriculture - Smart farming (SF), the use of advanced technologies such as sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automation, holds...

New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target.
rdcu.be/e6zB7

A renewable energy economy isn't just clean, it's strategic. Solar + storage isn't just affordable, it's domestic energy security.

No one can sanction the sun. No one can blockade the wind.

#energysky 🔌💡

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

This is ethically wrong and strategically stupid

YouTube video by BBC Politics Zack Polanski challenged on “unproductive wealth”, welfare and international relations

Thanks for all the kind comments!

I do agree that the Green Party seems to be interviewed with so much more hostility than anyone else.

But you know what - bring it on. 💚

youtu.be/cpVOHPYnnmE?...