Gregory Norminton

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.

RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

Pointless self-harm to humanity is the modern GOP platform ever since they were bought by the fossil fuel industry.

Solar panels, heat pumps, and batteries smash installation records Latest figures from Microgeneration Certification Scheme reveal market for small scale renewables soared 37 per cent during the first half of the year to 170,000 installations

Some actual good news to counter *gestures at everything*. Solar panel, heat pump, and battery installations in the UK are absolutely flying. Clean technologies are cutting bills, improving energy security, and tackling climate change. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517344...

'Disclosure dividend': Study shows how acting on climate data can deliver up to $21 for every $1 invested New CDP report details how companies that accurately report on their carbon emissions can unlock significant financial benefits

It would be a good investment to act on climate even if it were financially burdensome. Given that doing so can deliver $21 for every $1 invested, it is pure folly not to press ahead.

Unless you're a petrostate or a fossil fuel company. In which case, populist politicians are your last bastion.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

A chart from https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy25osti/95135.pdf , sourced to the IEA as of April 2025, showing solar power as % of generation in different countries. This varies between over 25% for the Netherlands, through about 24% for Spain, about 14% EU average, about 8% for the US to almost nothing in Norway. Text says that the IEA reckons global is about 10%.

I do bloody love this chart. Who'd have thought, 20 years ago, that solar would be ~10% of world electricity generation by 2024 - and over 20% in some countries, rising rapidly in others?

Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.

Study: Policymakers underestimate public support for climate action New research from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford suggests politicians are consistently underestimating levels of public support for climate policies

In news that will surprise precisely no one who pays attention to these things, it appears top policymakers are underestimating levels of public support for climate action. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517323...

Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons

Let's empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide.
Because that's the real threat to society.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

How the Biodiversity Net Gain regime could deliver £12.3bn in economic gains Policy could drive over £12bn in net value over the next decade if the government meets its house-building targets - but scrapping the scheme for small sites threatens protection of a habitat eight ti...

Yet another report warning the government that the Biodiversity Net Gain scheme is working and watering it down would deal a huge blow to projected funding for nature restoration. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Elected officials still posting on Xitter are basically a giant honeypot for the far-right and its deranged conspiracies

Still posting there gives a giant megaphone to the worst people in society, while providing no room for any other kind of discussion whatsoever

Stop platforming the far-right

The Guardian view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge | Editorial Editorial: Delegates at UN treaty talks must not allow negotiations to be derailed again by fossil fuel interests

The @theguardian.com view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge

- Delegates at UN treaty talks must not allow negotiations to be derailed again by fossil fuel interests

#plasticstreaty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

🚨BREAKING New report finds that plastic production has increased more than 200x since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal

A strong UN #PlasticsTreaty means a commitment to reducing plastic production

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How Europe can turn the invisible threat of its abandoned coal mine methane into an opportunity to lead. The Methane we left behind

Abandoned coal mines – a major source of #METHANE that has been leaking under the radar.

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On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…

RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US Since taking office, the vaccine sceptic has made a number of changes to how vaccines are regulated.

Nobel Prize winning science being cancelled by a vaccine denier.

In a Democratic administration, the fact that the AG and FBI director were participating with the White House in an effort to fashion a "strategy" on a legal matter would produce outraged editorials in the NYT and WaPo demanding that they immediately resign.

The best hope there is that the diminishing profits from running fossil fuel infrastructure - notably filling stations - makes businesses withdraw. And that the lower cost of new and used EVs (both to purchase and to run) makes even the refuseniks join the new MO. As smartphones have taken over.

RFK Jr. just pulled $500 million in funding for life-saving vaccines. But hey, you'll be able to drink more sugary soda! Make America Healthy Again!

Trump won 56% of the vote in Texas. Currently 66% of the state’s congresspeople are Reps. The new GOP gerrymander would make the number 79%.

What’s the right number? 100%?

Vietnam automaker Vinfast to build factory in India, eyeing growth in Asia Vietnam's Vinfast is to set break ground on a $500 million electric vehicle plant in India’s Tamil Nadu, part of a larger $2 billion investment to expand into Asian markets.

Vietnam’s Vinfast inaugurated a $500 million electric vehicle plant in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state, part of a planned $2 billion investment in India and a broader expansion across Asia.

To buy shares in it is to be part of a vibes-based personality cult that still, in spite of all evidence, believes that Musk is a genius.

Like MAGA, Tesla is little more than a cult with a small coterie of self-enriching family members skimming off the profits from its credulous devotees.

The President of the United States went on CNBC today and said: He won the 2020 election (he didn’t). He has a 71% approval rating (he doesn’t). The jobs numbers were rigged (they weren’t).

I could say something funny here, but I won’t. It’s just so damn dangerous to have him in the White House.

Defra tightens rules to tackle farm pollution after legal pressure Defra has issued tougher new guidance to clamp down on agricultural pollution following a landmark legal win by environmental campaigners.

Will we finally see action taken to address the hidden scandal of rampant farm waste dumping - aka slurry spreading. www.farminguk.com/news/defra-t...

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

Belatedly getting round to reading this from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and it really is a brilliantly concise summary of quite how significant and exciting the clean tech transition is becoming. It remains beyond weird this stuff is not more widely understood. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Disclosure dividend': Study shows how acting on climate data can deliver up to $21 for every $1 invested New CDP report details how companies that accurately report on their carbon emissions can unlock significant financial benefits

It would be a good investment to act on climate even if it were financially burdensome. Given that doing so can deliver $21 for every $1 invested, it is pure folly not to press ahead.

Unless you're a petrostate or a fossil fuel company. In which case, populist politicians are your last bastion.

This is fascism and authoritarianism, unworthy of what once was the land of the free and a shining city upon a hill.

Also: you may hate independent thinking at universities, but without it, your country falls behind, and talent moves elsewhere.

Populist sabotage, paid for by petrostates and fossil fuel corporations, is exactly what Trump and the GOP have delivered. It's also what Farage and co are being paid to do in the UK. 92% of Reform's political donations come from fossil fuel interests.

10 years from now - barring populist economic sabotage - this will be China and Europe: the world's biggest and second biggest car markets. #ElectrifyEverything

Meet the 30-Year-Old Far-Right Provocateur Nominated by Trump to Investigate Jack Smith Paul Ingrassia, who has defended Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate and was only admitted to the bar last year, is Donald Trump's nominee to run the all-important Office of Special Counsel.

"Meet the 30-Year-Old Far-Right Provocateur Nominated by Trump to Investigate Jack Smith"

Paul Ingrassia, who has defended Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate and was only admitted to the bar last year, is Trump's nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel.