@short-drain.bsky.social
Sport watcher, player, especially cricket and walking sports. Dog lover, especially border and bearded collies. Farming, gardening, food and Science addict and planet hugger.
New advice from the @esabcc.bsky.social urges the EU to urgently strengthen its adaptation framework. With rising loss of life, damages and ecosystem harm, coordinated adaptation, alongside rapid mitigation, is crucial to address climate risks and protect EU's priorities: tinyurl.com/yc4dxw9r
17.02.2026 09:04 — 👍 19 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 5
@esabcc.bsky.social calls for strengthened adaptation policy in new report.
Europe is warming about x2 the global average, with rising temperatures driving more frequent and severe heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, flooding, sea-level rise and coastal erosion.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
🌡️ For the third year in a row, every day in 2025 was more than 1°C warmer than the 1850–1900 pre-industrial level. Over a third of days were above 1.5°C.
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If only someone had mentioned this before the election. 🙃
16.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The whole point of science is that different scientists need to think differently and check if their view is right. (The null hypothesis approach) and then the scientific process sorts out the facts, and create a commonly accepted position.
13.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow, without immigration the Premier League, Man Utd and the England team wouldn’t be the anything like they are today. Has he lost his mind, or have Reform bribed him?
12.02.2026 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He can apologise all he likes but we now know exactly what he thinks. Does he realise how many of his staff and supporters are immigrants? He probably does but doesn't care.
12.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 46 🔁 18 💬 12 📌 1
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
Not even his own party realise just how awful he is
10.02.2026 08:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:
05.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 209 🔁 94 💬 5 📌 3So @zackpolanski.bsky.social was brilliant on @bbclaurak.bsky.social just now - this is what making hope normal again looks like 🙌👏💚
01.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 347 🔁 71 💬 12 📌 1US & UK seem to be competing in some sort of perverse self-immolation olympics.
29.01.2026 18:52 — 👍 117 🔁 26 💬 11 📌 2Closing perception gaps is how we create social tipping points in favour of the green transition.
And we can all play a huge role, so simply...
Just talk to people you know, about how you feel about clean energy.
People need to know that people like them, like renewables. Simples.
The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported.
economist.com/united-state...
And what about the Epstein files still not released?
24.01.2026 18:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. sending Charles, Head of the British Armed Forces, to honour Trump, would be a slap in the face to veterans. Will you add your name to the petition to cancel this state visit? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
24.01.2026 18:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just shows how unfit he is to lead anyone or anything, pathetic
23.01.2026 22:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and King Charles?
23.01.2026 22:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s definitely fake news!
23.01.2026 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump wouldn’t know the truth about any other country if it hit him in the face. Greenland or Iceland hmm
22.01.2026 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nothing but Trump, Trump, Trumpity Trump, and Reform shenanigans
22.01.2026 13:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump on NATO:
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
Small correction in wording used here.
“CO₂ emissions from the world's second-largest polluter today and largest historically have started rising again”
Let’s remember he told us he would be a dictator, beginning on day one.
21.01.2026 19:50 — 👍 13542 🔁 5071 💬 839 📌 335
"Job done. Now the rest of the world just need to catch up."
via Electrify This
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
21.01.2026 00:48 — 👍 23653 🔁 9785 💬 575 📌 432NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
Well they made a hell of a mess of it. Surely it would be better to admit you didn’t understand it?? 😁
20.01.2026 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
