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Jill Belch

@jillbelch.bsky.social

Citizen. Environmentalist for 1/3 of a century. Researcher #pollution #climate. Professor Vascular Medicine. Likes people. Believes in equality, fairness, truth.

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Most #emissions going down in Scotland.
Ammonia isn’t.
1033 tonnes of ammonia emitted last year highest since 2011.
2024 figure represents a 30% increase since 2016. Total is likely substantially higher.
Agriculture, particularly intensive livestock farms responsible for 90% of #ammonia emissions

20.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will he, won’t heβ€”β€” he will!
But why? To save the planet? No.
His spokesperson said: β€œPM will attend #Cop30, because #NetZero is the economic opportunity of 21st century, one that has the potential to reignite industrial heartlands, create good jobs for the future, & lower bills in the long term.

20.10.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please may all those who say humans have burned wood for millennia & been fine, please read this article to save me replying?
Lung tissues from mummified remains in Egypt, Peru, UK & globally have been found blackened with soot, ie anthracosis, from β€œlong exposure to the smoke of domestic fires.”

20.10.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Censorship/removal of free speech in US
Censoring info on #ClimateChange, defunding work to understand it, or acting as though it doesn’t exist, cause disasters, warn scientists & industry
It kills work on heating planet, on weather forecasting, disaster management, insurance, fisheries & industry.

20.10.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I thought this was a joke!
Appalling.
Now let’s see how all the racist #ClimateChange deniers cope with this one…

20.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s all a run up to budget tax rises, to blame Tories for them
Why don’t Labour DO something?
Like rejoin.
Reeves chose to stress long-term damage done to UK economy by 2020 #Brexit deal, in her remarks at a key international economic committee at the International Monetary Fund

20.10.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Scotland’s waste burners pump out record pollution – The Ferret

theferret.scot/scotland-was...

19.10.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Climate #pollution from the burning of rubbish in Scotland has almost doubled in 5yr
Figures from SEPA also show rising emissions of other chemicals which can pose health risks such as mercury, arsenic & chromium from.

19.10.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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My comments in the Sunday Post on the UK #CovidVaccination restriction policy.
I hope I’m wrong….

19.10.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWhat’s new, & scary for climate scientists, is that rate of increase has sped up when annual #FossilFuel emissions stayed much the same.”
That means that our removal systems are failing with worldwide forest fires ⬆️ CO2 & warming seas ⬇️ CO2 absorption = +ve feedback to global heating.”

19.10.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if he will try to deny ever having met him like he did with Gill, Wales Reform leader (until the photos of them together emerged)

18.10.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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As well as ⬆️emissions (drill, baby, drill) he’s stopping the rest of us from acting
#ClimateCriminal
11th-hour derailment of UN-backed shipping β€˜Net Zero’ agreed by majority of countries. Trump said it’s a β€œgreen new scam tax on shipping” & US would β€œnot adhere to it in any way, shape, or form.”

18.10.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And where is the Russia report??

18.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s worrying. Will be too late when the public see it…

18.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fighting same battle 😊

18.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. It just amazes me that Labour keep missing these key PR points, and they need them so badly!

18.10.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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IMPORTANT STUDY: β€œOn average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...

09.09.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 17

Yup. I use that phrase for air pollution but you are right, fits plastic pollution exactly.

18.10.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. I guess when Trump says he was β€˜letting them do it as they were very bad guys’ normality seems very far away.

18.10.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And how many from foreign countries laundered though various unaccountable companies.

18.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excellent research. Thanks for sharing. Here’s science
From DEFRA..

18.10.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has to be some reason, unless they are going to go back on their no new North Sea drilling pledge….

18.10.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interesting that’s it’s not interesting enough to be on the @BBCNew app….
#NoKings

18.10.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Onwards & upwards
#BoilingFrogs
That the seas are getting hotter is no surprise.
#GlobalWarming, caused by humanity's emissions, has already trebled the number of days of extreme heat in oceans worldwide

18.10.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Burning wood indoors causes the same damage as cigarette smoke. Latest in a long list of reported health issues
@ScotGov & @GovUK have allowed them as part of their recent β€˜new build’ regulations, despite warnings from experts in the field…. Why?
Stove makers & forestry lobbied
#AirPollution

17.10.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œGovernment ministers met representatives from the fossil fuel industry more than 500 times during their first year in power – equivalent to twice every working day”

16.10.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And we know how lax the rules are anyway….

#ReformUK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025
It has had to give back ~Β£200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data

16.10.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Side by side on the @BBCnews App.
The cause & the consequence.
Do NOT let this #FossilFuel field be drilled.
Their own calculations estimate burning this oil equates to almost the same as UK emits
#StopRosebank

15.10.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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At last.
Admitted.
Where does Starmer’s β€˜not in my lifetime’ comment about rejoining #EU stand now?
New referendum…NOW

15.10.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Feeling a little testy today
Yes, we know this.
Known it for some time.
Where is the action?
No β€˜growth’ in a 2oC world.
UK "not yet adapted" to worsening weather extremes, "let alone" what is expected to come, Climate Change Committee tells Govt.
#Floods #FoodInsecurity #Wildfire #CoastalErosion

15.10.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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