Putting solar over agricultural canals is a remarkable win win win
Agricultural areas get cheap clean power
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Water shaded by panels stays cool with less lost to evaporation
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the solar panels generate more power in hot weather because of the cool air from the canal stops them getting overheated
UK now burns less coal than in the year 1600
Human's are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction. 83% of wild mammals have already been pushed past the brink.
If nature goes, its taking us with it. No time to wait.
#ActOnClimate #biodiversity #natureneedshalf #biodiversity
After a decade as a de facto poop correspondent, it was great to see the sewage scandal brought together in Channel 4’s brilliant drama Dirty Business. Even if you think you know the story, watch it.
I’ve tried to sum up the whole malodorous affair here:
watershedinvestigations.com/a-decade-ins...
This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.
And it’s all so unnecessary. #Scotland has enough
cheap renewable electricity to run all its transport and heating.
Instead they keep electricity prices at the UK price, one of the highest in the world, pay operators to throw away production and
spend billions on oil and gas imports
There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together.
That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.
Once you couldn’t tell the difference between political parties
YOU CAN NOW
#VoteGreen in #Gorton&Denton
#VoteHannahSpencer
#JoinGreenParty > join.greenparty.org.uk
China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.
It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony
NEW: UK's "AR7" renewable auction was the biggest ever – more than 50% larger than 2024's record
AR7 = enough electricity to offset 3/4 of UK LNG imports
Labour's AR6+AR7, combined, contracted more GW than all other rounds put together
More: www.carbonbrief.org/...
UK used electric car sales soar 45 % in 2025
Secondhand EV sales hit a record 274,815 last year as plug-in hybrid sales also jump.
www.independent.co.uk/cars/electri...
In now publicly available text correspondence between the British health secretary Wes Streeting and former British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, Streeting admitted that Israel was committing war crimes, conspiring to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and that the UK should sanction the government.
Nigel Farage has declared that he is against working from home.
It's not a surprise given he is never in Clacton.
While in the rest of Europe we celebrate a gradual transition from fuel burning to electric transport I think that Norway can say that box is nearly ticked
“In January just seven petrol cars sold, just 98 new diesels were registered, alongside 29 hybrids”
evpowered.co.uk/news/just-se...
Yesterday @Keir_Starmer sacrificed his own brain to cling to office
Today Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is expected to call for Starmer to quit in a press conference at 2.30 pm today
Will he “do the decent thing and resign" SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has asked?
President Trump is holding hostage billions of dollars in funding for a New York infrastructure project, and won’t release it unless he gets New York’s Penn Station and Washington, D.C.’s Dulles International Airport named after him. trib.al/Me0TxPx
Senior executives at Drax raised concerns internally about the validity of the energy company’s sustainability claims while it publicly denied allegations that it was cutting down environmentally important forests for fuel.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Here's the play (at least in Bannon's opinion):
The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists today. I, too, am a former Post staffer. trib.al/cNmKgLI
The layoffs at this once great newspaper were nowhere near inevitable. But Jeff Bezos was never committed to the paper’s best traditions.
EVs now represent more than 10% of new car sales in 39 countries, including Vietnam at 38% and Indonesia at 15%.
In the U.S., that figure is less than 10%.
The gap signals a competitive problem that goes far beyond climate – it's about who controls the future of automotive jobs. buff.ly/H5ETTBQ
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and March by looking at the decadal average line positions.
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 3rd lowest on record (JAXA data)...
• about 270,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 910,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,480,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,910,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
If you want to know how good I would be in government, just look at the only thing I have ever actually achieved - Brexit. If you think that went well, vote Reform!
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
This is spectacular! Sales of fully battery powered trucks have shot past diesel trucks in China. Forget about hybrid and hydrogen trucks.
We can now stop calling heavy trucking a "hard to abate" sector.
And of course immediately after this but before UK troops had to be dispatched to Greenland prime minister Keir Starmer signed a large contract with Palantir making the UK more
dependent on the US firm for operational decision making. Not sure if imbecile quite covers it.
A few weeks ago, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions.
Now we've had a few in Minneapolis—and they're backfiring massively.
What other brilliant advice do the manchild idiots of Silicon Valley have for Trump administration?
Elon Musk says Italians should stay in Italy and the Japanese in Japan.
Then why the hell is this White European South African in North America?
Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation.
It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them.
Disastrous strategy by Labour.
