Hello! Hit me up if you want an invite code to the blue place. It's quite nice over there.

I have an invite code for the blue place - any of my followers want to join me there drop me a line.

🔴 Government has ‘No Vision’ for Preparing UK for Extreme Weather, New Report Finds

The lack of a risk strategy to tackle weather crises means ministers are not properly informed about how to tackle problems, according to the NAO – David Hencke reports

bylinetimes.com/2023/12/06/gov…

Tree-planting takes over 50 years to produce net-benefits for the climate whereas solar panels take about two and a half.

I'm making the transition over to where the skies are bluer. Anyone else over there I haven't found yet?

Rishi Sunak took a 200 seater private jet to Cop28, he could have taken more than half the Conservative Party, but he didn't even take Cameron who had his own jet, as did King Charles.

Even worse he then spent longer on his plane than at the summit.

Ahead of #COP28 , I ask Rishi Sunak + Claire Coutinho MP to #LeaveECT

The Energy Charter Treaty prevents climate action, allowing fossil fuel companies to sue governments which pass laws that restrict their activities

🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 are set to leave – 🇬🇧 must join them

Happy Budget Day!

My advice: Ignore the headlines

We face worst domestic crisis since 1945 *and* need to make the largest economic transformation in the history of humankind

Key Qs

1) Will this budget end our domestic crisis?
2) Will it help to help us get to Net Zero?

A 🧵

After 13 years of economic mismanagement, the Chancellor has 2 big jobs for the #AutumnStatement : insulate people from the cost of living in the short term & kick start the economy to reverse the 15 year squeeze in living standards long term. Here are 5 things he could do 1/6:

Now live, sharing my #DataVizYarnArt portfolio: datayarns.wordpress.com

5 previous projects uploaded so far, more to come.

It's that time again... #DataVizYarnArt

I'm old enough to remember two weeks ago when the plan was to label people who undermined UK institutions as extremists.

Yet again we here new licensing of oil and gas mentioned in the same breath as energy security and oil and gas in #KingsSpeech

This couldn't be further from the truth. More oil and gas would be a disaster because...

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UK govt says new North Sea licenses wld boost energy security – but at most they'd raise supply by 18TWh/yr

Yet UK govt also 'cut the green crap' since 2013 – blocking onshore wind, ending solar support, failing to insulate homes etc – raising gas demand by 73TWh/yr

The year 2016 is significant. Global greenhouse gas emissions from road transport, which until that point had been falling, began to rise again. A leading cause of this rise was the popular shift from smaller cars to larger, heavier and more polluting SUVs. 5/11

Hi Duolingo, practice sessions aren't loading for me. Tapping on 'practice to earn hearts' and nothing's happening. Any ideas?

Danish artist Anna Ancher, Sunshine in the blind woman's room, 1885 #WomensArt

This is a really good piece.

Why is it that people who don’t ‘do woke’, also don’t like Black Lives Matter, trans people, vaccines & masks and don’t believe in climate change?
Oh, it’s because they’re wankers.

Wonderful evening seeing Josie Long manifesting the baby sleeping through tonight. Come for the warm funnies, stay for calling out the political reality. Laughed and cried.