Physicist. If your politics requires you to reject basic physics, your politics is a fantasy ignorance cult. Surrendering your capacity to learn isn't freedom.
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
Isn’t it great that we’re celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday whilst ignoring the message he’s spent the last 20 years trying to get through to us:
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The right-wing press now exists to promote self-harm.
More accurately, a fantasy that we're better off if we ignore the harm we're doing to ourselves and treat those who want solutions as the enemy.
This isn't naïvety. It's a performative ignorance cult, and it's vile.
Jan 19
Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time
"All 98 editorials opposing climate action were in right-leaning titles, incl the Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Times & Express"
By Josh Gabbatiss & Sylvia Hayes
carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-…
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Sadly the last ever episode of Science in Action, the excellent flagship science programme of the BBC World Service. Thanks @PeaseRoland & crew for your work.
They haven't held back. It's a belter...💥
bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yg…
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
26 Aug 2025
In a new article, @S_VanTeutem and Joe Hasell give a sense of the scale of global inequality — and explain how those of us living in rich countries find ourselves in an extraordinary position to do good.
ourworldindata.org/global-in…
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
17 Aug 2025
It’s ’just some weather’ in Portugal.
People who deny climate science are every bit as deranged as anti vax conspiracists.
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
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Scientists have managed
to film how a black hole absorbs matter
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
1 Aug 2025
If we reach 1.5°C, this is what is going to happen:
‼️Every fraction of a degree matters—beyond 1.5°C, the risks and damages from extreme weather, sea-level rise, and biodiversity loss increase dramatically.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
What Is "Nobel Disease", And Why Do So Many Prizewinners Go On To Develop It? | IFLScience share.google/2atjO1jOZKqh4CI…
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RT @MrMatthewTodd: It’s like we’re living in the first 15 minutes of ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ where there’s crazy weather all over the worl…
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
18 Jul 2025
The fact that no one cares about this will forever be a mystery to me. Stupidity? Cognitive dissonance? Evil? IDK. But it really pisses me off that the people doing nothing are taking all of us - and all species - with them. 🤬
apnews.com/article/climate-u…
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
17 Jul 2025
What could possibly be behind this letter?
16 Jul 2025
RENEWABLE NOTICE
I have written today to bosses of:
Octopus
Centrica
RWE
SSE Renewable
Orsted
Scottish Power
Equinor
Vattenfall
Notifying them of the political risks of any bids for this years AR7
Net Stupid Zero is ruining our countryside & economy
Reform intend to stop it
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Many petitions and campaigns to ban artificial grass, for residential use, childrens play areas, sports, or in town centres. All pollute, overheat, harm our environment and do nothing for nature. Rubber has to be replaced as it migrates into soil and water ways.
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
10 Jul 2025
The Times caught out totally mangling facts on costs of climate inaction. Thanks @DrSimEvans for getting to the truth: “Instead, it was the impact of NOT cutting emissions that the OBR had found would be "far more damaging than thought"
10 Jul 2025
MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt
Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…"
In fact, the OBR had said the opposite!
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
2 Jul 2025
I live in a country that gives military support to another country which is killing thousands of civilians while proscribing an organisation which protests about it.
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
2 Jul 2025
This article will soon be illegal.
Designating Palestine Action a terrorist organisation on an equal footing with ISIS is a grotesque attack on democracy.
It's those who facilitated genocide who should be on trial.
Piece for @The_NewArab 👇
newarab.com/opinion/if-pales…
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
2 Jul 2025
"I support Palestine action, and I want you to say the same. What are they going to do, jail us all?"
George Monbiot:
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
1 Jul 2025
Independent experts today urged the UK 🇬🇧 not to ban the “direct action” group @Pal_action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
“Acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as #terrorism.”
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: TotalEnergies to sponsor two teams in the 2025 Tour de France... and the Tour itself until 2028.
The Tour is becoming increasingly dependent on Total, a company with a violent and polluting reputation that it would like to distract from. 🧵
#TDF2025
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Bob D 🌍🦋 retweeted
30 Jun 2025
An Open Letter to Yvette Cooper, from Just Stop Oil and @youth_demand
We know who the real terrorists are, and we're not fooled by your pearl clutching horror about some red paint.
Join @Pal_action at the Royal Courts of Justice, 10.30am this Friday.
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