Geoffrey Lean

The last two years have been the worst ever for pollution by water companies, reports @adamvaughan_uk , despite the Government’s promise to clean up. When is it going to take a grip, and ensure prosecutions and jailing of criminally negligent bosses? thetimes.com/uk/environment…

When we think of the fossil fuel industry, we think oil,coal & gas.. However, the plastic layer that covers the earth, & permeates all ecosystems are petrol based. And plastic are predicted to quadruple in the nxt 5yrs 🥺

Good news. The felling of #Brazil’s #Atlantic #forest,even more endangered than the #Amazon, has slowed. But a right wing comeback threatens to resume the destruction. theguardian.com/world/2026/may…

No escape. Microplastics have now been found even in tadpoles in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Every single one of the tadpoles examined contained them. yahoo.com/entertainment/…

Scientists find a “goldmine” of unstudied microbes - which could provide a host of new medicines and other vital chemicals - in coral reefs. But we are destroying them so fast, in a warming world, that they may already have passed their tipping point sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…

This is shocking. #Oil companies secretly sue governments elected to control #climate changing #fossilfuels. What price democracy? theconversation.com/how-big-oil-co…

@HespeChris34466 @SheffCouncil @alextomo @GeoffreyLean councils across the country have been killing flora since March

Modest changes in #diet and reverse the #aging process in the elderly, new research indicates. sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…

@ejwwest @GeoffreyLean @kernowbeaver @Ed_Miliband forbes.com/sites/current-…

@kernowbeaver @GeoffreyLean @Ed_Miliband Well, golf courses on prime farmland is a much greater waste.

Where I live we have had no decent rain since March. “April showers”?? Didn’t happen …

Did you forget it was no mow May @SheffCouncil? This patch was lush a couple of days ago, long grass and wild plants. Looks like a massacre’s occurred now. 😢 Which part of biodiversity crisis are you not understanding? Why do you hate nature so much? @alextomo @GeoffreyLean

@GeoffreyLean Look at Australia, solar with batteries are major rapidly growing part of our grid. Home batteries with home solar are working very well on our grid. Very large solar farms with panels angled & 1-2 metres clearance below them. Sheep & pasture do better with the solar panel shade.

A great, and very encouraging, account by Rebecca Willis on what many local authorities are doing to combat climate change. Loads of practical schemes for the new Green councils to emulate. theconversation.com/what-your-loca…

@GeoffreyLean Living in Hawaii, I can tell you the issue is legacy grids. There is a lot of room for rooftop but a saturation point where the old grids cant keep up with flux. This should be the #1 goal for municipalities, modernizing infrastructure for the next decades.

Much more could be done with solar on rooftops, especially big ones, it seems to me. Other countries have had success with using the panels over car parks, floating them on reservoirs, even creating covered bike lanes. Each has benefits beside the energy.

Another dry climate change spring spells trouble for UK water by @sandralaville theguardian.com/environment/20…

@GeoffreyLean @Ed_Miliband Two points to bear in mind. 1) Being reliant on importing fossil fuels is bad for the importer and good for the exporter. Green energy has a positive impact to the balance of payments for the energy importer. 2) UK Hosting US Hyperscale DataCentres makes position worse for UK.

@RichardLyon_ @GeoffreyLean Beeing against renewables and for fossil fuels is just an idiotic take. Of course you need some sort of baseload for dunkenflauten moments which are very rare in southern Europe. You need better interconnections.

Half a million homes worth of gas a year, flared (burnt) or just released into the air - where it does great climate harm. Many right wing commentators and government advisors like to bang on about constraint payments to wind energy (when it needs turning down or off) - where are they on this issue? Silence. edie.net/uk-wastes-300m…