Susan Harvard

Why Pylons? If or, more likely, when the AMOC no longer works, any overhead power lines will be susceptible to icing up and failure. The UK sits at the same latitude as St. Petersburg. Remember how fortunate we 🦋🪲☘️🪸🌻🦗are to have the kindly Gulf Stream.

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/say-… via @38degrees

@SymondsSally @KemiBadenoch @RobertJenrick How rude, how unfair, how untrue.

@KemiBadenoch @RobertJenrick You're a Nigerian born here as an anchor baby, raised in Nigeria. You have no understanding of what it is to be English or British. You advance and promote causes for your own kind. We had enough of that with Sunak. Thin gruel.

It is an honour and a privilege to have been elected to lead our great Conservative Party. A party that I love, that has given me so much. I’d also like to pay tribute to @RobertJenrick who fought a great campaign. I have no doubt he will have a key role to play in our party for many years to come. Thank you to all the members who have put their faith in me. It is time to get down to business. It is time to renew.

@georgecmcgavin Its the tidy brigade again, human centric, not looking at the environment with bug eyes. People love flowers, so gov. pays farmers to grow large expanses of mixed flowers for pollinators. No requirement for food plants for caterpillars, soft earth or woody hedges for pupating.

I'm calling on the Government to take immediate action to reverse butterfly declines. Sign the petition: butterfly-conservation.org/emergency

Butterfly disaster!Yes, weather is a big factor. But subsidised mitigation measures are counter-productive. pollen-rich, flower-filled fields attract widely but provide no larval food; headlands are barren and compressed and hedgerows are rapidly diminishing. Where to pupate ?

Welfare was intended to help those in greatest need. Those who could afford, paid for medical help and education. Higher Taxes soon threw more onto the state. These became the new 'entitled'. Higher tax = higher burden. Political dogma leaves the needy needy, and all worse off

@darrengrimes If there's only one God and 'their' name is Allah, Jehovah or God, does it matter how their devotees pray? The books were written by human hands and rules set by man. Most pray to God at a crisis point, not at fixed times,places or orientation. The child can still pray sans dogma

A dad told me last night that his twelve-year-old and his mates have started laughing at the appalling trans propaganda constantly thrust down their throats at school by deluded adults. Good. This is healthy. Kids and sane adults need to push back against this wicked political ideology.

Giant desert solar farms might have unintended climate consequences The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power — the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon — the raw material for the semiconductors from which solar cells are made — and never short of sunlight. In fact, the 10 largest solar plants around the world are all in deserts or dry regions. Researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, into a giant solar farm, capable of meeting four times the world’s current energy demand. Blueprints have been drawn up for projects in Tunisia and Morocco that would supply electricity for millions of households in Europe. While the black surfaces of solar panels absorb most of the sunlight that reaches them, only a fraction (around 15 %) of that incoming energy gets converted to electricity. The rest is returned to the environment as heat. The panels are usually much darker than the ground they cover, so a vast expanse of solar cells will absorb a lot of additional energy and emit it as heat, affecting the climate. If these effects were only local, they might not matter in a sparsely populated and barren desert. But the scale of the installations that would be needed to make a dent in the world’s fossil energy demand would be vast, covering thousands of square kilometers. Heat re-emitted from an area this size will be redistributed by the flow of air in the atmosphere, having regional and even global effects on the climate. greenbiz.com/article/giant-… docs.google.com/document/d/1Py…

@JustStop_Oil @NationalGallery They would have got the vote without slashing the Rokeby Venus. The Tide of history flowed in that direction. Womens rights issues were many. One woman joined the suffragists when her bag was stolen and in the ensuing court case was described as property of her husband.😅

💥 SUFFRAGETTE PAINTING SMASHED 💀 Our government have revealed plans for MORE oil licences, knowing it will kill millions. In response, two supporters of Just Stop Oil smashed the Rokeby Venus — slashed by Mary Richardson in 1914. ⏱ Deeds, not words: juststopoil.org/zoom

@JustStop_Oil The courts "lock people up" not the Government. So many agree with the ethos of stopping oil; but your actions are counter productive. Just another bunch of attention-seeking narcissists who like to see themselves as the saviours. Take a pocket of Haws and acorns- go scatter 🦋🦎

🧑‍🏫 Sally, a teacher from South London and friend of Morgan and Marcus, expresses her anger at the Government outside the court. 🏛 Our government shouldn’t be imprisoning ordinary people who are trying to protect their country — they should be insulating homes and sorting out the cost of living crisis. 🖋️ We need to Just Stop Oil now — sign up to slow march at juststopoil.org

@Anna_Dillon Musk will bust Twitter. Part of buying a business is the brand. The name probably represents 50% of his outlay. If the bird croaks I will Xit.

I am a graphic designer. The twitter bird logo/brand presented a kind, welcoming, open, light-hearted community. I think this new logo/brand is dark & sinister, overtly masculine, unwelcoming and threatening, not to mention rather self-obsessed.

@WaterVole And they are probably insecticide carriers too. Spot flea and tick drops pollute the waterways.☹️

There are many lovely dog walkers who keep their dogs on short leads along this stream. But this woman, who is aware that there are breeding Water Voles here, lets her three dogs go into the water and disturb them. Their feet rip out the Water Crowfoot. Such selfish behaviour.

Saddened😥 to find that @morrisons state that their "the Best"scallops are "Wild caught off the British coastline and hand-shucked by us". They should know by now how damaging scallop dredging is. The rope grown scallop really is "The Best" for the environment and the plate.🦀🐬

@MrsD39176318 @TVP_Oxford Yes they would, if public complained. Quite right too. But WE none of us know the facts. I have had to steel myself to kill birds to prevent suffering: pigeon eaten alive, left on the cobbles of a London Mews by a peregrine. Heap mischief from Social media sharing in ignorance🤐

@Harvasue @TVP_Oxford Unlikely though don't you think, or the police wouldnt be releasing a cctv image of him. It is likely that the high quality cctv in the town centre showed that this was not done for the benefit of the duck! I hope he is prosecuted

@georgecmcgavin Some good news, the rain has brought out the bugs, moths and butterflies. >6marbled whites. in our semi-wilder patch.

@OurSacredGrove The trailer had me in tears so I avoided the programme🥲

Beyond depraved… bbc.co.uk/news/world-659…