Steve Luckham

@NoFarmsNoFoods The 1976 UK heatwave caused significant agricultural damage, with £500 million worth of crops failing and severe drought conditions leading to water rationing. The extreme heat and lack of rainfall resulted in a drastic reduction in crop yields and increased food prices by 12%

The 1976 UK heatwave was one of the most intense, prolonged periods of high temperatures in British history, lasting from 23 June to 27 August 1976. But no one blamed cow farts and the weather maps certainly didn’t look like a volcano had erupted over Britain.

@PeterDClack @Isaiah20221176 Do you remember when it was claimed DDT was good for you, smoking didn't cause lung cancer and drinking alcohol could make you a better driver? I'd put your sermon on the benefits of excessive CO2 caused by dirty fossil fuels in that category.

Harsh climate scenarios have spent decades painting Earth's likely future landscape as dystopian, dark, barren and forbidding. Yet, recent physical data argues exactly the opposite. Instead of plunging the planet into chaos, it's becoming eye-catchingly greener - and CO₂ is the key. The formal models predicted a scorched planet, but NASA satellites unleashed a world that is biologically thriving. This silent miracle of global greening isn't some theory, it's the physical reality captured by the orbiting space platforms; MODIS instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. This is how these jarring narratives have been unfolding: * Official Climate Narrative: Rapid, systemic desertification and global canopy loss due to rising temperatures. * Hard Reality: Persistent structural greening across more than 30% of the global vegetated area over the last two decades. * Official Climate Narrative: CO₂ acts strictly as a destructive atmospheric pollutant driving extreme weather. * Hard Reality: CO₂ is plant food, driving down stomatal conductance, making plants use water more efficiently and expanding the leaf area index. * Official Climate Narrative: Global food supply chains are on the verge of climate-driven collapse. * Hard Reality: Agricultural yields bolstered by CO₂ fertilisation are expanding green cover in semi-arid zones like the African Sahel and Western Australia. Plants are not passive victims of these often fudged climate waystations. Increased atmospheric carbon should be a blast of rich green reality. Higher, more robust CO₂ is not a death sentence - which is what they argued. It allows vegetation to open their pores (stomata) less, yet absorb the same amount of carbon. This drastically reduces water loss through transpiration. It's why the world's arid desert regions are blooming and the fragile living desert is raging into life - plants are also becoming more drought-resistant. This oft-neglected climate resurgence reveals that the biosphere is its own self-regulating flywheel. A massive global expansion of leaf cover is already visible from space. Official computer models consistently fail to mention it. Nevertheless, a vividly coloured renaissance is dutifully taking place, sweeping away all doubts.

@BROKENBRITAIN0 Are you joking?

So it was this hot 82 years ago? So climate change is bollocks then? That’s what you’re saying.

@AmericanFabDad Yes, the aeroplanes are especially hot this year 🫩

Get this. It is 33.5c, the hottest day today, at Heathrow. Heathrow? Remind ourselves that at Heathrow there are giant planes taking off and landing every 3 minute all day. Of course it is going to be a record-breaking temperature, Planes generate enormous amounts of heat.

@spikedonline Personally, I think both Restore and Reform are rubbish. But it's up to voters to decide who they want to vote for.

Rupert Lowe’s vanity is off the charts. His party, Restore Britain, is shaving votes from Reform UK in Makerfield. This could hand a victory to Andy Burnham and let the ‘King of the North’ become PM. Restore is the enemy of populism, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/DbiUXiS

@benonwine I think Springsteen's music and politics come from the same place.

I can’t deny it… Bruce Springsteen has made some absolutely incredible music that I absolutely love! 🎸 But honestly, I find his politics so distasteful now that it genuinely kind of ruins it for me. Can you separate the artist from their politics?

@sharrond62 It would have saved a lot of trouble if a benefactor had handed over five million quid, no strings attached.

Anyone live with a partner than comes in to nearly half a million quid & not notice? No me neither..

@Neccccy Nah. We had our civil wars in the 16th century. It would be undemocratic to have another one after such a short time.

Do you think that civil war in the UK is inevitable? Yes or No?

@Mikey1732 I think if Brexit had gone well there wouldn't be so many who want to rejoin. Is that too simplistic?

Brexit is the best thing that has ever happened to this country. I wanted out of the EU years before the referendum. Remainers say that it’s been a disaster. Well they would say that wouldn’t they

@BasilTheGreat No, it doesn't. Where did you fail to learn to think?

If the ‘record temperature’ is the same temperature it was 82 years ago, doesn’t this disprove everything we’ve been told about global warming?

@RobertJenrick If you work not very hard at being Nigel Farage you might get a five million quid, no strings attached, gift.

If you work at the Heinz factory near Wigan, do an hour and a half overtime every day, you’ll be *£1,000* a year better off. Reform will make work pay again.

@BenGrahamUK I've got a better idea. Why don't the very wealthy gift the low paid and those in poverty traps, no strings attached? 5 million comes to mind. This would be right up Reform's street.

For years people have done overtime and watched a chunk of it disappear in tax. Now imagine the same hours, but every single extra pound goes straight into your bank. That’s the difference this could make. A genuine life changing shift for workers across Britain.

@GoodwinMJ If I hated the UK, I'd vote Reform.

What do Andy Burnham & Rupert Lowe have in common? They are both in this for their egos - not the country. They are both in this because they hate somebody else. Burnham hates Starmer. Lowe hates Farage. Neither genuinely care about Britain. Vote Reform.

@Gianl1974 Humanity.

@lady_valor_07 Author

How would you describe JK Rowling in one word?

@lembitopik There's your answer: inspain.news/spain-overhaul…

If 30 Celsius in UK needs a “Red Heat Alert,” why hasn’t everyone in Spain left or suffered health problems?

@phughes76340646 Never give anyone, especially a politician, carte blanch.

I don’t care what he does I’m still voting REFORM UK 🇬🇧 🩵

@EthanLevins2 A terrible thing that wouldn't have happened if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine.

Ukraine has bombed a college dormitory in Russia. 86 children are under the rubble, with multiple casualties confirmed already. Why is the EU silent?

@RobertJenrick @reformparty_uk Pure populism from Honest Bob.

Why on earth does the First Lady of Sierra Leone get a council flat in London? @reformparty_uk would boot her out and give it to a homeless veteran. Our people must come first. Always.

@MAGAMAHACindy It's not wealthy people that are the problem it's inequitable distribution of wealth. It's not personal, it's systemic.

Stop hating on Billionaires. You are not poor because they are rich.