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Dreadful news. Climate Change and Over fishing have forced the closure of the company that supplies Food for the Penguins at London zoo. This is the sad notice beside the Penguin pool. It raises huge questions about sustainable #fisheries worldwide. ⁦@CRHClover⁩

Meanwhile Trump and reform downplay the threatening catastrophe.

Normally at Kew Gardens people scramble for a seat in the Sun. Now they are wrangling over seats in the shade. More to come as the Climate heats. It will change our lives in many ways large and small. ⁦@DavidShukman⁩ ⁦@michaelholder⁩

Any guesses how this will end. How hot in summer? How hot in or ten years? 20 years?

What is astonishing, given the avalanche of misinformation from the political right, is that almost half of the population still supports the drilling Ban. in a world without Climate Change it would benefit taxes and jobs to keep on drilling – but we dont inhabit that world.

Hundreds of licences granted for new North Sea oil & gas projects under the Tories have so far produced just 36 days’ worth of gas. Yet more evidence that a crisis caused by fossil fuel dependence can’t be solved by drilling for more fossil fuels in N Sea theguardian.com/business/2026/…

@DaleVince The phrase Net Zero was laid upon a baffled Public. Governments got away with it too, but it was inevitable someone would make political Capital out of it. To be fair, Labour have been pushing security and cost arguments for months now. I wish they’d mention Climate too

I actually disagree. I’m a fan of net zero of course and it’s good to hear the Climate Change Committee (of deep subject matter experts) say we are more or less on target…though I think there are questionable assumptions around the bigger later years cuts forecast , reliance on dodgy tech like carbon capture and storage.. but that aside. Where I disagree is with the idea we need to re make the case for net zero. I think we should shut up about it. It’s been toxified, like the EU before it - just say its name and you’re in an uphill battle. Better to talk about energy bills, cost of living, jobs and economic growth - the green economy. Let’s talk about the benefits of getting there, rather than the destination. Next zero is too abstract for too many people who struggle day to day - let’s talk about the benefits of the green economy, which is how we get to net zero. independent.co.uk/climate-change…

Jeremy please remove this. Its awful.

Is this an appalling error ? theguardian.com/environment/20…

@ret_ward @Conservatives More to the point, how on earth would we get them built. Remember Boris and office promised one Nuke station a year for 10 years. It was a fantasy of course at least we can build Turbines.

In the latest desperate change to @Conservatives energy policy, they apparently would replace gas with nuclear instead of renewables. Would like to see the costings for this and likely implications for bills.

@JKSteinberger @UKLabour @TheGreenParty Julia where is the evidence that the green party is still green? I didn’t hear the words Climate or Environment among the last few days celebrations.

I had a hard time believing this is real. I am so SO happy to have quit @UKLabour and joined the @TheGreenParty . This desperate lying because Labour is losing 1 seat in the Gorton & Denton by-election is truly shameful. No integrity whatsoever, just power-hungry desperate lies.

Important message to @Keir_Starmer from @_HannahRitchie : People consistently under-estimate how many others “believe” in #climatechange or support action on it. We often think we’re in the minority of those who care , but we’re not. We’re simply too pessimistic about others.

Deeply alarming Study says Climatic 'tipping points' are possible well before 2C warming threshold. There is no guarantee that this will happen but the signs are looking increasingly bad and we cannot afford Even to flirt with this terrible outcome. businessgreen.com/news/4525941/s…

What did 20 years of UK low-carbon scenario research get right - and what have we learned? 🌎 Join Dr Gaurav Gharde and expert discussants at this online-only public seminar on Wed 11 March by registering here ➡️ tyndall.ac.uk/events/public-…

@ProfBillMcGuire Price batteries down 60% last year and at £33 per MW hour can now enable electricity from renewables to last all night. A really big breakthrough

Should I stay or should I go? Help is at hand for conscience-stricken oil and gas employees. businessgreen.com/news/4525452/l…

Because the oceans are so vast even a tiny shift in its temperature or circulation can move more CO₂ than all human activity combined. The world's oceans are the ghosts that govern the system. The CO₂ we track in the atmosphere is not a permanent shadow, it's part of a massive, ongoing exchange with the deep sea - a process that ignores political deadlines and follows the irresistible laws of thermodynamics. If the ocean holds 90% of the energy, then 90% of the climate story is happening where we have the least amount of historical data and the least amount of control. To claim we can control the climate by micro-managing the human fraction of atmospheric CO₂ is like trying to steer an ocean liner by blowing on its sails. We are obsessing over the 2% while ignoring the 98% that dictates long-term equilibrium. The current climate narrative focuses on the thin film of the atmosphere, treating it as a closed system that humans have broken. The doomsday crisis rests on this 'thin film fallacy': Oceans hold roughly 50 to 60 times more surface carbon than the atmosphere. According to Henry’s Law, the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid is proportional to its partial pressure above that liquid. The atmosphere and oceans are in a constant state of gas exchange to reach equilibrium. When oceans warm, even slightly, they release more CO₂ via outgassing. When they cool, they absorb it.

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