Climate & Ecological Crisis Totnes
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Focused on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. Totnes, South Devon, UK.
Totnes, Devon, UK
Joined October 2012
Conflict in the Middle East has once again shown that clean power is essential for energy security. That’s why we’re speeding up action, with solar panels to be fitted as standard on new homes and plug-in solar to be made available in shops within months. https://t.co/DseJftAb4s
lbc.co.uk
The plugs can be hung on balconies or fences and will soon be in the shops, it is hoped
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Here we go again.. Global sea surface temperatures are yet again at extreme record warmth values, beating the previous record set in 2024. Unprecedented. Climate change really is running away from us.
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People who live in areas with plenty of turbines should benefit from lower bills and help to stop wasted wind adding costs for everyone. Good to see government moving forward with these important principles.
Sometimes there is too much wind for our outdated grid to handle, especially in Scotland and the East of England. Rather than paying wind farms to switch off we’re trialling a new system where people who live near these constrained areas get cheaper - or even free - electricity.
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Earth is increasingly ‘out of balance’, as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, driving global warming https://t.co/F9SMEkMYOV
nature.com
Nature - Earth is increasingly ‘out of balance’, as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, driving global warming.
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You have no idea how many times a day accounts reply to my warnings about Covid infections with replies that all the harm is caused by vaccines. The truth is very different. Vaccines don't cause sudden death, in fact, they reduce the risk. But covid infections do cause them.
Data show that young, healthy people have no additional risk of sudden death if they are vaccinated against COVID-19, contrary to myths that continue to circulate widely. Read more: https://t.co/zzw8z8VAAm Photo credit: Phil Roeder / Flickr cc
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This makes me increasingly convinced the US is heading for dictatorship. If figures linked to Trump are so outrageously engaged in insider trading, they know they could end up in prison for a very long time. Unless they're convinced something will make sure that'll never happen
FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling https://t.co/KVa0cZRLn0
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"The alarm is being sounded over suspicions of insider trading," says @maitlis. "There is a question whether some people are getting filthy rich on the back of an announcement that probably wasn't even true" https://t.co/8FUSN6kfe3
thenewsagents.co.uk
We’re no clearer to understanding why Donald Trump claimed he had held “constructive” peace talks with Iran, but some people did make huge amounts of money from his false statements.
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🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey says Donald Trump is the "most corrupt US president ever" "On Iran, I think he was manipulating the markets in order to make money for him and his cronies. I think there's a real whiff of insider trading... and we should call him out"
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Donald Trump is the most corrupt President the US has ever seen. Now it looks like he and his cronies may have used insider knowledge to enrich themselves while their war makes everyone else poorer.
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🗣️ "The idea that drilling in the North Sea is going to get prices down is for the birds." Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas tells Sky's @AliFortescue. 🔗 https://t.co/ZsJh8HEea5
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The govt's ban on new oil and gas licences is just lip service for as long as it plans to introduce ‘tiebacks’. This loophole allows *new* drilling, by connecting new sites to existing ones. This is indefensible when every drop of oil or gas burned puts our future further at
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UN Secretary General António Guterres has said "every key climate indicator is flashing red" as Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history. We cannot afford further delay in combatting climate breakdown. https://t.co/TRl1doWx6Q
bbc.co.uk
The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency says.
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BREAKING: Israel is raining bombs on civilian homes in Tyre, South Lebanon — a city that has stood for more than 4,000 years. Not military sites. Civilian neighborhoods.
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Sometimes there is too much wind for our outdated grid to handle, especially in Scotland and the East of England. Rather than paying wind farms to switch off we’re trialling a new system where people who live near these constrained areas get cheaper - or even free - electricity.
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Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government. Energy minister Michael Shanks told #BBCBreakfast plug-in panels that homeowners can self-install on balconies
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Trump: "We killed their Navy in, would you say three days, Pete? Gone. In fact I was a little upset with Pete. I said, 'Why didn't you save the ships? We could've used them.' He said, 'It's more fun shooting them down.'"
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Shameful profiteering
🎥WHO PLACED THE BET? Someone just made a killing with an extraordinarily well-timed bet on financial markets, minutes before Donald Trump's announcement of war talks yesterday. Was it luck, or inside information? Either way... someone just got rich. Four min primer👇
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Hard to believe this is taking so long
"It is outrageous that people will be buying homes that are expensively heated with gas when we have perfectly good technology – heat pumps – that can be installed instead." My comments @theguardian.com new homes in the UK still using gas heating. https://t.co/52crFg8NTl
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Earth’s climate is more out of balance than ever. The last 11 years have been the hottest on record, with oceans absorbing massive heat, ice melting & extreme weather impacting millions. New @WMO's #StateOfClimate report calls for urgent #ClimateAction: https://t.co/VqHVx3Ozcy
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