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Laura Sykes

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Aiming to share next task in #ClimateMitigation:
helping to spread the what-is-to-be-done message beyond the professionals to every human being on the planet?

FRGS.

Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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"This New Order was distinguished by an authoritarian political system based on a leadership structure in which authority flowed downward from a supreme national leader." Remind you of anyone?

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Michael Armstrong 's avatar Michael Armstrong @maarmstrong.bsky.social
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Paris has a sewer museum. A country that honors how it handles poop is a country that gets things done.

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Very funny that the Times was so certain about the panic they were causing that they set up a little live update election-season scoreboard for it

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Willem Huiskamp's avatar Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social
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Unexpected consequences of climate change #726: a bridge got too hot and now it can't close 😐

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Michael Powers's avatar Michael Powers @terrawatts2010.bsky.social
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In 2023, global primary energy consumption hit an all-time high for the second consecutive year, mainly driven by non-OECD countries, where rapid industrialisation and urbanisation fuelled a growing demand for energy. 🔌💡
www.energyconnects.com/opinion/feat...

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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Is it just British English in which '#incredibly' is now used to mean 'very, very' (or possibly 'very very very'?). I haven't detected it beyond these shores. Politicians have been using it ceaselessly today - they are 'incredibly honoured' at their election. So we should attach no credence?

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Sara Hastings-Simon's avatar Sara Hastings-Simon @shastingssimon.bsky.social
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Hi new followers 👋 One of my activities is cohosting the Energy vs Climate podcast where we look at energy transition and climate issues through a 🇨🇦 and Alberta lens (which has important lessons for the rest of the world). Our season finale episode is available now here ⬇️

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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I'm gradually coming down from the high caused by the nemesis of our grubby government. It is not fair to expect them to do everything at once but I am very impressed by Starmer. So mild optimism is best outlook. And, above all, an enormous sense of relief.😊

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Climate Solutions's avatar Climate Solutions @climatesolutions.bsky.social
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Washington's ports are working to get out from under clouds of dangerous pollution—from trucks, from marine vessels, from jet planes—and they're making progress! But Initiative 2117 would take us in the opposite direction. www.theurbanist.org/... #NoOn2117

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Alastair Meeks 's avatar Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social
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Possibly the Conservatives' very worst attempt at a dividing line in the whole campaign.

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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Yes, but it is becoming very heavy going and unresponsive (for me, at least) I stay because I have friends there and because of the occasional gem...

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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Wow! (I'm a LibDem). Was it all that horseplay which did that?

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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TAPPER: Last year was the hottest on record, and this year might surpass it. What will your approach to climate change be? BIDEN: I signed the Inflation Reduction Act, and we're pushing to expand EV access and— TRUMP: Chevron will be allowed to drill for oil in democrats' chest cavities

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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Also good news that the Conservatives + Reform is now a long way short of Labour. For a while they were almost equal. And, unimaginably but wonderfully, the LibDems are closing in on the Cons...

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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May "the force be with you"! I say that rather than 'good luck' because I'm sure luck has had nothing to do with it.

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This is the first poll I have seen for some time which shows the LibDems + Greens = more than Reform. But my fond hope expressed here that the LD/G might form a loose post-election alliance has been greeted with howls of derision (by the Greens, essentially). Dum spiro, spero.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Climate change is “loading the weather dice against us,” as I say here. “As the ocean and the atmosphere are heating up, it’s supercharging our climate system, essentially adding more sixes and even some sevens and an eight to our weather dice.” Listen here:

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther's avatar Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social
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You can now read an excerpt of my book, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda & How to Fight It* in @tnr.bsky.social!

Here's the gist.👇

And my book offers powerful new ways to talk about the #ClimateCrisis that will help create transformative change.

1/3

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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I don't get this. In 'the real world', an employer would ask all MPs, and their employees via the MPs, whether anyone had placed a bet on the outcome of the election? It should not be necessary to hold an enquiry?

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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She is (was) my MP. I have warmed to her since coming to live here: I once wrote to her on a policy matter, not expecting a reply, She replied within hours, taking one full page to answer my points. I was very impressed.

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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I'm not sure.? It's a bit late to worry about it costing them votes, since it has been obvious for some time that their party is going to get a record trouncing at the polls? I warm to Ellwood more than Buckland on TV, but think both capable of shame at their party's antics.

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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There are two decent MPs left in the Conservative Party, who know the rule of law - and common sense. Any others care to join them? Anyone?

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 's avatar Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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A crack in the rock is all it takes for a colony of wildflowers (sheep's bit) and a rowan tree to seed in. If we let it, nature finds a way. 🌎

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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Yes, my basic objection to R*wling's campaign is that I do not see how she and her ilk are adversely affected by trans people. We live in a multi-faceted society where there is room for all to thrive (except those who genuinely harm others).

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Helen Czerski's avatar Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social
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If the climate, nature and the environment is your priority, or high up on your list, who should get your vote in the General Election? On Friday's Rare Earth, we went through the manifestos to see what's in there (and what isn't). Listen now on BBC Sounds to catch up:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds...

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Aaron Cozen's avatar Aaron Cozen @aaroncozen.bsky.social
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What we (nominally) paid for: reduced climate pollution, clean energy incentives. We we get: more methane, more CO2, additional pollution, more fossil fuel infrastructure, no clean energy. 7/7

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Aaron Cozen's avatar Aaron Cozen @aaroncozen.bsky.social
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Net result 2: Tax incentives meant to promote clean energy instead fund expansion of facilities to produce hydrogen from methane, resulting in release of both methane and CO2 produced from it's combustion. 6/n

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Aaron Cozen's avatar Aaron Cozen @aaroncozen.bsky.social
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Net result 1: Coal mines and dairies get paid generously for ongoing methane pollution by capturing a little bit of it - it doesn't matter how much they release, just how much they capture. 5/n

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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'My enemy's enemy is my friend' - the perfect example 🙂

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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Only one side has joined the fight because the one-nation Tories have seen the tide turn about 20 years ago in favour of the yahoos, getting stronger each year. Feeling the pain of Canute, they gave up the unequal struggle.

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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Oh, you tease! Roll up, roll up for a Molotov Cocktail of Schadenfreude 😂

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Calgary Climate Hub's avatar Calgary Climate Hub @climatehubyyc.bsky.social
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"Our already heavy lift just got heavier which is why none of us can do it alone. I don't know exactly how to counter a wildly careening power ravenous #petrostate during a #climate emergency, I only know that we must. The best of us are stepping up to it. You can too." #abpoli

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Jan Rosenow's avatar Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social
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Anti-electricity cartoon from 1889. No matter how good an idea comes along, there will always be somebody opposed. Today it is renewable energy, electric vehicles and heat pumps. Good news is that innovation often proves the tech doubters wrong.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Here’s a link for declaration times at the 2019 UKGE if you want to work out how late you might have to stay up on July 4/5.

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Helen Czerski's avatar Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social
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Battery passports... you may not be familiar with them yet, but they are a critical part of a better future. Yay for this!

"Volvo Cars is launching the world's first EV battery passport recording the origins of raw materials, components, recycled content & carbon footprint"

tinyurl.com/33vbdfp4

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David Ho's avatar David Ho @davidho.bsky.social
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Climate denier inadvertently articulates what is known about climate change: It is going to make the world a more dangerous place.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 's avatar Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social
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Retiring Lords at 80 isn't the way to go and it's ageist. I feel a legal challenge.

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Wendy J F's avatar Wendy J F @wendyj.bsky.social
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If we don't imagine what we can be, and do, next, nothing will change.

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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And this is why the Conservative Party needs to go into opposition for a couple of decades. We might let them back in again when they've learned: -the difference between Tories & Fascists; -the significance of the phrase "one nation" to the Tories; -biographies of Disraeli, Peel, Baldwin, Macmillan

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Laura Sykes's avatar Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social
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I prefer databases to spreadsheets (unless you need to use mathematical functions?). Microsoft Access is I think still part of the package and allows more detailed information storage and search. Do let us know what you decide...

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