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Cofounder | funder of @ClimateSciBreak , using comedy to translate climate science & drive social change. Ex-manufacturer & ethical insurer. Zero Hour ambassador
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🚨This election barely covers the climate!🚨
Since its the biggest threat we face, & since it requires some the most significant policy decisions we have every made - shouldn't any future PM get questioned about it? 📺📢🔥
(by people who understand the risks we face!)
New punchy video demanding a BBC Question Time Climate Special!
With an audience of 100 climate scientists, grilling Sunak and Starmer on the
#climatecrisis
.
Please share, and email the BBC here:
#bbcqt
#stonehenge
@ProfMarkMaslin
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If you receive the news that dramatic spikes in ocean temperatures aren’t much of a concern, maybe even pleasant for swimming in, then it’s time to think again…
#heatwave
#ClimateBreakdown
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Today, I was very proud to be part of a new form of climate protest… people from the business community ‘queuing’ in protest at lack of action on climate change…
#Q4ClimateNature
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Extraordinary 3 things finally said on
#bbcqt
1. How serious the
#ClimateCrisis
is
2. What we need to do to stop it
3. Who is trying to stop us
Nice work
@GeorgeMonbiot
🔥
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@RSPBEngland
@RishiSunak
@michaelgove
@theresecoffey
Thanks
@RSPBEngland
this is real leadership. We can’t just sit by and watch as our environment is destroyed. It’s time more organisations spoke out!
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@BBCNews
we know he’s a liar, and so do you. It’s your job as a public service broadcaster to ensure this behaviour is seen by your viewers in order that they are fully informed, that’s your key role in democracy.
Now on 16.2 million views! We must keep going to 17 million
That
@BBCNews
@BBCBreakfast
continue to ignore it is a shameful, national embarrassment
Let’s show them we have more courage & stamina then they do! They can’t look away forever
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This this this this this 👇
🚨 NEW: We're supporting MPs calling for an investigation into misuse of funds by a 55 Tufton Street charity
All the details:
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@IsabelOakeshott
It’s staggering you can complain about this when you’ve both enabled and been a cheer leader for this decline. Policy decisions led us here, driven by ideology, greed and petty party politics.
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@hugh_jolley
@ChrisGPackham
We’re the 5th biggest cumulative emitter, we run at 2% a year (incl imports). Add together all countries under 2% & you have a block bigger than any other, so if we all don’t act, its game over. We also finance & insure more fossil fuels than just about any county…
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It’s so uplifting to see a climate scientist (who’s also a great communicator!) appear on the 10 o’clock news.
Well done
@BBCNews
But, we’re going to need a lot more!
Record low
#Antarctic
sea ice is finally making the headlines.
Here's why it matters, from last night's 10 o'clock news.
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Floating cars are becoming the new normal in 2023.
What will the new normal be in 2033, 2043 and 2053?
#wakeup
#NoNewOil
#NoNewFossilFuels
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Inspiring to see so many businesses represented at today’s Queue for Climate and Nature.
Protest should not be confined to activists and those involved in direct action, the business community now needs to play its part. (A nice ESG policy is simply not enough)
If you want
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All you need to know about the
#ToryPartyConference
#LovePie
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Just
@NadineDorries
having dinner with Evgeny Lebedev shortly before the invasion of
#ukraine
…
@BylineTimes
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'Nobody can go on your website and see who funds the organisation'.
Political Editor for Byline Times Adam Bienkov slams the IEA for not being open about who is paying for the website.
@IainDale
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@AdamBienkov
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#CrossQuestion
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Who’s going to take this up in the UK, and across the world??
Big Oil has lied, has held back, and in many cases, halted climate action.
It’s time they paid the consequences…
#BigOil
#law
#lawsuit
#ecocide
California is suing Big Oil for lying about climate change.
We're taking five major oil companies to court for wreaking havoc on our planet and lying to people about the dangers of fossil fuels.
It’s time they pay their fair share.
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This all began with a decision that I could not sit and watch us fail to react to the climate crisis, plus bafflement that so many people seemed unaware of the climate science. Huge thanks to everyone who got on board with this idea!
Climate scientists are tearing their hair out, so why are millions not in the streets demanding
#ClimateActionNow
?
Watch and share
@MrNishKumar
helping
@FrediOtto
rouse the masses in the latest punchy "Climate Science Translated" video! 🔥🌎
#NoNewOil
#ClimateCrisis
#Language
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We made the news….
Millennium Bridge: Business people protest with queue for climate
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@IsabelOakeshott
Here’s a classic example only this morning. Are you going to debunk this lie or cheer it on?
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@RishiSunak
I think you know this does nothing of the sort. Also, if you want to talk homegrown energy, why has one of the windiest countries in Europe still got a ban on onshore wind?
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@DaleVince
@KayBurley
@SkyNews
@JustStop_Oil
@SkyNews
never reported the need to stop oil & gas expansion when this realisation was published by
@IPCC
or
@IEA
or
@Nature
or the
@UN
... its only now finally being discussed because of
@JustStop_Oil
And thanks as always to
@DaleVince
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I owe
@JonathanPieNews
big time, as he agreed to star in one of our
@ClimateSciBreak
films (in which he was unsurprisingly awesome).
So the least I could do in return, is to share his new
@BBCSounds
series with my extensive twitter following 👇👇👇
Did I mention I have a new 10-part series out now on
@BBCSounds
? I did? Oh good. Just checking.
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@GeorgeMonbiot
A little addendum to all the 'but China' lost souls. China is adding more renewable energy capacity than the EU, the US and India combined....
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Listening to
@BBCr4today
was like
#dontlookup
, the tone of q’s to
@JustStop_Oil
then over to the 16C weather forecast.
#ClimateEmergency
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Quality performance by Femi
That first catch-up meeting at the United Nations after the pandemic is going to be BRUTAL for the UK. 😬
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@GeorgeMonbiot
We've been pressing them to put a climate scientist on the panel (as it's COP!) but I wasn't expecting this! Very pleased for you and can't wait....
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In 30 years of following politics no one has ever explained PR as well as this, or, managed to set out the political master plan to give us the country most of us want. 👌
Don't watch this video if you haven't seen Avengers Endgame.
Do watch this video if you want to defeat the Tories for good.
(SO MANY SPOILERS)
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This is Italy, but it’s coming to a town near you. How regular and how severe this kind of destruction gets, is totally up to us….
#extremeweather
#ClimateChaos
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@RHarrabin
@RishiSunak
@fionaharvey
Maybe its a private screening of Climate Science Translated featuring Jo Brand and
@ProfMarkMaslin
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@GaryLineker
Gary, you’ve made my year. I’m the cofounder and funder of this project, so interactions like this, really really make a difference 🙏👌🔥💚🌍‼️
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This won’t age well
Respect to the next generation for getting onto mainstream TV.
@JustStop_Oil
tactics might annoy many but the behaviour that is truly unjustified & irresponsible is to expand
#FossilFuels
'I think the children and the future deserve that.'
'Just Stop Oil' activists protested across London this weekend to demand an end to the fossil fuel economy. Meanwhile, the cost of living crisis means many people are paying more & more for fuel. Are oil protests justified?
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@AlokSharma_RDG
Your party sadly banned onshore wind in 2016, which cost us dearly in carbon emissions and increased our exposure to the energy crisis. However, if you can turn that around we all benefit, especially if you support the
#communityenergy
model 👍👍👍
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@ClimateSciBreak
Sympathies to all the hard working climate deniers who oddly ignore the most wealthy & powerful industry on the planet (that has the most to loose & is on record lying to us) & decide the environmentalists & scientists are ALL conspiring because of… something 🤔
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Marcus you are a total star, we have no democracy if our leaders can lie without recourse. Right behind you.
Signing the legal papers for our
#prosecution
case against
#BorisJohnson
before we gave them into the court last week. Happy behind the scenes moment after such an immense effort.
So proud of what we have all done together. Thank you all backers!
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This impending crisis, combined with the fact that too few of us realise how serious it is, is why I co-founded
@ClimateSciBreak
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@JamesGDyke
I always find it hard to understand why this 'grief' is not directed at those who are taking away the future prospects of these students?
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Our scientists are outside parliament right now, demanding to see MP’s to explain the consequences of new oil and gas!
#NoNewOil
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@KwasiKwarteng
@bp_UK
Please stop equating ‘overnight’ with expanding NEW fossil fuels.
No one is asking for an overnight transition.
They (you know the list by now) have set a clear red line. New fossil fuels means no chance of a sustainable future.
You can’t phase out what you are expanding
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Can’t get over this.
@Keir_Starmer
will allow
#Rosebank
to go ahead because of ‘investor certainty’? Ignoring voters futures, how does expensive outdated tech that destabilises our economy & society create investor certainty?
Keir Starmer explaining that the next Labour government will go ahead with all new North Sea oil and gas licences granted between now and the next election (including Rosebank).
#GMB
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Impactful
#NASA
visualisation of CO2 being added to our atmosphere in 2021
#FossilFuels
= orange Burning
#biomass
= red
Land ecosystems = green
Ocean = blue
Surface dots show how CO2 is reabsorbed by;
Land ecosystems = green
Ocean = blue
#heatwave
#ClimateBreakdown
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We were talking about the need for zero carbon homes over 25 years ago… today most new homes STILL are built with gas boilers!?
Why? Because the govt. did what developers told them
Result! V expensive to run & millions to retrofit
@openDemocracy
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@afneil
How not to be confused, try doing journalism?
And this is only half the story as it ignores the tax breaks afforded to fossil fuels, but then I think you know all this.
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@KevinClimate
@GlobalEcoGuy
There’s a huge constituency of people who don’t follow the climate issue closely that think we are nicely on track. Climate communicators, please understand this gulf in knowledge and be aware that we yet need to convince so many people that this is a
#ClimateEmergency
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@JamesGDyke
Thanks you for sharing these thoughts. There are too many bland explanations such as Myles Allen on
@bbclaurak
ending with ‘so that means we loose all the coral reefs’ The public need to hear about societal & economic impacts that directly effect them. They need the human story..
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@mikegalsworthy
@mac_puck
Which probably explains why our climate scientists are now mocking
@RishiSunak
👇
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@GeorgeMonbiot
I feel my social contract with this government is now utterly broken, we cannot let this happen, it has such negative global consequences. How can other countries, banks & insurers be shamed into quitting coal if our govt are expanding it??
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And so it begins…
The state of California is suing big oil!
#bigoil
#lawsuit
#California
#FossilFuels
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@think_or_swim
@ClimateSciBreak
Thanks John. I cofounded & funded this project driven by similar motivations to your bio. I was failing to get anyone to read or watch the climate science, apart from those already in the bubble! So decided scientists needed the advertising treatment made poss via
@UtopiaBureau
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One of the key aims of
@ClimateSciBreak
is to connect the public to the climate science, particularly the scientists themselves. So we were delighted when
@ProfMarkMaslin
and the incredible Jo Brand were invited to
@GMB
to chat about Climate Science Translated...
#COP28
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Great take on the Keeling Curve highlighting government inaction &?using the
#climatestripes
- renamed as
#ClimateINACTIONstripes
Nice one
@wiebkemarie
,
@MariusHasenheit
,
@sustentioEU
@MuellerTadzio
#ClimateCrisis
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Thanks to
@DaleVince
my donation to
@JustStop_Oil
will be doubled.
In case you still don’t get it. Expanding oil & gas is gross negligence, it’s anti science & should (& probably will be) criminal. If we continue on this path, blocked roads will be the least of our problems…
💥This is what we did after the right wing mud slinging…
Make a donation to
@JustStop_Oil
in the next 48 hours and I will double the amount you give.
Visit Just Stop Oil website to donate…
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@ChrisGPackham
@Telegraph
@MrGuyKelly
Extraordinary, your influence now has crossed into new territory. Thank you for what you do and what you put with. And huge respect for the C4 program. 🙏
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do you think
@RishiSunak
doesn't understand the science, or maybe has too many fossil fuel friends... or maybe a bit of both?
#KingsSpeech
#CEBill
#climate
#science
#KeepItInTheGround
Ahead of the
#KingsSpeech
and
@RishiSunak
's cynical fossil fuel agenda, a revealing stat from our new survey:
An unambiguous 98% of UK climate scientists support a ban on new oil and gas...
Full results here:
#NoNewOil
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If you care about the future - watch tonight's
@BBCPanorama
The future is at stake and you need to understand it
#netzero
#decarbonisation
#ClimateCrisis
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NASA getting creative with climate communication 💚💪🤩
Carbon dioxide is giving Earth a jolt!
Did you know there’s about 400 parts per million (ppm) of caffeine in coffee? There's over 400 ppm of CO₂ in our atmosphere today. If you've felt the surge of caffeine hitting your system, you've experienced the effects of just 400 ppm.
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We protest because non violent direct action works
climateaction
#extinctionrebellion
#climateemergency
#rolloutrenewables
#zerocarbon2025
@ExtinctionR
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@JustStop_Oil
@JasonKelleyUK
Sam, please ignore those deriding your actions. To me they are understandable and rational (if we actually acknowledge reality).
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@JustStop_Oil
It's extraordinary how many people don't seem to be able to digest the word 'new' ?
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@mothersriseup
@LloydsofLondon
@BNCB
Providing insurance for new fossil fuel projects is morally & economically unjustifiable. It’s goes against ALL scientific advice, ignores the facts we should be winding down FF not expanding, has a damaging global influence & is a foolish financial risk!
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@Ed_Miliband
Agreed. But mortified at
@Keir_Starmer
view of the protests. Seemingly unaware of the issue of NEW fossil fuels and instead claiming unproven tech is the answer! It’s possible to sound tough on law & order but also sympathetic with the issue of our lifetimes 🤯
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@BritishCycling
@Shell_UKLtd
What were you thinking? A low carbon affordable form of transport taking money from a disingenuous organisation that misleads the public & has long lobbied government’s against taking adequate action on climate!!
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@07845_902710
@thatginamiller
@LiamFox
@SophyRidgeSky
We’ve got a trade deal with the Faroe Islands... !!!! Go global Britain 🇬🇧
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@ChrisGPackham
@ClimateSciBreak
@JonathanPieNews
Can't tell how how much that means to all of us who worked on
@ClimateSciBreak
- thanks Chris 🙏
#IPPC
#TheBigOne
#ClimateScienceTranslated
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@gerainted
@hugh_jolley
@ChrisGPackham
It’s correct, but it’s referring to annual
emissions not cumulative. The other thing to remember is China’s emissions per head are way way lower than ours & the bulk of their emissions come from manufacturing our products…
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@KevinClimate
@GlobalEcoGuy
The 50% cut in emissions headline becomes the retained fact. So few realise that’s not the whole picture (that our true carbon footprint is way bigger) this helps maintain the narrative that we are on track. If we allow this, WE WILL FAIL
#ClimateAction
#netzero
#climatefacts
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Not a neoliberal, not a free marketeer, not an austerity fan, not a nationalist or a racist, not deluded about the EU and not a climate denier. So,
#votedgreen
obvs
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@ThierryAaron
@RHarrabin
Heartbreaking to hear.
@BBCNews
, your job is to inform the population, to explain the nature of the threat we face. Unless this happens, we wont be able to achieve enough of a consensus to act at the scale and the pace we need !
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To all the deniers, delayers and distractors, the propagandists and think tank funders… this is on you, we could have had a manageable transition, instead we’ll only have chaos and you are to blame…
#ClimateCrisis
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@ChrisGPackham
@Shell
@exxonmobil
@bp_plc
@centricaplc
@XRebellionUK
@JustStop_Oil
@Greenpeace
Thanks for everything you do
@ChrisGPackham
.
And let’s all be aware that the
#fossilfuel
companies are now paying influencers to lie on their behalf, according to
@DeSmog
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If you are not yet worried into taking action on the climate, then consider our global food system.
Here's what happened to one country, in 48 hours......
#PlanetaryBoundaries
#food
#ClimateCrisis
#TimeToAct
1/4 of Greece’s agricultural production capacity vanished in 48 hours
This is because of our impact to the planet...
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@lucysiegle
@MediaGuido
They only just seem to have become aware that journalism involves looking stuff up, which they seem to find quite challenging 😂
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@PeterSweden7
Al Gore once cited a researcher who suggested this scenario but it’s untrue to suggest that was the consensus. Overall the climate models have unfortunately been quite accurate over the years. It’s easy to read up on this, here’s an example
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I have nothing but admiration for
@ThierryAaron
and hope you are listening
@GMB
@itvnews
@BBCNews
@Channel4News
Climate scientists are rebelling. This is a crisis…..
Scientists now glued on at BEIS. Why?
"Last week scientists released a report that sounded the final alarm. We must end our addiction to
#FossilFuels
fuels NOW.
The UK Government then announced it will increase exploration for oil & gas"
Dr Thierry - Earth-System Scientist
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Mesmerising…
Paul Simon sharing the story of how he developed the tune for Bridge Over Troubled Water is just so brilliant, so down-to-earth and yet also with a connection to something higher. Imbibe the whole thing:
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Our Climate Science Translated stars Jo Brand and
@ProfMarkMaslin
on
@GMB
this morning....
@ClimateSciBreak
#COP28
#ClimateAction
#ClimateCrisis
'If someone said would you come on a march, I might do if I wasn't laying down.'
Jo Brand talks about partnering up with campaign group Climate Science Breakthrough to hilariously translate science-y messages about the negative impacts of climate change.
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@DeborahMeaden
@PatelBhavini
@WildJustice_org
Thanks Deborah, totally agree with your analysis! Hopefully we’ll see you at the next one. All of us in the
@BizDeclares
movement would love to have you as an ally 🙏💚
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🖤Oblivia Coalmine 🖤
Genius. Do watch. There's something nearly all of us can do, that really does make a difference.
And its so easy to do...! (like reposting & sharing campaigns like this)
Ever wondered what your pension gets up to when you’re not looking?
Meet Oblivia Coalmine 🔥
#FrackingHell
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@afneil
I think the CEO left because she broke confidentiality rules, not because of the drama your obsessing over. Is this really want you want to exclusively talking about right now? You’re still a journalist right?
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@grantshapps
Making you literally responsible for these protests. The public are now forced to act due to your failure. Developing new oil & gas is grossly negligent.
#JustStopOil
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We MUST stand up and save our planet Earth 🌍💚
#climatechange
#ClimateAction
#netzero
#ClimateCrisis
#COP26
#COP27
#nature
#SDGs
#trees
#savetheplanet
#TogetherForOurPlanet
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@grantshapps
This does not add up. Your own Climate Change Committee
@theCCCuk
have shown that
#NetZero
has ALREADY created 250,000 jobs & will create between 135,000 - 750,000 net new jobs. Plus, you put nearly ALL jobs at risk by expanding oil and gas!
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Want to know what the future looks like if we don’t stop expanding fossil fuels?
Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina…..
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@grantshapps
@British_Airways
@RollsRoyce
Yes that fuel is more sustainable - but the savings include offsets, which is a bit like cheating as we have to plant those trees anyway. It’s also still WAY more carbon intensive than the train & maintains the idea we can continue airport expansion - which we can’t & you know it
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Folks, it’s not an invisible concept for a distant future.
Disaster is now just around the corner
-Write to your MP (mine =
@AnthonyMangnal1
)
-Support the
@CEEbill_NOW
-Switch
#bank
#pension
#insurance
-Fight for our right to
#protest
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To Brits, it sometimes feels like extreme weather sounds a bit over the top… that’s until we experience it.
Thankfully, no one appears injured in
#Rhodes
Unfortunately, this is just the beginning
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@MrMatthewTodd
I have experienced the last episode of Frozen planet II having an impact on friends who have previously (seemingly) ignored climate change
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@jasonhickel
Sometimes alternative approaches are needed to get the message across, we decided to try comedians. Launched today to coincide with the
#IPCC
@ClimateSciBreak
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