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occasional reminder that Sir Nicholas Winton - who saved 669 Jewish children from the Nazis - forged British Home Office entry permits. bbc.com/culture/articl…

Deniers are jumping on the fact that summer 2024 was the UK's coolest summer since 2015. Climate change isn't linear, so the temp goes up and down - but the trend is up. Scientists are also discussing whether the the jet stream has gotten 'stuck' as the planet heats - hence our

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. Three emerging technologies for low-carbon concrete There is #hope, because we have the solutions to take #ClimateAction. find out more: climateworks.org/blog/three-eme… 🌍🌏via ClimateWorks Foundation

A terrific / terrifying example for teaching externalities. Folks choose heavier cars because they're less likely to die in a crash (gray line). But that choice makes it much much more likely that you'll kill the other guy (red line). economist.com/interactive/un… #TeachEcon

Interestingly but depressingly, you can replace Grenfell with "climate change" as well as other forms of scandal. Short-termism. We have as voters to be more responsible and support politicians facing hard and costly truths.

An actual free speech case.

In Vol. 38, Iss. 2 of Public Affairs Quarterly, Chris Hallenbrook (CSU Dominguez Hills) and Ryan Reed (Bradley University) uses John Locke's writing to argue that the government is obligated to take comprehensive action addressing climate change. 🌎 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/paq/articl…

Momentous: The UK, home to the world’s first coal power station in 1882, will stop using coal to generate electricity this month, the 1st G7 country to do so Coal supplied 80% of UK electricity in 1990. Remember: they said it couldn't be done ft.com/content/516418… #climate

Stunning from Beamish Museum

Tragic senseless loss.

THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT: The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from Nat Bullard data Ember

BEV explainer video: Electric Cars For DUMMIES youtu.be/xNZR4wB-T80?si…

When a rightwing billionaire pays £100m for a publication that made £4.8m last year, that's not a business proposition. That's buying political influence.

Trump just claimed that immigrants have the "highest level of criminality". Actually, the opposite is true.

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

Elon has been trying to get Taylor Swift’s attention for years and to my knowledge she has never publicly acknowledged he exists

It's natural to laugh at the absurdity of the pet eating nonsense but please don't forget the bigotry and racism behind these lies. For the Haitian community it is NOT a joke. It is an attempt to "other" them so that when they are persecuted, people can say they deserved it.

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