If you wonder why some call for #ElectoralReform, most votes in the house of commons are a stark illustration of the adversarial nature of British politics. It's not healthy, it creates ideological governments that do things for the wrong reasons. #BanTheWhip #PR #FPTP

Its a cotton puff sky today! ☁️

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! As of October 13, Antarctic sea-ice extent is more than 5.0 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 daily average. Under "normal" circumstances, the likelihood of this happening just by chance would be about 1-in-5,800,000.

Despite to rain last night this Sycamore tree in Welland park #Harborough is so stressed it has dumped many of its leaves overnight. I wonder how many saplings and mature trees we will lose from our landscape and parks this summer?

Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London. It is excellent. They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan

Solar is about to overtake wind. Generation is set to rise ~600 TWh in 2026, matching last year's record, putting it second only to hydro among renewables. And renewables together are on track to out-generate coal this year.

At last, a drop of rain #Harborough

Today's recycling haul from Walcot Road #Harborough, ably assisted by Nellie (who likes to steal bottles from my hands to crunch on) I ran out of fingers and pockets so had to leave a few for later.

Andy Burnham urged to tax banks £55bn profit bonanza. Long overdue. Must end hidden subsidies. Banks received £100bn interest from UK govt on central reserves, used for clearing interbank transactions, over last 3 yrs. EU mostly stopped it in 2023. mirror.co.uk/money/andy-burn…

Today's can harvest (you can't see there are three of those orange ones) from Walcot road #harborough

I see many posts talking about how 'resource intensive' wind and solar are. Check my math, but the world extracts, processes, transports, and burns 100 million barrels of oil a day, about 14 million metric tons worth. My best estimate of the weight of all the wind turbine blades installed ON EARTH today (caveat, used Claude to help estimate, check my math) is 20 million metric tons. So, 1.5 days worth of global oil consumption. AND THEY LAST FOR 20+ YEARS. Don't let people scare you with big numbers. There is nothing on earth more resource intensive than the oil and gas indsutry. It's just that when we burn oil and gas, the waste ends up mostly in the atmosphere (and your lungs), not in a landfill. As if that is somehow better?

Hereditary peers have left the Lords for the last time. Access to the Lords can no longer be inherited but it is still an unelected chamber stuffed full of past political donors. The Greens would make the Lords an elected chamber. electoral-reform.org.uk/here… @electoralreform

Protect our green spaces.

Women overwhelmingly support the Trans inclusive Green Party 💚🏳️‍⚧️

"[Social care] needs to be funded...it is unacceptable that this burden is being put on councils...it should be up to the government to make sure they are funding that through things like wealth taxation." @ZackPolanski on Radio Leeds discussing the crisis in social care.

Human rights activist and head of the Fossil Fuel Treaty, Kumi Naidoo, speaks to us from Santa Marta in Colombia, where the world's first fossil fuel phase-out conference is taking place. Over 50 nations, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and EU member states are meeting outside of the COP process, to discuss how the global economy can end its reliance on coal, oil and gas.

They have no choice but to take all the assets from you

New El Niño forecast just dropped… and it’s a whopper! Maybe the strongest on record. For real! The European model seasonal forecast just released and it shows record Aug-Oct tropical Pacific sea surface temperature warmth at 2-3°C above normal (~ +5°F) in the central-east Pacific. The record for Aug-Oct is +2.2°C in 2015. Euro hints we surpass this (3.4 region). So what does this mean for #Florida and the South? First, good news: look at the Atlantic, it’s cool-ish relatively speaking. “Relative” matters big time in weather. Odds are this means a pretty quiet hurricane season overall and a lower likelihood of US landfalls. 2nd: next fall and winter may be Very active with rounds of severe weather, tornadoes and heavy rain/ flooding due to an invigorated subtropical jet stream. Central Florida’s largest tornadoes happen in El Niños (1966 and 1998 for example). Lastly, El Niño takes warm water stored deeper in the oceans, brings it to the surface and releases it into Earth’s atmosphere. This gives a big jolt to Global average surface temperatures. 2027 will be the warmest year on record for Earth in the history of modern humans, but even 2026 now has a chance of eclipsing that record by December. #elnino

It's time to see past our differences and remember what connects us. When we realise where our strength lies - in each other - that's when change happens. Join us - join.greenparty.org.uk

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.