Vattenfall acting like they're not in Sweden.
Stolen a camera (twice!) and felling habitat with no legal clearance (according to Wildcat Haven)
https://www.wildcathaven.com/news/stolen-camera-site-clear-felled
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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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Scientists have issued an urgent warning that some of the synthetic chemicals that help underpin the current food system are driving increased rates of cancer, neurodevelopmental conditions and infertility, while degrading the foundations of global agriculture.
The health burden from phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides and Pfas “forever chemicals” amounts to up to $2.2tn a year – roughly as much as the profits of the world’s 100 largest publicly listed companies, according to the report published on Wednesday.
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Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential.
The authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, also found that the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half captures less than 10% of total global earnings.
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Datacentres, AI gigafactories and affordable housing may be exempt from mandatory environmental impact assessments in the EU under a proposal that advances the European Commission’s rollback of green rules.
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Roy Marsh, 86, was given the financial penalty after the incident in Skegness earlier this year. He is now calling for “responsible” litter enforcement.
East Lindsey district council (ELDC) told the BBC the enforcement teams, who work on behalf of the authority, would “only approach individuals who have been seen committing environmental crime offences”.
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Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policiesThe once-rigid link between economic growth and carbon emissions is breaking across the vast majority of the world, according to a study released ahead of Friday’s 10th anniversary of the Paris climate agreement.
The analysis, which underscores the effectiveness of strong government climate policies, shows this “decoupling” trend has accelerated since 2015 and is becoming particularly pronounced among major emitters in the global south.
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The impacts, some of which are linked to climate tipping points, are seen as low probability but plausible. The researchers said the scenarios filled a gap in forecasting that had left the UK unprepared for extreme outcomes.
A second set of worst-case scenarios sets out the potential extent of extreme weather between now and the end of the century. These indicate that temperatures could soar in some months by up to 6C above average, while rainfall could be triple normal levels.
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I'm currently reading Mensun Bound's The Ship Beneath The Ice, and he has a lot* to say about the deterioration of the Antarctic owing to anthropogenic climate change. He talks about the alarming retreat rate of glaciers, the penguin colonies becoming "ghost rookeries", the A-68 iceberg that calved from the Larsen C ice shelf and broke up within four years, the enormous quantities of melting fresh water disrupting salinity and currents, the AMOC and so on – even though it's ostensibly a book about the search for Shackleton's Endurance.
* Spoiler alert: none of it is good. In fact, some of it is so utterly depressing I didn't want to carry on reading.
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Andrew Bailey Governor of the Bank of England just interviewed on R4 about UK economy and its ‘growth prospects’ - ‘facing three “headwinds”, aging population, apparent end of post Cold War peace dividend and Climate Change’.
Interesting list, almost reassuring that CC is on it, though as he said ‘depends on how we deal with it’.
Any reporting on interview likely to concentrate on his views on AI and effect on jobs and increase in unemployment (or not).
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Chemical companies owned by the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe had already been granted as much as £70m in UK state aid in the past four years, before this week’s £50m government bailout for its Grangemouth plant in Scotland.
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Rich Stockdale, the chief executive of Oxygen Conservation, said his model of “regenerative capitalism” was a “force for good” because it would offer investors significant profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, operating solar farms and holiday homes and installing new windfarms across its estates.
Sheep grazing in an area of Northumberland ‘We don’t call them woolly maggots’: how wildlife campaigners put sheep at heart of rewilding plans Read more The Exeter-based firm, which has bought 13 estates in under four years, plans to rapidly become the UK’s largest private landowner by expanding its current landholding of 50,000 acres (20,234 hectares) over the next five years to 250,000 acres.
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The breach took place on the Llangollen canal near New Mills Lift Bridge in Whitchurch. The canal was among those flagged this year by the Inland Waterways Association as being an “amber risk”.
The independent charity has mapped Britain’s network of canals and rivers, which are under strain from funding shortfalls and growing climate pressures, and flagged those at particular financial and environmental risk.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/22/people-rescued-boats-sinkhole-shropshire-canal
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The architect of the London Eye wants to build a vast tidal power station in a 14-mile arc off the coast of Somerset that could help Britain meet surging electricity demand to power artificial intelligence – and create a new race track to let cyclists skim over the Bristol Channel.
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vast tidal power station in a 14-mile arc off the coast of Somerset that could help Britain meet surging electricity demand to power artificial intelligence
That story another indicator of the madness that is overtaking England as it builds AI that in turn will need more and more energy. Right now England is plugged into the resources of Scotland, France, Netherlands and Norway. Also committed to nuclear which is a colossal waste of money as most climate experts agree.
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Apparently:
- Certain fish habitats in California should be sacrificed to help farmers irrigate crops
- Wind turbines are bad because they generate vibration that kills whales
- Coal is in fact a clean energy source
- The Earth is actually cooling, not warming
- Climate scientists are evil and it's a massive conspiracy, while fossil fuel companies are completely honest
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Jan Rosenow, a professor of energy at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, said failing to include batteries was a “missed opportunity … installing a battery at the point of construction is cheaper and less disruptive than retrofitting later”.
He added: “Housing developers in this country have a track record of pushing back against requirements that enhance energy performance of homes. We have seen this with insulation, heat pumps and other technologies. Ultimately, it will be to the detriment of the homebuyer.”
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