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Monday, November 25, 2024
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public. There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab. We now know that it’s...
People visiting Tumbledown community project in Weymouth will benefit from improved access across the site.  Thanks to a partnership between Weymouth Town Council, dedicated volunteers, Dorset Council highways team and Hanson UK, the main zig-zig paths which snake through the site have been resurfaced.   Around 60 tonnesof planings, which are the...

World record lightning flash

A single flash of lightning stretched across the sky over three US states, setting a new world record. The lightning bolt extended 477.2 miles across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in April 2020, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.This beat the old record of 440.6 miles set in 2018. Also in 2020,...
The rocks seen on this section can be seen by walking from Poole Head eastwards. The Sandbanks area has no exposure due to buildings and the underlying geology is Palaeogene (Tertiary) Parkstone Clay. The aerial picture below shows the Sandbanks Peninsula the Studland Peninsula and Shell Bay in the foreground. The low...
Hundreds of tonnes of climate-warming methane is being released into the atmosphere by the UK’s longest continuously producing onshore oil well, despite curbs ordered by the environmental regulator. The Kimmeridge site in Dorset, operated by Perenco, has legally emitted methane directly into the atmosphere since oil production began in the...
“We have to move quickly. What we do in the next three to four years, I believe, will determine the future of humanity”. Sir David King, 2021. Emma Smart is expected to read the following statement at HMP Bronzefield on behalf of the Insulate Britain supporters released today. I have been...
Industry experts and released prisoners make the case for Insulate Britain’s demand for a fully funded national retrofit effort in the UK Six people from from Insulate Britain are due to be released from prison tomorrow after serving half the sentences handed down to them by the High Court last...
The Netflix movie about a slow-motion planet-killing climate change metaphor has been the talk of the twittersphere since its release on Christmas eve.  The critics didn’t like it, but many people - including climate scientists, journalists and activists - did like it, and things got pretty heated when it was suggested by some (including the filmmakers!)...
This just about sums up the absolute nonsense of the times. Target activists whilst agreeing with them. https://twitter.com/Zero_4/status/1479227995021881345?s=20 Of course those who are awake are talking about insulating homes and many other solutions. Only the walking dead are prattling on about the nonsense they are served up to distract them. And when in...
Happy New Year! A new year to displace one of the twenty previous warmest years globally since records began: the consecutive last nineteen, or 1998 with its strong El Niño. The summer of 2021 saw the Met Office in the UK issue what was its first-ever “extreme heat warning.” Over in...