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Ironically given the climate chaos they cause, fossil fuel companies can be fair weather friends as sport sponsors. They're toxic & should be dropped, if they don't just walk away 👇🏼 www.tortoisemedia.com/2025/02/28/i...

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Norway, Sweden, France, Poland, Ireland, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia... national leaders piling in to back Zelensky and Ukraine (drums fingers waiting to hear from UK)

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Yes, indeed, see our reports on exactly this, 'The Snow Thieves', 'Dirty Snow', and the new report launched a few days ago, 'Snow Angels'... www.newweather.se/publikatione...

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📢 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: 50+ professional skiers call for an end to fossil fuel advertising in winter sports. Here's what the athletes had to say in their letter to Vasaloppet, the world's largest cross-country ski race. 🧵 Read the published letter in full on Cool Down. 👇

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Great work calling out the tragic irony of planet heating polluters using endangered snow sports to promote themselves - from our colleagues at New Weather Sweden / Save Our Snow and the Cool Down Network 👇 www.cooldownclimate.org/resources/ov...

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Yet, as recent history show, we are capable of almost entirely cutting out flying from our lives overnight, without the skies falling. There is a reason that the ICAO, the aviation industry's trade body, has regularly and without irony used the image of Icarus to promote itself over the years...

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The failure of business regulation (and economics) comes down to this, it allows profiteering to overrule preserving the conditions for life. BBC News - BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil www.bbc.com/news/article...

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WPP, Britain's biggest advertising agency, reported for breaking rules on climate and rights. By @andrewsimms.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/feb/24/...

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Diplomatic judgement during upheaval is a complex art, but appeasement has a bad record of making things worse. Evil should be named, on principle, and stood up to... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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In the home of winter sports, the majority oppose sponsorship by big polluters - whose emissions are driving record melting of ice and snow - our latest report 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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🚨 Over 150 of Australia's top athletes have put their names to a letter supporting the Duty of Care Bill. This bill represents the best opportunity to protect future generations of sports fans and athletes. ✍️ Join other sport-loving Australians by signing the letter: www.dutyofcare.org.au

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Spot on 👇🏼 (echoes of a pamphlet on the Environmental War Economy written a couple of decades ago) Jon Davis on how the UK government is (not) tackling the climate crisis – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It's not climate activists who are 'deluded', Mr Energy Secretary We see here the repetition of erroneous claims about energy costs made by Reform last week. Coordinated effort to gaslight Actually clean energy is the surest way to stabilise & reduce energy prices www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Hybrids = "industry-wide fraud" 👇🏼

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“I sometimes fear that / people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress.” See it. Say it. Report it... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The world’s biggest ad firm, WPP, says its climate-friendly but last year had the most fossil fuel contracts of any agency. We just reported them to the international watchdog on corporate responsibility at the OECD for breaking rules on climate & human rights👇 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

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Why would a party so desperate to prove its economic credibility back an option that is: slow, uneconomic, a security liability and wildly expensive - compared to other proven, safer and far cheaper alternatives? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The whiff of regulatory capture is everywhere... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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'Unexpected', but only in a strictly limited sense, as in entirely predictable nasty surprises... BBC News - Unexpectedly warm January puzzles climate scientists www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Can't wait to see how the UK government plays this one...⏳ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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They say football is the beautiful game, but it can be a dirty one too, and in ways that you might not imagine. We've discovered that the game's dirtiest secret could be in how it lets itself be a billboard for some of the world's worst polluters... follow the 🧵 👇

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It is quite funny, however, seeing the nuclear industry for whom 'delay' is tattooed on their gums and runs through their bones like the words on a stick of sugary seaside rock - blame 'fish' for missing more deadlines...

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Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->> www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Short thread.......

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It's all so brazen, it shouldn't need saying, but thank goodness for voices like Aditya's 👇🏼. Labour's positioning on growth fails both as popular political message and real world policy 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I know the government rejected a broader definition of 'extremism', but putting aviation expansion & growth before a liveable climate is a kind of life-threatening, extreme economic ideology that certainly appears 'extremist' (even if seemingly bland & technocratic) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Two stories on the BBC front page. Worse than Heathrow expansion being a dud, ineffective, polluting policy, is seeing such damage done just to send political signals. Government by dead gestures (in every sense) is hopeless...

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Very pleased that @responsiblesci.bsky.social the New Weather Institute @adfreecities.bsky.social & @badvertising.bsky.social are part of the launch today of this new alliance to tackle the menace of urban SUVs, and its manifesto for safer, fairer streets... www.suv-alliance.org.uk

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From John Le Carré's late novel, 'An Agent Running in the Field', published in 2019...

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🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: Fossil fuel financier Barclays announced as the 'principal partner' of Lord's cricket ground. 🛢️🏏 The Home of Cricket has just opened its doors to a sponsor funding the fossil fuel projects that drive extreme weather in the sport. 🧵 @thenexttest.org @andrewsimms.bsky.social

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I humbly suggest that if Labour wants to 'fight the battle of ideas against the populist right' maybe don't: - pander to anti-immigration views - criminalise progressive protest - sabotage the Climate & Nature Bill - prioritise big business & the wealthy 🤔 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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There's a kind of mad consistency here - aggressively protect and promote climate polluters - then hang the victims of climate breakdown out to drown, burn or get blown away... www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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As a tactical project, its interesting to compare this with UK Labour's timidity in government and craven indulgence of its opposition political narratives...

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🌎 Today is the day! The Climate and Nature Bill has its crucial Second Reading in Parliament. 🗳 We’ll be watching to see if MPs show up and vote to progress the #CANBill. Will you? 📺 Watch the debate live ⏰ 9:30—14:30 👉 tinyurl.com/33229c4x

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It's almost as if growth, as an economic objective for its own sake, hasn't been consistently debunked for over 50 years. This is growth as cancer, like saying 'dying prematurely trumps living', for a Labour government policy it is in every way dangerous and quite deranged www.ft.com/content/a83f...

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World Snow Day! Read my brilliant New Weather Sweden colleague, Anna Jonsson, on how polluter sponsors are stealing the present and future of winter sports 👇🏼

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A wonderful case in which a small, marginalised community, vulnerable to climate change, is courageously setting an example to much larger sporting interests, and making it clear that it is time to stop big polluters cynically exploiting sport to sell pollution and protect their reputations...

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There appears to be no disaster of its own making that capitalism cannot profit from... BBC News - Landlords ripping off LA fire victims, says Selling Sunset star www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The US would be better off investing 5% of GDP on real ecological security, creating green jobs and tackling climate than on unproductive military spending (which isn't going to help with threats and realities like this...)

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Listening to the UK government (David Lammy) pigeon-breasting about their intent to spend at least 2.5% of GDP on the military (nb: 'unproductive expenditure' in economic speak) while they cower & apologise over investing in real climate security, reminded me why I've mostly turned off news radio

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Couldn't agree more - made me dig this out of the archives - cover story I wrote 21 years ago for @newstatesman.com arguing the same (probably too soon) when the big car-maker promoted shift to SUVs was gathering steam (smoke?) - @badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social

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Your annual reminder that extreme wealth and inequality are common precursors of collapse (not including the multiple other ills they fuel)

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Strong correlation between rising global temps/CO2 & the number of UK people slammed in jail for climate action. It's like locking up ambulance drivers for trying to save lives. The UK once gloried in its freedom to protest versus oppressive Eastern Europe. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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A healthy reminder that progress is led from below - so good to see the Treaty proposal on a roll... @peternewell.bsky.social

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So living on another planet would be much like living in a small caravan on an abandoned industrial estate in Romford, but without air or even a petrol station shop a mile away. Musk & co can have it BBC News - Could this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Like a tobacco company boasting it offers gym sessions for health, while omitting to mention it sells cigarettes... a good win against greenwash by colleagues Adfree Cities and Badvertising...👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Global science review concludes tackling climate change, nature loss & food insecurity as ' siloed' separate issues won't work Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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