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Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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• When we adopt the role of protagonist, name a villain with evil motives, and then collectively strive towards a common goal, we can cure diseases and win world wars. Yet the climate movement hasn’t created a narrative like this to maximize our cooperative power, largely because the fossil fuel industry beat us to it.
• Our second task is to dramatically increase the number of voters who demand climate leadership.
• Third, the climate movement doesn’t just need to change how we do politics, we must also change when we do politics. Climate policies are made at every level of government, and mayors want to win elections just like presidents do, which means they too are subject to the whims of their voters.

Research shows that social media influencers can shape climate denialism around the world.

over the next 60 years, North American monarchs east of the Rocky Mountains have a 56 to 74 percent probability of hitting the point where extinction appears inevitable. For those to the west, that probability was 99 percent.

The primary drivers affecting the butterflies, the assessment found, were the loss and degradation of breeding, migratory and overwintering habitat; exposure to insecticides; and the effects of climate change.

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Seven lobbying firms that have collectively donated or gifted more than £314,000 to the party since 2022 have helped clients – including Shell, Equinor, and British Gas owner Centrica – to attempt to influence the government since July’s election.

The disclosures have raised fears among transparency campaigners that the companies could use their donations to secure access to ministers. They have called for the details of any meetings to be published immediately.

Lobbyists must declare if they have attempted to arrange meetings or influence ministers or senior civil servants on behalf of their clients. However, the contents of these discussions are not publicly available.

There’s ‘insufficient scientific evidence’ backing efforts to artificially cool down the planet, according to the European Commission’s scientific advisers.

Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through solar geoengineering. That includes controversial technologies used to reflect sunlight back into space, primarily by sending reflective particles into the atmosphere or by brightening clouds.

Three leading climate scientists have combined insights from 10 global climate models and, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), conclude that regional warming thresholds are likely to be reached faster than previously estimated.

Mmmm faster then expected huh ?