Some thoughts on what the Gorton and Denton byelection means for pursuing climate action in the contemporary UK political landscape. www.just.ac.uk/news/2026/03...
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Some thoughts on what the Gorton and Denton byelection means for pursuing climate action in the contemporary UK political landscape. www.just.ac.uk/news/2026/03...
some keep on telling this story of people not wanting green policies, warning politicians to steer away from climate policies, yet the majority in the heartland of German car production has just voted for a guy that has not backtracked from saying that e-cars are the future
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Given current events, seems like a good time to share this excellent article on geopolitical turbulence from the 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the journal Global Environmental Politics. @yixiansun.bsky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social
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Log-scale chart showing cumulative individual days above six temperature thresholds from 0.5C to 2.0C since 1940. By September 2025: 800 days above 1.5C, 139 days above 1.75C, and just 6 days above 2.0C. The curves steepen and shift rightward at higher thresholds, illustrating the pattern this analysis investigates. Credit: @reescatophuls.bsky.social
2/ Inspired by @reescatophuls.bsky.social's brilliant cumulative days charts, if you look carefully, there's a pattern hiding in plain sight: the gap between the first daily occurrence at each threshold & rapid accumulation is shrinking at each level.
I wanted to measure that gap precisely.
All 1817 London council seats are being elected in May.
Starting point is approx
Labour 1150
Cons 400
LibDems 180
Greens 18
Reform 0
One Bombe projection has this London earthquake scenario, with Lab 3rd
Green 548,
Cons 481
Labour 415
LD 252
Reform 132
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I think it's important to give full credit to the original idiom here.
"The US has its arse lined with noodles"
Just in case we wanted reminding of the key global crisis we should be focused on… agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Some thoughts on what the Gorton and Denton byelection means for pursuing climate action in the contemporary UK political landscape. www.just.ac.uk/news/2026/03...
🗳️ As the dust settles after Gorton and Denton's hard-fought byelection, JUST Deputy Director @matpaterson.bsky.social provides a striking expert analysis of how the UK political landscape is evolving - and what this means for climate policy.
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Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.
Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.
Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.
Excellent article by James Meadway of @macrodosepod.bsky.social on UK's alarming dependence on an unstable world.
This aligns with the message from 10 experts at the
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Emergency action to tackle climate & nature breakdown and build resilience now even more pressing. #NEB2025
“It isn’t a stretch to claim, as Malm and Carton do, that an actual energy transition—of the sort that Fressoz shows has never occurred—would challenge the basic power structures of global capitalism and geopolitics.”
Hello? Anybody home?
Climate "hushing" and avoidance has allowed Trump and the fossil industry to destroy decades of effort.
Where is the climate movement? Where are the Democratic politicians?
Vast majorities are concerned about climate change.
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The Labour leadership have resumed campaigning for the Green Party. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Suspect May is going to be a happy time to be Green. Or Plaid. Or SNP. Or LD. Or anyone on the left except Labour really
I think it's a deeper cultural issue in Labour. So few of them seem to be able to count to more than two, i.e. understand politics outside a Labour-Tory frame. When they see people not voting Labour, they blame those voters, thus alienating them further. extraordinary lack of political imagination
And everyone in that constituency got umpteen leaflets with Labour saying the Greens can't win here (GP did the same in reverse to be clear, they just turned out to be correct), so somehow magically Galloway changed all that ...
It's also so transparently in contradiction to the messaging of around half their leaflets which boldly state that the Greens can't win in the election. which everyone in that constituency got in spades!
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Spot on by @robfordmancs.bsky.social as usual
Nevertheless it is such a weird take. And shows how deluded he is (the dog whistle won’t be his first time of course) about why and where Labour is so unpopular. And by attacking the GP in this way he is attacking the people he should be trying to court. Barmy.
The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.
We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The literature on state capacity for decarbonization has grown so much since I started my PhD back in 2020, so this review has been rewritten so many times (and I had to cut a lot in this final iteration). Hope I’ve done it justice. Available open access here 🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Empty lecture hall seats. Photo by Zsofia Hajnal via Unsplash
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