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Nic Ferriday campaigns for West London Friends of the Earth. He tweets in a personal capacity.

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Heat waves and record temperatures are warnings of impending climate collapse leading to human tragedy. So what has Andy Burnham said about climate change in his progression to prime minister?H

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Two local housing developments are flushing sewage into River Brent. https://t.co/4ngnU4dqBP
Developers and Ealing Council are trying to avoid any responsibility for remediation.

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Aircraft affecting our atmosphere and climate!

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves freezes petrol duty. That is, cuts it in real terms. Meanwhile hikes bus fares. Pandering to the ‘car lobby’ seems to be a higher priority for Labour than addressing climate change!

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Budget tomorrow! If Labour want to plug their £ 22 billion gap fairly, how about removing that massive tax dodge in the sky - tax-free aircraft fuel. Worth £ 12 billion a year!

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Earthwatch survey shows Thames and Anglian river basin districts have the have the worst water quality (most pollution by nitrate and phosphate) in the UK. https://t.co/7KPc0bJ8T5
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Recent Floods. Environment Agency advice: “.. avoid walking, cycling or driving through flood water” ! Bland or what? How about saying “act now on climate change”.

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Up to 3 years prison for violent rioters. But up to five years for non-violent climate protestors! Looks as if the judiciary are being politicised in backlash against climate action.

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Labour’s £ 22 billion gap:
We have a solution! Scrap the massive tax dodge of tax-free aircraft fuel. This could plug the hole in a couple of years.

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Extending ULEZ results in significant fall in toxic emissions: https://t.co/uOiDHR1yV3 (But vitriolic opposition to ULEZ by the car lobby continues.)

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Sentences of 4 and 5 years were given by Judge Christopher Hehir to Just Stop Oil protesters who blocked traffic on the M25. There can be no doubt that these draconian sentences are political - the judge even claimed defendants were "parading their political views“.

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Dutch court finds KLM ads were misleading in 'greenwashing' case. https://t.co/a8r2H9UsNL

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CPRE says https://t.co/E8g8GrsOll "Building out into Green Belt is the worst possible option for London. It is a lose-lose scenario. We lose our countryside and we create a high-carbon, car-dependent, unhealthy city."

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Labour back-track on climate change confirmed. https://t.co/2CCHCfAFmx
Is Labour scared stiff of Tory anti-environment campaigning?

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Tata steel works. Don’t trust people who are blaming action on climate change as the reason for closure of blast furnaces. The main reason is that the blast furnaces are UNECONOMIC. New electric arc furnaces are proposed because they are ECONOMIC. They also emit less CO2.

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European climate reporting system Copernicus https://t.co/Lk0QANi7qs confirms 2023 was hottest year globally since records began in 1850. Average temperature up 1.48 degrees on pre-industrial levels (target 1.5deg by 2030). Hottest on record for every month from June to Dec.

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Worldwide, 2023 was the hottest year on record. In the UK it was the 2nd hottest on record (2022 was the hottest). Source: Met Office.

2023 had with the most destructive floods and the worst wildfires in recorded history. Source: https://t.co/z1mNhTIDrT

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Dodgy tree planting. Ecologist Thomas Crowther, former chief scientific adviser for the United Nations’ Trillion Trees Campaign, is doing something he never would have expected a few years ago: begging ministers to stop planting so many trees! https://t.co/h7lJTOxgOQ

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Here’s why fury is not enough;

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European club football is a surprisingly big contributor to climate change. Teams and fans travelled an estimated 1.5 billion air miles in 22/23. https://t.co/cXOylxN215. Is it really necessary for fans to travel across Europe just to watch 90 minutes of football?