It’s a very sad day as a good friend and absolutely top bloke (who is in his 70s) has been sentenced to 26 months behind bars (for which he must serve 40%) and costs of £4380 for peacefully protesting to end new #fossilfuel projects.

He was denied all legal defences during the trial, including the statutory defence of ‘reasonable excuse’, as well as the defences of necessity, Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on #HumanRights, and implied consent.

The prosecution refused to agree to any facts on the #ClimateCrisis to be included in evidence.

He will also now lose his long held position as a Green councillor.

We’ve known for a long time that the world is fucked but this hurts.

https://juststopoil.org/2025/12/05/four-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-for-up-to-30-months-for-m25-gantry-action-while-two-walk-free/

#JustStopOil #ClimateChange

#ClimateChange
#GlobalWarming

WINTER SCORCHER
Another exceptionally hot day
40C again in CHAD (1 straight week !)

32.8C Abu Simbel EGYPT December record tied
31C in Israel
26C in Cyprus
19C in Russia

More heat next days and obviously...more records

https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3m7b6xftcgc2n

It’s a very sad day as a good friend and absolutely top bloke (who is in his 70s) has been sentenced to 26 months behind bars (for which he must serve 40%) and costs of £4380 for peacefully protesting to end new #fossilfuel projects.

He was denied all legal defences during the trial, including the statutory defence of ‘reasonable excuse’, as well as the defences of necessity, Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on #HumanRights, and implied consent.

The prosecution refused to agree to any facts on the #ClimateCrisis to be included in evidence.

He will also now lose his long held position as a Green councillor.

We’ve known for a long time that the world is fucked but this hurts.

https://juststopoil.org/2025/12/05/four-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-for-up-to-30-months-for-m25-gantry-action-while-two-walk-free/

#JustStopOil #ClimateChange

Dec 5th is #WorldSoilDay 🌾🌱🪴 DYK 25% of #land in #Africa is damaged by #climatechange #mining and #palmoil #deforestation 🌴☠️ Strong policies for #agroecology would restore land all beings to thrive #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-90N?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Dec 5th is #WorldSoilDay 🌾🌱🪴 DYK 25% of #land in #Africa is damaged by #climatechange #mining and #palmoil #deforestation 🌴☠️ Strong policies for #agroecology would restore land all beings to thrive #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-90N?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

The National Observer zooms in on AB-Ottawa/Federal government energy MOU, as proposing:

🪔 "to slash-and-burn a series of climate policies" affecting clean electricity regulations, the oil and gas emissions cap and the oil tanker moratorium on B.C.'s coast

🪔 "dramatic reversal in policy that would allow carbon capture tax credits to be used for "enhanced oil recovery" (pumping more oil out of the ground using captured carbon dioxide) — despite that being explicitly excluded in the federal budget"

Former 🇨🇦 Cabinet Minister Steven Guilbeault states:

🚨"the government isn't being honest with the public and is betraying its commitments"

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#CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #UNEP

Former 🇨🇦 Cabinet Minister Steven Guilbeault states re AB-Ottawa/Federal government energy MOU:

“We have abandoned 2030 [climate targets]; there's no way we can achieve that. I think it lacks the honesty that Canadians deserve on this issue. It's disingenuous."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/03/news/steven-guilbeault-cabinet-exit-interview

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#CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #UNEP

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/03/news/steven-guilbeault-cabinet-exit-interview

Former 🇨🇦 Cabinet Minister Steven Guilbeault states re AB-Ottawa/Federal government energy MOU:

The budget “explicitly mentioned that we're excluding "enhanced oil recovery" from the tax credit -- a demand from Green Party Leader Elizabeth May that Guilbeault had communicated to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne as her red line.

“Then Elizabeth votes for us with the budget, and then, we turn around two weeks later, barely, and we include this in the MOU with Alberta."

"This is unacceptable, I gave my word to Elizabeth, we gave our word as a party to Elizabeth, and we're betraying our word to her.”

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#CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #UNEP

The National Observer zooms in on AB-Ottawa/Federal government energy MOU, as proposing:

🪔 "to slash-and-burn a series of climate policies" affecting clean electricity regulations, the oil and gas emissions cap and the oil tanker moratorium on B.C.'s coast

🪔 "dramatic reversal in policy that would allow carbon capture tax credits to be used for "enhanced oil recovery" (pumping more oil out of the ground using captured carbon dioxide) — despite that being explicitly excluded in the federal budget"

Former 🇨🇦 Cabinet Minister Steven Guilbeault states:

🚨"the government isn't being honest with the public and is betraying its commitments"

1/3

#CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #UNEP

Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint.

Of course, policies that would mitigate climate impact got stripped out by the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Good reporting by Floodlight

https://floodlightnews.org/corn-ethanol-clean-energy-vs-climate-costs/

#corn #AgPolicy #Climate #ClimateChange #GroundwaterPollution #biofuels #KingCorn #NitrousOxide #ethanol #nitrate #nitrogen #groundwater #NitrogenFertilizer #agriculture #lobbying #CorporateLobbying #OBBBA

Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint.

Of course, policies that would mitigate climate impact got stripped out by the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Good reporting by Floodlight

https://floodlightnews.org/corn-ethanol-clean-energy-vs-climate-costs/

#corn #AgPolicy #Climate #ClimateChange #GroundwaterPollution #biofuels #KingCorn #NitrousOxide #ethanol #nitrate #nitrogen #groundwater #NitrogenFertilizer #agriculture #lobbying #CorporateLobbying #OBBBA

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.
#colombia #environment #climate #ClimateChange

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/colombia-bans-all-new-oil-and-mining-projects-in-its-amazon/

#ClimateChange

"Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared?

Climate change isn’t just warming the planet; it’s shaking Earth’s foundations

(. . .)

When we think about climate change, it’s usually in terms of how the atmosphere and oceans are heating up. The idea that it can also affect the ground beneath our feet seems almost laughable. Nonetheless, it’s true.

Seismological Service, published summer 2025, links swarms of small tremors beneath Mont Blanc in the European Alps to rapid thawing of ice and snow during a heatwave in 2015.

Percolating downwards, the extra water eventually found its way into a major fault zone that slices through the 12km-long (7-mile) Mont Blanc Road Tunnel, lubricating it and causing it to shift sufficiently to trigger a burst of low-level seismic activity.

The occurrence of small tremors has since remained elevated, substantially hiking the risk of bigger quakes in the future.

As global heating continues to drive longer and more intense heatwaves, meltwater sourced by accelerated glacier melting and the thawing of permafrost can be expected to increase seismic activity across the world’s high mountain ranges, and the great tracts of permafrost in Canada and Siberia.

As well as raising concerns among those who live in the Mont Blanc region, the Swiss research also holds lessons for any town or city on geological faults that have spawned big quakes in the past; think Tokyo in Japan, and San Francisco and Los Angeles in California."

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/massive-climate-induced-earthquakes

#ClimateChange

"Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared?

Climate change isn’t just warming the planet; it’s shaking Earth’s foundations

(. . .)

When we think about climate change, it’s usually in terms of how the atmosphere and oceans are heating up. The idea that it can also affect the ground beneath our feet seems almost laughable. Nonetheless, it’s true.

Seismological Service, published summer 2025, links swarms of small tremors beneath Mont Blanc in the European Alps to rapid thawing of ice and snow during a heatwave in 2015.

Percolating downwards, the extra water eventually found its way into a major fault zone that slices through the 12km-long (7-mile) Mont Blanc Road Tunnel, lubricating it and causing it to shift sufficiently to trigger a burst of low-level seismic activity.

The occurrence of small tremors has since remained elevated, substantially hiking the risk of bigger quakes in the future.

As global heating continues to drive longer and more intense heatwaves, meltwater sourced by accelerated glacier melting and the thawing of permafrost can be expected to increase seismic activity across the world’s high mountain ranges, and the great tracts of permafrost in Canada and Siberia.

As well as raising concerns among those who live in the Mont Blanc region, the Swiss research also holds lessons for any town or city on geological faults that have spawned big quakes in the past; think Tokyo in Japan, and San Francisco and Los Angeles in California."

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/massive-climate-induced-earthquakes

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.
#colombia #environment #climate #ClimateChange

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/colombia-bans-all-new-oil-and-mining-projects-in-its-amazon/