Citizen. Environmentalist for 1/3 of a century. Researcher #pollution #climate. Professor Vascular Medicine. Likes people. Believes in equality, fairness, truth.
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Sadly so. See subtle inference re jackdaw oil field … right wing push to drill baby drill. Misleading, North Sea a major oil producer, but only a small fraction refined & used in UK. Most exported globally We don’t own it. We shouldn’t drill it It doesn’t give us any #energy security. #Renewables do
Misleading, @BBCNews, while North Sea remains a major oil producer, only a small fraction actually refined & used in UK. Most is exported globally. We don’t own it. We shouldn’t drill it It doesn’t give us any #energy security. #Renewables do Permission should be denied
Current state of UK political discourse.
Published figures publichealthscotland.scot/publications... times-stage-of-treatment/stage-of-treatment-waiting-times-inpatients-day-cases-and-new-outpatients-quarter-ending-30-june-2025/_ researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/ СВР-7281/CBР-7281.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Misinformation. Per-Capita Comparison Scotland June 2025, 639,579 waiting for inpatient, day‑case, or outpatient care ie 117 per 1,000 population (~11.7%) England March 2025, 6.3 million patients were on #NHS waiting list ie 112 per 1,000 (~11.2%) Hope both improve. Rotten point scoring won’t help.
Glad he’s not our #Energy Secretary. Glad I contributed to making the community note public. To Power whole world with #Solar + infrastructure ~0.6-1% land mass. That’s only 10-15% Sahara desert Electricity for whole world 0.1%? That’s 1.5% Sahara desert And it’s RENEWABLE…duh.
#Vaccine hesitancy, brought about by stupid folks’ misinformation has taken another child’s life. Vaccination saves lives. Ever heard a child with whooping cough? Have a listen & make sure your child is safe - vaccinate.
Honestly… you couldn’t make this up! #Waterwastrels
Sigh…. Is there ever ANY good news? “More pollutants released into atmosphere from rockets & satellites than ever before. We’re in uncharted territory, humans have never added this much #pollution to upper layers of the atmosphere. If left unregulated it’ll have serious impacts”
Delegates at UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) asked what % of the global population would say they were willing to give 1% of their income to help fix #ClimateChange. The estimate was 37%, but recent research found the true figure is 69%. And 89% said Govts “should do more to fight global warming”.
Anyone NOT see the trend? #ClimateCrisis.
Would be great to hear Starmer say this, again & again. Why have the Reform deniers got all the spotlight?
Yeah. Guess so. But a shame..
Well deserved. Great posts.
I think because we would have won…
“Only 13% Scotland’s land is top-quality & can grow food. We’re losing an alarming amount to houses, supermarkets, urban sprawl, rather than using brownfield sites. In 2023 >1/2 went to barley, to make alcohol. We are proud of our whisky, but crucially, what importance do we place on food security?”
So Kemi is an economic migrant? The ones she wants to stop… Asked what she wanted to be at 16, she said: “A doctor. I had actually got admission into medical school in the US – I got into Stanford pre-med – & I got into medical school in Nigeria but I came here because it was just a lot cheaper.”
What happened to our suggestions? Our story behind the names was really compelling: ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Chevron, BP, PetroChina, ConocoPhillips, TotalEnergies
9 out of 10 want Govts to take stronger climate actions, yet there’s a dramatic shift away from progress to avert #ClimateDisaster. Powerful Govts, financial institutions & big oil are turning their back on climate promises, some funding secretive lobby groups & far-right politicians.
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It’s disgraceful children don’t get it in UK. And to see them limit the vaccine to 75y and over is a disgrace. Nil for healthcare workers who will spread #Covid amongst vulnerable patients.
It’s disgraceful children don’t get it in UK. And to see them limit the vaccine to 75y and over is a disgrace. Nil for healthcare workers who will spread #Covid amongst vulnerable patients.
Come to Scotland…
Lucky State. In uk they’ve actually cut eligibility to 75y and over only (apart from Immunosuppressed) - disgraceful.
#Vaccine hesitancy, brought about by stupid folks’ misinformation has taken another child’s life. Vaccination saves lives. Ever heard a child with whooping cough? Have a listen & make sure your child is safe - vaccinate.
Great idea. Don’t be fooled by pictures suggesting wood burning is nice It’s toxic It harms you, your family & your neighbours.
Great idea. Don’t be fooled by pictures suggesting wood burning is nice It’s toxic It harms you, your family & your neighbours.
Yes let’s not forget. Reform was Brexit party was UKIP. I wonder if Farage will forgo his £75k / annum EU pension in 2years as he was so contemptuous of it??????
Yes let’s not forget. Reform was Brexit party was UKIP. I wonder if Farage will forgo his £75k / annum EU pension in 2years as he was so contemptuous of it??????
Interestingly US uses air quality bands. And your bands are really misleading in that they suggest no harm at levels we know do harm. Keep fighting for cleaner air. Sadly I see loosening of regs on the horizon.
An Aug. 14 Pew Research poll found that Trump's approval rating dropped to near-record low of 28%. 60% disapprove of his job performance. He promised to lower prices, but didn't. Maybe people want to keep social security, healthcare & individual rights?!
And considering it was supposed to ‘run out’ when arguing against independence in 2014, it further exposes their lies.
It makes me mad every time I think about it. Sure, we shouldn’t drill now (climate), but the years of funding fossil fuel companies with NIL for the people. All the Govts did was tax it, and then wasted it on eg tax relief for stocks and shares aka the already rich.
It’s time to end this travesty Anyone understand why people still in prison tho law abolished? England & Wales → had IPPs, now abolished but thousands still stuck inside (Scotland → never had IPPs, instead uses OLRs, reserved for serious violence/sexual crimes, not minor offences)
Another politician who doesn’t understand science 🤷 Tories plan to overhaul the North Sea Transition Authority, which oversees issuing of drilling licences. They would delete the entire current 12-page mandate & replace it with a single instruction to “maximise the extraction of our oil & gas”
After we have destroyed their natural habitats, good to put something back (and you can’t bottom trawl where these are placed) Concrete blocks create artificial #reefs ➡️ habitat & shelter for marine life. Corals/algae grow, attracting fish for breeding & protection #biodiversity
Can we please stop fussing re this non-story about a legal saving of £40,000 because of divorce, & complain instead that in 2 years Farage, who broke Britain with #Brexit, qualifies for his £73,000 PER YEAR gold plated pension from the EU...
#ThamesWater will only have to pay a fifth of its record £122.7 million in fines under a “sweetheart deal,” with industry regulator Ofwat branded “outrageous” by water campaigners today. Absolutely. Disgraceful. Nationalise now.
Disgraceful. Healthcare workers CARE for people with #Covid. They will suffer & spread it to vulnerable patients. So shortsighted. COVID-19 boosters will not be offered to UK healthcare workers. • Eligibility strictly: • Aged 75+ • Residents in care homes • Immunosuppressed individuals
Please don’t discuss… DO Improve sanctions so they really bite Give the withheld Russian money to Ukraine to rebuild & defend. Remember: Russia invaded after signing a treaty saying they wouldn’t, if Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons (which they did)
This is chilling…. #Nuclear
Maybe we need to check all US ‘holidaymakers’ social media and pop some into detention before sending them back? Reminds me if a childhood saying - MYOB #BackOffFromBritain
Memo to self… Stop going to GPs, but ask neighbour for pill. Stop going to hairdresser, get eldest daughter to cut hair Stop going to plumber, get milkman to sort the burst pipe…wait he’s busy fixing the lights…..
This is chilling…. #Nuclear
#Sandeels are a vital source of food for marine life eg seabirds that live along UK coastline. Bans for English & Scottish waters put in place to prohibit trawlers netting the tiny fish, as sandeel stocks were becoming too low. Challenge brought by Denmark - Shame on you!
Absolutely
Overburdened mitochondria showing in their faces?? I’m a doctor & this is utter rubbish. Never has a single mitochondria altered anyone’s appearance. “I see these kids that are overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, you can tell it from their faces, from their body movement”
Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, don’t privatise the #NHS, @UKLabour “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Please don’t discuss… DO Improve sanctions so they really bite Give the withheld Russian money to Ukraine to rebuild & defend. Remember: Russia invaded after signing a treaty saying they wouldn’t, if Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons (which they did)
#Climate TRACE, tracks all emissions to source, so threatens political & industrial interests. It could face pressure from powerful groups prefering to keep #emissions hidden. FIGHT TO KEEP THIS. At ClimateTRACE.org see emissions by country, city, sector, or even individual power plants
Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, don’t privatise the #NHS, @UKLabour “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Overburdened mitochondria showing in their faces?? I’m a doctor & this is utter rubbish. Never has a single mitochondria altered anyone’s appearance. “I see these kids that are overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, you can tell it from their faces, from their body movement”
Disgraceful. Healthcare workers CARE for people with #Covid. They will suffer & spread it to vulnerable patients. So shortsighted. COVID-19 boosters will not be offered to UK healthcare workers. • Eligibility strictly: • Aged 75+ • Residents in care homes • Immunosuppressed individuals
#ThamesWater will only have to pay a fifth of its record £122.7 million in fines under a “sweetheart deal,” with industry regulator Ofwat branded “outrageous” by water campaigners today. Absolutely. Disgraceful. Nationalise now.
28 EVs are eligible for grants of £1,500 in UK. Govt announced its £650m Electric Car Grant scheme help drive the switch to non-#polluting vehicles. Grants apply to #EVs with a list price of £37,000 or below, discount applied automatically at point of sale.
- FCA investigating #Drax's wood sourcing - Drax’s former employee says it “mislead public, govt & regulator” over wood sourcing - National Audit Office doubts trustworthiness of UK process that monitors wood from sustainable forests. - UK govt confirms continued subsidies #WoodBurningNotGreen
Imagine if they were your child…. 3 children dead + 10 adults 2 children dead 17 injured 6 children dead + 26 adults USA, you can stop this. Sanctions on Russia (Europe too) Gun control Tell Netanyahu - STOP.
Worrying. USA develops #vaccines used by us all This ignorance will cost lives, globally. “It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, silencing of experts, & dangerous politicization of science. Our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within.”
A miracle. @BBCNews App front page with NO mention of Farage/Reform. Wonders will never cease. Have all our complaints had an effect? Keep em coming, and then on to OFCOM
Davey said: “Boycotting the state banquet is not something I ever wanted to do, but I believe it is the only way I can send a message to both Donald Trump & Keir Starmer that they cannot close their eyes & wish this away.” #Gaza
In 2010 there was a large number of people sent back. I heard 60,000 quoted by an immigration lawyer on LBC news this week. They did that WITH the ECHR. Don’t let Reform fool us.
Watch my lips… GUN CONTROL House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Our prayers are with the children, families, civilians, & law enforcement…." Mayor Jacob Fret "Don't say this is about thoughts & prayers - these kids were literally praying"
The @NHS. It’s underfunded, not wasteful… UK under invests on medicines with "only 9% of the healthcare budget in NHS" being spent on drugs compared to 14% in France & 15% in Germany.
Corrupt blackmailer. A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between #FossilFuel industry & anti-wind groups. The firm, Marzulla Law L.L.C., has close ties to the conservative legal movement.
For goodness sake, @uklabour, rejoin and put us out of our misery. #Brexit
Another ‘surprise’ effect of #ClimateChange. It will touch every aspect of our life.
Not again, @Telegraph ! Please stop announcing #ClimateChange with photos of folk having fun. What about the crop losses, the Scottish wildfires, the hosepipe bans etc etc Not a funfair. Please.
Thanks. Important.
Scotland as a whole country could do this. We produce 110% of our energy needs via #Renewables.
BBC headline “hundreds attend protest in Perth”. It should have read “150 protesters outnumbered by the 250 anti racist a demonstrators”. BBC stirring it up..
Saw this and am horrified. Hopefully the threat of local earthquake will get communities up in arms. However Reform’s other climate denying tactics hasn’t put enough folk off. We shall see.
Love this…
"It's grossly financially negligent to a criminal degree to leave that value underground and not to extract it." What???? “It’s grossly negligent to a criminal degree to frack for #FossilFuel when there’s a #ClimateEmergency.” There. Fixed it.
#Climate hope from the next generation…. They are our future. 12 yr old, Prasiddhi Singh has planted >150,000 trees across India. This determined young environmentalist is one of India’s most prominent youth-led sustainability advocates. She runs her own nonprofit Prasiddhi Forest Foundation.
This is soluble. Sainsbury’s use paper bags, Morrisons a returnable crate. Come @Ocado, @coopuk! #Plastic bag sales rose for 1st time in 10 yr as online & ultra-fast deliveries replace supermarket trips. English shoppers bought 437m single-use plastic bags in 2024, a rise of 7%.
This 👇🏻
Here is our fate unless we act now. In Nature, one of science’s most reputable journals. We need to STOP burning #FossilFuels & transition to #renewables. We need to set up mitigation & adaptation strategies. And we need to do it now… #ClimateCrisis
Please note it was 150 protesters and 250 anti racism supporters. #IsThisHeadlineMisleading?@BBCNews
Could also be used in #agrivoltaics. If #solar trees placed along hiking trails or forest boundaries at 20m intervals, 63 trees with high-efficiency panels are capable of producing electricity at maximum rate of 1m watts (1,000 kilowatts) at any given moment— all while leaving forest intact.
But made no effort to stop Putin’s attacks deep inside #Ukraine. Anyone know whose side he’s on?
This policy on renewables is so dangerous…. for us all. Why does the US trust a regime whose leader writes like this about renewables ..… in the middle of a #ClimateCrisis?
Boys living in polluted area had cardiovascular measures taken. All improved with night time air filters, abnormalities recurred when ‘sham’ filters replaced active ones. We are removing children’s right to a healthy future by tolerating #AirPollution
Really good to share panel membership with such dedicated environmentalists at Holyrood earlier this week. Thanks to @SarahBoyack for chairing & to @ScotGov for hosting. Environmental injustice links closely with #ClimateChange, as it does with #AirPollution & #Biodiversity loss.
Trump’s advice for #Ukraine came as he said there were “interesting times ahead!” Good there is recognition that Russia is the aggressor…
Spain’s PM: “Climate change exacerbates extreme weather. Science & common sense tells us that the climate is changing, that the climate emergency is worsening, that it is becoming more recurrent, more frequent, & each time has a greater impact.”
“It's time for a serious conversation about who owns Scotland's forests. We cannot allow opaque transactions such as this to keep occurring, when there is little oversight over which entities are buying large parts of Scotland & who actually benefits from that ownership.”
This should not happen. A clear conflict of interest, @scotgov “The government will now consider whether to roll the fast-track application scheme out across the rest of Scotland's coastal areas.”
Reports of 2nd consecutive year in which food growers in UK are seeing dramatic falls in production. Access to food is frequently taken for granted in the world’s wealthiest nations. But increased food insecurity is among the dangerous effects of the #ClimateCrisis
European Environmental Policy Inst found UK falling behind In protecting rare creatures eg red squirrels, cleaning up air & water, removing dangerous chemicals, & making consumer products more recyclable & energy efficient. Since Brexit, EU has 28 new environmental legislations UK has not adopted.
40% of our glaciers gone! SINCE 2020! Civilisation is, in many places, reliant on glaciers for crops. Slight melt in summer waters crops, freeze in winter allows water to gather for the next year. Once they are gone, many, many people will be adversely affected #ClimateCrisis
Since 2024, 50 Red Cross/Red Crescent volunteers & staff died or been killed while performing humanitarian duties. This is among the highest levels of global violence the charity has ever experienced. And they are not the only charity to suffer losses donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ifrc/red-fam...
European Environmental Policy Inst found UK falling behind In protecting rare creatures eg red squirrels, cleaning up air & water, removing dangerous chemicals, & making consumer products more recyclable & energy efficient. Since Brexit, EU has 28 new environmental legislations UK has not adopted.
6th Mass Extinction? Yup. Worryingly, geologists have discovered most of mass extinctions of Earth – including the very worst ever by far – were caused by massive volcanic eruptions that injected catastrophic amounts of CO2 into the air & oceans. As we are doing with #FossilFuel burning
Reports of 2nd consecutive year in which food growers in UK are seeing dramatic falls in production. Access to food is frequently taken for granted in the world’s wealthiest nations. But increased food insecurity is among the dangerous effects of the #ClimateCrisis
Spain has sent 500 more troops to fight raging wildfires, bringing the total deployed to 1,900. Fires have also broken out in Portugal, Greece, France, Turkey and the Balkans as a heatwave has scorched swathes of southern Europe. #Climate
20% water lost to leaks. #Water firms pledged to halve leakages by 2050. That’s 25y away! Cut allowable profits until fixed. No new reservoirs built in 30y despite huge population growth & #ClimateChange, & English reservoirs at lowest levels. (Ps Scotland short of water, but no drought FYI re map)
Electricity companies leaking millions of litres of oil underground. In 15y, 3m litres spilt under south England privatised Power Networks cables. One said it was committed to replacing cables entirely “in the long term” Plus making a profit This is why we need to #nationalise public services.
Awful. What can we do to help? “In Afghanistan women seeking divorce over domestic violence face 2 hellish choices - go back to their abusive husband or face prison time. Surprisingly, the women are choosing to go to prison. In the prison, many are facing rape & physical assault."
Aren't security guarantees what were given to Ukraine by Russia, US & UK when they originally agreed to give up their nuclear arsenal in 1994 - the Budapest Memorandum? They dismantled their entire nuclear capacity on the back of it. Russia will sign anything, then rip it up…..
