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At the coal face of environmental change. Calling it as I see it. Views are my own 🙏🏽

Johannesburg
Joined March 2011
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Watch Panorama on BBC1 and player now. This summer was the UK’s hottest summer ever recorded and things are going to get worse. This affects everyone including you and your family regardless of whether people understand that or not. On iPlayer now bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
🚨🚨🚨Please watch tonight 8pm @BBCOne FIRE AND FLOODS: OUR EXTREME WEATHER Professor @HayleyJFowler: ‘If I’m honest, I try not to think about the future. The climate today is the least extreme we will experience in our lifetime. We are not prepared.’ Please RT and encourage everyone you know to watch this vital documentary #climatecrisis #weather #rain #autumn #guyfawkes #fireworks #football #media #news #lammens #carrick #Diwali #cenotaph #lestweforget #thismorning #RussellBrand #davjdwalliams
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More people are coming to Oxford Street. These initial results are better than we had anticipated, and a real boost for the nation’s high street and the businesses that make it such a special place to visit.
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Retail spending up 28%. International visitors up 42%. The figures from Oxford Street’s first week of pedestrianisation are hugely promising.
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And every day that passes more begin to realise
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
Reminder: last year leading climatologist Professor Hayley Fowler said at the @nebriefing that this level of flooding could happen in the U.K. now out of the blue. Media and politicians refuse to make you aware youtu.be/RGIj8d4jdgs?is=-ode…
السيول تداهم البيوت وتجرف السيارات في أربيل شمال العراق 🇮🇶🌧️ نسأل الله السلامة للجميع. 7-11-2026 📍 Erbil, Iraq #Erbil #FlashFloods
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
Great news 🙌🏾 Revitalising Oxford Street is helping to supercharge regeneration - boosting and supporting vital economic growth across our capital and country. ft.com/content/d3d05f60-951d…
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London’s nightlife deserves to thrive. From pubs and clubs to live music venues and festivals, our city’s cultural and economic life depends on them. Our new licensing powers will help put London’s wider interests at the heart of major decisions. thequietus.com/news/london-m…
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Londoners 🤝 Oxford Street. From shoppers to workers, Londoners told us what they think of our plans to create a more welcoming, people-first destination ⬇️
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Sommières, France experiencing the climate hoax Floods and droughts are increasing across the world Scientists warn we are heading towards food system collapse and war Media and politicians couldn’t give a fuck
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
Farage is trying to rewrite his past. We won’t let him. Watch this video and take the threat seriously.
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They are right - don't let Farage rewrite the past
Farage is trying to rewrite his past. We won’t let him. Watch this video and take the threat seriously.
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We've all seen them - a row of rental e-bikes blocking the pavement or dumped where they shouldn't be. I welcome the government’s consultation on regulating dockless e-bikes. We need London-wide licensing in place as soon as possible, replacing the current patchwork borough-by-borough approach.
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
I think you'll find that it's the rape that he is getting punished for...
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Turns out Londoners have a few thoughts about Oxford Street… So we handed over the microphone. From shoppers to workers, people told us why they back plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street and create a more welcoming, people-first destination.
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Scroll past the noise and look at the facts. Compared to 2016, gun crime, burglary, and violence with injury offences are all down. Last year, London’s per capita homicide rate was the lowest since records began. Our strategy to make our capital safer is bearing fruit.
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
Carbon capture will save us… 🤪
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
“Because burning fuels to generate power, drive vehicles and heat buildings wastes much of those fuels’ energy as heat, about two-thirds of the primary energy that goes into the global system is lost before it does anything useful.”
Replacing fossil fuels may not be nearly as daunting a challenge for governments as that persistent 80%-plus share of primary #energy suggests. Because burning fuels to generate power, drive vehicles and heat buildings wastes much of those fuels’ energy as heat, about two-thirds of the primary energy that goes into the global system is lost before it does anything useful. A growing number of energy analysts point out that the energy transition does not require all that waste energy to be replaced, joule for joule, with renewable energy. Believing otherwise is what Canadian chemical engineer Paul Martin has called the “primary energy fallacy”. Or as the Oxford professor Jan Rosenow says “we don’t need to replace waste”. Rosenow is the lead author of a forthcoming study that attempts to quantify the scale of the primary energy fallacy by modelling a highly electrified global economy running on renewable power. It suggests we could get exactly the same amount of useful energy we have today with about half as much primary energy. #climate ft.com/content/1a40a3af-933b…
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
What makes me smile 🙂
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Chandru Wadhwani retweeted
Now you know why Trump says climate change is a hoax. He claims solar panels fry animals, says countries using wind power have gone bankrupt, insists the planet is cooling and even calls imported wind turbines a national security threat and that they rust and rot in eight years.
This graphic should be everywhere today. This is who Trump is fighting for.
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