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Arnab Dutt OBE

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Creating social/environmental predictive impact models in a climate crisis and mapping impact at scale. Identifying system risk and promoting social and environmental justice. Planet, nature and people. I also love wine & Arsenal https://divineox.org/who

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · Feb 1

Everybody needs to understand that climate justice and human rights are inseparable.

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 8h

It is utterly depressing because they have learnt nothing.

Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely

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Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick @sarahinscience.bsky.social · 9h

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

www.nature.com

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 8h

I expect to see nothing but more suffering for the Palestinians and their children. In the West Bank criminal land theft will be encouraged. When someone walks into your house and tells it's now his because God says so, reason, justice and the rule of law have departed.

Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 8h

It's pretty depresssing how Israeli politicians are deliberatly blind to what they have done to Palestinians not just over the last two years but the last seventy. Standing for humanity and the protection of children is not standing with terrorists which is their accusation against the world.

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 12h

I thought it was a limited company not a political party. These people are paying customers, making the chief shareholder even richer.

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Gerard Elwood @gerardelwood.bsky.social · 13h

Rising! Look closer at Ulster Loyalists and the Orange Order. They always have been and are now emboldened by the British press, BBC, Brexit, Unionism, the Tories, Reform and Farage. Not to mention the rise of English nationalism.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Fascism is rising in the North of Ireland, warn activists monitoring the far-right

The Canary spoke to anti-fascism campaigners who have been monitoring social media accounts of extremist groups and infiltrating them

www.thecanary.co

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 13h

Once the hostages are back Netanyahu will attack Gaza again. Give it a few weeks, a pretext will be given to start blowing up Palestinians again.
Keep your eyes on the West Bank as more illegal occupiers steal land from the Palestinians.

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 13h

When the USA is under an internal threat like Trump this is without doubt the worst time for the Democratic party to become utterly useless...yet it is.

Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for that breakfast image now living in my head....no churros this morning.

Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 13h

This is like he just discovered Kermit was a frog.

Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 13h

It's going to be really interesting when Trump goes after Barack "Hussein" Obama. I'm sure President Obama is already well prepared for that circus.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

It'll soon be 10 years since the Brexit ref. So much has changed since then. If Brexit is the cause of our economic problems, as the government now admits, then surely we need to ask ourselves whether we want to carry on down the Brexit road or turn around and head back to the Single Market and EU.

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 1d

There is the letter of the law and there is justice. The two are not the same and this case is an exemplar.

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 1d

Strip out London, and Britain’s GDP per capita is just 3% larger than Poland’s 🤯

Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 1d

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 1d

I fear too many tipping points have been crossed and governments are very late to the table on adaptation. Depressing isn't it.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
#climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for bravely posting. I find it really irritating the English speaking press calls these people "settlers". Language is imporant. They are "illegal occupiers" and that is what our press should be calling them. They are stealing land. They are criminals.

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The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social · 1d

The Bars, Faculty and Law Societies in the UK have come together and accused politicians of "irresponsible and dangerous" language that is putting lawyers at risk.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims

In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed “grave concern” over the language being used toward legal professionals

www.mirror.co.uk

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 1d

Victor Orban is Putins man in Europe. He sabotages the EU, and corruptly enriches himself. He holds power through media manipulation and the suppression of the democratic opposition. There must be a structure and process to exclude Putins allies in the EU.

Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to be interesting.

Arnab Dutt OBE @arnabdutt.bsky.social · 2d

This is not political rocket science and would do more to turbo charge our economy before the next election creating visible positive outcomes and impacts people could see.