Jill Belch
@jillbelch.bsky.social
Citizen. Environmentalist for 1/3 of a century. Researcher #pollution #climate. Professor Vascular Medicine. Likes people. Believes in equality, fairness, truth.
£28 billion to upgrade UK's energy network. 64% of this, a whopping £17.8 billion, is for maintenance of gas networks not new transmission lines for #renewables.
Why?
#ShortSighted
Why?
#ShortSighted
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
£28 billion to upgrade UK's energy network. 64% of this, a whopping £17.8 billion, is for maintenance of gas networks not new transmission lines for #renewables.
Why?
#ShortSighted
Why?
#ShortSighted
Where is the action, @GovUK?
Uk permits higher levels as EU lowers theirs.
Why so high?
For business profit?
‘Forever chemicals’ harm human reproductive function, fertility, & fetal development. Also linked to adverse effects on thyroid, liver & immune functions
#Pollution
Uk permits higher levels as EU lowers theirs.
Why so high?
For business profit?
‘Forever chemicals’ harm human reproductive function, fertility, & fetal development. Also linked to adverse effects on thyroid, liver & immune functions
#Pollution
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Where is the action, @GovUK?
Uk permits higher levels as EU lowers theirs.
Why so high?
For business profit?
‘Forever chemicals’ harm human reproductive function, fertility, & fetal development. Also linked to adverse effects on thyroid, liver & immune functions
#Pollution
Uk permits higher levels as EU lowers theirs.
Why so high?
For business profit?
‘Forever chemicals’ harm human reproductive function, fertility, & fetal development. Also linked to adverse effects on thyroid, liver & immune functions
#Pollution
Why,@UKLabour are you not dumping this albatross???
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new nuclear at CO2 #climate mitigation. Build times for new #nuclear are massively longer than for #solar and #wind. Nuclear costs always ramp.
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Why,@UKLabour are you not dumping this albatross???
We need regulations that ensures #DataCentres provide most of their energy via solar panels or wind turbines.
They should be self sufficient if at all possible.
Bad enough they take the local water without also taking the energy.
They should be self sufficient if at all possible.
Bad enough they take the local water without also taking the energy.
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We need regulations that ensures #DataCentres provide most of their energy via solar panels or wind turbines.
They should be self sufficient if at all possible.
Bad enough they take the local water without also taking the energy.
They should be self sufficient if at all possible.
Bad enough they take the local water without also taking the energy.
Ever thought you’d see the day when wood stoves #polluted more than power stations?
Burning wood harms health.
Harms you, your children & your neighbours.
Don’t do it…
Burning wood harms health.
Harms you, your children & your neighbours.
Don’t do it…
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ever thought you’d see the day when wood stoves #polluted more than power stations?
Burning wood harms health.
Harms you, your children & your neighbours.
Don’t do it…
Burning wood harms health.
Harms you, your children & your neighbours.
Don’t do it…
Come on @ScotGov
We know #WoodBurning in the home damages health - significantly.
Wood-burning stoves are likely to face tighter restrictions in England under new pollution targets set as part of an updated environmental plan released by ministers on Monday.
We know #WoodBurning in the home damages health - significantly.
Wood-burning stoves are likely to face tighter restrictions in England under new pollution targets set as part of an updated environmental plan released by ministers on Monday.
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Come on @ScotGov
We know #WoodBurning in the home damages health - significantly.
Wood-burning stoves are likely to face tighter restrictions in England under new pollution targets set as part of an updated environmental plan released by ministers on Monday.
We know #WoodBurning in the home damages health - significantly.
Wood-burning stoves are likely to face tighter restrictions in England under new pollution targets set as part of an updated environmental plan released by ministers on Monday.
Please don't let us go backwards!
Global #measles mortality down 88% between 2000 & 2024, with 59 million lives saved through immunisation, (WHO report). Despite this, measles transmission surged in 2024, prompting renewed warnings about declining vaccination coverage and widening immunity gaps.
Global #measles mortality down 88% between 2000 & 2024, with 59 million lives saved through immunisation, (WHO report). Despite this, measles transmission surged in 2024, prompting renewed warnings about declining vaccination coverage and widening immunity gaps.
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Please don't let us go backwards!
Global #measles mortality down 88% between 2000 & 2024, with 59 million lives saved through immunisation, (WHO report). Despite this, measles transmission surged in 2024, prompting renewed warnings about declining vaccination coverage and widening immunity gaps.
Global #measles mortality down 88% between 2000 & 2024, with 59 million lives saved through immunisation, (WHO report). Despite this, measles transmission surged in 2024, prompting renewed warnings about declining vaccination coverage and widening immunity gaps.
EU tightening rules on
• industrial emissions
• vehicle standards
• chemical pollutants
• citizen enforcement rights
• PFAS & pesticide controls
UK loosening environmental protections thro undemocratic Retained EU Law Act with weaker rules on air, water, chemicals & nature.
Watch it happen…
• industrial emissions
• vehicle standards
• chemical pollutants
• citizen enforcement rights
• PFAS & pesticide controls
UK loosening environmental protections thro undemocratic Retained EU Law Act with weaker rules on air, water, chemicals & nature.
Watch it happen…
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
EU tightening rules on
• industrial emissions
• vehicle standards
• chemical pollutants
• citizen enforcement rights
• PFAS & pesticide controls
UK loosening environmental protections thro undemocratic Retained EU Law Act with weaker rules on air, water, chemicals & nature.
Watch it happen…
• industrial emissions
• vehicle standards
• chemical pollutants
• citizen enforcement rights
• PFAS & pesticide controls
UK loosening environmental protections thro undemocratic Retained EU Law Act with weaker rules on air, water, chemicals & nature.
Watch it happen…
Well done climate activists in Oz…
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Well done climate activists in Oz…
Poor Americans…
And poor us with our food trade deal with them!
Please can we rejoin the EU instead…
#AntibioticResistance
And poor us with our food trade deal with them!
Please can we rejoin the EU instead…
#AntibioticResistance
November 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Poor Americans…
And poor us with our food trade deal with them!
Please can we rejoin the EU instead…
#AntibioticResistance
And poor us with our food trade deal with them!
Please can we rejoin the EU instead…
#AntibioticResistance
So we’ve been warning about this for over 10years.
Now it’s here - drought.
Don’t act surprised.
@GovUk - get your act together on #ClimateMitigation.
Now!
Now it’s here - drought.
Don’t act surprised.
@GovUk - get your act together on #ClimateMitigation.
Now!
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
So we’ve been warning about this for over 10years.
Now it’s here - drought.
Don’t act surprised.
@GovUk - get your act together on #ClimateMitigation.
Now!
Now it’s here - drought.
Don’t act surprised.
@GovUk - get your act together on #ClimateMitigation.
Now!
How money & the rich can influence our votes.
Think, think, think before you do.
“Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X via ‘for you’ can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years”
#PoliticalBias
Think, think, think before you do.
“Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X via ‘for you’ can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years”
#PoliticalBias
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
How money & the rich can influence our votes.
Think, think, think before you do.
“Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X via ‘for you’ can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years”
#PoliticalBias
Think, think, think before you do.
“Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X via ‘for you’ can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years”
#PoliticalBias
Poor America
Pursuit of money at any cost.
This is what happens when politicians are funded by big business. Deregulation is at the core of ReformUK economic agenda - it has recently made deregulation & reducing “red tape” central to their platform
#Pollution
Pursuit of money at any cost.
This is what happens when politicians are funded by big business. Deregulation is at the core of ReformUK economic agenda - it has recently made deregulation & reducing “red tape” central to their platform
#Pollution
November 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Poor America
Pursuit of money at any cost.
This is what happens when politicians are funded by big business. Deregulation is at the core of ReformUK economic agenda - it has recently made deregulation & reducing “red tape” central to their platform
#Pollution
Pursuit of money at any cost.
This is what happens when politicians are funded by big business. Deregulation is at the core of ReformUK economic agenda - it has recently made deregulation & reducing “red tape” central to their platform
#Pollution
Some of the things I don’t like
(eg disincentive mile charge for EVs)
But can’t argue with this…..
#BudgetFairness
(eg disincentive mile charge for EVs)
But can’t argue with this…..
#BudgetFairness
November 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Some of the things I don’t like
(eg disincentive mile charge for EVs)
But can’t argue with this…..
#BudgetFairness
(eg disincentive mile charge for EVs)
But can’t argue with this…..
#BudgetFairness
Yay!
Now for the debate.
And while you’re at it, please release the unredacted #RussiaReport.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Now for the debate.
And while you’re at it, please release the unredacted #RussiaReport.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Yay!
Now for the debate.
And while you’re at it, please release the unredacted #RussiaReport.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Now for the debate.
And while you’re at it, please release the unredacted #RussiaReport.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Nothing says ‘I’m serious about combating #drug trafficking’ quite like pardoning someone convicted of… drug trafficking.
Make it make sense…..
Make it make sense…..
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Nothing says ‘I’m serious about combating #drug trafficking’ quite like pardoning someone convicted of… drug trafficking.
Make it make sense…..
Make it make sense…..
Scotland doesn’t want nuclear. Possibly England doesn’t either
Most other countries dropping nuclear investment.
#Nuclear is costly, slow, & expensive compared to wind and solar.
And has ever, ever waste.
And we don’t own it (keeping French energy costs low)
I bet this costs us EVEN more in time.
Most other countries dropping nuclear investment.
#Nuclear is costly, slow, & expensive compared to wind and solar.
And has ever, ever waste.
And we don’t own it (keeping French energy costs low)
I bet this costs us EVEN more in time.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Scotland doesn’t want nuclear. Possibly England doesn’t either
Most other countries dropping nuclear investment.
#Nuclear is costly, slow, & expensive compared to wind and solar.
And has ever, ever waste.
And we don’t own it (keeping French energy costs low)
I bet this costs us EVEN more in time.
Most other countries dropping nuclear investment.
#Nuclear is costly, slow, & expensive compared to wind and solar.
And has ever, ever waste.
And we don’t own it (keeping French energy costs low)
I bet this costs us EVEN more in time.
Well this is awkward…
Torygraph headline 1: Brexit is a failure
Torygraph headline 2: Terrifying possibility - Labour might fix the failure!
I’ll take option 2.
Roll on the second referendum.
Torygraph headline 1: Brexit is a failure
Torygraph headline 2: Terrifying possibility - Labour might fix the failure!
I’ll take option 2.
Roll on the second referendum.
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Well this is awkward…
Torygraph headline 1: Brexit is a failure
Torygraph headline 2: Terrifying possibility - Labour might fix the failure!
I’ll take option 2.
Roll on the second referendum.
Torygraph headline 1: Brexit is a failure
Torygraph headline 2: Terrifying possibility - Labour might fix the failure!
I’ll take option 2.
Roll on the second referendum.
Everyone should pay their taxes
Duchies of Lancaster & Cornwall provide King & P William £27 million & £23m/year
Since 1993 king voluntarily agreed to pay income tax on Duchy’s surplus after expenses deducted.
He doesn’t pay:
Corporation tax
Capital gains tax
Inheritance tax
Duchies of Lancaster & Cornwall provide King & P William £27 million & £23m/year
Since 1993 king voluntarily agreed to pay income tax on Duchy’s surplus after expenses deducted.
He doesn’t pay:
Corporation tax
Capital gains tax
Inheritance tax
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Everyone should pay their taxes
Duchies of Lancaster & Cornwall provide King & P William £27 million & £23m/year
Since 1993 king voluntarily agreed to pay income tax on Duchy’s surplus after expenses deducted.
He doesn’t pay:
Corporation tax
Capital gains tax
Inheritance tax
Duchies of Lancaster & Cornwall provide King & P William £27 million & £23m/year
Since 1993 king voluntarily agreed to pay income tax on Duchy’s surplus after expenses deducted.
He doesn’t pay:
Corporation tax
Capital gains tax
Inheritance tax
Petrochemical states want to ‘drill, baby, drill’ when we know it’s actually ‘kill, baby, kill’
Existing fossil fuel capacity enough to meet world’s energy demands as renewable energy takes up the demand
The IEA said energy groups must stop all new #FossilFuel exploration to reach net zero by 2050
Existing fossil fuel capacity enough to meet world’s energy demands as renewable energy takes up the demand
The IEA said energy groups must stop all new #FossilFuel exploration to reach net zero by 2050
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Petrochemical states want to ‘drill, baby, drill’ when we know it’s actually ‘kill, baby, kill’
Existing fossil fuel capacity enough to meet world’s energy demands as renewable energy takes up the demand
The IEA said energy groups must stop all new #FossilFuel exploration to reach net zero by 2050
Existing fossil fuel capacity enough to meet world’s energy demands as renewable energy takes up the demand
The IEA said energy groups must stop all new #FossilFuel exploration to reach net zero by 2050
Reposted by Jill Belch
Yes. No 3 is the problem.
Why they have ignored or downplayed the biggest threat to their constituents lives, is the question our children will ask.
#MissedDecade
Why they have ignored or downplayed the biggest threat to their constituents lives, is the question our children will ask.
#MissedDecade
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Yes. No 3 is the problem.
Why they have ignored or downplayed the biggest threat to their constituents lives, is the question our children will ask.
#MissedDecade
Why they have ignored or downplayed the biggest threat to their constituents lives, is the question our children will ask.
#MissedDecade
Come on.. at 90,000 now
Just 10k more needed for govt debate.
Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy - Petitions
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Just 10k more needed for govt debate.
Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy - Petitions
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Come on.. at 90,000 now
Just 10k more needed for govt debate.
Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy - Petitions
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Just 10k more needed for govt debate.
Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy - Petitions
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I hope more folk turned up…..
In 2022 when Patrick Vallance held a climate change info meeting in Westminster only 70 out of 650 MPs turned up.
#GovtsIgnoringClimate
In 2022 when Patrick Vallance held a climate change info meeting in Westminster only 70 out of 650 MPs turned up.
#GovtsIgnoringClimate
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I hope more folk turned up…..
In 2022 when Patrick Vallance held a climate change info meeting in Westminster only 70 out of 650 MPs turned up.
#GovtsIgnoringClimate
In 2022 when Patrick Vallance held a climate change info meeting in Westminster only 70 out of 650 MPs turned up.
#GovtsIgnoringClimate
Named as a Russian target in Gill’s WhatsApp conversations with Russia…
This hypocrite, who was an MSP who fought for #Brexit, now lives in a chateau in France.
Release the Russia report - unredacted.
This hypocrite, who was an MSP who fought for #Brexit, now lives in a chateau in France.
Release the Russia report - unredacted.
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Named as a Russian target in Gill’s WhatsApp conversations with Russia…
This hypocrite, who was an MSP who fought for #Brexit, now lives in a chateau in France.
Release the Russia report - unredacted.
This hypocrite, who was an MSP who fought for #Brexit, now lives in a chateau in France.
Release the Russia report - unredacted.