Daily Archives: 8 March 2024

More climate records fall in world’s warmest February

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68428348

Last month was the world’s warmest February in modern times, the EU’s climate service says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a row.

Each month since June 2023 has seen new temperature highs for the time of year.

The world’s sea surface is at its hottest on record, while Antarctic sea-ice has again reached extreme lows.

Temperatures are still being boosted by the Pacific’s El Niño weather event, but human-caused climate change is by far the main driver of the warmth.

“Heat-trapping greenhouse gases are unequivocally the main culprit,” stresses Prof Celeste Saulo, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization.

Carbon dioxide concentrations are at their highest level for at least two million years, according to the UN’s climate body, and increased by near-record levels again over the past year.

Those warming gases helped make February 2024 about 1.77C warmer than “pre-industrial” times – before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels – according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68428348

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Tories will preside over the first parliament in modern history to see a fall in living standards, damning analysis finds

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https://leftfootforward.org/2024/03/tories-will-preside-over-the-first-parliament-in-modern-history-to-see-a-fall-in-living-standards-damning-analysis-finds/

That’s the Tory record in office, declining living standards with workers left worse off.

The Conservative government will preside over the first parliament in modern history to see a fall in living standards, damning analysis from the Resolution Foundation has found, after Jeremy Hunt’s budget yesterday.

In what is likely to be the last budget, and possibly the final fiscal event before the general election later this year, Hunt’s budget which prioritised tax cuts for the wealthy while doing very little to help those most in need, has been slammed for being out of touch and designed more to save the Conservative Party’s own skin than help the country.

Now damning analysis by the Resolution Foundation think tank has found that the Tories will preside over the first parliament in modern history to see a fall in living standards.

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https://leftfootforward.org/2024/03/tories-will-preside-over-the-first-parliament-in-modern-history-to-see-a-fall-in-living-standards-damning-analysis-finds/

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Coming soon: Should it properly be called Fascism?

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Image of Fascists Mussolini and Hitler
Image of Fascists Mussolini and Hitler

Our ancestors fought huge battles against Fascism in the 20the century e.g the Spanish Civil War and World War 2. I am considering whether we should be properly be calling the current situation of Israel’s Gaza genocide and anti-Muslim racist attacks Fascism.

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