There are six groups in Wiltshire and most have regular meetings. New rebels are always welcome, Wiltshire has a talks and training working group which organises talks and training sessions. Get in contact with your local group if you want to find out more. If you don’t have a local group near you and are thinking of starting one, are interested in volunteering or would like to get in touch, email XR Wiltshire (xrwiltshire@protonmail.com)
Wednesday 28th July 2021
This morning at Lloyd's of London's HQ (1 Lyme Street, London, UK), an activist from Insurance Rebellion was arrested after throwing a bucket of green paint over the front of the building. Insurance Rebellion say they carried out this escalation in their campaign to "highlight the shameless greenwashing being carried out by Lloyd's of London, who continue to insure fossil fuel projects across the world."
#fossilfuels
#actnow
#greenwashing
Photo credit: Denise Baker
It needs to be done! 🙏🌳
Ashley Davies
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👏 👏 Bravo - Thank you rebels #RebelForLife
Has to be done, until they listen and act!🙏
Corporations are losing the ability to “fudge the numbers” on climate policies, said Ketan Joshi, an Oslo-based climate analyst who tracks company climate pledges.
“Companies are increasingly starting to understand that they’re losing their grip on the public relations hit of announcing a climate ambition and then doing nothing about it.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/26/climate-crisis-green-light?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The truth behind corporate climate pledges
www.theguardian.com
Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges
Great visual showing how global heating results in dramatically increased frequency of extreme weather events.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YigIVWMPHM
"Like so many things, temperature statistics follow a bell curve – mathematicians call these “normal distributions.” The most frequent and likely temperatures are near the average, and values farther from the average quickly become much less likely.
All else being equal, a little bit of warming shifts the bell to the right – toward higher temperatures. Even a shift of just a few degrees makes the really unlikely temperatures in the extreme “tail” of the bell happen dramatically more often. "
Read the full article here: theconversation.com/extreme-heat-waves-in-a-warming-world-dont-just-break-records-they-shatter-th...
