BREAKING 🚨: reports suggest Andy Burnham could approve new oil and gas fields, including Rosebank. Is he REALLY going to cave into the demands of the profiteering oil giants and Trump? Or is he going to stand with people facing soaring bills and a worsening climate crisis?

This is the thing I feared Starmer would do, but actually in the end, he didn’t. Immediately disliking the new guy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.

“The government can summon billions of pounds for new military hardware. We need an equally decisive mobilisation of investment to restore the natural world on which we rely for our food, water, and clean air. Without these essentials our country has no future,” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The rig I'm on has put up first aid guides that were made with AI. Wouldn't bother with CPR there, would be more concerned by the fact is head isn't connected to his body

“Instead of governing for their communities, they choose the AI narrative.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

2 absolute WHOPPER quotes from data centre developers #1 is from Digital Realty, a massive data centre developer Just....soak this one in. Absolutely stunning "This year was the worst winter in the history of my home state, Colorado. It breaks my heart and now I’m developing 10 gas plants"

Shout out to the European Data Centre Association for saying out loud what they're working towards

AI vs AC 🤔

So, instead of being a ‘revolutionary‘ technology, it has become a means of gaining some convenience for basic tasks in return for making computing astonishly inefficient, expensive and environmentally disastrous. www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency.

Badenoch and Farage are today sweltering in 36°C heat and 65% humidity at an anti net zero conference

Hardcore right wingers will only believe that it's dangerously hot so long as the news doesn't mention climate change. Otherwise it's just great weather.

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

"Moreover, the report shows that even today, this type of household would cut its annual energy bills by around £1,200, relative to using a petrol car and a gas boiler." 2 years ago we upgraded house and car to this "home of the future" and are saving over £2000 a year on running costs.

Why do we, regardless of our location and life experience, have to prove our humanity by identifying the street furniture of the United States?

There are of course a million and one reasons to be extremely concerned about a Wes Streeting chancellorship, but sticking purely to the subjects I know something about, Wes wants to: - drill for more North Sea oil and gas ‘to lower energy bills’ - take out cycle lanes ‘to alleviate congestion’

The Dutch branch of German discount supermarket Lidl is bringing forward its goal of achieving 100% electric transport by 2030 to 2027. From next year, all stores will receive deliveries exclusively by battery-electric trucks.

Obviously Donald Trump is not an expert in refrigerants, but you can be, and understand why these decisions can be hugely consequential for climate change, if you read this quick 🧵:

Tony Blair keeps needing to be debunked because he's simply a grifting shill for those that fund his "Institute For Global Change." A facts that need to be discussed more than whatever Tony Blair is pushing today - Renewables are increasingly decoupling the UK cost of electricity from cost of gas:

New study finds correlation between climate driven temperature rise, increasingly unpredictable rain patterns + accelerating development of antibiotic resistance genes. If picked up by a pathogen, resistant genes could make that pathogen harder to treat. share.google/wLPIZWFxPi84... 1/3

Tony Blair has timed his assault on Labour’s climate policy perfectly. Who needs net zero? Everything is fine.

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

They look like they're a Madame Tussauds exhibit.

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

Streeting says he would tackle the “vested interests” that put protecting nature above building houses, and posits that environmental regulations are a key barrier to providing housing for disadvantaged children. www.theguardian.com/politics/vid...

High levels of PFAS - linked to cancers, liver, kidney + thyroid disorders - found in the sea in the Solent strait. The main source is thought to be treated sewage. They're present in sewage because we're surrounded by them in our daily lives. share.google/yLF9gGRNyKok... 🧵 1/6

Blimey, I hadn’t realised how much the forecast rise in energy bills in July was concentrated on gas. £162 of the £208 forecast rise comes from more expensive gas… (Chart courtesy of Regen and Cornwall Insight)

they 100% have no idea AI is hated. they're surprised every time. When I've told them, they think I'm lying, joking, making it up, or delusional.

- Markus Haupt, CEO of Seat/Cupra - both VW brands - said early May his sales team in Germany reported that EVs made up nearly 60% of orders, well above their quota of 25% "We have a production budget for this year," Haupt said "Maybe we'll need to increase the amount of EVs" - #alwaysbecharging

Car manufacturers are navigating the transition with one foot on the brake and the other on the accelerator. ‘Excessive’ demand is now throwing plans into disarray (as earlier was the abrupt end to tax and subsidy schemes)

the political project is to invalidate all existing climate science papers from being used in regulation, litigation, design, etc. and a lot of you are not making this easy

1% of the global population is responsible for 50% of flying emissions. The Iran oil crisis has revealed once again that flying has been far too cheap for too long and that this cannot continue amidst the climate crisis. This podcast discusses this really well.

We should be investing more in helping countries transition to cleaner energy and build resilience against the climate crisis, not pulling support at such a critical moment. Cutting £800 million from the world’s largest dedicated climate fund at this stage makes no sense whatsoever.

“Those promoting the rush for hyperscale AI datacentres seem to be living in a parallel reality where the last 50 years of climate science hasn’t happened” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I wish that the contents of this video would be understood widely enough that everyone could see that Nigel Farage is the energy policy equivalent of a flat-earther. youtu.be/mFMPSms6MS4?...

Coal-linked aerosols reduced global solar electricity output by 5.8% in 2023, with losses from existing systems eroding a substantial share of gains from new PV capacity.

People cannot be asked to keep an issue hot, especially not one as complex and at the core technical like climate change, if the top information ecosystem is actively telling them *not* to mobilize. Climate policy is objectively hard, but the climate "backlash" is mostly an elite-driven phenomenon.

Objectively too tough on immigration

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

British voters have high expectations of politicians, who are afforded virtually no time to fix problems that have been decades in the making. 📝 New piece on the perils of chronic impatience 👇🏻

New Zealand is moving to shield companies from being taken to court for climate harms. The push to immunize corporations from climate liability is growing globally. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Can anyone recommend an in-home display for showing how much your solar panels are generating, and how much you are consuming and exporting? Or know of any products that look interesting?

All this to look forward to.

Despite claiming they will "restore universities as engines of growth, aspiration and opportunity", the government really seems to be letting the higher education sector go to the wall. 😔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was assuming he'd go back into human rights law and fight the kinds of things he's been doing while prime minister.

Autotrader says electricity is now the UK's most popular fuel type. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529431...

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