Simon Oldridge #CANBill
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Climate & nature policy | #CANBill campaign & @MPWatchNetwork | Cofounder @SDevonPrimary | Mostly on BlueSky—but aim still to call out disinformation here.
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Some MPs are telling constituents that we don’t need to upgrade our 17 year old climate laws. They’re plain wrong. Here’s why: 🧵1/3. 1️⃣ Too weak to drive any meaningful change in the all-important near-term—allowing Gov to avoid taking the action needed.
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As UK struggles with soaring energy prices and the threat of blackouts, fossil fuel lobbyists are working overtime to blame net zero. The truth is we're suffering from too little 'net zero'. Aside from Ukraine, here are 8 real reasons, with graphics:🧵.
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A superb explanation by @GeorgeMonbiot of why non-violent direct action is not only an essential component of a healthy democracy, but why our future depends on it. 👏👏👏
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Shocked at the lack of coverage of this weekend's climate protest in the Sunday papers. Here's XR & allies trying to focus the seat of power & avoid public disruption: huge numbers of ordinary people packed into central London crying out for real action - and media ignore us.
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This is extraordinary! The Government says it will expel MPs if they vote for the Climate & Nature Bill for the vital action to protect our environment—backed by thousands of scientists, NGOs, councils and businesses. It should be a vote of conscience.
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Sea level is now 10cm higher than in 1993, and the rise is accelerating. These are super-accurate satellite measurements.
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This is quite shocking. Emissions projections out yesterday show the UK will:. 🔴Overshoot our 2030 Paris agreement emissions commitment by 40%.🔴Blow our 6th carbon budget by a huge 100%. The UK needs an overarching strategy to keep to 1.5°C: Climate & Ecology Bill #CEBill.
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Everyone does realise, right, that the insane extreme weather we’re seeing now will worsen until we eliminate fossil fuel emissions—which are *still* rising. And once we get there, it won’t get better. That’ll be our new normal. The time to act is now!
The Extreme Weather Report, August 22, 2024.“If it feels like we are seeing more of these extreme rainfall events, we are. It’s not your imagination.”
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The Conservative Gov killed off a major program to insulate the UK's appallingly inefficient homes, and despite the Ukraine crisis, has done almost nothing to save wasted energy—the cheapest, fastest way to cut emissions. UK homes lose heat 3X faster than German homes. 🧵1/4
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Scientists are clear there must be NO new fossil fuels to avoid the catastrophic consequences of exceeding 1.5°C. But the Government is issuing over 100 new oil & gas licences, approving a new coal mine, and admits we'll miss key climate targets by a mile.
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How can #bbclaurak do a special on #netzero without bothering to research the basics and then totally failing to call out disinformation? A quick 🧵rebutting some of the worst of it.
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If I was director of a financial institution, I’d pay VERY close attention to this article.Models used to assess climate risk found unfit for purpose - ignoring key impacts: sea level rise, extreme weather, mass migration!!.Future class action alert. 🧵1/4.
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A 🧵on why oil companies don't invest in renewables, what the UK Government is now overtly doing to assist big oil, and what it should be doing. 1/.
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Shocking scenes in Poland. The insurance market will fail as this becomes too widespread. Time for emergency action yet? No, we don’t want to upset the oligarchs do we.
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I urge all climate scientists and politicians to read this article by @jonathonporritt ..Quoting his summary points:.1️⃣"The speed with which the climate is now changing is faster than (almost) all scientists thought possible.". 🧵1/6
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It is extraordinary that this isn’t headlining on all media. Ocean temperatures soaring above 1982-2022 records. Once the 💩 really hits the fan, people will want to know why.
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This is @ClaireCoutinho, the UK's Net Zero minister. Her twitter feed reads like it was written by an oil company. Here's a quick flavour: 🧵.
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Just some of the 1,150 scientists calling for UK Gov to pass the 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 to drive the science-led action needed to protect us from environmental collapse. Hard to see why any MP wouldn't support it. #CANBill @zerohour_uk
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I’m sickened by this. These principled campaigners are now political prisoners. How can a science-denying judge, who barred the defendants from explaining their motivations, be permitted to sit in court?.This conviction should be quashed.
Free speech is dead in the British courtroom. Our lawyer just told Judge Hehir "The world is watching". He didn’t like it and interrupted. Apparently that’s too “like a political speech" and “doesn’t do us any favours”. First science is banned. Then politics. What’s next?.
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@ClaireCoutinho No - you're blocking the transition by supporting the fossil fuel industry, and allowing other countries like China to get ahead of us in the green revolution. You are enriching the international oil companies whilst making British people poorer.
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Why is this man permitted to push Big Oil propaganda on the BBC, putting at risk the action needed to preserve our civilisation? The QT format doesn't give time for this to be called out. So here's the fact-checking the BBC should do:🧵.
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Letter from leading scientists calling for the Gov to halt & re-assess carbon capture plans. We know the previous Gov was captured by Big Oil. Labour now really needs to listen to these experts. Key points 🧵.@campaigncc @Andrew9Boswell @KevinClimate.
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Dear mainstream media. Abetted by your silence, humanity has knocked our climate out of the safe, stable balance it's rested in for over 10,000 years. Stop pretending impacts are distant. Millions are suffering. Stop distracting with trivia. This needs round-the-clock coverage.
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Keir Starmer threatening to expel MPs (remove the whip) if they vote to the Climate & Nature Bill👇.Utter lunacy!
This is extraordinary! The Government says it will expel MPs if they vote for the Climate & Nature Bill for the vital action to protect our environment—backed by thousands of scientists, NGOs, councils and businesses. It should be a vote of conscience.
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4. UK Govt killed the solar market by prematurely removing subsidies, causing mass lay-offs, and destroying strong exponential growth in an incredibly cheap, clean form of energy.
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Incredibly powerful words from @DrEmilyGrossman on why scientists are being forced to take direct action to be heard. For anyone who still needs persuading that the media and our Government still haven't grasped the gravity of the climate & nature crisis
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Big Oil won’t invest in clean energy because you can make huge monopolistic profits from scarce fossil reserves but can’t from abundant #windwatersolar. The solution: end fossil fuel subsidies & put a very big tax on profits from oil & gas.
REVEALED: new research shows majority of North Sea oil and gas companies have no plans to invest in renewable energy in the UK, despite claims to be driving the energy transition. 🧵
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The UK Gov's blocking of the action needed to avoid climate catastrophe should be the biggest domestic news story. But much of our press is owned by complicit billionaires, and the BBC has been muzzled. 🧵
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This is very fishy. @energygovuk has refused an FOI request from @campaigncc, asking for the Gov’s 'Assessment' justifying why £22 billion of public money should be paid to oil companies for carbon capture. Hiding behind ‘commercial sensitivity’. @Andrew9Boswell @GeorgeMonbiot
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Two years ago, Sir Patrick Valance briefed MPs & Lords on the climate crisis. Incredibly, fewer than 5% attended😲. It’s time to repeat it, with attendance obligatory. Here are 3 ideas to make it better: 🧵1/4.
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@GeorgeMonbiot The right have a firm hold on the BBC. Labour must be bold and tackle this.
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@algore Talks involving any oil lobbyists (let alone thousands) were always going to be a total sham. They're taking us for fools.
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As a keen mathematician, you’d think @RishiSunak would understand that it’s the path we take to Net Zero that matters: #AreaUnderCurve.Delaying key milestones really matters - even if we stick with 2050. This might help refresh his memory👇
Highly unusual late evening statement from the PM about climate policy leak
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4/ The UK Gov is compounding the problem. It gives oil companies a tax rebate of £914,000 for every £1 million they invest - but *only* for new oil and gas projects, not for new renewables. Yes you read that right😮 Using our tax money to fund destruction.
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3. Liz Truss oversaw the closure of 70%(!) of the UK's gas storage in 2017, leaving the UK with just 9 days of strategic gas reserves. Similar European countries have around 100 days. The Rough storage field has now reopened but at only 20% capacity. Shocking short-termism.
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Such dishonesty from Sunak speaking live now. Scientists say we're heading towards economic collapse, food shortages, and up to 1.2 billion migrants fleeing drought and starvation. He's creating a false dichotomy by saying that he's not going to force people to buy expensive.
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This is serious folks. 🚨Food shortages🚨.1️⃣The UK uses 70% of its own land ✚ roughly its own land area overseas to feed its population. 2️⃣Climate change is hitting output already, both at home and abroad, and it'll worsen. 3️⃣You can feed 4 times as many people per hectare on a.
“The UK faces food shortages and price rises as extreme weather linked to climate breakdown causes low yields on farms locally and abroad.”. Meanwhile our Gov pushes ahead with new oil and ignores science warnings that we must reduce animal agriculture.
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If you're thinking, but we can't just depend on renewables, that's old news. The latest science says we can. This landmark study shows 100% renewables will save us >60% on energy costs AND will pay back in just 6 years. There are many other studies.
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This is an absolute disgrace. As UN head @antonioguterres said, "the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels." . Shame on our Government for ignoring the science.
Britain in 2023. Take a cold hard look at this, and realise that things are set to get much worse.
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@MarinaPurkiss Yes, such shameless double standards! Labour need to be bold & deal with this👇
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6. The obvious thing to do when prices go up is to avoid waste. But Cameron proudly 'Cut the Green Crap' in 2013, only benefiting oil companies & Putin. If insulation rates had continued at a similar pace, around 18 million homes would now be way cheaper to heat.
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8. UK tax on North Sea fossil fuels is tiny compared to countries like Norway, removing the incentive to re-invest. We need very high taxes, with tax rebates for investment in renewables only (not more fossil fuels) - forcing FF companies to transition.
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My article with @Kevinclimate on why the new UK #hydrogen strategy is scam designed to prop up North Sea gas, under the pretence of climate action. It'll impose a huge cost on UK taxpayers and lock us into a high emissions pathway. Key points 🧵📣.
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The UK's Net Zero Strategy plans for 'up to 29 MtCO2' to be removed annually by Direct Air Capture with Carbon Storage (DACCS) by 2050. That means building 5 times the capacity of the world's only existing plant in Iceland every week from now to 2050. But worse than that: 🧵1/.
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I urge everyone to read this comprehensive warning from leading climate scientists about the grave dangers we face by failing to tackle climate change. A thread quoting key points: 🧵.
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We have the solutions to the climate crisis. Govts just need to follow the science. Amazing study from @mzjacobson et al shows grids can support 100% renewables without nasties like BECCS. We'll cut energy costs by 63% and it'll pay back in just 6 years💥.
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Imagine how much better off we'd be now if Gov had encouraged the exponential renewables growth seen in the early 2010s to continue. Renewables are far far cheaper to produce than electricity from gas power plants.
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2/ Why don't oil companies invest in renewables when they're so cheap? Answer: you can make huge profits by controlling super scarce fossil fuels with huge technical barriers to entry, backed by lobbying. You cannot from abundant wind, water and solar.
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The UN says the fossil fuel industry is running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” to delay the transition to clean energy. They're working directly against our governments and that should preclude them from any access to #COP29.
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Two letters were written by scientists to Gov about #CCS recently. One was a warning, signed by the likes of the former President of the Royal Meteorological Society and an IPCC lead author. See below for who signed the pro-CCS letter. 1/2.
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Collapse of the #AMOC ocean current would force UK and Scandinavian citizens to flee as refugees—as agriculture fails. This could really happen in the next few decades, but we have a chance to stop it. What can we do?.🧵1️⃣.
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The evidence that the UK Gov is now overtly blocking the action needed to avoid climate catastrophe. What have I missed?.A quick summary 🧵1/.
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Incredible piece of work by @DeSmog exposing the malign influence of the fossil fuel industry and wealthy donors over our politics - thanks to a Conservative Party for sale. Here are the real 'enemies of the people' - and of all of nature. @GeorgeMonbiot.
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1️⃣ People are asking why Labour is backing the Conservatives' carbon capture plans, which rely heavily on new gas & hydrogen plants. I'll do a fuller thread on this, but I've just found an important new reason, and it would be laughable if not so serious. A quick explainer 🧵.
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No-one wants to see birds killed, but let’s put wind turbines in context👇.And this doesn’t show the impact on birds of extreme heat & droughts caused by burning fossil fuels. Onshore wind is the cheapest form of clean energy but it remains effectively banned in UK.
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The UK Gov pays fossil fuel companies a £914,000 tax rebate for every £1 million they invest - but only for new oil and gas projects, not for new renewables. Yes you read that right. ! .A short🧵.
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Continued fossil fuel emissions will trigger Earth's major tipping points. It may then be impossible to stop a spiral of collapse. But there's another reason why the window for decarbonising is closing—resources & political bandwidth will be consumed by worsening impacts👇
Top scientist.A planetary crisis .16 Climate tipping points close to topping .4 already on verge of tipping .and 2 of the The Greenland ice sheet and West Antarctica ice sheet represent 10 metres sea level rise .A domino effect as Greenland ice sheet melt will shut down AMOC
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The beautiful River Dart is sick. People here are getting ill - and what impact on nature? .This vandalism must stop. To save our rivers, vote for politicians who support the #CEBill to protect *and reverse* the damage to nature.
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5. Despite overwhelming public support for onshore wind, there is still an effective ban on this cheapest, fastest-to-install form of renewable energy.
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2. The UK is rightly phasing out coal power which takes a terrible toll on nature and human health. And our ageing nuclear power stations are being closed. But Government hasn’t acted to replace this lost capacity. Too busy with Brexit?.
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What Glasgow will look like at 10m of sea level rise. The ice on Greenland alone is enough to raise sea levels by 7m.
This is what geological-scale sea level rise looks like: Glasgow’s #COP26 venue with water back where it was the last time CO2 was this high. One of many reasons why we need a rapid phase out of fossil fuels at #COP28
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How bad is this. ! ."Oil and gas giants such as Equinor, BP, and ExxonMobil attended 24 out of 44 external ministerial meetings to discuss carbon capture and storage (CCS) in 2023".Researchers and climate experts barely represented. @DeSmog
Letter from leading scientists calling for the Gov to halt & re-assess carbon capture plans. We know the previous Gov was captured by Big Oil. Labour now really needs to listen to these experts. Key points 🧵.@campaigncc @Andrew9Boswell @KevinClimate.
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🚨Leaked docs reveal the UK Gov is taking extraordinary financial risks to push through an £8bn gas power station & carbon capture project, despite an ongoing legal challenge & serious objections from leading climate scientists. #CCS.Here’s the story: 🧵.
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7/ Key Conservatives are working tirelessly to dishonestly paint @JustStopOil as making radical demands, when all they’re asking for is that we follow the advice of the Government’s advisers @theCCCuk and the world’s science advisers, @IPCC_CH.
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So now Sunak's saying we're world leading with a 68% emissions reduction target. Does he really not know that UK has offshored more manufacturing than almost any other country? So whilst our territorial emissions are down 48%, our total footprint is down by <1% per year. Does
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Why the path we take to #NetZero matters a whole lot more than the year we get there. Keeping to our share of the global carbon budget for 1.5°C (or even close) means actually cutting emissions rapidly now. 🧵1/3.From @cebill_now
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@MarinaPurkiss @BorisJohnson @trussliz @Nigel_Farage @LeeAndersonMP_ @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @RupertLowe10 And to our new Shadow Justice Secretary, advocating for a convicted rapist, insurrectionist, and ecocidal maniac.
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The Public Accounts Committee took evidence on carbon capture last week. But this leak to the @FT👇is really important new information. It's startling that DESNZ didn't tell the PAC Committee about their plan to promise large oil companies that the taxpayer will cover their.
🚨Leaked docs reveal the UK Gov is taking extraordinary financial risks to push through an £8bn gas power station & carbon capture project, despite an ongoing legal challenge & serious objections from leading climate scientists. #CCS.Here’s the story: 🧵.
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7. Meanwhile, Government has allowed gas-guzzling SUV sales to soar - using more energy & taking up more space. Why? The market knows best? It's good for growth, screw the climate?.
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1️⃣Preposterous science denier @LukeJohnsonRCP says #netzero will make ordinary people poorer & colder. Yet study after study shows renewables can supply all our energy needs and deliver huge savings, with a rapid payback #bbclaurak.
Can 100% renewables really work? What about night & windless winter days?.The answer’s YES based on numerous independent studies. It will deliver huge £ savings, help clean our air - and end dependence on oil dictators & profiteering oil companies. 🧵1/.
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The new UK #hydrogen strategy looks like an exercise in providing ongoing revenue to North Sea operators under the pretence of climate action. It'll impose a huge cost on UK taxpayers and lock us into a high emissions pathway. Here's why. A short 🧵.
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What about intermittency? The latest science shows this challenge can be overcome by using diverse sources (wind, solar, tidal, wave, hydro, geothermal), with countries grouped into blocs (eg all Europe), time-shifting of demand, and storage with pumped hydro, batteries etc.
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Why isn't this top of every news bulletin?.Almost a coin-flip chance of the #AMOC ocean current collapsing in the 2030s, taking European agriculture with it. Without the heat #AMOC brings from the tropics, UK would be as icy cold as Labrador in Canada.
Just attending a 3-day workshop on the danger of abrupt ocean circulation changes. Discussions are quite worrying. E.g. in 35 to 45 % of high quality models, convection in the open North Atlantic collapses in the 2030s due to #globalheating. -> Major climate disruption. ☹️
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The Times reporting on the terrifying prospect of the #AMOC collapsing, leaving the UK a frozen wasteland. Progress. Now we just need our Gov to take it seriously.
The Times on the underestimated risk of an #AMOC collapse, particularly for the British Isles. A proper risk analysis is urgently needed.
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3/ Fossil companies are investing over 20 times more in new oil and gas than in 'clean' power. And it's worse than that because 'clean' includes fake solutions like carbon capture & blue hydrogen. Renewables made up <5% of upstream spending in 2022:.
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@GeorgeMonbiot If we all end up moving, BlueSky appears superior in that it's a Public Benefit LLP, designed in a way which hopefully would make it billionaire-proof. Threads is owned by Meta, controlled by Zuckerberg—quieter than Musk but possibly as dangerous.
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@GaryLineker Great to see Gary sharing this message that the billionaire press barons don't want the public to hear - because it means them sharing some of their vast wealth to help pay for the transition to clean energy, and curtailing their high-carbon lifestyles.
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@DaleVince It’s vital now that the Conservatives are defeated resoundingly, with a strong mandate for climate action. The model will help deliver that. We’re sharing it for free with other safe Tory seats. Sign up for a workshop mid-Aug.
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The UK Gov gives fossil fuel companies £914,000 in tax relief from the windfall tax for every £1 million they invest - but only for new oil and gas projects, not for new renewables. Yes you read that right. ! .A short🧵.
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@JonathanPieNews I stand with @JonathanPieNews .Worth also highlighting that an analysis by the @FT finds the UK Conservative Party to be the most *far right* economically in the world.
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Just some of the 1,150 scientists calling for UK Gov to pass the Climate & Nature Bill to drive the science-led action necessary to protect us from environmental collapse (which means economic & social collapse). Hard to see how any MP would think they know better. #CANBill
⚡️ Why is Friday 24 January 2025 crucial for the Climate and Nature Bill? . 🐝 Read our new blog to find out why this date matters. 🌿 Together, we CAN make history by passing the #CANBill!. 📢
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I still believe @Ed_Miliband is genuinely trying to do the right thing, in an incredibly tough job. But he and his department have been giving far too much air time to fossil fuel lobbyists, and not enough to independent experts.
How bad is this. ! ."Oil and gas giants such as Equinor, BP, and ExxonMobil attended 24 out of 44 external ministerial meetings to discuss carbon capture and storage (CCS) in 2023".Researchers and climate experts barely represented. @DeSmog
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As the oil-backed right wing press bangs on about ULEZ, let’s remember what happened when Cameron’s Gov ‘cut the green crap’. Imagine if that amazing exponential curve in cheap clean renewables hadn’t been throttled? How self-sufficient and free of oil dictators we could’ve been.
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9/ The problem is that today's ever more extremist 'Conservatives' are now funded by, and acting for big oil. They tell us the 'market knows best', whilst using state power & *our* tax money to give fossil fuels a huge economic edge over renewables.
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2️⃣Net zero secretary @ClaireCoutinho, linked to shady oil-funded Policy Exchange lobby group, says people don't want 'costs heaped on them'. Classic misdirection. Transition to renewables is necessary for national security, and the alternative is a MUCH higher cost to the.
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6️⃣How much of this is happening because the BBC is increasingly under the political control of the Conservative Party, which in turn is "in the pocket of the fossil fuel companies" .
Here’s some evidence to back up @algore’s assertion that the UK Gov is “in the pocket of the fossil fuel companies”.
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These farmers won't be locked up for years - and nor should they be. But how then can Labour possibly justify leaving people in jail whose only 'crime' is to protest peacefully against a Government ignoring urgent science advice. This is so wrong.
The Media won't acknowledge this video of the farmers blocking an ambulance with its blue lights on so could you could RT it so people see it?
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.@carla_denyer on Parliament’s failure today to vote for the Climate & Nature Bill—after huge resistance from the Gov👇. MPs voted to adjourn the debate until 11th July. This is a common method to quietly kill off bills. But this is an existential crisis. MPs must not give up.
Incredibly disappointed that MPs didn’t get the chance to vote on the Climate and Nature Bill - a crucial piece of legislation to prevent climate breakdown & protect our natural world. But thanks to all those who backed it - I'll keep fighting for urgent climate action #CANBill
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Jaw-dropping! OECD subsidy figs just out. UK gave fossil fuels £13.4 billion in support in 2022 - up 28%.
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Once we include the goods we import and international ✈️ & ⛴️, UK has only cut its carbon footprint by 23% since 1990. That’s less than 1% a year. Fiddling whilst Rome burns. But these figures are not complete: 🧵/5
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Good to chat with my MP @AnthonyMangnal1 at last night's sewage meeting. Anthony offered this in defence of the Gov's climate record:. 1/ UK's better than others in Europe & could I name a single country with more wind power. I said it's not a competition, but anyway👇.A quick🧵
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8/ Gov should force oil cos to change, but are doing the exact opposite. They should:.✅Ban *new* fossil fuels in line with the science.✅Apply major tax ⏫ on fossil profits, but rebate it back for renewables investment. Direct big oil to use its tech capability for good.
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A brilliant, visual explanation of the severe and imminent danger we face from shutdown of the #AMOC ocean current which keeps the UK from being as freezing as Labrador in Canada. **UK media - this needs urgent attention**.
We don’t want this climate future for Europe - in my view it’s a risk we should avoid at all cost, as I explain in this video:
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This is wild! UK Gov is poised to make a decision unlocking £20 billion of public money for carbon capture #CCS based on an 'Assessment' by the previous Tory Gov. These subsidies are meant to reduce emissions. Just look at their excuse to avoid scrutiny😮.🧵1️⃣/
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3️⃣The focus is on capturing CO₂ emissions from plants. But upstream natural gas leaks cause 15 times more warming than assumed by Gov, and downstream hydrogen leaks are ignored. Both are powerful warming gases. I wrote about it with @KevinClimate.
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@RHarrabin Anyone who's bought a new home since 2016 should know that if it wasn't for this corruption, their home would have been zero carbon and probably virtually free to keep warm.
When it comes to screwing us over, the housebuilders have form. The 2007 Code for Sustainable Homes required ALL new homes to be zero carbon by 2016. After lobbying the Conservatives scrapped it, leaving new homeowners with huge heating bills.
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The UK Gov's decision to green-light the #CarbonCapture project at #Drax biomass power station is very bad news for the climate & means higher ⚡️ bills. Drax should be phased out instead. Here's the evidence @ClaireCoutinho ignored👇🧵
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UK Gov is pledging £billions of public money to the fossil fuel industry for unproven industrial CO₂ removal. But here's how nature can do the job, with an array of co-benefits, at far lower cost. A short🧵 1/
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