General UK Climate News and Stories

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Thread for small articles and tweets about climate and carbon in the UK. Good or bad.

 

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Excellent graphic.



Useful for when people say "but China"

 

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Both Scottish and English road agencies have no responsibility to plan the impact of wider scale networks, only local issues, so it's not up to them to plan for carbon emissions or mitigate them. Just feed the cars more tarmac.

Drill down to that Dominic Hinde tweet, it's quite fascinating.

 

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Climate activists buy environment secretary’s Cornwall constituency office

Insulate Britain supporters donate rent from George Eustice’s office towards protesters’ court costs

www.theguardian.com

Should jack the rent up to

 

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The usual suspects have rebranded themselves, presumably in the hope that people won't notice:

Climate Science Denial Group Rebrands as ‘Net Zero Watch’

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has launched a new anti-net zero campaign to oppose the government’s green policies, a move experts dubbed the “latest tactic” from the “same old climate change deniers”, warning the public not to be “fooled” by the rebrand. The “Net Zero...

www.desmog.com

 

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Article about this in Tortoise has interesting if unsurprising Venn diagram

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Climate backlash - Tortoise

The government needs to make it clear to the public that net zero remains a priority, despite high gas prices and calls to delay from the backbench.

www.tortoisemedia.com

 

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It’s quite fascinating how much politicians hate the young.

 

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Sigh.

 

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Drilling further in the name of energy security

 

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Am I right in saying arch-communist Kwarteng can't dictate how a private company spends their takings?

 

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Twat.

 

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Twat.

Where are the draft energy plans that invisage no need for gas beyond the economic lifetime of existing projects?

 

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Where are the draft energy plans that invisage no need for gas beyond the economic lifetime of existing projects?

There are very little or none because successive governments have and continue to be in the pockets of big oil and capital in general. That doesn't mean we should not try to rectify this situation. And yes Kwarteng is a twat.

 

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Haha:

 

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End result of decades of under investment in high speed rail or reliable public transport and subsidising air travel.

Sunderland fan says Wembley via Menorca route cheaper than train

Sunderland fan James Jelly says he paid £51 for flights and a hostel to get to the play-off final.

www.bbc.com

The flight clocks in at almost 2,000 miles (3,180km), compared with the road distance of 272 miles (438km) for the trip from Sunderland to Wembley.
Mr Jelly said: "I didn't really think about how environmentally friendly my trip would be, the carbon footprint isn't great, but I in all honestly just wanted the best deal."

 

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Steel industry say they don't want new UK coal mines being advocated by the government.

 

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Shell consultant quits, accusing firm of ‘extreme harms’ to environment

Caroline Dennett tells staff in video she made decision because of ‘double-talk on climate’

www.theguardian.com

 

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Climate sceptic thinktank reported to charity commission over fossil fuel interest funding

Global Warming Policy Foundation is lobby group not charity and brings no public good, say signatories

www.theguardian.com

 

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Direct action in Dulwich Climate change activists let down the tyres of luxury SUV vehicles in Dulwich

 

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Look at the fucking idiots we - the human race - has to deal with

 

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What a surprise:

'We are worried': UK climate advisors slam 'shocking' lack of net zero delivery

Government taking risky ‘high wire approach to net zero’ by failing to match ambition with delivery, CCC warns

www.businessgreen.com

 

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UK government in over-promising shocker.

 

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Embarrassing for the vermin but will it make any difference? I'd like to think so but what with the leadership election and them all seeing how they can out-cunt each other, I am not optimistic:

We won: Government’s Net Zero Strategy is unlawful - Good Law Project

Government’s strategy for getting to Net Zero is inadequate and unlawful, the High Court has found, following a successful legal challenge brought by Good Law Project, Joanna Wheatley, Client Earth and Friends of the Earth. The Climate Change Act requires Government to hit Net Zero by 2050, to...

goodlawproject.org

 

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Andrew Marr seems to have undergone a transformation since his departure from the BBC:

 

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Jeez

 

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