General UK Climate News and Stories

[brogdale]

The story that keeps on giving...

 

[brogdale]

Nothing funny about the actual allegations against the cunt, though.

“The four suspects … appear to have created an organised crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialised websites for a cost,” prosecutors said.

 

[stavros]

A dickhead called Andrew and a pizza restaurant, eh?

 

[brogdale]

It's official.

 

[LDC]

Not a news story, but just chatted to my brother who works in the commercial aircraft spares industry and he's just said after a (predictably) quiet couple of years they've just had the busiest month ever, and predictions are for more growth and work this year. Depressing, and we're a bit fucked aren't we. (Shit story, but backed up with emissions predictions as well, no sign of a global reduction from what I understand.)

Here's some actual clever article by Andreas Malm about climate change and geo-engineering 'solutions' from HM though:

https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/aop/article-10.1163-1569206x-20222369/article-10.1163-1569206x-20222369.xml?language=en

 

[Mr.Bishie]

“Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.”

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late

IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world

www.theguardian.com

Hell in a hard cart it is then.

 

[Humberto]

And most go like lambs to the slaughter.

 

[Artaxerxes]

“Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.”

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late

IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world

www.theguardian.com

Hell in a hard cart it is then.

I’ve ordered some deckchairs

 

[Humberto]

I don't think most people (myself included) are aware of how much government policy and behaviour is influenced by the fossil fuel lobby. As long as they can greenwash, slow down any opposition and obsruct any threat to their huge profits and massive influence we will tread water. So it's hardly surprising that governments seem tepid and pay lip service to the reality and scale of the problem. It's also largely the cause of a seeming public docility in the face of oncoming/ongoing climate crisis.

It's in all our interests that the fossil fuel companies are held to account and exposed for the hateful deception they practice, so too the politicians that serve them at our and future generation's expense.

The IPCC has been pretty straight up about where we are heading unless real action is taken. The injustice is that they are not being taken as seriously as they should be on our behalf by those who are supposed to serve and represent us. The UK government seems more interested in cutting foreign aid and culture war bullshit. Just an irresponsible attitude to go into the mix at this time of crossroads. They just aren't serious or capable. The same goes for many other places and governments but ours is a laughingstock even so e.g. Truss wanting to lift restrictions on fracking. I mean where do you start when we are afflicted with such short-sighted, short-termist bullshit? They're so fucking venal and smug.

Then there is a narrative, exploited by the likes of Trump, that all this (i.e. qualified science) is a 'hoax'. I suspect many more agree with him in private. What is in fact a global and era spanning huge injustice rolls on with cunts like this seeking Twitter followers/adulation/loyalty. Whereas the serious, trustworthy people are treated as insolent, irrelevant or dismissed as 'woke'. The fact that the truth may seem a little 'inconvenient' is exploited at the expense of a co-operative global strategy.

So yes, lambs to the slaughter.

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[Humberto]

Sounds fucked up:

UK planning to launch watered down net zero strategy in oil capital Aberdeen

Exclusive: Labour decries ‘climate vandalism’ as Aberdeen launch signals intention to boost fossil fuel industry

www.theguardian.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

So we’re going big on carbon storage.

Really going for the “business as usual, we’re not adapting anything approach”

 

[Humberto]

Seems that way.

The government is attempting to justify the unjustifiable by talking up a technology known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), which seeks to apprehend carbon dioxide (CO2) before it gets into the atmosphere and store it underground. Nowhere has CCS been tried and tested at the sort of scale that would be required to cancel out the emissions arising from the proposed dash for more gas and oil.

How could the UK’s net zero plan involve new oil and gas? It’s mind-bogglingly stupid

The Conservatives are cynically using carbon capture and storage as a get-out-of-jail card, says Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL

www.theguardian.com

Fig leaf bullshit.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Crimping one out all over any prospect of net zero

 

[teqniq]

No real surprises here unfortunately:

The UK has almost no credible plans to adapt to climate change

Advisers to the UK government warn that failure to plan for the effects of climate change is putting the country at risk of threats such as food shortages and power blackouts

www.newscientist.com

 

[teqniq]

FFS:

 

[Humberto]

No real surprises here unfortunately:

The UK has almost no credible plans to adapt to climate change

Advisers to the UK government warn that failure to plan for the effects of climate change is putting the country at risk of threats such as food shortages and power blackouts

www.newscientist.com

Paywalled, so I'll post this:

UK ‘strikingly unprepared’ for impacts of climate crisis

Government’s official advisers point to ‘lost decade’ in efforts to protect lives and livelihoods

www.theguardian.com

Areas where needed action is missing include heat-proofing homes, stemming leaks from water supply pipes and preparing for flash floods and shortages of food and other imports from nations struck by climate impacts.

“The government is not putting together a plan that reflects the scale and the nature of the risks that face the whole country,” said Stark. “This is completely critical. There is no option but to adapt to the change in the climate. The question is only whether we do that well by doing it early or wait until later.”

Julia King, chair of the CCC’s Adaptation Committee, said: “The last decade has been a lost decade in terms of preparing for the risks we already have and those that we know are coming.”

A recent IPCC report showed that climate damages are hitting harder and faster than expected, she said, and that the global temperature will not stop rising until carbon emissions reach net zero, a target set for 2050 by many countries.

“It means we’ve got at least 30 more years of escalating hazards,” she said. “Every month that passes locks in more damaging impacts. Action is needed, and we need it now.”

 

[Humberto]

Oh, could swear it was this morning.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Fucked.

 

[Elpenor]

As I was driving from Devon to West Wales on Friday I reflected on the changes in the UK climate over the 40 or so years of my life.

I speculated to myself that the climate we have of late is similar to that of parts of France in the 80s and 90s - as I remember it from summer holidays. Perhaps it’s my memory playing tricks on me, but wondering if there’s any research or articles on this theory.

 

[teqniq]

Jeez, vested fossil fuel interests lobbying here I suspect:

Ministers to block plans to ban new coal mines

Measures to allow community projects to sell electricity directly to local homes are also set to be dropped.

www.bbc.com

 

[Dystopiary]

Wasn't sure whether to post this here or in "Extreme Weather Watch".

Apparently one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth currently is happening is waters around UK and Ireland. They've been classified as category 4 (extreme) marine heatwave. Meteorologists have warned that "temperatures are up to 4°C above normal for the time of year in some places." This should be on the front of every news site/paper in Britain and Ireland but nah.

Waters off the UK’s east coast, from Durham to Aberdeen, and off the west coast of Ireland are especially warm. Off Seaham, on the coast of Durham, water temperatures on 18 June hit 15°C, well above the 12°C average for the time of year. Some parts of the UK coast now have waters approaching 20°C, according to Rodney Forster at the University of Hull, UK.

Extreme sea temperatures can kill fish and other sea life and drive more powerful storms. They may also pose a long-term threat to human health – a 2023 report from the UK’s Environment Agency warned that more frequent marine heatwaves increase the risk of shellfish becoming infected with Vibrio bacteria, which can cause sickness in humans.

also...

Large blooms of Noctiluca algae have been reported by fishermen across the North Sea [...] with “bright orange slicks” stretching 500 kilometres observed [...] its thick scum saps oxygen from waters and devours plankton.

Blooms of this size in North Sea waters are very unusual, says Forster. “It’s a really big-scale event.

UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth

 

[hash tag]

Looks like there is less recycled loo roll

Caught short: lack of recycled toilet paper in UK ‘fuelling deforestation’

Less office waste material during Covid has led big lavatory roll makers to cut amount of recycled paper in tissues, according to consumer body

www.theguardian.com

 

[teqniq]

FFS. really? Sunak is a spineless waste of space:

Sunak U-turn on wind farms in England draws wrath of green Tories

Prime minister under fire as government backtracks on plan for more onshore turbines to keep voters on side

www.theguardian.com

 

[stavros]

Climate Change Committee say UK is falling behind on the issue.

 

[teqniq]

Please share far and wide:

Decarbonising the energy system by 2050 could save trillions - Oxford study | University of Oxford

New study shows a fast transition to clean energy is cheaper than slow or no transition Idea that going green will be expensive is ‘just wrong’ Green technology costs have fallen significantly over the last decade, and are likely to continue falling Achieving a net zero carbon energy system by...

www.ox.ac.uk

 

[teqniq]

Short thread from War on Want with a write to your MP link in the last tweet. i did not know about this 'treaty' which appears to be little more that a vehicle for the fossil fuel industry to protect it's interests in secretive courts Please consider using the write to your MP link from War on Want in the last tweet of the thread:

War on Want | Fighting Global Poverty

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[Elpenor]

This isn’t news per se but went to book my latest blood donation for October, I will have been in Marseille in early September and as that is in the south of France I have to book my donation 4 weeks after my return due to the risk of Dengue fever / Zika virus etc.


I wasn’t aware of this, I assumed this was a more tropical disease so made me wonder if this if climate change means that mainland Europe is now in play for these diseases. Perhaps it’s just the blood donation people being risk averse - anyway it made me think

 

[stavros]

Both C4 News and Newsnight have guests on to explain why UK climate policy is shite.