Andrew Hunter Murray
@andrewhunterm.bsky.social
Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).
Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
theguardian.com
Improved version of this headline: FOSSIL FUELS RISK YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME AND YOUR PLANET
CHEAP BOOKS! My new book Everything Happens So Much - an insane fantasy about one woman who finds out she's living her worst possible life - is coming soon, and if you order at Waterstones before close of play on Friday you'll get 25% off! Do it now! www.waterstones.com/book/everyth...
This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.
Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · 2w agoBadenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not
Brent above $85. European gas back over €50/MWh as Hormuz escalates again. A reminder: A fifth of global oil and LNG passes through that strait. Every heat pump, EV and electrified factory shrinks this exposure. Electrons made at home cannot be blockaded in a shipping lane.
Don't close those tabs, folks
Definitely a Human@whatisaheather.bsky.social · 4w agoWhy do I keep so many browser tabs open? I’m so glad you asked… mostly because sometimes, after MONTHS of geography based 𝖽̶𝗂̶𝗌̶𝖼̶𝗋̶𝗂̶𝗆̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝖺̶𝗍̶𝗂̶𝗈̶𝗇̶ disappointment, I’ll reopen a tab and see that @andrewhunterm.bsky.social’s new audiobook IS in fact now available to buy in the US.. and that’s delightful.
Support Ukraine. Get a heat pump; install an induction cooker.
Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 4w agoWhile Ukraine batters Russia’s oil and gas industry, striking at the heart of Putin’s war machine, Europe is *still* importing Russian gas by the boatload www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
Anyone suggesting the scrapping/weakening of emissions targets should be asked to present their alternative plan to stabilise the climate and stop things getting hotter. They won't have one.
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · last mo.Our heatwaves will get hotter and hotter and hotter until we get to global net zero greenhouse gas emissions and so stabilise the climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sorry, this is small potatoes. This is only 5% of a Harborne. Do better Nigel.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes
All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening
Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."
I'm back on it this morning talking about THE ELECTRIC REVOLUTION on the wonderful YIMBY Pod. Listen below!
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 2mo agoNew YIMBY Pod! We speak to @andrewhunterm.bsky.social about Britain's EV-charging progress... ...And I try to convince @mjrobbins.com that the National Data Library launch isn't totally underwhelming. Listen here, or wherever you get your pods! www.abundancepod.com/p/the-last-m...
In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
So I think there are still some tickets for this - the Page 94 podcast but you get to see the bits we usually edit out - if you fancy melting in a tent with us tomorrow. Ian Hislop, Helen Lewis and Adam Macqueen talk to Andrew Hunter Murray - Hay Festival share.google/soSuFohMrV0D...
Ian Hislop, Helen Lewis and Adam Macqueen talk to Andrew Hunter Murray - Hay Festival
The team behind <em>Private Eye</em> magazine’s podcast brings a live recording to Hay Festival.
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Something must be causing these insane record-breaking temperatures, but I've read three newspapers this morning (Mail, Times, Telegraph) and they appear to have absolutely no idea what. How baffling. Sure they're working on it
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2mo agoToday will be the hottest day in May in the UK in our temperature records, with highs of 35 degrees Celsius expected📈 The current May record is 32.8 °C. Records are usually only broken by tenths of a degree - making this heatwave unprecedented for the time of year 🌡️
Reform are wrong - not just slightly wrong but fundamentally wrong - on *the* most important issue of the 21st century. Could not be wronger.
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 3mo ago"Tice’s comments came in a combative interview where he threatened to walk out when presented with information from the [IPCC]. Tice…declined to name advisers who convinced him the scientific consensus was wrong." Extraordinary interview by @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @oliviarudgard.bsky.social
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Geopolitics update: pleased to announce that after six weeks of furious struggle I have successfully removed my penis from the penis trap which was labelled 'OBVIOUS PENIS TRAP'. This is a major strategic victory for me. No questions from the press
Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...
UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from Middle East this week
Industry warnings of disruption contrast with government calls for calm
ft.com
Increasingly unclear to me whether I am watching the news or the new Dune trailer
Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.
This just in: Sun agrees to release infinity million barrels of sunshine every morning
Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by (much) more than North Sea drilling The latest debate over new licenses has been lacking one key ingredient: Perspective Here's our take in chart form – and I'm happy to debate the numbers www.carbonbrief.org/...
UK's Climate Change Committee has some of the smartest minds working on modeling the costs of how to get to net zero. And this assessment is likley to be applicable to any fossil-fuel import dependent country. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Net Zero Costs Less Than One Fossil Fuel Shock, UK’s CCC Says
The cost of meeting net zero is less than a single fossil fuel price shock, the UK’s official climate adviser said.
bloomberg.com
