Insulating homes and investing in heat pumps would be more effective in reducing living costs, creating jobs, and boosting the economy than drilling for new oil.
Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests
Warm homes plan would create 50,000 jobs, compared with about 1,100 for Rosebank oilfield, thinktank finds
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Doug is being charitable here. It was a range from 0.03-0.05%, and the government's own expert peer reviewer said that's still optimistic.
Doug Parr@dougparr.bsky.social · 3d agoWell, he’s right in the sense there’d be economic growth - 0.05% according to UK govt’s impact assessment. Not much Same assessment also said the cost-benefit analysis, accounting for pollution, health impacts of noise etc would be negative by tens of billions of ££ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
2°C by 2040. That's where the trend lands if warming keeps running at its post-2011 rate of 0.39°C a decade. The CMIP6 climate models in this chart land there too We're crossing 1.5°C as we speak: 2024 cleared it, 2026 will too, and next year's record #ElNino points at 1.7°C
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last wk."[We] identify a statistically significant doubling of the global warming rate during 2011–2025 (0.40 °C per dec) compared to 1971–2025 (0.20 °C per dec)... The ensemble mean of 26 #climate models fails to capture the observed doubling of the warming rate, simulating a rate of only 0.29 °C per dec"
Thank you to the MPs who recently joined the call for Gov to hold a live emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. Sir @eddavey.libdems.org.uk becomes the first Westminster party leader to call for trusting the public with the facts. www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar... It's #TimeToStepUp
40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...
This year's El Niño continues its climb into uncharted waters; Niño3.4 region anomalies are now at a 3.4C above normal (how fitting!), higher than any prior El Niño event on record. September monthly Niño3.4 anomalies also set a record at 2.9C (beating 2015 and 1877's 2.75C).
If you have an account with HSBC or Barclays, consider switching to a bank that doesn’t plunder our shared future for their own short-term profit. And tell them why you’re leaving, loud and proud. www.ft.com/content/52e5...
UK banks stick with coal financing, campaign report finds
Barclays and HSBC led in support of the industry since the war on Ukraine, study shows
ft.com
Jet fuel: 12,000 Wh/kg. Modern batteries: ~300 Wh/kg. Even with motor efficiency, jet fuel holds 20x the power per kg. Worse: planes rely on getting lighter as they burn fuel. Electric planes spend energy hauling dead battery weight all the way to landing. It's a physics wall.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w agoI keep telling y'all, electric aviation is a dark horse.
I miss David MacKay. In his no-nonsense way he showed that one long-haul return flight a year uses more energy than a 1 kW heater on all year. "A 10% improvement? Yes, possible. A doubling of efficiency? I'd eat my complimentary socks." If only more people were pro-arithmetic. We have to fly less
Ch 5 Page 35: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air | David MacKay
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Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.
1/ "Every fraction of a degree of warming matters." True, and a dangerous platitude. It quietly suggests warming is a smooth dial, where each tenth of a degree costs about the same as the last. It doesn't. The later ones cost far more. Here's why. 🧵
Human entitlement in a headline at its finest: "Aviation faces hotter, stormier skies – and passengers might have to accept more disruption" And the article matches: nothing at all about reducing airline traffic. We're flying into hell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Flyers might have to face more disruption with hotter skies
Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?
bbc.co.uk
Collectively, through malevolence, through self-interest, through indifference, the rich world killed the 1.5°C target
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · last yr.Every time I hear climate/enviro folks casually say the 1.5°C target is dead, I think of Asad Rehman's 2020 post on Ambassador Lumumba Di-Aping's intervention in the Copenhagen talks in 2009—“certain death for Africa”, “climate fascism” imposed on Africa by high carbon emitters
📝 New article on Our World in Data: Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades. The largest driver of deforestation globally is the expansion of agricultural land.
It cannot be stated enough: whatever your view of technology & policy development over the rest of this century & beyond, the rapid ending of fossil fuels is the most resilient & robust way to secure a liveable climate.
Glen Peters@glenpeters.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/
August 28, 1959 – Daily Mail reports on carbon dioxide build-up "[Carbon dioxide] has increased by 15 p.c. in our atmosphere in the past 50 years – and its effect is to “trap” the heat from the sun’s rays and heat radiated from the ground.” allouryesterdays.info/2026/08/27/a...
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
theguardian.com
'Despite ME turmoil'? Don't you mean 'despite our burning planet'? Despite the wildfires and floods, despite the risk to our food systems, the threat to our health and economy? Isn't that the real story here - the terrifying disconnect between behaviour and reality? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scottish airport numbers soar despite Middle East turmoil
Almost 300,000 more passengers travelled in the spring and state-owned Prestwick saw a trebling of cargo volumes.
bbc.co.uk
Matt found out his bank has spent $77.8 billion on fossil fuel financing since 2021. In this episode of #ClimateActually, I helped Matt follow the 3 steps to bank fossil-free: 1. Check if your bank funds fossil fuels 2. Switch if it does 3. Tell your old bank why you left. youtu.be/iruxIkB37lM
100,000 people now signed the petition for the government to stage a televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis, introduced by the PM and delivered by independent experts. The debate should be prioritised for when Parliament reconvenes on 1st Sept. It's #TimeToStepUp
It'll be pretty embarrassing if the dinosaurs went out with more dignity than us. They can't say they knew about the meteor for decades, knew exactly what to do about it, had all the technology and resources to stop it but didn't so five of them could own everything
We need @andyburnham.bsky.social to stick his word now on #ClimateChange
Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative@fossiltreaty.bsky.social · last yr.“The Fossil Fuel Treaty is not just a plan—it’s a lifeline,” said Mayor @mayorofgm.bsky.social Burnham, joining Massive Attack to endorse the call just before a sold-out show in Manchester on #WorldEnvironmentDay2025. This is the moment music, activism, and leadership united for climate justice.
Long form interview on @novaramedia.com - covering a wide range of climate issues: from the science to the politics, the climate leadership prospects of the new PM and the dangerous soft-pedalling by many climate academics/experts & much of the mainstream media. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFo...
Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Water nationalisation for our water security? End north sea oil & gas - invest in renewables for our energy security? A maximum workplace temperature for worker security? No. A request not to sell BBQs. This is dire from Andy Burnham. Spectacularly mishandling the crisis.
The gently sloping line at the bottom is our world 252 million years ago, when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years killing 90% of all species. It is a period known as The Great Dying. That vertical red line is the world our children live in.
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
independent.co.uk
Great to see Novara interviewing Kevin. No-one else in climate debate comes close in terms of combining no-bullshit insight with walking the walk personally (not gallivanting around the world spewing emissions for peer esteem).
Ex Oil-Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
YouTube video by Novara Media
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The head of Norway's oil fund is going to flip out when someone tells him what fossil fuels do 🧐🧐🧐🧐
