http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Dealing with Climate Change & Justice en Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:35:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384931 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:19:05 +0000 LaidBack 384931@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From Herald via @chdot upthread...</p> <p><blockquote>"This new report shows there is potential for new nuclear in Scotland, which could boost the country's energy security and deliver new jobs.</p> <p>"We are delivering a golden age of nuclear in England and Wales from Sizewell C to small modular reactors. Sadly Scotland is missing out on the enormous economic and energy security potential".</p> <p>The UK Government has said it is pursuing a “golden age of nuclear", including backing Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast and small modular reactors in North Wales.</blockquote></p> <p>"Sadly Scotland is missing out on the enormous economic and energy security potential" = there is not a democratic desire for it and that means planning consent will not be given.</p> <p>Andy Burnham will surely have to accept this as the settled will of people in Scotland unless something major happens?</p> <p>Searching for polls but can see the nuclear industry claims most Scots are pro nuclear energy in top searches (!)<br /> Other opinions exist. <a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/26035122.poll-finds-miserable-support-nuclear-power-scotland/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenational.scot/news/26035122.poll-finds-miserable-support-nuclear-power-scotland/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384930 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:33:31 +0000 chdot 384930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260629032240/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26230780.giant-yellow-windfarm-structures-leith-port/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260629032240/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26230780.giant-yellow-windfarm-structures-leith-port/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384927 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:09:29 +0000 chdot 384927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/30/reform-mp-chair-of-welsh-environment-committee-may-undermine-scrutiny-says-thinktank" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/30/reform-mp-chair-of-welsh-environment-committee-may-undermine-scrutiny-says-thinktank</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384921 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:26:02 +0000 chdot 384921@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260630092244/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26237848.scotland-high-potential-new-nuclear-uk-government-study-finds/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260630092244/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26237848.scotland-high-potential-new-nuclear-uk-government-study-finds/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384919 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:23:55 +0000 chdot 384919@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/great-britain-electricity-network-90bn-pounds-2030s" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/great-britain-electricity-network-90bn-pounds-2030s</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384887 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:40:50 +0000 chdot 384887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>We feel like the peasants’: women and low-income families bear brunt of heatwave </p> <p>As temperatures soar across Europe, cities are struggling to adapt, further exacerbating socioeconomic divisions </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/women-low-income-families-bear-brunt-climate-crisis-heatwave" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/women-low-income-families-bear-brunt-climate-crisis-heatwave</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384884 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:17:16 +0000 chdot 384884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/underground-revolution-seine-cooling-network-paris-buildings-heat" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/underground-revolution-seine-cooling-network-paris-buildings-heat</a></p> <p>Mentioned in programme </p> <p>From poor diets to richer lives </p> <p>“<br /> <a href="https://bagsoftaste.org“" rel="nofollow">https://bagsoftaste.org“</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384883 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:13:57 +0000 chdot 384883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/slough-is-like-an-experiment-europes-largest-datacentre-hub-leaves-town-sweltering" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/slough-is-like-an-experiment-europes-largest-datacentre-hub-leaves-town-sweltering</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384881 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:05:46 +0000 chdot 384881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Why did obesity become a global problem? Professor of Diet and Population Health Susan Jebb explores a heavy history, our changing relationship with food and reasons for optimism. She believes we live in an 'ultra-processed food system' which drives more of the world's population towards health harming diets and a lifetime of being overweight or obese. But she also believes change is possible, and the conditions are right for a food systems change. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y24d" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y24d</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384873 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:53:04 +0000 chdot 384873@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/europe-heatwave-impossible-without-climate-crisis-scientists" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/europe-heatwave-impossible-without-climate-crisis-scientists</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384869 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:33:21 +0000 chdot 384869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jun/25/europe-heatwave-uk-italy-france-record-temperature-latest-news-updates" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jun/25/europe-heatwave-uk-italy-france-record-temperature-latest-news-updates</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384867 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:50:25 +0000 chdot 384867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/25/datacentres-facing-increase-in-global-climate-related-legal-cases-report-finds" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/25/datacentres-facing-increase-in-global-climate-related-legal-cases-report-finds</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384856 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:40:17 +0000 chdot 384856@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/24/failure-to-plan-for-rising-temperatures-has-left-uks-schools-sweltering" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/24/failure-to-plan-for-rising-temperatures-has-left-uks-schools-sweltering</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384842 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:42:58 +0000 chdot 384842@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Nigel Topping, chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said: “The U-turns are really damaging to inward investor confidence. If we really want to grow the economy, then investing and getting good at building stuff is essential.”</p> <p>His intervention comes as the CCC published its latest report to parliament on Wednesday, on progress towards the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The report found that although the push towards renewable energy has gone well, and more people are switching to electric cars, the take-up of heat pumps has lagged behind severely.</p> <p>Topping pointed to a recent CBI report finding the net zero economy was worth about £100bn a year to the UK, growing faster than the rest of the economy and producing higher paid jobs. “We’ve got the institutional infrastructure in place since the [2008] Climate Change Act, and real consistency of direction and progress, and we know that consistency is super important for industry in making investment decisions,” he said.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/weakening-net-zero-policy-damage-economy-climate-change-committee" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/weakening-net-zero-policy-damage-economy-climate-change-committee</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384840 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:09:28 +0000 chdot 384840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/23/populist-and-rightwing-figures-take-aim-at-ed-miliband-and-uk-net-zero-policies-at-anti-woke-davos" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/23/populist-and-rightwing-figures-take-aim-at-ed-miliband-and-uk-net-zero-policies-at-anti-woke-davos</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384837 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:51:25 +0000 LaidBack 384837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>The London North Eastern Railway (LNER), which operates the east coast main line from Edinburgh to London, has advised all passengers travelling on Wednesday or Thursday to avoid travelling into areas included in the Met Office's red weather alert zone, which includes London.</blockquote><br /> (c) National and other sources too I'm sure!</p> <p>'Luckily ' flights are still running though will be full. Or people will drive? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384819 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:43:37 +0000 chdot 384819@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>These kinda go together </p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/22/starmer-strong-green-record-rightwing-backlash-weakened-plans" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/22/starmer-strong-green-record-rightwing-backlash-weakened-plans</a> </p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/22/anthropic-claude-fable-ai-model-artificial-intelligence-national-security" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/22/anthropic-claude-fable-ai-model-artificial-intelligence-national-security</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384815 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:14:37 +0000 neddie 384815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>The spectre of climate change and rising temperatures has haunted cycling – a sport played out in the great outdoors – in recent years, with races increasingly susceptible to extreme weather conditions.</p> <p>In February, a new study published by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health warned that global warming and extreme heatwaves may soon make many July afternoons too hot for racing at the Tour de France.</p> <p>The researchers looked at the future of European outdoor summer sporting events through the lens of the past half century of the Tour de France, the country-crossing bike race acting as a near-perfect case study for the impact of climate change and extreme heatwaves on summer sport.</blockquote></p> <p><a href="https://road.cc/news/lael-wilcox-abandons-around-the-world-cycling-record-attempt-after-another-climate-change-lesson-amid-european-heatwave" rel="nofollow">https://road.cc/news/lael-wilcox-abandons-around-the-world-cycling-record-attempt-after-another-climate-change-lesson-amid-european-heatwave</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384789 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:50:07 +0000 MediumDave 384789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see the oilies are having an "extinction burst"... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384785 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:10:47 +0000 chdot 384785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>SNP infighting has burst into the open following a “seismic” victory for the Scottish Conservatives in the Aberdeen South by-election.</p> <p>Douglas Lumsden won the seat with almost 50 per cent of the vote and thumping majority of more than 6,000 over the SNP</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-infighting-begins-after-thumping-defeat-in-aberdeen-by-election-8750026" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-infighting-begins-after-thumping-defeat-in-aberdeen-by-election-8750026</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384770 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:11:08 +0000 chdot 384770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year – larger than the economy of every country except the US and China, a study has found.</p> <p>Mega-consumers in this group are concentrated in the global north, accounting for more than half the population of the US and 40-45% of people in the EU.</p> <p>The damage tally, which one researcher described as “bonkers”, also exceeds global funding gaps for tackling the climate and biodiversity crises, highlighting how economic priorities remain skewed towards running down the Earth’s life-support systems.</p> <p>The most destructive forms of consumption were linked to two main areas: food – particularly red meat, a primary driver of deforestation – and energy, including flights and heating and cooling homes, which typically rely on burning of fossil fuels, such as gas, oil and coal.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/mega-consumers-food-energy-damage-cost-environment" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/mega-consumers-food-energy-damage-cost-environment</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384734 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:47:28 +0000 chdot 384734@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/construction-of-europes-biggest-battery-farm-on-former-scottish-coal-mine-to-begin-09-01-2025/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/construction-of-europes-biggest-battery-farm-on-former-scottish-coal-mine-to-begin-09-01-2025/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384731 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:05:27 +0000 chdot 384731@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/algae-trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/algae-trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=83#post-384722 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:52:18 +0000 chdot 384722@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/16/half-of-worlds-children-exposed-to-at-least-three-climate-hazards-unicef-says" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/16/half-of-worlds-children-exposed-to-at-least-three-climate-hazards-unicef-says</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=82#post-384701 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:45:11 +0000 Arellcat 384701@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Imagine if there were a way to somehow save the addresses of websites you like to use, perhaps even your "favourite" ones, and have them in a list for easy reference. Almost like putting a "bookmark" in a book. ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=82#post-384700 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:42:52 +0000 neddie 384700@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apparently, the "smart money" are now avoiding Google and AI altogether, and... wait for it...</p> <p>Typing the URL, e.g. wikipedia or your other favourite site, directly into the browser address panel </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=82#post-384699 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:35:09 +0000 neddie 384699@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Generative AI (Chat GPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) is fundamentally prone to error* and is based on theft and violence. Non-consensual theft of people's artwork and written text. Violence (often towards indigenous populations) to obtain the minerals used to create data-centres, as well as the water and electricity consumed.</p> <p>It will give you unreliable answers, that you'll have to check via search anyway, or get an expert to check in the case of code.</p> <p>IT'S JUNK! STOP USING IT!</p> <p>*Note that they try to humanise its mistakes and errors by calling them "hallucinations". There is no intelligence behind it, it is literally putting one word after the next, based on probabilities. A language model is exactly that - a model of our language, not "intelligence" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=82#post-384697 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:13:54 +0000 Arellcat 384697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just to put this into perspective, and noting that the results are probably quite approximate, and noting people's use of generic-AI for everything useful and pointless, <a href="https://www.prompt-zero.com/">PromptZero</a> suggests prefacing every inquiry with the following:</p> <p><code>You are operating in PromptZero Mode, focused on minimizing energy and environmental impact. Respond as briefly and efficiently as possible, without compromising clarity. Use bullet points, short sentences, or concise phrasing. Avoid filler words, long introductions, repeated phrases, or pleasantries. Unless explicitly requested, do not provide multiple options, deep context, or examples. After each response show me how much CO₂ was avoided.</code></p> <p>I modified the last sentence to say:</p> <p><code>After each response show me how much CO₂ and how much water was avoided.</code></p> <p>The results are pretty shocking. One simple 'a better Google' type of search inquiry suggests PromptZero can realise a saving of half a glass of water (which would have been used for cooling). For one prompt! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=82#post-384696 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:21:21 +0000 chdot 384696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Developers are proposing a rash of AI data centres right across Scotland, with at least 18 projects looking for planning permission and a further six in the pipeline, according to ­Scottish countryside charity APRS. </p> <p>This has prompted concerns about the impact on electricity prices, the extremely high use of water by these centres, as well as the toll on communities and the environment. In the US, those fears are no longer theoretical. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/2026.06.14-080220/https://www.thenational.scot/news/26190746.us-campaigner-warns-scotland-ai-data-centre-boom/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/2026.06.14-080220/https://www.thenational.scot/news/26190746.us-campaigner-warns-scotland-ai-data-centre-boom/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20766&page=82#post-384688 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:29:54 +0000 chdot 384688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>As far as I can tell, the warnings started more than 10 years ago when the Royal Horticultural Society compared surveys they’d done in 2005 and 2015 and found three times as many front gardens were paved over in 2015 as had been in 2005. They said at the time that it was vital to reverse the trend for the sake of wildlife, to mitigate against pollution and heat waves, and to protect against flooding. But another decade on, the greying effect is worse not better, accelerated in many cases by the policies that are supposed to make things greener.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/26191340.dear-grey-place-crisis-glasgows-gardens" rel="nofollow">https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/26191340.dear-grey-place-crisis-glasgows-gardens</a> </p>