“Saw my first motorcade heading through Corstorphine this morning: about 10 black SUVs with a few police outriders.”
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/us-president-joe-biden-arrives-in-scotland-for-cop26-summit
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That's the second jet carrying staff and press, Biden's aircraft is flying ahead of it and doesn't show on FR24
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AF1 was on ADS-B and I was tracking it all the way from the Channel. Got a few distant photos as it passed over the Mid/East Lothian border. SAM46 took a slightly more western track and I was able to get photos sooner.
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Anyone know when AF1 is likely to take off again?
Asking for a small boy
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Transport Scotland Tweet encouraging folk to walk and cycle in Glasgow during COP illustrated with a father and daughter cycling on the pavement (due to there being no cycle infrastructure, I would imagine), on a route currently closed to the public. I suppose it sums up cycling in Scotland quite nicely, just not in the way I imagine Transport Scotland intended.
https://twitter.com/transcotland/status/1455175473751801858/photo/1
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How Green Is the Government?
Dispatches
As Britain prepares to host the COP26 summit, this Dispatches special investigates the PM's claim that the UK is the global leader in the fight against the climate crisis
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Tonight 8 C4
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/erskine-bridge-closed-greenpeace-ship-25349505
Seems it’s NOT going to get to the centre of Glasgow.
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@morningsider - TS don't really expect anyone to shift modes I expect! Particularly as the cycle 'by-pass' routes are very difficult to navigate - even for Glaswegians according to Twitter. Tweet is more to say it's a code red for driving in city - so stay away?
Here's a relevant article for both Cop26 and EV thread. Link to come...
I’m not decrying the need to invest in new technology. I’m questioning the surrender of climate mitigation to corporate interests that retain the same old goals of investment for profit, an economy based on the logic of buying more and more, of putting profit before planet. A false logic that ultimately separates human beings from nature itself. But we don’t own the planet; we are part and parcel of its ecosphere.
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and more
UNFORTUNATELY, the trajectory of the COP26 agenda is away from such a genuine “system change” towards using the climate emergency to give the neoliberal capitalist system a new lease of life – to the ultimate detriment of the planet. Capitalist markets need willing, passive consumers. So every marketing agency worth its salt is now telling each and every one of us that climate change is our fault. And that we need to make a personal effort to alter our spending patterns, the better to make more profits for industry. We need to buy a new electric car. We need to eat new, synthetic food products instead of meat. We need to buy clothing and make-up brands that are somehow “ethically” better than others, though this always boils down to better marketing.
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I remember when organic vegetables had lot of dirt on them. Eg in the greatest greengrocers in Glasgow roots and Fruits. Then Tesco started selling suspiciously clean organic vegetables.
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World leaders announce plan to make green tech cheaper than alternatives
UK, US and China among countries representing two-thirds of global economy to agree to push green energy and cars
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59135169
Nevertheless, even before the deal was announced at the summit in Glasgow, the government had planned to shrink coal's contribution to the energy mix to less than 60% by 2030.
Wind and solar power were expected to provide 25% by that point.
With the money pledged by the US, UK, France, Germany and the EU, South Africa could now move much faster.
Despite burning huge quantities of coal Eskom is well known for 'load shedding' as it's called in SA - ie rolling powercuts. They are massive polluters but vital to export of power to neighbouring countries of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia.
Good news if transition can be achieved without fraud and a national strike.**Current South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa built up the biggest and most powerful trade union in the country, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) back in 1982.
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The Times reports that Patrick Harvie is accusing Greenpeace of "unfairly criticising" Nicola Sturgeon for not opposing the Cambo oilfield development as it is "not particularly politically active in Scotland".
Make of that what you will.
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Wee paddy is in Nicola’s pocket?
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world ‘heading for 1.9C of heating’, climate model projects
Researchers at University of Melbourne say pledges by India and others have significantly improved outlook
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He compared financiers and politicians with Dan Hooper, nicknamed Swampy, who became a household name in 1996 after his fierce campaigning to stop new road projects.
Sharma said: “When I started my career in finance in the 1990 in the City, there was a guy called Swampy – some of you may recall him? He spent his time occupying trees and tunnels and he was the main face of climate action in the United Kingdom.
“But today the Swampys of the world are all around us, in boardrooms, in government departments, in multilateral development banks and trading floors all around the world – you, my friends, are the new Swampys, so be proud.
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Should have visited the Colombian delegation AFTER giving his speech.
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@ gembo
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Glasgow’s designation as host city – perhaps chosen by Conservative ministers in London to show the UK embracing Scotland – directly influenced Sturgeon’s decision to sign the deal with the Greens. It was a political decision, and not based on numerical advantage at Holyrood: she has aligned the SNP with a more leftwing party to amplify her government’s pro-climate claims, at a time when green politics, thanks to Cop, is ascendant.
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But today the Swampys of the world are all around us, in boardrooms, in government departments, in multilateral development banks and trading floors all around the world
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He is of course completely deluded.
Being charitable he might be right that some organisations have people who want companies to go in a different direction, but they are hardly universal or any sort of majority.
They insurance industry has been warning for years that Climate Change is a threat to their profits.
So they put premiums, decline to insure property that has been flooded and are expecting Govs to pay for more flood defences.
The idea that most companies/financiers ‘get’ “the crisis” is perhaps premature. The idea that they will ‘mend their ways’ and invest completely differently is wishful thinking.
The idea that they’ll do it out of altruism or even ‘because it’s more profitable’ is naive.
Expect more demands for subsidies (eg electric vehicles and energy costs) and busy lawyers keen to find loopholes in meagre regulations.
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@gembo - Patrick and Lorna are not supporters of carbon capture, which is UK and ScotGov 'magic green bullet', although how and if it will work is a question only answered after pouring a lot of cash into voids left by North Sea oil.
When UKGov decided not to support CC in Scotland they were either aware/not aware of this.
In an alternative reality Johnson could have said something like this:
"It's part of the Great British character to be diverse. Indeed politics on this island reflect the many traits that make up our peoples. It's precisely that which made us listen to our friends in the Scottish Greens and decide to delay costly unproven CC in Scotland with smaller test projects in the North of England. This my friends, is all part of the respect which we across these islands give to different points of view..."
Mind you his speeches at Cop26 are just as 'fantastic'. No wonder he needs a nap!Posted 3 years ago # -
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Hannah Cloke, a professor of hydrology at the University of Reading, said: “This latest report from the UN shows that the world is not doing enough to prepare for extreme climate events such as floods, droughts and wildfires that cause severe disruption to people’s lives. Even if Cop26 finished with a plan to phase out fossil fuels and cut emissions to zero, we would still have to live with the impact of the warming we have already caused, which we know has made many types of extreme weather events much more likely. Adapting to climate risk means taking a proactive response, by investing in better buildings, infrastructure and early-warning systems.”
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Loving the police response to them kettling a bunch of people for hours and ignoring people who needed to go to the toilet or required medicine, which basically amounts to "Jesus you ungrateful crusty hippie scum, we've held back from clubbing you all senseless for two whole days, what more do you lot want!?".
Proportionate consent-based policing that will preserve the right to protest indeed.
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COP26 in one meme.
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COP26’s organisers have pointed out that cars, lorries and other road traffic alone accounts for ten per cent of global emissions – and they are rising faster than those of any other sector.
In Scotland, transport produces more than one third of the country’s emissions, two-thirds of which is from roads.
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Meantime, some drivers sat near the venues with engines idling, including several police vans – a glaring example of how the climate emergency has still to get through to everyone.
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Good interview with Dan A of Critical Mass by Good Morning Scotland (BBC Radio Scotland) about the Pedal on COP ride from Edinburgh to Glasgow tomorrow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00113pv
From 2h52 on (near end)
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@neddie
Dan was good and hit all the points.Planning to ride out part of way tomorrow with SRD - think @daisydaisy doing as well. Both rides will be together till Newbridge then imagine will string out a bit.
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When asked by Watson what it would take for the climate summit to be a success, Thunberg replied: “What would be considered a success would be if people realise what a failure this COP is”.
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Dan A was good and Critical Mass seems to be going from strength to strength.
Everything I've heard/read says that Active travel has been totally ignored at COP26.
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