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But we ought to remember when we report on and talk about high temperatures with unequivocal glee, that heat brings its dangers, and in a world of climate change, these will likely arrive more frequently.
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Drought and hotter summers are killing Germany’s spruce forests. They’re a staple of the timber industry but are proving unable to cope with the consequences of climate change. Four out of five of Germany’s trees show signs of sicknes
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The promise is a key plank of Labour’s environmental platform, but has sparked anger among business and political leaders in the north-east of Scotland, where the industry is concentrated.
The Labour leader is being urged to stick to the plan in a letter signed by 139 organisations, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the National Federation of Women’s Institutes.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/04/starmer-labour-new-north-sea-oil-gas-ban
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Ministers face legal challenge over cuts to walking and cycling investment in England:
Campaigners say move bypasses legal process and puts at risk climate and pollution pledges
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According to TAN, whose lawyers at Leigh Day, have sent a pre-action legal letter to Harper, outside London the funding dedicated to active travel in England will be only £1 a head per year over the rest of the current parliament, against equivalent figures of £23 for Wales and £58 in Scotland.
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“On a vast territory, all life will be destroyed; many settlements will be ruined; colossal damage will be done to the environment.”
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https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121201310/ukraine-flooded-village-dam-blown-up
"It worked. The water flowed and flowed, and the troops couldn't continue moving south."
"Seven months later, they're still proud. But they're also still dealing with the water, and there's still a lot of it."
Suspect Russia playing the same game now.
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Starmer’s charm offensive in Brighton comes amid a rift with the GMB over energy policy. Smith has claimed that Labour has “got it wrong” in declining to license new fossil fuel exploration in the North Sea.
The Labour leader was received enthusiastically by delegates, however, as he set out his party’s pro-worker policies, including a new “fair pay agreement” in social care; expanded parental leave; an end to fire-and-rehire; and full employment rights on day one of a new job.
He sought to assuage fears over what Smith has called a “cliff-edge” in the North Sea energy industry, saying a Labour government would seize the opportunity to create new, clean energy jobs.
“What I will never let happen is what happened in coalmining, where an industry came to an end and nobody had planned for the future – and we’re still living with the consequences,” he said.
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Climate change will be "the crisis that finally forces us to deal with our inequality," "bc chemistry & physics simply won’t be denied, the way morality and justice can be." @billmckibben on Kim Stanley Robinson's *The Ministry for the Future* @nybooks :
https://t.co/fSmeTiUxUX“
https://twitter.com/thoughtfulfund/status/1666080732857663491
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"It dawned on me," she says. "The physics behind this haven't changed in my lifetime. They're not going to change going forward."
Jennifer says she realised action was needed urgently and she no longer had the passion or motivation to continue studying the effects.
She put her career on hold in order to take more direct action but she found the scale of the challenge overwhelming.
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Canada wildfires smoke: climate change ‘accelerated conditions’, says New York mayor as Canada battles more than 400 blazes
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Caroline Lucas says Sunak energy policies more ‘dangerous’ than Just Stop Oil protests as she says she is to stand down
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After a decade of confusion and stasis, Aberdeen’s fortunes have been transformed by the government’s response to the invasion of Ukraine, with its focus on securing domestic oil and gas supplies. While the already heavily plundered North Sea is in natural decline, ministers are determined to slow the decline by boosting production and developing new fields. In October more than 70 companies applied for 115 licences to search for new fields and reopen closed wells in 258 areas of the North Sea. Some of the successful projects, which will be announced later this year, could be producing in as little as 14 months.
James, a former deep sea oil platform diver who grew up in Aberdeen, couldn’t be more upbeat: “Prior to Ukraine, we would have been talking about how we survive … and now it’s all about revival.”
But for many this new spurt of prospecting is desperately problematic. In 2021 the International Energy Agency calculated that the world could afford no new fossil fuel exploration if the world wanted to stay within safe limits of global warming. The 6bn barrels of oil and gas that officials have calculated could be profitably extracted from the North Sea would release 2.5bn tonnes of CO2 – seven times the UK’s annual emissions.
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To put this into context for 2023, adding 250 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere globally will tip us over 1.5°C of warming.
Globally, over the last ten years we have been pumping 54 billion* tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
250 ÷ 54 = less than five years.
And people are still getting all pissy about LEZs 'takin away mah freedoms'.
* declared emissions, not including 'known unknowns' like the military, and other purposely excluded emissions.
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Is climate change ruining your relationship?
The Climate Question How can you have a successful relationship with someone if you believe passionately in climate action, but they don’t?
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The fate of our planet can be a divisive, emotive, even frightening issue. It’s something that’s tearing more and more couples and families apart, experts have told us. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5bk1
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Producing green hydrogen in the Uk will use 6x more electricity than heat pumps.
If they mean blue hydrogen, it’s made from gas and costs loads more than gas.
Actual science.
Btw- 97% of the worlds hydrogen is currently grey - trashing the climate. Maybe they should sort that
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https://twitter.com/g__j/status/1669740216066666496?
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look, hydrogen has a massive role to play in decarbonising, starting with itself. Many industries will need it. But using it for heating is genuinely crazy.
And consumers are being asked to pay for it. If it made any sense, it wouldn’t need 120 lobbyists in UK parliament alone
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BREAKING: GLASTONBURY CANCELLED LAST MINUTE...
...For Ed Miliband, Shadow sec. of state for Climate Change and Justin Rowlatt, climate editor for BBC News. Both have been banned from speaking at the festival's Speakers Forum by their bosses.
Why?
Because they were slated to share a platform with spokespeople from Just Stop Oil.
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A rapid reduction in fossil fuels, essential to avoid devastating climate breakdown, would have minimal financial impact on the vast majority of people, new research has shown.
Urgently cutting back on fossil fuel production is essential to avoid the worst impacts of climate breakdown and the economic and social turmoil that would ensue. However, some opponents of climate action claim it is too expensive. They argue that rapidly scaling back fossil fuel production would leave billions of pounds of “stranded assets”, leading to an economic slump that would impoverish the public through a fall in the value of savings and pension funds.
Research published on Thursday finds that the loss of fossil fuel assets would have a minimal impact on the general public.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/fossil-fuel-assets-loss-study
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Six days' worth of rain in an hour: The flooding of Hampden
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Grant Shapps has signalled the government will U-turn on its planned hydrogen levy on energy bills.
The annual levy, estimated to add about £118 a year to already soaring energy bills, had been expected to be introduced in 2025 via the energy bill going through parliament. The fee was intended to cover the cost of producing the low-carbon gas instead of polluting fossil fuels.
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