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Slightly ironic, but still -
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A billionaire global investor has led international condemnation of the UK’s new oil rush, saying he would pull his major investment from the country if the prime minister pursued “clickbait” fossil fuel policies.
The Australian mining entrepreneur Andrew Forrest, who also runs the Minderoo Foundation philanthropic organisation, threatened to move his investments out of the UK over Rishi Sunak’s swivel towards new oil and gas drilling.
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Here’s the truth about Sunak’s plans for the North Sea: he will sell out the planet to the dirtiest bidders
George Monbiot
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Defra ordered to cut Greenpeace ties after Sunak roof protest
Exclusive: Thérèse Coffey instructs department to cease all contact after activists drape PM’s home in oil-black fabric
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Great Thunberg pulls out of Book Festival due to Baillie Gifford's sponsorship. BG have less than industry average investment in fossil fuel. Around £4bn of their £300Bn.
Read it then asked me to register...
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Jan Matthiesen, head of offshore wind at the Carbon Trust thinktank, said: “The UK offshore wind industry is at a tipping point. The maximum prices set are now too low. Last month, we saw Vattenfall withdraw from the Norfolk Boreas windfarm. This may be the first of many if bold and swift action is not taken.”
Adam Berman, a deputy director of Energy UK, the trade association for the energy industry, said: “To put it simply, if we have any hope of reaching the ambitious targets that the government has set, we cannot afford more major projects to delay or to stop altogether.”
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SNP ministers have been warned over relying on carbon capture technology to meet climate targets after a Norwegian project raised “red flags” about the viability of the strategy.
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Rishi Sunak's plan to grant 100 new oil and gas licences will leave a long and damaging legacy.
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https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/lorna-slater-4245109
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Zac Goldsmith claims he could support Labour at next election over climate issues - if it focused more on nature, not just carbon Zac Goldsmith, who resigned as a Foreign Office minister in June saying he could no longer support Rishi Sunak because of his “apathy” on climate issues, has told the BBC that he might even back Labour as a result.
Goldsmith raised the prospect of supporting Labour in an interview with Hardtalk. But he said that would only happen if the Labour party adapted its green policies to put more focus on the natural environment and biodiversity – issues about which he feels particularly strongly.
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“It’s a very heavy situation we have in this part of Norway in the last days because of the rain. If I made a training exercise for the police I wouldn’t in my wildest dreams think of this problem in our district, he said.
“We have many landslides all over, we have homes being taken, evacuated a lot of people, all the roads are closed and all the rivers are overflowing.”
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The truth is Tory voters are onboard for net zero. What’s really worrying them is how we get there
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/10/tory-voters-net-zero-environmental-action
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Rishi Sunak’s government will “go down in history” as the administration that failed the UK on the climate crisis while ministers pursued a dangerous culture war, the heads of Greenpeace have said.
The charity’s joint executive directors described government briefings against the organisation in the wake of its oil protest at the prime minister’s Yorkshire home as “really dark stuff”, which revealed a worrying trend towards exploiting environmental protests as a wedge issue.
In an interview with the Guardian, Areeba Hamid and Will McCallum said an “unprecedented” move to block the organisation’s policy experts from advising civil servants could have disastrous consequences for environmental policy.
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The devastating fires in Hawaii, where at least 55 people have died after a conflagration that engulfed the historic town of Lahaina, were worsened by a number of factors including climate change, scientists have said.
Rising global temperatures and drought have helped turn parts of Hawaii into a tinderbox ahead of one of the deadliest fires in modern US history, with these conditions worsened by strong winds from a nearby cyclone.
Katharine Hayhoe, the chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, said that global heating is causing vegetation to dry out, priming it as fuel for an outbreak of fire. “Climate change doesn’t usually start the fires; but it intensifies them, increasing the area they burn and making them much more dangerous,” Hayhoe tweeted.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/hawaii-fires-made-more-dangerous-by-climate-crisis
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Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert
Water scarcity threatening agriculture faster than expected, warns Cop15 desertification president
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As Rishi Sunak transforms himself into the driver’s champion and rightwingers savage net zero targets as a fascist plot of the wokerati, get ready for the thing you thought impossible: a general election even stupider than the last. Essentially, it’s looking as if it will be a referendum on whether climate change exists. What better time for such a dumb question, than right when we can all see it?
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Matthew Clubb, owner of Aberdeen-based architectural design practice mwclubb, and the original writer of the letter, said it was “no surprise” that Shell wanted to demolish the building.
The company has “abandoned a transition to renewable energy in any meaningful way, in favour of climate-wrecking profits,” Clubb said. “So failing to even measure the emissions from their buildings and construction projects is entirely consistent with that mentality.” He added: “To me, it seems that there are too many people trying to solve the global problem of climate emissions without thinking on the local scale.
“Even if we are to eventually demolish this building, where will we plant the 3m trees that will offset the emissions incurred? How can we delay this action to avoid the short-term emissions spike? We must think long term, beyond the election cycle and beyond the financial forecasts.”
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The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions
The richest 10 percent of U.S. households are responsible for 40 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released Thursday in PLOS Climate. The study, which looked at how a household’s income generated emissions, underlines the stark divide between those who benefit most from fossil fuels and those who are most burdened by its effects.
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Pollsters YouGov released fascinating figures last week on climate change which show young people are far more likely than older generations to believe that human activity is either entirely or mostly responsible for global warming, in line with scientific opinion.
For those aged 18 to 24, almost 70 per cent believe this is the case, with just 4 per cent believing it is equally responsible along with other factors. The oldest voters – those aged over 65 – are five times more likely to believe humans are equally responsible, and just two in five would agree humans are entirely responsible.
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STV are doing some Climate Specials this week.
Might reach out to those that think it's someone else's problem.
Public Transport use is down and car journeys up.
Many bus routes axed and as we know prioritising bike routes is yet to happen at scale. Legally ScotGov have to hit the Net Zero target by 2045. Apparently 3 million cars in Scotland.
Panel here included Chris Stark and other contributors. In our social circle we are the only ones not to have a car (except one). Older generation is basically unable to think beyond 'the car'. It's a habit they've passed on to their children. At least here young people can use the diminishing bus routes for free.
On at 8
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The Today Debate: Are we ready to ditch our cars?
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After all eight candidates declined to raise their hands when asked if they believed human behavior was causing the climate crisis, Ramaswamy jumped in, stridently rapping out: “Unlock American energy, drill, frack, burn coal, embrace nuclear.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/23/vivek-ramaswamy-focus-republican-debate
Meanwhile John Kerry is Edinburgh being optimistic about 1.5.
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A new study in the journal Science has found that millions of forest carbon credits approved by Verra, the world’s leading certifier, are largely worthless and could make global heating worse if used for offsetting.
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