CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
stickyI thought it was unbelievable.
I thought it perhaps suggested he just talks a lot of pee pee.
I return to the golfer Mark Calcavecchia who was thought bizarre when he spotted he could get to a tournament in the nedelands by taking his clubs with him on the train.
You do also see a fair few pro cyclists cycling home after grand tours now . Thomas de gent has done so twice. About 1000km
Then there is Formula 1 you wonder how that can still be a thing?
“I thought it was unbelievable“
You must lead a sheltered life.
This is multi-faced Boris.
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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson races back from COP 26 on private jet to meet climate change sceptic pal
The Mirror understands Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew 400 miles on a private jet to attend a reunion dinner for Daily Telegraph journalists, with self-confessed climate change sceptic Lord Moore - Labour said 'this is staggering hypocrisy'
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-races-back-cop-25371485.amp
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In 2015, Moore was made a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s most prominent climate science denial campaign group. [3]
Moore was appointed to the House of Lords in July 2020 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in an honours list for which the Prime Minister was criticised for “cronyism”. The list included several prominent climate science deniers and critics of environmental regulations. [32], [33], [34]
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Emmanuel Rivière, director of international polling at Kantar Public, said the survey, carried out in late September and published to coincide with the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow, contained “a double lesson for governments”.
They have, first, “to measure up to people’s expectations,” Rivière said. “But they also have to persuade people not of the reality of the climate crisis – that’s done – but of what the solutions are, and of how we can fairly share responsibility for them.”
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People gave themselves the highest score for commitment everywhere except Sweden, while only in Singapore and New Zealand were national governments seen as highly engaged. The gulf between citizens’ view of their own efforts (44%) and that of their government (16%) was highest in the UK.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/few-willing-to-change-lifestyle-climate-survey
Aged people with little interest in the future? Well then vote Tory
Youthful people with an interest in the futiure? Well then vote…err…vote…?
Vote with their feet.
“Aged people with little interest in the future?”
This a somewhat distressing reality.
Most must have children.
Similar amount must have (or expect) grandchildren.
So, what’s going on?
Really don’t care what happens after they die?
Don’t actually believe that things can get much worse than they already are?
Have no faith in Govs/business to change things?
Have complete faith in Govs/business to sort things?
Just unwilling to contemplate change?
"Really don’t care what happens after they die?"
Must be an element of that. Someone else's problem, I've done my bit, etc.
Then the rest is this:
"Just unwilling to contemplate change"
This is a gem.
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Asked which actions to preserve the planet should be prioritised, moreover, people attributed more importance to measures that were already established habits, required less individual effort, or for which they bore little direct responsibility.
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It's almost the same answer as when people are asked whether they should drive their cars less. "Yes, everybody should drive less, just not me personally because I need to drive."
Any measures that will actually work will have to inconvenience the many
Inconveniencing anyone that isn’t already the most poor and disadvantaged would be a start.
Eight: Electric vehicles
Nine: Car adverts showing cars on empty rural or urban roads
How strange, the BBC don't mention cars...
10: They publish articles on how to spot greenwashing but miss some crucial aspects.
Eleven: Small modular nuclear reactors
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59212983
SMRs are thought to be less expensive to build than traditional nuclear power plants because of their smaller size
Nuclear reactors were built "large" to achieve economies of scale, and yet still they are absurdly expensive and twice the price of offshore wind per MWh. Making them "small" again isn't suddenly going to make them cheaper - This is nonsense. Nothing more than a subsidised job creation scheme for a dirty and dying industry.
They don't even help to "keep the lights on" because they can't be shut down quickly and therefore they often end up displacing renewable sources rather than complementing them.
And even if they did build SMRs, if they were serious about climate, they would be using the waste heat from them to heat people's homes!
“if they were serious about climate, they would be using the waste heat from them to heat people's homes!“
That would make sense. Presume they still have to be built miles from population centres…?
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Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The way governments have allowed democracy to be eroded by lobbyists (including politicians with lucrative private interests); the deregulation that lets corporations, oligarchs and landlords squeeze their workers and tenants, then dump their costs on society; the permissive environment for profiteering during the pandemic; the degradation of health, education and other public services by the constant drive towards privatisation: all these are symptoms of the same condition.
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We are often told by frequent flyers that we should overlook the climate impacts of aviation, as they amount to “just a few per cent”. But the only reason they remain relatively low is that flying is highly concentrated. Flying accounts for most of the greenhouse gas emissions of the super-rich, which is why the wealthiest 1% generate roughly half the world’s aviation emissions. If everyone lived as they do, aviation would be the biggest of all the causes of climate breakdown.
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Watching COP26, it feels like there are two parallel but entirely unconnected scenarios being played out simultaneously.
One, full of praise and encouragement for Governments and corporate interests as they travel the long and winding road, at variable speeds, towards destination Net Zero.
The other has long since accepted that the era of simply modifying ‘business as usual’ is irrevocably over and that if anyone thinks otherwise, then they aren’t listening to the science.
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement, argues that these two apparently irreconcilable positions are actually just different stages of the same natural process - based on a five-step theory of grief, first conceived of by psychiatrist, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.
Step one is Denial. Surely now the preserve of vanishingly few.
Then comes Anger. Close to denial but more complicated, and there’s a lot of it around.
Third is Bargaining - where much of the COP negotiations are probably focused.
Fourth step - Depression - climate anxiety is now a recognised mental health condition.
And finally, onto Acceptance - ultimately a good place to be, full of new possibilities, but you need to get there first to fully appreciate its advantages.
Sounds a reasonable theory but is it too late to prove itself?
Best wishes
Angus Hardie - Director
Scottish Community Alliance
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44m ago 14:53
Severin Carrell Severin Carrell
Environment campaigners have attacked Scottish government proposals to dramatically increase hydrogen production in Scotland as a way of “sneaking fossil fuels in by the back door”.
The government, which now includes two Scottish Green party ministers alongside the Scottish National party, has unveiled draft proposals to develop around 5GW of hydrogen power within a decade, in a programme initially priced at £100m.
It would be used to heat homes, fuel buses and lorries, and power industries, and provide nearly a sixth of Scotland’s energy needs by 2030, promoting regional hydrogen production hubs.
The government said it will promote alternative low and zero-carbon fuels, but Friends of the Earth Scotland said it was in reality a trojan horse for North Sea oil and gas.
Michael Matheson, the Scottish climate minister, said earlier this month his government supported continued oil and gas extraction. It is putting heavy emphasis on using carbon capture and storage to trap CO2 emissions from gas-sourced hydrogen.
The plan promotes “blue hydrogen”, where natural gas is used to create hydrogen, as well as renewables-powered “green” hydrogen. FoES said the policy failed to set out how much of that 5GW came from fossil fuels
Alex Lee, a FoES climate campaigner, said: “This is a plan to sneak fossil fuels in the back door through the use of blue hydrogen. The Scottish Government is marketing blue hydrogen, made from gas, as ‘low-carbon hydrogen’ but studies have shown [it] actually releases more carbon emissions than just burning gas.
“The plan also states that hydrogen could be used to heat homes and to power transport. However these uses are an inefficient, misdirected and expensive use of renewable electricity, which should be used to directly power electric vehicles and keep homes warm rather than converting electricity to hydrogen power.”
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A £20 million ‘green’ energy project which will have the same carbon impact as taking 1200 cars off the road has been given a boost after planners waived the need for additional reports after developers made changes to the original development.
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However
Also in Aus
Not a spoof (apparently)
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Morrison has been forced to defend his record, a prospect made more difficult as he attempts to re-position his government’s climate record after almost a decade of obstruction and denial.
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A new online tool that will measure the amount of coal, oil and gas being extracted across the globe and evaluate the climate impacts has been unveiled at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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