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IT’S TRUE!
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Scientists say that climate breakdown caused by the burning of fossil fuels is likely to bring more extreme weather to the UK, including more frequent floods and droughts.
Farmers said they were not able to plant due to the wet weather, and this is borne out in the statistics. The growing area of vegetables was down, falling by 6.5% to 101,000 hectares. A dry early summer in 2023 also did not help, as those who could not irrigate found it hard to plant.
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Google’s goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that its greenhouse gas emissions have climbed 48% over the past five years.
Google said electricity consumption by data centres and supply chain emissions were the primary cause of the increase. It also revealed in its annual environmental report that its emissions in 2023 had risen 13% compared with the previous year, hitting 14.3m metric tons.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/02/google-ai-emissions
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Labour’s victory in the general election must mark the start of the UK’s transformation to a green and low-carbon economy and society, campaigners and experts have said as the scale of the election win became clear.
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Anything that alters transport demand could make a difference.
Meanwhile:
Global mean temperatures are 1.63 degrees C above the pre-industrial level, for the 12 month rolling average to June (covers the period May 2023 to June 2024)
With nice graphic:
And:
2023 saw record global energy consumption , with coal and oil pushing fossil fuels and their emissions to record levels
We are being slowly heated like frogs in a saucepan. And it will only get worse until we stop burning fossils.
FFS, people. WAKE UP!
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The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet.
The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of how humanity’s actions are transforming the Earth, scientists said, rivalling natural processes that have existed for billions of years.
The change in the length of the day is on the scale of milliseconds but this is enough to potentially disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS navigation, all of which rely on precise timekeeping.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study
See also fake grass, that stuff is the worst.
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It’s not too late to make Grangemouth a green success story, but governments of all levels need to work together with the appropriate urgency and strategic nous, write Satwat Rehman and Dave Reay, co-chairs of the Just Transition Commission
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Where's the SUDS? How does this contribute to policies from lowering air pollution to health to reducing car journeys by supporting alternatives? The worst kind of populism
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Maggie Chapman, the Scottish Green MSP for north-east Scotland, said: “These are extremely serious accusations that show a completely unacceptable pattern of behaviour across the highest levels of government.
“Strict rules were brought in to govern planning applications and meetings with lobbyists for a reason. For the records of 16 meetings with multinational developers to be missing or unavailable will rightly leave the public wondering what ministers are trying to hide.”
Scottish Labour’s net zero spokeswoman Sarah Boyack said “These serious allegations require urgent answers from the Scottish Government. It is essential that the ministerial code is followed at all times, so the public can have confidence in the outcome of important planning decisions like this.
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How odd - the Peterhead project was designated as a 'national development' in National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) - meaning the Scottish Government (which included the Greens at that time) considered it to be "...of national importance". The Greens voted to approve NPF4 in the Scottish Parliament and I am not aware of them objecting to the plans at that time.
This project, and the Scottish Government's support for it, was hardly a secret - they have been banging on about it for years, largely griping about a lack of funding from the UK Government to speed its development.
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A surge in new oil and gas production in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments, new data shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/new-oil-gas-emission-data-us-uk
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Climate change is causing a dramatic increase in the frequency of temperature extremes and number of temperature records the UK experiences.
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Ministers are hoping that investment will help persuade companies to spend another £60bn in an attempt to hit the government’s target of decarbonising Britain’s power sector by 2030.
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Labour defends Great British Energy plan amid concern over funding
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The company, which made £22.3 billion profit last year, has insisted it remains “wholly committed” to the green energy transition amid accusations oil and gas giants “cannot be trusted when it comes to climate action or a just transition”.
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There's £6 billion up for grabs. Can just hear energy giants formulating ways of getting that money.
Carbon capture is a good one. Lots of pics of politicians standing in front of random pipework with fancy logos on them. It will be like the Higgs Boson except they'll never quite do it!
CC, new gas, new nuclear will all frame themselves as worthy of our money. Scotland already is 90% of the way to stay clear of these although CC is there so fossil fuel companies can continue for a while. Tidal is coming in case anyone doubts our country's ability to power our grid (except it isn't our grid!).
Similar in some ways to car industry needing EVs to allow business as usual.
Climate needs an energy audit to work out where all the excess CO2 is coming from. Then tax these non essential activities hard.
Canadian politicians maybe 'have to' fly around more but here?
Is a 300 seater Airbus really necessary to travel from London to say perhaps the new GBE HQ in Aberdeen? (No high speed rail till later this century earliest.)
Energy audit should come down hard on private jet use. Especially large ones. At least Labour recognise this or do they?
In October 2023, Rachel Reeves – now the Chancellor – promised a “crackdown on Tory ministers’ private jet habit” if Labour came to power.© National
During business questions on Thursday, Murrison (South West Wiltshire) said: “Can we have a debate on trust in politics and politicians?
“Newly minted ministers are already hopping on and off the Airbus A321 airplane, the same plane that was condemned in 2022 by the then-opposition as obscene, brazen and disgusting.
“In that debate will the Government be able to explain how that jaw-dropping show of double standards and hypocrisy is compatible with restoring trust?”
Canada is ideally suited to having a high speed rail network - its cities are mostly along a linear line, close to the US border, with little in between to get in the way (aside from the Rockies, nothing a little “Swiss tunnelling” wouldn’t fix.)
Even today, there is the Trans-Canadian rail network and decent bus services between cities
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So it is fair to say that despite the SNP’s rhetoric on the subject – as embodied in those “ambitious” targets – their actual track record on fighting climate change leaves much to be desired. However, the announcement that the Scottish Government is investing more than £41 million on 250 zero-emission buses – on top of previous £113m of government funding – is a welcome sign that John Swinney’s administration is at least still trying.
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