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A similar take from David Toke:
https://davidtoke.substack.com/p/why-small-modular-reactors-do-not
Though we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that weather in the lifespan of nuclear reactors is very likely to become more episodic with harsher extremes, and strong buildings may be more resistant to this than scores of wind turbines; large scale solar and hydro (catastrophic landslides notwithstanding I suppose) would be less affected I assume.
That is a good article from David Toke.
Not sure I understand how a single strong building generating "all the electricity" would be less vulnerable to climate damage than a distributed system of generation though.
A unique and high-impact point of failure surely much worse than a diverse and spread-out system.
Or are we planning to build the nukes underground and away from the sea now, as well? The sea of course being vital for cooling
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Defence officials have identified at least a dozen disused oil refineries and chemical plants as possible sites to make explosives and ammunition, including Grangemouth, Southampton and Teesside.
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The key to a successful community benefit fund from renewable energy projects lies in the word ‘community’. That is according to those behind the fund that administers more than two million pounds annually from the Viking Energy wind farm in Shetland. Bringing communities together to think and work pragmatically, while often divisive debates over the pros and cons of any large project proposal rages on, is an impressive feat in itself.
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Google boss warns 'no company is going to be immune' if AI bubble bursts
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"We are committed to investing in the UK in a pretty significant way," Mr Pichai said.
However, he also warned about the "immense" energy needs of AI, which made up 1.5% of the world's electricity consumption last year, external, according to the International Energy Agency
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Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds
Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries
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Waste from local authorities in the south-east is among the vast mound of rubbish dumped illegally next to a river in Oxfordshire, it can be revealed.
The finding provides evidence of possible large-scale corruption in waste management, a legal expert has warned.
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China doesn’t want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns
Exclusive: A top official in Beijing’s Cop delegation says China is committed to clean energy – but US’s absence is a problem
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Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’
Analysis published at Cop30 summit shows adhering to pledges offers world hope of avoiding climate breakdown
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On climate change and energy policy, for example, it routinely presents opinion as fact, and science as “settled”. After years of weeding out sceptical and alternative views, a decision was taken in 2018 that contributions from those deemed “contrarian”, such as the late former Chancellor Lord Lawson, would no longer be invited.
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According to the Telegraph, which broke the Panorama edit story, the BBC is preparing to launch an investigation to assess bias in its climate change coverage and “review its climate and energy policy reporting after a string of controversies”.
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Right wingers gunning for the BBC - quelle surprise
All the classic fossil fuel denial techniques:
- "the science isn't settled" (no, science is never settled, that's the whole point of science. Yet we can be very very certain about some things and it depends what is being discussed e.g. tipping points or human causes, etc)
- "we should listen to fake experts that have money, power and grandiose titles" (like Nigel Lawson and Bill Gates)
- fake "controversy"
In a similar vein to Popper's paradox, we must reject fake experts, otherwise they will destroy science (and ultimately us all)
Oh, and the irony of an *opinion* article accusing the BBC of "routinely presents opinion as fact"
"Right wingers gunning for the BBC - quelle surprise"
It's one of the things I like about the Beeb, Left and Right thinks it's biased, which in my mind makes me think they get it right *most* of the time.
Of course they do shoot themselves in the foot sometimes (recent Trump fabrication) which can make the right (at the moemnt, next week it will be the left) say BBC is corrupt/biased etc.
The BBC also promoting harmful and dangerous activities, such as:
- driving
- driving as aspiration e.g. Apprentice
- pieces to camera (distracted driving) e.g. Strictly
- dangerous high-bonnet and polluting SUVs e.g. Traitors
- incorrect seatbelt wearing e.g. Charlotte Church, Traitors
- mobile use while driving e.g. almost any drama series
- drunken driving and criminally switching drivers when a cop pulls them over the next morning after they've all been partying all night. And it's all a jolly lark, which they subsequently get away with, e.g. Here We Go
@Neddie, you watch too much BBC, it's only there for the news. :)
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Despite valid criticisms, the summits are filled with smart, passionate people dedicating their lives to fighting the climate crisis
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/20/down-to-earth-cop30-belem-hope-optimism
@Baldcyclist Well I can see why you would like the beeb, that's the very same style of false equivalence their notion of "balance" is built around. The reality though when you actually examine the complaints of both sides, the right's are predominantly complete bovine excrement with an occasional moment of lucidity, while the left's are predominantly absolutely bang-on correct, and actual studies by experts on bias and neutrality - actual neutrality, not the beeb's Both Sideism - bear that out.
For example, both the right and the left accuse the BBC of being biased when it comes to reporting on Israel and Palestine, but the right accuse them of being biased *against* Israel which is delusional nonsense based purely on the fact that they aren't uncritically cheering the death of every Palestinian child, while the left accuse them of being biased in Israel's favour, which a study just demonstrated was completely correct. Same on climate; right say "too green", left say in-hock to fossil fuel lobbyists, and the survey says? Right critique guff, left one valid. Trans rights? Right says "woke woman-haters", left says helped fuel the rise in transphobia over the last decade. Oopsie poopsie, left correct again. Independence? Critics correct. Coverage of Corbyn? Critics correct. The War on Terror, pretty much every domestic protest movement they've ever covered, the ways they choose to platform certain political causes or parties while diminishing others - over and over they've shown their true colours.
The reality is that the BBC is incredibly biased: in favour of power, in favour of inertia, in favour of the status quo. What people praise as a lack of bias is really praise for their talent at *pretending* neutrality, but it's not neutral to continually push one narrative with one perspective to an overwhelming degree at every opportunity and especially on the most prominent news programming, then publish one documentary begrudgingly showing the other side that gets one airing at 9pm on BBC4 and then shunted off to the darkest corner of iPlayer. It's not neutral to uncritically accept accounts from one side of a conflict, then carefully and repeatedly caveat everything that comes from the other, even when the former side has been repeatedly shown to be *at least* as self-serving and dishonest as the latter and arguably orders of magnitude moreso.
More generally, right-wing government is about preserving and increasing wealth for billionaires and multi-millionaires. There is no reason for people of average, or low wealth, to support the right-wing, because under right-wing rule, the money flows up from the workers to the billionaires.
So to preserve wealth for the wealthy, they have to "convince" (usually less well-informed) people to support them. They do this by creating false groups of people to hate, false controversies, and false science. The whole thing is built on a stack of lies.
For that reason, it is fundemental to the survival of the right-wing that they control the media. Hence all the media outlets (traditional and online) that have been bought-up by billionaires. And hence also the reason why the right try to infiltrate and destroy left-leaning organisations like the BBC.
What's interesting above is that two left leaning folks (maybe on different wings of the left?) have different views of BBC. One view seems to be that BBC is right leaning, and always wrong, whilst another says BBC is left leaning but being attacked by right.
I think it probably depends how far left or right you are. If you are on the fringes of left or right the BBC will definately seem biased against your opinions.
It's also interesting that on the extreme left and right, both sides feel as if their free speach is being erroded it is probably happeneing to a degree, and both sides are responding to that with violence, left shooting people and right inciting riots. Online, left and right seems a horrible extreme place to be. Probably a symptom of the wars that are probably on the way.
Anyway the BBC probably appeals more to centrists like me who flip left and right issue by issue, and vote either way at elections.
To be clear, I believe the BBC to be ostensibly left-leaning, but it has been partly infiltrated and influenced by the right - hence the false "balance", and undue airtime given to extreme right-wing billionaires and their associates
left [wingers] shooting people
Who is/was that exactly?
Online, left and right seems a horrible extreme place to be
if you subscribe to X, FB, Nextdoor, etc., where hatred is whipped-up by the algorithms, designed by... right-wingers
@neddie Yes, that's pretty much what I thought your view was from your post. I'd put @Yodhrin further left that you - that may be incorect, but just an opinion based on two posts.
I do diagree with you on the false balance. If the BBC is to be reprasentative, it does have to air those views as well, even if I/we disagre with them. It's a bit like saying uneducated folks like Reform, and therfor they are idiots. Well those people have views as well, and uneducated or not their reality is as real as anyone else's...
However, when you let extreme vioces speak they tend to be found out pretty quickly - the best thing the BBC could have done was allow Nick Griffin on Questiontime, as it killed that narative in one hour. He made an absolute fool of himself.
Bad News and the follow up Really Bad News by Greg Philo are academic empirical studies of media bias towards power,
BBC False Bias could get an updated chapter. Pick a subject? Any subject - MMR vax causes Autism you say. Ok - whack jobs like Andrew Wakefield [until he was discredited] and the woman from JABS would get exactly the same amount of air time as scientists who can show the link is correlational not causal - ie the academic community conducting the empirical studies. Exactly the same amount of time given to two outliers Versus the entire academic community.
Short and to the point:
Came across this.
Alba Uaine (Green Scotland)
BBC Alba does cover Scotland as it is, so not all in Gaelic. Transport choice encouraged by Velocity in Inverness. Roads very much jammed full of large cars in the Highlands of course and cycling for transport not really understood. Be interesting to see what happens. No e-bikes yet.
Community wind turbines and record EV take up on Orkney feature. European tidal projects are impressive. Lots of people coming here with new ideas.
2023 was the hottest year on record, according to climate scientists. To tackle climate change, the Scottish government has committed to reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming to net zero by 2045. Mairi Rodgers goes on a journey across Scotland to discover the practical ways individuals, communities and businesses are trying to reduce emissions.In the first episode, Mairi follows the Harper family in Inverness as they take steps to reduce their own carbon footprint. She finds out ways they could reduce their energy costs, visits a recycling plant, looks at transport and housing, and discovers the impact coastal erosion is having on communities in the Western Isles. What does all this mean for Scotland, and are the ambitious net zero goals of 2045 achievable?
In Gaelic with English subtitles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0021011/alba-uaine-green-scotland-series-1-episode-1
Sounds v interesting
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58 mins
First shown9pm 8 Jul 2024
Available for 24 days
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So, not new
Also not ‘disappeared’ yet
TWO episodes
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Robbie the Pict, the veteran activist who fought off the Skye Bridge tolls, has backed a campaign to halt the expansion of windfarms and grid infrastructure on Skye.
His chief concerns, he said, are “lack of respect for communities” and impact on the roads.
“The main worry about the windfarms, like Glen Ullinish II, to me,” he said, “is lack of consultation with all the relevant persons involved and affected. It isn't taking on board concerns at a local level, from all points of view: road safety, the effect on the local environment. It just looked as if they were riding roughshod through the community, careless of what the effects might be, and that just reminded me of how they had approached the tolls.”
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“I know some of you had higher ambitions,” said Do Lago. “I know youth and civil society will demand we do more.” He said he would drive to do that in his year at Cop30 president.
He then announced two road maps, one to end deforestation and one to transition away from fossil fuels. However, these are not part of the UN process, and therefore not backed by all 195 countries. Nonetheless, with around 90 countries backing both, there is hope they could help push forward action.
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UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight
Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief
The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.
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UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens
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