Today's attack on climate action from the Daily Mail (whose parent company makes $$$$ running fossil fuel industry conferences) is that clean energy is "making the rich even richer"... 🤔
Never seen this line from them before - has the influence of Gary Stevenson reached the Mail editorial team?!
Some useful fact-checking here from @carbonbrief.org about a trope often pushed by the more fossil-fuel-aligned parts of the UK media... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
This is the problem with the argument ‘we can just adapt’ to climate change. How do you adapt to this without massive health risks, an enormous blow to productivity and food security, and gargantuan adaptation costs?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Perhaps no surprise given the advantages - Chinese solar panels are taking off in Africa🚀☀️
No surprise the Telegraph are using the heatwave to attack net-zero. Selective quotes from a report used to try and discredit net zero tech.
The Telegraph is owned by Redbird Capital - a major investor in fossil fuels.
So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...
Today's Daily Express continues the effort by a number of UK media outlets to make climate change - which affects us all - a story about one man...
Today's Daily Express advertisers include *TUI *Vitabiotics *Vintage Cash Cow *Iceland & *Yimbly.com
Impossible to overstate how much damage billionaire media owners have done to public understanding of the renewable energy transition.
The Daily Mail is a cess pit of disinformation.
Telegraph are at it again today...
With advertising from Tesco, Lotto and Sainsburys.
Those lentil-weaving hippies at the London Stock Exchange Group reckon the global green economy is worth $7.9tr, is the fourth largest sector in the world, and has grown faster than every industry barring technology over the past decade.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4413438...
This thread by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is essential reading.
'A cemetery of trees':
vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco. Jaguars, giant armadillos + ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth.
How is this STILL happening??
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate change poses a threat to us all - and the evidence clearly shows the need for action.
Yet today's Telegraph continues the effort to make this all about one man - & frame urgently-needed climate action as dangerous & extreme...
With advertising from Coop, BMW, Trailfinders, Lotto & B&Q
We're just going to leave this here... www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Spanish authorities are asking the public to refrain from speculation about the cause of the power blackouts.
Meanwhile today’s Telegraph has run a big front page story blaming – you guessed it – clean energy policies…
With advertising from John Lewis, Honda & the Battersea Decorative Fair
Beyond shameless. Just treating its own readers with absolute contempt.
A thousand more reasons for advertisers to steer clear of GB News... www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...
According to the UN, "methane traps more heat in the atmosphere per molecule than carbon dioxide... making it 80 times more harmful than CO2 for 20 years after it is released": www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Yet this is what appeared in today's Express to justify demands to resume fracking:
Disturbing overtones here from the Mail on Sunday, telling its readers that "Globalism" (along with something it calls "warmism") has "made us a weakling"...
Supported by advertising from B & Q, Asda, Waitrose, Ryobi, PaddyPower, Prezzo & Boots
The evidence is clear: We must transition to clean energy if humanity is to have a liveable future.
Meanwhile today's Telegraph is pushing the idea that climate policy is bad because it's a threat to (checks notes) rural churches...
This is what the Co-op & other advertisers are supporting...
I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
This is insane.
I just interviewed experts on this v issue this week for Climate Insider.
They point out that creating H is very energy intensive, and only makes sense for hard-to-abate industries.
It absolutely does not make sense for home heating.
One other point about all the various articles attacking net zero - they are advocating for what is essentially a Trumpist strategy. Am not convinced he’s really the best model to follow right now.
Fantastic article on the adoption of solar energy in Pakistan - the mass roll out of panels in the country cuts emissions but also cuts fuel bills and lessens dependence on an unreliable grid
"China confirms that installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystem"
'...solar panels ... alter soil conditions, encourage vegetation growth, and reshape the local climate...'
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Reading reviews, endless choice of hotels and restaurants means organizing the holiday feels like it takes longer then the trip itself
Stunning growth in solar energy in 2024, driven by Chinese installation and production. Hope this trend can continue into 2025 as key to driving decarbonisation
The Daily Express once claimed to have turned over a new leaf on climate change: www.societyofeditors.org/soe_news/exp...
Yet now they're lauding Donald Trump for "calling out the green hoax" and denouncing what they call "net zero madness"...
With advertising from Aldi, Tesco & Asda...
"More than three years after Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to stop building new coal projects abroad, the country’s Belt and Road Initiative is increasingly driven by renewables."
It's not altruism, y'all. Shit's cheaper.
