Geoff Petty

Urge Ed Miliband to unblock UN climate talks Plans to protect people and the environment are on a knife edge at the UN climate talks. The UK government must act now to back a fairer, more just future before it’s too late. The climate crisis is r...

URGENT: Plans to protect people & environment are on a knife-edge at the UN climate talks.

Tell Ed Miliband to act now and champion a fairer future, where everyone benefits from the transition away from fossil fuels ✍️ #cop30 foe.uk/upx66

The IPCC is the longest, largest, and most thorough scientific investigation in history and does not agree. See power to X.
Also, climate breakdown has to be avoided which means fossil fuel burning is over unless the resulting CO2 is removed. So in effect we have no choice but to decarbonise.

The paper makes some good points re Ireland, but ignores Power to X methods of storing windpower reducing the need for fossil back up. AI says the IPCC views wind energy as a key component of a sustainable energy future and a critical technology for mitigating climate change.

Please provide a peer-reviewed paper that makes this argument, which doesn’t seem credible.

The US had the greatest death rate during Covid when Trump was in charge. 200 times as large as New Zealand for example

Trump making America great again (at killing Americans). @usatoday.com

Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 population. Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering

As families face rising bills, and extreme weather causes devastation around the world, oil and gas companies shouldn’t get a tax break. Tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves to not turn her back on climate and communities. Add your name

The collapse of the UK was hastened by Brexit, but it's been coming for a long time. Destroy the public sector and hand over water, energy etc to the profiteers. Then, as Starmer is doing, flog off the rest of the UK to billionaires. Started with Thatcher. It's called #Neoliberalism. Read this!

Emissions from trawling contribute to climate change Learn how ending bottom trawling could cut harmful carbon emissions from the seabed and stop fuelling climate change.

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trawling produces the same emissions of CO2 as the global aviation industry

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Scotland's first wind farm 'supercharged' after upgrade ScottishPower said the new turbines could now generate enough energy to power the equivalent of 57,000 homes.

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It says “Wind power is a renewable electricity generation source that does not emit CO2 in operation. It has very low life cycle CO2 emissions when compared with fossil fuelled generation. When wind power is generated, it will displace generation from power plants,
reducing their … emissions”

‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP,”

The link I sent you shows wind power DOES reduce emissions. It would be extraordinary if it didn’t. Especially as the infrastructure changes are there for a very long time

‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP,” he warned. “To falter whilst mega droughts wreck national harvests, sending food prices soaring, makes zero sense, economically and politically.

I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .

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Exponential growth in solar power installations worldwide between 2010 and 2023

Well it’s clear wind power reduces GHG emissions compared to fossil fuel use. The harms of wind are tiny compared to the harms of fossil fuel use.

iea-wind.org/wp-content/u...

Deloitte Research Reveals Inaction On Climate Change Could Cost The World’s Economy US$178 Trillion By 2070 Deloitte’s new Global Turning Point Report finds that unchecked climate change could cost the global economy US$178 trillion over the next 50 years, unless global leaders unite in a systemic net-zero.

It’s working now. Well interesting such different estimates are available. But business as usual assumptions in this paper ignore the costs of climate breakdown.

Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN Experts say 2023, 2024 and 2025 the three hottest years in 176 years of records, with 1.5C Paris agreement target now ‘virtually impossible’

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The past 11 years, back to 2015, will be the 11 warmest years on record.

The WMO said limiting global heating to the Paris agreement target of 1.5C above preindustrial levels was now virtually impossible.

Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...

🌊 Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs

Isotope data show >6 µm natural particles fuel zooplankton diets, but mining adds inert particles of the same size, diluting nutrition and triggering bottom-up impacts that reach predators

Just say no

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Line graph time series of October Arctic sea ice extent for every year from 1850 through 2025. Two datasets are compared in this time series. The Walsh et al. 2019 reconstruction is shown with a solid blue line. The NSIDC Sea Ice Index v3 is shown with a dashed red line only for the satellite era. There is large interannual variability and a long-term decreasing trend over the last few decades.

Reconstructing October #Arctic sea ice extent since 1850...

Data from @nsidc.bsky.social at doi.org/10.7265/jj4s...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity share.google/gm6L85IA4UNv...

The link doesn't seem to work, can you try again please.

The costs and impacts of intermittency – 2016 update A systematic review of the evidence on the costs and impacts of intermittent electricity generation technologies

Well it turns out the costs you mention are small compared to the wind earnings. According to this paper taking the high estimate its #6billion. But infrastructure costs for gas are £3 billion. So financial benefit of wind goes from £104 billion to £101 billion.

ukerc.ac.uk/publications...

Yes, that institute is funded by ExxonMobile amongst others. I'll have a look but its quite an old paper given the speed of change in the industry.

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Dogger Bank wind farm will boost the UK economy by £6bn during its lifetime, according to an independent report published today.

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