Jim Goodchild

Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below. Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.

And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...

This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Relatedly, we don't talk enough about how Fairfuel UK brag about keeping £200bn from the UK Treasury at a time public services are underfunded

A car parked on a double yellow line in a cycle lane

West Yorkshire, UK

Would like to know if anyone on the committee who made this decision has been 'influenced' in any way by Tufton Street based fossil fuel lobbyists.

Should pollsters have to take responsibility for publishing polls which are designed to create division and as a consequence are likely to put vulnerable people at risk? 90% of rational people don't like the use of ridiculous polls to increase clicks without regard for the damage to society.

Esteemed scientist, prof. Steve Hydrocarbon responds to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social's outrageous CEO-shaming posters, on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.

Won't do any good but made me feel better

Rather than through the private sector, why not let people take out an interest free loan from the state, paid back via their tax code? Would also work for insulation, solar panels and other home improvements. Concern is that availability of loans may push up prices (a bit like help to buy).

❤️ springtime ❤️ Yorkshire

Pattern of CO2 over the past 66 Million years. The curve begins around 720ppm, peaks at 1600ppm 51 Million years ago and then declines toward today when a marked increase in CO2 is observed that is caused by human CO2 emissions.

For the first time ever, recorded atmospheric CO₂ has exceeded 430ppm! The last time CO₂ consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was ∼14 Million years ago, with shorter periods of similar levels around 3-5 Million years ago.
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Sadly, living in the UK I can confirm that these new guidelines have made no difference at all. Many motorists still treat cyclists and pedestrians with contempt. Most of our roads are designed to prioritise cars, this needs to change before behaviour will improve.

Did you watch the clip? She literally said it, tax the acquisitve super rich. Increasing isolation and militarism whilst the billionairies hoover up all the wealth will take us down a very dark path.

Gary Stephenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social might be good to engage with on this.

Barry, please explain. Looks like Labour leadership are abandoning the planet and all of our futures to satisfy their rich mates. Filibustering and blindly following the whips over such an important issue is shameful.

Hi Robert, agree things are moving in the right direction, MG5 was the most likely option when I was looking last year (kids at university, elderly relatives some distance away), how are you finding it?

Small town in West Yorkshire, I appreciate every use case is different, but sadly we just couldn't make it work within our budget. Purchase cost higher, greater depreciation, insurance etc. Aware used EVs getting cheaper and am hoping public off peak charging will get closer to domestic soon.

With no driveway and on an average income, the lowest price even for slow public charging near me is around £0.70, about £0.20 per mile, compared to £0.12 per mile for a small petrol car. I really wanted an EV when I changed my car last year, but sadly couldn't make the economics work.

77-year-old Just Stop Oil protester recalled to prison for Christmas 77-year-old Gaie Delap was sentenced to 20 months in prison over a climate protest which blocked the M25 in 2022.

As Gaie's MP I tried everything I could to challenge this decision to send her back to prison - including writing to the prisons minister Lord Timpson and the probation service. But they would not budge a millimetre.

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www.channel4.com/news/77-year...

Have complained to the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Taking the whole lane ✔️
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️

The textbook radical anti-car cyclists our culture despises

So much will be said in honour of this great, wise and funny man.
We can say this
He changed us for the better
Tony Campolo there’s a party in heaven