Steve Dawe

Tony Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin Ex-PM’s thinktank urges more drilling and fewer renewables, ignoring evidence that clean energy is cheaper and better for bills

There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids

No to Palantir.

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And if policies to reduce FF use had been applied each month at a global level since the mid 1990s, the impacts of this avoidable war could have been minimalised.

These findings from the Climate Change Committee tell us something we already knew - Net Zero is an affordable route to a more secure, and sustainable future. Us Greens will always fight for a greener, fairer future that serves people and planet. 💚🌍

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Love this so much! 💚👏🏼

Can folk music fend off the far right? Traditional English music is booming again, but extremists are trying to jump on the bandwagon

Traditional English music is booming again, but extremists are trying to jump on the bandwagon

✏️ Kit Roberts

Any suggestion that the title 'Home Secretary' is to be replaced by 'Witchfinder General' is almost certainly untrue.

More people taking the bus since Oxford temporary congestion charge Data from bus companies shows more people are using local bus services since Oxfordshire County Council introduced a temporary congestion charge in Oxford.  The data from Go Ahead, which owns six loca...

Right I know this is shocking, but guess what? The Oxford Congestion Charge is seeing LESS congestion and MORE people taking the bus. Try this one simple trick etc etc.

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Good. May this succeed.

"Let's work together to create an island of belonging and make hope normal again."

Missed Mothin Ali on the political slot? Watch on demand

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Attacks on Middle East Desalination Plants Highlight Risks of Near-Total Dependence on ‘Fossil Fuel Water’ - Inside Climate News Destroying the facilities is a violation of international law that could cause a humanitarian crisis in the most water-scare region on Earth. Powering the plants with electricity from fossil fuels pos...

The wrong targets for the wrong reasons. The Pentagon admits US is responsible for school bombing; Iran attacks water supplies. War on the many. insideclimatenews.org/news/1103202...

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Best of all the Star Trek series to date.

Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.

The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.

The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

This is absolutely disgraceful and deeply perpetuates the divisions between research active and teaching and scholarship colleagues. HE teaching requires research skills and this division is as incoherent and unsound as it is immoral.

Valuable arguments against opponents of Climate policies:

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

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Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming
Winkelmann+
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"A first threshold, potentially as low as 1–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, triggers the long-term collapse of ~40% of marine ice volume in West Antarctica"

Our Wildflower Enhancement Project at Rock Edge has increased populations of important wildflowers such as Field and Small Scabious and vastly increased the resource of nectar and pollen-rich flowers available to insects on this amenity grassland. Link in next post. 🌰🌍 #WildflowerHour

How hot will the seafloor get?

A new Spotlight in TREE highlights our Konsta et al paper: bottom marine #heatwaves could expose >90% of #Mediterranean benthic species to extreme heat for 150–300 days/year by 2100. 🌐🌍🌊 #ClimateChange
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Fukushima at 15: Living with radioactive hot spots and stigma as Japan's government pushes for more reactors Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma.

Fukushima after 15 years: an ongoing calamity: thebulletin.org/2026/03/fuku...

None of this is new. “Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.” Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay in 2008 in his landmark book. www.withouthotair.com

From the @thecccuk.bsky.social showing that one of the best uses of renewable electricity is to power a heat pump.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦‍♂️
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What were those MEPs thinking?

Crucial point is alternatives exist. they are cheap. The sun and wind are not being choked at Hormuz.

The worst case scenario for oil companies is that people permanently shift... what they call “demand destruction“

This war will accelerates that ongoing shift to solar+EVs+batteries.

1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including
freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable."

Excellent report by UNCTAD
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Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt

The damaging cost of not achieving a much earlier transition to renewable energy includes this: