All this, plus an era of rolling climate crisis.
Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
now would be the funniest possible time....
you are memeing.
China just dropped its 15th five year plan
we are not the same (also we are ngmi)
His awareness of the problem somehow makes his failure to do anything about it even worse.
If this was Rishi Sunak’s view in office why then did he sign off on unaffordable tax cuts and pursue policies that would make the UK more reliant on gas imports?
The baffling thing about this age is how this utter chump gets routinely held to much lower standards than anybody else anywhere just by normalising being an utter chump & everyone just accepting that's how it is and who he is
Homes built in flood-prone areas ‘won’t get insurance’
1 in 6 properties are at risk of flooding in Britain, and the Environment Agency has forecast this could rise to one in four by 2050 if countries let climate change continue unabated
www.thetimes.com/uk/environm...
This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
I mean, there's a *word* for it...
"The Trump administration has tapped an eye doctor with no background in air pollution science to advise the Environmental Protection Agency on what levels of air pollutants are safe to breathe."
Sigh.
Can this be a solution?
Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow.
Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!
I used to play Risk a lot in high-school. Here’s how many troops I think it will take to hold the Strait of Hormuz.
the ideal amount I would like to think about measles is zero and I resent that I had that once and no longer do
Renewables are a 'weapon of peace' and fossil fuels are a 'weapon of war'... www.businessgreen.com/news/4526945...
Spain spent 6 years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, now has some of cheapest power prices in Europe
Ember: 2020-2024 Spain cut its power sector import bill more than any other EU country & avoided 26bn cubic metres of gas imports costing €13.5bn
It'll take time to deliver, but pretty big reforms from government confirmed today that are aiming to ensure new nuclear, renewables, and low carbon infrastructure projects can be built significantly quicker than is the case currently.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4526936...
Think this kind of messaging is just self-sabotaging, reinforces the mad meme that “energy costs go up when supplies of energy drop” is about wicked profiteering and not a literal resource constraint, makes government look weak when nothing happens.
As a climate and energy reporter, I have to admit continued frustration in trying to convince people that electrification is a climate solution, regardless of what is used to generate the power. Sigh...
This should be obvious when you think about it, but new data confirms emissions from critical mineral and metals mining are a fraction of the emissions from mining coal. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526858...
Excellent explainer from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on how those arguing net zero is causing the UK’s high energy bills are talking mendacious nonsense.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How it started ... How it's going
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
I should also mention, given how disappointed I've been in this government, that this is probably the most important issue facing us today and it is the one area where the government's performance has been very impressive. Thank fuck for Ed Miliband.
can this be a solution
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
No one who sees their energy bills go up 10 per cent is going to thank the government because they didn't go up 30 per cent.
One of the big challenges for the clean energy transition is that 'the bad thing you are experiencing would be even worse were it not for this thing we're doing' is a very difficult message to land with the public, even when it is objectively true.
The current energy crisis would be a whole lot worse were it not for all the renewables the world has installed. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526890...
