Pete Morgan

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Suggestions for the next series of #CelebrityTraitors

Matt Berry and Diane Morgan

Did a lot of damage that man.

It was easy to know that leading conservative skeptics - most notably Nigel Lawson in the UK - were either blind to the evidence or willfully biased.

Lomborg wasn't so easy to spot.

For anyone now - or 25 years ago - tempted to take Bjorn Lomborg seriously on climate change.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Tim Farron calls for rethink over plans to reintroduce sea eagles to Cumbria Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority, raising concerns about the impact the potential reintroduction of sea eagles will have on sheep farms i...

Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.

I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs

Ignorant & scaremongering

www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...

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John Houghton & many others were so, scientifically clear in the 90s about what was coming.

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 97, ratified in 2005. Govs widely knew it by then.

Countless mainstream books meant people then understood.

Just baffling we're blindly still letting this happen.

Good summary of issues from the article in 2024/25.

To paraphrase:

– Ocean heat continued to rise
– Long term sea level rise has doubled
– Arctic sea ice at lowest level on record for time of year
– Concentrations of 3 key greenhouse gases at record highs
– World hit by extreme weather events

Seeing a lot of Popper references recently - and Marcuse popped up yesterday. And a bit of Carl Schmitt talk prior to that.

Either the algorithms have my interests sussed, or truth and liberal democracy are in trouble!

Not a big fan of Labour but some of Barnett's questioning is pretty dire - being lead directly from Jenrick's earlier hysterics.

It would be good if R4Today tried to be informative too; like delving into the structural problems in an interview and not just chasing an on-air humiliation.

Taking some of her lines directly from the earlier Jenrick interview.

I've had to switch it off. Couldn't listen to Humphrys for the last few years of his time either.

Been a while but I'd imagine Marcuse is due a revival given current US politics and the explosion of A.I.

That's a tame looking 90s rave either way.

"knee jerk cuts to investment in warmer homes"

'Knee jerk' seems to be the default once The Treasury gets involved.

Luckily Streeting only has around a 500 majority. Purely on pragmatic grounds, I can't see him being leader anytime soon.

Yes indeed. I've personally come to the conclusion that Starmer is too far gone - stuck in McSweeney's illogical death spiral. My best hope is that he can at least rise to the level of Rob Jetten in Holland and be socially progressive - and maybe smile a bit.

The bar does seem quite low these days!

Paul's point is still right though - Mamdani getting over a million votes is a case-study for the Dems.

Total and per capita GHG emissions of the six largest GHG emitters

Lets give credit where credit is due to @ec.europa.eu and the work of the @eea.europa.eu

The EU were the only ones to decrease emissions AND per capita emissions in 2024

Emissions decrease - 2.1%
Per capita emissions decrease - 2.2%

This must be applauded! 👏🏻

Data: www.unep.org/resources/em...

Brilliant piece from @peternewell.bsky.social & @freddiedaley.bsky.social on why we must resist seductively simple proposal to build renewables & delay fossil fuel phase out.
It’s a hugely dangerous gamble on a “later” that a warming world may not grant us. Fossil fuels must be phased out *now* 👇

Refreshingly smart and progressive policy making.

"The government said the shift in demand was expected to lower costs for everyone by reducing peak demand in the evening"

EU considers weakening 2040 climate goal over forest CO2 absorption, draft shows The European Union is considering a brake clause to weaken its 2040 climate target in the future, if it becomes clear countries' forests are not absorbing enough CO2 emissions to meet the goal, a draft EU compromise proposal showed.

"The amount of CO2 absorbed by Europe's forests and land-use sector dropped by nearly a third in the last decade, because of factors including wildfires and unsustainable forest management."

Rather than making real reductions in hard sectors (e.g. transport), the headline target is weakened.

#EU27

Much like the Oval Office attack on Zelensky, the US is using a bunch of J.D. Vance type minions to bully officials from the rest of the world.

".. intimidation, threats of cessation of business, threats of family members losing visas."

My parents have this in Italy - it's very handy! Not seeing this option being offered much by installers in the UK yet. Not sure why as it would be a great incentive.

Satisfying to see engineers being given a sustainable direction to apply their craft 👌

640 kW! That's a beast of a heat-pump.

Not for homes.

Photo of the tidal flats with blue sky and white clouds

Everyone in the Netherlands knows the Wadden Sea, and we love it. Its tidal flats attract millions of birds, and tourists.
But I can't remember any national politician drawing attention to the fact that we stand to lose those tidal flats to sea level rise, starting mid-century, due to climate change

New higher bands seems fair & long overdue. As an alternative, this does not

"double council tax rates on properties in the highest two existing bands"

My area has massive properties in band H which pay the same as houses half the size. Doubling tax in existing bands won't resolve that unfairness.

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