NEW: After Gorton & Denton, how should we understand the threat to Labour's left?
Big new @persuasionuk.bsky.social report out with @38degrees.bsky.social on 'progressive defectors' - Lab 2024 switchers to Greens, Plaid, SNP, Lib Dems.
Who are they, who are they not & what's moving them? 🧵
AI-enabled NIMBYism has come to clean energy deployment. Virtually all the examples mentioned in this piece are wind, solar and transmission projects. 💡🔌
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike for a living wage and better working conditions. Stand with them by boycotting Starbucks until it can strike a fair contract. sbworkersunited.org
@sbworkersunited.org
The vicious cycle of monopolization:
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
Quiet part, meet out loud.
globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...
Fossil fuels CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025.
What do these corporations all have in common?
-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile
They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.
"I am a lineman for the county..."
Tim Snyder on the Russia's subversion of the US on Ukraine:
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
- Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
#climatecrisis
@worldresources.bsky.social
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US & Qatar effectively admit their liquified natural gas supply chains harm human rights and the climate & environment
The prospective EU law on supply chain audits is up for debate this week
This kind of vigorous lobbying against the law suggests something to hide
www.ft.com/content/05ec...
You've got to love studies like these: New carbon tax paper out in @aeajournals.bsky.social: Macroeconomics.
The headline: "I find that carbon taxes reduce emissions
as expected but also impair macroeconomic activity."
What to make of this, a quick 🧵
This isn't what macro econs ordinarily think through — and it isn't how science ordinarily works⁵ — but there's no harm in adding a bit of context either.
And suddenly the headline conclusion would be rather different.
⁵ gwagner.com/climate-econ-revolution w/ @tombrookes.bsky.social
Even the Telegraph - yes, the Telegraph - notes the gaping hole in her announcement today that she would, if ever electing into govt, scrap the Climate Change Act...
"It is unclear what plan Mrs Badenoch would put in place instead to help tackle climate change, which she concedes is happening."
Kemi Badenoch during her visit to Blyth*...
"A town once powered by coal is now powered by wind. And all this is creating hundreds of jobs. Blyth illustrates the promise of the clean energy revolution."
"We know that growing our green industries is crucial to reaching net zero"
Recommended listen: On a @newscientist.com podcast, climate scientists Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton discussed how to fix climate change, quipping: “All of the other planets out there are just complete garbage. The Earth is the only good place.”
Murdoch-owned TalkRadio has been bombarding listeners with false claims about climate change, a new analysis by @stopfundingheat.bsky.social has revealed:
www.desmog.com/2025/08/21/m...
What are we really going to have to do to adapt to climate change? It’s the tricky question that a cracking new book, Sink or Swim, grapples with
Brutality of climate harm and dangerous heat. Especially harmful to the poorest & most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Read @carbonbrief.org's article by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and Ho Woo Nam here...
www.carbonbrief.org/chart-trumps...
++JUST PUBLISHED++
Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under Paris Agreement.
Yes, SEVEN billion
Basically, equal to Indonesia's emissions over that period
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
“Authorizing deep-sea mining outside international law is like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite-it threatens ecosystems, global cooperation and US credibility all at once.”
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/25/t...
RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-att...
In a screeching u-turn, it emerges that Tony Blair does have a reverse gear after all
Extraordinary error of political judgement for him to make his initial attack on net zero policies a week after Starmer’s clean energy speech & days before local elections
Interesting take from Joss Garman on Tony Blair’s intervention on Net Zero.
open.substack.com/pub/jossgarm...
