Doug Parr

quite possibly

Why has the world's first hydrogen double-decker fleet failed? The multi-million pound project in Aberdeen was meant to be the future of clean public transportation.

QTWTAI...it was a crap idea and always was. Electricity is so much more efficient than hydrogen. It's where buses are headed globally

"If you look at the commercial and technical framework around hydrogen buses, they just don't work'.. It was a house built on sand"

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The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers Green transition pioneers complain they are paying price for rewarding industry laggards

Rollback risk

The EU's retreat from climate action means some companies are - quite rightly - kicking off about investments made in good faith on the back of climate policy

"those very policies are precisely the ones that can attract new investment and create jobs"

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Spain’s Moeve bucks green hydrogen gloom with €1bn project Group backed by Mubadala and Carlyle to build new plant in Andalusia in boost to beleaguered industry

Spanish company Moeve takes final investment decision on 300MW electrolyser for green hydrogen project in southern Spain

Abundant wind & solar make hydrogen production there relatively cheap

First production 2029. Ambition is to enlarge to 2GW electrolyser capacity

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Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

“A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small. But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life.”

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Warning as study finds 800,000 more UK homes at high risk of flooding Stark findings expose impact of global warming on British households

These projections are for 2.4C temp rise, slightly less than what we're currently heading for

And assumes response from govt/local authorities in increasing flood defence spend

But even so, number of homes at high risk of flooding triples to 800k from now

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Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK Exclusive: Documents show Andrea Jenkyns asked how she could help firm after major gas find in Lincolnshire

If you want to know how Farage's Reform will govern if they take power after next UK election, see how they govern in local areas

Against poll preferences of locals, the Reform Mayor of Lincolnshire cultivates fracking companies to see if they can come & operate

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is there going to be a datacentre NPS? Wasn't aware of that.
Where is it in process?

AI data centre surge would put UK’s climate change targets at risk MPs call for ‘national conversation’ on potential drawbacks of sharp rise in data centres, which would use more power than the UK uses at its peak

Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, has disclosed that 140 data centres want grid connections, requiring **50GW** of power capacity at peak

Britain’s peak demand on a recently was 45GW

Can this amount of energy be provided cleanly? Even if it can, is it worth it?

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

America is becoming a petrostate The Trump administration’s energy policy will make the country sicker and poorer

There was an effort to eradicate black lung disease that 1/5 of veteran coal miners have

The Trump administration paused enforcement of the relevant standard

“The guy who says he’s a champion of coal miners literally doesn’t care whether they live or die”

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the next version of this power station has been contracted by UK govt for Sizewell in East Anglia

And for that project all the risks of cockups like this will sit with the consumer and not the builder, EDF

So you do wonder what HMG have been smoking to think it was a good idea

EDF pushes back Hinkley Point C start-up by another year Delays raise bill for flagship UK nuclear project to almost £49bn at today’s prices

The world is turning upside down with tariff wars and Epstein revelations

It’s reassuring to see normality in some places

Like the news that Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is going to be even more over time & over budget

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@rogerprotz.bsky.social do pls follow, I'd like to DM - thanks!!

Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds Report says common agricultural policy provides ‘unfair’ levels of support to unhealthy, meat-heavy diets

“It’s scandalous that billions of euros of EU taxpayer money is being used to prop up a high-emissions industry at a time when scientists are telling us that we need – on health & environmental grounds – to shift to lower-meat diets”
say @foodrise.bsky.social

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British fruit and veg treated with ‘toxic’ pesticides Ten substances linked to medical issues including infertility are no longer allowed in the EU, but continue to be sprayed on UK crops

Since Brexit, UK pesticide policy has diverged from the EU allowing more toxic products to be sprayed on British food

@unearthednews.bsky.social have found (particularly) hormone-disrupting chemicals that will be used on potatoes, fruit & cereals

#BrexitBenefit

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These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

"Trump is actively intervening against free market forces with taxpayer money to prop up the dirtiest form of fossil power

"This [is] self-indulgent, hedonistic nihilism by the world’s hegemonic power"

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

The role of comorbidities in the associations between air pollution and Alzheimer’s disease: A national cohort study in the American Medicare population In a national cohort study of US Medicare beneficiaries, Deng and colleagues investigate the association between air pollution and Alzheimer's Disease.

couldn't find it covered elsewhere. Here's the paper journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

One in nine new homes in England built in areas of flood risk, study shows Figures from Aviva also show number of homes being built in risky areas is on the rise

UK has increased proportion of homes built in flood risk areas say insurer Aviva

By 2050, almost a third (30%) of homes built 2022-2024 will face some kind of flood risk, as more extreme rainfall is predicted as a result of climate breakdown

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Air pollution directly linked to Alzheimer’s risk, scientists say Particles from combustion of fossil fuels may damage brain health more than thought, research suggests

Analysis of 28 million US patient records shows fine particulate air pollution increases risk of Alzheimers Disease

Risk increases independently of other possible causes such as hypertension

Comes as Trump administration seeks to soften rules on this type of pollution

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Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

Research didn't find single example where popular tools like Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot lead to a “material, verifiable & substantial” reduction in climate emissions

Tech company claims of climate benefit conflates machine learning with generative AI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

BREAKING: UK Government ban on Palestine Action unlawful, judges rule

An attempt to pretend that a direct action group were terrorists has failed

Kudos to those who have stood up for UK protest rights

Bad news for the many authoritarians in the UK govt

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Trump to Direct Pentagon to Buy Coal in Bid to Revive Industry President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain US coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel.

Trump to pollute more, produce electricity more expensively, cost taxpayers more in bid to shore up fossil fuel industry

The fossil industry were, of course, heavy donors to his election campaign

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UK insurance payouts hit record owing to climate impacts from storms & flooding

Chief scientist at flood modeller Fathom said climate change was creating the conditions for more extreme weather as warmer temperatures lead to longer-lasting rainfall

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yes it's the former - I was using 'power' as a substitute for 'electricity', which it is in common parlance although not technically correct

UK awards 189 revenue-guarantee contracts for wind and solar projects Move forms part of government target to decarbonise power system by 2030

UK govt awards major new round of contracts to onshore wind and solar, all at prices below current market wholesale price

Together they'll supply about 3% of current British power when built

All of which reduces gas imports, of course

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The case for the prosecution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

"When we destroy a forest, we are creating GDP. When we overfish, we are creating GDP"

Head of the UN says the way we measure economic activity needs to change

He's not wrong. The vested interests in keeping things the same are considerable, however

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Green energy sector drove more than 90% of China’s investment growth last year, analysis finds Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China’s economic growth

For the second time in 3 years, manufacture, installation & export of batteries, electric cars, solar, wind and related tech accounted for more than 1/3 of China’s economic growth

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points aren't in economic models of the impact of climate change on the global economy

The result "is widespread complacency amongst investors and policymakers"

We will all suffer as a consequence

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