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Executive member, Labour’s Environment Campaign - @serauk, UK Advisor to @fossiltreaty campaign. RT not an endorsement.
Powerful and thoughtful piece on what we need to do sort out utilities, such as water, from John Kay in today’s FT. Much for Emma Reynolds and Keir Starmer to consider giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... What exactly are we paying for? The legacy of privatising utilities
31.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Powerful and thoughtful piece on what we need to do sort out utilities, such as water, from John Kay in today’s FT. Much for Emma Reynolds and Keir Starmer to consider giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... What exactly are we paying for? The legacy of privatising utilities
31.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
#RWE breaks ground on #Germany’s largest #battery storage facility. 400 megawatts of power output with a #storage capacity of 700 megawatt hours, utilising the existing grid infrastructure from decommissioned Gundremmingen #nuclear plant.
www.modernpowersystems.com/news/rwe-bre...
#HurricaneMelissa was made about four times more likely by the #climatecrisis
It's real, it's us, and it's here
www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
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graphs showing rising share of renewables in energy systems in mature markets, china, emerging markets. But barely growing in petrostates
The growth of wind and solar power is happening rapidly in all kinds of countries. Except one. Which tells its own story
www.ft.com/content/c406...
This is just mind-bendingly wrong-headed. ‘Let’s just adapt, tech will save us’ has always been a reckless strategy, but as evidence mounts that natural carbon sinks are failing it really does start to sink into a form of climate denialism.
www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...
All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, as Trump aims to fast-track approval of new LNG export terminals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010.
#renewables #climate #windpower
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There’s lots of justified criticism of the COP process and Paris Agreement, but it’s clear that without it we’d be in an even worse place. From 2005-2015 emissions rose 1.7% a year. Since Paris it’s been 0.32%. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520985...
28.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0Yep.
27.10.2025 23:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
27.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 1061 🔁 277 💬 22 📌 11Absolutely. This.
27.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
27.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 651 🔁 218 💬 29 📌 99
"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
26.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 1120 🔁 320 💬 41 📌 53Today, an estimated 1.6 million Ukrainian children remain in territories occupied by Russia. Cut off from Ukraine's education system, they are exposed daily to Russian propaganda, militarization, and pressure to abandon their national identity.
26.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 258 🔁 123 💬 8 📌 5And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.
26.10.2025 09:16 — 👍 837 🔁 225 💬 22 📌 2Thread. #Solar #CleanPower #CheapEnergy #ClimateChange
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UN chief defends science and weather forecasting as Trump threatens both
The United Nations chief delivered a strong defense of science and meteorology on Wednesday, praising the U.N. weather agency for helping save lives by keeping watch for climate disasters around the world.
This is so lovely.
Good morning.
Late on this, but this is a powerful and challenging call to arms by Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We all love trees 🌳 on our streets. Did you know that Newham has signed up to @treesforstreets.bsky.social ? Or that trees can actually make our streets safer?
www.treesforstreets.org/how-street-t...
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
04.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 7007 🔁 2254 💬 100 📌 160
Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check.
Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history
* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system
* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
I often say you can have it all, just not all at once. This guy might be an exception.
25.09.2025 02:46 — 👍 1071 🔁 90 💬 16 📌 2
photo of paulina borsook
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...
22.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 231 🔁 138 💬 3 📌 17
An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
