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Andrew Simms @andrewsimms.bsky.social · 15h

Cherishing this rare moment of parliamentary sense...

BBC News - Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say

A committee of MPs says the government has not demonstrated if economic benefits from airport expansion outweigh climate impacts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 5d

Katapult Magazine is using a simple cartographic trick to make is easier for other nations to understand what the loss of land Ukraine had to suffer so far would mean for them. Lesson: Always benchmark your data, people!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 7d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Clem At a Wood @monsteratt.bsky.social · 7d

AI will solve this

Akhila Kosaraju @akhilak.bsky.social · 7d

The factories building your future are still burning fuel like it's 1950.

Steel mills. Cement plants. Chemical refineries. Food processing facilities.

They all need heat. Massive amounts of it.

And for years, the answer has been the same: burn fuel.

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 11d

Electric car sales in the EU are up by almost a quarter so far this year!

The bloc's car CO2 targets are continuing to drive EV take-up – as carmakers respond by bringing more affordable models to market.

Now is not the time to weaken the targets further.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14d

The storms have caused devastation nationwide as rains are expected to continue through Sunday.

At least 28 killed in heavy flooding caused by tropical storms in Mexico

The storms have caused devastation nationwide as rains are expected to continue through Sunday.

bit.ly

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 15d

Oil companies are the Bad Guys, Exhibit 7382

Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 15d

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy

Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

www.nature.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15d

Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

Exclusive: Government failure to close loophole allows 600,000 tonnes to be shipped elsewhere each year A plastic recycling industry potentially worth £2bn and 5,000 jobs is dying in the UK because of government failure to close a loophole which allows 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste to be exported each year. The Guardian can reveal that in the past two years 21 plastic recycling and processing factories across the UK have shut down due to the scale of our exports, the cheap price of virgin plastic and an influx of cheap plastic from Asia, according to data gathered by industry insiders. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16d

Two graphs in today’s FT.

Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.

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Clem At a Wood @monsteratt.bsky.social · 17d

Crack down on what @theguardian.com - language seems to imply there is something that actually needs ‘cracking down’ on

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 20d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 21d

So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 23d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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Nick Whimster @nickwhimster.bsky.social · 27d

I like the effect but it’s not ideal.
#screenprinting

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Clem At a Wood @monsteratt.bsky.social · 27d

Very cool 👌🏼

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · 27d

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 29d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · Sep 22

And while the cost of living impacts have been severe, they haven't been terminal as he missed the window.

US LNG was ready, renewables were ready, demand response/efficiency surprised.

If he drained German storage even just 6 years ago and kicked it off then instead of 3, different story.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 21

He's RT'ing himself on X but he's still only gotten a fraction of the engagement there that he's gotten here

He has 150k followers on X, and about 1k here

Truly what is going on with these people, I will never understand

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · Sep 20

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

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