MP Watch Witney
@mpwatchwitney.bsky.social
Dedicated to political honesty about Climate Change - in particular, to make voting patterns of our MP visible to his constituents
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A wildfire burning for more than a week in drought-stricken Iran has razed portions of the ancient Hyrcanian Forests, a UNESCO World Heritage site home to many endangered species.
Fire Threatens Iran’s Ancient Forest, a World Heritage Site
Iran has been battling its worst drought in more than six decades. A blaze in the north has now eaten through parts of the old treasure.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A wildfire burning for more than a week in drought-stricken Iran has razed portions of the ancient Hyrcanian Forests, a UNESCO World Heritage site home to many endangered species.
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Notice how thin and tiny our atmosphere is?
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Notice how thin and tiny our atmosphere is?
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Climate change is going to push global food inflation to extreme highs over the coming decade.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Climate change is going to push global food inflation to extreme highs over the coming decade.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
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Southern Hemisphere marine heatwave update
We have now several hot spots developing - would be a bit early to start for real
First 6 days ago, second from yesterday, and the last from last year...
#climate
We have now several hot spots developing - would be a bit early to start for real
First 6 days ago, second from yesterday, and the last from last year...
#climate
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Southern Hemisphere marine heatwave update
We have now several hot spots developing - would be a bit early to start for real
First 6 days ago, second from yesterday, and the last from last year...
#climate
We have now several hot spots developing - would be a bit early to start for real
First 6 days ago, second from yesterday, and the last from last year...
#climate
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Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
🌋 Co-Firing Hydrogen with Natural Gas: A Dangerous Detour for the UK Energy System
Based on my submission to the upcoming planning examination for the Keadby gas and hydrogen co-firing plant
scrapcc.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST
Full technical submission to planning inspectors:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
We need real clean power — not hydrogen-washed gas.
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Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
Carbon Capture Remains A Fig Leaf For Fossil Fuel Industry
Carbon Engineering, now purchased by oil and gas giant Oxy, pumping new oil out of old wells
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
Hydrogen co-firing, based on carbon capture generated fuel, is being used as a fig leaf to justify new gas plants
medium.com/the-future-i...
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The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
www.theccc.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
The UK will not have enough low-carbon hydrogen to run power stations anyway. The CCC’s own data shows this
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...
See detail in scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR
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And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
And hydrogen combustion creates more NOx pollution than natural gas
(Image: from earthjustice.org/feature/gree...)
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Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
#hydrogen #energytransition #ccs #climatepolicy #netzero #renewables… | Andrew Boswell | 33 comments
Hydrogen Co-firing - how UK policy turns green electrons into dirty electrons
The Guardian yesterday reported on “Energy firms complete UK first hydrogen-blending trial on power grid” (13 October 20...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Green hydrogen is even worse for power:
Turn 3 units of renewable electricity into hydrogen → you only get 1 unit of electricity back.
The rest is wasted.
Read more:
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
Autumn 2025 update: Scrap Carbon Capture when it is based on gas
Time for Governments to review the science and remove CCS from its climate plans
scrapcc.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
🚨 #LNG ‼️
Blue hydrogen (the only hydrogen available at scale this decade) often has higher lifecycle emissions than burning natural gas once LNG met, read more:
scrapcc.org/BLOG
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🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
#ThinkAgainRachel about burning billions on Carbon Capture
UK CCS plans have up to £136bn for power stations to burn gas and £128bn to burn biomass
scrapcc.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
🏭 Fossil fuel developers claim it cuts emissions.
🔬 The science says the opposite.
🚨Govt and @thecccuk.bsky.social have bought the lobby lines.
💰💰And see how much it would cost as part of CCS programme using blue hydrogen scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST
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🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
Keadby Next Generation Power Station
keadbynextgen.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Witney Eco Forum this Thursday to hear more
about Thames Water scandal
7.30 @ St Mary's Church on the green
@oxfordclarion.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@mpwatch.bsky.social
about Thames Water scandal
7.30 @ St Mary's Church on the green
@oxfordclarion.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@mpwatch.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Witney Eco Forum this Thursday to hear more
about Thames Water scandal
7.30 @ St Mary's Church on the green
@oxfordclarion.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@mpwatch.bsky.social
about Thames Water scandal
7.30 @ St Mary's Church on the green
@oxfordclarion.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@mpwatch.bsky.social
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The right-wing press is predictably freaking out that the UK govt is going to - wait for it - improve teaching in schools on climate change and media literacy.
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The right-wing press is predictably freaking out that the UK govt is going to - wait for it - improve teaching in schools on climate change and media literacy.
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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I like the colours in this one . Thank you to @christianthiels.bsky.social_2 for sharing today's #FoxOfTheDay
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I like the colours in this one . Thank you to @christianthiels.bsky.social_2 for sharing today's #FoxOfTheDay
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He used to be Climate Minister, now likely Prime Minister of The Netherlands
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
He used to be Climate Minister, now likely Prime Minister of The Netherlands
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With 40 cm of snow left on the ground last Wednesday, Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, officially experienced its biggest October snowstorm on record. This historic event shattered a 104-year-old record by 25 cm.
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
With 40 cm of snow left on the ground last Wednesday, Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, officially experienced its biggest October snowstorm on record. This historic event shattered a 104-year-old record by 25 cm.
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
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Great piece by Gordon Brown
I wish all politicians were this well informed
Nonetheless, whatever action we take now will simply limit how catastrophic climate breakdown ends up being - which makes the fight to slash emissions even more vital
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish all politicians were this well informed
Nonetheless, whatever action we take now will simply limit how catastrophic climate breakdown ends up being - which makes the fight to slash emissions even more vital
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
World leaders, remember that future generations will judge you. At Cop30, you can define how | Gordon Brown
Keir Starmer is taking the lead on tackling the climate crisis. With the US backing away, now is the moment when other nations must step up, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Great piece by Gordon Brown
I wish all politicians were this well informed
Nonetheless, whatever action we take now will simply limit how catastrophic climate breakdown ends up being - which makes the fight to slash emissions even more vital
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish all politicians were this well informed
Nonetheless, whatever action we take now will simply limit how catastrophic climate breakdown ends up being - which makes the fight to slash emissions even more vital
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
