I’d never thought I would see the effects of climate change unfold in my lifetime. But it’s happening right in front of us. Climate change deniers like to call this “weather”, but farmers and insurance companies see the economic catastrophe unfold in front of them. The physics are terribly simple.
Storm Erin grew faster than any storm in history. Pakistan has been hit by once in generation floods twice. The LA fires are recent and unprecedented. London was on fire three years ago (unprecedented). Heat over 50C (this is deadly) has doubled in prevalence www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
We can sequester very little. Hopefully we can sequester what is seeping in inevitably. Some good numbers in here: What is carbon capture and can it fight climate change? www.bbc.com/news/science... That’s 18 months old and zero progress has been made on pushing carbon back under ground at scale
I think you need to do a bout of reading on “a few degree C”. We’re almost at 1.5C, and we see deadly floods, heat, tornadoes, and cyclones, destroying billions of value, with insurance companies pulling out. “A few degrees” will make melting of glaciers permanent; no fresh water for many
Carbon capture is essential because it will slow us to burn *freshly grown* fuel; it will remove some CO2 from the atmosphere. Fossil fuel companies like to sell it as a solution to burning more coal and oil. But nobody has yet made it work at scale.
CO2 capture is considering essential for net zero, in combination with boring fast growing plants, as that sequesters some CO2 directly from the air. If you’re looking for an excuse to burn a boat load of fossil fuels, you’re asking the wrong person.
CO2 capture typically refers to putting a big pipe on the end of a power station and pumping the gas underground hoping it won’t escape for a few thousand years. Even that is hard, let alone direct capture of CO2 from the air, and then there’s methane escaping from coal/oil exploration
There’s your contribution to the private eye look-alikes
That’s up to them for sure? By that time carbon capture may have delivered. Who knows. I do know it’s unwise for my generation to exhaust our environment and leaving future generations with no choice. You got to understand that we are dealing with risks and risk mitigation.
Whether or not you’re interested to be heard by people, you’ll have a way of living that will align with one or the other side of the argument. Burn all the coal we can find, it’ll be ok; or only burn what’s essential, because it may not be ok.
It’ll depend on your definition of poorer. I personally don’t feel poorer, but that’s me. Question for you: what’s your message to the world?
I’m very aware of that. The uk glass industry uses 9 TWh of power annually; largely because they encourage recycling rather than reuse. It could be slashed if they accepted re-use. The government could set policy. Shock, horror. Steel? You can make it green Plastic? Avoid single use
She is a politician, she would never lie.
You have a point. However, I’ve given up stuff yet live comfortably using very little fossil fuels. Wind and solar power when available, gas otherwise. Over time that’ll become marginal. African countries seem to move straight to solar: cheap and totally abundant.
That’s correct. I’m not sure whether you’re trying to make a point or just trolling.
450 (EU) vs 340 million (USA) so not a massive difference. Add another 30% to the United States to level it out. China would drop significantly
It, maintaining consumerism will drag us over all sorts of edges
People have termed this the poly crisis; which climate change is one part of. Other crisis are: plastic, PFAS, antibiotic resistance, food insecurity, soil erosion, just to mention a few. A lot of these are driven by out of control capitalism. Encouraging consumerism makes all of them worse.
I think they mean that unbridled consumerism is one of the reason that we’re heading for possibly catastrophic climate change. Buying tons of plastic days before Christmas that are destined for landfill the week after is both unnecessary and unhelpful
What a sentence. Good lord. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
This is the one they should be concerned about. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Here’s some hard facts for a right wing media desperately trying to create a false narrative - Ecotricity has never had subsidies (fact one). The various industry schemes that get cited as subsidies - are not subsidies, they involve no public money (fact two).
Thanks, they couldn’t do it last year; I didn’t qualify and neither could I pay for it!
I don’t think you can get a covid vaccine over the counter in the UK?
Painting St George’s flags on the roads is just the start.
You’ll have some interesting weather The coming few days!
Evil Dutch!
There’s two countries not using PR in Europe. One is the United Kingdom. The other is Belarus. That’s not good company
At a guess the stuff that flies off is gravitationally bound to it so will eventually regroup again.
🔴 These two charts expose Nigel Farage’s immigration myths You know how bad the lies have been when you realise people think asylum seekers cost more than *state pensions*
The red tape around installing a heatpump make it a challenge. One can put a noisy, polluting, gas boiler in without any paperwork beyond a gas-safe certificate. To install a heatpump for the tenants you have to go through 6 months of planning permission, and a few thousand pounds of surveys.
Prepare for some sternly worded letters
We live in a dispiriting time line. Spending some time away from it all is healthy
You mean the “roman salute” that was cropped?
The original New Yorker article is a great read too. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
A stopped clock is right twice a day I guess. The daily telegraph clock has been running backwards for many years now, but they’re still right twice a day
Where do you go with this? Marshall will sink money into this forever and find useful idiots to parade around.
I need Margot Robbie in a bubble Bath explaining disaster-backed securities. That would be even more surreal than in The Big Short.
The question is whether you are an enabler of genocide or whether you take a stand. There is no middle ground that you can hide on
I’m not sure I want that. I’m very happy to have a 300 mile range and a reliable network of fast chargers. Making a car heavier, more expensive, and less efficient just to appreciate range anxiety seems like a bad idea to me. If a battery survives 200,000 miles of charging cycles, count me in!
The Telegraph and Rowling teamed up: what could go right?
Interesting article. According to it sea level rise is due to 44% groundwater depletion, 36% Greenland melting,19% Antarctica melting. I thought a significant part of sea level rose was due to warming and expansion of the oceans?
There’s probably millions of company directors in the UK.
You’re applying logic which is not their strong point. Their only point in fact is to … Ok, I’m getting stuck here, I don’t know what their point really is. Is it just rewarding their donors? It won’t. Is it just harking back to the past? They’ve already lost. Maybe it is just owning the libs?
Doesn’t Tice own a solar farm somewhere?
You got to explain to me how spraying paint on metal is not peaceful. Next you’re telling me that the bodyshop next door is violent? It’s criminal damage That ain’t violent
Who did use explosives?
That’s called criminal damage. It is not terrorism. It is not necessary to proscribe an organisation because of criminal damage. You just pursue the people involved for criminal damage and let justices do its thing. Arresting 80 year old peaceful protestors on terrorism charges is outrageous.
1.50 is better than 1.51. 1.51 is better than 1.52. Repeat until we’re at 6C by which time little matters;)
In the UK rooftop solar is trivial, but for a heatpump you have to jump through all sorts of planning hoops that add a few thousand to the bill. Infuriating.
There’s no substitute for the original Robocop. Classic, yet oddly relevant in this day and age.
Here’s a truth for you; let’s melt all the ice in Greenland to let farmers farm again. That adds 8m of water to sea levels. That’s the end of down town Tokyo.
And your point is?
I think you forgot to follow the flow-chart
Why would Carl Sagan quote somebody who thought that “neoliberalism would establish an elite structure of successful individuals” (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolibe...); wouldn’t this have horrified him?
A weather station in Storforshei, Norway, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, has now hit 30°C (86°F) or greater for 12 consecutive days. Let that sink in.
🚨The International Court of Justice has issued a historic climate ruling. Check out Richard's concise summary of the ICJ advisory opinion.
Where does that leave climate protestors who have are locked up for pointing all of this out?
I’m sure one could crowd find the service for 3 years and 6 months
Out of necessity we often revert to average over a month being slightly higher. It’s the extreme rainfall and heat that’s destroying our way of life. We forget that the statistician died in a stream that was on average one inch deep.
There’s no cost associated with nationalisation. It costs money to (1) run a water company; (2) service the insane debts that they’ve laden the com pay with; (3) pay dividends to shareholders (4) to fix unmaintained infrastructure (1) and (4) must happen. (2) is the hot potato
The only way to milk a utility to is to balloon the debt, and ignore the inevitable collapse. The government is scared of the black hole of debt that privatisation created. The companies that underwrote the debt are important to the government; we’re not. The free market strikes again
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He lied. ourworldindata.org/grapher/deat...
Since when is climate change a belief? A but like the tooth fairy or Santa Claus? The interviewer should tighten up their language rather than give somebody with an anti science agenda a free pass
I think the link is that neither of them appreciate thought; condemning that as arty farty intellectual liberalism. Once you condemn yourself to never think, you end up harking for policies of the past, as these are a safe haven. Dig up and burn coal; hate people who are different. Hate nature.
Any or all of them may happen. But something needs to be the final drop to lift us over the edge of the tipping point. Likely it is a coal plant somewhere, but it could be somebody walking instead of driving. Don’t let fear for the future stand in the way of action today.
We can limit is impact. It’s the sum of all emissions that determines where the planet’s climate goes (and a lot of natural feedbacks). Whether it is you personally, a village, company, or country: cutting your emissions makes a difference.
I lived for many years in a UK town without car or driving license. Having moved out of town that’s no longer feasible; the nearest bus stop is 6 miles away. Luxembourg is interesting. Hourly bus services through most off not all villages. Free.
For those of you interested, a cooperative runs gigabit broadband in rural England. b4rn.org.uk
I read it. It did not say that Palestine Action bombed anybody. Some Belgium splinter group did. 50,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed in Gaza www.reuters.com/world/middle... . The UK government is choosing to stay quiet on this and needs to speak out. More than 15,000 children murdered.
Thank you. I missed the bit where Palestine Action blow stuff up bound for the Ukraine.
Reference would be good here.
And now for today’s climate forecast …
I appreciate that it is expensive to retrofit electricity to century old tunnels and bridges; but I think that spending all the money of hs2 on electrifying the main network would be such a winner. We could finally stop ordering new diesel-based rolling stock.
This graphs shows how Vested Interests whip up hysteria against progress in general. It applies to transport policy, women’s vote, (wealth) tax, invention of the railways, net zero, queer rights, heat pumps. Just read the headlines of the daily telegraph to extend that list.
It will save you the emissions of 1500 kWh of gas a year. So when the boiler dies, replace it with a heatpump…
Oh dear. Lisa seems a soul lost in the online Wild West, reduced to spouting word-salad. I would love to take her Internet access away and put her on a bench in the sun somewhere.
I appreciate that that comes from somewhere (say the NHS) but I’m ok with that if that action (indirectly) saved a dozen lives.
Spraying paint into the engine of a warplane (I believe that’s the specific offence, correct me if I’m wrong) is in my books peaceful (no humans were threatened) and could be argued to disrupt war.
Sure, I agree with you on that, and I have a lot of time for people with placards that are carefully not in the way. I guess the counterpoint is that some worthwhile goals never got achieved by just holding placards up.
“The upwelling of deep, warm, CO₂-rich waters is believed to be driving the accelerated melting”. Could somebody in the know explain in layman terms how warm that water is? I thought deep ocean is pretty cold (4C?) so is this relative to 0C water?
The suffragettes, anti apartheid campaigners, abolitionists, and various other historic groups would like a word with you.
You stated that fact beautifully
The raccoon gnawing through the wires in his brain is winning.
You wouldn’t have a hi res version of that would you? Just cannot read the text…
Never forget he is Elon “Double Nazi Salute” Musk.
Well that’s a thought. Hard to meet. In the meantime the UK has approved to spend 50% more on improving the fossil fuel gas grid than on the renewable electricity grid. We’re not even heading in the right direction! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Campy believe that the UK will invest more money in the #fossilfuel gas grid than ok the #renewable electricity grid. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Almost everybody advocating more fossil fuel use is paid for by the oil companies. Hence, odds are you cannot trust them. Apologies to the handful of people who may have a a good reason; your voice has been killed by the fossil fuel companies.
Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
The Independent is just a click bait site these days. Not sure there’s any journalists left.
The only thing that could mitigate climate change is stopping the burning of fossil fuels. Tell your friends and radio producers.
I was thinking terminator 2 myself
Lovely piece thanks. The whole “White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims” is apart from the obvious racism a non starter in so many ways. Define British. Passport? Parents passports? Is the king British? White British ancestors walked across the channel 10,000 years ago.
Please start only referring to Hegseth by his new nickname: Operation Midnight Hammered
Also great to see that super PACs have wasted their cash. Sad to see that it probably all went into Facebook, X, and Google
Great quote from @doctorvive.bsky.social on tipping points. Full article www.theguardian.com/environment/...
