This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious: yet again, the Tories are claiming that we can get "all our oil and gas" from the North Sea and that we should be doing even more to support the industry to extract. There are several reasons why we should treat this with maximum scepticism:
This week’s Sunday @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.
Back in May 2021 I posted on twitter about a journey I'd undertaken to find a tree that I can see from our bedroom window. I've decided to post it verbatim on here as lots of people really enjoyed it. So, here it is…
To the Prodigy song Out of space I always thought it was consenting to outer space rather than the correct I'm gonna send him to outer space. I did think how civilised, consenting.
Seen red apples in the first week of this July
Among his other interesting comments today, President Trump has alleged that there's a century worth of oil & gas drilling left in the North Sea that the UK should incentivise in order to get energy costs down. Let's take a closer look at the veracity of that idea, shall we? /1
Early strawberries fit for the bin..
2025 and already the UK has had the highest area burnt by wild fires and it is April. How long before a California scenario here in a town or village? Not nearly enough is being done.
Playing the three degrees of separation game everyone knows a pro, anti and even neutral trans judge
Lots of claims flying around this week (eg Nigel Farage who thinks we can be "self-sufficient" in gas) that the UK can drill its way to energy security. Here's why that's a fantasy, as I explained to Reform's Richard Tice on LBC earlier:
The Trump Administration's war on climate science, its mania for fossil fuels and its torching of environmental regulations risk doing far more damage than its tariff policy. Yet the former hardly flickers on the news radar by comparison with the latter.
Tucked away in South America, out of the spotlight, legal weed, progressive on gender, universal healthcare, great education system, nice climate, lots of beaches, and 100% renewable energy. I dunno y'all ...
And remarkably play in the fourth tier of the Turkish football league
Yet more evidence that party funding rules desperately need reform. British politics is painfully open to capture by wealthy vested interests. And to the oil magnates, tech-bros and right-wing ideologues emboldened by Trump, the sums needed to capture UK parties are not even loose change.
Pessimists sound clever. Optimists change the world. I love this depiction of the energy transition by RMI.
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
If costs are high wouldn’t this mean transitioning to renewables is higher as it gives a greater benefit
Part of me wants to screenshot this and post it on t’other site