Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

This report makes a compelling case: that cutting carbon emissions makes sense for our economy, as well as for the safety of our climate.

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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

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FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

It's also possible to consider air2air heat pumps which don't need radiators, although they don't help with hot water.

The Hunger Gap A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
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When I know there is a Celtic v Rangers old firm game, I think of all the women who will experience domestic violence and the children who have to witness it. Domestic violence spikes during the aftermath.

People advocating for more indigenous oil & gas have lost the plot.

It will make zero difference to today's rocketing fossil fuel energy prices if governments opt to bring more oil & gas reservoirs onstream in 2031-2040.

But it will lock in CO2 emissions and help destroy economies and society.

Transitioning to clean energy faster would protect the UK from world events that raise the oil price :-)

We also desperately need thinkers.

Amazing to be out supporting @zackpolanski.bsky.social in South London on Saturday! So much support on the streets, we're bringing hope back, let's turn London Green 💚

Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands

But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

'A study has found...' suggests we haven't known and ignored this for decades...
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Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

This is true, and so is the inverse: fossil fuels are a national security threat.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
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WELLES OBLITERATES COVERUP #folk #singersongwriter #poetry YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡

Perched upright on a weathered stump, a small brown Wren tilts its head back mid-call against a soft golden backdrop, alert and vocal.

Many MPs claim to care about nature.

Tomorrow afternoon will be the test.

On Tuesday 3rd March there will be a debate in Parliament on red lines for nature.

We’ll be watching to see who shows up. Empty seats will say a lot.

Tell us who you expect to see there tomorrow. 👇

Rachel, Zack and Mothin

There's nothing the establishment is more scared of them a calm, kind, thoughtful gardener who happens to be a Muslim man in politics.

We'll stand together. Solidarity Mothin.

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

This is ethically wrong and strategically stupid

Jones says the Greens are "populists with no answers" - as opposed to Labour who are unpopulists with terrible answers???

Even further and faster than I expected. news.sky.com/story/greens...

Turns out lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services is really popular.

This is just the beginning - people are seeing through the attacks and demanding something better.

And we're making hope normal again - together.

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When you're driving, slow down around people on bikes. Don't take any risks. Leave space for a life. #GiveCycleSpace

Thank you.

Meanwhile the Scot Govt promised Trump £180000 for his golf tournament when he was up visiting it last summer and John Swinney has been over to USA trying to woo business. Our politicians are all beguiled and demeaned by capitalism.

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

Why is this fascism presented so passively? Labour has decided to strip refugees of their status: THEY don't become 'temporary', Labour has decided that their human rights are temporary, FFS!
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