a part of the driving test should involve driving a junk car into something at 20mph

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

We need to judge a political party by what they do with their power. The Green Party aren’t serious about tackling climate change. Large Solar Farms are the lowest carbon, lowest cost energy we can get. They are also more biodiverse than the farmland they will replace.

Prepared to bet anyone a coffee this will never happen.
(anyone not everyone!)

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

*if there were no bus …

Or If not buy a car then take a taxi.

It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock.

But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic.

No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar.

It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction

But there were no bus and they have to make the journey (eg to commute to work) they would have to buy a car.

The other possibility is journeys made possible by the availability of a bus that were otherwise avoidable.
In any case the journeys could have been made by car or at least life would have been worse for someone due to lack of mobility. so still feels fair to call it 100% destruction of car use.

Sorry havent seen such data. Are you concerned about how much bus use is instead displacing walking or cycling? I guess that must increase on rainy days. (Obviously bus use doesn’t displace bus use).

This is why SNP has talked up Reforms chances at every opportunity.

To be fair, some pre 2024 building warrants are probably still being built with gas. But the legislation is there now and there is no going back. Sadly Scot Gov has no willingness to regulate for retrofit.

Scotland did it in 2024!

it screams ‘Ein Reich’

A big uplift in workers’ rights as a number of new measures from the Employment Rights Act come into force!

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans."

Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.

Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.

Fucking say it!

UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say Climate diplomacy figures warn North Sea drilling would encourage fossil fuel exploitation by developing countries

Important piece in the Guardian today about the outsized influence that the UK’s approach to fossil fuels, including approving new oil & gas fields, has on the rest of the world, especially on countries in the global South

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Could £2 diesel finally push drivers to go electric? ⚡️🚗 Oil prices are swinging wildly as tension rises in the Middle East. Could now be the right time to ditch petrol and shift to an EV?

Pump prices for diesel at nearly £2 per litre? Just one of the reasons now could be the right time to get an electric car.
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How many plumbers want to be an MP?

Weird politicians How politicians are unrepresentative of us.

I'm not worried that politicians are out of touch with people. Instead, my concern is that MPs, by the very virtue of being MPs, have a distorted view of the world. Here's one I wrote earlier: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/weird-poli...

Sorry to read that.
She is saying MPs have “no clue”. I just think that is at least exaggerating.

I think most if not all MPs have regular surgeries in which they meet all sorts of people. Most have huge caseloads. Being skint isn’t the only way to know about being skint.

Speculation Miliband will approve drilling new oil and gas field 'unfounded' government says There are calls for more drilling to take place as the UK deals with the energy price shock from the Middle East war. The UK government has not ruled out approving the field.

I see your rumour and I raise you a departmental briefing.
(Waiting for the turn).
news.sky.com/story/specul...

this is probably the best possible time for the government to introduce social tariffs for energy so that people don't freeze to death but also so that those who use energy they don't need to actually pay for it during a time of extreme energy shortage

Experts are dubious or doubtful?

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

What the Greens are saying here is
1. All the pain should be borne by less wealthy countries so Brits can keep calm and carry on. A kind of colonialism.
2. Limitless public resources should be diverted, from say education or climate action, so old people can drive and fly.

Nope.

I realise you do your learning in the open and it’s good you are turning attention to this so I shouldn’t be so critical. However there are many who have been considering these topics for many years (not me but I could give references).

I also disagree with contention that area based schemes are untested. There is a scheme in Scotland called Area Based Scheme which has been running in every local authority area for years.

so no time for testing - only attempts to catch up.