A small proportion yes, but of an awful lot. Immediate solutions are really important, stops can-kicking of more impactful but difficult work, and builds momentum for future solutions (which include regulation which needs use cases).
Astonishing!
Lots of fantastic news in climate action today (sadly overshadowed in media by he who's name I shall not speak) #notchaoswithEdMiliband
Global oil demand is set to fall by 1.5 million barrels a day in the 2nd quarter of 2026 versus the same period last year.
This would be the sharpest decline since Covid-19 lockdowns dramatically reduced fuel consumption.
Our freely available Oil Market Report 👉 iea.li/4trDJgb
Constrained by slow grid connections, data centre developers in the United States are pushing forward projects with onsite natural gas-based power generation. Satellite tracking of these projects indicates that around one-fifth have started land clearing or construction. This highlights that onsite gas power is an emerging solution, with key design, supply chain, regulatory and financial questions remaining. New IEA analysis shows that providing reliable onsite gas-fired electricity to meet critical and variable data centre load requires overbuilding onsite generation infrastructure by 30% to 70% relative to demand. Yet in the context of a supply crunch for gas turbines, it is not clear that onsite generation necessarily promises a faster route to market for data centres at scale. Though uncertainties are high, around 15‑27 GW of onsite natural gas may power data centres by 2030, mostly in the United States. However, this does not remove the urgency of addressing grid bottlenecks, as most data centres prefer connecting to the grid.
MAN that is bad......15 to 27 gigawatts of new fossil gas power stations just for data centres in America, by 2030. New satellite tracking data in the report shows one fifth of planned capacity has actually begun IRL construction
Full on fascism out in the open.
Leeds have done it on their P+R.
Would like to see evidence these car park spaces calculations exist. Perhaps the Metrocentre etc just ignored theirs and did it anyway.
Never heard of The Spirit Level?
The Institution of Civil Engineers says heavier vehicles are a factor in pothole formation and reducing the lifespan of roads.
😮 A record £18.6bn of #taxpayermoney now funds road repairs.
💪 Our #streetsforkids campaign pushes for fairer parking tariffs to discourage #carspreading
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The danger in ousting populist authoritarian crooks is in thinking the battle is finally over. It's never over, and the battle begins again the very next day.
A beautiful illustration for Australians, and the rest of us. A simple bar graph that depicts how far you can go on a $Aus with petrol, and how far with electricity.
(BTW, the refining of oil into petrol uses a metric sh!t ton of electricity)
More info: elitre.com.au/dollar
The Iran war is driving a solar boom in the UK.
@octopus.energy reports solar sales up 54% in March alone.
EDF says residential sales are running at double last spring's rate.
Every rooftop solar installation is a vote against fossil fuel price volatility.
Britain is now better insulated from gas price shocks than it was during the 2021–2023 energy crisis thanks to a buildout of solar and wind – which helped cut gas generation 🧵
ember-energy.org/lat...
Incredibly important to remember a minority of the population takes most of the flights. We don't need to penalise the annual family holiday to cut emissions here, but to tax frequent flyers and subsidise long distance trains.
Excellent point, and explains why progressive causes don't spread in the same way, because progressives know MLMs are exploitative.
The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability
The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now
Chaos with Ed Miliband
With so much bad news around, it's important to celebrate the really good news.
And this is great news for children & families in need.
It's also a reminder of why parliamentary government - in which even prime ministers with huge majorities have to respond to their backbenches - is so important.
You must know the government has had the www.theccc.org.uk advising them of the carbon descent plan, for years? Staffed by brilliant scientists. There is no scenario where more wind solar and storage is a bad idea.
Morning!
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Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn)
www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/english...
Why? They're not intending or likely to be in govt, their aim is to shift the Overton window back. Their leader is open about being a populist. They're doing exactly what they set out to do.
A black and a white sheep grazing in front of solar panels, with five wind turbines behind and a blue clear sky in the background.
Brilliant study of Corn Buntings at Westmill, published this week. The research shows that these endangered birds thrive when living near to solar parks, finding nesting materials and food on site. Visit us to find out how we work with nature: westmillenergy.coop/visit-westmi...
#Nature #Renewables
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
I love London. Every time I go I experience something different and beautiful. It's always bustling and well kept for the most part. Can't understand how anyone outside the US falls for this. If anything London is rising.
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
My planning so far has involved acquiring an electric bike - can recommend.
