PCS Workers for Climate Justice

Trade Union

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Nuclear Power would never have existed without government handouts and ratepayer subsidies: Nuclear Power and Other People’s Money - https://t.co/yyoY2nlMMq

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

It is important to remember that the science around climate change wasn't discovered in the last decade or so, but was understood many, many years ago as you can read here.

[Endre Stølsvik @stolsvik]

This is so fascinating to me: Those scientists were *so spot on*. You should read the paper, it is eerie how those projections are tracking what we now observe. In 1982.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds: https://t.co/IvaBZf0yzT

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Also reducing travelling costs helps with the cost of living crisis.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Greatly reducing the cost of public transport, better still to make it free, is important for two reasons. Firstly the more people traveling on public transport, particularly if they switch from travelling by their own car, then the less green house gases.

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to speed up buses and make them fare-free provoked excitement and debate during his mayoral campaign. But NYC isn't the only place where there's political momentum for better buses: municipalities across the US have been eliminating fares for all riders and making strategic improvements to speed up bus service.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Trees not only supply increasingly needed shade, but they are beautiful in themselves. Win-win for us all.

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

What if I told you one study in Manchester found that shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C, and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C during a heatwave?

You might not believe me. But it's true…👇

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Unless it is reserved for the UK, which a free marketer such as TB would never agree with, then North Sea oil/gas does not add to our energy security. Only renewables does. So Mr Blair is wrong - again!

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Back To T Blair. He said "...use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas resources. This is essential for our competitiveness and for taking advantage of AI". There is no connection between AI and oil/gas resources. Also gas/oil are internationally traded.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

North Sea production does not set the price, no matter how much it can be ramped up. Currently the Iran war sets the price. Given that it is internationally traded, then North Sea gas/oil can be sent any where in the world.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Renewables is the cheapest energy. The reason we have high energy prices is the way the market, which he did not change when PM, generally uses the price of gas to fix the price of electricity. If renewables were allowed to fix the price, then prices would come down.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Tony Blair has written a long piece on the UK. In that you find "We must prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas resources. This is essential for our competitiveness and for taking advantage of AI"

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Know your rights in soaring temperatures: https://t.co/qW2ZGFmyNK

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

UK and Western Europe being brutalized by a "heat dome" fueled by dry African desert air, and "contorted" jet stream.

Climate change is the main culprit causing this nearly-unprecedented heat event, otherwise impossible without fossil fuels.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Next week, PCS holds its national conference. A number of green motions are due to be heard there. We will report back on the environmental debates.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

The NEC has now agreed that the 2026 Climate Change Week will be 9 to 13 November. As we develop our plans, we will post them here.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Each year since 2023, PCS has organised a Climate Change Week. These weeks have included online events, workplace activities, guidance for members and have demonstrated PCS’s ongoing commitment to climate issues.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

Datacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain of AI on energy supplies prompting community resistance, according to research.
https://t.co/LlNzFHoz3U

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

including the Climate Change Act 2008, as amended in 2019, the totalitarian 2023 Energy Bill when enacted and all related Orders'. Totalitarian no less! We oppose Reforms polices on renewables - and indeed most of their other policies.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

The FT reports that Reform want to "ban battery energy storage systems — which underpin intermittent renewable energy systems — due to “safety concerns”. This is alongside, quoting from a Reform paper 'Reform UK will revoke all net zero legislation,

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

That is what “energy sovereignty” would look like'.

[PCS Workers for Climate Justice @ClimatePcs]

'Our energy politics simulates contention and conflict. But it avoids confronting the need to take responsibility – that means rapid state action, far beyond anything that the Labour government has proposed, in rolling out electrification at scale and pace.

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

Britain faces a grave energy crisis which neither the right or left is prepared for. I’ve written for the Guardian on why decades of complacency cannot be magicked away by drilling in the North Sea – or by hoping renewables will quickly power everything. https://t.co/qTbZJzUpgQ