Tom Wragg

Co-ops, built environment, disco, yoga. Personal tweets. en/es. he/him. Born at 355ppm.

[Tom Wragg @T_Wragg]

@jonburkeUK *0.017%

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Art by Victoria Villasana
#giselepelicot

[Tom Wragg @T_Wragg]

@CentristDad5 @AaronBastani @GarethDennis I really think you totally miss the point. If there are pods/cars used extensively between cities, those will be used in the city too. This will cause congestion both in and between cities. The report also hails the importance of minibus on demand transit too. Complements rail.

[Tom Wragg @T_Wragg]

@CentristDad5 @AaronBastani @GarethDennis Please read pages 5-6 of this report - https://t.co/N1tI2z5o3f

Self-driving cars will remove lots of parked cars (good) but will increase congestion (bad) unless combined with public transport interventions.

[International Cooperative Alliance @icacoop]

Message from António Guterres
@UN Secretary-General
Message on the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2025 launch

https://t.co/P7VTAheG4d

[Teresa Anderson @1TeresaAnderson]

#COP29

[Tom Wragg @T_Wragg]

@MP_FossilFree @DeSmog "To reach the KOC overall goal of producing 4 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2030." It's still a big number. Global oil production is just less than 100m barrels of oil per day https://t.co/pMZbu0erGn

[Tom Wragg @T_Wragg]

@MP_FossilFree @DeSmog Still v big but 4 million bod.

[Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate]

@DrSimEvans Importantly different once international aviation & shipping CO2 is included. And arguably, territorial emissions should be considered alongside consumption based accounting to give a total UK carbon footprint. The total 1990-today reduction is ~20%; ie. a mean of 0.6% per year.

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

Pessimists mudded

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

Clean power by 2030 is achievable, cheaper, and makes our country more secure.

Expert analysis backs our policy and its benefits for the country. Defeatist critics should take note

My piece today 👇

https://t.co/3HyTenmv0k

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

3/ Well worth 67 seconds of your time
https://t.co/J1Y4O4M9qf

[Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ @alison_phipps]

Catharsis born of courage, tenacity, clarity and a ferocious intellect.

This - in exceptional times - is the jolting tone, confidence, reprimand require

Thank you @FranceskAlbs

[Birmingham Archives & Collections @TheIronRoom]

#MapOnATuesday Anyone fancy a journey back in time via this Birmingham City Transport bus and tram route map from 1939. You could stop off at the Palas De Danse in Ladywood for a mean foxtrot. Reference - MAP/501644 @LibraryofBham

[Cannon Hill Park @cannonhillpark]

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham Birmingham City Transport south east trams to work from 1930’s Willows Rd Balsall Heath B12 linked Cannon Hill Neighbourhood to Moor St Digbeth Station or back for a night out to the Pallas de Dance https://t.co/5G2UZvOlhB MetroAllisnce Trams network history 29 Oct 2924

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Rise of wind and fall of coal in the UK!

Coal collapsed in 10 years and goes to zero in September.

Wind skyrocketed from ~5% in 2010 to nearly 30% in 2023, with the UK awarding today contracts for 6.4 GW of land and offshore wind!

Beautiful chart!
https://t.co/cfmyw8IbUo

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

BREAKING: Sixth UK renewable auction secures record* 131 projects

☀️3.3GW solar @ £50/MWh**
💨1.0GW onshore wind @ £50/MWh
🌊💨 3.4GW new offshore @ £59
🌊💨1.6GW old offshore @ £54
🛟0.4GW floating wind @ £140

* the 9.6GW of capacity today is below the record 11GW from 2022, but today has more individual projects
** all in £(2012)

Notable that offshore wind prices are well below maximum set by govt and only ~50% above previous record low

[Tessa Khan @tessakhan]

Any serious engagement with carbon budgets for staying within 1.5C puts it beyond doubt that there is no room for any new oil and gas projects. This conclusion is rigorously established in a recent paper in Science, among others: https://t.co/4W9ZXocV4Q
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[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

They say big trucks are just a reality if you want to make deliveries in the city.

I say there's other ways to solve the "last-mile" problem...

There's your beer kegs—sorted.

#London

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[Mike Berners-Lee @MikeBernersLee]

An important principle is that if you can’t trust an MP on climate it tells you that you also can’t trust them on anything at all that you might care about.
If an MP denies the climate emergency they are either too dishonest or not smart enough to be in politics.