Tim Nuthall

Climate, energy, politics and strategic communications related issues. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement. Tweets are my own views.

[Theresa May @theresa_may]

Net zero by 2050 is challenging but achievable.

It is supported by the scientific community and backed by the independent Climate Change Committee as being not just necessary but feasible and cost-effective.

We are already seeing the impact of climate change. From extreme weather events to supply chain disruption and increased climate-induced migration.

With every additional increment of warming the risks of climate change increase significantly, and at an increasing rate.

Delaying action will only harm the next generation and increase both the economic and social costs of climate change.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is no way to treat the leader of a country being pummelled by Russia. It’s quite upsetting. Trump and Vance gang up on Zelensky. No way for leaders to behave. Trying to intimidate Zelensky. Vance attacks Z then accuses him of disrespect because he answers back.

[Colin Walker @colinwalker79]

Well, this is quite the turaround

Having spent much of 2024 complaining that the ZEV mandate was too hard, @Stellantis has announced that is has successfully met its EV sales targets

Joins the likes of BMW, Mercedes and Hyundai in proving it can be done

https://t.co/wac7ZVs7h5

[ECIU @ECIU_UK]

🗝️ #GeneralElection2024 battleground seats 3️⃣❎ more likely to be #NetZero economic ‘hotspots’

New analysis also shows 🇬🇧 net zero economy ⬆️ 9% in 2023

despite stagnation in wider economy w/ GDP ⬆️ just 0.1% last year.

https://t.co/ZGcsGnFgWX

[Labour Climate and Environment Forum @LCEF_UK]

Fantastic to see Starmer give clear and robust vocal support to the Green Prosperity Plan, borrowing to invest to improve energy independence and lower energy bills.

Bring it on, indeed!

https://t.co/MH431QAYk9

[Jess Ralston @jessralston2]

One week on from the PM's #NetZero speech, what's the impact on 🇬🇧 economy and UK PLC?

🧵 of UK businesses, consumer groups, and trade bodies railing against scrapping net zero policies
👇

Backlash from scrapping key policies on:
❌ insulation
❌ electric cars
❌ home heating

[ECIU @ECIU_UK]

In 2022, 🇬🇧 imported around 1/2 food: 37bn kg, worth £58bn

25% these food imports – 9.8bn kg, worth just over £16bn – came from the Mediterranean region, where #climate-driven extreme weather has hit food production hard

*NEW* ECIU report: https://t.co/Iehl2rG6Ru

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

In light of *that* BBC News article on a North Sea oil and gas producer wanting to produce more oil and gas, here are a few home truths

1/4 UK oil production is in terminal decline, with or without new fields

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

The Sun paid for a big UK poll on net-zero but forgot to report the key finding

Maybe they didn't want you to know that there's HUGE, cross-party public support for net-zero?

65% support net-zero
19% opposed
+46 net support

+23 net support (Con 2019)
+72 (Lab)
+72 (LD)

[Tim Nuthall @Tim_Nuthall]

#RIHLive Fritz Haber developed the method for producing fertiliser which has fed millions. He also invented chlorine gas during WWI. Hero or villain ?

[Tim Nuthall @Tim_Nuthall]

#RIHLive I asked my 6 year old daughter to “Draw mummy’s hero”. Wasn’t expecting this.

[ECIU @ECIU_UK]

UK #NetZero economy worth more than £70 billion

📈 840,000 jobs supported by almost 20,000 net zero businesses

New ECIU @CBI_Economics @TheDataCity analysis shows top 20 🇬🇧 net zero hot spots across UK from Tyneside to Merseyside, Shetland to Kent.

https://t.co/ltbEEq2ByO

[Steve Akehurst @SteveAkehurst]

Slightly frustrating to again see climate/environment pitched as a fringe activist concern here.

This has not been true for the best part of 5 years now!

Despite everything, climate remained voters top 3/4 concerns throughout 2022.

https://t.co/8NUgpBAvaV

[Laurence Tubiana @LaurenceTubiana]

Disinformation is a threat to climate action & to democracy. We can't beat CC if the goals & obstacles aren't clear for all to see & if the fossil lobbies try hard to mask them

First step: adopting a universal definition of climate disinformation. #COP27
https://t.co/tm8WIkT6gW

[Sepi Golzari-Munro @SepiGM]

🌬 African continent wind resource = 59,000GW … enough to power the continent 250 times over

Current wind power capacity = 7GW

Only 0.01% of Africa’s wind power resource has been tapped.

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

JUST IN ➡️ Unlimited travel via public transport in all of Germany for 49€ per month becomes a reality.

🚌🚉🚋 🚟 🚇

An important milestone towards modernizing public transport and improving affordability 💪

📣 Official Announcement 🇩🇪👇👇

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

How newspapers work: A story in 3 parts

1⃣New data shows UK sales of pure EVs surged by 40% in 2022, as petrol & diesels slumped by 15 & 43%

(BEVs also up 17% in September)

2⃣The Times headline:

"Electric car sales slow"

3⃣Daily Telegraph:

"Electric car sales slow"

🤡🤡🤡

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

+BREAKING+

RAC: "To be clear. We did not say it would cost more to run an EV than a petrol car from Oct [or] provide any figs on Jaguar’s models [or] say it cost just £50 to fill a petrol car…[We're] trying to reach journalist to find out why he wrote the story the way he did."

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

FACTCHECK

Electric vehicles significantly cut the cost of motoring in the UK, even under the October price cap

I estimate a current saving of £64 per tank of fuel equivalent when driving an EV (£39 in Oct)

Today's Daily Telegraph suggests the opposite?!

Let's take a look

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[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

FACTCHECK | Some Conservative politicians are claiming solar farms are a ‘threat’ to UK farmland.

But what are the facts?

@Josh_Gabbatiss @freyagraham_ @rtmcswee @GAViglione

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