David Dixon

Freelance sustainability consultant; currently working with Bridport Town Council, Wessex Community Assets and Dorset AONB

[Richard Benwell @RSBenwell]

The Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill sends a sorry signal that UK commitment to rapid decarbonisation is wavering. Here's the para in the Government impact assessment showing that it won't do any good for household bills. It'll simply lock us longer into a fossil fuel economy.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

I was nervous posting my graphic showing 2.01°C because breaking 2°C is a huge event and I didn't want to get it wrong.

Then @LeonSimons8 posted the one below from Nov. 17 showing 2.06°C, and it relieved 100% of the stress.

Different data sets, same result. 2°C breached.

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

So far... Vallance has said the prime minister was all over the place and a bit dim; the chancellor was unimpressive and driven by dogma; the health secretary was an over-enthusiastic fantasist.

Apart from that, the government was running just fine

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

September temperatures are now out from our Berkeley Earth dataset. Looking at all the Septembers back to 1850 helps highlight just how anomalous this month has been: https://t.co/lzh5i5m1Gm

[Richard Benwell @RSBenwell]

Net gain joins the chemicals strategy, deposit return scheme, extended producer responsibility, farming regulation & more in the Bermuda Triangle of missing DEFRA environmental commitments.

These delays are costly to Local Authorities, business & nature.

https://t.co/VRyiddpw5u

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

BREAKING - #Rosebank oilfield just given go-ahead - the greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetime, causing emissions equal to 28 lowest income countries, busting #climate targets & doing nothing for energy security since vast majority is for export #climatecriminals

[Richard Benwell @RSBenwell]

Government is planning to remove legal protections for nature, throw away requirements for polluters to pay & use taxpayers’ money to try to fill the gap.

A single, short-term capital injection won't make up for the harm that our rivers & wildlife will suffer as a result.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And there you have it, what today's announcement was actually all about.

Barratt Developments' share price up 3.43% this morning company now valued at £4.34bn and Taylor Wimpey up 2.88% company valued at £3.97bn.

That's what happens when you get rid of environment regulations.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Between 2012 - 2022 @AnglianWater paid shareholders £4.6 billion and now they want to put up your water bill because they didn't spend enough on infrastructure.

No doubt you'll remember that come the general election. Oh, and @ofwat did what exactly?

https://t.co/zcE3xDOZ5w

[David Dixon @dydixon]

Spot on — England’s men of Bazball are putting fun before winning. Why not try both? https://t.co/9c3It74MWH

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

No prime minister should be able to appoint their friends and supporters to sit in our Parliament for life. It's time to abolish the House of Lords and create a smaller elected chamber. https://t.co/pHSCVtOczP

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

Today @StopTheSqueeze reveals the richest 50 families in the UK own more wealth than the bottom half of the population.

Our analysis shows almost 50% of wealth on the Sunday Times Rich List is from just two sectors: finance and property.

(chart: @chrismwhayes).

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Thoughts on turning 50, a week on…
I have found treasure in my life, real treasure: family & friends. I am lucky to have found such love, friendship & hope in my life - especially at times when I have felt very lost & fragile.
Pass on love - it’s the best we can do, as humans.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

After dumping sewage in seas, chemically polluting rivers, failing to upgrade Victorian pipes & handing huge dividends to shareholders, all water firms have to offer is “sorry - oh by the way we’re putting your bills up”. What a shitshow. @Feargal_Sharkey

https://t.co/6YF97v6gI5

[Alastair Wright @AlastairWright]

Pond Street, Sheffield 1979

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

'When you're accustomed to #privilege, any demand for more equality feels like oppression.'

(cartoon by @fabiantodorovic)

[Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 @XRebellionUK]

When we block a road to highlight the govt failure to act on the #ClimateCrisis
OUTRAGE from media

When 60,000 people peacefully & lawfully surround Parliament for #EarthDay for the same reason
SILENCE from @BBCNews @itn @SkyNews @TheSun @MailOnline @TalkTV @GBNEWS @thetimes

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

European ‘greedflation’ https://t.co/OYa0Bms344 Shocked, I am: truly shocked. Round up the usual culprits, plus all those from the Bank of England onwards who pretend that inflation is down to a wage-price spiral when no such thing exists.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK natural gas trading at 100 pence a therm; close to July 2021 level, down from last year peak of 800 pence.

Average household energy Bill:
April 2021 £1138; Now £2500.

Lower market prices not passed to customers.
Govt/Ofgem not curbing profiteering.
https://t.co/GBwwdWCWVn

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Retired doctors are getting a 10.1% pay rise this year.

Working doctors have been offered 2%.

Can anyone explain why retired doctors are worth more than working ones?

Or, come to that, why paying this pension increase is not inflationary, but paying working doctors is?