James Murray

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[James Murray @James_BG]

Climate change isn't woke. Or rather, it's a bit woke and there's nothing wrong with that, but that's not all it is. Political and business leaders urgently need to reject the lazy thinking that is trying to paint climate action as an elite endeavour. https://t.co/Z2nz8yEPfi

[(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 @cfishman]

Two satellites have changed the game in the last 10 years for farmers, scientists, oil & gas companies, other companies.

They are the OCO satellites—Orbiting Carbon Observatories.

Used daily.

The Trump Administration has ordered one destroyed, the other turned off.

Why?

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[James Murray @James_BG]

Laughably shameless stuff from Richard Tice. Just utter contempt for his audience. https://t.co/etHbbULWsg

[Roger Harrabin @RHarrabin]

A thought from @James_BG Murray on @metoffice #climate report: its tempting to say we face a 'new normal', but thats not quite correct, because until net zero emissions are reached, global temperatures will keep climbing. The 'new normal' is getting worse. A lot worse.

[Bob Ward @ret_ward]

This is entirely false. The £803 billion is the cost to Government of which the majority is more than £20 billion a year in fuel duty and other fossil fuel taxes not collected from consumers. Either this extremist does not understand or is lying about the figures.

[Sam Richards @sjarichards]

If reports are true this will lock *everyone* - not just Scotland - into higher bills for years as we will spend billions switching off wind farms when it’s windy (rather than allowing them to sell power dirt cheap locally). A mistake. https://t.co/NHddz3F4NF

[Possible @_wearepossible]

We weren't sure whether to post this thread.

But we decided to be honest about how tough it is to be a small charity working on climate right now.

If you just want to do something to help, click here: https://t.co/B9vOVnMK6n

If you want to read a bit more, here's a 🧵

[Will Nichols @WillNicholsRisk]

Bloomberg @climate is always a good read, but snapshots like this on @GreggsOfficial not only reinforce the link between climate risks and financial impacts, but also brighten your day ☀️🌭📉

[James Murray @James_BG]

Also, this just happened. https://t.co/ESYKeSBFoZ

[James Murray @James_BG]

Commentators: 'Labour's wasted its first year in office'.
Ed Miliband:

[James Murray @James_BG]

And there's more to come:

[James Murray @James_BG]

Every quarter now precisely one per cent of the available time to build a net zero emission economy.

[James Murray @James_BG]

Quarter of the way through the 21st century. I think we can agree the record to date is somewhat mixed.

[James Murray @James_BG]

Meanwhile, the world's largest market is proposing a target to cut its emissions by 90 per cent against 1990 levels by 2040. What was that again about the UK being alone in pursuing net zero? https://t.co/mPmQe54Q30

[James Murray @James_BG]

Ed Miliband telling it like it is at last night's @GreenAllianceUK reception. https://t.co/N02bT5MxkU

[James Murray @James_BG]

Wish the 'let's just adapt to climate change' crowd would explain how we just adapt to this. https://t.co/vp5CMGF5Xd

[James Murray @James_BG]

Net zero by 2050 is not ‘impossible’.

Britain would not bankrupt itself by pursuing the goal.

China is the world’s biggest investor in clean technologies.

If the world does not reach net zero climate impacts will continue to intensify with likely catastrophic consequences.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Net Zero by 2050 is impossible.

There's no point Britain bankrupting ourselves over 1% of global emissions, while China and others carry on unchecked.

[Ed King @edking_I]

Seems @CityAM + @Telegraph missed the key sentence... 'Our electricity price does not reflect the cheaper wholesale price of clean energy' (attached p.5) https://t.co/RcFNABwBU9

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world.

Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story.

And, we've had hotter UK summers since.

[James Murray @James_BG]

Narrator: The report does not say solar was to blame for the Iberian power outage and Labour is not planning to 'cut our gas capability to less than 5% of our electricity supply'.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Unreliable solar brought Spain and Portugal to their knees.

Labour wants to put the same risk on us by cutting our gas capability to less than 5% of our electricity supply.

The risk of blackouts will rise if we blindly follow Net Zero ideology.

https://t.co/9NgwzcgJZz

[BusinessGreen @BusinessGreen]

Cleaner Seas Group launches 'world-first' microplastic recycling facility https://t.co/8RfkatMMU9