This was Santiago, Chile yesterday.
Both today and yesterday the media - the @Daily_Express and @thetimes have published pieces written by people who aren’t scientists telling us to just carry on warming the planet and forget about cutting emissions. This crosses a line into endangering all of us.
"It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself" https://t.co/gMpVwPvcmz
What we are doing is not enough. We have the solutions. Stop the delays and implement them. #ActOnClimate
#BCpoli #votegreen
What we must do immediately:
1) End the use of fossil fuels
2) Build massive amounts of solar & wind
3) Electrify everything
4) Localize
5) Conserve
5) Find solutions for the last hard stuff (planes, cement)
6) Stop cutting down forests
#ActOnClimate https://t.co/2w5uwXTxMH
Delighted to officially open the #EGL1 Visitor Centre at Hawthorn Pit with students from Ribbon Academy. A great space showcasing this major energy project, inspiring future careers and helping East Durham power Britain's future. ⚡ @nationalgriduk@SPEnergyNetwork
Andy Burnham is considering scrapping inheritance tax for family farms at the Budget or increasing the threshold from £2.5m to £5m.
Great news for farmers and the rural economy, if true. @andyburnham - you will save thousands of farms if you do this.
Reform will give millions in tax breaks to crypto investors. The Institute of Fiscal Studies can see no reason for the policy although a cynical person could probably think of about 72 million
We're putting power into communities across Britain by backing them to build and control their own clean energy supply.
That's good for bills, good for local economies and good for tackling the climate crisis.
https://t.co/WM2tVinyO9
Oligarchy is not just an American issue. It is global. The billionaires are not just buying American politicians, they are funding right-wing parties all over the world — including the UK Reform Party. Democracy means one person, one vote. The ultra-rich must not be allowed to buy governments ANYWHERE.
Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins
A dry legal thread on Section 61(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, “Offences concerned with evasion of restrictions on donations”, which reads,
61.—(1) A person commits an offence if he—
(a) knowingly enters into, or
(b) knowingly does any act in furtherance of any arrangement which facilitates or is likely to facilitate, whether by means of any concealment or disguise or otherwise, the making of donations to a registered party by any person or body other than a permissible donor.
#ClimateChange is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. We’re causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes
We are taking Earth’s climate beyond natural limits with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years.
#ActOnClimate
Temperatures hit as high as 43°C (109°F) in France today as the fifth major heatwave of the year has arrived in Europe. Hundreds of cities and towns across the continent experienced their hottest August temperatures ever recorded.
This is getting ludicrous.