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[tobyjugg2]

Turning Beauty Spots into Chamber Pots

Up to 70 days of suspected illegal dumps of sewage in Windermere in 2022, analysis finds | Pollution | The Guardian

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Researcher says data suggests permit conditions breached on up to 70 days, but United Utilities disputes findings

 

[honeybee13]

Steve Barclay, now environment secretary, accepted a donation from a climate sceptic.

UK environment secretary took donation from funder of climate sceptic thinktank | Steve Barclay | The Guardian

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Exclusive: Steve Barclay accepted £3,000 donation from Michael Hintze, a key funder of Global Warming Policy Foundation

 

[tobyjugg2]

and the Tory party accepted over £3 million in bribes donations from energy companies and other polluters for profit

 

No wonder they effectively gauranteed record profits for the energy companies to the tune of billions of taxpayer money during a crisis

(the only crisis was for tax/bill payers)

 

£3.5m of Tory donations linked to pollution and climate denial, says report | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Millions given to party and MPs last year came from entities linked to fossil fuels, high-polluting industries and climate denial

 

[tobyjugg2]

and of course, the Tories think they might have a few more £billion off the taxpayer than they thought they would next year

.. so will they give some of it back to the taxpayer? or use it to repair roads or actually give 350M a week to the NHS?

NOPE

Reduce inheritance tax for the richest ... is their priority

 

Jeremy Hunt weighing up inheritance tax cut in autumn statement | Tax and spending | The Guardian

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Chancellor considering move after fall in inflation and being told he will have more money to spend

 

[honeybee13]

I suspect they could be relying on people not realising how few of the population pay IHT.

[tobyjugg2]

I dont think the Tories give a damn - they are so behind in the polls they are just asset stripping and giving all they can to those who pay them and might give them jobs when they are trounced

.. the worse shape Britain is in when Labour take over - the better seems to be the only Tory plan

Edited November 17, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Cant afford green policies?

Well, apart from the simple oft demonstrated fact - green policies are a boon to economies if not munged by self-serving politicians ...

The cost of not is:

 

This week, the United States published its cyclical assessments on the climate crisis. It is the “gold standard” report on how rising global heat is impacting the nation - and what the future is likely to hold. 

The report found the US is warming about 60 per cent faster than the world as a whole, and it is experiencing a billion-dollar disaster around every three weeks on average, compared to once every four months in the 1980s.

Extreme events cost the US nearly $150bn each year - a “conservative” estimate, the National Climate Assessment said.

[honeybee13]

A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us | George Monbiot | The Guardian

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Many of the chemicals being spread as sewage sludge are untested or can’t be assessed. That’s why I’m suing for answers, says Guardian columnist...

 

[tobyjugg2]

The world’s top greenhouse-gas-producing countries plan to increase their emissions enough to surpass the 1.5 °C warming limit, despite having made net-zero pledges. The peer-reviewed research report analyzed governments’ emissions plans from 19 of the 20 biggest emitters.

* Governments project that they will burn 460% more coal than 1.5 °C warming would allow.

* Oil production will exceed the limit by 30%, and gas by 80%.

With green-energy technology advancing, there is a risk that these nations will waste millions on resources that will soon be unnecessary.

 

- Nature Anthropocene and  United Nations Environment Programme Production Gap report

Edited November 19, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

and the seas are getting deeper with human driven climate change sea level rise increasing pressure at the sea beds ..

Not just increased volcanic action

 

Water discovered to be leaking from Earth's crust into the planet's core | indy100

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There is much we still don’t know about the inside of our planet – but scientists recently discovered water is slowly leaking down there from the...

 

[honeybee13]

Oxfam report shows huge difference in pollution effects between rich and poor.

 

Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

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‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

 

[tobyjugg2]

the anti-vaxxers families will be worst hit in these self-inflicted horrors - although it does impact us all

 

Measles deaths jumped over 40% between 2021 and 2022, CDC reports | Live Science

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Declines in measles vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic have been tied to an uptick in measles cases, deaths and major outbreaks worldwide.

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Brilliant: a Cop28 to save the planet – staged by oil barons who imperil it | Marina Hyde | The Guardian

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The UAE will have its moment of glory while the UK press worries more about petrostate money buying the Telegraph, says Guardian columnist Marina...

 

[tobyjugg2]

if you thought copout 26 and 27 were a waste of time and energy

- this one is shaping up to be a lulu

 

[honeybee13]

Interesting that Keir Starmer has spent a reasonable length of time at Cop28 and seems to be being taken seriously by foreign leaders.

At least one paper is saying that Sunak spent longer in the air than he did at the summit.

[tobyjugg2]

Doesnt want to be challenged on his roll backs on commitments - even at an oil kingdom

[tobyjugg2]

you never know, perhaps Sunak is going to unilaterally edict/declare Somalia and Afghanistan safe places to traffick people to while hes at it to give him some options? .. and negate the need to bring Afghan troops who supported the UK here.

 

Edited December 3, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

and on a simple factual note 1.5 degrees is almost history without EPIC efforts by the whole world - which simply isnt happening. In fact even existing far to low commitments aren't happening. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase.

We are now on target for 3 degrees of warming at least this century - and almost certainly by the 2050s

 

We are at the stages where we may have to dramatically pollute the atmosphere to prevent runaway (Venus effect) heating - back to London smog type levels unless the upper atmosphere can be specifically targeted.

OK you you live in a fully air conditioned shelter and food chain collapse isnt an issue

 

I know- sounds more like TORs conspiracy rubbish - but the figures are there. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40-50% before 2030 to avoid this

Edited December 3, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

and along with his (allegedly) using cop28 as little more than an oil and gas sales seminar to give him access to buyers

 

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels | Cop28 | The Guardian

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Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

 

bloody farce

[tobyjugg2]

A very conservative report

 

Global temperature exceeds 2°C above pre-industrial average on 17 November

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Earth briefly passed a critical warming threshold this past weekend. According to data from ERA5, the European Centre for Medium-Range...

 

The ERA5 data indicate that the global surface air temperature on 17 November reached 2.07°C above the pre-industrial average, an average temperature taken between 1850-1900 prior to extensive use of fossil fuels. Also, the provisional data for 18 November indicate a temperature anomaly at 2.06°C above the pre-industrial level.

 

and this is extremely conservartive. My estimations based on the last 5 years seem to put the median at the top of the shaded bit - not the dashes in the middle. - Which of course means the shaded range should be far higher - bet it is next year when its almost certain 1.5 degrees will be breached (for more than a month)

 

Edited December 4, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

On 20/08/2021 at 08:00, tobyjugg2 said:

Lets be quite clear

Blue Hydrogen is not in any way Green hydrogen or green energy, and supporting that industry with taxpayer money is a monstrosity

 

Green hydrogen is an entirely different matter and should be supported.

 

Government reveals plans for £4bn hydrogen investment by 2030 | Hydrogen power | The Guardian

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Low-carbon hydrogen economy could also create thousands of jobs

"last week a study by academics at Cornell and Stanford universities in the US, warned that blue hydrogen could be up to 20% worse for the climate than fossil gas owing to the emissions that escape during its production, multiplied by the amount of gas required to make the equivalent amount of energy from hydrogen."

A reminder from a couple of years ago..

.. and here is

Warning: the UK government’s hydrogen plan isn’t green at all, it’s another oil industry swindle | Kevin Anderson and Simon Oldridge | The Guardian

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A taxpayer-funded drive for ‘blue’ hydrogen is good news for fossil-fuel lobbyists, but bad news for the climate crisis, say climate academics Kevin...

 

[theoldrouge]

On 03/12/2023 at 11:25, tobyjugg2 said:

and on a simple factual note 1.5 degrees is almost history without EPIC efforts by the whole world - which simply isnt happening. In fact even existing far to low commitments aren't happening. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase.

We are now on target for 3 degrees of warming at least this century - and almost certainly by the 2050s

 

We are at the stages where we may have to dramatically pollute the atmosphere to prevent runaway (Venus effect) heating - back to London smog type levels unless the upper atmosphere can be specifically targeted.

OK you you live in a fully air conditioned shelter and food chain collapse isnt an issue

 

I know- sounds more like TORs conspiracy rubbish - but the figures are there. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40-50% before 2030 to avoid this

The Great God of 1.5 degrees 
 

“For alarmists, Al-Jaber’s linking of his remarks with the 1.5°C limit was very unfortunate. The idea that humans need to cap a rise in global temperature to 1.5°C is an invented number designed to invoke panic and concentrate the political mind. The setting of an arbitrary target is credited to IPCC lead author and former climate adviser to Angela Merkel, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. At first he set the limit at 2°C, and in 2010 he was asked by Der Speigel why he had imposed the “magical limit” to which all countries must adhere. In reply, Schellnhuber said: “Politicians like to have clear targets and a simple number is easier to handle.” The ploy was so successful that it was ratcheted down to a scarier 1.5°C  to persuade politicians to sign the Paris climate agreement in 2015.”
 

 

COP28 President's "No Science" Remark Blows Holes in Carefully Curated Net Zero Narrative – The Daily Sceptic

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COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber sent the alarmists scrambling for damage limitation this week when he said there...

 

[tobyjugg2]

1.5 was a crucial target - which has been missed - thanks to people like Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, and the Tory and US right wing

Its now a target to get back to.

 

[honeybee13]

George Monbiot on BBC Question Time last night.

 

[tobyjugg2]

A little reminder, party names may change