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[tobyjugg2]

Dec 8 (Reuters) - The UK's FTSE 100 closed at a seven-week high on Friday with a rebound in crude prices lifting shares of oil majors

 

Heavyweight energy stocks (.FTNMX601010) jumped 1.6% after Saudi Arabia and Russia called for more OPEC+ members to join output cuts, driving up crude oil prices.

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Late on Friday it emerged that the secretary general of Opec, the group of oil-producing countries, had written to its members calling on them to reject any language targeting fossil fuels in the final Cop28 deal.

The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting this year’s climate summit, is a key member of Opec.
 

Opec chief Haitham Al Ghais wrote that a climate deal that targets fossil fuels “rather than emissions” can “put our people’s prosperity and future at risk”.

The leaked letter was met with fierce backlash at the climate summit, which is taking place during the hottest year in human history. So far, 106 countries have called for ditching fossil fuels, and a draft agreement includes a range of options on withdrawing from oil, gas and coal.

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[honeybee13]

With hindsight maybe this wasn't a good choice of chairmanship. It sounds like a hijack to me.

[theoldrouge]

BBC spouting nonsense as usual

A Few Months of Drought and the BBC Blames ‘Climate Change’ For Spanish Olive Oil Shortfalls – The Daily Sceptic

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The BBC's latest bit of alarmist drivel is that the poor olive harvests in Spain are due to man-made ‘climate change’. In fact, says...

“Rainfall across Spain has been remarkable stable for over 100 years. According to World Bank figures, average precipitation was actually marginally higher in 1991-2020 at 622.78 mm, compared with 618.95 mm between 1901-1930. In common with the rest of the northern hemisphere, the temperature has risen around 1⁰C over the last century since bouncing back from the Little Ice Age (LIA). However, the effects seem beneficial, not least for olive growers. In a 2005 science paper investigating past Spanish climatic conditions, a team of scientists led by Professor Manuel de Castro of the University of Castilla-La Mancha noted much greater LIA climate variability between the 17th and 19th Centuries. In certain periods of the LIA, the risks were “more frequent” and of “greater magnitude” than during the 20th Century, “with a noteworthy impact on the societies of the time”. It was observed that the period stretching from the middle of the 19th Century to the present day has involved “a return to conditions of greater climatic regularity”.

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26 facts that bring home the reality of climate change | National Geographic

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...and four that offer hope.

 

[tobyjugg2]

Fury as UK climate change minister leaves conference

Climate campaigners and politicians have reacted with fury to the news that the UK climate change minister, Graham Stuart, has returned to London from Cop28

- apparently to vote on the Rwanda farce which will also further trash the UK's international standing - as well as economy

 

 

[theoldrouge]

Just look what you wish for Mr Jugg 
 

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• An economically-suicidal cult – supposed man-made global warming or climate change or climate emergency or climate crisis or whatever it now calls itself – is causing massive economic devastation, wrecking whole industries in the West and destroying millions of jobs as manufacturing moves to those countries which realise what the world’s greatest climatologist, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls ‘global boiling’ is nonsense on stilts.”
   
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  With the Self-Hating West Stuck in a Net Zero Doom Loop, Is the Ascendancy of the Autocracies Now Unstoppable? – The Daily Sceptic

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  The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But...

[tobyjugg2]

2 hours ago, theoldrouge said:

Just look what you wish for Mr Jugg 

 

A revolution of high tec high quality UK jobs in the expanding clean green renewables industry, rather than ever higher gas and oil prices going to foreign shareholders and the Uks green and pleasant land polluted?

Sounds good to me, why doesn't it to you?

 

https://www.statista.com/topics/2608/global-renewable-energy-industry/#topicOverview

 

Edited December 12, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[theoldrouge]

Bet you enjoyed FLOP28 Mr Jugg 
time to get bayup your gantry 
 

Climate Minister Makes 7,000-Mile Round Trip From COP28 for Rwanda Vote – and Will Then Be Flown Back Again – The Daily Sceptic

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The Government’s Climate Minister has been flown thousands of miles back from the COP28 environment conference in...

 

[tobyjugg2]

25 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

FLOP28

good name although cop-out still seems more apt

Good name for the (roughly that many) far right 'Tory 'rebels/not tories though

 

Pretty much locked in 3 degrees of warming it seems - minimum

 

Edited December 13, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[theoldrouge]

23 hours ago, tobyjugg2 said:

 

 

Pretty much locked in 3 degrees of warming it seems - minimum

 

“3 degrees is what the world’s greatest climatologist, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, calls ‘global boiling’ and is nonsense on stilts.”
 

 

[honeybee13]

If you're happy with the melting of ice sheets [higher oceans] and the Amazon drying out.

reuters.com

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[tobyjugg2]

Farage calls 40-50 degree heat becoming a norm global cooling doesn't he?

and the real figures (40-50 degree heat - not Farages false claims) are if the Sun stays in its abnormally cool state. Lets all hope it does for our and ALL our children's children's sakes

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

For the people who dont leave their armchairs, or change channel from GB Not News

and Weren't they defined as 'not a news channel'

 

‘We can’t afford to wait’: a Cornish town faces climate threat head on | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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How an image of the projected high tide in 2050 swung the people of Bude into action

 

 

- and thats based on conservative estimates

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

Doesn't it seem strange that after a decade of increasing sewage pouring into our waterways, with the only response being 'get rid of monitoring, that a case will be highlighted just before an election. (independent regulator - hogwash)

Perhaps we will be excused for thinking its a ploy of the 'Tory-ish attempting to whitewash all the brownwash with hogwash just before they are voted on?

- timed carefully so they wont (even if they are able) need to act on it - just get the headlines perhaps?

reuters.com

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"Ofwat said it has notified Northumbrian Water, Thames Water and Yorkshire Water of its provisional findings, and the companies would now have the opportunity to respond to them.

Responding to Ofwat's statement, Thames Water said it was considering the initial findings in detail and might make representations to the regulator in due course.

The regulator said it expects to publish its proposed decision for public consultation in the first quarter of 2024."

Edited December 14, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Do you get the impression that Ofwat are more concerned about pricing than water quality?

Of course they had the Environment Agency for that before they all but defunded it.

[tobyjugg2]

I certainly think water quality , security and value for the taxpayers money are NOT their main concerns

.. regulator(s)or government - not that there seems to be any difference

Edited December 15, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Case in point

Why are the British public paying this rather than out of the record energy company profits - which largely caused it?

- and which the british taxpayer are already in hock for?

 

Ofgem plans to add £16 to energy bills to help suppliers recover £3bn in bad debts | Ofgem | The Guardian

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Extra payment would be levied at £1.33 a month between April next year and March 2025

 

[theoldrouge]

Fossil fuel to the rescue as usual 
Enjoy your electric only life
 

Fossil Fuels to the Rescue – The Daily Sceptic

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Last week, escaping from London back to the North was impossible on an electric train as power had gone down, and only...

 

[tobyjugg2]

Not heard that hydrogen gas is flammable TOR? Let alone hydrogen fuel cells

Duhh - must have gone to same school as Johnson

[tobyjugg2]

.. or did I misunderstand you - and you are bewailing the Tory right-wings horrendous lack of investment in our nations future and  infrastructure?

lol

 

"The reason why people are buying new homes and are energy bill payers rather than net contributors to the grid is because developers paid a toll of £891,000 to the Conservative Party in the first quarter of 2021 alone. The reason we are struggling to get a common-sense measure such as charging points for electric vehicles as standard on new buildings is that developers do not like it, and they pay good money to ensure that the Conservative Party listens to them more than it listens to climate scientists."

 

"Is it not strange that oil and gas companies are getting new licences in the North Sea despite the climate emergency, or that they are getting £150 billion of taxpayers’ money which they have not done anything extra to earn, or that taxpayers are carrying the burden of that £150 billion for the next 20 years, instead of a windfall tax? Systemic political corruption has real-world consequences and real victims, so it is important to put this on the record now so that the next generation understands how Parliament did relatively little while the world started to heat up and burn in our climate emergency."

Edited December 16, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Perhaps drill and capture it - before the ice melts - rather than giving licenses to drill in the North Sea for 2 weeks worth of gas?

 

Sea of methane sealed beneath Arctic permafrost could trigger climate feedback loop if it escapes | Live Science

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A sea of migrating methane discovered below the permafrost in Svalbard may eventually escape its icy prison if the permafrost...

 

Edited December 21, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

Well COP-out and the UK's cronic (sic) attitude has clearly emboldened them.

I mean, its not like they made record profits from peoples misery or anything eh?

 

"While no formal targets exist, we will continuously look to right-size the activities that deliver the most value."

Shell said in October it will let go around 15% of the workforce at its low-carbon solutions division and scale back its hydrogen business as part of CEO Wael Sawan's drive to boost profits.

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and all this as the UK lowers its environmental protections further as EU regulations lapse.

 

[theoldrouge]

6 hours ago, tobyjugg2 said:

Well COP-out and the UK's cronic (sic) attitude has clearly emboldened them.

I mean, its not like they made record profits from peoples misery or anything eh?

 

"While no formal targets exist, we will continuously look to right-size the activities that deliver the most value."

Shell said in October it will let go around 15% of the workforce at its low-carbon solutions division and scale back its hydrogen business as part of CEO Wael Sawan's drive to boost profits.

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and all this as the UK lowers its environmental protections further as EU regulations lapse.

 

Embracing the spirit eh Jugg
 

When the sleigh bells ring, the halls are decked and the goose is getting fat, there are always the Christmas curmudgeons who reject the merriment of the festive season and come together under the joyless slogan: "Bah, humbug"!