'Do you believe that?'
'No.'
'Why did you post it?'
'I don't know.'

Tom Swarbrick challenges Susan Hall after she reposted an article stating, 'It is a delusion that humans can control the climate'.

As a champion of #responsible business #ukmfg and the #green economy, I strongly disagree with this view from Luke Johnson of GAIL's Bakery.

Everyone is entitled to their view, but most of #ukmfg , I speak to believes the route to higher competitiveness is to accelerate the route…

It’s almost impossible to believe this world - this NHS - existed. Less than 20 years ago

Critical mineral supply-chain de-risking, not so much.

Striking chart from Bloomberg. 'What’s becoming clearer, though, is the European Union and China risk slow-walking into a trade war as Beijing resists requests to open up its economy, triggering .. defense measures. '

Love this… After all the progress cleaning up the capital’s air Sadiq Khan says he wants to get London’s rivers clean enough to swim in.

thetimes.co.uk/article/871368…

Incredible candour from Chris Stark as he steps down - not just on Sunak, but also on impact of some recent climate protests & need for realism over upfront costs & gradual nature of transition - worth watching in full

Useful info on one level but still reinforces my belief that modern society is structured in a way to be incredibly effective in making people mentally unwell and chronically under resourced to help them get better. Are we offering most people a life with genuine meaning? No.

Huge demand for electric cars in Britain 🇬🇧

The voters have made up their mind about Truss and her disastrous premiership. But they aren’t her audience, instead she’s targeting a rump Tory membership, press and online radical right. And there her rehabilitation is well underway. Me for The New Statesman
newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

We are thrilled to announce our Oxford Climate Journalism Network has been awarded funding by
Laudes Foundation & the European Climate Foundation to continue its work into 2024. We've hosted 400 journalists and 44 leaders since its launch in 2022

Announcement
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-cl…

This Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK study yesterday is pretty terrifying. Are such costs of climate change built into the UK’s fiscal forecasts? What would happen if they were?

Study says emissions to date could cut global GDP by 19% in 2050. Looks like up to 10% for UK

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Sorry to rain on your parade The Telegraph

1. We haven't issued a denial
2. We aren't cloud seeding in UAE
3. Our weather and climate scientists are providing evidence-based comments to explain what happened
4. Read more from them at rdg.ac/49GVsW3
5. Jog on

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— the age at which British voters become more likely to choose the Conservative Party over Labour has soared from 39 at the last election to **70 years-old**

— working age voters have turned their backs on the Tories

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🚨 New 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 polling 🚨

7️⃣3️⃣% of Scots support the Scottish Government’s target of reaching #NetZero greenhouse gas emission by 2045 (20% oppose)

Support for more:

✅ onshore wind - 76%

✅ offshore wind - 83%

✅ solar farms - 84%

✅ insulation - 94%

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Lots of big news on the industrial policy / trade front over the last 24 hours, including big speeches from John Podesta and President Biden.

Thread with a few highlights...

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

A year’s rain in a single day. mol.im/a/13316907

Daily Star knocking it out the park again…

“Our government would, in particular, work to tackle the climate crisis”

“A clean power alliance—in effect, a reverse OPEC—of states committed to leading the way on decarbonizing power systems.”

“a new network of climate & energy diplomats”

James has been (rightly) making this point for quite some time - we shouldn't expect inflation to drop neatly back to 2% because the climate emergency will continue creating upward pressure on prices...

Poor countries will spend $400 billion this year to service debt

Every dollar spent on that debt overhang is a dollar not spent adapting to climate change or pursuing clean, green development

This is a slow motion crisis we're watching in real time

reuters.com/sustainability…