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Tom McKenzie-Brook retweeted
If the UK had deployed heat pumps at the same rate as some other European countries, its dependence on gas would be significantly lower this year, analysis suggests trib.al/4tlPwPC
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UN says world on course for 2.8 degrees of catastrophic warming. New PM says he has more important things to worry about than going to COP. Failure of leadership on climate, jobs,bills, security.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Liz Truss "absolutely" commits to not cutting public spending.
Follow this thread for video updates of #PMQs
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Key line from Bank of England today, "Assuming interest rates follow this market-implied path, the share of households with high cost-of-living adjusted mortgage debt-servicing ratios would increase by end-2023 to around the peak levels reached ahead of global financial crisis"
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For anyone still thinking we just need to "tough out" this winter because that's what used to happen in the olden times, I have a chart for you
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this is an absolutely staggering chart, take a second to look at it closely
Tom McKenzie-Brook retweeted
US and UK navy ships unable to conduct scheduled port calls to refuel in Solomon Islands as requests to enter went unanswered. SIslands recently signed closer ties with China. Here's a piece I wrote in May - geographical.co.uk/geopoliti…
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In round numbers:
180km2 = UK's current solar farms
500km2 = UK airports
700km2 = quarries
1,300km2 = golf courses
1,500km2 = enough solar for net-zero by 2050
Today seems like a good day to share this amazing graphic of UK land use
(I estimate solar farms cover less than one tenth of one percent of the UK – 0.08%)
carbonbrief.org/qa-will-engl…
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Liz Truss has just become the bookies' favourite to become Britain's next Prime Minister.
Here's a reminder of some of her finest moments.
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The two worst performing companies, Southern Water and South West Water, have made extraordinary profit margins in recent years.
Privatisation is a disaster for the public.
The Environment Agency's new report on water companies lays bare the failure of privatisation.
'For years people have seen executives & investors handsomely rewarded while the environment pays the price'.
Water must be returned to public ownership.
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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As we head into the #PlatinumJubilee bank holiday, our 6 nuclear power stations are the UK's leading source of clean power.
For decades, they have been the backbone of 🇬🇧 energy security.
And with our friends @RenewableUK, they show us a path to #netzero
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NEW: Boris Johnson has watered down the ministerial code - allowing ministers to break the rules without resigning - and blocked a bid to give his ethics advisor the power to investigate him…
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/b…
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CHALLENGES FOR NODAL PRICING: a new Stonehaven paper. We’ve been thinking about the next phase of electricity market reform for some time, and wanted to put out a paper that provides a summary of debate in as accessible language as possible. /1 stonehavenglobal.com/insight…
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'I wouldn't expect the windfall tax to impact energy firms' investment decisions'.
Rachel Reeves MP says Labour are calling for investment into 'nuclear and renewables, as they are the cheapest forms of electricity'.
news.sky.com/
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👉 Interested in how a nuclear reactor works?
The BBC's Climate Question podcast visited Somerset's Hinkley Point B to explain the science behind #nuclear power and the reasons why the UK plans to build more stations to help strengthen energy security.
Click below to listen!
"Nuclear energy is going to be crucial to the governments climate plans, to clean up and green up the electricity that's going into your house by 2050."
🎧 Hear from the BBC's Jordan Dunbar, who spent time at our Hinkley Point B nuclear power station: ow.ly/cJ2C50JfiYk
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Something seriously odd is afoot in natural gas markets.
There's a BIG glut of gas in the UK.
Wholesale gas prices are the lowest in 18 months.
There is so much gas no-one is quite sure what to do with it
Yet far from falling, household gas bills are heading even higher.
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One of my biggest pet peeves: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps.
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.@susannareid100 tells the PM about 77-year-old Elsie who eats one meal a day and stays on the bus all day to avoid using energy at home.
She questions the PM about the comments he made about people having to make choices about what they spend their money on.
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“Elsie, a 77 year old woman has to ride around on buses all day to keep warm because she can’t afford to heat in her home” @susannareid100
@BorisJohnson’s reply:
“I actually introduced the freedom bus pass.”
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