moving to bluer skies, under the handle @christhetaurean.bsky.social. see you there.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Scratch that, you’ll find me under @ChrisTheTaurean - one simple handle from now on. 😉
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Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
The Extreme Weather Report, October 3, 2024:
It wasn't just Helene. This is your weather on fossil fuels.
Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
6,000 beverage containers are wasted every second in the USA 🤯
Reloop's What We Waste report shows how smart policies in some countries are making a difference, while others fall behind.
Check out the report and digital dashboard to get all the facts 👉reloopplatform.org/what-we-w…
Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
The decisions made over the next 12 months will determine the QUALITY and QUANTITY of environmental education that an entire generation of young people receive.
This isn't trivial, we're talking about TEN MILLION people here, probably more.
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Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
If you want people to cycle from village and town to their nearest train station, give them this.
We're a rich country and can afford to deliver a nationwide network of segregated cycle lanes.
We'll never decarbonise the suburbs without it.
Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
NEW: CCC warns incoming UK govt that there are no "credible" climate policies in place for two-thirds of CO2 cuts needed by 2030
Says Labour must "make up lost ground" pronto to get back on track
Coverage by @CarbonBrief colleagues
carbonbrief.org/ccc-labour-m…
Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
Where in the #KingsSpeech is the promised end to new oil and gas licences?
Instead, there's a bill "to support sustainable aviation fuel". But there is no such thing as sustainable aviation fuel, and no prospect of it materialising, unless you rewrite the laws of physics.🧵
Hopefully sense will prevail and this unnecessary mine and similar fossil fuel projects in the Uk will also be quashed. It’s about time our govts started making the right decisions on matters which contribute directly to climate change.
Sense at long last. How was it ever possible not to take account of the emissions from burning the coal ?!? It took a conspiracy of warped and disingenuous arguments to keep this crazy mine plan going for so long. Thank SLACC and FOE for fighting it. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
This NASA visualisation has it all: It shows the CO2 emitted into the earth's atmosphere + clarifies who is responsible for the climate crisis: we, the Global North.
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Tory pledge to review pylons could lead to bill hike - as if the Tories couldn’t think up more ridiculous policy promises to throw blocks up in the way of renewable energy transmission… muppets. theguardian.com/politics/art…
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Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
My brother is an electrician who works in offshore wind.
He sent me this photo of the largest turbine installation vessel in the world.
Skilled jobs, good pay, & secure futures.
While fossil fuels shed jobs & destroy the planet, renewables are delivering for the working class.
This has enormous potential ramifications:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxww…
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Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
Please cite precisely what Sagan said in that video that you claim was wrong, specifically why it's wrong, and the evidence to support your claim that it's wrong. Thanks.
teapaw.org/greg_davies/status/179…
Corstorphine Climate Action retweeted
As has been asked since Limits to Growth was published over 50 years ago, “Growth in what and why and for whom?”.
Should we celebrate GDP growth in spending on a new cancer drug or on cleaning up after an oil spill? An Oxfam report shows that 2/3rds of the growth in wealth since 2020 ended up in the hands of 1%, 50% in the previous decade.
The addiction to 20th century unending growth on a finite planet has pushed 6 of 9 planetary boundaries into overshoot. Over to Kate Raworth.
We have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive. Now we need economies that enable us to thrive, whether or not they grow. Here's what I just wrote about it in @guardian 1/2
theguardian.com/books/articl…
