This is fascinating and shows how far from the centre the Tories currently are. He was a minister working on doctor’s pay negotiations when I was at CO and was to my recollection quite hawkish on health expenditure. It would be easy for a sane version of the Tories to retain him.

‘Without nature there is no economy, no food, no health and no society. We human beings are not merely observers of nature, we are an integral part of it, and our future depends on protecting it.’
This is very good to hear from Labour. Environmentalism that focuses only on carbon…

A Labour government will put our railways back in public hands during its first term.

With Great British Railways, we'll take back control of the tracks as contracts run out. A publicly owned, passenger-focused network, delivering better services and more value for taxpayers 🇬🇧

I love this story, but it has made me reflect on what I'm like as a parent. I'm 90+% certain that if my 9 year old started making seagull noises I'd tell her to cut it the hell out well before she got to competition level good. How many annoying, but lovely dreams have I crushed?

Great thread. The 'only 1%' argument is so damaging and dangerous.

Please everyone go on here and vote for Whites of our Eyes. Thank you.

Roughly as many electric cars were sold globally in Q1 this year as the whole of 2020. Sales were up 25% in Q1.

Yes, there have been a few places where EV sales growth slowed. But International Energy Agency Global EV Outlook shows obv direction of travel

iea.org/reports/global…

A warming world
Losing biodiversity
#EarthDay

Given the UK has a significant housing crisis in major cities and has seen a massive reduction in office utilisation owing to Covid/WfH, this is surely an option with huge potential to solve big problems in this country (with some challenges on regs etc.)? What am I missing?

There are plausible scenarios where the coming decades see millions of people on the move as climate impacts escalate, and the government's primary response is putting a few hundred desperate people on flights to Rwanda. It's all so deeply unserious.

Is it me, or has the BBC ramped up the both sides-ism on climate change lately, with stuff like Tice on QT and the Gail's guy over the weekend?

Looking forward to my first day as Sustainability Communications Manager at Gail's Bakery. Hopefully a quiet one...

I hope that’s the moment that turns football fans firmly and irreconcilably against VAR.

Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming? | Zeke Hausfather #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/3xyGJ2l

At risk of being a backseat PR director, SBTi is having an absolute nightmare with its recent communications. If you have to make two clarifications, you’re rallying struggling. They need to get a grip. sciencebasedtargets.org/news/update-19…

This is insane shit. 'Access to treatment'. What? People with debilitating health conditions should already be getting access to NHS treatment, and if not, that'll be because of long waiting lists, which twiddling with PIP rules doesn't solve.

Sunak is an absolute clowndork.

If I were the government that totally mishandled the pandemic, allowed the NHS to stop functioning and neglected social care I’d probably not spend a whole lot of time promoting the fact that there are lots of sick people. Not sure what I would talk about if I were them, tbf.

Note also that 'it was cloud seeding' is a deflective conspiratorial framing ('HAARP', 'contrails', 'space lasers') used by bad actors (via social media) to deflect attention from the role human-caused climate change is playing in amplifying weather extremes

The good news is these projected impacts suggest economic damages are at least sixfold higher than the investment required to get to net zero. Far from being a cost, net zero is the deal of the century.

For every degree C that Earth’s atmospheric temperature rises, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere can increase by about 7%.

A warmer world is a one with heavier precipitation events, even in places where average rainfall may remain unchanged. carbonbrief.org/explainer-what…