1. There comes a point in the trajectory of ultra-rich people at which their money becomes their identity. However much good they did in the past (and Dale Vince has done plenty), they start to slip into a new persona. This, to my great sadness, is, I believe, his moment. 🧵

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My 10-year old Nissan Leaf, from the first generation of EVs, has had a new battery and a new lease of life. The old battery will have a nice retirement, powering and heating my home with clean and cheap electricity. Battery technology is a game changer in so many ways.

This video aligns with my experience that we can fit heat pumps in any home. I’ve never had to tell anyone no. The only thing stopping me fitting them for all of my customers is cost. More support is still needed by the Government if we are to get them in the majority of homes.

In this thread - apparently not satire - Sam Bidwell celebrates the wholesale environmental annihilation that has made the British Isles some of the least biodiverse territory on Earth. Clearly, British environmental education is in a woeful state.

Incredible!

See how transport (and notably international aviation) contributed to the increase ⬇️

There is no boiler ban. There are incentives to fit heat pumps and clear signals for manufacturers to ramp up supply and works to reduce the cost of electricity by de-gassing the grid, which will eventually make heat pumps the default.

Fossil fuels account for 40% of global shipping trade by volume – but only 10% by value 2/7

Who is going to answer all those phone calls? More AI? At what point does this end up using more traditional API / protocol / data format conventions?

10. How soon could this thing reach a tipping point? The latest IPCC Report (AR6, published in 2023) stated there was 'medium confidence' that AMOC would NOT collapse abruptly before the end of this Century. That doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence. A number of more recent

If this isn't the nail in the coffin than I really don't know what is. Systematic review finds carbon offsets don't work. nature.com/articles/s4146…