If I were polling people on the likelihood of blowing past the Paris targets, I wouldn't ask climate scientists:
I'd poll CEOs, elected officials, and leaders, at every scale. I'd ask WHY they felt that way. And I'd want those answers shared.

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Great thread. #energytransition

“The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Valor: Agriculture worst hit by extreme floods in 🇧🇷 Rio Grande do Sul. Southern state accounts for staggering 70% of national rice production.Estimated 750k tons of rice lost, roughly 10% of state’s annual output. Some 6.5mn tons of soybeans thought lost out of 21mn tons harvest

The 'surprising reasons' why olive oil has got so expensive, according to the Daily Mail

A surprising story in three parts, but not, perhaps, for the reasons Mail thinks…

1 OMG it costs more than wine!
2 Srsly prices nearly doubled
3 'what is going on? Climate change…'

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The 421-day streak of record-breaking warmth in the North Atlantic is a hair away from ending. As of April 28, it's just 0.01°C above 2023. However, even if it slips below 2023 this week, it's still much warmer than the rest of the years during the satellite era.

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UK govt just confirmed what we reported earlier, that it's imposing a 2-year delay on a bottle return scheme to boost recycling.

The excuse? Making it 'interoperable' in 4 UK nations. I must have missed something because UK had 4 nations in 2018 when the idea was first floated

Google Earth has updated its satellite imagery of many parts of Sudan. Looking over West Darfur city of El Geneina, I am shocked at the level of destruction. In some parts, whole areas have been destroyed and cleared. Location: 13.4469, 22.4151 (dates: April 2023 & March 2024)

'But what about the cost of net-zero!?' has become the battle cry of climate delay-ism and lobbyists. One of the world's leading climate research centers politely asks: 'would you also care to know about the cost of..not-zero?'
In short: $38 trillion p.a.
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Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, extreme heat in Sahel that killed hundreds ay the end of Ramadan would not have happened. New World Weather Attribution study worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-sahel-…

For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A defense official tells Army Radio that more than 100 Iranian drones have already been intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, out of hundreds fired at Israel.

This week marks 40years since the death of Marvin Gaye. But there might be some new music coming soon. The BBC has seen 30 tapes recorded by the ‘Prince of Motown’ which have just reappeared in Belgium w/Kevin Connolly & Richard Crook bbc.com/news/world-eur…

The absolute sorry state of the UK trying to launch something as basic as a bottle deposit return scheme

2021 - 2023 launch plan. Later delayed to 2024.
2023 - delayed again, to 2025. Scottish one ready to launch but postponed
2024 - ministers say probably delayed again to 2027

Looking at the new LTN guidance which came out last week, and oh, what a difference four years makes.

Sadly no women involved in #climate talks any more. Bit of a shame as they're 50% of planet and kinda key. But dems the breaks. Solid blue suit wall, in any case.

Some additional context to this @telegraph piece:
- Labour ambition is 100% clean power by 2030
- Conservative ambition is 95% clean power by 2030

this is not a culture war (sorry)

both Tory & Lab plans require rapid rollout of renewables & grid infrastructure.

Reeves says the failure to borrow radically to invest when interest rates were low was “an act of historic negligence”.

Reality - as Adam Bell explained yesterday - is that UK gas use will continue to decline. But global damage done by UK ministers loose talk continues. Extraordinary decline in leadership since #COP26