🧵Fossil fuel lobby group (the CO2 coalition) linked climate denier Tony Heller is debunked in this new video where he is caught out misleading his followers on Arctic sea ice. Heller is also a Sandy hook conspiracy theorist. Yep he really is that awful. #ClimateBrawl

Primary Energy Fallacy: Just 40%-45% of total energy supply is needed. Why? Electrification is efficiency.

If you switch to an EV '...charged at night off British wind, or charged during the day off Australian solar, you cut primary energy use by 75%...'
telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Reading some of the media coverage you get the impression that EV sales are down.

See the pattern?

Source International Energy Agency iea.org/reports/global…

BP TO FACE LEGAL ACTION!

‘Hussein Julood alleges the burning off of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq - a practise known as flaring - caused his son Ali's leukaemia.’

This may be the first time an oil firm has faced legal action over flaring…
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… #dropbp

Believe it or not, there are still people out there who think the dairy industry is run for the benefit of farmers.

Agri PLCs have just hobbled a farmer dairy exit payment scheme… to line their own pockets.

independent.ie/farming/dairy/…

Tara Mines owner gets go ahead for solar farm beside zinc mine irishtimes.com/business/2024/…

Earth Day is over, but the climate crisis remains. 🌍

In 2023, Europe saw its 2nd warmest year on record as per Copernicus ECMWF  #ESOTC 2023.

Read more ⤵️
climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2023/tem…

#Climate #Climate Report #CopernicusClimate

As the US prepares for another summer of potentially record-breaking heat, the Biden administration on Monday unveiled a new tool called HeatRisk to help Americans anticipate high temperatures and their potential impact on human health.

Free link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The future is solar-powered and all communities deserve to join! ☀️ EPA’s $7 billion Solar for All grants:

🌎Deliver on environmental justice
💵Save families money
👷🏾️Create good-paying jobs

Learn more ⬇️
epa.gov/newsreleases/b…

#EarthDay #SolarForAll

Study shows that Plug-In Hybrid owners aren't plugging in their cars.

PHEV owners are driving 25-65% fewer electric miles than vehicles allow and consuming 42-67% more fuel than EPA estimates, indicating they don't plug them in. cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/fe…

'Global plastic treaty talks are happening. What do stakeholders want?'

The same old story: human beings want to reduce and eliminate plastics; the fossil fuel industry fights to keep increasing production. reuters.com/sustainability…

'Global EV sales to top 17 million in 2024, most of them in China.'

Amazing to think that more than 1 in 5 cars sold in the world this year will be an EV. thedriven.io/2024/04/23/glo…

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

🌊📈The 2023 average sea surface temperature (SST) for the European ocean was the warmest on record, according to #ESOTC .

Parts of the Mediterranean Sea & the northeastern Atlantic Ocean saw their warmest annual average SST on record.

▶️  climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2023/eur…

Global electric car sales are on track to grow strongly again this year, reaching about 17 million

With more than 1 in 5 cars sold worldwide in 2024 set to be electric, the rise of EVs is transforming the auto industry & the energy sector

More from International Energy Agency: iea.li/3Us3ZYF

Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs theguardian.com/environment/20…

Good morning with good news: Total global solar installation reached 1.6 TW in 2023.

More solar was installed in 2023 than had been installed up to 2017! 2023 deployment was up ~80%.

Eighteen nations passed 10% solar level, including Japan & Germany!
iea-pvps.org/wp-content/upl…

And now the Guardian picks up the bombshell story about LSU officials auctioning off faculty research agendas to the highest bidder among oil companies. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Seeing such fantastic artwork is brilliant, but it's time we ended this type of fossil fuel sponsorship.

We are calling for support to ban fossil fuel sponsorship and greenwashing in Ireland 🧵

friendsoftheearth.ie/news/friends-o…

It’s more than a year since we teamed up with a cross-party group of MPs to submit a complaint about the climate-sceptic charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

But the Charity Commission has sat on its hands.

Support our challenge here 🌍✨
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