Geopolitics ~ Climate Capital ~ Global Risks ~ Resilience
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Merlin Linehan retweeted
The Sun casually likening supporters of climate action to "Nazis"... Today's Sun advertisers include @CoopUK @Tesco @McDonalds @Lloydsbank #Lotto @Morrisons @BandQ @Asda & @Samsung
ALT Sun headline: "A dome shame, thanks to Khan's Net Zero Nazis"
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Remarkable long read in @FT last week, going behind the scenes at GB News.
Among the eye-opening details:
📉 total losses have now exceeded £100m
🏃♂️ big name advertisers are wary
🚻 a fun irony: their loos are gender-neutral
Full article (paywalled): ft.com/content/31600209-c8dc…
ALT An excerpt from the FT article, which reads: 'the squeezed surroundings put GB News's influence into perspective. On screen, it loudly questions gender policy, but due to space constraints its own toilets are gender-neutral. On screen, its pundits have campaigned for retailers to accept cash, but, upstairs, the building's cafe only accepts card payments. The set-up is less media mogul, more student revolutionary living with the parents.'
Merlin Linehan retweeted
WATCH: Nigel Farage using his GB News platform to cast doubt on the 'assumption' that climate change is happening
(Spoiler, Nigel: climate change IS happening. It's not an assumption, it's overwhelming scientific consensus)
Merlin Linehan retweeted
It’s essentially a ‘how-to’ guide for stirring up unrest in other countries.
The brief includes a list of ‘creative means’ to roll out the strategy – such as:
- fake videos 👀
- comments on social media 👀👀
- news and pseudo-news 👀👀👀👀
ALT An excerpt from the Doppelganger dossier, listing creative means and delivery channels for the campaign
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Today's Daily Telegraph has a bizarre article claiming there is a "war on cheap energy", and attacking "net zero fanatics" who it says "want to raise the cost of heating"...🤔
Today's Telegraph advertisers include @Dyson @Boodles @SkiptonBS & @SagaUK
Merlin Linehan retweeted
True cognitive dissonance.
Today's Daily Express has yet another article attacking clean energy policies *right alongside* a piece airing calls for the government to protect farmers from flooding, & highlighting the "more extreme weather events we are beginning to face".
So close to getting it...
ALT Daily Express headline: "'Stop the floods' plea to protect food security", alongside another headline stating: "Miliband's energy plan is 'reckless'"
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Shocking new exposé from @Desmog reveals the BBC's financial links to the fossil fuel industry.
Surely Britain's public service broadcaster should serve the interests of the public - not those of oil and gas producers who are putting all of our futures at risk?
🔴 NEW 🔴
The BBC has been producing adverts(!) for major polluters, including fossil fuel firms and petrostates with a history of persecuting journalists.
As an ex-BBC journalist, I was pretty staggered when I discovered this.
📝 @DeSmog report 👇
desmog.com/2024/08/22/bbc-st…
Merlin Linehan retweeted
'NET ZERO MADNESS' – more irresponsible broadcasting from GB News…
#netzero #edmiliband #media #madness #wordsmatter #redflag
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Is #China gaining an irreversible edge over #India in the neighborhood? Latest piece @Diplomat_APAC with @SK_Aryal isdp.eu/publication/nepal-is… @ISDP_Sweden @hcssnl @ycapsjapan
Merlin Linehan retweeted
An opinion piece in the @Telegraph on Friday by Lord Lilley posed a series of (frankly misleading) 'questions' about clean energy
(Lilley is a former trustee at climate-denial group Global Warming Policy Foundation)
Let's try and answer them for him... 🧵
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Good morning with good news: China's solar capacity rose 51.1% by June 2024, compared to June 2023. China's wind capacity is up 19.9% year-on-year.
China installed 100 GW of solar in first half of 2024, reaching 100 GW milestone a month earlier than in the incredible 2023! Wow!
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Good to see @DavidGHFrost unabashed by the experience of seeing the harm caused by his advice on Brexit, which has helped to slow the British economy, now offering disastrous advice about British energy policy.
Medieval Miliband's plan for an energy system that depends on the weather is taking us back to the Middle Ages.
His unreliable high-cost low-power system is going to drive out of the country what energy-intensive production we have left.
Labour's energy policy is shaping up to be one of those collective madness, once-in-a-generation errors countries sometimes make - like Germany's error in junking nuclear.
We will all have to pay a heavy price for it - unless Starmer sees sense and junks Miliband instead before he does any more damage.
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Dear @SteveReedMP, Year 4 @ReayPrimary are very excited to hear that you’re putting cleaning up our rivers and seas as your number one priority. Y4 are especially concerned about plastic pollution and have written to you about this issue. Here are some examples of their letters.
Merlin Linehan retweeted
My letter published in today’s @Telegraph challenging Neil Record’s misleading piece on Monday… 🧵
ALT SIR – Neil Record says that, since the UK is responsible for “only” 1 per cent of global carbon emissions each year, we should not bother tackling climate change. But, taken together, every country accounting for between 0 and 1 per cent of emissions adds up to 29 per cent of the total, which is more than China’s 27 per cent as the biggest single emitter. If these countries stepped back on cutting emissions, this could have more impact than China doing likewise. A race to the bottom on climate change is not something the British public wants. Gareth Redmond-King Head of international programme Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit London SE1
Merlin Linehan retweeted
GB News are taking the ban on new oil & gas drilling as well as you'd expect...
Your regular reminder that the GB News co-owner runs a hedge fund that was found to hold *£1.8 billion* in fossil fuel investments: desmog.com/2024/06/12/mapped…
Merlin Linehan retweeted
“From oranges in Brazil to cocoa in west Africa; olives in southern Europe to coffee in Vietnam, permanently shifting weather patterns as a result of climate change are reducing crop yields, squeezing supplies and driving up prices.” ft.com/content/125e89c0-308a…
Merlin Linehan retweeted
And there's more... According to @Desmog, "MOL’s recent profits have been directly attributed to its access to cheap Russian oil and gas", via a deal with the Russian fossil fuel giant Gazprom: desmog.com/2024/04/16/nation… /3
Merlin Linehan retweeted
You'll be astonished to learn that the MCC Brussels lobby group, whose director was in this week's Daily Mail attacking climate action, is "funded by the Hungarian state via a 10 percent stake in the country’s oil and gas giant MOL".
HT @Desmog desmog.com/2024/05/29/mathia… /2
Merlin Linehan retweeted
Andrew Neil thinks it's "fantasy piled upon stupidity" to aim for net zero.
Let's check in with some experts:
Oxford Economics: "[A]n accelerated transition [to net-zero] could boost the UK’s economy by £240bn in 2050 more than current trajectories."
International Energy Agency: "[net-zero by 2050 would] make energy cheaper, not more costly"
UK Treasury: "The costs of global [climate] inaction significantly outweigh the costs of action."
OBR: "Unmitigated climate change would ultimately have catastrophic economic and fiscal consequences."
IPCC: "Observed changes…provide unequivocal evidence of a world that has warmed…at rates unprecedented in at least the last 2,000 years."
IPCC: "Without net-zero CO2 emissions…the climate system will continue to warm."
ANDREW NEIL: Labour's Net Zero policy is fantasy piled upon stupidity mol.im/a/13580601 via @MailOnline
Merlin Linehan retweeted
This article by @afneil is filled with falsehoods and demonstrates once again that he is a propagandist and not a journalist. Makes many false claims about renewables and hides the fact that U.K. Government spent £78 billion in subsidies when gas prices rocketed.
ANDREW NEIL: Labour's Net Zero policy is fantasy piled upon stupidity mol.im/a/13580601 via @MailOnline