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
Excellent thread debunking the Telegraph's latest anti-net zero article. Telegraph has moved on from straight climate change denialism to trying to undermine net-zero policies
Yesterday the @Telegraph published a comment piece by Viscount Matt Ridley about renewable energy, littered with misleading claims.
What to make of it? 🧵
Very interesting analysis of and Nepal's balancing act between the two giants that sandwich it - China appears to be more favoured at the moment, but my view is that any Nepali govt must keep good relations with both nations and avoid "taking sides" as much as possible
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
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.
North sea oil is sold on the global market, producing in the UK does not protect consumers from prices increases as we saw during the invasion of Ukraine where the UK government had to pay huge sums to reduce costs for consumers while oil companies enjoyed bumper profits
The electricity grid in California has been running on renewable energy thanks to the rollout of solar and batteries splinter.com/california-vs-t…
Dear @holland_barrett as company with strong climate policies such as buying 100% of energy from renewable sources please reconsider funding climate mis-formation in newspapers as shown below, I am a regular customer but will look elsewhere now corporate.hollandandbarrett.…
Today's Daily Mail - whose events arm runs conferences for fossil fuel companies - continues its attacks on climate action & clean energy...
Today's Daily Mail advertisers include @CoopUK @Holland_Barrett @VodafoneUK & @TheAA_UK
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.
