No more windmills!’: Why Trump’s call for North Sea oil is misguided

Donald Trump’s latest attack on renewables has reignited calls to drill the North Sea for oil – despite research showing it won’t lower energy bills.

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Leuchtturm Obereversand im Wattenmeer der Nordsee

#Nordsee #Northsea #Wattenmeer #TravelThursday #Lighthouse #Fotografie #photography

#meermittwoch
Touristen unterwegs per Schiff im niederländischen Wattenmeer
#nordsee #wattenmeer #northsea #waddensea #niederlande #netherlands

Revealed: How #BigOil is pushing #Labour to drill the #NorthSea

#Oil and #gas lobbyists have met ministers 96 times since July 2024 as industry pushes to overturn Labour's North Sea drilling ban and scrap #energy windfall tax.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-how-big-oil-is-pushing-labour #climate #ClimateChange

Revealed: How Big Oil is pushing Labour to drill the North Sea

Oil and gas lobbyists have met ministers 96 times since July 2024 as industry pushes to overturn Labour's North Sea drilling ban and scrap energy windfall tax.

Democracy for Sale

Mit den Füßen im Wasser
With your feet in the water

#MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday #Nordsee #Northsea #Sea #Fotografie #photography

#Urlaub #Skandinavien #Dänemark #Danmark #Meerliebe #Nordsee #northsea #Hafen 1/ Am Hafen war es heute sehr windig, der Himmel war den ganzen Tag lang wolkenlos.
#Urlaub #Skandinavien #Dänemark #Danmark #Meerliebe #Nordsee #northsea #Hafen Es war wieder ein schöner Sonnenuntergang zu sehen🥰 Am Hafen war es recht windig.

Low waves roll into the shore at #Zandvoort, with gulls above the water and wind turbines on the horizon.

On the sand, two starfish sit among shell pieces and dark seaweed, turning a grey #NorthSea walk into a small found scene.

Not dramatic. Just real coastal details, left behind by the tide and easy to miss.

#CoastalScene #NatureCloseUp

#Amir2000NLStory #CanonR5MarkII #AMIR2000NLPhotography

A “lost world” beneath the North Sea was once full of forests https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260416071959.htm

#sea #NorthSea #environment #forest

A “lost world” beneath the North Sea was once full of forests

Long before rising seas swallowed Doggerland beneath the North Sea, this lost landscape may have been a surprisingly lush and life-friendly haven. New DNA evidence reveals that forests of oak, elm, and hazel were already thriving there more than 16,000 years ago—thousands of years earlier than scientists thought possible. Even more astonishing, researchers detected traces of a tree species believed to have vanished from the region hundreds of thousands of years ago.

ScienceDaily