Stuart
Helen CzerskiARGHHH.
Andy Carolan 
@helenczerski Of course. Why not, it's not like the planet is in crisis or anything /s
David S (inactive)@andycarolan @helenczerski those Tory Party election war chests aren't going to fill themselves!
@Pionir Might see a lot more of these kind of thing over the next few months as they prepare for possible (and hopeful) defeat @helenczerski
Jamie@helenczerski He also said that reducing flying (or cutting out anything else) was "the wrong way to tackle climate change".😱
Robee? Na! 🌈@helenczerski But it’s okay, this will only kill the planet less quickly which is exactly the same as not killing the planet isn’t it? 🤦♀️
Steve@helenczerski ffs disgustingly rich person eyes more wealth and can’t help but fill his pockets and the pockets of his chums with more coin at the expense of millions of peoples lives and livelihoods and worse
Nick Jordan@helenczerski These idiots have to go now, before they kill us all.
billheywood@helenczerski
Sunak takes a helicopter to the corner shop, he simply does not care about climate change
Sunak takes a helicopter to the corner shop, he simply does not care about climate change
Richard
Flaming June@helenczerski “contradicting much climate science” What a guy, eh?
Jonny Clark@helenczerski …and investing “millions” in pointless #CarbonCapture projects.
They just don’t care, do they 🤷♂️🤦🏼♂️
They just don’t care, do they 🤷♂️🤦🏼♂️
Mathias Micheel@helenczerski that subheading😐😐😐
Axel Foley@helenczerski Sunak and the shitbag Tories, owned by the energy companies.
Waine@helenczerski
#AltText -
Screenshot of Online newspaper headline
"Fossil Fuels
Sunak announces approval of 100 new North Sea Oil and gas licences"
It's hard not to get a little doomist when you see this. This is being drilled to be used, and once the infrastructure is in place the cost will fluctuate to ensure the oil is consumed.
The best way to prevent burning fossil fuels is to keep them in the ground.
AhaAchja@helenczerski
THESE are the main problems, basic evils of our world:
"War and corpses benefit only the rich."
Tanks, fighter jets and warships are not so easy to convert to hydrogen or battery power.
THESE are the main problems, basic evils of our world:
"War and corpses benefit only the rich."
Tanks, fighter jets and warships are not so easy to convert to hydrogen or battery power.
Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴@[email protected] Lets burn this place!
Helen Czerski (@[email protected])
737 Posts, 197 Following, 8.65K Followers · Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Associate Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup: http://helenczerski.net/books-writing/ and Blue Machine (out June 1st, 2023) https://www.waterstones.com/book/blue-machine/helen-czerski/9781911709107 #fedi22 #physics #ocean #climate #bikes
Markus Palzer-KhomenkoMan fragt sich ja schon, ob der Zusammenhang "Öl/Gas => CO2 => #Klimakrise => 4 Mrd Menschen fallen aus ökologischer Nische => Milliarden Klimaflüchtlinge" bekannt ist.
Kenneth@helenczerski READ THE ROOM
xs4me2An utter stupidity…
Chris Rowan@helenczerski Do I even want to know the up-is-down logic behind the claim that more fossil fuel extraction helps achieve net zero?
Lyle Solla-Yates@helenczerski power move, really stick that fork in our collective eye
Deb@helenczerski NOOOOOOOOOOO!!
penguin42@helenczerski Well, what's your alternative to keeping the lights on? Look at the grid graphs - wind is great but at times is giving us almost nothing for days; adding more wind gen wont solve that. Fission is taking too long; and tidal is only just starting.
Steve Hill 🏴🇪🇺@penguin42 @helenczerski How will extracting gas and then selling it on the international market help keep lights on in the UK?
@steve @helenczerski If you look at the worst-case parts of the national grid predictions for the winter it's the bit where we rely on importing gas during a cold spell when everyone wants it; if we export the rest of the year but have it for the worst few weeks then it keeps the lights on in the worst cases.
@penguin42 @helenczerski I think you misread my question. How is selling gas on the INTERNATIONAL market going to help the UK grid?
If the gas extraction was done by the government and only used domestically then you might have a point. But it isn't - it's extracted by private industry who sell it to the highest bidder through the international market. The amount of gas the UK can produce isn't enough to significantly move international prices, so the only benefit is to profits, not the public
@steve @helenczerski You misread my answer. It's all about the couple of worst weeks - if the companies sell it internationally during the rest of the year that indeed helps their profits; as long as for those couple of weeks it's close by and can't be disrupted by storms/shipping issues/enemies.
@penguin42 @helenczerski Companies sell it internationally during the whole year, even when it is needed in the UK. The UK buys from the international markets at international market rates, no matter how much gas is extracted domestically. The only way that would change is if the gas were extracted by the government instead of by private companies. The only people who benefit from these gas extraction licences are those private businesses and their shareholders.
@steve @helenczerski The market isn't the whole story - there was big maintenance problems in Noway in Sept 2022, you get shipping delays in LNG due to storms around the US; those risks are reduced by having some local supply. And if it's under UK control and the lights are at risk of going out, they could always put an export restriction in.
@penguin42 @helenczerski Gas extracted from the North Sea isn't enough to meet domestic demand, so delays would still impact the UK. Those risks can be reduced by maintaining a proper national reserve. The current government decided to _reduce_ the amount of gas being held in reserve, which is one reason why the UK was so badly affected by the high market prices. There's absolutely no good reason to issue licences to open up new gas fields, other than driving private profits.
@steve @helenczerski It'd be great to have enough for domestic demand; but even if you don't hit that, every bit you add locally lets you cope with another international screwup - one more delayed LNG delivery, one more failed Norwegian pipeline. I don't think you plan energy just based on your hatred of gas companies.
@penguin42 @helenczerski Or you could just increase the country's national reserves.
I don't have a hatred of gas companies. But I don't see a reason to grant them an opportunity to make bigger profits at everyone else's expense. There is no good reason to grant these licences - they harm the environment whilst providing no public good that could not otherwise be achieved.
@steve @helenczerski Well they are turning the Rough storage back on, so that is good; we made exactly the opposite bad decisions to Germany - they had a lot of storage but almost no LNG ports; we had the opposite. They're still burning a lot of coal as I understand it; it would be great to displace some of that.
life mask (jeff)@helenczerski "fuck the climate!" No concern from any capitalist whatsoever. 😳
Ian Beeby BL@helenczerski The positive side of this (he says, tongue in cheek) is that there will be reduced emissions transporting the stuff from elsewhere on the planet…. Where do these guys put their consciences?
Thomas Baekdal@helenczerski And it's not just the Prime Minister, right now we see a combined effort by both the Conservative Party and many large UK newspapers to undermine climate action
Ben Avison@helenczerski This is what a future stranded asset looks like. (We can only hope…)
Melinda@helenczerski
Votes must be used next year to stop this endless nightmare. Tories just trash our country and it's wildlife; our rivers and oceans; now they are going full on to produce plenty of CO2. Their 'carbon capture plan' is just whitewashing to hide their culpability.
Votes must be used next year to stop this endless nightmare. Tories just trash our country and it's wildlife; our rivers and oceans; now they are going full on to produce plenty of CO2. Their 'carbon capture plan' is just whitewashing to hide their culpability.
8tpercent
maiamaia@helenczerski it's a trap to ruin Starmer's ability to do anything once he's in power. The Tories want to be voted back in first chance after inevitable labour victory next time, they need to leave the biggest mess for labour to clean up & get the blame for & to take up all Labour's time so they can't do anything. Poisonous politics, but normal now. Why we need proportional rep & we need it now
Chris Hill@helenczerski
Simple isn't it: BigOil => BigLies.
Tories fill their supporters' pockets, bugger anyone else.
Simple isn't it: BigOil => BigLies.
Tories fill their supporters' pockets, bugger anyone else.
weebullRight Labour, this is an easy win. Announce you'll revoke these on day one. No company will dare spend money utilizing a license with an expiry date.
paulthey have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.