A musician, and former academic, with a passion for environmental and social justice.
(Avatar is a BBC2 TV colour test card, broadcast during a trial stereo-sound transmission in the early 80's)
| Homepage | https://chris.foxearth.org |
| Faircamp | https://music.foxearth.org |
| YT videos | https://www.youtube.com/user/DrCJFox/videos |
@ProPublica @all-stories-ProPublica The carbon capture/green hydrogen scam: advocated by researchers with no technical expertise in the technology; funded and promoted by people at BP who didn't think it would work (but thought it would help them extract more fossil fuel); lapped up by the corporatocracy and their gullible politicians (that would be you, Ed) to the detriment of better policies.
My garden today: 41C+ (106°F+) in the shade, vs nominal June high of 20C (68°F) for 1991 to 2020…
How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
https://www.propublica.org/article/wedges-climate-research-bp-fossil-fuel-princeton?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Stories @all-stories-ProPublica
Supreme Court allows Trump administration's cancellation of TPS for Haitians, Syrians.
But if they were white and from South Africa?
#blackmastodon
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-allows-trump-administrations-cancellation-tps-haitians-syrians/19380053/
via abc7chicago App
Here's the new boss, same as the old boss.
"Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. Next?" -- Prem Sikka (on the former bird site)
Reeves syllogism:
1. Encourage UK personal tax-free investments in Stocks & Shares by limiting tax-free investments in cash accounts.
2. But S&S investments can be turned into cash accounts.
3. Therefore tax interest on "tax-free" S&S investments to discourage them being used to by-pass the cash investment limits. Bob's Your Uncle!
Poor pensioners, etc.: 😵💫
Meanwhile, billionaires and private equity continue to profiteer and asset strip while avoiding tax.
https://www.independent.co.uk/money/hmrc-isa-tax-changes-stocks-and-shares-b3001564.html
#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.
Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”
(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)
This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.
@Orb2069 @benchwhistler @wavesculptor @urlyman Unfortunately we need to protect against both extreme heat and extreme cold.
For instance, my heat pump will eventually need to be upgraded to ground source, if the AMOC flip-over happens. At least we have the piping now, but the cost of replacing gas boilers with **air source** heat pumps was already looking like it would take too long, given current government subsidies and climate denying propaganda. Ground source generally costs several times more.
Meanwhile for extreme heat, efficient passive cooling solutions such as external shutters and ventilation towers as are used in hotter countries generally need planning permission.
If we're lucky solar installations will keep up with AC, but even that is doubtful given the data center boom.
So we're not ready in either direction, and that's only a tiny part of the puzzle.
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