https://bit.ly/3qkFO1W #OliverDowden is the only person politicising the use of what is rightly identified as a deathtrap to hold immigrants.

Finally, something I have expertise of 🙄 Fighting fires on anything afloat can be a tragedy just waiting to happen. The temperatures that are reached in compartments that are essentially small metal boxes are phenomenal, & deadly.

Of course, #Dowden doesn't give a shit if some 'poors', or better yet some 'costly' bloody immigrant, dies in a fire.

Today is my dissertation proposal defense. That means I'll give a public lecture about my research in front of my committee.

As some folks may know, I'm doing another round of grad school, mid-career, focused on scientific decision making in the U.S. Congress https://sheril.substack.com/p/a-dissertation-on-democracy #science #politics

In terms of PhD-ing, this is kind of like the pregame. I passed my comprehensive exams last year & will officially defend my dissertation & finish this Fall. So here goes...

As the UK is poised to issue licenses to drill for new sources of oil & gas, it is perhaps worth remembering that:

1. UK & every nation signed Paris Agreement to pursue efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C

2. UK & every nation endorsed IPCC conclusion that if world burns all fossil fuels it already has access to then global temperature rise will exceed 1.5°C

Of the 49 megatonnes* of oil and gas extracted from the UK in 2020, 38.3 megatonnes (78%) were immediately exported. This new Tory plan isn't about helping the UK economy. It's about enriching their mates on the back of the climate breakdown.

*unit used intentionally. It's both accurate and climate breakdown is at least as big a threat as nuclear war.

#UKPolitics #Energy #ClimateEmergency