CIRCLE WITH A DOT

'Kemi Badenoch Accepted £7,500 Retreat from Chair of Climate Denial Group'

Kemi Badenoch Accepted £7,500 Retreat from Chair of Climate Denial Group

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch enjoyed a £7,500 getaway in February at the home of an influential anti-climate donor, DeSmog can reveal. New records show that Badenoch and four members of her family spent six days at a residence owned by Neil Record, a former currency trader who chairs Net Zero Watch, one of the UK’s […]

DeSmog (www.desmog.com)

'Its parent company, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has claimed that carbon dioxide has been “mercilessly demonised” when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet” and should be “two or three times” higher than current levels.'

#energy #FossilFuels #environment #globalWarming #UK #oil #gas #politics #ukpol #Conservatives #Tories #KemiBadenoch #Badenoch #ClimateChange

"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels"

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  

Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

DeSmog (www.desmog.com)

'The report found a “consistent and coordinated narrative shift” from attempts to portray the companies as climate leaders to embracing what Clean Creatives calls “fossil fuel permanence” — the idea that the world can’t function without oil and gas...'

#FossilFuels #environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

"'Climate gaslighting': How fossil fuel giants have quietly abandoned their net zero pledges"

Big Oil accused of ‘climate gaslighting’ after over 1,800 ads analysed

A new analysis warns that some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have entered a ‘gaslighting’ phase to bolster their profits.

euronews (www.euronews.com)

'... campaigns at the beginning of the analysis emphasised climate targets and clean energy transition pledges, frequently positioning themselves as transition partners. However, by 2023, messaging “increasingly framed” oil and gas as “permanent, indispensable and essential to economic stability and national security”.'

#FossilFuels #environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

@raulinbonn @liw I also remember having to learn COBOL in the late 90s!

@raulinbonn @liw I remember the adverts in the computer press saying that companies wouldn't need programmers to write applications - that was probably the late 80s/early 90s, whilst I was still at school.

'Power Shift: how the Labour government can bring down bills and bolster net zero by curtailing the power of gas'

Power Shift: Read the Report - Greenpeace UK

How the government can bring down bills and bolster net zero by curtailing the power of gas, using a Regulated Asset Base (RAB) model.

Greenpeace UK (www.greenpeace.org.uk)

'This flawed system has cost the UK economy billions. Since 2021, £90 billion extra has been spent on gas, with £40 billion in public money used to cushion soaring household bills.'

#gas #electricity #NaturalGas #energy #FossilFuels #UK

'Q&A: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative?'

Q&A: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative? - Carbon Brief

A surge in gas prices triggered by the Iran war has caused a knock-on spike...

Carbon Brief (www.carbonbrief.org)

#gas #electricity #NaturalGas #energy #FossilFuels #UK

@rradczewski Private Eye worked to expose it for years https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-in-the-post

@CelloMomOnCars Greenpeace have a plan to bring down electricity prices by decoupling them from gas prices: https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/power-shift-report/

@solarpapst I seem to remember that during Gulf War I, Gorbachev asked the West for less than the daily cost of war in order to help the economic transition (and the USSR helped by providing the details of the military facilities they had built in Iraq). Bush said no, he wanted to back Yeltsin instead, and thus Gorbachev had to rely on hardliners for support, and eventually we ended up with Russian oligarchs and Putin.