Climate Change

[steviewevie]

Yes. Really.

[steviewevie]

bloody animal loving hippies trying to stop our net zero utopia.

f**k the hippies, and f**k the seagulls. More windmills!

[mattiloy]

Agree. Just reading about this project - apparently has the capacity to power upto 17% of uk homes. Each turbine is 355m with the first 50 or so meters underwater. Absolute beasts!

 

The rspb says it’ll kill a few hundred birds a year, I’m not sure what that means regards the total population in that area, but seems like a small price to pay in the broader context tbh. And like, the UK coastline is pretty big. I’m fairly sure that kittiwakes and puffins will persist in other locations.

[steviewevie]

Alongside the heatwave, are we seeing an early autumn in the UK? - BBC News

[Skip997]

3 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Alongside the heatwave, are we seeing an early autumn in the UK? - BBC News

Everything has been early this year as far as nature is concerned 

[Crazyfool01]

31 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Everything has been early this year as far as nature is concerned 

yeah very noticeable in the Garden .... ive only had one a few years but even during this amount of time things have changed fro what ive seen .... we are so unprepared , if people think migration is an issue now( I don't )  then they haven't seen anything yet 

[Skip997]

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/17/how-can-england-possibly-be-running-out-of-water

[steviewevie]

A cheery long read for summer...

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

[Skip997]

Yes we are and we deserve it. We were warned decades ago and decided not to do anything about it 

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

We are f**ked pt 536372

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study

[steviewevie]

Actually we'll be ok, it will be our grandkids who will be f**ked ...so don't worry.

[steviewevie]

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' - BBC News

[steviewevie]

Global rise in sea levels may be inevitable, experts warn...

[steviewevie]

Another thing with this Polanski leadership win..there seems to be less emphasis on actual green things and climate change. Labour never talking about climate change when talking about their net zero policies, it's all energy security and savings and growth. Tories are in process of becoming climate sceptic and ditching net zero, Reform who are leading the polls already are. Do Lib Dems ever talk about it? Does anyone? There aren't any Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil protests anymore. Greta Thunberg is all about Gaza these days. Is it all over?

[Skip997]

31 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Is it all over?

Depends what you mean. It’s certainly all over in terms of we can’t do anything to prevent large scale problems due to climate change. It’s way too late 

[lost]

36 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Another thing with this Polanski leadership win..there seems to be less emphasis on actual green things and climate change. Labour never talking about climate change when talking about their net zero policies, it's all energy security and savings and growth. Tories are in process of becoming climate sceptic and ditching net zero, Reform who are leading the polls already are. Do Lib Dems ever talk about it? Does anyone? There aren't any Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil protests anymore. Greta Thunberg is all about Gaza these days. Is it all over?

 

Yes everyones moved onto the latest thing. I saw a post saying the Greens should be renamed hedge-bollah 😀

[steviewevie]

52 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Depends what you mean. It’s certainly all over in terms of we can’t do anything to prevent large scale problems due to climate change. It’s way too late 

Oh. That's good. I can stop worrying about my carbon footprint.

[steviewevie]

 

[kerplunk]

On 04/09/2025 at 09:27, steviewevie said:

 

 

From what I hear from people in the UK O&G business it's basically about whether to wring the last thimblefull out of the North Sea, or two. And thus just political posturing.

 

Witness the recent news about the discovery of 134million barrels by Norwegian Aker- a company designed to go after the small/less economical to recover stuff as all the big names withdraw from the North Sea-  damningly touted as 'the biggest discovery in a decade'. By my reckoning 134mb is a just a few months worth at the UK's current (much reduced) production levels.

 

It's just wasting time over the inevitable pivot away from reliance on the North Sea that's baked in

 

 

 

 

[steviewevie]

Back to petroleum | The Observer

[steviewevie]

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News

[steviewevie]

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian

[steviewevie]

We're f**ked part 5673920

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

[steviewevie]

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds | Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars | The Guardian