Sodium-based home batteries now available in the UK. They work in cold weather (so no need for it to heat itself in a garage). Sodium is abundant. Pairs with PV or cheap overnight tariffs. #NetZero #energytrasition https://www.ess-news.com/2025/04/30/biwatt-releases-4-5-kwh-sodium-ion-battery/
#Netzero
"The fracturing of the consensus [on #ClimateCrisis] has been far more profound at what we'd call 'elite level' rather than at public level”
Rightwing parties #Reform and #Tories want to create division over #NetZero because it has been for some time their next culture war.
Where there is division, there are potential votes and causes to attach party loyalty to that are wider reaching than bashing migrants and trans folk.
Canada, electing Mark Carney as PM—big win for climate! With deep roots in green finance, he’ll push net-zero, grid decarbonization & renewable investment hard. 80% clean grid already, now aiming for 100% by 2035. The fossil era is closing fast & hard in the north. #NetZero #EVs #Canada #Renewables
Trump Is Now Sandwiched Betwee...
"#Labour can unite its coalition with relatively moderate stance on #culturalissues while leaning into #progressive positions on #economics."
https://persuasionuk.org/research/reform-curious-labour
#UKpol
#politicalanalysis
#reformvoters
#Labourvoters
#netzero
#SocialPolicy
Andy Davey @DaveyCartoons @Telegraph on #EdMiliband #TonyBlair #KeirStarmer #EnergyPolicy #ClimateChange #NetZero - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on the opposition to #netzero @guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Labour's Tom Hayes getting monstered on Bluesky for this post, over Labour looking the same as the Tories and Reform after their retreat on LGBTQ+ existence.
But again, I'll instead say on 'net zero', the term and idea is simply a sop to fossil capital to allow them to continue to profit from extraction, until the theory in some year in the future, magically carbon dioxide will be fully offset.
And by that time, it will be too late for it to do anything anyway, so they'll have got away with the destruction scot-free.
But what's great for politicians and others pushing this over eliminating fossil capital immediately, is they don't have to worry about it either, as they'll be long gone from the scene by that year too.
Day 32 🗳️💨
Things are coming in thick and fast today, so I’ll try to summarise the major themes.
No Policies of the #Liberal, #LNP and #Coalition.
#AngusTaylor (Opposition Treasurer, Liberal) hands in his #Economics homework late, it’s got problems.
A 🎃 derivative that is toxic ☢️
“A Coalition government would drive the #budget deeper into #deficit over the coming two years, as the shadow finance minister, #JaneHume, insisted her party’s plan to save $17.2bn by #slashing the number of #Canberra-based #PublicServants by 41,000 through “natural attrition” was achievable.”
If returned to power, the Coalition would gut a long list of environment and clean energy programs, including #scrapping the #NetZero #Economy #Agency, reversing Labor’s #TaxBreaks for #ElectricVehicles, and redirecting money slated for the #HomeBatteries program.
#Reversing tax incentives for green hydrogen would save $1.5bn over four years, and not proceeding with Labor’s critical mineral production tax credits would save $1.2bn, the Coalition’s election policy costings show.”
#AusPol / #treasury / #costings / #economy / #future <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/01/coalition-costings-federal-election-promises-larger-deficit-cut-foreign-aid-environment-clean-energy>
I'm not convinced that showing Bad Enoch facts helps in any way, she seems irritated. But maybe others might benefit and qudos to ITV for trying.
#NetZero #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Energy
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Forced? Maybe one of his sponsors put the boot in?
Tony Blair suggests that phasing out fossil fuels is 'doomed to fail.' So, we should just keep burning them? That's not leadership; that's surrender. #ClimateCrisis #NetZero
Nobody likes Tony, lol
Limited potential for marine CO2 removal in Germany’s Baltic and North Seas
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/limited-potential-marine-co2-removal-germanys-baltic-and-north-seas #removals #CDR #climateaction #netzero #ParisAgreement
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/limited-potential-marine-co2-removal-germanys-baltic-and-north-seas
Starmer u-turn within 12 hours, at lunch Starmer was standing by with what Blair said.
#TonyBlair #Starmer #Labour #ClimateChange #NetZero #UKPOL #UKpolitics
Not a bad take-down of the Bliar Institute's poorly researched report on net zero.
Tony Blair opposes phasing out fossil fuels. These academics disagree https://theconversation.com/tony-blair-opposes-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-these-academics-disagree-254530
11:09am Net Zero by The Jazz Defenders from Memory in Motion
#TheJazzDefenders #NetZero #MidmorningJazz #KUVO
Am I alone in never having considered Tony #Blair progressive or of the Left?
Nor did I consider him the brains of his outfit at Number 10…
The lack of ideology and obsession with power over policies does strike me as similar to #Starmer.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-anti-net-zero-anti-woke-corporate
"This is exactly the problem - the paper *doesn’t* say that the push for #netzero is irrational, it says that the current state of debate about it is." - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/apr/30/labour-tories-local-elections-2025-pmqs-tony-blair-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-uk-politics-live-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-68122f028f083cd6dad7f71c#block-68122f028f083cd6dad7f71c obviously a rubbish report then, if that doesn't come across
#Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-risks-sending-absolutely-wrong-message-says-climate-expert "Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying #netzero strategy faltering" blair is either a knave or a fool - and probably both
Blair - so wrong about so many things, even if he did get some right. Now in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. But Starmer backs him so that is OK.
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