#Senate#Democrats opened an investigation on Thurs into #Trump’s meeting w/ #oil & #gas execs last month to determine whether Trump offered a “policies-for-money transaction” [#bribe ] when he asked for $1B for his 2024 campaign so he could retake the White House & delete #POTUS#Biden’s #climate#regulations.
Australia 🇦🇺 has announced it will ramp up its extraction & use of #gas until "2050 and beyond", despite global calls to phase out #FossilFuelshttps://buff.ly/3wMoWV7
Somebody, somewhere mentioned small lenses, so I simply had to take a photo or two. 😅
Although I'll use whatever I have, I do prefer smaller lenses - it's easier to carry them around, they're unobtrusive and fun
Major media companies The New Statesman and Politico have sparked a wave of criticism after allowing Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor, which is behind the UK’s largest new North Sea project, to sponsor events on climate change.
Both saw MPs pull out over the sponsorship, while the first was interrupted by a climate activist.
'Woodcock’s entries in the Lords’ register of interests show he is paid to act as the chair of the Purpose Business Coalition, an organisation run by the PR and lobbying firm Crowne Associates, which counts the oil company #BP and the arms company #Leonardo among its clients.'
Picture of the day: This wild-looking supernova remnant is nicknamed the Jellyfish Nebula. Supernovas produce some of the strangest objects in the night sky.
#Exxon remains the largest US producer of #oil and #gas and the biggest emitter of CO2 among investor-owned companies. The Texas-based company also has the weakest #emissions-reduction targets among the world’s “oil supermajors,” according to Carbon Tracker https://buff.ly/4akfWo4
Ich zweifle mehr und mehr daran, dass #Elektrofahrzeuge wesentlich zur #Umweltentlastung beitragen können. Statt #EnergieSpeicher in irgendwelche Karren zu verbauen, sollten wir vielleicht besser in stationäre Speicher investieren, um #Gas- und #Kohlekraftwerke sehr zeitnah in Rente schicken zu können?
Zusätzlich wäre ein #Strukturkonzept sinnvoll, dass #Mobilität ganz grundsätzlich erheblich entbehrlicher macht.
Ministers in charge of the UK’s climate policies met with fossil fuel companies and lobbyists over 100 times last year, four times as much as they did external climate scientists, campaigners, and charities.
These ministerial oil and gas industry meetings came as the government backtracked on several policies designed to meet the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target.
The federal Labor government is in a toxic abusive relationship with the fossil fuel industry - and many people will pay the price for their addiction to this coercive relationship.
We have a corrupt, weak leadership who do not have the courage to fulfil their claim to make Australia a ‘renewable energy superpower’ - we are being gaslit we ‘need’ gas to get us there.
Hope alone is not going to save our kids and their from the fossil fuel giants - it’s time for bold action
“In a reverse takeover, federal Labor has now become a branch office of the rotten WA Labor Party, an outfit owned and run by the fossil fuel and extractive industries, its climate denialist billionaires and their propaganda outlets,” writes Bernard Keane in today's Crikey. #auspol#politics#statecapture#AtlasNetwork#gas
It may only be mid-spring but right now although little #electricity is being generated by #wind (2.5 GW or 7.8% of #UK demand) a very healthy 8.6 GW or 26.6% is being met by #SolarEnergy. #Gas is down at 5.7 GW or 17.6%.
When you're told it's bc of #Biden that #Gas prices are too high, #Remember that #trump put #Russia & the #Sauds on a conference call, to ask them to RAISE GAS PRICES.
Venus wasn’t always hot and uninhabitable. Scientists think the second planet from the sun could have had as much water as Earth billions of years ago, and may have even supported life if any of that water was in liquid form. But researchers have a new theory as to how our neighbor in the solar system lost nearly all of its water and why it may have happened far faster than initially thought. The Conversation has more on the study.
It was a serious PITA to get our induction cooktop — we had to get an electrician and someone to cut our granite countertop—but every time I see one of these articles, I'm so glad we did. And lots of folks won't have all the trouble that we did.
Disinformation follow up! https://youtu.be/8ONGuJCIkpQ?si=fGQE-JAHD4k1wbfo
Highlighting fear campaign by
Atlas Network (interestingly not mentioned by name)
The #fossilfuels industry:
• manufacture doubt
• thrive on our fear
• promote idea they are the only thing between us & dystopian chaos eg promote #gas as #energy transition
• created myth they are working for us
• fuel fear of the other eg anti immigration #politics#statecapture#auspol
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
As tensions rise throughout the #SouthChinaSea, energy demands are drawing #Malaysia deeper into the fray and testing the country’s long-standing reluctance to antagonize #China.
Since 2020, China has been harassing Malaysian drilling rigs and survey vessels, leading to standoffs that have lasted months.