Roger Harrabin

@RogerHallamCS21 Roger Hallam is right in complaining about the failure of those who lead us to account for extreme outcomes. It is the most extraordinary gamble with the fate of the only Planet we have. And no one wants to talk about it.

Four points on the "landmark" UK report on the elite's mass death project. 1. If it is a "landmark" report which points to the destruction of the British economy, its way of life, and the very existence of the country at 4C, why does it get two small lines in the middle of the news section of the world's main "liberal" newspaper that sells the idea that facts are "sacred"? The point being the liberal elites exist to smooth the journey to mass death being prepared for us by the business elites. 2. It's not the mean, stupid. What kills is the outlier. What we want to know is not that food production will go down by x% on average - we want to know that every 20 years an outlier probability is there will be destroyed crops two years running, leading to mass starvation of British people, from which they will not recover by the time the next outlier hits. 3. The unit of analysis of the "UK" is also beyond stupid. What will happen in the UK does not depend upon what happens in the UK but in the whole world. When outliers happen in other areas - war, famine, social breakdown, the world economy will collapse and UK living standards will collapse. Meaning poor people will starve and revolutions will happen. 4. The "climate" is not an event. So stopping pretending it is. It is not a matter of "if we get to 4C". It is a matter of if we get to 2C, feedbacks will send our kids to 3C and their kids to extinction at 4/5 and 6C. It's a ball rolling ever faster down the hill, not a bus stop. Get a fucking grip. theguardian.com/environment/20…

At last. So mainstream Scientists have only recently started admitting that admitting that theClimate is changing faster and with more devastating results than they expected. I confess that the media has largely dodged this truth. Bill McGuire has not.

The Ipcc has failed to adequately alert people to worst-case scenarios. This may be politically convenient but it is deeply irresponsible. Shall we roll the dice to see whether we think we can get away with it?

Wow! More than double the volume of gas cut off due to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is being wasted each year because countries are failing to deal with methane leaks and unnecessary flaring, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.

@BenGoldsmith The triffids strike back

The pollen from the London plane trees during these two weeks of the year is like fibreglass, gets in the eyes, throat, lungs. Nobody is immune. It’s not a native tree, it’s a man-made hybrid, even though many of them are pretty old. There ought to be a ban on planting it, and they should be gradually replaced with native trees.

A drunk on my train from St Albans tried to engage me in conversation. Listen to this he said, referring to Four orderly Spaniards next to us. Why do they have to speak so loud? I didn’t engage and he left, muttering I’m not gonna listen to this shit.

This piece does a great job of explaining why counter-intuitively - if you want to decarbonise faster - prioritising cheap electricity over clean electricity is the best climate policy:

Dreadful news. Climate Change and Over fishing have forced the closure of the company that supplies Food for the Penguins at London zoo. This is the sad notice beside the Penguin pool. It raises huge questions about sustainable #fisheries worldwide. ⁦@CRHClover⁩

Meanwhile Trump and reform downplay the threatening catastrophe.

Normally at Kew Gardens people scramble for a seat in the Sun. Now they are wrangling over seats in the shade. More to come as the Climate heats. It will change our lives in many ways large and small. ⁦@DavidShukman⁩ ⁦@michaelholder⁩

Any guesses how this will end. How hot in summer? How hot in or ten years? 20 years?

What is astonishing, given the avalanche of misinformation from the political right, is that almost half of the population still supports the drilling Ban. in a world without Climate Change it would benefit taxes and jobs to keep on drilling – but we dont inhabit that world.

Hundreds of licences granted for new North Sea oil & gas projects under the Tories have so far produced just 36 days’ worth of gas. Yet more evidence that a crisis caused by fossil fuel dependence can’t be solved by drilling for more fossil fuels in N Sea theguardian.com/business/2026/…

@DaleVince The phrase Net Zero was laid upon a baffled Public. Governments got away with it too, but it was inevitable someone would make political Capital out of it. To be fair, Labour have been pushing security and cost arguments for months now. I wish they’d mention Climate too

I actually disagree. I’m a fan of net zero of course and it’s good to hear the Climate Change Committee (of deep subject matter experts) say we are more or less on target…though I think there are questionable assumptions around the bigger later years cuts forecast , reliance on dodgy tech like carbon capture and storage.. but that aside. Where I disagree is with the idea we need to re make the case for net zero. I think we should shut up about it. It’s been toxified, like the EU before it - just say its name and you’re in an uphill battle. Better to talk about energy bills, cost of living, jobs and economic growth - the green economy. Let’s talk about the benefits of getting there, rather than the destination. Next zero is too abstract for too many people who struggle day to day - let’s talk about the benefits of the green economy, which is how we get to net zero. independent.co.uk/climate-change…

Jeremy please remove this. Its awful.

Is this an appalling error ? theguardian.com/environment/20…

@ret_ward @Conservatives More to the point, how on earth would we get them built. Remember Boris and office promised one Nuke station a year for 10 years. It was a fantasy of course at least we can build Turbines.

In the latest desperate change to @Conservatives energy policy, they apparently would replace gas with nuclear instead of renewables. Would like to see the costings for this and likely implications for bills.

@JKSteinberger @UKLabour @TheGreenParty Julia where is the evidence that the green party is still green? I didn’t hear the words Climate or Environment among the last few days celebrations.

I had a hard time believing this is real. I am so SO happy to have quit @UKLabour and joined the @TheGreenParty . This desperate lying because Labour is losing 1 seat in the Gorton & Denton by-election is truly shameful. No integrity whatsoever, just power-hungry desperate lies.

Important message to @Keir_Starmer from @_HannahRitchie : People consistently under-estimate how many others “believe” in #climatechange or support action on it. We often think we’re in the minority of those who care , but we’re not. We’re simply too pessimistic about others.