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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · 7h

Carla Denyer has started a petition to Racel Reeves "End tax breaks for oil and gas giants and support workers instead"

The more we support it the better chance it has of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

End tax breaks on oil and gas

Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.

you.38degrees.org.uk

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · 5d

This article makes a horrifying read (but is recommended nonetheless).
The headline is followed by a list of millions more deaths attributable to fossil fuel use, and an accounting of the vast annual subsidies to fossil fuels. We're mad.

#NoMoreFossilFuels

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals

Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

www.theguardian.com

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · 6d

“We all know what the lobbyists want,” Guterres said. “It’s to increase their profits, with the price being paid by humankind."

The Truth!

COP30 Climate Justice marches around the UK and the world on 15th November. Be there. climatejustice.uk/cop30/global...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · Sep 12

This could be a tipping point for decision makers across the UK: we're holding a National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature crisis for national leaders at Westminster Central Hall, and you can help!...🧵

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Sep 12

Short, simple, and to the point.

A 1 minute read that says it all.

#HyNot
#CCSEmitsCO2

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work

Engineers have been trying to perfect the technology for years but the maximum effect it could manage is far short of what the planet needs

www.theguardian.com

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Sep 9

Carbon capture as it's being proposed and implemented will *add* CO2 to the atmosphere - how can that help achieve Net Zero?

(Even if 90% of CO2 from a fossil fuel source were captured (actual results are more like 50%) 10% is emitted. We need green solutions, not blue, grey, whatever)

#Hynot

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Sep 8

NEW – Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated | @gidden.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/QY7LyJ8

Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated - Carbon Brief

Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is widely expected to play a key role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · Sep 8

We all got that scary phone alert yesterday.

Wildfires. Floods. Extreme weather.

The UK govt knows the climate 💩 is about to hit the fan.

So do the billionaires — who are quietly building bunkers. 🧵

Image of the Government life-threatening emergency alert sent to millions of phones in the UK

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · Sep 7

💡🔥 AXA & AIG’s offices were lit up across 10 cities worldwide to launch our phase of action 8-22 September.

We are exposing the truth: Big Insurance is fuelling climate chaos + genocide.

From Manchester to Johannesburg, Paris to Auckland: insurers of destruction can’t hide.
#InsureOurSurvival

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · Sep 8

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Shell submits new climate assessment for Jackdaw gas field after a successful legal challenge by Greenpeace.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles...

#ClimateAction

Shell submits new climate assessment for Jackdaw gas field

Oil giant Shell had to review its assessment after a judge ruled the Jackdaw field was permitted unlawfully.

www.bbc.co.uk

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Sep 3

Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills (quite apart from the climate damage). Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently
#NoNewFossilFuels
#KeepGasInTheGround

Add your name:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

Keep fracking out of Britain!

I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting “drill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Extinction Rebellion Brighton @xrbrighton.bsky.social · Aug 21

Make.them.Pay

Boycott Fossil fools
Saturday 25 Sept
March & Rally

Central London
With @makepolluterspay.bsky.social
Get 🚉 from Brighton with us ✊🏿🌍💚

Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · Aug 19

Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies.

Pass it on.

#ActOnClimate

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

- in 2024 > 70% of cars imported into Nepal were electric.
- 60% of new cars sold in Ethiopia were battery-powered, after the state banned sales of internal-combustion-engine vehicles altogether

#NoMoreOilAndGas
#FossilFuelsOnTheRun

XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

Across emerging markets, Chinese-made EVs are now about as cheap as traditional vehicles. ... the average Chinese EV sold for around $30,000 in Thailand, compared with $34,000 for the typical petrol-engine car.

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

- over the past year Morocco has increased its wind generation by 50%, becoming the country with the ninth most.
- India has seen four months of decline in coal-power generation, aided by an increase of 14% in renewable generation.

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

Those meanies at The Economist hide behind a paywall so here are highlights.

- In the first 6 months of 2025, Pakistan generated 25% of its electricity from solar power
- it's also adding enough batteries to cover 26% of peak demand by 2030.

Not bad for a country currently plagued by power cuts.

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

Good News!
The Economist reports that the green transition is racing ahead in the global south (outstripping Europe). It's driven by economics
- renewable energy is cheaper
- and it's home grown releasing valuable foreign currency that was used to import oil

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

The green transition has a surprising new home

Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling

www.economist.com

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

- Or the illegal harvesting of ancient forests

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

- and the health issues from particulates are significant with lots of PM 2.5 particles
- let's not forget the social issues that are well documented with eg Drax's operations in the USA as exposed by the BBC
- or the amount of fossil fuel emissions to harvest, process and transport wood

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 27

A thoughtful and well researched report on why burning wood for power (and heat) is a poor choice.
For instance,
- if you think biomass is renewable, maybe you're right, but it takes 60-120 years for the emitted CO2 to be recaptured. In the meantime its an emitter. We can't afford that.

Global Action Plan @globalactionplan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Burning wood for energy has long been touted as sustainable, but is it? Natalie Johnson, Research & Policy Officer at Global Action Plan plan presents the case that it's time for a rethink when it come to forest fuels.

Follow the link for full article:
www.globalactionplan.org.uk/news/wood-bu...

Wood burning: it’s time for a rethink

Burning wood has been long touted as a ‘sustainable’ alternative to other methods of producing energy, however, the tides may be starting to turn as more people wise up to the issues with wood…

www.globalactionplan.org.uk

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 20

Politicians have a habit of being wrong before they're right. The UK's Climate Change Committee says CCS only for cement and direct air capture. So, yes, politicians are awry.

XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 20

Energy predominantly from the sun - wind, solar, hydro are all sun powered.
The hydrogen we do really need from water.
CCS for direct air capture or cement making. When fossil fuels are involved CCS is a carbon emitter despite its cuddly name.
Don't need fossil fuels. Change is coming.

XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 20

Seasonal power supply? Ok, but blue hydrogen is nuts for this.
It's cheaper, smarter and lower CO2 emissions to burn methane directly and do CCS on the power station than make blue H2 from methane and then burn it.

Of course methane with CCS is still a big CO2 emitter (so also nuts). Green H2 then

XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's so cheap and quick that no one on the UK will build it without a £21B bung from the government.
Anyone can be cheap when they receive massive corporate welfare.

Do without the corporate welfare.

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 20

Highest efficiency available for blue hydrogen perhaps.

And efficiency of what?
- energy per kg of hydrogen?
- least CO2 per kg of hydrogen?

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XR Merseyside @xrmerseyside.bsky.social · Aug 20

What is hydrogen needed for? Perhaps steel making? Not for energy. Chemicals?

But definitely not
- to burn
- to assist with oil refining

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