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Throwing soup at a painting that was in a protective glass frame: 2 years.
This is a call for the resignation of Octopus Energy CEO @g__j.
And also a complete rethink of the climate movement in the UK.
Greg, the world's top diplomat @antonioguterres says "Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness". Are you mad? 🧵
Greg appeared on @BBCr4today and committed moral and economic madness by saying "While we're still dependent on gas, I can't see any problem with getting more from the North Sea" before going on to admit that doing so would make near enough zero difference to gas prices.
@BBCr4today Fitting a heat pump or solar panels does not, in and of itself, slow climate breakdown as the fossil fuels saved can simply be burnt elsewhere.
The only thing that slows climate breakdown is leaving fossil fuels in the ground. So that's what we must do beneath the North Sea.
Why are jury trials under attack by the UK government? Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵
2019. A jury unanimously acquitted @RogerHallamCS21 for an act of nonviolent civil disobedience which led to Kings College divesting £14 million from fossil fuels.
15 times the judge tried to stop Hallam telling the jury about climate breakdown.
2021. The judge at the trial of the Shell 7 told the jury "They don't have any defence in law for the charges they face."
Despite this, the jury cleared the defendants, effectively endorsing damaging the offices of companies that have the blood of millions on their hands.
This is the #1 climatologist in the world: James Hansen.
He’s spent 50 years studying what humans are doing to the climate.
He's gone out on a limb time and time again - and been proven right.
His message? It’s far worse than they’re telling you. 🧵
Hansen grew up poor on a small farm in Iowa.
He saved up enough to attend university, studied physics and - by chance - came under the wing of space scientist James Van Allen.
That’s how he ended up in astrophysics.
Hansen earned a NASA scholarship.
At first, he studied the atmosphere of Venus. What he found was a warning to us Earthlings: Venus is a hellscape because of a runaway greenhouse effect.
The battle for the future of humanity is being fought within one family.
On one side: a government minister.
On the other: his cousin, an XR activist.
They survived Norway's worst recent trauma together.
Now they’re on opposite sides of the country's oil war.🧵
Andreas Bjelland Eriksen and his younger cousin Vebjørn Bjelland Berg survived Anders Breivik's massacre together on Utoya Island. That bond forged in grief binds them.
But now Norway's rapacious appetite for fossil fuels is killing far more people than Breivik did.
Today, Eriksen serves as Norway’s environment minister in a supposedly centre‑left government that continues the "moral and economic madness" of expanding oil drilling in the Arctic.
Still reeling from @EvanHD's remarks on @BBCPM yesterday.
It looks like the BBC are going to gaslight us all the way to extinction.
But first, some history. 🧵
In 2015, the BBC reported scientists saying that most of the world's fossil fuel reserves needed to stay in the ground if dangerous global heating was to be avoided (and of course there should have been no new sources of oil, gas or coal).
In 2021, the BBC reported that most oil & gas reserves and almost all coal had to remain in the ground to keep global heating below the (actually very unsafe) limit of 1.5C - and of course no new oil, gas or coal.