New article from David Caldwell, Gidon Cohen and Nick Vivyan. -> Climate attitudes are polarizing along party lines in Anglophone countries and Western Europe with worrying implications for the implementation of climate policy. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Today I gave a guest lecture on climate justice to a group of people from around the world. One participant (white, male, from GN) did not like that I used @amitav.bsky.social 's Nutmeg's Curse as a starting point for the climate crisis. He went on to say that it was unscientific to suggest...
Thanks, Simon!
You'd really need something showing spread of coal vs gas power, but that'd be partly policy driven via ETS and UK's carbon price support Bottom line though, dash for gas was markets, coal phase out was (per article) mainly policy (renewables, pollution rules, carbon pricing, phase out pledge)
It doesn't make economic sense. Coal mines can't make money. That's partly why renewables are taking over the market.
Is it possible to add a line for the price of coal? I'm wondering how much is regulation vs markets
Today, the UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power Since opening world's 1st coal plant in 1882, UK coal fleet burned through 4.6bn tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4GtCO2 – more than most countries have ever released Here's how it all ended: interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseou...
🚨Breaking: Just seven out of 87 fossil fuel companies operating in the North Sea will invest anything in renewable energy by 2030, according to Uplift:
The ends cannot justify the means. This wasn't done for the climate. It was achieved through harsh crackdown on unions in South Wales and England. The UK is a prime example of an unjust transition. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good