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“Even if companies extracted more oil and gas from UK land and waters, they’d be under no obligation to sell it to UK energy companies.”

What do you want to know?.

Particularly jarring in @politico London Playbook as the ad is directly below coverage of the debate over new licenses for North Sea drilling. Clicking through, BP's website says "the North Sea has been an important part of our business for nearly 60 years"

Ad placements and sponsorships from @bp_plc in the @qz and @POLITICOEurope London Playbook morning newsletters today. ". keeping oil & gas flowing from the North Sea."

RT @nytimes: With climate change ravaging Florida’s beloved reef, teams who’ve devoted their careers to restoring coral in the sea are now….

Hello, some news: August is my last month as a staffer with The Week. I've decided to go back to freelancing. I'm very interested in writing about science and innovation, women's issues, and the climate crisis. I'm also an ace editor. If you'd like to work with me, get in touch.

RT @thatdanstewart: I’ve now been at the @FT 18 months and figured after spending all that time editing other people’s Big Reads I ought to….

“No one can make a proper decision from an air-conditioned room.”

"If the goal is for the planet to remain habitable into the next century, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?"

"London-based startup Orbital Materials would like to create just that. The startup is working to apply generative AI — the method behind tools like ChatGPT — expressly for accelerating the development of clean energy technologies."

When I first read “The Future We Choose” in 2021, it horrified me. The picture it painted of what would happen if we did nothing was so disturbing. And to watch as that future becomes our present is extremely painful.

Canadian wildfire smoke over Indiana farmland.

RT @nytimes: A smoky haze from Canadian wildfires blanketed Chicago and much of the upper Midwest on Wednesday, a day after a sudden declin….

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Me: I've gotta stop consuming media that fuels my climate anxiety. The internet: Here's a haunting video of carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere.

June in the UK will be the hottest since records begun almost 140 years ago.

RT @TheEconomist: Beef emits 31 times more CO₂ per calorie of food than tofu does. By cooking so many cows, we are cooking ourselves, too.….

"Globally, coal use reached a new high in 2022, however, its bounceback has been short-lived in the U.S., as coal plants in the country retire at a steady pace. Six coal-fueled generating units have been closed so far this year."

"Patients tend to listen to what their clinicians have to say. That makes them uniquely placed to talk about climate change.".

". clinicians of all stripes are increasingly talking about climate change in their practice — and in effect becoming climate educators." via @heatmap_news