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Manchester Climate Monthly. Was dead-tree format, now mostly dead-digital: occasional FOIAs & reposts abt t'greenwashers in Town Hall. see also @our_yesterdays
Manchester, United Kingdom
Joined January 2009
I have a book out! It's called Carbon Capture and Storage in the United Kingdom: History, Policies and Politics https://t.co/XaZr0ESBjp 🧵 1/n
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 🎉FPA is setting up a group in Manchester! 🐝 We are looking to engage a freelancer to help establish a Manchester hub, and to provide remote support to our Glaswegian hub 💙 ✨The ideal applicant will have experience in community development, campaigning and
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Cracking guest post by @steelghost1978 - "Five years on from the 1.5 degrees Report and the Coming of @ExtinctionR
https://t.co/k8BSzZrsjl
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October 23, 1955 – LA Times article “Many scientists believe that the earth’s rising temperatures may be partly due to the six billion tons of carbon dioxide dumped into the earth’s atmosphere each year from the smokestacks of industrial plants…” https://t.co/qvWjIZKvEl
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Specifically - “When asked by The Mancunion, Burnham described the report as “unbalanced and unfair”, noting that “it didn’t give any weighting to the fact we have the country’s biggest tram system which runs entirely on green energy.”” https://t.co/vGkzFf4FWn
mancunion.com
Greater Manchester reaffirmed its commitment to reaching net zero by 2038 at the Green Summit Manchester 2023.
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“The hospital resembles a slaughterhouse and the majority of casualties who are coming in are children.” I spoke to @TimesRadio for @MedicalAidPal about the deteriorating situation in #Gaza. The world must act to stop this. https://t.co/DAwlTPpFg3
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Hello @cities_clean - could you follow me so I can DM you, and/or drop an email to mcmonthly@gmail.com - I'd like to follow up about the Manchester Mayor's response to your latest report...
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doomer poll https://t.co/x9kAeZfxAT
Hi #ClimateTwitter, entirely unscientific poll, just curious about when you think we will breach 2 degrees as a global average (already places far beyond that, Arctic etc). Please share/retweet etc.
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Had completely forgotten this one from 11 years ago. https://t.co/LjZa9Sh5x5
manchesterclimatemonthly.net
As part of our “re-imaging activism” work, we have been looking at the ways issues such as race, gender and age play out in the climate change movement in Manchester. We’ve had so…
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"The movement, so-called, has developed no self-sustaining organizational forms or clear intellectual vision that expresses the understanding, or even the mood of the vast number of mostly young people who feel themselves to be part of it...” https://t.co/8y7et4I8Ee
manchesterclimatemonthly.net
Here we are, in the aftermath of another wasted wave of climate “activism”. What has been built? What has been learnt? What will endure. “Nowt”, as they say up north. “As to…
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Repertoire rot. https://t.co/VFnNiPmeGi
If you keep doing the same thing, over and over, it loses impact (aka "repertoire rot") https://t.co/KdFJV0qBvK
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"Rishi Sunak’s green backtracking contrasts strongly with previous prime ministers’ efforts" My latest for @ConversationUK
#ClimateEmergency
#RishiSunak
https://t.co/zLmYne7nxe
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LEAKED CABINET PAPERS REVEAL that Tories trying to ‘reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration’ in planning. In 1979. #NetZero
#ClimateEmergency
https://t.co/1ggroYTdCL
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So, Andy Burnham has further capitulated on clean air. He makes Keir Starmer look like Greta Thunberg. Just Stop Oil are irrelevant on this particular act of cowardice by Burnham - they wouldn't have stiffened his "spine". But still, from 16 months ago⬇️ https://t.co/zJ8USUKHfs
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British #climate bi-partisanship breaking down? An historical perspective From Wilson and Heath (1969-70) through Thatcher, Blair, Cameron to Sunak vs ULEZ. (Please RT). https://t.co/6X9qjKDUej
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FIFTY FIVE YEARS AGO - On July 19 1968, a Swedish diplomat told the United Nations that “man has already rendered the temperature equilibrium of the globe more unstable.” #ClimateEmergency
#CanNotSayWeWereNotWarned
https://t.co/K88kWVZhB1
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Climate change 'went viral' for the first time exactly 70 years ago... https://t.co/F027kc9Ak6
theconversation.com
In May 1953, scientist Gilbert Plass made some extraordinarily prescient comments.
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