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UK emissions down in 2024
Some good news in as much as the constant rise in greenhouse gas emissions is being curbed in the UK. Still a long way to go to get to real reversal numbers, but this new analysis by Carbon Brief tells that our emissions decreased 3.6% in 2024.
Above average temperatures, a rise of almost 40% in electric car numbers* and the largest proportion of renewable energy going in to the grid were all factors in the decrease.
It means the UK’s emissions are now 54% below 1990 levels. Roughly half of the drop in emissions was due to a 54% reduction in demand for coal.
Coal use dropped to the lowest level since the year of the Great Fire of London, in 1666. This was in large part thanks to the closure of the UK’s last coal-fired power station and one of the last remaining blast furnaces at the Port Talbot steelworks.
Meanwhile oil demand fell 1.4% and gas demand fell 13% thanks to lower gas-fired electricity generation as a result of higher electricity imports and increased output from low-carbon sources.
*1.4m EVs, 0.8m plug-in hybrids and 76,000 electric vans cut oil-related emissions by at least 5.9MtCO2e. The benefit to the UK’s EV motorists was a saving of about £800 on average, relative to the cost of driving petrol or diesel vehicles.
Ethical Revolution · UK emissions down in 2024 - Ethical Revolution
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Today in Labor History February 19, 1990: After a 10-month strike, rank-and-file miners at the Pittston Coal Co. ratified a new contract. Ninety-eight miners and a minister occupied a Pittston Coal plant in Carbo, Virginia, inaugurating the year-long strike. While a one-month Soviet coal strike dominated the U.S. media, the year-long Pittston strike received almost no media coverage in the U.S. The wildcat walkouts involved 40,000 miners in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. Over 2,000 people occupied Camp Solidarity. Miners and their families engaged in Civil Disobedience, pickets, work stoppages and sometimes sabotage, vandalism and violence. Over 4,000 were arrested.
Don't burn coal,
if you live in a greenhouse.
#MeansMorningNews January 24, 2025: #RichDick #SamAltman should be thrown in a #Stargate
#uspol #socialism #capitalism #AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #ClimateChange #energy #healthcare #privacy #panopticon #datacenters #fossilfuels #coal #dirtycoal #potus #abuse
https://means.tv/programs/mmn?cid=4053624&permalink=mmn-daily_012425
means.tvJanuary 24, 2025 | MMN DailyJudge declares birthright citizenship EO “blatantly unconstitutional”, MAHA means shutting down public health agencies during a bird flu outbreak, Trump initiates a purge
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For @semafor I wrote about captive #coal factory-connected power plants, mostly financed by #China, which could doom regional #energytransition
and #decarbonization plans.
www.semafor.com · One big loophole threatens the global energy transition | Semafor
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#NuclearColonialism v. #RedPower
"The world has no shortage of #PoliticalPrisoners – or of environmental martyrs and heroes– but 80-year-old #LeonardPeltier, a #Lakota and #Anishinaabe AIM member, is arguably the most famous, the legal lynching he underwent so outrageous, and his incarceration in a 'maximum security' prison so protracted. Even former FBI agents have themselves essentially contended that Pelter was scapegoated by the FBI for the lethal shooting of two agents–Jack Coler and Ronald Williams– on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Michael Apted’s 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, narrated by Robert Redford, is a good place to start if you’re new to this history. But if you’re looking for insights into the role that #UraniumMining played in the conflict, you’d be better off checking out #PeterMatthiessen’s book #InTheSpiritOfCrazyHorse: Leonard Peltier and the #FBI’s War on The #AmericanIndian ovement. To hear a first-hand account, check out Peltier’s memoir #PrisonWritings: My Life Is My Sun Dance.
"Despite well-documented prosecutorial misconduct powerfully depicted in Apted’s documentary, Peltier’s conviction has yet to be overturned. And in the face of decades of global, high-profile pleas for clemency for Peltier, including by James Reynolds, a “senior US attorney who was involved in [his] prosecution,” no president up until now has been willing to free Peltier. Given that he’s in increasingly poor health, time is running out, and the same president who just pardoned his own son may be Peltier’s last shot at clemency. If you haven’t yet done so, check out the Amnesty International petition– and Amy Goodman’s and Denis Moynihan’s recent column–making the case for his release. The Red Nation media collective also has an extensive playlist of podcasts focused on Peltier’s case and the long struggle to free him.
"Peltier, arguably the world’s most visible casualty of nuclear colonialism, was only three years into his sentence when Santee Dakota organizer John Trudell, his contemporary in AIM, delivered a searing 1980 speech at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering. As Zoltan Grossman has documented, 'Multinational mining companies, such as #UnionCarbide and #Exxon, proposed the development of the #BlackHills for energy resources, including #coal mines, #uranium mines, and coal slurry #pipelines.' The Black Hills gathering brought together a global convergence of more than 10,000 Indigenous activists and non-Native allies to hold the line against a repeat of the 1950s, which, per Grossman, had 'result[ed] in the extensive irradiation of the southern Black Hills community of #Edgemont.'"
Read more:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/11/tis-the-season-to-talk-climate-collapse-nuclear-colonialism-and-freeing-leonard-peltier/
#FreeLeonardPeltier #ClemencyForLeonardPeltier #ACAB #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #SilencingDissent #NoUraniumMining
CounterPunch.org · ‘Tis the Season to Talk Climate Collapse, Nuclear Colonialism, and Freeing Leonard PeltierI don’t know about you, but personally, the whole festive holiday thing seems to be falling a bit flat this year. Don’t get me wrong, like every other year, I do plan to really go to town on a pumpkin pie or two. But this year, the annual deluge of Black Friday ads egging us on to higher levels of consumption–with corresponding carbon emissions and solid and liquid waste–seemed particularly hollow, morbid–predatory, even–falling as Black Friday did this year on November 29, the date the U.N. first recognized in 1977 as International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This year all the excess, forced pageantry, and planned obsolescence of Black Friday seems in such stark and ironic contrast to the poverty in Gaza.
Great to see that the latest report from #Japan's Renewable Energy Institute specifically mentions both #Uyghur #forcedlabor & #coal intensity as concerns with #China's dominance of global #Solar
One of the first times a #climate/#energy group in Japan, as far as I know, has raised this. Not surprised its REI, the most independent & expert led such org.
https://www.renewable-ei.org/en/activities/reports/20241218.php
www.renewable-ei.orgProgress in Diversifying the Global Solar PV Supply Chain | Report | Renewable Energy InstituteThis report analyzes progress in diversifying the global solar PV supply chain. It finds that efforts to expand crystalline silicon manufacturing in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, and India, as well as improvements in recycling and the emergence of perovskite – pioneered by Japan, make the solar PV supply chain more robust.
One culprit is holding back Asia from reaching its climate progress: captive #coal. In my story for @Semafor , I explore why coal plants connected to industrial plants, factories, smelters, but not the grid, could impacts the #energytransition
www.semafor.com · One big loophole threatens the global energy transition | Semafor
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The reason is relatively simple. South Australia closed the last of its #coal fired generators in 2016, and despite having a number of gas generators these are largely “peaking plants” that operate rarely, or “intermediate” that operate part time. There is no baseload power left in the state. (2/3)
Indonesia Plans to Retire All Coal Plants Within 15 Years
Miners have breakfast on World Miners’ Day at one of Turkey’s main coal production centres.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Eternal bliss
Police usher a coal carrier out of Newcastle’s harbour while holding a group of kayaking Rising Tide protesters at bay.
Photograph: Dean Sewell/Oculi Photos/The Guardian
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European banks, investors and insurers continue to massively support coal, oil and gas production.
"Despite its crucial role in the ecological transition – and in climate degradation – private finance only occupied a marginal place during the hearings of European commissioners."
https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2024/11/18/what-european-commissioners-say-about-sustainable-finance/
Only just found out this piece I wrote in 2021 on #coal in #Indonesia was translated and published in #BahasaIndonesia. Always nice to see my articles in other languages.
Mongabay.co.id · Kala Dunia Mulai Tinggalkan Batubara, Indonesia Malah Kebalikan Dengan permintaan internasional berkurang, Indonesia, sebagai penghasil dan pengekspor batubara utama, berupaya meningkatkan permintaan domestik untuk bahan bakar fosil. Pemerintah baru-baru ini mengeluarkan serangkaian peraturan yang dianggap menguntungkan bagi industri batubara, dan mendukung rencana gasifikasi batubara. Penambang batubara milik negara PT Bukit Asam berencana memiliki pabrik gasifikasi batubara yang akan beroperasi pada 2024. Sementara […]
#Trump Says He’ll Move Thousands of Federal Workers Out of Washington. Here’s What Happened the First Time He Tried.
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The Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters moved from the capital to #Colorado in 2020, causing an exodus of leadership. If elected, Trump plans to use the same tactic across more of the federal #government.
ProPublicaTrump Says He’ll Move Thousands of Federal Workers Out of Washington. Here’s What Happened the First Time He Tried.
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Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals #solarpower #RenewableEnergy #coal #FossilFuels https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-solar-surge-will-send-coal-power-tumbling-by-2030-iea-data-reveals/
Carbon Brief · Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals - Carbon BriefGlobal electricity generation from solar will quadruple by 2030 and help to push coal power into reverse, according to new analysis.
Today in Labor History October 13, 1902: Teddy Roosevelt threatened to send in federal troops as strikebreakers to crush a coal strike. The strike by anthracite coal miners in eastern Pennsylvania was led by the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA). The region had had dozens of previous strikes led by earlier and now defunct unions like the WBA. The UMWA was created 12 years prior, when the Knights of Labor Assembly #35 merged with the National Progressive Miners Union. Over 100,000 miners participated in the strike, threatening to cut off heating fuel for most of the country. It was also the first strike settled by federal arbitration. The miners won a 9-hour work day (down from 10) and a 10% wage increase.
This was the same region where, in 1877, 20 Irish union activists were hanged on false charges of Molly Maguire terrorism to crush the WBA, brought on by the shenanigans of agent provocateur James McParland, working for the Pinkertons. That struggle is depicted in my novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill.
Read my article on the Molly Maguires here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/
Read my article on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/’
Purchase my novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, from any of these retailers:
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https://www.amazon.com/Anywhere-but-Schuylkill-Michael-Dunn-ebook/dp/B0CJVW1BP2
#workingclass #LaborHistory #coal #mining #union #strike #pennsylvania #Pinkertons #MollyMaguires #AnywhereButSchuylkill #fiction #historicalfiction #books #novel #writer #author @bookstadon
Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal, study finds https://phys.org/news/2024-10-liquefied-natural-gas-carbon-footprint.html “Liquified natural gas leaves a #GreenhouseGas footprint that is 33% worse than #coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell study. (1/4)
Phys.org · Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal, study finds
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@KeithDJohnson it will have to be massive and in a major city. 2019 #australia bushfires, major flooding in rural towns and areas have had zero effect. #auspol still approving #coal and #gas 
#climatechange #climatecrisis