Liverpool, Monday 29th September — Scientists for Extinction Rebellion staged a protest outside the Labour Party Conference, warning that the UK Government’s climate strategy is a “high-risk gamble” that locks in fossil fuels and delays urgent action.The group is calling for a reset of UK climate policy—away from unproven technologies like Carbon Capture and StorageContinueContinue reading “Scientists, health professionals and Extinction Rebellion warn of “High-Risk Climate Gamble” at Labour Party Conference”
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Campaigners target Sheffield University’s partnership with Drax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByI8Jga7OKc&ab_channel=ExtinctionRebellionSheffield Sign the petition today This fortnight we’ve seen the concentration of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high of 430 parts per million and Arctic sea ice hit a record low. As all eyes have been on Ukraine, Climate Change continues to overheat the planet. Climate scientists have been protesting in AmericaContinueContinue reading “Campaigners target Sheffield University’s partnership with Drax”
Time for a Fossil Fuel Treaty, or will they CoP out?
A guest blog by Stephen Pennels The coming of Storm Ashley this week is chicken feed compared to the recent problems across the world with cars washed down streets, in country after country. Sheffield has had its share of floods over the years, in 1991 the Sheaf left a branch on platform 5 of theContinueContinue reading “Time for a Fossil Fuel Treaty, or will they CoP out?”
No More Coal!
Bryan Hopkins has written to the Star. Rod Hutchinson’s letter advocating more coal mines (Star 10/10/23 see below) is at best wrong and at worst dangerously misleading. He claims scrubbers in coal power stations mean emissions are 0.01% pure but he does not say pure what! These scrubbers actually just remove sulphur dioxide from theContinueContinue reading “No More Coal!”
