Beggars belief given it's 2026 and all we know about a warming planet / damage... but major petro-states / polluters are trying to gum up global #climate science. Part 789.
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The Starlink restriction over Ukraine is a perfect illustration of the danger of relying on US technology. Finding alternatives that aren’t Chinese is difficult and expensive- but I expect the drive to accelerate
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Aspiring European competitor to Starlink, Eutelsat, soars on the news of U.S. throttling access for Ukraine. Investors expect European defense billions to be diverted from U.S. companies, and SpaceX in particular.
EU Commissioner @DanJoergensen tells @StrategicEU event there's a secret room at EU HQ where states prep for Russia attacks... "I don’t think it will happen but we have to prepare” - says clean energy / resilience key for security / financial stability.
V similar to the Saudi take on #climate alerts...
"Before last week's airport attacks, officials from an allied Western government asked Saudi authorities why the alerts had stopped... the response was that the alerts were too disruptive and many citizens had complained they were being woken at night." reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
That's the problem with a la carte planning...
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz: the crisis that we are in today is because some countries abandoned their refining systems #OOTT #SaudiArabia
UK Conservatives doubled the ‘cost of net-zero’ after a spreadsheet howler 😂. Credit where credit's due - apology + explanation from author has been made here. Imagine papers will be far more sceptical next time a huge 'cost of net zero' # emerges...
It does appear as though I made an error in a report I made for the IEA back in March which @DrSimEvans has picked up on without tagging me & he's blocked me. However, there's more to say. A thread 🧵(1/7)
The @WorldBankGroup boss Banga has 'retired' #climate targets at the behest of the US, but spiking oil / gas prices + weather impacts are biting him on the ass. A real pain, reality.
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Karnataka had declared 217 out of its 240 taluks as drought-hit. Ground truthing is ongoing in the other taluks & it's likely 8-10 more will be added to the drought-hit list. We need a thorough scientific study about #ElNiño impacts in this country deccanherald.com/india/karna…
Real timing, landing this just after Nepal got nailed by a glacier collapse. Makes you wonder how some folks think, tbh. wsj.com/opinion/the-rich-wor…
'The Iran war is the greatest strategic blunder in US history' - crisp analsyis from Mearsheimer...
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Bit worrying pre #COP31
Indication the Turkish Govt’s clampdown on media freedom is extending and likely to go further. I appear to be the only foreign journalist (so far) affected by a recent wave of online censorship. It’s a broad spectrum targeting X accounts of Turkish journalists, academics, media freedom, human rights and LGBTQ+ rights groups on ‘obscenity’ grounds. More than 1000 X accounts were blocked in Turkey in Sept - more than the entire 2025. I’ve been given no explanation for this action 🧵
“I prefer the world of disruption to the peaceful world. There are more opportunities"
To be fair to the boss of @TotalEnergies, at least he's honest. Chaos = $$$$
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On the environment, current favourite to win the Brazil Presidential election Flavio Bolsonaro looks like he'll be distinctly sub-optimal...
Based on the new Reform criteria (official or otherwise) I'm apparently not English as all my great grandparents were Irish or German. Who makes the cut? Truly bizarre behaviour.
“If someone's going to call themselves English, I presume you've got an idea in mind?”
What does it mean to be ‘English’? Watch Reform UK’s Suella Braverman and Labour’s Miatta Fahnbulleh debate on #bbcqt
Watch now: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00328g…
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37% of new trucks sold in China are now electric. They’re not little vans - they’re 49 tons. Unaffected by diesel prices. Simply not held back by the fossil fuel lobby.
