James Murray
@james-bg
Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
This is a lot of things, and one of those things is excruciatingly embarrassing. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Wading into the air conditioning culture wars. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
Withering assessment of Badenoch's purge of any MPs who think net zero targets might be helpful in tackling the climate change that she apparently accepts does exist. www.businessgreen.com/news/4532645...
A sad and not a little shameful day for a once serious party. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
This is encouraging and shows what can be done, but it also begs the question how so many sewage spills were allowed to persist for so long. www.businessgreen.com/news/4532476...
These trends really are transforming the world. The clean energy transition is much more advanced than the AI boom. It's also easily as significant, and arguably much more so. www.businessgreen.com/news/4532158...
Quite angry and despairing at having to write this, tbh. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
Brutal demolition from @eciu.net of the 'we're just one per cent of global emissions - what difference can we make' bullshit. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
The National Energy System Operator today said around £90bn of investment in grid projects is needed in the coming decade to deliver a clean and secure power system that can meet rising electricity demand, while a separate report warned the government is likely to miss its clean power by 2030 goal.
Genuinely a bit surprised the Tories have not paid more of a penalty for torching their previous stance that UK action on climate change was good and necessary. The retreat into what borders on Trumpist climate denialism has been remarkably rapid and has happened with close to zero push back.
If Starmer is resigning it will be interesting to see if he references arguably his biggest legacy from the past two years. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531518...
This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.
That’s the problem with recognising climate change is a scientific reality and then trying to ensure the only biosphere in the known universe remains habitable, it’s just such a downer.
Burnham has been unequivocal on his support for bolder climate action in the recent past.
Is the heatwave connected to climate change? To all intents and purposes, yes.
And to anyone who argues we can’t connect one extreme weather event to climate change or any media outlets that refuses to mention climate change in its reporting, I wrote this during a 2018 heatwave and it stands up. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/30...
Reality is public are pretty divided on new North Sea oil+gas drilling, even after months of highly questionable campaigns suggesting it would magically bring down bills. But there's solid evidence voters prefer clean energy if asked to choose between the two. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...