Stuart Capstick

Three months ago. Still fucking angry.

On the off chance that members of parliament still give a flying fuck about climate science and their international climate pledges. This should be an open and shut case to reject the application. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...

Approving the drilling of Jackdaw is the wrong decision on every front. It won't bring down bills, it creates barely any jobs, and it undermines our climate commitments.

It doesn't really matter whether you're a right-wing populist or a left-wing-cosplaying government, if you allow and enable more oil and gas then the effect on the climate, nature and the world's poorest is the same either way: crisis, destruction and death.

The IPCC is pretty clear that if we want a safe climate there can be no new oil and gas. But every country thinks it has some special reason for why it should be the exception

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

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Hi @zackpolanski.bsky.social if the Jackdaw + Rosebank decisions were in your hands, would you make sure they did not go ahead? Voters in the upcoming by-election with even a passing interest in limiting climate breakdown might like to know.

Overshoot... is that where you drive speeding off a cliff and then, panic-stricken, try to reverse back onto solid ground?

Good people of Holborn & St Pancras elect Zak Polanski for Parliament. Give Andy Burnt-his-chances a kick up the backside and help bring an end the the current destructive political system.

Complete betrayal, climate vandalism, scientific ignorance. If you care about the lives of the world's most vulnerable people and the future of the planet, do not ever vote for this broken party again when there is now a viable alternative in the Greens. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Something to remember as the UK's new climate-meh prime minister decides whether to engage in the climate vandalism of new oil and gas.

Pragmatic (adj.) 1. Of or relating to decision-making in the short-term interests of fossil fuel producers. 2. Neglect or ignorance of the risks of climate breakdown and need for rapid emissions reduction. 3. Naivety in regard to the promises or assumptions of unproven carbon capture technologies.

8/ For more details and references, please read this article written by @abiperrin.bsky.social & @stucap.bsky.social...

1/ Today Scientists on Survival welcomed MPs back to Parliament. As @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social & @andyburnham.bsky.social weigh opening #Rosebank & #Jackdaw, MPs must face up to the harm that more CO2 means - & not be misled by spurious industry talking points. A thread 🧵 #ClimateEmergency

New oil & gas = more fires New oil & gas = more floods New oil & gas = more death

I don't want to have to engage in protest. I'd rather just get on with my research, and I found it quite emotional But while my government is considering pouring more fuel on the fires, despite everything we know and everything we're experiencing, what else am I supposed to do?

12/ As scientists we are doing all we can to ensure basic scientific realities are accounted for in decision-making. But this is an all-of-society problem and we can’t do it alone. We need to stop adding fuel to the fires, and that needs everyone to take a stand.

1/ Today Scientists on Survival visited the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero to remind the government of the scientific facts. New oil and gas 🛢️ = more fire 🔥, more extreme weather ⛈️, more food shortages🚫 and more death ☠️. For more details see thread🧵...

BREAKING: We were outside The Treasury with a clear message on the last day of Rosebank's public consultation: Andy Stop Rosebank! NEW OIL FUELS CROP FAILURE 🥀Pouring more oil onto the flames, will only lead to more drought and eventual crop failure The choice is oil or food!

"We identify how narratives of “pragmatism” are used by politicians... to promote incremental rather than transformative change, to defend fossil fuel companies, & to dismiss “extreme” calls for a more rapid #climate transition" - @steveclimate.bsky.social & @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social

Everything is on fire. It’s not the time for patience

Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps

1/ Doomism means saying it's too late and nothing can be done. It doesn't mean saying things are bad. One recent high profile paper in @pnas.org treats conflates this. Whilst another paper in the British Journal of Psychology treats naming who funded climate delay as conspiracism. A thread 🧵

And a longer read On Science, Activism & Public Trust from @abiperrin.bsky.social, @charliejgardner.bsky.social & @stucap.bsky.social here

More detail here: scientistsonsurvival.org/blog/science... @stucap.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social @profbillmcguire.bsky.social @tristramwyatt.bsky.social @jmbecologist.bsky.social

Combining science and activism.... does it damage public trust? Or could it be the only thing powerful enough to combat the disinformation and passivity that is holding back urgent action on existential threats such the Climate Emergency? More from us in @nature.com today: rdcu.be/fzcmS

I’ve just responded to the government’s consultation by saying no to Heathrow’s climate-wrecking third runway. Will you join me and tell the government you oppose expansion too? foe.uk/c7dag @friends-earth.bsky.social

What's the best way to make chaos, death and devastation sound like a task on the Apprentice?

If you are a Unite member and want more climate action (not less), look out for the ballot paper which should arrive in the next couple of days. Sharon Graham has argued for more drilling in the North Sea and briefed against Ed Miliband because of his work on net zero. Time to dump Sharon!

Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Remembering a Blackadder episode where, in the trenches about to go over the top, he reflects that "the real reason for the whole thing was that it was too much effort not to have a war". Many ways to look and climate and nature collapse, but to me this sorry explanation seems as good as any.

Post below from a month ago, since when a quarter of million people evacuated in France and Spain from wildfires, and it's still ~30C in London with little sign of rain. Yet signs are that Andy 'isn't he a great guy?!' Burnham is to green-light new oil and gas. Feel my sanity is hanging by a thread.

The scientific case against the development of new fossil fuels is crystal clear #AndyDon'tBurn'Em

As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵

The London Ambulance Service responded to the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in its history yesterday. The Chief Executive said this was "driven by the extreme heat across London".

And the best is yet to come 🥰 Keep taking those flights, keep building those data centres, keep dragging those fossil fuels out. Onwards and upwards 📈

So fucking angry right now that amid a record-breaking heatwave, the mood music coming from business and sections of UK politics is to exploit the last reserves of North Sea oil & gas. It's anti-science, damages global climate action and will only lead to yet more murderous, climate-wrecking CO2.

Ever so glad a few people got to go on a multi-billion $ ride, meanwhile here on Earth...

Remember, whatever else is going on, it is absolutely essential you get on a plane going *somewhere*

BBC radio news just now reports the deaths of 3 US soldiers and 9 Israeli citizens, as well as two oil tankers being hit. No mention at all of the 150 Iranian children killed by a US-Israeli strike on a primary school because why would anyone care about that.

Think I might go round my neighbours and take their stuff. No reason really, I just want it. I'm stronger than them so what are they going to do anyway? PS I really like the Bible and am a Christian.

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