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Megan Darby
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Editor of award-winning . Vegetarian. Mother to a ginger toddler. When he gets to my age, we'll be living in a net zero society, right? 🤯
Londonclimatechangenews.comJoined October 2011

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Often, this newspaper clipping from ~111 years ago is shared showing that we knew burning coal causes global warming. What's not shared is that the original Popular Mechanics piece — from which this article was reprinted — thought global warming would be a good thing.
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there are a surprising number of oil company email addresses in our subscriber list. might explain some of the less enthusiastic responses to our reader surveys...
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Not the main takeaway but new Congressional documents reveal BP staff are @ClimateHome readers! In 2016, they discussed by email this @KarlMathiesen article about a @PriceofOil study. climatechangenews.com/2016/09/22/car
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Very sad to see Chloe go. I’ve loved working with and learned loads from her. But Climate Home’s loss is every other editors gain, particularly if they’re looking for reporting from her next destination - Kenya.
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📢 After three & half brilliant years at the fantastic @ClimateHome I'm heading for new adventures. I'll still be writing about climate, environment and development issues but as a freelancer. Read on...
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even the carbon offset sellers are not indulging the ridiculous idea of a "carbon neutral coalmine"
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🔹 “Justifying the development of a new coal mine with our carbon credits and using them to claim ‘carbon neutrality’ for the project is nonsense. We are in a climate emergency and new extraction of fossil fuels is unjustifiable." @goldstandard climatechangenews.com/2022/12/08/uk-
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🧵 that applies to so many fossil fuel projects
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I've done lots of media on the coal mine, and I'm struck by how journalists' questions, and indeed many campaigners' statements, essentially embed the false debate over the mine. An explanation - and some alternative questions - in a thread 1/9
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Chloe, we're going to miss you so much! Thanks for all your hard work and excellent reporting over the years. All the best with the next thing
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📢 After three & half brilliant years at the fantastic @ClimateHome I'm heading for new adventures. I'll still be writing about climate, environment and development issues but as a freelancer. Read on...
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devil's advocate: the planning inspector is not *wrong* to be sceptical of the steel industry's green hype, is he?
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NEW UK coal mine approval sparks global fury and hypocrisy claims ✍️ @joeloyo climatechangenews.com/2022/12/08/uk-
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Ajit is one of the best people I know at this stuff - following
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i've started a youtube channel to explain climate simply, please subscribe if you want jargon-free explanations of how powerful people are screwing the planet and ideology-free deep dives into ways to stop them 1/ youtube.com/watch?v=JjGggb
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Incredible to say it, but we are discussing the consent of a new deep coal mine in the UK, despite all that has been said in recent years about the phase out coal. This is a very bad decision – supporting a technology of the past, with a very poor prospectus for new UK jobs.
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Ex chief scientific advisor Sir David King: "The decision to go ahead with a new coal mine in Cumbria is an incomprehensible act of self-harm. This action by a leading developed economy sets exactly the wrong example to the rest of the world."
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"Phasing out coal use is the clearest requirement of the global effort towards Net Zero. We condemn, therefore, the Secretary of State’s decision to consent a new deep coal mine in Cumbria, contrary to our previous advice." -
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I honestly didn't think they would do this. Ok so it's coal for steelmaking not energy. Ok so it'll *probably* get tied up in legal challenges and not actually happen. But what a way to undermine the message of Cop26 that ending coal is a priority theguardian.com/environment/20
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Training a “solar installer” instead of an electrician is like training a “burger-flipper” rather than a chef. A solar-panel-plugger-inner has to chase jobs. But a journeyman electrician can stay put as different projects come to an area, increasing family & community stability.
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This is mostly for export, while using more renewables at home. The CO2 is counted where it's burned, so they can kinda duck responsibility for that (as so many other countries do)
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Its latest 2050 energy strategy is dated 2017 and sees a big role for gas and "clean coal", which are a long way from zero carbon. CCS has been tried, tested and it's still super expensive and doesn't capture 100% of emissions
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