Merlin Linehan
@merlinlinehan.bsky.social
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Today's attack on climate action from the Daily Mail (whose parent company makes $$$$ running fossil fuel industry conferences) is that clean energy is "making the rich even richer"... 🤔
Never seen this line from them before - has the influence of Gary Stevenson reached the Mail editorial team?!
Never seen this line from them before - has the influence of Gary Stevenson reached the Mail editorial team?!
July 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Today's attack on climate action from the Daily Mail (whose parent company makes $$$$ running fossil fuel industry conferences) is that clean energy is "making the rich even richer"... 🤔
Never seen this line from them before - has the influence of Gary Stevenson reached the Mail editorial team?!
Never seen this line from them before - has the influence of Gary Stevenson reached the Mail editorial team?!
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Some useful fact-checking here from @carbonbrief.org about a trope often pushed by the more fossil-fuel-aligned parts of the UK media... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
June 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Some useful fact-checking here from @carbonbrief.org about a trope often pushed by the more fossil-fuel-aligned parts of the UK media... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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This is the problem with the argument ‘we can just adapt’ to climate change. How do you adapt to this without massive health risks, an enormous blow to productivity and food security, and gargantuan adaptation costs?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
June 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This is the problem with the argument ‘we can just adapt’ to climate change. How do you adapt to this without massive health risks, an enormous blow to productivity and food security, and gargantuan adaptation costs?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Perhaps no surprise given the advantages - Chinese solar panels are taking off in Africa🚀☀️
Solar in many African countries is starting to take off🚀🌍
[Includes new data to end-May!]
[Includes new data to end-May!]
June 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Perhaps no surprise given the advantages - Chinese solar panels are taking off in Africa🚀☀️
No surprise the Telegraph are using the heatwave to attack net-zero. Selective quotes from a report used to try and discredit net zero tech.
The Telegraph is owned by Redbird Capital - a major investor in fossil fuels.
So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...
So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...
June 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
No surprise the Telegraph are using the heatwave to attack net-zero. Selective quotes from a report used to try and discredit net zero tech.
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The Telegraph is owned by Redbird Capital - a major investor in fossil fuels.
So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...
So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...
June 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Telegraph is owned by Redbird Capital - a major investor in fossil fuels.
So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...
So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...
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Today's Daily Express continues the effort by a number of UK media outlets to make climate change - which affects us all - a story about one man...
Today's Daily Express advertisers include *TUI *Vitabiotics *Vintage Cash Cow *Iceland & *Yimbly.com
Today's Daily Express advertisers include *TUI *Vitabiotics *Vintage Cash Cow *Iceland & *Yimbly.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Today's Daily Express continues the effort by a number of UK media outlets to make climate change - which affects us all - a story about one man...
Today's Daily Express advertisers include *TUI *Vitabiotics *Vintage Cash Cow *Iceland & *Yimbly.com
Today's Daily Express advertisers include *TUI *Vitabiotics *Vintage Cash Cow *Iceland & *Yimbly.com
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Impossible to overstate how much damage billionaire media owners have done to public understanding of the renewable energy transition.
The Daily Mail is a cess pit of disinformation.
The Daily Mail is a cess pit of disinformation.
May 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Impossible to overstate how much damage billionaire media owners have done to public understanding of the renewable energy transition.
The Daily Mail is a cess pit of disinformation.
The Daily Mail is a cess pit of disinformation.
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Telegraph are at it again today...
With advertising from Tesco, Lotto and Sainsburys.
With advertising from Tesco, Lotto and Sainsburys.
May 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Telegraph are at it again today...
With advertising from Tesco, Lotto and Sainsburys.
With advertising from Tesco, Lotto and Sainsburys.
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Those lentil-weaving hippies at the London Stock Exchange Group reckon the global green economy is worth $7.9tr, is the fourth largest sector in the world, and has grown faster than every industry barring technology over the past decade.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4413438...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4413438...
London Stock Exchange puts value of global green economy at $7.9tr
Report confirms global green economy has enjoyed a compound annual growth rate of 15 per cent over the past decade, putting it second only to technology as the world's fastest growing sector
www.businessgreen.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Those lentil-weaving hippies at the London Stock Exchange Group reckon the global green economy is worth $7.9tr, is the fourth largest sector in the world, and has grown faster than every industry barring technology over the past decade.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4413438...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4413438...
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This thread by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is essential reading.
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
May 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This thread by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is essential reading.
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'A cemetery of trees':
vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco. Jaguars, giant armadillos + ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth.
How is this STILL happening??
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco. Jaguars, giant armadillos + ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth.
How is this STILL happening??
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A cemetery of trees’: vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco
Jaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
'A cemetery of trees':
vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco. Jaguars, giant armadillos + ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth.
How is this STILL happening??
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco. Jaguars, giant armadillos + ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth.
How is this STILL happening??
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate change poses a threat to us all - and the evidence clearly shows the need for action.
Yet today's Telegraph continues the effort to make this all about one man - & frame urgently-needed climate action as dangerous & extreme...
With advertising from Coop, BMW, Trailfinders, Lotto & B&Q
Yet today's Telegraph continues the effort to make this all about one man - & frame urgently-needed climate action as dangerous & extreme...
With advertising from Coop, BMW, Trailfinders, Lotto & B&Q
May 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Climate change poses a threat to us all - and the evidence clearly shows the need for action.
Yet today's Telegraph continues the effort to make this all about one man - & frame urgently-needed climate action as dangerous & extreme...
With advertising from Coop, BMW, Trailfinders, Lotto & B&Q
Yet today's Telegraph continues the effort to make this all about one man - & frame urgently-needed climate action as dangerous & extreme...
With advertising from Coop, BMW, Trailfinders, Lotto & B&Q
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We're just going to leave this here... www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
April 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We're just going to leave this here... www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Spanish authorities are asking the public to refrain from speculation about the cause of the power blackouts.
Meanwhile today’s Telegraph has run a big front page story blaming – you guessed it – clean energy policies…
With advertising from John Lewis, Honda & the Battersea Decorative Fair
Meanwhile today’s Telegraph has run a big front page story blaming – you guessed it – clean energy policies…
With advertising from John Lewis, Honda & the Battersea Decorative Fair
April 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Spanish authorities are asking the public to refrain from speculation about the cause of the power blackouts.
Meanwhile today’s Telegraph has run a big front page story blaming – you guessed it – clean energy policies…
With advertising from John Lewis, Honda & the Battersea Decorative Fair
Meanwhile today’s Telegraph has run a big front page story blaming – you guessed it – clean energy policies…
With advertising from John Lewis, Honda & the Battersea Decorative Fair
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Beyond shameless. Just treating its own readers with absolute contempt.
April 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Beyond shameless. Just treating its own readers with absolute contempt.
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A thousand more reasons for advertisers to steer clear of GB News... www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...
GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election
GB News gave a platform to at least 953 anti-climate attacks in the immediate run-up and aftermath of the 2024 general election, DeSmog can reveal. Half of these featured attacks on clean energy polic...
www.desmog.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A thousand more reasons for advertisers to steer clear of GB News... www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...
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According to the UN, "methane traps more heat in the atmosphere per molecule than carbon dioxide... making it 80 times more harmful than CO2 for 20 years after it is released": www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Yet this is what appeared in today's Express to justify demands to resume fracking:
Yet this is what appeared in today's Express to justify demands to resume fracking:
April 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
According to the UN, "methane traps more heat in the atmosphere per molecule than carbon dioxide... making it 80 times more harmful than CO2 for 20 years after it is released": www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Yet this is what appeared in today's Express to justify demands to resume fracking:
Yet this is what appeared in today's Express to justify demands to resume fracking:
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Disturbing overtones here from the Mail on Sunday, telling its readers that "Globalism" (along with something it calls "warmism") has "made us a weakling"...
Supported by advertising from B & Q, Asda, Waitrose, Ryobi, PaddyPower, Prezzo & Boots
Supported by advertising from B & Q, Asda, Waitrose, Ryobi, PaddyPower, Prezzo & Boots
April 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Disturbing overtones here from the Mail on Sunday, telling its readers that "Globalism" (along with something it calls "warmism") has "made us a weakling"...
Supported by advertising from B & Q, Asda, Waitrose, Ryobi, PaddyPower, Prezzo & Boots
Supported by advertising from B & Q, Asda, Waitrose, Ryobi, PaddyPower, Prezzo & Boots
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The evidence is clear: We must transition to clean energy if humanity is to have a liveable future.
Meanwhile today's Telegraph is pushing the idea that climate policy is bad because it's a threat to (checks notes) rural churches...
This is what the Co-op & other advertisers are supporting...
Meanwhile today's Telegraph is pushing the idea that climate policy is bad because it's a threat to (checks notes) rural churches...
This is what the Co-op & other advertisers are supporting...
April 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The evidence is clear: We must transition to clean energy if humanity is to have a liveable future.
Meanwhile today's Telegraph is pushing the idea that climate policy is bad because it's a threat to (checks notes) rural churches...
This is what the Co-op & other advertisers are supporting...
Meanwhile today's Telegraph is pushing the idea that climate policy is bad because it's a threat to (checks notes) rural churches...
This is what the Co-op & other advertisers are supporting...
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I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
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www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
This is insane.
I just interviewed experts on this v issue this week for Climate Insider.
They point out that creating H is very energy intensive, and only makes sense for hard-to-abate industries.
It absolutely does not make sense for home heating.
This is insane.
I just interviewed experts on this v issue this week for Climate Insider.
They point out that creating H is very energy intensive, and only makes sense for hard-to-abate industries.
It absolutely does not make sense for home heating.
Alberta bill enables hydrogen home heating, electricity market remodelling
EDMONTON - Alberta's government is looking to give the green light to hydrogen as a home and commercial heating fuel in a move it says will boost demand and reduce
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
April 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
This is insane.
I just interviewed experts on this v issue this week for Climate Insider.
They point out that creating H is very energy intensive, and only makes sense for hard-to-abate industries.
It absolutely does not make sense for home heating.
This is insane.
I just interviewed experts on this v issue this week for Climate Insider.
They point out that creating H is very energy intensive, and only makes sense for hard-to-abate industries.
It absolutely does not make sense for home heating.
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One other point about all the various articles attacking net zero - they are advocating for what is essentially a Trumpist strategy. Am not convinced he’s really the best model to follow right now.
Yet another godawful Times leader on net zero. No serious idea on what to do about climate change and gas dependence. No acknowledgement of difficulties in cutting nuclear costs. No awareness of booming global EV markets.
www.thetimes.com/article/aa44...
www.thetimes.com/article/aa44...
www.thetimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
One other point about all the various articles attacking net zero - they are advocating for what is essentially a Trumpist strategy. Am not convinced he’s really the best model to follow right now.
Fantastic article on the adoption of solar energy in Pakistan - the mass roll out of panels in the country cuts emissions but also cuts fuel bills and lessens dependence on an unreliable grid
"In 2024, that decision calculus went mainstream. Import records show 22 gigawatts worth of modules flooding into the country, with many going to private-sector installations behind the meter. Warehouses, textile mills, farms—anything with a flat roof and a balance sheet."
Pakistan’s 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy - CleanTechnica
Pakistan’s solar boom, EV rise, and climate action signal a historic shift from fragility to clean tech leadership across Asia’s most unexpected energy frontier.
cleantechnica.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Fantastic article on the adoption of solar energy in Pakistan - the mass roll out of panels in the country cuts emissions but also cuts fuel bills and lessens dependence on an unreliable grid
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"China confirms that installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystem"
'...solar panels ... alter soil conditions, encourage vegetation growth, and reshape the local climate...'
glassalmanac.com/china-confir...
'...solar panels ... alter soil conditions, encourage vegetation growth, and reshape the local climate...'
glassalmanac.com/china-confir...
China confirms that installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystem
For years, solar energy has been celebrated as one of the most promising solutions to fight climate change. But while the focus has often been on ... Continue Reading →
glassalmanac.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"China confirms that installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystem"
'...solar panels ... alter soil conditions, encourage vegetation growth, and reshape the local climate...'
glassalmanac.com/china-confir...
'...solar panels ... alter soil conditions, encourage vegetation growth, and reshape the local climate...'
glassalmanac.com/china-confir...