Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Today'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?! 1219
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Some 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...carbonbrief.orgFactcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high - Carbon BriefThe UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down. 23822
Reposted by Merlin LinehanJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 29/06/2025This 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/... 711240
Merlin Linehan @merlinlinehan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Perhaps no surprise given the advantages - Chinese solar panels are taking off in Africa🚀☀️ 020
Merlin Linehan @merlinlinehan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025No surprise the Telegraph are using the heatwave to attack net-zero. Selective quotes from a report used to try and discredit net zero tech. 051
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025The 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... 34921
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Today'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 3278
Reposted by Merlin LinehanJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Impossible 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. 75818
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Telegraph are at it again today... With advertising from Tesco, Lotto and Sainsburys. 184
Reposted by Merlin LinehanJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Those 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...businessgreen.comLondon Stock Exchange puts value of global green economy at $7.9trReport 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 218884
Reposted by Merlin LinehanJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/05/2025This thread by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is essential reading. 14311
Reposted by Merlin LinehanEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/05/2025'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/...theguardian.com‘A cemetery of trees’: vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran ChacoJaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world 214862
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Climate 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 35920
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 30/04/2025We're just going to leave this here... www.express.co.uk/news/politic... 53415
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Spanish 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 37928
Reposted by Merlin LinehanJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Beyond shameless. Just treating its own readers with absolute contempt. 601714289
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 28/04/2025A thousand more reasons for advertisers to steer clear of GB News... www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...desmog.comGB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 ElectionGB 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... 1379
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 13/04/2025According 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: 32411
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Disturbing 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 44016
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025The 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... 45216
Reposted by Merlin LinehanAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I’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 🧵 48627154
Reposted by Merlin LinehanJax Jacobsen @jaxjacobsen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025www.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.thecanadianpressnews.caAlberta bill enables hydrogen home heating, electricity market remodellingEDMONTON - 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 111
Reposted by Merlin LinehanJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025One 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. 2154
Merlin Linehan @merlinlinehan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Fantastic 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 020
Reposted by Merlin LinehanOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/04/2025"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...glassalmanac.comChina confirms that installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystemFor 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 → 04315
Merlin Linehan @merlinlinehan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Stunning growth in solar energy in 2024, driven by Chinese installation and production. Hope this trend can continue into 2025 as key to driving decarbonisation 010
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Daily Express once claimed to have turned over a new leaf on climate change: www.societyofeditors.org/soe_news/exp... Yet now they're lauding Donald Trump for "calling out the green hoax" and denouncing what they call "net zero madness"... With advertising from Aldi, Tesco & Asda... 1108
Reposted by Merlin LinehanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/03/2025"More than three years after Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to stop building new coal projects abroad, the country’s Belt and Road Initiative is increasingly driven by renewables." It's not altruism, y'all. Shit's cheaper.semafor.comChina’s foreign infrastructure push is greener than everRenewables beat fossil fuels in China’s overseas power projects last year. 20779168
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Terrific chart in this terrific piece by @pilitaclark.bsky.social:ft.comGas, not net zero, has driven up UK power billsBritain has been unhelpfully exposed to international price shocks 110240
Reposted by Merlin LinehanSam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Over the past two decades, the Conservative Party has taken *£7.2 million* from senior figures at the GWPF - the UK's main climate science denial groupdesmog.comConservatives Have Taken £7.2 Million from Climate Denial Group Funders and DirectorsFunders and directors of the UK’s leading climate science denial group have donated more than £7 million to the Conservative Party over the past two decades, DeSmog can reveal. The Global Warming Poli... 19764
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Meanwhile the Daily Express was telling its readers earlier this week that "climate change is not an existential threat but one we can adapt to" & that "a little more carbon dioxide makes the world greener". All supported with advertising from Waitrose, Morrisons and Aldi... 42613
Merlin Linehan @merlinlinehan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025A really useful thread showing how media outlets like GB news are spreading misinformation on climate (and other topics). Plus how to combat this, by highlighting to companies who advertise in these media outlets and are associating themselves with damaging misinformation 010
Reposted by Merlin LinehanSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 26/02/2025NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10 16534309
Reposted by Merlin LinehanAlice I McCombs ❌ 👑 🐈⬛ @earthwins.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBritain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI saysGreen sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security 021
Reposted by Merlin LinehanRichard Wilson @fishrise.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Here's some food for thought for anyone thinking of increasing oil exports ... The original story is from Bloomberg - a hotbed of rabid radicals. theprogressplaybook.com/2024/11/28/c...theprogressplaybook.comChina’s EV boom set to push gasoline demand off a cliffElectric models and hybrids have accounted for more than half of retail passenger vehicle sales in the four months from July. 1122
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Just found out that M&S are advertising on GB News Radio. M&S talk a lot about their 'green' credentials – so do they really want to be spending money with a channel that spreads climate misinformation? 55023
Reposted by Merlin LinehanOrla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 14/02/2025In the past two years, floods ruined soybeans growing in Brazil, a hurricane destroyed millions of $$ worth of crops in Jamaica and drought hit Sri Lankan rice This new interactive map gives a snapshot of how extreme weather is damaging crops, feat. 100 news stories from 2023-24 buff.ly/42Rqf2D 26837
Reposted by Merlin LinehanEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Yesterday, I returned from 3 weeks in Costa Rica, where I went to find out what can be learned from their spectacular success rewilding a country. I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting *everyone*. 291275259
Reposted by Merlin LinehanOld King Cole @stephencole.bsky.social · 03/02/2025If you advertise on GB News I will not buy your product. Repost if you agree. 19065
Reposted by Merlin LinehanMark Stoll @markstoll.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Some good news among the awful. #tigers #endangeredspecies #ecology #India #environment #conservation www.sfgate.com/news/world/a...sfgate.comStudy finds India doubled its tiger population in a decade and credits conservation effortsIndia doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats... 0103
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Boycotts *are* free speech - pass it on... 17326
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A massive thanks to @bylinetimes.bsky.social for this write up following the escalation of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric on GB News - and to everyone who's taken action over the past 24 hours: bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...bylinetimes.comGB News Hit by Guest Boycott After Hosts Label LGBT+ People 'Paedos' and 'Deviants'There was a flurry of Ofcom complaints after a series of offensive remarks by presenters on the right-wing channel 728891
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Baffled and dismayed by the toxic narratives being pumped into the UK by GB News and the like? Here's 6 simple ways you can help it stop: stopfundingheat.info/how-can-i-ge... 062
Reposted by Merlin LinehanSusan Oman @suoman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Come do a funded PhD with me! Difference and power in the time of responsible AI: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comDifference and power in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Difference and power in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com 135
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 30/01/2025If you like #StopFundingHate then you'll love our sister campaign #StopFundingHeat - please do show them some love and give them a follow! bsky.app/profile/stop... 0134
Reposted by Merlin LinehanRichard Wilson @fishrise.bsky.social · 27/01/2025My thoughts on the Kamikaze King of Coal ... open.substack.com/pub/fishrise...open.substack.comTrump’s gift to WorldBut mostly to China: 011
Reposted by Merlin LinehanStop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Quick reminder that GB News have been giddily pushing Trump's anti-climate lines for ages now 🫥 We'll keep sharing lists of advertisers on the channel so you can let them know what their ££ is going to. Often, they'll pull their ads. ∴ Less money, less megaphone 062
Merlin Linehan @merlinlinehan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This is a key trend to watch: if a heavily industrialised country like China can shift away from fossil fuels and electrify successfully it will serve as a role model for the world. Coal/oil remain dominant but renewables installations are surging 020
Reposted by Merlin LinehanNoah Kaufman @noahqkaufman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025For anyone writing Chris Wright stories: his conclusion that climate change is no biggie comes from a common mischaracterization of the economics literature. This could be a good opportunity to explain that to people (1/x) 718955
Reposted by Merlin LinehanRichard Wilson @fishrise.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Reposting this because it cannot be said too often: Dirt-cheap Sodium batteries are an irresistible energy revolution now kicking off. Listen carefully and you can hear the Fossil Fuel death knell tolling. aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-...aukehoekstra.substack.comBatteries: how cheap can they get?How dirt cheap batteries will completely transform our electricity grid, paving the way for solar and wind and replacing grid reinforcements with grid buffers. 02910