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Here's a great breakdown of where the green house gases are coming from, and therefore what needs altering/reducing/eliminating:




It's from this cracking website about world resources:

https://www.wri.org/

More or less with you on this. However, I couldn't help but groan when I saw the footage of folk being pulled off the top of that Tube.  It doesn't look great, because we're supposed to be encouraging electric mass transit solutions.

Also, this may be one of the first situations I've heard of where the public have physically turned on a protester and given them a good hiding.  That is NOT something anyone wants, and if the violence of those members of the public is left unchallenged we're basically opening the doors for anyone to take angry potshots at protesters, XR or otherwise.

On the other hand, it HAS again raised the issue of why people are prepared to do this - because of the terrifying reality of man-made climate change sweeping our society, civilisation, and lives away, and in a horrendous drawn out manner too.

So ultimately I'm torn - I desperately want people to wake up to the fact we're all in deep shit, but I don't want to encourage disruption of a transport system that could aid us, and definitely don't want to give any violent thugs agency to attack protesters of any kind, let alone XR activists.

Amen brother. The cognitive dissonance is OFF. THE. SCALE.

In the meantime, Jonathan Pie just absolutely fucking nails it. Again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuCmdtcWKog

the biggest question I had at the end is when did Emilia Clarke become such a solid actor?

Yes!  I thought that at the end of Solo also! 

Because up until that point she had always seemed entirely wooden to me. In Solo she was emoting all over the place! More of that kind of thing please.

If you see anyone in government or the media say Extinction Rebellion are a violent movement, do not believe a word of it.

So in the land of the climate change deniers and fossil fuel magnates, another (very dangerous) heatwave breaks records.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/10/03/exceptional-october-heatwave-topples-records-another-day-heat-slowly-retreats-south/

Commentary from the Union of Concerned Scientists about October's temperatures:

https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachel-licker/an-october-heat-wave-bakes-the-southeast-and-mid-atlantic-is-this-our-future

An article from earlier this year, tracking how much dosh the fossil fuel giants are pumping into lies, obfuscation and denial:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/03/25/oil-and-gas-giants-spend-millions-lobbying-to-block-climate-change-policies-infographic/

So in the land of the climate change deniers and fossil fuel magnates, another (very dangerous) heatwave breaks records.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/10/03/exceptional-october-heatwave-topples-records-another-day-heat-slowly-retreats-south/

More on Phil Kingston, 83 year old climate protester:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHLWCkgyAd0

Our best hope is that the rich can find a way to save themselves so that our species can endure for a little while longer in a Martian dome or a reinforced bunker somewhere.

Don't worry P. Bear - they're already on it. This is an excerpt from 'This Is Not A Drill', the Extinction Rebellion handbook. 

Just want to give a shout out to Phil Kingston, father of my mate Martin. This 83 year old (pictured in the middle) was one of the protestors with the fire engine at the Treasury today.

Absolute legend.

From the same report:

Renewables Continue to Thrive
Ɇ A record 165 GW of renewables were added to the world's power grids in 2018, up from 157 GW added the previous year. The nuclear operating capacity increased by 9 GW6 to reach 370 GW (excluding 25 GW in LTO), a new historic maxi- mum, slightly exceeding the previous peak of 368 GW in 2006.
Ɇ Globally, wind power output grew by 29% in 2018, solar by 13%, nuclear by 2.4%. Compared to a decade ago, non-hydro renewables generate over 1,900 TWh more power, exceeding coal and natural gas, while nuclear produces less.
Ɇ Over the past decade, levelized cost estimates for utility-scale solar dropped by 88%, wind by 69%, while nuclear increased by 23%. Renewables now come in below the cost of coal and natural gas.
Climate Change and Nuclear Power
Ɇ To protect the climate, we must abate the most carbon at the least cost and in the least time, so we must pay attention to carbon, cost, and time, not to carbon alone.
Ɇ Non-Nuclear Options Save More Carbon Per Dollar. In many nuclear countries, new renewables can now compete eco- nomically with existing nuclear power plants. The closure of uneconomic reactors will not directly save CO2 emissions but can indirectly save more CO2 than closing a coal-fired plant, if the nuclear plant's larger saved operating costs are rein- vested in efficiency or cheap modern renewables that in turn displace more fossil-fueled generation.
Ɇ Non-Nuclear Options Save More Carbon Per Year. While current nuclear programs are particularly slow, current renewables programs are particularly fast. New nuclear plants take 5–17 years longer to build than utility-scale solar or onshore wind power, so existing fossil-fueled plants emit far more CO2 while awaiting substitution by the nuclear option. Stabilizing the climate is urgent, nuclear power is slow.

Still on the subject of nuclear as a viable stop-gap onside renewables, check out this World Nuclear report today.

Here are some take-aways:


Output grew 2.4% in 2018.
(1.8% due to China)
Price increased 23% in last decade.
(Wind -69%, solar -88%.)

Takes 5-17 yrs longer to build than wind/solar.


https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnisr2019-lr.pdf

Fair enough!

That'll teach me to thoroughly read my own sources.   

Given that the US's biggest problem with criminals and terrorism is via their own charming white supremacists, surely a more daring and accurate Rambo film should have been set on their own soil?

But you know, Hollywood - there's a lot of money in demonising the 'other'.