"hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fuel, in part made from Russian crude, still ending up in American gas tanks.
"Last month, the Balzani arrived in the New Harbor carrying more than 500,000 barrels of fuel made in part from Russian crude oil. It turns out that U.S. imports are helping fuel Russia's war machine."
#ClimateDiary 31st July 2023 Day after day of storm, wind, rain here, never ending #HeatWave#Floods and #Wildfires elsewhere; new research showing #AMOC#Gulfstream may be much closer to collapse than previously thought. Not a peep from political leaders about any of this. On the contrary: #FossilFuel funded Rishi #Sunak, having praised cars yesterday, today gives go-ahead for 100s of new oil and gas projects. #GTTO it’s a matter of survival 1/3
#ClimateDiary and (adding to above) of course there are real, tangible, personal reasons why #Sunak is pro #FossiFuels: Sunak’s family firm signed a billion dollar deal with #BP before giving north sea oil projects the go ahead. Judging by the WhatsApp messages i am receiving just now it feels like outrage about this is widespread and strong! 2/3
"Sharpe reserves his strongest criticisms for #economists who have used unrealistic models that assume that the worldwide supply and demand of goods and services is like a machine operating in an #equilibrium. He argues, persuasively, that these models systematically underestimate the economic #damage that #climate impacts have on lives and livelihoods, and overestimate the cost of cutting global #emissions by replacing #FossiFuels as the primary source of our #energy."