Leaflets, video etc

The climate crisis: key points

A 10-point action plan

Civil disobedience?

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Calculator

Why action is essential

Key points on the climate emergency UN Secretary-General: "Governments are lying" IPCC 2021: the global carbon budget will run out in 9 years The UK's share of the carbon budget will run out in 3 years Commentary on "Zero carbon sooner" briefing paper from CUSP Young people are pleading for help Greta Thunberg's 'blah blah blah' speech, Milan, 2021

Action needed

Climate emergency ten-point action plan Why progress has been so poor Decision making has been systematically poor All sections of society are failing It is a system failure rather than a failure of individuals Cognitive biases, flawed reasoning and fallacies dominate opinions and decision making Decision making needs to improve Effective versus ineffective campaigning Challenge fallacies, incompetence and misconduct Climate Urgency Realism or Denial score Climate urgency denial in UK Government scientists

Errors, fallacies and deceits

The UK Net Zero strategy would take three times the UK's share of the global CO2 budget Common climate fallacies

Technicalities by sector

Emissions from home energy Emissions from cars Aviation

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Posts in 2020-2021:

Action needed

Allocation of the residual global carbon budget between nations Stop burning fossil fuels: Stay within the IPCC CO2 budget of 50 tonnes per person Planting trees is not the answer Tree planting claims by Zurich scientists were withdrawn 'Offsetting' is not the answer Electric vehicles: not the immediate answer 'Hydrogen power' is not the answer Reduce your carbon footprint: 10% per year

Ensuring good decision making

Nolan's Seven Principles of Public Life The 'Net Zero 2050' UK Government deceits UK Government deceit: overclaiming the reduction in UK CO2 emissions Civil disobedience in a democracy: Q and A Civil disobedience and the law Extinction Rebellion

Technicalities by sector

"Green electricity" Emissions from food Health, education, etc emissions Buses Trains Basic UK energy and greenhouse gas statistics UK average footprint International comparisons Calculator version information References

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Why trust this website?

Posts in 2019:

The climate crisis and what to do about it

Climate change: the basics Global emissions are rising and governments are failing Simple solutions for the climate crisis, which should have been implemented already

Action needed

Summary Local government Local government: Make walking safe National government Organisations Individuals Passivhaus home standards

Awareness raising

Leaflets, video

Reasons for optimism

Decline in UK domestic aviation Decline of domestic aviation in Sweden

Tecnicalities by sector

The UK has not cut its greenhouse gas emissions

Standards of administration in a democracy

Effective planning

Performance assessments

Assessing performance on the climate emergency BEIS is not telling the truth on carbon emissions Transport for the North: Failing on the climate crisis Steve Rotheram: failing on the climate crisis

Best practice examples

Wirral Council's emission reduction trajectory

Quotes

Links

Links

Leaflets, video etc

There should be a wide range of flyers, leaflets, pamphlets, videos, etc to give unbiased information about the climate crisis and what needs to be done, but not much is readily available. Here are our suggestions.

Leaflets

1. A4 Tri-fold (roll-fold) leaflet (DL): tri-fold_climate_crisis.pdf

2. A5 flyer: The climate emergency and what to do about it

3. A5 flyer: A5_climate_flyer.pdf

Video

This 2min 30 sec video is voiced by Keira Knightley:
Climate Change and Why We Should Panic by Extinction Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIqJ05Dv8BM

Printable web pages

Most of the pages on this website have been designed to be printed out on A4 paper (with navigation bar, contents lists etc suppressed).

First published: Mar 2019
Last updated: 23 Jan 2020