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11 months, 2 weeks ago

By-election triggered by Chris Skidmore as Tory climate rebel quits parliament

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senior Tory MP Chris Skidmore has submitted his resignation in protest …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Sharma vows to rebel over Sunak’s North Sea oil and gas legislation

The Telegraph

Sir Alok Sharma has vowed to rebel against the Government in a vote on plans to boost oil and gas fields in the North Sea. The former Cop26 president hit out at the “smoke and mirrors” legislation to promote new drilling licences, arguing it would reinforce the “unfortunate perception” that the UK is “rowing back from climate action”. “No-one has …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Chris Skidmore’s resignation is another step towards the total disintegration of the Conservative Party

The Independent

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1 year ago

Decarbonising industry can’t wait for ‘technologies of tomorrow’, says Tory MP

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Conservative MP Chris Skidmore said the UK’s industrial emissions …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Column: Why anti-vaxxers are pretending a flawed study on vaccine deaths has been vindicated

LA Times

Single-dose vials of Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 vaccine booster. But Skidmore proceeded to extrapolate from the number of respondents who said they knew someone who had died from the vaccine to conclude that the number of U.S. vaccine-related deaths “may be as high as 278,000.” That claim was taken as gospel truth by the anti-vaccine movement, which helped make the paper …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Whitehall should get out of local government’s way on net zero, say campaigners

The Independent

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1 year, 3 months ago

Tory launches international climate declaration to bring politicians together

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A prominent Conservative environmentalist will urge politicians not to “play into the hands of populists” …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Column: Anti-vaxxers loved to cite this study of COVID vaccine deaths. Now it’s been retracted

LA Times

A nurse prepares a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Since even that surely inflated figure, which reflects an unknown number of deaths from unrelated causes, amounted to less than three-thousandths of a percent of the 672 million doses of COVID vaccines administered in the U.S., the CDC properly judged the shots “safe and effective” and severe post-vaccine reactions “rare.” It …

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1 year, 11 months ago

New gas boilers could be banned within a decade as report say UK must do more to his net-zero target

Daily Mail

New gas boilers should be banned within a decade in a move that could cost cash-strapped Britons thousands, a report into the UK's net zero policy has warned. A major review into Britain's net zero plans has called for a ban on gas boilers to be brought forward by two years in a bid to cut the nation's carbon emissions …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Britain needs to cover buildings in solar panels to meet net-zero emissions target, expert says

Daily Mail

Britain should launch a ‘rooftop revolution’ by covering buildings in solar panels, the Government’s net zero tsar says today. Chris Skidmore, the former science minister, set out his conclusions in his ‘Net Zero Review’ – commissioned under Liz Truss’s short-lived government – which looks at how the UK can reach its target to stop production of greenhouse gases by 2050. …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Is there a best time to exercise? 一天中有没有最佳的锻炼身体时间？

China Daily

随身英语 Is there a best time to exercise? 一天中有没有最佳的锻炼身体时间？ Play audio file 锻炼身体这件事情无论在什么时候做都对你有好处。但是一天中是否有一个最佳的锻炼时间，可以让你从中得到最好的锻炼效果呢？本期 “随身英语” 节目就此展开讨论。词汇：exercise 锻炼，运动 With our already busy lives, finding time to exercise can feel like one more thing on our ‘to do’ list. A study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that participants who exercised in the morning, increased their physical activity …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Boris Johnson is ‘effectively covering up sexual abuse’ and must resign, Tory MP says

The Independent

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3 years, 1 month ago

Environment: Skyscraper design can remove up to 1,000 TONNES of carbon from the atmosphere

Daily Mail

The idea of skyscrapers that can remove carbon from the atmosphere may sound like something of science fiction, but they could soon become a reality if new designs by a US architect firm are anything to go by. Scroll down for video Designs for a green skyscraper that could remove up to 1,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere on …

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3 years, 11 months ago

U.S. carries out its first execution of female inmate since 1953

LA Times

Lisa Montgomery was convicted of killing a 23-year-old woman in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in 2004. “The craven bloodlust of a failed administration was on full display tonight,” Montgomery’s attorney, Kelley Henry said in a statement. “Everyone who participated in the execution of Lisa Montgomery should feel shame.” “The government stopped at nothing in its zeal to kill …

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By-election triggered by Chris Skidmore as Tory climate rebel quits parliament

Sharma vows to rebel over Sunak’s North Sea oil and gas legislation

Chris Skidmore’s resignation is another step towards the total disintegration of the Conservative Party

Decarbonising industry can’t wait for ‘technologies of tomorrow’, says Tory MP

Column: Why anti-vaxxers are pretending a flawed study on vaccine deaths has been vindicated

Whitehall should get out of local government’s way on net zero, say campaigners

Tory launches international climate declaration to bring politicians together

Column: Anti-vaxxers loved to cite this study of COVID vaccine deaths. Now it’s been retracted

New gas boilers could be banned within a decade as report say UK must do more to his net-zero target

Britain needs to cover buildings in solar panels to meet net-zero emissions target, expert says

Is there a best time to exercise? 一天中有没有最佳的锻炼身体时间？

Boris Johnson is ‘effectively covering up sexual abuse’ and must resign, Tory MP says

Environment: Skyscraper design can remove up to 1,000 TONNES of carbon from the atmosphere

U.S. carries out its first execution of female inmate since 1953