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@Daniel_Hoffmann

I agree there is a confusing difference of terminologies. What is referred to in current media as 'populism' might alternatively be called 'demagoguery'. I've used the term 'pseudo-populism'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
'a contested concept ... The term has often been conflated with other concepts like demagoguery'

How to continue to speak truth to power when power doesn't want anyone to listen, remains a problem.

On the subject of heat related deaths, early attribution studies estimated 2,700 such deaths in the UK in May and June heatwaves, agreed closely with later stats.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2026/more-than-2700-excess-deaths-estimated-in-england-and-wales-during-may-and-june-heatwaves
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0m78g01r8jo

Opening the Rosebank oil field has been esimated to be associated ith "57,284 heat related deaths".
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26446523.rosebank-jackdaw-fields-cause-65-000-excess-deaths/
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/pm-urged-to-reject-jackdaw-rosebank-5Hjdg6T_2/ #StopRosebank

Some call it 'inconvenient truth'. Funtowicz and Ravetz call it 'uncomfortable knowledge'.

Operation Noah have taken on GB news over climate disinformation. Vital work but to continue it they need more funding. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BritainisBurning #StopRosebank

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'As the world burns, it’s not “pragmatic” to throw more fuel on the fire' www.socialistaction.net/2026/08/13/a... #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #StopRosebank

As the world burns, it’s not “...

OIL FUELS CROP FAILURE 🛢️🪾 BURNHAM STOP ROSEBANK
📅 17/08 ⏱️8AM 📍The Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Rd, London SW1A 2HQ
DRESS CODE 👚👖 wear brown/ beige/ cream/ yellow tones
Nearly THREE QUARTERS of England is in drought 🔥Burnham is about to announce whether he's going to open up the North Sea to even more drilling
On the day the public consultation closes for the Rosebank oil field, Fossil Free London will bring the message loud and clear to the government: #StopRosebank.
#UKPolitics #NoNewOilandGas

Sheffield parents gather to oppose Rosebank and support energy transition

By Parents for Future

20th July – Local Sheffield parents have united to send a clear message to Andy Burnham in opposition of North Sea oil and gas drilling. 

The action comes following the news coverage that Andy Burnham may be about to announce plans for North Sea oil and gas drilling . The decision would pose significant environmental and economical threats. 

In a display of community concern, local families from the group Parents For Future Sheffield gathered across Sheffield in locations such as Heeley City Farm, Sheffield Station, and Ecclesall Woods. Many other worried families took to social media to express their concern and amplify the outcry against this pending decision.  

The group of residents argued that the government’s commitment to energy independence must be absolute and immediate. As one constituent Sarah Llewellyn stated, “The new extreme heat records in June showed the climate crisis is here and we can’t afford to make a bad situation even worse by approving North Sea oil & gas drilling. Projects such as Rosebank are not compatible with a safe and sustainable future for our children. This is an opportunity for Andy Burnham to put people, and our future generations, first.’’

Key demands from the group include:

• Immediate halt to all new oil and gas extraction, including the Rosebank project.
• The government’s manifesto commitment to end new oil and gas licences is fully upheld, and legislated. 
• The transition to renewables is accelerated with the same urgency as the wellbeing of our communities, national security and the climate crisis demand.

There is a  double crisis facing communities like Sheffield: the economic vulnerability caused by reliance on volatile global fossil fuel markets, and the accelerating climate crisis that disproportionately impacts young people and families already struggling with the cost of living. Not only do families have to try to keep their kids warm in the winter, they are now facing the struggle of having to keep their homes cool in the summer.

The community members also wrote to their MPs and urged them to attend a local screening of the National Emergency Briefing to better understand the scientific reality driving the need for immediate action. “Every new fossil fuel project we approve locks us into further warming that will disproportionately impact the young people within our community,” one member said.

Sheffield resident Yunn Chen added: “We’re sending a clear message that parents across our community stand united in demanding action. This is about protecting our families against further energy shocks, avoiding the cost of inaction while keeping our climate stable. Rosebank would bust UK climate goals, at a critical time where we need to be working at pace to remove carbon from the atmosphere, not adding to it.’

Notes

• Details of local People’s Emergency Screening: https://www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
• Sheffield Green Party have also supported this campaign.
• As have various other local groups.

Stop Rosebank while Europe burns!

As I write this, record-breaking wildfires are being reported all over Europe and nearby at Tintwhistle. Longley Park in Sheffield is currently burning. 300,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in France and Spain. We are seeing very clearly what it means to live on a planet that has been heated by 1.5 degrees C by the insulating blanket of CO2, caused by emissions from burning fossil fuels. Greta Thunberg was right: our house is on fire.

Meanwhile, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is reportedly still considering opening new oil and gas fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw in the North Sea. We have to stop him!

On Monday, Tell the Truth Sheffield joined with campaigners from Stop Rosebank, South Yorkshire Climate Alliance, the Green Party, Extinction Rebellion, the Climate Choir, Better Buses for South Yorkshire, Climate Vigil and Sheffield Quakers to take some photographs outside Sheffield’s famous landmark, the Crucible Theatre. This is part of a national campaign organised by Stop Rosebank. Members of these organisations are being urged to write to their MP, including one of these photos or one they take of themselves. There is a template to use here and a briefing to send them here. (Note the Template is already slightly out of date, so do please edit it as Andy Burnham is now PM and the EDM has been debated.) Alternatively, write directly to your MP. The addresses can be found here.

Here is my letter to Louise Haigh MP, who now has a very powerful post in the Cabinet as First Secretary of State of the United Kingdom. It is partly based on the Stop Rosebank Template. Feel free to copy and paste and edit this to send to your MP.

Dear Louise

Congratulations on your promotion to the role of First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. It is good to see so many MP’s from Yorkshire in the Cabinet.

As I write, we are approaching the third heatwave of the summer and Tintwhistle Moor is still on fire. In France and Spain, wildfires burn worryingly out of control, forcing many to evacuate their homes. Greta Thunberg was right: our house is on fire, and we should be reacting to the climate and nature emergencies with a similar commitment to when our country went to war with the Nazis.

There are many rumours in the press suggesting that Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to announce support for the Rosebank oil field. Whether this is true or not, I am writing to urge you to ensure that he does not derail our progress on climate and energy security. Specifically, I call on you to urge Andy Burnham to publicly oppose the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields and put ordinary people, not profiteering oil companies, first.

I attach two photos of me campaigning with various groups outside the Crucible, opposing Rosebank.

The Government, BBC, newspapers and other media continue to fail to properly inform the public about the most frightening aspects of climate change. Very rarely are tipping points mentioned or explained. These are all now far more likely as the Earth has exceeded 1.5 degrees C of warming for the last 3 years. If AMOC collapses, for instance, the UK will no longer be able to feed its citizens.

In January 2025, the British Insurance Industry predicted that 4 billion people could be dead in this century due to the breakdown of our climate. We’re now a year and a half on from that report, and the silence from media and Government is deafening.

We must do far more to try to avoid this with a very rapid transition away from the use of fossil fuels, investing instead in insulation, heat pumps, renewable energy in all its different forms, battery storage and a modern electricity grid. Also, we must do far more to prepare for the even worse weather that is now inevitable, be it floods, storms, heatwaves or droughts.

True climate leadership must go hand-in-hand with economic justice for all communities. We cannot afford to lock ourselves into decades of fossil fuel pollution that won’t lower our bills. Instead, we need a commitment to a just transition that protects workers, secures our energy future, and brings well-paid, unionised green industrial jobs back into our local communities.

The reality is that jobs in the North Sea oil and gas industry have halved in the last decade, thanks to its dwindling reserves, despite previous governments issuing hundreds of new licences. New fields like Rosebank will not stem this decline; they only further delay the inevitable transition to renewables.

Clinging to oil and gas leaves workers behind, while oil and gas bosses make millions. By continuing to prioritise a declining industry with fewer returns and fewer jobs, we are leaving our future in the hands of an industry that only cares about protecting its profits.

10 major national trade unions and 1,900 trade unionists are demanding that the government reject the Rosebank oil field. These unions represent firefighters, ambulance staff, network management in the gas sector, teachers, nurses, cleaners, civil servants and more.

As my representative, please write to Andy Burnham and call on him to oppose fossil fuel expansion, prioritise a worker-led, green industrial strategy and prioritise educating the public about the climate emergency by screening the People’s Emergency Briefing film on prime-time TV.

I urge you to:

– Call on Andy Burnham to refuse development of the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields.

– Send him the MP briefing on Rosebank: https://www.stopcambo.org.uk/updates/mp-briefing-rosebank-oil-field

– Demand a commitment to a just but rapid transition that protects existing energy workers and brings well-paid, unionised green industrial jobs back into local communities.

Yours sincerely

Graham Wroe

TelltheTruthSheffield.org

Sharon is up for election at present, if like me you are a Unite member, use your ballot paper to send her a message. #StopRoseBank #StopSharonGraham #ClimateChange

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Just a reminder - key points made so clearly and well #StopRosebank #NoNewOilandGas #FossilFreeLondon #UKPolitics
https://www.upliftuk.org/post/rosebank-oil-field-the-complete-guide

I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Sign here and ask her to #StopRosebank or fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miat...

RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116952824473335374

#UKPol #UKpolitics #StopRosebank #ClimateCrisis

@wood5y
We have to keep trying #StopRosebank #NoNewOilandGas

New oil and gas drilling in the North Sea is the last announcement we need in the middle of a heatwave! 😡 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o #StopRosebank

I just wrote to my MP to ask him to speak out against Andy Burnham's plans to approve the Rosebank Oil Field in the North Sea.

#StopRosebank

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-rosebank-for-futures-sake?source=direct_link&

On a hot evening, while local countryside was at “exceptional” risk of wildfire, a group of us wrote to our MP @[email protected]. We urged him to push for the rapid scale-up of renewable energy and an end to new fossil fuels, including Rosebank.

#StopRosebank @[email protected]

Politicians and trade union leaders who attack net zero are criminals. Those opposing climate change action dig graves and destroy our future www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #StopRosebank #NetZero

Wildfires burn in parts of UK ...

Please ask your MP to support Early Day Motion 304 to #StopRosebank

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-your-mp-to-stop-rosebank-for-good

This worrying, the UK government might approve the Jackdaw oil field, though Ed Miliband is still in opposition to Rosebank. https://news.sky.com/story/speculation-miliband-will-approve-drilling-new-oil-and-gas-field-unfounded-government-claims-13527502 #UKPol #StopRosebank

Sign the petition! No oil profits for occupation and genocide https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-oil-profits-for-occupation-and-genocide #StopRosebank