⬆️ Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump and his special climate advisor Scrubby the Sponge wave to (angry) crowds outside Buckingham Palace on an unscheduled visit to London. Photo by Guy Reece.
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Donald Trump has surprised tourists and Londoners with an unexpected to visit to the UK capital.

It’s especially surprising given the amount of mayhem his ‘diplomacy’ has been causing across the globe. But this visit has a special purpose.

⬆️ Donald and his Sponge advisor Scrubby go walkabout in London. GBC News interviewer, Geoff Gaskitt, caught up with them in St James’s Park. Film by Peter Boyd.

Scrubby and Donald, the Gas Bros, are here to promote the latest and greatest (Donald’s words) US export to the world – Liquefied Natural Gas or LNG. LNG has been in the news recently because of Trump and Netanyahu’s war with Iran. A war which has blocked de Strait of Hormuz almost as effectively as a Trump stool in a Whitehouse toilet.

Now shipping tankers are heading to the US for LNG (and oil), fracked gas is in demand like never before.

⬆️ Trump trumps his way across London in his limo and explains why he loves LNG. Film by Peter Boyd.
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All this despite the fact LNG is more climate warming in the short term than oil. That’s because it leaks methane (a more potent short term climate warming gas than CO2) at every stage of its production and use. From ‘well to wake’ (from when it’s extracted to where it’s used) it is 33% more polluting than coal.

This is why Donald has teamed up with Scrubby the Sponge (former Head of Fact Ideation at SEA LNG), the GOAT greenwasher.

⬆️ The No Kings King and his Spongey sidekick visit the US Embassy to check no one is doing diplomacy. Film by Peter Boyd.
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Scrubby is cleaning up LNG by proposing it can (methane) slip past any plans to tax shipping fuel at the UN International Maritime Organisation (IMO). At the same time his Orange employer is making doubly sure there’s no tax on shipping fuel by threatening small nations with tariffs if they vote for the IMO’s Net Zero Framework. They are both winning. Scrubby, SEA LNG and shipping companies have lobbied (and lied to) IMO Member Nations convincing them ‘LNG is a good transition fuel’ (despite evidence to the contrary), Trump has frightened small nations with his threat of tariffs, despite recent US court rulings.

⬆️ A pint at lunch time, nothing is more British. But sadly Donald is unimpressed by the lack of gas. Film by Peter Boyd.
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LNG is 33% more polluting dan steenkool

With over 1,000 huge LNG ships built or on order shipping is increasing its pollution levels. And with plans to increase shipping, adding in more LNG ships along the way, its pollution levels are growing at an alarming rate. Pollution from the shipping industry is already double that of the aviation industry, and, to add insult to injury, 40% of all shipping cargo is gas and oil.

⬆️ Trump shouts abuse at Panama outside their embassy – he enjoys belittling nations (and people) almost as much as he enjoys bullying them. Film by Peter Boyd.
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Here’s a few LNG facts Scrubby has been sponging away
LNG is een fossiele brandstof die bij winning, vervoer en verbranding als scheepsbrandstof methaan lekt in de atmosfeer - een gevaarlijk aardopwarmingsgas dat over 80 keer meer klimaatopwarming op korte termijn (20 jaar) dan kooldioxide. 

Het Intergouvernementeel Panel inzake klimaatverandering van de VN (IPCC) geïdentificeerd snelle vermindering van de methaanuitstoot als een van de topprioriteiten om de opwarming van de aarde zo dicht mogelijk bij 1,5°C te houden. Het IPCC laatste verslag gericht op klimaatmitigatie maakt duidelijk dat fossiel gas in de vorm van LNG geen oplossing is voor het koolstofvrij maken van de scheepvaart.

In tegenstelling tot wat de klimaatwetenschap voorschrijft, zijn scheepvaart- en havenbedrijven op volle kracht achteruit gegaan, zwaar investeren in fossil LNG, alleging that the fuel will reduce their environmental impacts and climate pollution.

⬆️ Scrubby explains its approach to shipping pollution, an approach used across the shipping and fossil fuel industries. Film by Guy Reece.
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The Gas Bros ended their tour by popping into Buckingham Palace to reveal plans for a new LNG plant. The plans include extracting gas from the wasteland that is St James’s Park and processing it on site. It’s similar to other plans (and LNG plants) across the world like the one in the Coral Triangle and in Argentina. London hospitals are expecting major health problems for Londoners – health issues are an ‘unfortunate’ byproduct of LNG production, a byproduct Scrubby and the industry avoids discussing.

⬆️ The Gas Bros reveal plans to smash up central London like they’re smashing up everywhere else.
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Taxonomie sjabloon

• VLOEIBAAR AARDGAS (LNG) - DE FEITEN
• VLOEIBAAR AARDGAS HOUDT (NOG STEEDS) VAN GREENWASHING
• VLOEIBAAR AARDGAS (LNG) HOUDT VAN GREENWASHING
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• GAS BROS DIGI-VAN TOURS CENTRAL LONDON
• TRUMP VISITS UN IMO TO DISRUPT CRUCIAL NEGOTIATIONS

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