The Telegraph is running a sensible article today (feels newsworthy in itself!) Written by it's "world economics editor" Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, it includes this gem of a chart. A picture is worth a thousand words
It was the driest July on record at Kew since 1800 [caveat of likely a variety of different station placements since then], which also recorded no measurable rainfall - very impressive for the area. Local records go back to 1697.
Won't this blow up the UK's climate change targets? Don't worry - government's don't include aviation in their climate change targets! www.gov.uk/government/p...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayGatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Zero VAT on electricity in the UK from October. The real story isn’t the £45 off bills, it’s the gas-electricity price gap. We’ve loaded taxes onto electricity while gas gets off lighter, which discourages heat pumps. Cutting VAT narrows that gap.
Amsterdam was very car centric back in the 70s. They have gradually turned that round making it a better place to live. You need to reduce cars in city centre, no way around it. They just take up too much space. Can Exeter learn? @steveracemp.bsky.social youtu.be/0s86kEUxxak?...
Amsterdam Just Keeps Getting Awesome
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The Soil Matters podcast interviewed Professor Simon Jeffery and me about the Earth Rover Program and the rapid advances in soil science it enables. We explain why soil has been so hard to study, how our new approach is helping, and how it might transform farming. 🧵 soils.org.uk/soilmatters/...
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England’s new 30x30 plan was published yesterday on how we get to 30% of land being protected for nature by 2030. But almost immediately, one of the country’s biggest institutional landowners, the Church of England, rejects a measurable 30% restoration target for its own estate. 🧵
Across the EU, logging has been the main reason why the forest carbon sink is shrinking; in some member states, forests have become a net source of CO2 emissions. In 2021, ~500 scientists wrote a letter to world leaders warning about the harm done to climate/forests by burning forest wood for energy
Biofuelwatch@biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 4w agoIn an article published by @realzeroeurope.bsky.social we expose the hype around #BECCS, which serves as a PR tool for the #biomass and fossil fuel industries even though large-scale CO2-capture from biomass burning has never been demonstrated: www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/bl....
I wrote recently about some of the many issues with BECCS: www.newscientist.com/article/2522...
A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere by capturing the carbon from burning biomass is supposed to save the planet, but it looks like the flagship project will never happen
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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 431 ppm in June 2026 10 years ago June averaged about 407 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
BBC one o'clock news doing a story on how expensive EVs are to insure. Maybe they could have pointed out this is just one factor in cost of ownership and in other respects cheaper. They did not I have to inform you @bobbyllew.bsky.social
This guy giving a 5 year update on his heat pump. Happy and saving money compared to gas . Eagle eyed views will notice a copy of regenesis on his bookshelf @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Tom Bray yt youtu.be/er7B1A1UKPA?...
5 years living with a heat pump
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It’s that time again: Tomorrow/ Saturday/Summer Solstice is #ShowYourStripes day! It’s your chance to show off your city’s stripes and communicate the climate challenge! So download either here: showyourstripes.info or here: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Electrofficiency: electric tech is far more efficient than the fossil tech it replaces. A heat pump, an EV, an induction hob, same job on a fraction of the energy. That’s why electrification taking centre stage at COP matters. Excellent piece in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
Apart from effort to electrify, there were geopolitical tensions around climate science and the 1.5C goal at pre-Cop31 climate talks
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Model-based studies often reflect Global North narratives in scenario databases, assume persistent inequalities, obscure ethical or normative choices behind justice, & fail to systematically include stakeholders & scientists from the Global South. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The challenge with climate-energy-economy models in constructing fair and equitable climate futures
Climate change and policy are unevenly experienced across nations, social groups, households, sectors, and generations. Understanding how benefits and…
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On here too! Complete misunderstanding of energy. The opposite is true. @mliebreich.bsky.social
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2mo agoWRONG, WRONG, WRONG...... Electricity does NOT equal energy Renewables worldwide only made up 5 percent of primary energy supply in 2025 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Support the people not the billionaires at the World Cup #TaxTheSuperRich #worldcup2026
1/4 For 2°C, I use the paper’s Table S8 budget of 580 GtCO₂ from 2025 (~500 GtCO₂ from 2027). IMO its inclusion of uncertainty in ZEC & higher non-CO₂ emissions better reflects the UNFCCC’s framing of “dangerous” climate change and the precautionary principle than the 690 GtCO₂ value in Table 8.
Hi @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Nit picking here. But watching springwatch green hydrogen set up. Hydrogen has a terrible round trip energy efficiency. Given recent developments in grid storage, can't rhe beeb hire one of these massive batteries. Maybe not technically doable but perhaps have a look?
"Under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive, transport must cut its greenhouse gas intensity by 14.5% by 2030, a target that would be nearly impossible to meet without (biofuels)." Amazon die-back is Game Over. Why is sufficiency in transport impossible? europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/fuel-so...
Fuel sold as “green” in Europe may be linked to Amazon deforestation
A US supplier of “green fuels” to the EU has imported animal fats from cattle raised on illegally deforested Amazonian land, our investigation in part
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'Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds' 🤯 🐔 A trend that's fuelling ecological destruction from the Amazon (rainforests cut down to grow soy feed for chickens) to the River Wye (full of chicken shit): www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds
UN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising
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This is why efficiency in our food system matters: 🧑🌾 A more efficient food system could mean more affordable food, less strain on land and water, and healthier meal options for families. Read more from The Cool Down 👉 https://yhoo.it/4ak3OpJ
World grows enough calories to feed 14.5 billion people, but only 45 out of 100 are actually eaten by people
A new analysis breaks down where the world's crop calories really go.
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Why Jeff Bezos wants to cut your taxes youtu.be/xWfT04fiinA
Why Jeff Bezos wants to cut your taxes
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I remember when the Novara crew (and left more broadly) were using this to skewer Adrian Ramsay- even though he was in a difficult position given reasonable objection. Its not just the mail that do this stuff !!! @aaronjbastani.bsky.social
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow do you turn people off the green transition and deliver them to the far right? Through #ClimateAuthoritarianism. The government seeks to coerce, not to persuade. And it's turning a planning system based on consent into one based on decree. This week's column.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Liebreich: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 | BloombergNEF
In September 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine and with oil and gas prices around the world soaring, I wrote a piece entitled After Ukraine - the Great Clean Energy Acceleration, predictin...
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1/5 Im sorry- I don't agree with this resprospective defence of 8.5 The critique of it was that it envisaged things like cars running on coal.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is by far the best analysis of what’s happening in climate politics right now. Everybody read, please.
What do you make of this take @garyseconomics.bsky.social ? I have an idea!
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2mo agoA weird true thing about Britain: neither wealth nor income inequality is actually increasing. Income inequality has been static for more than 20 years. No one believes it, though. More, from a book on the largest study on UK inequality in decades, here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...
1/4 This is grim and it's important we hear about it. My problem tho is that this type of report is genarally biased against the green transition. Novara did a similar thing a few weeks ago. For instance 10% of cobalt is used in petrol refining
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 2mo ago"Artisanal miners in the DRC descend up to 50 meters into hand-dug ‘kalolos’ (tunnels) to extract cobalt and copper. They face the threats of landslides, tunnel collapse, and toxic exposure at the very start of the supply chains modern society relies on." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-artisa...