Josh Gabbatiss
@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
Associate editor at Carbon Brief 🐸 josh.gabbatiss@carbonbrief.org ✉️
NEW for @carbonbrief.org As El Niño intensifies, the forest fires ripping through Indonesia are on track to reach levels not seen since 2015. The country's 2015 fire season has been linked to 100,000 premature deaths and produced emissions on a par with the EU's fossil-fuel emissions that year.
I find this stuff remarkable. This is in response to a story about record numbers of ambulance callouts for "life-threatening" emergencies during the June heatwave. Real, tangible evidence that extreme heat is contributing to people dying or nearly dying in the UK. But it's still a "scare story"
NEW – Revealed: England’s June 2026 heatwave sparked record demand for ambulances | By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/NLCTZWh
NEW – Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/lQVZ8W8
Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief
Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing…
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NEW INVESTIGATION – this summer saw temperature records smashed around the UK. We asked NHS trusts in England and Wales how many operations they were forced to cancel due to overheating surgical theatres They provided details of 1,110 operations that were called off in the May and June heatwaves
NEW – Revealed: More than 1,000 NHS operations cancelled due to record UK heatwaves ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social and @dnepo.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/y4GpkVr
NEW – UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @theaef.bsky.social @loispennington.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/61e2uoH
80% of off-grid power for planned data centres will come from fossil fuels sf-asset-manager.s3.amazonaws.com/97637/1139/8...
NEW - In the past two weeks: 🏔️ A deadly glacier collapse struck Nepal and China ⁉️ Reports emerged that China may host COP33 🛢️ China's emissions dropped due to plummeting oil use & @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org covers new research showing climate change made Sept 2024 heatwave 500x more likely ⬇️
There is something so appalling about referring to people dying in extreme heat as "Darwinism". important article from @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📝 New article on Our World in Data: Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades. The largest driver of deforestation globally is the expansion of agricultural land.
I had never seen a chart where those concerned and dismissive about climate change are equally opposed to the same thing -- until @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social started polling respondents about AI data centers. (And this survey was conducted in the spring)
Just heard @rory-stewart.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social say that "we [the UK] still consume more carbon than we have ever done—we just have the t-shirts made in China". I've heard this point being made elsewhere recently too. And it is simply not true.
The Conservatives claim that by scrapping net-zero the UK can cut electricity costs. They say that this will actually be better for the environment, because cheaper electricity = more demand for EVs and heat pumps But the big analysis they launched this week fails on these terms ➡️ buff.ly/nrChFfc
Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’ - Carbon Brief
In a new report, the opposition Conservatives argue that UK electricity prices are too high and that it would be…
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with "flaws" being kind ... “just doesn’t add up” “flawed logic” 'grossly simplified" "more holes than a Swiss cheese” “very far out of line with mainstream thinking”
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 4w agoNEW – Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’ | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/nrChFfc
NEW – Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’ | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/nrChFfc
Buried at the heart of the Conservative party's pitch to scrap net-zero is this: A proposal to remove the grants that allow people to save money when buying an electric car or a heat pump. While providing more support for the expansion of data centres.
There are 2 big stories in development happening in Africa @katemac.bsky.social (1) LEAPFROGGING: Africa is buying huge quantities of solar panels. Electricity access is accelerating growth (2) MAKING not just BUYING: some countries are capturing manufacturing phenomenalworld.org/analysis/afr...
Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa
On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century
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Dave Jones@cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 4mo agoThere's 4 key countries which these cells+wafers are exported to: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. That's a LOT of manfacturing capacity that's come online in the last months. Some of the panels will be for export, but many will likely be used domestically.
Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....
NEW – Q&A: Does the world need ‘carbon capture and storage’ to reach net-zero? ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from Andrew Reid, Dr Jennifer Roberts, Enrique Cornejo, Stuart Haszeldine and @fossilfoolsfelina.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/A7rY6I7
Q&A: Does the world need ‘carbon capture and storage’ to reach net-zero? - Carbon Brief
In this Q&A, Carbon Brief explores the role CCS is expected to play in achieving net-zero, its record to date and the reasons it has been criticised, using the UK as an example.
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Carbon capture and storage is the subject of considerable hype – but as it stands, very little CO2 is being captured and stored.
NEW – Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires ✍️ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @calxcunningham.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/pDQGTR3
I think we're underestimating how much deep psychic damage was inflicted on UK conservatives when coal was deleted from their power system, gas was halved, most of that was replaced by wind and solar and there WASN'T an immediate blackout apocalypse ember-energy.org/data/electri...
Just a big Norwegian website returning to the pandemic-era "argument" that as the people who died in the heatwave would have died anyway, they weren't really killed by the heatwave. Uses the word "harvesting" to describe their deaths for good measure.
Blånisse@iveerik.bsky.social · 2mo agoDet er faktisk en skandale at dette blir fremhevet av en av våre største nettmedier. Det er ikke HR-kompetanse, det er empatiløshet på veldig høyt plan.
This paper finds that moving to +fully organic+ egg farming in the UK would produce an extra 877,000 tonnes of CO2. That's equivalent to 0.2% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions. Not huge. I'm in favour of plant-based diets but i don't know if this is a difference that's worth stressing over.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoOrganic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
NEW – Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025 ✍️ Written by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @evazabey.bsky.social @ronsteenblik.bsky.social Paul Elton & Prof Jessica Dempsey Read here: buff.ly/RFf8Nor
Here's Nick Bridge – the UK's former special representative on climate change under last Tory govt – on Channel 4 News citing @carbonbrief.org analysis about the extreme and relentless anti-climate action campaigning by some UK newspapers "Some of the media is shocking on this..."
