Dr Matt Winning
@mattywin.bsky.social
🎤 Climate comedian 🌍 Lecturer in Economics of Sustainability @UCL.ac.uk 🌀 Environmental Expert 📚 Author of 'Hot Mess' 📻 Hosted BBC Radio 4's 'Net Zero: A Very British Problem' www.mattwinning.com https://linktr.ee/mattwinning
Sorry to hear about the passing of Adam. Only met him once but we messaged back and forth. A real caring person
Adam Lenson@adamlenson.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s weird being at edfringe without twitter. I sort of miss twitter. The discourse, the debates. Not the toxicity. Anyway here are some nice reviews from my Edinburgh fringe show. Sorry.
I met Julie Hesmondhalgh once after an event I did at the Edinburgh TV Festival & she came up to me and enthusiastically shook my hand like she did with all the contestants on #CelebrityTraitors immediately one of the nicest people I've ever met
Me. 15 years ago. On stage shouting about Richard E Grant #TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK youtu.be/hVlZY1WscfU?...
Steph E Graph - Chortle Student Comedy Award
YouTube video by ChortleUK
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The climate crisis we face today wasn't inevitable, and we have the receipts.
Some people say UK should stop building clean energy and should extend its reliance on gas power instead Choosing my words carefully, I would say that it's an interesting time to be making that argument www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win...
Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis - Carbon Brief
The UK has avoided gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar.
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A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Tour is coming to @thelowry.com in Manchester this Sunday 27th Sept 2026. Cannot wait! I nearly wrote 2027. I'm glad it's still 2026
Dr Matt Winning@mattywin.bsky.social · 4mo agoMY UK TOUR 2026 IS NOW ON SALE After several sell-out shows, my climate comedy-theatre show Solastalgia will be touring the country starting with a THIRD run of London shows during London Climate Action Week from 22-24th June #sustainability #theatre #livecomedy #LCAW #ClimateAction
In a world of policy reversal and active support for fossil fuel burning (the CMIP7 "High" scenario), we could end up well above 3C by 2100, have a ~70% chance of >4C by 2150, and a 30% chance of over 5C.
Important context on the uncertainty of various climate scenarios we talk about regularly
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3w agoThe world has made real progress in steering away from some of the darkest climate futures where global emissions doubled (or more) this century. But as David Wallace-Wells and I note in today's NYT, we are not out of the woods yet, and climate uncertainty is not our friend: www.nytimes.com/2026...
I'm just guessing that between options: (a) Exxon have altered their climate sensitivity upwards, Or (b) An employee has got mixed up because he doesn't know the specifics. Then I would guess (b). But I could be wrong.
Has anyone actually checked the Exxon global outlook? As far as I can see all it says is emissions will drop 20% by 2050. There's no specific analysis in there about temp in 2050. I presume it was an employee stating that those levels would lead to 2.5-3C, which we already knew.
An oil war has driven petrol and diesel prices through the roof, so ExxonMobil is doing a cutesy social media campaign to make fossil fuels seem a natural part of our day.
I was on Channel 4 News podcast last week making this exact point. The supposed future taxpayers that politicians don't want to burden by borrowing to stop climate change are me and my children. Maybe just ask us.
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is a critical point that’s repeatedly ignored. If you’re under 45 there’s a good chance you’re still working in 2050 when we should be at net zero. If you’re under 25 there’s a good chance you’re alive in 2100 when current trends suggest we’ll be at 3C of warming and all that comes with it.
Enjoying how the inflation triggered by Trump's war increases the chances of the UK electing a populist climate-denying government that would have supported Trump's war and is fiercely opposed to the best solutions for tackling said inflation.
I am just a man standing in front of his Bluesky followers, asking them to sign up to his mailing list gsforms.net/GSN-370512-M... UK tour starts next week in Birmingham mattwinning.com/events/ #theatre #storytelling #climate #comedy
France’s wine production is expected to fall below 3.4 billion liters this year as drought and repeated heat waves battered vineyards across the country, according to French government estimates. National output could sink to a nearly 70-year low.
Champagne production halves as scorching summer dents French wine grape harvest
National output could sink to a nearly 70-year low.
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The problem with capitalism is that at some point you run out of other people's natural resources
The problem with capitalism is that at some point you run out of other people's natural resources
Me trying to provide some positivity on #climatechange when speaking with @krishgm.bsky.social the other day. it's not easy
Listening to a man at the farmers market explain he’s out of eggs as “the ladies aren’t producing due to heat stress”— and another poultry vendor says he’s out, as he can’t keep them in this heat. Climate change is all around. We just have to open our eyes to see how it’s affecting our daily lives.
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Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last mo.Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover
I'm on @channel4news.bsky.social podcast talking to @krishgm.bsky.social somewhat overshadowed by tonight's news episode 😜 youtu.be/pDhQ8_PEMrk?...
A ‘SUPERSIZED’ El Niño is coming. Is the world ready?
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Globally, the hottest August in observed history is just about to end. In Western Europe, the summer of 2026 (June, July, August) has been the warmest as well. Compared to this year, 1976 (the famous UK summer) and 2003 (the hottest EU summer so far) look like amateurs in terms of heat (1/2)
