British farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Farmers warn ‘brutal’ harvest could be worst on record sparking food shortage fears

The exceptionally hot, dry spring and summer could have cut the country’s cereals and oilseed harvest by 2.5 million tonnes compared to earlier forecasts, new analysis shows

independent.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"

Latest blog is on how Kemi Badenoch can insist she’s not a climate denier, but she clearly doesn’t understand the nature of the threat, fails to comprehend why net zero was adopted, and currently has no plan on how to cut emissions. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

A hot messy summer

As the wildfires rage, what passes for climate discourse on the right of British politics is plumbing depressing new depths

businessgreen.com

🧵UK media has been duped about net-zero (again) The playbook is identical: 1️⃣ Find a big scary number 2️⃣ Speed-dial non-specialist hacks 3️⃣ Do say “serious economic damage” 4️⃣ Don’t say “we pretended gas is free” 5️⃣ That's it! Many papers still fell for it 🤷

Ed Miliband makes first major foreign policy intervention, signalling clearly that climate and development will be at heart of UK international relations. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ed Miliband indicates development and climate will be at heart of UK foreign policy

Exclusive: Foreign secretary to take up World Bank seat and play active role in shaping changes to global lender

theguardian.com

Evacuation of the sixth biggest population centre in France under active consideration and some will still say "it's just Summer"

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · last wk.

Firefighters 'overwhelmed' and 'concerned about the city of Bordeaux' (Sky News)

This may be the photo of the summer. By Maximilien Lamy.

If I can, let me explain today's Times story. This is less to do with renewables and much more to do with where generation is located and how it shows up at a system level. /1

Dr Stylite@columnist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can anyone provide me with an informed opinion re the greater / lesser / same propensity for electricity shortages the greater the use of renewable.* * I get that in principle wind / solar is less controllable than fossil fuels but presumably that just means operating with a greater supply margin?

Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe - Analysis shows heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation @wwattribution.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe

Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation

theguardian.com

Miliband - they attack him because they know what he’s done has worked, and attack net zero as it’s against their vested interests. Physics and chemistry remain true whoever is in charge. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Miliband has been relentlessly attacked for net zero; what will happen now?

Tories, Reform, fossil fuel industry and some in his party lined up against decarbonisation target as energy secretary

theguardian.com

"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue

Meanwhile the Fire Brigades Union warns the incoming PM that fire services are not prepared for the increased fires and flooding climate change will bring - and calls for him to reject Rosebank

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told." He intends to make a "dynamic" start, apparently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People want to take functions away from HM Treasury. I want to give it a new one - getting the UK's act together on climate adaptation www.ft.com/content/2789... (£) - much more than an environment issue..

The UK is forgetting the dull bit of climate change policy

Adaptation has never been the priority, but this summer’s heat is a message that the Treasury needs to act

ft.com

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

Around 2,700 died in the record-breaking heatwaves in May and June, as climate change makes heatwaves more deadly, experts estimate www.standard.co.uk/news/environ...

Deadly climate impact: 2,700 heat-linked deaths in recent heatwaves, experts say

Researchers estimate hundreds more people died in May and June’s record hot spells than would have done without climate change.

standard.co.uk

Britain is facing a very rare “extreme” marine heatwave that scientists warn could be the country’s worst on record. They said the exceptional sea temperatures could result in mass die-offs of fish and be contributing to the warm nights on land. Story: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

FACTCHECK: A guide to manufacturing headlines, by the Times 1) highlight upfront costs of an “eco” home (EV, heat pump, solar) 2) pretend that petrol cars and gas boilers are free (yes really) 3) count upfront “eco” costs twice, for good measure 4) that’s it!

“The UK only counts for 1% of global emissions, so why should we bother trying to stop climate change?” You hear this a lot from UK media and politicians. But many countries around the world also account for around 1% of emissions. And guess what – they’re all saying exactly the same thing. 🧵

Don’t know when we last broke a monthly record three days in a row but this breaks the previous 1976 record by a wide margin

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · last mo.

Today has been another record breaking day, with a new provisional June temperature record of 37.3°C recorded at Santon Downham this afternoon

It's not "the new normal": this heatwave shows that we're never going to have "normal" again - by @mjflepage.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page

newscientist.com

Temperatures have reached 36.4°C at Yeovilton, provisionally making it the hottest June day on record, surpassing both the previous record set yesterday and the longstanding record from 1976 🌡️

Temperatures have continued to climb this afternoon, and we now have a new provisional June record of 36.0 °C, recorded at both Wisley, Surrey and Gosport in Hampshire

Provisionally, today is now the warmest June day on record in the UK, with 35.8 °C recorded at Wiggonholt, West Sussex

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

Climate scientists express 'concern' over heatwave coverage which they say "increasingly overlooks the fundamental ‘why'" Broadcasters responded that they have been reporting on the hot weather "within the wider context of climate change" pressgazette.co.uk/news/climate...

Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave

Connection between greenhouse emmissions and extreme heat in UK 'indisputable'.

pressgazette.co.uk

UK temperatures nudging 40 on Wednesday, when MPs will be debating the seventh carbon budget, and some will likely be calling for the climate change act/net zero to be scrapped…

Revenue tied to environmental products and services climbed to $5.5 trillion last year, expanding at its fastest pace since 2022. Flobal listed companies that generate revenue from climate solutions now boasts a record high market value of $10 trillion. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Green Economy Tops $10 Trillion as Revenue Growth Accelerates

The green economy — the business lines of global listed companies that generate revenue from climate solutions — now boasts a record high market value of $10 trillion.

bloomberg.com

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown - Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region #climatecrisis Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region

theguardian.com

Footballers and fans heading to World Cup face a dangerous combination of heat and humidity, with growing research highlighting the health effects of high “wet-bulb globe temperatures”. www.ft.com/content/3b37...

The World Cup’s heat hazard

Fans and players could be hit by high temperatures and humidity at the tournament in North America

ft.com

Adam Crafton@adamcrafton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exclusive: FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...