“Smugglers are using increasingly dangerous techniques in response to successive UK government clampdowns to stop crossings.” So, UK policy is killing people? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Dinghy carrying 157 people capsizes in Channel after engine catches fire

All passengers thought to have been taken to Boulogne after major air and sea rescue operation by France and UK

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Today is my birthday, and what a present! There are as of today more BEVs than diesel cars in the Danish car fleet! And yes, that is only counting pure EVs. Not hybrids of any kind. Thanks to @sorenjakobsen.bsky.social for the latest numbers: danskemobilitet.dk/nyheder/elbi... #dktrp #dkgreen

1/ Kemi Badenoch says she isn't a climate denier. Let's take her at her word. Here are five findings she wrote around this week as though they don't exist. 🧵

9/ New North Sea fields don't fit in the budget. She'll "back domestic North Sea oil and gas." Fields already producing or under development hold roughly three times the oil and gas 1.5°C allows. The International Energy Agency has said no new fields are needed since 2021.

7/ Fossil dependence is what makes bills volatile. @thecccuk.bsky.social modelled a gas price shock in 2040. Stop decarbonising, bills rise 59%. Stay on the path to net-zero - 4%. Since the Iran war, bills rose about four times more for a house with a gas boiler and a petrol car.

Progress in reducing emissions 2026 report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee

Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 36 (1) of the Climate Change Act 2008. This report was laid…

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Why does he give a reason (more oil will help cost of living) so widely and frequently disproven? Cynically, because it builds his personal brand that he is focused on the cost of living crisis, even though he knows drilling for oil won’t reduce prices. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas

PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’

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This is not 'pragmatism'. It is gross irresponsibility in view of the extreme weather events of this Summer. It will merely add to the net global sum of carbon emissions, when the imperative is to do exactly the opposite. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas

PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’

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NEW Stewart Lee column I wanted a King of the North. Not a King of the North Sea Is Andy ‘Burn Them!’ Burnham really going to approve more oil drilling? This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Let's be absolutely clear: there is no amount of new drilling in the North Sea that Burnham could approve which would be consistent with our climate goals. If we are to avoid complete climate breakdown, we need to turn all effort to clean renewable energy - not doubling down on dirty fossil fuels.

Burnham to Back North Sea Oil and Take Control of Thames Water

Within days of taking office incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to announce new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea as well as taking public control of Thames Water.

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Tragic 😢 The fire has been described as the worst the Cairngorms has ever seen. It will be weeks, if not months, before the blaze is fully extinguished but emergency services are hoping they can stop it spreading further. The damage will take decades to put right. #wildfires #climatecrisis

Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires

With large areas still burning, damage from national park’s worst blaze could take decades, if not longer, to put right

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Cairngorms Wild Fire 😢

This is such a great visualization of the carbon cycle and of how humanity has completely altered it within a geological instant. Visualization by @rarohde.bsky.social. 1/

"As Mayor of Greater Manchester, you oversaw the declaration of a #ClimateEmergency & argued that local government lacked many of the powers necessary to deliver the pace of change demanded by the climate challenge. As Prime Minister, those powers now rest with you"

Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · last wk.

Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...

This is the reply the BBC are sending to people who complained about Kuenssberg's interview with Badenoch. They kind of admit that they messed up, but "it happens". Wholly inadequate and I have submitted a follow-up complaint

Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

Burnham talking about expanding North Sea drilling while Europe burns, and largely getting away with it in the media - we’re not looking up harder than ever.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2w ago

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.

We decided to get out. Not sure whether we would have still made it tomorrow. The main road Lacanau-Bordeaux is already closed. #GlobalHeating #Wildfire

Good if not very encouraging lunch with the FT, with the head of the Met Office. www.ft.com/content/bde8...

The cavalier passing up of teachable moments on the climate crisis, even among those politicians and governments who care deeply about the issue, never stops being shocking. And they will then privately complain that they can't get the public engaged enough to enable bolder action.

Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Obviously the Tories and Reform are *monstrously* irresponsible on the climate emergency. But where are the statements from Labour on the drought and wildfires? Has Andy Burnham once mentioned the crisis we're going through or used it to defend Net Zero? The political silence feels like gaslighting.

Even camels can’t deal with extreme heat. 🐪

Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.

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Poll: Three-quarters of MPs support UK's 2050 net zero target. But it was 95% before Kemi Badenoch drove the last vestiges of sanity out of her party.

Poll: Three-quarters of MPs support UK's 2050 net zero target

Climate Barometer survey takes temperature check of climate and clean energy policy sentiment in Parliament, suggesting strong cross-party support for net zero goals remains

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I bow to Ed Miliband’s thick skin - and good humour. It’s what one needs to get anything done in the UK.

Josh Gabbatiss@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 2w ago

As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters, Grubert, Emily

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

Imagining a counterfactual where Miliband won in 2015, instead of Cameron unleashing Brexit, the Conservative party and their base moving to Farage (and Trump's) end of the political spectrum, and no PM lasting more than ~2 years. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why has Labour briefed against Ed Miliband – is it his success and popularity?

Tories, Reform, fossil fuel industry and some in his party lined up against net zero agenda as energy secretary

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BREAKING 🚨: reports suggest Andy Burnham could approve new oil and gas fields, including Rosebank. Is he REALLY going to cave into the demands of the profiteering oil giants and Trump? Or is he going to stand with people facing soaring bills and a worsening climate crisis?

This is the thing I feared Starmer would do, but actually in the end, he didn’t. Immediately disliking the new guy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

bbc.co.uk

A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

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“The government can summon billions of pounds for new military hardware. We need an equally decisive mobilisation of investment to restore the natural world on which we rely for our food, water, and clean air. Without these essentials our country has no future,” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security

MPs demand publication of full report that outlines catastrophic consequences amid concerns for food security

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The rig I'm on has put up first aid guides that were made with AI. Wouldn't bother with CPR there, would be more concerned by the fact is head isn't connected to his body