New piece from me: Getting over the 2030 energy bill bump On how we're in a period of unusually high energy bills that we should be able to escape from - but only if we start making serious progress on electrification www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-ene...

The energy edit: getting over the 2030 energy bill bump

Every six weeks Andrew Sissons assesses the most important signals and trends underpinning the UK’s energy transition.

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Jess- I spent 90 minutes in the House of Commons on 13th July doing exactly that in the annual Nature and Climaye statement. Perhaps the lobby was distracted….. Here’s what we debated - wildfires, heatwaves, excess deaths, it’s all there hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

State of Climate and Nature - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : ' State of Climate and Nature' on Monday 13 July 2026.

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Depressing how much reach total rubbish gets on here sometimes. A screenshot of a meme with numbers that even half a second thought would tell you must be complete nonsense and no source, yet dozens of people are blindly reposting it.

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 2d ago

If only the UK had massively subsidised the green economy with retraining for wind & solar and 100% home insulation instead of massively subsidising polluting but profitable oil and gas and warmongering ... meme via Neil McEvoy

LOST sat 11-12 GoPro mission pro. Cycling between Regent’s Park inner circle and Camden. Ps don’t trust the GoPro magnetic latch ! Reward given

Let's talk about mayors - a 🧵 Burnham wants to give mayors across the country substantially more powers, money and responsibility. He's looking to roll out "Greater Manchester Plus" (my phrase) across England within three years. That's very fast, and very good. It needs to be done. 1/X

Reminder that these arguments *have all been had before*. The likes of Badenoch lost first time round and they will this time as well.

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 5d ago

This week's revival of soft climate denialism means we get to dust off the old climate crisis game theory calculation: If they're right and we pursue net zero unnecessarily we misallocate some capital. If we stop decarbonising and they're wrong we get global catastrophe and economic collapse.

Good thread eviscerating Badenoch's position on net zero. Decarbonisation will be cheaper than adapting to more climate change and better for the economy. It's hard to think of any sectors now which won't end up being cheaper decarbonised. Net zero sceptics are 10 years out of date.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5d ago

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. 🧵

Honestly, I’m professionally embarrassed we’re still calling for action on road safety. There’s evidence of progress but it’s slow, and nowhere near ambitious enough. Meanwhile, people keep dying needlessly. That’s why I’m running for Brake. More on why 👇 www.northants.police.uk/news/northan...

Andy Cox takes on 200km challenge for road safety charity Brake

Andy Cox is nearing the halfway point of a gruelling 200km running challenge to raise awareness of road danger and support the road safety charity, Brake.

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I have no idea what's going on at Westminster Magistrates Court today but I have never seen so many police in one place before. Literally hundreds!

Oh oh, the Spanish have discovered Asia.

Unironically one of the biggest problems with geoengineering is the massive geographical disparities in how people are affected by climate change. I am hoping this will also be a contentious issue post 2050 as we reach net zero and have to decide what ppm CO2 to go back to.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

Would you be happy if this summer's weather became the norm? Happy: 38% Neither: 22% Unhappy: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Hmmmm 🤔

Reposting this as it expands more on how an electric economy will, without fail, solidly outclass those who remain dependent on fossil fuels for their energy. Electrostates are the future and smart industrial policy embraces this potential. #EnergySky #ClimateSky #EconSky

The Electrostate Revolution Part 2 - Why the Future is Electric

If there is one good way to sum up the leap from petrostate to electrostate, it would be thinking of the shift in terms of transitioning from analog technology to digital systems.

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Paul Boldrin@paulboldrin.bsky.social · 3w ago

The story of yet another "hard to decarbonise" sector getting on with decarbonising. We need to realise that *everything* is going to end up being cheaper electrified and design industrial strategy around that fact, otherwise we're going to be continually surprised that China has got there first.

Peter Drury as I make breakfast: "From the depths of sleepy slumber: PERCOLATION! Rising with the dawn, a new day's opening act. The bacon greets the heat with a jubilant chorus of crackles, eggs poached with practiced precision. And there it is! A fine fry-up fit to start this or any other day..."

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Been playing Plague Inc recently and this does sound like an event that could happen after you unlock the "take control of a politician" ability with the brain worm disease.

Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

I think this is the most incoherent thing I have ever read. If I showed this to a hundred 10 year olds I think most would be able to see the contradictions here.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Happens in science as well. One company I worked with is still doing a measurement in exactly the same way they were doing it 100 years ago despite the fact they could do it 10 times faster with newer tech just because they can't get a good enough correlation between the old and new tech.

Kari Dru@karidru.bsky.social · 2w ago

This already happens WAY more often than people know. We've had to reinvent bronze casting more times than I recall. Your sheets growing up actually were softer and better and no we can't fix it. Nobody knows how to make the good flexy fountain pen nibs anymore.

Ah ha ha, this is a great live fisking of a racist bar bore (and music-on-phone-speakers-in-public antisocial git) complete with finally outing them as a local councillor:

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️@philsturgeon.com · 2w ago

Listening to some miserable old right-wingers moan about seeing a sign saying “Refugees welcome” up at a business. They’re livid about it. They mocked employees for claiming “right to free speech”. Said it would make customers angry. Welcoming people makes you angry? Free speech makes you angry?

What the hell is this? Get the muppets back on.

Not allowed to book Argentinians.

Come on Spain, destroy these dickheads.

Very sad that we could've brought on Saka and Rashford instead of Konsa and Burns the other day.

Good article. Lots of people on my feed very sniffy about Burnham's reindustrialisation, saying it's just 70s leftie nostalgia for the coalmines. But I think Burnham knows more about what reindustrialisation in the 21st century might look like than they do.

Jennifer Williams@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 3w ago

A bit from me about what Burnham may mean by “redindustrialisation” as.ft.com/r/afe5abd3-4...

The story of yet another "hard to decarbonise" sector getting on with decarbonising. We need to realise that *everything* is going to end up being cheaper electrified and design industrial strategy around that fact, otherwise we're going to be continually surprised that China has got there first.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3w ago

"If we keep reading China only as 'weak demand for oil' instead of as 'strong supply of electric freight solutions,' we will mis-diagnose the transition and mis-design our response."

I think it's partly the fossil fuel angle but also because we're wildly disconnected from the basics of modern society like energy, water, fertilisers, chemicals, steel. People have had 80+ years of not having to think about any of that stuff and so it's a cultural backwater.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

Has there ever been a defeat so easily foretold that you've had 20 minutes to get over it before the final whistle goes?

Porro MotM for me so far #COYS

The past is a different country.

Lizzy@lizzycampbell.bsky.social · 3w ago

this was my most popular tumblr post ever, from 2013. at the time, my reaction to these temperatures felt reasonable. Now I want them back.

Looks like the BBC is also struggling to keep up: "The biggest game of their lives". Errr, I think actually most of them have already played in at least one semi final with England. They were in a final *two years ago*.

Paul Boldrin@paulboldrin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Still find it hard to comprehend how massively better England are now compared to when I was younger. Before my kids were born I had seen England in two semi-finals my entire life. Wednesday will be my 11yo's 4th.

Every one of these bodies is accountable both to a sponsoring minister and directly to at least 2 select committees in parliament- The problem is that it is convenient for ministers (and their departments) to stress the independence of these bodies when they take unpopular decisions

Jennifer Williams@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 3w ago

What’s notable about this is it’s a concern on both the left and the right. eg I spoke to someone in reform after his Leeds speech in May, in which he similarly talked about the EA and other “unaccountable” bodies, who wholeheartedly approved.