"But we're only 1% of emissions": media in countries collectively emitting 20% of global CO₂ In 200+ national newspapers in 27 countries made claims that because that country accounts for only approx 1% of global emissions, progress in cutting that country’s emissions should be slowed

Two Telegraph op-eds this week have stated the same fact: the UK accounts for "0.8% of global CO2 emissions"; we can't stop climate change, and others are more responsible. telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026... telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07... Technically true - but here's what this claim misses out 🧵

Climate change was "unequivocally to blame" for last month's record-breaking heatwave, say scientists - yet that's perhaps not what you'd think from recent media coverage. New @eciu.net analysis in @theguardian.com today looks into media coverage of last month's heatwave 👇 🧵

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

"Claims that because a country accounts for only around 1% of global emissions, progress in cutting that country’s emissions should be slowed have been found to appear in more than 200 articles across national newspapers in 27 countries." eciu.net/media/press-...

'We're only 1% of emissions' – analysis finds claims in countries…

Poll: majority of Brits say countries under 1% of emissions should still take action.

eciu.net

Brutal demolition from @eciu.net of the 'we're just one per cent of global emissions - what difference can we make' bullshit. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Plus some more here from me on why we're not 'JUST' 1%. eciu.net/insights/the...

The 1% fallacy: how collective inaction adds up

Net zero emissions is the only scientifically-backed solution the world has to halt climate change, yet one flawed argument against net zero just refuses to die: ‘but we’re only 1% of emissions’.

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“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. 🧵

Leading climate scientists have written to broadcast editors to express concern about recent UK heatwave coverage "The letter urges news organisations to better inform the public [about the climate crisis]...It argues that news coverage “increasingly overlooks the fundamental ‘why'' of heatwaves

Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave

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

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++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Glad to see the BBC correcting errors in its reporting yesterday about a potential weakening of the ZEV mandate - following a pattern of substantial media misreporting on this issue since its introduction in 2024. Here's what's right - and what's wrong 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK electric car sales target set to be weakened

The new target hasn't yet been decided, with different numbers under consideration, the BBC understands.

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Back in November 2025, an editorial in the Times claimed that: “There was no coverage [on the BBC] of Bill Gates’s rethink on climate change last week”. Except it did. It appeared on BBC R4’s Today programme; BBC Radio Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire; and Newshour on the BBC World Service.

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2mo ago

The Times was entitled to say in a leader column that the BBC produced “no coverage” of an intervention by Bill Gates on climate change despite it being discussed on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme, IPSO says pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

🚨 ‘Independent energy consultant’ Kathryn Porter - who claimed the Met Office had produced “junk” data - has featured in national UK newspapers 191 times since 2025, and at least 7 interviews on BBC TV & radio. This Ofcom ruling raises serious questions over her credibility as a media commentator.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔴 Ofcom Upholds Met Office Complaint Against Talk TV for Claiming Forecaster ‘Made Up’ Temperature Data Exclusive: Broadcast regulator censures now-sacked Mike Graham’s show for unfairness to Met Office in landmark case bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

The online TV channel has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting claims the meteorologist simply makes up weather reports ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Rupert Murdoch's Talk rapped for misleading Met Office claims

The online TV channel has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting claims the meteorologist simply makes up weather reports

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The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the FOURTEENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 17 separate articles). I have now added latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 3mo ago

"We are happy to clarify."

Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017 - UK regulator makes U-turn over TalkTV complaints after claims it let some broadcasters ‘spout dangerous climate lies’ @stopfundingheat.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org By me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017

Exclusive: UK regulator makes U-turn over TalkTV and TalkRadio complaints after claims it let some broadcasters ‘spout dangerous climate lies’

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🔴Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/d...

Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers

Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled

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🔴 Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/d...

Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers

Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled

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Amusing and enraging story of IPSO somehow concluding clearly misleading comparisons were not misleading, only for polling from @eciu.net to show readers were indeed misled. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Daily Mail amends electric car story after Yougov poll showed public could have been misled

Polling on whether the public had been misled by a Daily Mail story forced press regulator IPSO to rethink rejection of electric car complaint

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🚨Quite an embarrassment for IPSO here. IPSO rejected our complaint about a Daily Mail article with misleading claims about the cost of petrol cars & EVs, ruling that the article was fine as the public “would not be misled” by it. So we asked the public - and they were misled by a margin of 4 to 1…

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 5mo ago

Polling on whether the public had been misled by a Daily Mail story forced press regulator IPSO to rethink its decision to reject a complaint pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Wow?! BBC News homepage has just significantly downgraded the placing of its "Climate" section on its menu bar Climate is now ranked last, lower than Tech. Earlier this month "Climate" was ranked above World, UK, US&Canada, Business and Tech

🔴 NEW - ‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports The people behind the reports are tied to the fossil fuel industry and climate science denial groups. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports

Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by en...

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NEW: joint @eciu.net & @reutersinstitute.bsky.social research finds the link between the problem of climate change, and its solution of net zero, is quietly being severed. While support for tackling climate change remains popular, the necessary response gets demonised. 🧵

Euronews@euronews.com · 8mo ago

Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/mzwr

Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/mzwr

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the THIRTEENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 16 separate articles). I have now added latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 8mo ago

"We are happy to correct the record"

@eciu.net has kept the receipts on some very dubious media claims about EV adoption. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522703...

'Double standards': Media accused of routinely mispresenting pace of EV roll out

More than 40 UK national media articles have incorrectly reported companies are missing their Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate targets, according to ECIU

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The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the TWELFTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 15 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 8mo ago

"We are happy to correct the record."

The Telegraph has published a list of some of the BBC’s “errors” in its climate change coverage www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11... Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last yr.

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

🚨Rare defeat for climate misinformation🚨 Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers. After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 10mo ago

"We are happy to correct the record."

Why are bills going up by £100 in April? R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*" With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...