“The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.” www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

This single shipload of electric vehicles from BYD will cut Australia's annual fuel demand by at least 6 million litres This is what genuine fuel security looks like - not tanks of diesel and rushed trade deals, but cutting our exposure permanently to overseas fossil fuel supply.

"The Americans have created the behemoth tech companies... and we will all use their technology whether we like it or not." Tell me again how we have agency, Tony 🙃

While Tony Blair is trashing UK govt energy policy, NESTA analysis finds "early signs [it] may be working" 2022: Gas prices went up 100%, electricity 83% (roughly 1:1) 2026: Gas +28%, elec 6% (5:1 = "electricity beginning to decouple from gas") www.nesta.org.uk/blo...

The fact that Blair thinks this is a genuine dichotomy, when in reality renewables have never been cheaper and fossil fuels are increasingly expensive, suggests he really isn't paying attention institute.global/insights/pol...

The reactions to this are mainly focused on the move to the right, but what's really striking in reading Blair's essay in full, is how little Labour's most electorally successful politician understands the current electorate. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If he had listened to Farming Today 10 minutes earlier, he would have heard East Anglian and Lincolnshire farmers talking about how climate change means spring crops may no longer be viable. And that has knock-ons in terms of crop rotation and soil health for winter crops.

Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather

In April, almost twice as many people googled "solar panel" than in any month, ever🤯 If that's not a sign...;)

The Pope has done a rather lovely critique of technological instrumentalism for AI www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

trains - they're good! build more of them! in other cities too!

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

The government seems to believe it's main problem is Comms, not policy, but we could now be six weeks into a big "This is what is happening, this is what it means" campaign about oil prices... And we just aren't?

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

Fascinating + beautifully visualised analysis, exploring convincingly why birth rates are crashing everywhere. Spoiler: there are many factors, but the smoking gun is a smartphone. Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - a limited 🎁 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

cringe at "Londonmaxxing" aside, yay buses!

I was today years old when I found out "nuclear techniques" are a thing in farming

absolutely horrific, forensically reported piece. How so much of the western world can turn a blind eye to these systemic abuses is beyond me: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

“To switch on that one data center, we would need to shut off power for half the country,” he said of the project. “That’s when I knew there was a problem.” www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

Trump has pulled off an improbable feat: the oilman’s president has made fossil fuels both expensive and unreliable. People used to worry that addiction to oil made us dependent on Middle Eastern autocracies. We have learnt since 2022 that it also makes us dependent on Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.

🚨GREAT NEWS 🚨 There is actually significantly more investment into #renewables following this #fossilfuel crisis. At the same time, this illegal war by the US and Israel is horrible and must stop - we must not forget about the people suffering and who makes them suffer.

fascinating that UAE is explicitly framing its OPEC exit as a response to the rise of renewables "We are not choosing between oil and the energy transition. We are funding one with the other." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

NEW: Confirmation of just how cheap NEAR-BASELOAD solar has ALREADY become. $50-80/MWh for solar+battery firmed to 95% of the year in sunbelt countries (excl US) in 2025 - how can fossil fuels compete with that?!🤯 Plus, more falls to come this decade💪

what a delightfully wholesome fad www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵

wow. a chief constable found in contempt of court surely has to be a resigning matter. kudos to this women for pursuing justice

Our present energy crisis has opened the door to putting an end to fossil fuels, once and for all. The United Arab Emirates' exit from OPEC has taken that door off its hinges and will likely be seen as the critical point when the shift to renewables went from likely to inevitable. 22/x

Re UAE's OPEC decision Oil has a different role for UAE's economy to Saudi Arabia's. UAE has lower dependence (oil:population ratio is more favourable) versus the high Saudi "fiscal breakeven" - ie Saudi requires a higher price to keep society content.

in no world is this a legitimate military target

New Nesta paper by me and colleagues: How to respond to the energy crisis (and make it the last one ever) We set out three key things the UK government should do: 1) A big push on low cost energy efficiency 2) Electrify, fast! 3) Use the crisis to lock in stable energy bills for the long term

@iea.org's Fatih Birol: “The vase is broken, the damage is done – it will be very difficult to put the pieces back together. This will have permanent consequences for the global energy markets for years to come.” www.theguardian.com/environment/... via @fionaharvey.bsky.social 🔌💡

Head of IEA today: "There will be a significant boost to renewables and nuclear power and a further shift towards a more electrified future,” he said. “And this will cut into the main markets for oil.”

A few weeks ago, I published some analysis showing that the UK government had massively underestimated the emissions from the data centres driving the country's "AI revolution". Now, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published some new numbers and they are... a lot higher.

This is also why universal demand subsidies in rich countries are immoral.

Huge fan of food.

Even if not outbid, spot market prices are so much higher that it’s going to hurt. At least PK’s solar boom makes it a little more cushioned relative to Bangladesh. Poor countries reliant upon LNG imports are in a bad place.

In case there are any left-wing people supporting a universal subsidisation of energy - and unfortunately in the UK it's Green Party policy - this is what it means. The only fair and just thing to do is for rich countries to accelerate decarbonisation and limit fossil fuel use as much as possible.

👇summer soundtrack just dropped this pan-Caribbean fossil free anthem is a banger youtu.be/uAn33LSWo-Q?...

This is absolutely heartbreaking www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

renewables literally overtook coal in global electricity generation last year. Solar alone met 75% of demand growth. Update your sources, dude ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

please talk to your boomer uncles about AI-generated rage bait www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...

NEW | Clean power met ALL the growth in global electricity demand in 2025 Solar generation alone met THREE QUARTERS of the demand rise and grew by 30%. Fossil generation stagnated (-0.2%). 🧵 A thread on changes in the global power system in 2025...

I know this is true. I've known it for a while. I still have trouble believing it each time I see it because it is so mind boggling. This is the fourth largest economy in the world. "Fossil gas down 60% in 2026 v 2023."

occasionally I find a news article I wrote cited in an academic paper. Is there a way to find out how many academic citations I have?

Car Tailpipes are the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...