Contractual issues for CCS are complex, poorly understood, and expanding rapidly. I gave this paper www.pure.ed.ac.uk/admin/files/... at www.oxfordenergy.org annual Carbon Management Day 2025 on 227 March. Great discussions and much more work to be done in the field. #CCS #CDR #carboncontracts

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Beautifully done by Private Eye...

Check out my running activity on Garmin Connect. #beatyesterday

Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle #144 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🟢🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟢🟢🟢🟢

Authoritarian vandalism doesn’t begin to cover this.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Today, we pause for remembrance on the anniversary of the Munich air disaster. #FlowersOfManchester

Carbon Take Back Obligations curious?: www.carbon-balance.earth/briefs-repor.... Superb work by Carbon Balance (Mirte B + @ingriduddsundvor.bsky.social ), leading academics (Stuart Jenkins + Myles Allen), and industry partners. Deserves and will get lots of attention. @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social. On Trump/Paris Agreement. BBC Radio 4 just (at 1813) said the US is the world largest CO2 emitter. It isnt. China is, has been for about 15 years, and is roughly twice the US. Got to get the basics right.

Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!). How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out:

Every teacher will be using this next semester. Brilliant.

Since the start of last season, Dominic Solanke has scored more goals in Manchester United matches than Antony has (5-4).

Terrifically useful/grim figure.

Pleased to say that my article on #COP29 has just been published by the Law Society of Scotland: tinyurl.com/dpd4jbws. I take a pretty dim view of the proceedings. Do tell me where I got it wrong!

Is this the soon-to-be-unemployed Finance Minister? Right, ok..

8 December 1980: John Lennon dies in New York City. Rest in peace, John. Love you. www.beatlesbible.com/1980/12/08/j...

Non pipeline transport is up and running!

This is the very best thing in The Guardian.

Article suggests judgment in January or so. Off the back of Finch, one expects an adverse result for O&G. 🤞🏾 UK made legal error in granting oil and gas licences, companies will admit

We shouldn’t motivate climate action by saying it will prevent some apocalyptic version of the world because it’s an insult to the countless millions of people who live under those conditions today.

Shell U.K. Ltd v Persons Unknown and other cases [2024] EWHC 3130 (KB) #climateprotestors #climatelaw #freedomofassembly

Hard to disagree with the general thrust @markgongloff.bsky.social . COP is broken, and has been since Copenhagen, at least. But courts and EU wont get us over the line.

Asked to write a "Climate Year in Review for Lawyers". I'll be doing it month-by-month, and here are my 1st thoughts. 2024 gave us plenty to choose from, obvs, although some months have been busier than others. If anyone has comments and sources, I'd be happy to hear them. Esp for October!!