I'd been wanting a good analysis on what the alternatives are to gas setting price of electricity. As usual @carbonbrief.org has the answer www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-does-...

Most people still don't understand what is coming in the world of energy. This graph should help but what would be good is to see this everywhere in the media so the public understood that what they think they know about renewable tech and EVs is not up to date.

New projections of British biodiversity under plausible climate & land-use futures Severe futures have 12-20% birds, butterflies, plants going extinct & major changes to ecosystems More sustainable scenarios only decrease & do not stop loss; but require urgent action www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great summary from carbon brief www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ni... . Though I think to tackle the new culture war on UK oil/gas I think best to basically frame it as an irelevance. It doesn't help anything. Renewables do.

Heatwaves outside summer don't tend to get so much attention, as they're not all-time records. But impacts can be huge.

bbc now mention climate change ... at bottom of article. Its like reporting explosions in Iran, but only saying who fired the missiles at the end of the article! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We need resilience & just-in-time supply chains not resilient. (We don't know what the shocks will be exactly - but with climate & nature crisis and geopolitics we know they are coming). China - & e.g. Norway - have acted. UK-renewables key for UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Hosting a @nebriefing.bsky.social film with your MP & community is a huge opportunity to show MPs people do care and do want action on climate - both to address the threat's to our welfare that rising temperatures are bringing - and to cut emissions. There's lots of help to do this on NEB webpages.

rightwing media narratives are fuelling a false backlash against climate action An echo chamber of elite opinion, has led to MPs significantly underestimating public support for climate policies and overestimate public opposition to local clean energy projects www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social BBC failing to mention cause (i.e. burning of fossil fuels) of this extra-ordinary event, or that this will continue to get worse until we phase out fossil fuels (net-zero). To me, that is a complete failure of journalism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And on GB news! www.gbnews.com/money/north-...

Good summary of how uk oil and gas won't help prices, and renewables will theconversation.com/would-more-n...

UK's vulnerability & importance of renewables in national security, energy security, cheap energy & jobs was highlighted at Nov @nebriefing.bsky.social. Imagine our vulnerability without our ~50% electricity from renewables. www.nebriefing.org/expert-brief... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Which country is looking at this chart and saying: "You know what? We need more gas in the system." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

4 industry sponsored Fluids PhDs @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Depressing how little media coverage this got. Almost as if the media just want to report what politicians say. Not question answers report reality www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We have to call out how years of lobbying (&funding) by fossil fuel industry continues to ensure many on right-wing persist on referring to net-zero as a cost, not a source of profit, jobs & security www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our final task: respond to DEFRA’s wood burning consultation - deadline 19th March. This is a rare chance to tell the government about the real-life impacts of neighbourhood burning. Our guide to responding: www.mumsforlungs.org/news/respond... Thank you to all our amazing #CleanAirCrowd!

Oil and gas prices are set on international markets beyond UK control North Sea is not credible solution: ❌ output too small to make any difference ❌ will decline irrespective of new licences Renewable generation and net zero tech 🔑 to bring energy independence eciu.net/media/press...

Great to see ITV covering this, and two @nebriefing.bsky.social speakers interviewed too

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

More on the need for a global assessment of avoidable risks climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/leeds-r...

We really need a better voting system!

More on our call for a global assessment of avoidable climate change risks. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Major threats to our well being from climate change can be avoided, or hugely reduced, by rapid action. Our Nature comment calls for a global risk assessment, effectively communicated to governments, the media and the public, to make clear what is at stake. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When I saw Spain floods, I wondered if it would hit our food. UK heavily dependent on Med, where climate changing fast. UK can survive without strawberries in Feb. But set to get worse until we stop Fossil fuels & reach net zero, see @nebriefing.bsky.social @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social talk

Denmark is a poster child of the energy transition. Yesterday I gave the opening keynote at Green Summit 2026. One message stood out: energy policy is industrial policy and increasingly geopolitics. The next phase isn’t about targets, but competitiveness, resilience and execution at scale.

France. Mozambique and Bali floods have barely made uk news. We'll see if these do

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Less renewables means higher prices. www.rechargenews.com/opinion/tony...

So we either (i) trust Yusuf-I that Jenricks is a liar, (ii) trust Yusuf-II that he is not - but that means Yusuf called Jenricks a liar even though he didn't know him or know he was a liar, i.e. Yusuf is a liar. So either way Reform leaders are liars.

The Telegraph has even printed the article in its print edition this morning (albeit somewhat buried at the end of its Business section)

Ambrose Evans Pritchard is the Telegraphs international business editor. Business can see where the money is....

An extraordinary new column in the Daily Telegraph (no, that's not a typo!) by Ambrose Evans Pritchard. Yes, it includes two charts by Carbon Brief, sure. But stay for the concluding few paragraphs about the electoral suicide of climate denial... www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

We need the media to ask politicians questioning net-zero, what their plan is for dealing with a world that gets hotter & hotter & hotter & hotter... We have to reach net-zero. The only question is when. And the evidence is that sooner can be cheaper, and UK can profit even if others don't act.

Now published authorservices.wiley.com/index.html#r... Insightful work from James in Geophys. Res. Lett

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Fantastic opportunity for someone to lead the fantastic School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability @universityofleeds.bsky.social. We're a successful, big, diverse with some outsanding research and teaching. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Anyone know how Reform come up with this net-zero will make up 2/3 of our energy bills? Is it plain wrong? Or just wrong in the sense that the alternative to decarbonising energy will cost same/more? When is something mis-leading enough to be illegal? @carbonbrief.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social

Yes it's miserable - but bigger picture - UK has had 3 of its worst harvests in last 10 years. Persistent rain is harming this years. Climate Crisis threatens UK food suppplies www.gov.uk/government/p... eciu.net/media/press-... www.fwi.co.uk/news/weather...

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

Yet no mention of fact climate crisis expected to make UK winters wetter .... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good to see C4 cover this. Interesting language, "technically a possibility" - I sometimes think the enormity of this risk leads subconsciously to that kind of language. www.channel4.com/news/atlanti...

Here's an excellent paper from our PhD student James Bassford using theoretical ideas to explain how models represent global and regional rainfall. We are keen to take this work further ...

Great PhD work by James Bassford in @agu.org Geophys.Res.Lett. Using statistical mechanics concepts he explains why one model can capture the bimodal water vapour distribution over tropical oceans, & another cannot essopenarchive.org/users/593994...

One dead, 1000s evacuated, I imagine this will affect UK food supplies(?) and it's not even in the UK news ... We have normalised ClimateCrisis extremes far quicker than I thought we would (I know there's a lot in the news just now) www.euronews.com/2026/02/05/a...

The Olympics are allowing oil and gas companies to sponsor the Games – even as fossil fuels threaten the future of winter sports. Add your name and urge them to end fossil fuel sponsorship for good >> act.gp/4rnOGOu

Thank you to South Hams District Council for backing the #NationalEmergencyBriefing. We hope to see many other councils following suit. Suggested template motion below to share with your local councillors. @southhamsdc.bsky.social #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp