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

My comment to the misleading Ecotricity report post almost got more likes than their post - let’s at least match theirs. www.linkedin.com/posts/ecotri...

Mike Stanton, the chair of the Somerset Rivers Authority. “It may be that in the next 50 years, perhaps in the next 20, some homes around here will have to be abandoned.”

This event has been tragically under-reported in UK news

NEW ANALYSIS: UK household electricity bills have risen over the last 5 years. BUT: Despite frequent claims that net zero is to blame: 2/3 of the increase is because of high gas prices shows new @ukerc.bsky.social report. Arguably without renewable energy the UK would see even higher bills today.

Compared with most UK journalism, it's refreshing to see a reporter stating straight up these are climate crisis stories. It shouldn't be. But you really don't see much UK media treating UK floods like that

Sometimes you see a graph and your like - damn thats a nice graph.... .... ... just me?

I've long thought that our climate crisis response must urgently learn from this. The experts were shouting it's not safe, but the management didn't want to hear that message. They wanted to carry on. Climate scientists often say it will be "catastrophic" without rapidly phasing out fossil fuels...

Floods in UK - but no mention of Climate Emergency by BBC. To me, incredibly poor journalism to report on events but not on known reasons for them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please sign and share. To act with the urgency we need, we need media to tell the truth

Scotland's largest Passivhaus school slashes energy bills by £430k. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2579882...

Please help take the National Emergency Briefing across the country by donating to our People's Emergency Briefing film crowdfunder, if you can. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people... Thank you to the many who have already donated. #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

A "good" day to start @envleeds.bsky.social undergrad teaching on "SOEE3701 Modelling Extreme Weather Events" and MSc "SOEE56M Climate Risk". I should have grabbed the warnings image when more were in place. Thanks all for battling thro rain to make a 9am, and for great q's! Science to practise!

HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite? Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

Yes - but also ~17% of budget for 2deg, ie we have even less time than many quite well informed people think, and we already know that we have a lot less time than many people show should know better think (i.e. MPs)

We are facing an extremely serious threat. There is much we can do, but action will not happen until the public is informed. Please ask your MP to sign the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. #NEB2025 www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

In other news, I was inadvertently racist at school, I inadvertently lied about my house purchase to avoid tax and inadvertently led a party that was infiltrated by Russia.

Really excited about this project with KNUST, Cambridge @ucadsenegal.bsky.social @theturing.bsky.social et al. There is potential to really transform weather forecasts for Africa in the next decade - with far more forecasting & science done in Africa www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

ClimateCrisis everywhere. Of course behind/affects Europe-USA-Greenland headline geopolitics. Meanwhile extremes enhanced by climate crisis cause lesser headlines: Tragedy in NZ. Floods in UK. Tragedy in Spain (train crash was due to collapsed wall after months of drought + heavy rain ).

Reports are getting starker and starker in their warnings www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At least 100 #nuclear power stations have been built just a few meters above sea-level and will be increasingly threatened by serious flooding caused by accelerating #climate driven sea-level rise and more frequent storm surge. nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/published-do...

"The UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock: a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required." re: the challenge of food security under nature collapse. from a UK govt national security assessment out today… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

It's hard providing news quotes that succinctly cover threat & solutions to empower action without being "too long". Thanks @dailymail.co.uk @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk @independent.ie for using quote & @financialtimes.com for some of it. (Links in thread) www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...

"Climate change is here. We are seeing event classes [today] that were forecast in #climate models for the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s.” - @oceanterra.org #FasterThanExpected #ClimateEmergency

I'd been wondering how Tehran's water crisis linked to protests. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Latest on 'Honest' Bob Jenrick joining Reform.

Also scandalous they don't discuss implications. It's like reporting a widespread illness that is increasing human body temperatures, and understanding why, but failing to report that a body temperatures above 40 can be fatal.

News like this is a rare opportunity to communicate risks of where we are heading & consequences of our actions. Media largely sticks to global temperatures though - which doesn't tell the real story. Why? Stronger dialogue between media & science vital www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

Even the @theguardian.com has more words on the Golden Globes than the @nebriefing.bsky.social We need quality media like RestIsPolitics to step up and discuss what matters to all politics, and to us all.

The Climate Crisis provides essential context for all politics - trade through & conflict over the melting Arctic, mass migration, materials for renewables/batteries, global food & water supplies, fossil-fuel lobbying of parties & govs. How can RestIsPolitics not cover the @nebriefing.bsky.social ?

@theguardian.com think you mean 'year rich' in first line. @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As Trump talks about seizing Greenland, worth giving this a listen if you haven't already. 10 mins from someone who knows more than most about the need for climate action for UK national security. Please sign & share www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... www.nebriefing.org/briefings/na...

Professor Suraje Dessai, Principal Fellow at Priestley, has been appointed to the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change. Suraje is one of the 15 independent senior scientific experts appointed to the board climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/suraje-...

Huge congratulations to Prof Piers Forster CBE! 🎉Director of the Priestley Centre, who has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours 2026 for his climate science leadership and impact. A brilliant recognition of excellence and action on climate change. 🌍 Read more www.leeds.ac.uk/university-n...

To me this was a highlight of the @nebriefing.bsky.social A vital perspective from an "establishment source", traditionally listened to by the right-wing, from a sector that knows how to handle risks, threats and emergencies. Well worth a listen.

Great news: they are over halfway to their target. Let's see if we can get them there before Christmas.

Please share, and chip in if you can. www.crowdjustice.com/case/6-clima...