Two days left to sign a petition to stop airport expansion in the UK. It has over 10,000 signatures so the government will have to respond: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

As usual evidence of impact of projects takes time www.facebook.com/share/17MRx7...

Saint Sorlin Glacier 1999 | 2025 Collapse of one of benchmark glacier for mass balance in western Alps! 😱 Set to disappear within less than 20 years! 🔥 📷 Sources 1999 & 2022: hal.science/hal-04122994... 2014: H. Mansoux 2025: Y. Gong 🙏 @bobopopo67

Energy independence from cheap & plentiful renewables don't just threaten the fossil fuel companies, it threatens major income streams & power of fossil-fuel exporting states. No wonder they are trying to obscure & delay

Finally a briefing of MPs on the climate crisis! Please call for your MP to attend. It's vital that MPs not only understand the threat, solutions & urgency, but that they have publicly been informed and can't say they didn't know.

Congratulations to Declan Finney on receiving a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! A well deserved award. Declan's project is 'DOOC: Drone Observation Of Clouds and their role in weather and climate'.

AI data centres projected to account for >4.% of global emissions within 5 years. We can't ignore this. Important to also not forget that efficiency tends to increase consumption. More energy efficient AI very likely will increase not decrease it's energy usage.

What people wore at the Emmys higher profile on BBC than this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Sea-level rise will continue long after 2050, even in the best-case of net-zero rapidly, limiting and slowing rise. So "long"-term (ie in my kids lifetime) impact will be far larger (but not mentioned)

Just look at what happened with solar investment - it’s astonishing. Solar has seen the most rapid investment growth, soaring from $142 billion in 2015 to a projected $441 billion this year.

Let's remember at least twice as many poeple attended this www.theguardian.com/environment/.... as this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (even if it did get 10 times less media coverage)

Why does BBC reproduce this stuff with so little critical coverage & rebuttal? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are now just 1,140 signatures away from reaching the 10k target. Thanks so much for signing and sharing – please keep on pushing! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

That's why we've launched a campaign to balance the BBC: www.libdems.org.uk/bbc

I read not watch most news. But this is worth a watch

And now we’re banned from the Conservative Party conference - Badenoch following hard in Farage’s anti free speech authoritarian footsteps

We’ve been banned from Reform Party events for two years now. Why does Nigel Farage lie to Congress about this? @bylinetimes.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news

Farage visibly confused by being held to account, having been coddled by a British media and political establishment that refuses to do the bare minimum.

Why in the year 2025 do UK Energy Performance Certificates still recommend people to install new fossil fuel heating systems but never recommend a heat pump? I have written about this issue 6 years ago. If you want to read my old article you can find it here: foresightmedia.com/historie/swp...

We still need 2,300 signatures on this petition in order for it to go to government. Can you help? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... The deadline is 24th September – please sign and share with everyone you know! 🙏

The Government's expert adviser says that investing to upgrade from fossil fuels will save the UK nearly £40 billion a year, and rising. Electrifying everything avoids all that heat lost burning gas and oil. Electrification isn’t a cost. It’s the smartest investment we can make. 🧵1️⃣ of 3️⃣

Well this is a good opportunity to wheel out Jonathan Gullis's Desecration of War Memorials bill. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Great new work from Yutong in @agu.org Geophys. Res. Lett. Using convection-permitting simulations spanning 22 summers, we find that convective cores within mature MCSs preferentially develop on the drier side of strong soil-moisture gradients. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Have I gone mad or did Today just do an entire interview with the Conservative energy spokesperson, on the Conservatives' plan to max out North Sea oil, without a single question about the environment? (There was a question on crowding out investment for alternative energy, but I think that was it)

Excited to be part of this. Bradford climate community: Storm-Gathering at The Beacon, Lister Park this Thu 4Sept. Free food by Bradford S Asian Festival 6pm. Event 7-8pm. Book free ticket bradford2025.co.uk/event/storm-gathering/ #Bradford2025 #ArkBradford #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #Bradford

Please vote for Gary Lineker. It’s a vote for decency, honesty and truth. You can ignore all the other categories if you like. www.nationaltvawards.com/vote

When will BBC report this? Scientists have warned " Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. No longer low likelihood. Seems like a major story to me @bbcpaulmurphy.bsky.social

Scientists say net-zero by 2050 to "avoid even worse flooding, wildfires, and other damage". Come on news.sky.com/story/kemi-b... We say far more. It's about a "liveable future". Avoiding catastrophic risks. Energy independence. Jobs. Saving trillions. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-09...

Another way of depicting this that includes wind power (higher share than solar in both, higher than hydro in US and higher than nukes in China.......why is it excluded?) and as a proportion of energy shows the same story but less dramatically. China's set to overtake US in non-fossil share v soon:

Here is a reminder that already last year 44 experts directed a powerful warning to policy makers about the risk of #AMOC shutdown. What more can we do to get heard? It’s like the saying that every disaster movie starts with scientists warning and being ignored.

I don't think we fully grasped yet how important solar will be as an energy source. Great graph @carbonbrief.org based on @iea.org data.

I emailed my MP, asking them to join the debate on 2 Sept and speak out in support of scrapping FPTP for Mayoral elections. Use this tool by @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social @openbritain.bsky.social to do the same actionnetwork.org/letters/devo...

Interesting analogy with countering right-wing anti-climate narrative. To counter it need a positive narrative of our own, not just refute it. A bairer, cheaper, cleaner more profitable future with more jobs and more nature is hard to argue against.

Wow, 1% of Iberian peninsula burnt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

❗The biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade is coming to Great Yarmouth and we need your help to stop it. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

Pretty sure that citizen assemblies support a frequent flier tax - easy win. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds #climatecrisis Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Many thanks to @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social for recent interview on UK heatwaves. I had no time to prepare, which I think leads to a more spontaneous chat - good for radio, but regretting not including impact on UK food prices and nature www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (Good to see BBC covering this)

Happy to be quoted here: my subjective impression is that many do not yet understand that things get worse until net-zero. That may be obvious to a climate scientist, but not to many others www.aa.com.tr/en/environme...

🧪🌊🧵"experts believe a global rise in sea level of at least three metres may now be inevitable as a result of the break-up of Antarctica’s giant western glaciers" observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Britain can’t afford Elon’s next power trip. Today I’ve written to the Energy Secretary urging him to block Musk’s electricity supply licence. The government should be putting the national interest first, not worrying about upsetting Elon Musk.

Fantastic to welcome Dr Ben Booth to @universityofleeds.bsky.social School of Computer Science: the 5th of 5 new Met Office Academic Partnership joint positions. ML is transforming science. Ben's appointment will better link atmos & computer science & deliver impact eps.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

NEW ANALYSIS: Record solar growth keeps China's CO2 falling in H1 2025, extending a decline since Mar 2024 ☀️212GW added in H1 alone (US only has 178GW, in total) ⚡Power CO2 down 3% 🏗️Steel/cement falling too 🏭Coal-chemicals only sector to rise www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8

Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points. “Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.

Meanwhile BBC news doesn't take the opportunity to say why food prices increasing, just "higher food prices were driven by increases to the cost of beef, chocolate and confectionery, instant coffee, and fresh orange juice". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate crisis causing drought causing UK food price increase & inflation. "Beef, orange juice, coffee & chocolate were among the worst-hit" Droughts in Spain, Italy & Portugal, where the UK sources much of its fresh fruit & vegetables, have pushed up prices" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thanks to @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social for opportunity to talk about UK heatwaves and Climate Crisis, & impacts on UK farming/food. I had no time to prepare. If I had, I would have included impacts on both UK food prices & nature. both in today's news. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Love this @telegraphnews.bsky.social headline, it's tax changes not climate change that is causing low harvests! The BBC article in thread below is more revealing. Worst UK harvests are 2020 (too wet,too dry) & 2024 (too wet), and 2025 likely bad (too dry).... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

Since this is almost literally the "canary in the coal mine", I'm surprised it hasn't received greater mainstream media coverage in e.g. @bbcnews.bsky.social or @theguardian.com @dpcarrington.bsky.social . Or am I missing the articles?

My mountaineering days (20 years ago) took place in a landscape that no longer exists and that my children will never get to experience. That in itself is deeply saddening, aside from the wider implications of risks to for our civilisation.

Note Warren et al 2018 (Science) doubles the number of vertebrates losing >50% of their climatic range between 1.5 & 2 deg warming.