Earlier this month, I interviewed ClientEarth's @lauraclarkece.bsky.social We discussed a wide range of things from Slapp suits and 'lawfare' though to the Pitcairn Island and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour...

You might remember an article I wrote for the Guardian last year about my years-long search to identify my paternal birth grandparents. It led to me being interviewed for this new BBC News article... Citizenship: How ancestry DNA tests can lead to a new passport www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yet more embarrassment for the Times, which has printed a ludicrous – and almost certainly false – line about windfarms being “dismantled” near Trump’s Scottish golf course But why pick up the phone, as I did, when you can print nudge-nudge rumours instead? 1/

NEW - Is BRICS the next climate leader? BRICS is in the news due to Trump and tariffs, but the group also has an interesting dynamic when it comes to climate 🇨🇳🇧🇷🇮🇳 have pushed fossil fuels to <50% of power + BRICS are shaping COP outcomes Read more in my new @carbonbrief.org piece (link below)

This is what the UK's opposition Conservative party now believes to be a good use of parliamentary time. From a former energy minister, no less. (Albeit one who was known to be a climate sceptic in that role.) I guess this is him beating a path towards defecting to Reform. Tragic.

NEW – AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/vJ5juMa

Evidence-free claims will soon power the world www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧵Agree great thread, This is really interesting research (and always good to do reruns to track trends). But like Steve i’d also suggest zooming out a little bit before assuming climate scepticism is the new normal. Some additional thoughts… (long thread sorry!)

"Time's running out. Fight climate change!" New public-information campaign by Pakistan's government

Revealed: Global warming exaggerated, say soaring number of Britons (being fed an endless stream of misinformation and lies by populists and their media enablers) www.thetimes.com/article/a339...

Did you know @carbonbrief.org has a starter pack allowing you to easily follow all of us who are active here on BlueSky? bsky.app/starter-pack...

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It's been many years since I was on this show but had a similar experience. Awful format, awful presenter, awful panelists. And yet Radio 4 persists with it. Unlistenable. A festival of closed minds, arrogance and smug disdain.

Kemi Badenoch 2025 meet Kemi Badenoch 2020... "We have always been determined to support the transition to a green economy…combatting climate change and achieving economic growth are not mutually exclusive" www.businessgreen.com/opinion/4020...

This isn't online, but BBC News's climate editor Justin Rowlatt has just sent this to subscribers of his 'Future Earth' newsletter: "The bottom line: wind has played a small role in this latest [energy bill] price increase, but other factors - especially global gas prices - matter more."

"unless those parties on the left and in the centre are prepared to at least explore areas of common interest, there are real risks that Reform UK unites the right, resulting in the gut-wrenching prospect of Nigel Farage as the next prime minister"

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

That moment when opportunist opposition politics runs up against the real world...

The irritating policy of BBC News editors to turn on/off comments under certain articles is a pretty clear example of editorialising, imo. There is no clear logic to the policy, other than to encouraging trolling under certain topics. BBC really should be avoiding perception it is doing this

"The change shows how ambitious policymaking can directly improve health in large cities." I visited Paris this month briefly and it was striking how clean the air was - and how much quieter it was - compared to visits a decade or more ago.

Very intersting factcheck by Carbon Brief on solar power! They also covered our study on space requirements compared to golf courses: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #solar #Golf #renewables

New analysis finds widespread misinformation around electric cars in UK newspapers Via @eciu.net #EVs eciu.net/media/press-...

Golf courses are quite the comparative metric, on several levels...

Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms? Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape? Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Yes, great effort by @desmog.com and @joeygrostern.bsky.social I also saw this site a few months back and thought WTF. It was clearly highly suspect, but good that someone has done the digging and exposed it. MSN should be deeply embarrassed it allow itself to amplify this slop.

Eh? According to UN's website, the US is still technically a party signed up to Paris Agreement. It looks like Trump admin hasn't yet got around to formally reversing Biden's "instrument of acceptance" registered with the UN in Jan 2021. Does this matter, legally? treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDe...

Looks like I wasn't the only one... Here's @mims.bsky.social writing in the Wall Street Journal about his own positive experience driving an EV across California this summer www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Pretty shocking - but, sadly, not surprising these days – that the Times has simply repeated Trump's false claims in its reporting. Not even a hint of factchecking his statements. Might as well have just published a verbatim transcript of what he said. Would have been more useful to the reader

"Only three current members of Congress have Ph.D.s in a science, technology, engineering, or math field."

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

Back from my hols which involved driving an EV thru France - at times in extreme heat. No dramas. No range anxiety. Loads of chargers. All worked. No waits. Whole experience was a pleasure - and totally normal, as expected. That's it. Sorry, Daily Telegraph editors - no 'EV hell' anecdotes for u

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Truly devastating for Trump's climate report. It just shows once again: if you task a group of "climate skeptics" with a climate report, you get a mass of easily refuted falsehoods, as they simply do not have honest arguments on their side. interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report. This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...

I do worry about what increased wildfires are doing to carbon sinks

NEW ANALYSIS: Wildfires have already scorched a UK-record land area in 2025, double the previous high – and 4x above average By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater www.carbonbrief.org/...

Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳 ❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr ✅They actually GREW…by 62% Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔 1/7

What is the word to describe the feeling you get when you write about how young(ish) women who are regularly exposed to climate information are more likely to feel climate anxiety... Really enjoyed speaking to researchers for this @carbonbrief.org explainer www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-wh...

NEW – Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @sivathambisetty.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/YaUavl0

Lula: "You can be sure, I will call Trump to invite him to COP30 and hear his views on climate. I will be kind enough to call him…If he doesn't attend, it's because he doesn't want to, but it won't be for lack of courtesy, friendliness, or commitment to democracy." www.bernama.com/en/world/new...

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

This is the analysis we produced that was cited in the Guardian's editorial on Saturday... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The slight flaw in their claim is that GB News is very clearly not a news channel. A torrent of highly partial views, yes. News, no It's a views channel, plain and simple.

Worth remembering that coal is the most deadly form of energy we have. Incomparably more dangerous that renewables or nuclear. And that's even if you ignore climate change.

NEW – Analysis: Trump’s tariffs could cut just 0.3% from global CO2 emissions in 2025 | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/azScHNS

2025 has seen the second warmest first half of the year on record after 2024 – and is on track to be the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850. My latest State of the Climate report over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

The Trump admin plan to repeal the "endangerment" finding that underlies key climate regulations in the US is on the frontpage of today's NY Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

NEW – UN report: Five charts explaining the rise of global food insecurity | @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/LhONOi6

Given both of their histories, you've got to laugh, really...