I volunteer to teach climate social science in schools every week - UK government can call me any time.

The right-wing press is predictably freaking out that the UK govt is going to - wait for it - improve teaching in schools on climate change and media literacy. Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says... www.gov.uk/government/p...

Every year, I depend on @carbonbrief.org's reporting from COP, their tracking of each negotiation stream, and their unbiased analyses. For years, I have been hoping they would turn this into a product that I can support with a mini-subscription. Here it is: subscribe.carbonbrief.org/cop30-inside...

Rob Jetten looks on course to be the next Dutch prime minister. Quick reminder that he was once the nation's climate and energy minister: "I work every day to put the Netherlands on course towards a climate-neutral society by 2050 at the latest." Quite the contrast with Geert Wilders...

FACTCHECK: The frontpage of today's Daily Telegraph has a very confused story about offshore wind, which is all sorts of wrong It says a technical change means higher subsidies & fewer new windfarms from the upcoming AR7 auction Oopsie! This is the opposite of the truth 🧵

AR7 analysis: How much offshore wind will the govt be able to contract at the upcoming CfD auction? It depends on the "strike price", but roughly… 6GW at £70/MWh 5GW at £80/MWh 4GW at £90/MWh THREAD 1/6

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INTERVIEW: I sat down with @thecccuk.bsky.social chief @elpinchbeck.bsky.social to talk UK progress in cutting emissions, attacks on the Climate Change Act, media misinformation, talking to kids about global warming & more Full transcript + vid + recording: www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-b...

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Climate action is the only economic growth story of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern - Fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"War is bad for most of the Russian businesses, if not all of them. But the coal sector is in really deep shit" www.ft.com/content/7c62...

From Indian car owners to Canadian canola farmers, biofuels have been in the news for all kinds of reasons. Here’s everything you wanted to know about biofuels & climate: www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-count... By me for @carbonbrief.org 🖼️📈 @kerryanncleaver.bsky.social @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

The most important piece of information you need to know about Celebrity Traitors is that Nick Mohammed was doing a PhD at the University of Cambridge on "The Effects of Glacier-Induced Isostatic Readjustment on Current Climate Change Models" before he abandoned it to switch to a career in comedy

FACTCHECK: Claire Coutinho claims UK gas power only costs £55/MWh… …but she is ignoring a few small details: 🤫 Gas prices always rise in winter 🤫 Gas plants cost money to build 🤫 CO2 causes economic damages THREAD with receipts 1/8

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act Feat. OG authors of the Act & more www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

Even the Telegraph - yes, the Telegraph - notes the gaping hole in her announcement today that she would, if ever electing into govt, scrap the Climate Change Act... "It is unclear what plan Mrs Badenoch would put in place instead to help tackle climate change, which she concedes is happening."

Kemi 2025 meet Kemi 2022. (And we wonder why trust in politicians is plummeting?)

Kemi Badenoch during her visit to Blyth*... "A town once powered by coal is now powered by wind. And all this is creating hundreds of jobs. Blyth illustrates the promise of the clean energy revolution." "We know that growing our green industries is crucial to reaching net zero"

Really saddened to hear about Jane Goodall. Back in 2007 I sent her a copy of The Final Call, my new book about the impact of tourism, on the off-chance she might be interested. I never really expected a reply given her relentless schedule and priorities. To my delight, she sent me this...

"Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most." BBC News - Pope Leo condemns climate change critics www.bbc.com/news/article...

Strong words from Ed Miliband at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool... "Elon Musk: Get the hell out of our politics and our country"

NEW – Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/9QmKaqu

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It was a few years ago now, but can anyone remember an item on BBC Newsnight when they asked a group of young people to divide up the UK's tax income on education, defence, NHS, etc. They had to move chips into different piles. The debate it created about what to prioritise was v instructive

Really thrilled to see that @carbonbrief.org's @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org has been shortlisted in the "Environmental Journalism National" category at this year's prestigious Society of Editors awards! Lil' CB up against big-gun outlets such as BBC, Sunday Times, Mirror, Guardian and i newspaper...

NEW: Detailed Q&A on China's 2035 climate goals, by me and Anika Patel – with thanks to Lauri Myllyvirta/CREA for numbers: www.carbonbrief.org/... We also have a FREE WEBINAR on Monday 3pm BST to discuss it all with Lauri, Li Shuo and Ryna Cui. Sign up: us02web.zoom.us/webi...

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge * Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better" * Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30% * Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW

Carbon Brief featured on ITV's Good Morning Britain today when Laura Tobin used one of our charts to factcheck Donald Trump's false claims about climate change "This is a chart from Carbon Brief..." www.instagram.com/reel/DO-fz5p...

Fascinating @leohickman.carbonbrief.org interview with @lauraclarkece.bsky.social from the excellent @clientearth.bsky.social who's work spans 60 countries including China Kudos to bsky.app/profile/davi... and others for contributing to their campaign funds. #polluterPays shorturl.at/MFLcq

Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...

It's been a big 24hrs for out-and-out science denial. First, Trump seems to want his MAGA cultists to collectively win the Darwin Award via his denial of medical science Now, Trump is denying more than a century of climate science. Denial = Lives lost Thank you for your attention to this matter

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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.

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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...

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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...