NEW ANALYSIS: India's CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in more than two decades 🏭power CO2 down 3.8% ☀️record clean-energy growth 🚗oil demand only up 0.4% 🏗️steel/cement up 8/10% By CREA for CB www.carbonbrief.org/...

Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming ✍️ By @pauloceppi.bsky.social Read this new article here ➡️ buff.ly/oLxKacO

And this is new, too... "Should the UX produce..." UX, lol

A new video has appeared! Check out the sliding double-decker bus that then morphs into a twin-bus monster thing?!

Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas By @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ni...

NEW – Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Anubha Aggarwal Read here: buff.ly/r64g2LV

My resignation letter

Carbon Brief factchecks some of the most common claims about North Sea oil and gas...

Over 90% of buildings in Boston & Skegness constituency are at risk of flooding, the worst in England. Some homes are 'unmortgageable' Its MP, Richard Tice, is one of Reform UK’s most ardent opponents of climate action, called the #climatecrisis 'garbage' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very sad news. Made me reflect on my Carbon Brief interview with Kate back in 2018: “I am very proud of Nasa. I think it’s really the best of this country – exploration and curiosity and science and diversity and a lot of different people working together.”

Madness

'Octopus says it has a received a 41% rise in inquiries from homeowners about how to become “energy independent” in March so far, which it says equates to “thousands” of people contacting them. It’s been the busiest three-week period in the company’s history.' www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

"He's considering buying a BYD model in Mexico and driving it across the border." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

A few more have appeared over the weekend - again some with the familiar tropes of angry man in high-vis jacket pointing and a woman looking at a phone. Posts are mainly being promoted by accounts supporting Reform UK or far-right politics

NEW - I asked the UK government if they had assessed energy demand/emissions resulting from plans to make the UK an "AI superpower". The analysis they pointed me to seemed... pretty implausible. Just 0.1m tonnes of CO2 a year. My calculations suggest emissions could be 100s of times higher.

Writing in the climate-sceptic Sunday Telegraph, UK's Conservative opposition leader Kemi Badenoch is all in on "Drill Baby Drill" An all-you-can-eat buffet of half-truths, falsehoods and magical thinking

Not quite sure where the driverless, passenger free bus is heading to.....

They keep coming. Here are some new ones that have just appeared...

Here's one on the wildly popular Aberdeen Facebook news group where people feel strongly , using a photo lifted from (I think) a field somewhere in SE Asia. It's certainly not weatherised for the North Sea. No fireworks tho

Here's one which has a car driving right through a petrol pump then road signs for the popular British destinations of "Ges Taute" and "Ges Noute Mils"...

How real or not is the apparent backlash to Net Zero, clean energy etc in the UK? I have some new research out with @ippr.org today. Easily the most in-depth look at this! Review of existing polling, new polling and message testing, interviews with ambivalent voters, etc Here's a taster 🧵

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

😬UK gas prices just hit highest level since 2022😬 At current prices… * New wind & solar from latest "AR7" auction would cut the bill for UK gas imports by £5.5bn/y * A single (1) home heat pump would cut bill for gas imports by more than £600/y www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...

Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables. Let’s get control of our own energy…so we don’t have to keep worrying that our bills are going to go up"

"Kissler reminds his traders that it’s imperative they keep the desk properly staffed at all times...One trick of his at moments like this: cut down on the coffee and water, and you’ll cut down on trips to the bathroom. “You never take your eyes off the screen.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative? Make yourself a tea (or grab a beer??) and enjoy my Friday longread on marginal pricing, ideas for market reform – & how to break the link btwn gas & power prices for good www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8

ANALYSIS: Badenoch and Farage might not want to admit it, but Conservative and Reform plans to scrap net zero whilst boosting the North Sea would actually make the UK even more reliant on gas imports 🤔 www.carbonbrief.org/...

Powerful new column by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in today's Guardian: "We must res­ist the anti-net zero con­spir­acy of the ultra-rich" George cites analysis by the "indispensable Carbon Brief" in his concluding section...

NEW – Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/7B0fLPB

UPDATED – Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world ✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/oTKjd5n

Editorial in the Guardian: "This crisis must see the government focus like a laser on faster decarbonisation, not more drilling"

To put this data gap in Africa into perspective for those in the US, here's DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia overlayed on the United States.

Just stunning – and heartbreaking – that there is barely a single data point across the VAST combined area of DRC, Sudan and South Sudan

A nicely timed new report from the CCC...

NEW – Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

"Renault…aims to end selling simple internal combustion engine vehicles in Europe by 2030 and plans to develop its new electric car platform with Google" "Aims", "simple" and "plans", sure, but this is a stark contrast to its rival Stellantis www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Still waiting for a single one of the North Sea 'drill, baby, drill' editorials to do 'all of the above' energy policy properly.

Excellent article, even before it gets to the chaser about climate change at the end.

Just Google 'Bild and Heizhammer' to see the impact the German tabloid had in fuelling the far-right attacks on heat pumps...

This is genuinely pathetic by Telegraph - and really exposes their rabid obsession with net-zero. When you read this article, this is the only passing reference to net-zero: "a trustee of the Climate Group, a charity that aims for a net-zero world by 2050, from 2010 until 2016" Headline tho...

As if this week's news wasn't intense enough... Global warming is now speeding up. Quite a lot, as it happens.

That isn't the Strait of Hormuz. What this shows is the much narrower channel between the Iranian island of Qeshm and the Iranian mainland, on the northern edge of the Strait itself. This is the area in the photo: maps.app.goo.gl/3PwmD7w3RJdP...

Fantastic topographical photo of the Strait of Hormuz. Really shows just how tight and vulnerable it is for shipping.

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

NEW – Q&A: What the EU’s new industry and ‘Made in Europe’ rules mean for climate action ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

And public polling of Miliband shoots up as a result, presumably...

Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters. They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close. Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.

Your regular reminder that the UK's North Sea gas production is down by two-thirds since 2000 and is set to drop by another 97% by 2050 – even with new licensing rounds it would fall by 95%

How the Iran war is being absorbed by (some) FT readers...

The security implications of this - if true - are terrifying... A Telegraph hack has Trump's personal phone number - and Trump personally answers it when he calls? Really?