Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Near the end of their career, someone I knew who’d worked for decades in sustainability told me “I wanted to save the world, but the world didn’t want to be saved.” I’ve heard similar laments from people near or after the end of their career working on the environment. I think about this a lot. 🧵

32.3ºC at Kew Gardens is the hottest May temperature on record at the station since records began in 1881, beating its previous May maximum by 2ºC (30.3ºC, 25th May 1922). It beat its maximum temperature date record for the 24th of May by OVER 2ºC (30.2ºC, 1922), exceptional.

This story is so revolting that it's hard to look at directly, it needs some kind of mirror like Perseus attacking the Medusa www.economist.com/united-state... From The Economist

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Wondering how many of the reports on the heat wave will reference this week’s Climate Change Committee explaining how badly prepared the UK is for the escalating climate impacts it is already facing.

Reporting on climate means encountering audiences with varying levels of understanding when it comes to climate change and the science of it. This question is for climate journalists, but curious what climate scientists would say, too. Tell us in the comments!

In the Labour purges of ‘26, 1.2 million have died, millions more sent to camps, but thankfully, beloved Daily Mail journalist, Giles Udy, has survived to tell the tale. #media

This incoming spell of hot weather: - Multiple consecutive days of ≥30ºC - May's temperature record of 32.8ºC could go, most likely by Sun/Mon. - The upcoming Bank Holiday may be the hottest (out of any, 33.3°C from August 2019) on record - Unprecedented for this time of year

oh is it that time already?

Frankly this podcast interview was one of the scariest things I have heard in years. The feeling was absolutely that if these guys get into power we run, lemming like, straight over the cliff edge. The journalist clearly thought so too. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Apparently even places that are bang average are "left behind" now www.economist.com/britain/2026...

No idea why Tuchel is getting all the hate over his squad selection. Toney's experience playing in half-empty stadiums under an authoritarian regime could prove invaluable.

Yet another survey showing how most of the public really do like renewables and clean energy projects and understand why they are needed. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530118...

Dandelions as a source of rubber for industrial applications, anyone? www.businessgreen.com/news/4530102...

“Renewables will never replace oil consumption!” 😤 ME: China has displaced the need for 1 million barrels of oil consumed PER DAY with their renewables, EV and energy storage buildout.

France floods Europe's grid with solar, pushing prices negative www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ICYM It looks as if the government is about to formally adopt one of the world's most ambitious climate targets and Labour sources say they welcome the fight with Reform and the Tories over why it is the right direction for the country. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530119...

Next time someone explains how ‘net zero’ was too expensive during a (so-called) cost-of-living crisis.

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

People in the US are leaving cities & moving to exurbs, where they will be confined to cars & view other people as competitors for road space; where they will live in isolated castles & come to disdain the idea of public goods; where they will be atomized & brain-poisoned by RW propaganda.

It is, finally, the right season for this Larkin poem.

ICYM Latest blog is on how I am fucking terrified about climate change and you should be too. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Is this Reeves signalling that targeted energy bill support won't come until the autumn?

This is very welcome. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The taps really could run dry... www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Government doing something sensible in response to fossil fuel shock in promoting more public transport, even as it does something much less sensible in freezing fuel duty yet again. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530077...

More actual good news. All but inevitable the global clean tech investment boom is about to accelerate further in the wake of the Iran War. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530013...

Some actual good news. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530018...

Latest blog is 12 random thoughts on the CCC's terrifying new report on climate adaptation. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

"Pathetic..."

Would Karl Marx have wanted to be 'climate-proofed'? Discuss www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the full, annotated transcript with explanations and fact checks where Tice’s comments contained inaccuracies or required additional context. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reform UK won the most seats in May local elections and is polling at the top across the UK. If it gets into government, it will upend decades of climate and energy policy. On Zero, I asked deputy leader Richard Tice what evidence shapes those stances. Listen: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

eh, what the hell

Really significant and welcome move from the government to get major clean energy projects built quicker. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529991...

Really significant and welcome move from the government to get major clean energy projects built quicker. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529991...

Plant based proteins now cheaper than meat products, according to new report. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529942...

Unhinged and uniformed is the polite take on what this is.

IEA reckons nearly a third of new cars sold this year worldwide will be electric. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529970...

Lots of low key terrifying stats in the Climate Change Committee's new report on climate adaptation, but this one is particularly eye catching. If you are not worried about food security in an era of spiralling temperatures you are not paying attention. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

(Sorry to repeat myself, but there are things we can do, plenty of them)

Fuel duty moves, Russian sanction tweaking and talk of voluntary supermarket price caps are just a total mess of a response to an energy price surge.

A small sample of Tice's approach to facts, evidence, reason, etc...

The next election will be between a party that fundamentally rejects climate science, a party that says it accepts climate science but has no plan to do anything about it, and several parties that accept climate science and want to do something about it.

"Tice’s comments came in a combative interview where he threatened to walk out when presented with information from the [IPCC]. Tice…declined to name advisers who convinced him the scientific consensus was wrong." Extraordinary interview by @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @oliviarudgard.bsky.social

Even if you argue those countries produce less oil and gas than the UK, Colombia produces similar amounts to the UK and has also banned new licenses. What Coutinho says is untrue even if you take the most generous interpretation.

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho keeps saying the "UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses". It's completely untrue. Denmark, France, Spain & Ireland have all done the same. She went completely unchallenged on Talk this AM when she repeated it.

Climate resilience remains such a blindspot for UK policymakers and businesses. As the CCC makes clear, we are in no way ready. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529943...