Issue of the public mandate for Net Zero and climate action is beautifully captured by 3 headlines in the Guardian today Exhibit A: climate change impacts getting real. University of Exeter Wildfire Lab says Climate change is making wildfires more likely 1/4🧵🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Summer heatwaves are not just getting 'a bit hot' they're deadly - over 2,700 people died in UK in the 2 in May & June Over 40% of people affected would not have died without the 1.4C of human-caused global heating, say Imperial College and the Met Office www.theguardian.com/environment/...

MPs say UK govt failing to “join the dots” between national security threat from climate crisis & collapse of species, with ongoing cuts to overseas aid & climate finance Astonishing a lot of report on national security threat from nature collapse still secret www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The way EU Commission is pretending that methane emissions from livestock herds don't impact climate warming is "a kind of wishful thinking” EU Comm says emissions cuts can come through tech fixes, not numbers reduction Its own climate advisers say that won't work www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

Important marine habitats like seagrasses and kelp forests are suited to cooler waters Heatwaves reduce their growth or even lead to mass mortality, with knock-on effects for species that rely on such habitats Cool-adapted species incl cod are moving further north www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Recent heatwave would have been impossible without fossil fuel burning driving climate crisis A poll shows effects global heating is already having 86% of people in UK said their homes were too hot & 1/4 said someone in their house had felt physically unwell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Large oil companies are expanding oil & gas production Plans are much worse than IEA’s gloomy business-as-usual scenario - 5.9% increase in oil & gas production this decade, leading to 2.9C global temp increase by 2100 The current heatwaves are with 1.4C warming www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2024 - UK bans crop-based biofuels from sustainable aviation fuel cos of worries over displacing food production October 2025 - civil servants tour US biofuel production Dec 2025 - govt re-opens question of ban It could "open the floodgates to cheap & dirty US imports" www.ft.com/content/d4b5...

How many of the Big Tech promises n renewables and clean energy are going to remain undelivered? Reality is that in grid-constrained parts places there will need to be a choice between datacentres and e.g. housing, because of power availability & grid connection www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Finally.... been obvious for a couple of years that UK Govt continuing to use X as major social media output made no sense The guy who runs it - you may have heard of him - has literally been asking for there to be a coup Yet X/Grok/Elon were indulged www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Defra breached law, with Tory govt was in office, when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says. This is one outcome of capture of the state by corporations, and secrecy. Govts pursue economic growth, not resilience, at almost any cost.

The idea that Carney is a 'green champion' has not been having a good year Now he's doubling down of fossil fuel extraction via a new oil pipeline and tripling LNG production Weathervane not signpost www.ft.com/content/e5ff...

For those who missed last night's launch of our new report 'Waste of Space' investigating the #environmentalharm of new military and civil #space race, here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipbu...

Allowing data centres to use carbon offsets, one of the most useless, divisive and generally unhelpful mechanisms for tackling climate change, would be a ridiculous concession to Big Tech power by the EU 🧵🧵 1/4 www.ft.com/content/2135...

£35bn investment in things that have never been built. Really? Boiling water reactors, which afaik have never been licenced in UK, are proposed "The consortium hopes to secure a similar deal to that offered to Hinkley Point C" should worry any energy bill payer www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Happy to be speaking at this on the issue of science and creating change

A riposte to the nonsense in the right wing press in UK last week Heat is dangerous and trying to pretend otherwise - as they did - is dangerous too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In a first for many years, investment in fossil fuel power in USA exceeds that in China When climate delayers & deniers say 'what about China?', real question should be 'What about the Trumpian AI tech boom?' China is going hell-for-leather for renewables. The USA isn't www.ft.com/content/acb5...

The sea has absorbed about 90% of warming driven by climate change With a boost from El Nino, this is taking global average sea surface temperatures to record highs Higher ocean temperatures change ocean ecosystems, and provide extra energy & moisture for storms www.ft.com/content/857d...

Finally, a way to get recalcitrant boomers to care about climate change

[email protected] released a report on the environmental impacts of Brexit on UK: * UK has fallen behind on protecting waterways * laws that protect wild spaces weakened * failure to protect marine wildlife * rise in trace pesticides on foods www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/ten-yea...

Annoyed BBCR4 World at One runs item about housing retrofits to cope with extreme heat UK will increasingly experience Then a short piece about political enthusiasm & opposition to North Sea oil & gas drilling And fails to connect them, as if they had nothing to do with each other #climatechange

ICYMI London has cut premature deaths from air pollution from an estimated 6,400-8,000 in 2019 to 3,800-5,100 in 2024 So around 2,700 people having longer lives, almost certainly because of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone reducing polluting traffic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK MPs are about to vote on climate targets for 2040 By coincidence, UK is experiencing its highest ever June temperatures. Cue disruption Any MP voting against climate action has lost sight of why they're elected - to look after society, not to pose on social media about how anti-woke they are

Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK's record June temperature will be broken today Average UK heatwave temps are going up 4-5C over 50 years, much faster than the average global temperature of under 1.5C So 40C summers should be expected Welcome to the new normal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Climate change has been presented as some future problem for future generations. . . it’s not true. It’s us.” Prof Montgomery pointed to an intelligence report painting climate-accelerated nature loss as a risk to food, labelled opposition to net zero “clearly insane” www.ft.com/content/f059...

Can't figure out why we would want to subsidise the extraction of a finite resource by private companie who then own it and sell it where they like. What would be in it for us? www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Well this is a gripping headline but after reading it I'm a bit stuck on what, specifically, the UK should do differently or what policy change it should make All the things pointed out that N York is doing are not banned or prevented in the UK www.ft.com/content/1307...

If you believe the briefing war against Ed Miliband for Chancellor because of what net zero is doing to job and bills... congratulations, you've been conned by the media and ill-informed commentators Here's an excellent corrective

One of the last meaningful acts of a Starmer government would be to dilute UK targets for electric vehicle sales It would hole UK climate ambition below the waterline Quite a contrast with the rhetoric of Starmer's election And with climate legacy of Theresa May news.sky.com/story/u-turn...

Europe has hit a record share of electric vehicle sales - in May it was up to ​23.6% market share "Consumers are responding to Europe's energy security challenge, ​with every new electric car sold cutting fuel costs ​and permanently reducing oil imports" www.reuters.com/business/eur...

Thames Water may be nationalised later this year The financial failure started in 2006 when heavy borrowing coincided with expanded dividend payments, under MacQuarie Bank's ownership By mid 2010s, poor performance & heavy debts. Lenders should have been wary www.ft.com/content/8288...

Plug-in solar panels to go on sale in UK after it passed safety checks About time, given there are over 1mn kits already on sale in Germany There, they sell for between £200 and £2,000, deliver 5-25% of a homes energy needs, typical payback between 2 & 6 years www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Global power sector investment according to @iea.org In 2026 it's expected that battery investment will be greater than nuclear, fossil fuels a fraction of what is being put into grid upgrades www.ft.com/content/f716...

UK Govt won't accept investor rescue deal for troubled Thames Water which includes exemption from penalties for pollution Good Too many investors think owning critical UK national services is one-way ticket to high profits, even when badly run www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“If UK carmakers are now encouraged to slow down just as demand is building, consumers will simply look elsewhere, to other markets such as China that are moving faster and offering electric cars people want at prices they can afford.” www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

[email protected] head Greg Jackson on proposals to weaken the electric vehicle mandate. Says UK Govt have given way to: “short-termist incumbent lobbying instead of long-term future of the industry" "our best hope is to speed up developmnt of electric vehicles" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Who said, about UK electric vehicles rules: “The previous govt caused significant harm to industry by moving goalposts on phase out dates, creating doubt in the minds of investors & boardrooms and putting at risk bns of pounds of committed investment in the automotive sector & chargepoint sector“

“This policy is driving billions in investment to future-proof the auto industry as global markets go electric. Pulling back would send a signal the UK isn't serious about competing in the global EV race or having an auto industry” say @transportenvironment.org www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Just to get Musk's $1trn into perspective You could pay the base wage of every US Congressman and Senator, for every year since Jesus was born, four times over and still have a lot of spare $$ With that amount of money, buying up politics can be loose change

The imprint of climate change on sea surface temperatures Warmer oceans, and the air above, increase availability of energy & moisture for extreme weather events such as heatwaves or heavy rain Many places like Philippines, Spain, Jamaica have experience More to come... www.ft.com/content/c411...

New calculations show how UK energy security would suffer if there's a weakening of the electric vehicle mandate, as car manufacturers propose Maintaining mandate nearly halves oil use by 2040 Even modest weakening means 28mn tonnes more cumulative consumption green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/oil...

Reform UK in govt would destroy UK's green economy "On whose behalf do they make this choice? Not their own voters, who strongly support renewables.... But its funders. 2/3 of the money it has received comes from very rich people with interests in oil and gas" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ownership of carbon-intensive assets and investments means that the top 1% by wealth are responsible for about 40% of greenhouse gas emissions The top 0.1% account for about 17% of emissions, the top 0.01% about 9% The 'polluter pays' principle needs to apply www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Western Europe has experienced a 'temperature whiplash' in May as the weather went from unseasonably cold to record heat in just a few days Copernicus scientists say this is the 'new normal' as climate change takes hold www.ft.com/content/a9d0...

2025 marked the fifth consecutive year of decline in gas share in the global electricity mix, as clean power grew faster than electricity demand, limiting the need for a significant rise in gas ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Well who would of thought it? The aviation industry promise of net zero in 2050 won't happen. It was promised 5 years ago on the basis of 'Sustainable Aviation Fuel' and offsets It turns out both are bollocks As many of us sceptically said at the time www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The unregulated and uncontrolled use of insecticides in flea treatments has already caused irreparable damage to nature in rivers, sites of special scientific interest and National Parks like the Norfolk Broads It needs to stop now www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is Reform UK "Tice threatened to walk out of the interview when presented with information from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Tice said he “fundamentally disagreed” with it, but declined to name advisers who said the science was wrong" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...