This shows how far they have to go to try to assist the failing fossil fuel industry.

Trailer of me being interviewed by Rob Cooper for his podcast/YouTube "climateunf*cked". The full version is due for release tomorrow on www.youtube.com/@climate-unf...

2026. Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive phys.org/news/2026-03...

"The results are astonishingly clear. On rewilded land, biodiversity surged across the board, with the number of bird species up 261%. The variety of bumblebee and butterfly species more than doubled, their abundance increased over 10x." The cure for nature loss exists. share.google/w30RUdw1902W...

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"

Norway & Australia are grotesque examples of the outcome of the current IPCC accounting method. Both nations claim to be climate leaders with clean electricity grids while being some of the most deadly mass murdering nations on earth: exporting vast quantities of civilisation destruction.

Ed Miliband, "The price of gas is set on the international market, whether it comes from the north sea, or is imported" "We're price taker and not a price maker" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"

The Morrill Fire in Nebraska has killed 1 and consumed 549,000 acres with 0% containment. This is more than 10% of the entire area burned by U.S. wildfires in 2025, and makes it one of the 20 largest fires in U.S. history. Sunday forecast is grim: High Wind Warning, 25-35 mph winds, gusting to 50.

Yes to ending fossil fuels. The world is currently consuming more energy & more FF than ever. But it’s really not as simple as no fossil fuels = no war. “Green” energy tech generates its own forms of violence, far from the eyes of media. When it ramps up, so will that violence, especially if 🧵

Of course. The worlds all-time greatest atmospheric GHG polluter has not changed it’s ways and is hell-bent on maintaining its status as such. As global climate chaos spreads, always remember who carries the greatest responsibility for the unfolding devastation. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

youtube.com/shorts/kr5nh... So the first bit is a paper called "growth in the time of debt" by Reinhart and Rogoff, and it put forward a flawed finding that economic growth suddenly stopped when a country had a certain amount of debt relative to GDP (about 90%).

You might find this one interesting. Beyond the geological constraints, for people to think it is attractive for investors to develop stranded assets is also nuts. It will be taxpayer funded climate harm, for fossil fuel companies gain. theconversation.com/plans-to-max...

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Should be headline news

This means that 2026 would still be unlikely to see a new global temperature record set (though its not impossible, as we saw in 2023!), but 2027 would be increasingly likely to be a record warm year.

El Niño is coming, and it is shaping up to be a big one. Over at The Climate Brink I've put together a compilation of the latest forecasts by different modeling groups. They suggest that we might see an event comparable in strength to what we saw in 2016: www.theclimatebrink....

I've updated the Climate Dashboard to use the new 11-model ENSO multi-model mean to help predict 2026 temperatures. It caused the 2026 estimate to jump from 1.45C to 1.51C, reflecting the much higher likelihood of a strong El Nino developing: dashboard.theclimate...

Hey @brenttoderian.bsky.social would you share our campaign to remove an urban motorway in Glasgow, Scotland? We need as many people as possible to answer this consultation. Anyone who lives in Scotland, or has visited Glasgow and seen the awful thing. removethem8.org.uk

“I think there is an opportunity, rightly or wrongly, for countries to really turn inward and try to power themselves in a way that cuts off their dependence on other nations for that source,” says Baxter Rightly or wrongly? What is wrong about clean power, lower costs and energy security?

If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column

That...and way too expensive!

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

"I think many people in academia could do more if they wanted to. They could reorient part of their research line to the climate crisis in a similar way to how, during [WWII], many people repurposed themselves for the war effort. Or...be an activist or advocate." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ag land is pasture on land that can't grow crops? Yes, it isn't a good thing. Land conversion for water-guzzling cattle pasture/feed is the major driver of deforestation and worsens climate change. Not every inch of this planet is for human extraction. Biodiversity has more value than cattle pasture

New research from Leeds Uni this week backs up your fears... bsky.app/profile/glob...

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

A key feature of complex adaptive systems is that they require disturbances to adapt and usually major shocks in order to transform to a qualitatively different and more desirable system state. Gulf Oil War 3 may make us transform energy systems to renewables based. It could be a good outcome.

Continuing the conversation from #InternationalWomensDay, we would like to say how incredibly proud we are of all the women on the CAST team who continue to make strides as world-leading experts with a commitment to putting people at the heart of climate action. 👏 Thoughts from our CAST Director 👇

On this Starmer should have everyone's fullest support. Developing the UK sector of the North Sea will consume £ billions and take 5+ years per project. Money and time more wisely spent on renewables rollout. Any additional oil & gas will add to climate change, undermining national security.

My conversation this week with the brilliant @feargalsharkey.bsky.social: youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...

1/🌡️ Global warming passed a milestone on 17th Nov 2023 that barely made the news For the first time ever, the world's daily average temperature was 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels Here's what the data says about when that becomes the annual norm, & whether it's coming sooner than anyone expects🧵

With an El Niño on the way, we're likely to see yet another jump in global temperatures in 2027 as the ocean gives up higher amounts of heat to the atmosphere. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great!! Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Long 🧵 tl;dr: - Global ag commodity markets are integrated - Biofuel policies raise ag commodity prices, causing ag to expand - This leads to land-use change emissions - We need to get off fossil fuels ASAP! But beware “solutions” that just swap fossil emissions for even higher land emissions

While governments are talking about subsidies to bring down fossil fuel costs costs, they are quiet about the other big lever: asking and subsidising demand reductions. I'll explain why this lever may be more effective:

My next 'climate viz of the month' blog is available, which looks at a global animation of snowfall in 2025: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-.... Snow is a key climate indicator, affecting the Earth system, ecosystems, and society in many important ways. #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

Some of the key science was done by the oil and gas companies themselves. This means the actual solution – fossil fuel phase out - which has been staring us in the face all this time, still represents the surest route to safety. 8/11

I sometimes find people surprised by my sense of optimism about the future. I seem to be wanting to take possible solutions off the table. What’s left? My answer would be: reality. For decades we have known that if we continue to pour greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, we risk catastrophe. 7/11

Countries with sane leadership have long ago accelerated alternative energy sources. www.climatecouncil.org.au/11-countries...

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

The paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Almost there…

It is easy to think of nature as existing elsewhere - in reserves, in other parts of the world, places we fly to on holiday Which can mean we think responding to the biodiversity crisis is simply about conservation actions Rather than the fact that our society is based on the exploitation ofnature

and that's exactly what the entire world needs to be doing!

A multiple-satellite study of Antarctica’s grounding line area show a loss of 12,820 km2 over the last 30 years. Grounding lines are the contact points where continental ice sheets anchor to the seabed, slowing their flow into the oceans. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #Antarctica #sealevelrise

The closer we look, the more we see how much worse our predicament actually is. Millions of coastal dwelling humans will be on the move soon. We are absolutely NOT prepared. #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise

New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target. rdcu.be/e6zB7