SLOW CLAP "AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China" Congratulations to US AI Tech Oligarchs www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

Q&A: How UK’s seventh carbon budget will deliver ‘£865bn’ in economic benefits ✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/40RIFkU

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

Are we entering a new energy age and seeing the beginning of the end of fossil fuels? @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social, Prof Helen Thompson, radical farmer Stuart Oates and @helenczerski.bsky.social BBC Radio 4 Rare Earth today

NEW – AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/Sg9ye9N

"EM-DAT’s small team of researchers require just €300,000 ($350,000) a year to maintain operations" Important story by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org - would be tragedy if this important and unique data was lost for such a relatively small sum

Media reaction: UK and Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May heat and climate change ✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

Blair may not think he's a "climate denier" but he is essentially reading from a list of climate denier talking points to make his case for abandoning net-zero.

Telling Labour to abandon net zero implies that trying to stop climate change is something governments are just doing for fun

NEW INVESTIGATION: I sent FOI requests to 162 NHS trusts in the UK, asking whether they have been forced to close down facilities due to flooding. They sent details of maternity units, surgical theatres and entire hospitals that have been disrupted by heavy rainfall or floodwaters since 2021.

‘Malawi has exhausted its strategic fuel reserves and is selling part of its gold holdings to raise foreign currency, as the economic shockwaves from the Iran conflict deepen an existing fuel crisis in one of Africa’s poorest countries.’ www.ft.com/content/273a...

Revealed: Floods have forced at least 67 closures at NHS hospitals since 2021 ✍️ written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 with comment from @hughmontgomery.bsky.social @thekingsfund.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/1vqnzeH

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

"Net-zero is killing our economy" – Richard Tice, MP for Boston and Skegness

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...

NEW – CCC: Investing in ‘urgent’ UK adaptation action ‘cheaper than climate damages’ | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/52cM8NZ

No matter what do you think of his craziness, did you ever think you’d see any president post about a CO2 emissions scenario?

The Financial Times ran an entire story of coal shipments "jumping" that is based on an algorithmic artifact in shipping data.

NEW – Analysis: UK no longer top UN Green Climate Fund donor after latest aid cut | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather. Explore the interactive map here ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

A letter published in the Plymouth Herald: "Have you noticed that the authors of articles against net-zero offer opinions, but rarely solid evidence to back up their claims? But where do they get their ideas?" Good question...

NEW – Q&A: How countries got the global ‘net-zero’ shipping deal ‘back on track’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/Wt4M04G

As part of its effort to block the new "net-zero framework" for shipping, the US is distributing flyers at the IMO meeting claiming that the proposal will mean hundreds of millions of dollars in extra costs for individual countries. Shipping analysts say the figures are deeply flawed.

🔴 NEW - Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

Nations are at the International Maritime Organization trying to agree on a "net-zero framework", after talks were torpedoed last year by the Trump administration (and others). They are currently discussing various compromise proposals from different countries. What ideas are on the table? ⬇️

Is The Philippines about to be the next Pakistan of solar? There was 10GW of panels exported from China to The Philippines in the last 12 months... 10GW would generate 11% of total national consumption.. and quadruple the country's 2025 solar output🤯 So how real is this? 🧵

oh shit this was a year ago

After commentators predicted an energy crisis-driven "return to coal", some @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social analysis shows how much coal power could feasibly increase in 2026. In short: likely not that much – and in some countries such as 🇯🇵🇵🇭 🇹🇭 hardly at all. ➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/world-will-n...

NEW – World ‘will not see significant return to coal’ in 2026 – despite Iran crisis | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/y8mMrVI

Great work by @carbonbrief.org forces uk govt to admit its figures on data centre emissions were hopelessly unrealistic. @foxglovelegal.bsky.social had raised this problem with ministers on multiple occasions.

The UK government has finally revised its data centre greenhouse gas impacts upwards by x100 (from a low base!), thanks to @foxglovelegal.bsky.social + @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A few weeks ago, I published some analysis showing that the UK government had massively underestimated the emissions from the data centres driving the country's "AI revolution". Now, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published some new numbers and they are... a lot higher.

NEW – Iran war: EU strategy sets out 44 actions to limit ‘fossil-fuel price shocks’ | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/oZWCX4c

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

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Buenos Dias from Colombia! 🌺 Around 50 nations will meet here to discuss fossil-fuel transition. They have already been circulated a draft report recommending that they “halt all new expansion”, according to an exclusive by me for @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-sci...

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D

Miliband was announcing plans to "delink" the price of electricity from gas – a policy with the potential to cut bills far more than new drilling in the North Sea Yet Robinson didn't ask a single question about the former and devoted most of the interview to the latter, citing the need to cut bills

Lots of people commenting that this misrepresents local Greens and all they're doing is calling for more community solar That's disingenuous imo: They're objecting to "industrial scale schemes" because the main criticism of these projects – in Norfolk and everywhere else - is that they're "too big"

Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here ⬇️

Britain’s first proposed “nationally significant” data centre would be powered by gas, putting the government’s ambition to create an AI superpower on a collision course with its net-zero goals. 👇 www.thetimes.com/business/com...

RATE MY “COAL COMEBACK” 🫵 8 government announcements are being repeated in the media as evidence of a “return to coal”. But how consequential are they.. really?!🧵

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Glad to see our friends over the Irish Sea are having equally constructive conversations about the energy crisis

Like Chernobyl 🤦

NEW – Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/oKflJ8n

India has withdrawn its offer to host the COP33 climate summit in two years time www.climatechangenews.com/2026/04/08/i...

Anyone else remember this?

Fossil fuels suffer from this little thing known as intermittency. You have to build a whole back-up energy system for when the little boats get stuck. Not many people know this.