LOVE this. On Silly Sausage Britain and our better angels! Well worth a read.

So, the whole 'but we're just 1% of emissions' argument pushed by those who would argue we needn't act to get to net zero - it's not just a UK thing! A nice piece of analysis of how widespread it is, and what would happen if all the countries where it's found just rolled with it, and gave up!

We've been talking about the 1976 heatwave for 50 years! That's when the June heat record was last broken - 35.6°C. But we've hit 36°C this afternoon. Just as MPs are set to debate UK emissions targets to hit net zero - the only scientific way to stop our climate getting hotter and more dangerous.

“News stories about heatwaves often do not mention the influence of climate change or the burning of fossil fuels on increased temperatures – eg 3 in 5 stories during the May heatwave did not – while 2/5 of those about net zero make no mention of climate change."

What happened in Makerfield? Some new constituency polling between @persuasionuk.bsky.social & Convergent (most accurate pollster in the race!), covering among other things: - Burnham assembling a coalition Lab needs nationally - 'Get Starmer out' + 'public ownership' at the centre of it. 🧵👇

The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran. Today's post explores two fun facts: 1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!) 2. Even so, stocks rose on the news. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-pri...

Here's a fun job - come and work with us @eciu.net as head of transport. eciu.net/about/vacanc...

UK food imports are facing increasing pressure from climate change, as farmers in poorer nations who produce essential supermarket staples are becoming unable to work due to severe heat stress, experts have warned. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

As we head into Pride Month, here's one for the 'why do we still need Pride' brigade - sweeping criminalisation of LGBTQ+ rights in Ghana, as it hosts a conference designed to urge the spread of such laws to other African nations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“As the CCC rightly has pointed out, investing in adaptation is very important. But governments also need to double down on net zero, because there will come a point at which we can no longer adapt, which is why decarbonising has to remain at the forefront of everything.”

The hottest May Day, breaking the record that was set .... yesterday. Which broke a record that had stood for the previous 82 years. And broken now by a margin of more than 2°C.

We've read the new Code of Practice. Here's what you need to know.

NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

"The world's food system is fracturing under the weight of biodiversity loss, climate shocks, and escalating geopolitical conflicts ... These chronic pressures on the intricate global network pose a significant threat to the world economy, society, and even human survival."

The more clean energy a country has, the less it pays when gas prices spike. The chart shows electricity price sensitivity per €1/MWh rise in gas across EU countries in 2025. @creacleanair.bsky.social energyandcleanair.org/eu-countries...

How depressing that Stonewall should appoint as chair someone whose first thought on being appointed is to defend Rowling’s poisonous and dangerous campaign against trans people’s rights.

Trump "provides a dangerous example of what happens when leaders fail to learn from history. The current crisis offers leaders who reject Trumpism the chance to complete a clean energy transition that started 50 years ago in the wake of a conflict that was both very different & painfully familiar."

Why tipping points are so terrifying. Not only could AMOC collapse plunge northern nations into extreme cold that could limit ability to grow food, but it risks releasing way more CO2 into the atmosphere, and triggering other tipping points, like the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Are we heading for ‘super El Nino’ – and what could we expect?

“A conflict like this is development in reverse ... You will see an enduring impact, especially in the poorer countries, where you push people back into poverty ... often the people who used to be in poverty, got out of it, and are now being pushed back.” Meanwhile, we cut overseas aid...

"The global energy crisis sparked by the US-Israeli war on Iran could accelerate a shift towards renewable and nuclear power ... [IEA head] Fatih Birol said the current shock, driven by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the attack, would reshape the global energy system."

"The current shock is only a blip. A far bigger crisis looms that will put the cost of living and recessions into an entirely new perspective. If we reach 2°C above preindustrial levels ... the economic impact of climate breakdown will be the equivalent of having a new oil war every single year."

Drilling more fossil fuels outta the north sea is dumb AF. Here's 5 reasons why. #ClimateCrisis #IranWar

65 climate scientists write to party leaders urging the UK to prioritise renewable energy as a more cost-effective response to the fossil fuel crisis than turning to the North Sea, where 90% of reserves have already been extracted, and more extraction would have little, if any, impact on prices.

Commenting on the PM's Press Conference this morning, @gredmondking.bsky.social, @eciu.net said: "But if returning output through the Strait is as complex a process as some experts are predicting, the British public will continue to face mounting costs." eciu.net/media/press...

💔 farewell to this gorgeous little soul - I miss him so much 💔

NEW from us: India's CO2 emission growth slowed to less than 1% in 2025, the slowest rate in two decades, outside of the Covid drop. This was in part due to record clean energy growth which helped push down power sector emissions and is projected to accelerate this year.

Are we on track for a super El Niño, and what does that mean for the climate (albeit this article has a heavy focus on what it means for the US)?

‘Cutting this budget at a time of such intense global upheaval goes against the warnings from the government's own national security advisers and food experts’

🚨It is "sheer fantasy" to claim draining North Sea oil would cut UK energy bills. Crucial analysis by my friend and tutor Dr Anupama Sen, at @smithschool.ox.ac.uk

🔎 Copernicus highlights 'exceptional' wet conditions ➡️ February 2026 was the fifth warmest on record, with extreme rainfall and widespread flooding in western Europe and the third-lowest sea ice extent in the Arctic. eciu.net/media/press... @gredmondking.bsky.social, @eciu.net

Very few consumers in the world, maybe 1 in 8, are shielded from the rise in gasoline&diesel prices (in that their government subsidizes fuel prices). A common mistake is thinking that being an oil exporter will shield consumers. Only switching to clean transport&energy does.

Here is what the journal Nature has to say about our paper on the increasing rate of #globalwarming: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Europe is once again reminded of a structural vulnerability. As I told @politico.com: “The fact is still that Europe imports most of its energy from other countries. And I think events like this just highlight how problematic, how risky that is as a strategy and how unsustainable.

@gredmondking.bsky.social: “We know net-zero is the only solution to limiting increasingly dangerous climate change impacts, but we also know net-zero represents exceptionally good business, something not lost on China.” #alwaysbecharging www.ft.com/content/bf9d...

Nasty and cruel. And to what end? You can’t out-far-right the far right. So it’s cruelty to no end. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

New official stats: 0.3% ⬇️ in China's CO2 emissions from energy and industry over last year eciu.net/media/press...

Huge news. Although should come as little surprise to anyone paying attention to China’s deployment of clean energy. Net zero is the only solution we have to climate change - and China’s first CO2 fall driven mainly by that deployment is good news for global efforts to get there.

Here's the fundamental flaw in Labour trying to out-far-right Reform on immigration. They're not going to convince voters to the right that they're 'tougher' than the far right, and they're also losing twice as many at the other end of the political spectrum. Also, it's cruel and dangerous.

"...with current global warming at about 1.4°C, warm-water reefs are already in the process of passing their thermal tipping point ... 'This means coral reefs on any meaningful scale will be lost unless the global temperature returns towards 1°C warming or below very quickly'," researchers warned.

"One shock could spark social unrest and even food riots in the UK ... because chronic issues have left the food system a 'tinderbox'." Issues including "the climate crisis, low incomes, poor farming policy and fragile just-in-time supply chains. These have left the UK dangerously exposed."

It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.

Alf Dubs: “We must not run scared of Reform. They will always outdo us in hostility. What we have got to do is to say that certain basic human rights principles must apply. Do it very gently, argue for compassion.”

My rant about why, if the UK IS cutting climate finance, it is short-sighted - posing risks (by the govt’s own national security assessment’s admission) to our food security, as well as wider supply chains, ability to leverage funding actually needed, and trust amongst other nations. Disappointing.

"Self-harm for the UK" @gredmondking.bsky.social on reports that the Government plans to cut climate finance for the developing world Why? 2/5 of UK's food is from overseas, much grown in countries being hit hardest by extremes of heat and flood www.theguardian.com/environment...

Pedro Sanchez on the moral and economic case for migration in booming Spain: “Not many governments agree with regularizing migrants today. But more people do than we often assume … Nearly two out of three Spaniards believe migration represents either an opportunity or a necessity for our country.”

Well this, if true, is exceptionally depressing and disappointing news. And, even beyond the harm it clearly risks for those who need it, and despite COP commitments, it is by the UK’s own recent national security assessment potentially an act of self-harm, given our reliance on food imports.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The last 24 hours around Iran have been a textbook lesson in how crises escalate: jittery moves, mixed signals and shrinking room for errors. When nerves fray, even small moves have consequences 1/5