Why are bills going up by £100 in April? R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*" With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...

💵 ENERGY BILLS & RENEWABLES How much are they going up by? Why are they going up? What are the long-term causes of high bills? A short 🧵 on why the answer isn't all blowing in the wind...

Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳 ❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr ✅They actually GREW…by 62% Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔 1/7

It seems to be contagious. Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...

Nice to see @theguardian.com print my letter in response to Simon Jenkins’ ill-informed article about wind farms and net zero. Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…" In fact, the OBR had said the opposite! 1/6

Embarrassing error from Juliet Samuel in the Times, writing: "gas heating bans will destroy boiler manufacturing". Except there is no gas heating ban of any kind, nor plans for any. Glad the inaccuracy has now been corrected - shame it happened in the first place. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Well this is strange 🧐 Yesterday the @telegraphnews.bsky.social had an article about Ofgem's much-needed £24bn investment in upgrading the gas and electricity networks. The author correctly stated that the *net increase* on an energy bill would be £24/yr by 2031 (£104/yr added, £80 saving):

Kemi Badenoch's oil & gas speech: "When the oil and gas windfall tax was brought in, the oil price was near a historic high...but for months there has not been a windfall to tax" The global oil price today, after conflict in Israel / Iran overnight📈 tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cr...

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

Melanie Phillips had a misleading column in @thetimes.com yesterday Claiming "net zero targets" have driven up energy prices, when actually it's the cost of gas Here's a letter in this morning's paper challenging it.

Here’s the BBC being forced to correct its article about pylons, for including a figure which in reality was *600 times smaller* than it originally (and erroneously) stated. Media misinformation on this topic is something to behold.

Yesterday, Ross Clark claimed in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social "The likely fall in the energy price cap will be purely a reaction to lower wholesale prices on international markets... it is simply markets at work" Is this the same Ross Clark who blames "net zero" every time bills go up? 🧵😂

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social claims that the 'boiler tax' has returned. Has it? Was it even there in the first place? And what about claims that heat pump demand is "flatlining"? & did the boiler companies ensure that the boiler tax they collected was returned to 'ripped off' consumers?🧵

@telegraphnews.bsky.social columnist Zoe Strimpel's opening sentence in a column this weekend states: "Ed Miliband is obsessed." [with net zero] The Telegraph has written over 110 articles with "Miliband" in the title so far this year That's one article every 30ish hours Who's obsessed now?

Interesting @theipaper.com story highlighting claims by the Food & Drink Federation that higher NI contributions and new food packaging levies are increasing prices. But here's something they don't mention... what about climate change? 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Private Eye calls out "former newspaper" Daily Telegraph over its woeful coverage of net-zero

Six months ago, IPSO upheld our complaint against the Telegraph for its article falsely claiming rail delays due to extreme weather were falling (they weren’t). Today, the facts are clear: 7,000 trains were delayed last year from floods alone. @roundourwayuk.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/environ...

Labour's Lord Glasman says: "Net Zero by 2030 is a delusion, which is worse than an illness." He's right, it is a delusion. Because it's not actually the Government's policy - it's net zero by 2050. www.thesun.co.uk/news/politic...

A @thetimes.com editorial yesterday suggested ditching the term ‘net zero’ in favour of ‘not quite zero’ instead… To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.

There's lots of speculation about what happened with recent powercuts across Spain, Portugal and France, and answers may take a while. It's worth bearing in mind 1) Major blackouts in UK & Europe are rare but have happened throughout history - no system is 100% reliable. 🧵

1/12 Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However it’s a bit odd By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵

⚠️Irony alert: remarkable to see a Times leader column argue yesterday: “The recent dash to renewables, and precipitous abandonment of remaining coal and North Sea oil reserves, have left Britain peculiarly vulnerable”… (1/2) www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

This is an, ahem, interesting piece from Jawad Iqbal in today's Times: "Miliband has in the past boasted about the previous Labour government’s decision to phase out coal power… Miliband claimed other countries would follow “our example”. Really? It seems highly unlikely." Here’s why he's wrong 🧵

Very important point. It's not green energy that is making UK electricity expensive: it's mostly gas

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

I've just caught up with Nick Robinson's interview with James Murray MP on #r4today. 1) Green energy isn't driving energy prices up. As Murray said, our high energy costs are down to reliance on foreign gas. We need *more* home grown renewables! Robinson seems keen to reopen UK coalmines... 1/

Glad to see the Sunday Times correcting a significant error in its reporting from last week on oil & gas jobs figures. @thetimes.com

To say that the Telegraph is utterly obsessed with Ed Miliband is an understatement. According to Factiva, the daily and Sunday editions have published 599 articles mentioning Ed Miliband AND net zero over the past 2 years. Now running at more than 2 articles a day, on average

Factcheck: Kemi Badenoch’s claim that net zero is ‘impossible’ by 2050

⚠️ Case study of media misinformation ⚠️ On Tuesday, this graph appeared in a Telegraph article about Ed Miliband's heat pump. After its flaws were explained to the Telegraph, it's now been taken down. 🧵 on what it got so wrong...with Qs remaining about HOW it did so

The net zero economy grew 10% last year📈 so it's now worth over £80bn GVA and supports nearly 1 million jobs would be madness to advocate against net zero when it means growth & energy security according to a NEW report with analysis by CBI Economics: eciu.net/media/press-...

Matthew Lynn wrote an 'interesting' @telegraphnews.bsky.social article a few days ago, arguing for fracking in the UK and dismissing concerns about earthquakes: "If Alberta and Texas have been engulfed by earthquakes, they have done a remarkably good job of keeping it out of the media."

Some, erm, *interesting* analysis from EUA (a gas lobby group) in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social today about heat pumps DESNZ has dismissed it outright: "We don't recognise these speculative & misleading figures" Some other reasons to take it with a pinch of salt 👇🧵

It’s with a heavy heart that I’ve been forced to write to Claire Coutinho again.

Climate science scepticism has “almost entirely disappeared” from opinion pages of British national newspapers in past ten years. But articles dismissing or contesting policies designed to address climate change have marginally increased over same period: pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

🔴The Times Was Forced to Correct a Misleading Article Claiming Electric Vehicle Demand Is Falling When It’s Actually Rising Britain’s ‘newspaper of record’ had two complaints over inaccuracy upheld against it in one day, reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/t...

🚨 Spotted: dodgy numbers CORRECTED in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social🚨 The paper published a correction notice online last week, referring to a false claim that the UK would need "up to a billion solar panels" to reach DESNZ targets. How many solar panels will we actually need? 10x less! 🧵

An embarrassing error from The Times, but glad it’s been corrected after our @eciu.net complaint. Last year, the House of Lords warned of a “concerted campaign of misinformation” relating to EVs - it clearly remains in full swing. Thanks @josiah.writes.news @bylinetimes.bsky.social for covering.

1) Quite a misleading @telegraphnews.bsky.social piece here: the 'average' heat pump cost is not £12,800 as cited in the article A £7,500 Govt grant goes to every homeowner who installs a heat pump, meaning the 'average' cost is closer to £5,000.

🇨🇳 China's emissions expected to enter structural 📉 from 2024 onwards It will also have over 1/2 world’s renewables by the end of the decade, acc @GlobalEnergyMon

🚨 SPOTTED 🚨: inaccurate reporting in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social yesterday. This story blames higher taxes on N Sea O&G producers for Shell's decision to consolidate its assets in the basin. Here's the catch: Shell's announcement of the move doesn't mention taxes at all.

Glad to see this @thetimes.com article from yesterday corrected to clarify that EV sales are not “falling”, but rising. In fact, rising so much that as of today, 1 in 4 cars sold is electric. Still not sure those figures can be considered “disappointing”, though… www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Been some interesting claims about the Clean Heat Market Mechanism in the last week It would see gas boiler manufacturers sell more heat pumps, lowering the UK’s gas dependency To try and stop it, boiler manufacturers introduced the “boiler tax” What’s the real story? 🧵

Jeremy Clarkson attending today's farmers' protests holding a sign from #Together, a network that campaigns on an anti-vax and climate denial conspiracy platforms DeSmog has profiled their climate claims: www.desmog.com/together/

In the Commons earlier, DUP MP Sammy Wilson intervened on Green MP Sian Berry to claim wind turbines are “killing thousands of birds every year”. Context to that claim: ZSL says 55 million birds are killed annually in the UK by domestic cats. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ICYMI - press regulator IPSO has upheld a complaint against an article on climate change for the first time in *four years*. It’s a shame that many more people will have read the Telegraph’s original inaccurate and misleading article than the corrected version - but better late than never…

Telegraph: “falling weather delays” on railways. Reality: increasing weather delays on railways. This is climate misinformation in action. Glad IPSO have ruled that this breached the code - the first article about climate change to be guilty of a breach since 2020. www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0155...