"Claims that because a country accounts for only around 1% of global emissions, progress in cutting that country’s emissions should be slowed have been found to appear in more than 200 articles across national newspapers in 27 countries." eciu.net/media/press-...

Brutal demolition from @eciu.net of the 'we're just one per cent of global emissions - what difference can we make' bullshit. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Plus some more here from me on why we're not 'JUST' 1%. eciu.net/insights/the...

“The UK only counts for 1% of global emissions, so why should we bother trying to stop climate change?” You hear this a lot from UK media and politicians. But many countries around the world also account for around 1% of emissions. And guess what – they’re all saying exactly the same thing. 🧵

Leading climate scientists have written to broadcast editors to express concern about recent UK heatwave coverage "The letter urges news organisations to better inform the public [about the climate crisis]...It argues that news coverage “increasingly overlooks the fundamental ‘why'' of heatwaves

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Glad to see the BBC correcting errors in its reporting yesterday about a potential weakening of the ZEV mandate - following a pattern of substantial media misreporting on this issue since its introduction in 2024. Here's what's right - and what's wrong 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Back in November 2025, an editorial in the Times claimed that: “There was no coverage [on the BBC] of Bill Gates’s rethink on climate change last week”. Except it did. It appeared on BBC R4’s Today programme; BBC Radio Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire; and Newshour on the BBC World Service.

🚨 ‘Independent energy consultant’ Kathryn Porter - who claimed the Met Office had produced “junk” data - has featured in national UK newspapers 191 times since 2025, and at least 7 interviews on BBC TV & radio. This Ofcom ruling raises serious questions over her credibility as a media commentator.

The online TV channel has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting claims the meteorologist simply makes up weather reports ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the FOURTEENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 17 separate articles). I have now added latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017 - UK regulator makes U-turn over TalkTV complaints after claims it let some broadcasters ‘spout dangerous climate lies’ @stopfundingheat.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org By me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/d...

🔴 Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/d...

Amusing and enraging story of IPSO somehow concluding clearly misleading comparisons were not misleading, only for polling from @eciu.net to show readers were indeed misled. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

🚨Quite an embarrassment for IPSO here. IPSO rejected our complaint about a Daily Mail article with misleading claims about the cost of petrol cars & EVs, ruling that the article was fine as the public “would not be misled” by it. So we asked the public - and they were misled by a margin of 4 to 1…

Wow?! BBC News homepage has just significantly downgraded the placing of its "Climate" section on its menu bar Climate is now ranked last, lower than Tech. Earlier this month "Climate" was ranked above World, UK, US&Canada, Business and Tech

🔴 NEW - ‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports The people behind the reports are tied to the fossil fuel industry and climate science denial groups. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

NEW: joint @eciu.net & @reutersinstitute.bsky.social research finds the link between the problem of climate change, and its solution of net zero, is quietly being severed. While support for tackling climate change remains popular, the necessary response gets demonised. 🧵

Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/mzwr

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the THIRTEENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 16 separate articles). I have now added latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

@eciu.net has kept the receipts on some very dubious media claims about EV adoption. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522703...

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the TWELFTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 15 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

The Telegraph has published a list of some of the BBC’s “errors” in its climate change coverage www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11... Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:

🚨Rare defeat for climate misinformation🚨 Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers. After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

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-...