You can argue a bit about correlation and causation with the Paris Agreement. It only got reached because governments could see a global clean tech boom was coming. But equally, it’s self evident that having an overarching global goal and system of national plans has helped drive progress.

This is a crucial point And why the ‘stay on X/Twitter so you don’t cede the public square’ is such a nonsense argument It isn’t Hyde Park, it’s a billionaire controlled algorithm *designed* to spread far right ideologies

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

The UK Climate Change Commission has rejected claims by opposition politicians that it is giving a misleadingly low estimate of the cost of offshore wind power, which is expected to become the backbone of Britain's electricity system www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u... x.com/ClaireCoutin...

This is a great cartoon of the illogical narratives I hear refuting climate warming. As I have said many times, it's not "either/or" when it comes to natural variability and human contributions, it's "both/and." Grass grows naturally and it grows differently when you fertilize the lawn....

This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious: yet again, the Tories are claiming that we can get "all our oil and gas" from the North Sea and that we should be doing even more to support the industry to extract. There are several reasons why we should treat this with maximum scepticism:

10 years ago, my dad was 2+ years into his diagnosis of a glioblastoma. By this point, he’d lost the ability to walk, talk, and read. Progress is possible. God bless Dr M, who perseveres on this horrid disease. For baby Mabel and the family in this story, I wish many happy, healthy years together.

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

NEW Nigel Topping chosen as new chair of @thecccuk.bsky.social, pending formalities Will bring experience from business world & UN climate talks to the role Follows years-long delay after former Tory minister Lord Deben quit as chair and @piersforster.bsky.social steered ship in interim capacity

This is a pretty damning thread. The Telegraph opposes net zero, and that's its right. It can make the argument on comment pages and in leaders. But for the sake of its reputation, it needs to tighten up fact-checking in its reporting and stop eliding it with commentary.

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

The Kyoto play is a reminder of how far we’ve come on climate politics. We should bank the wins. The play was also a great lesson in the forces that influenced the set up of the COP process - not all of who were acting in good faith. Educational, funny, sad, wildly engaging.

All of these “Can Trump run again” pieces, treating it as if there’s some legitimate way he could get around the 22nd amendment, are bizarre and misleading. There is no legitimate way around it.

On Friday, I went to the 80th birthday of the teacher who taught me history and drama at primary school, and ran the local youth theatre I went to till I was ~17. He was surrounded by the ‘children’ he had taught and our parents. A community he built over decades.

This week, someone said of the UK's net zero target: "Why is it 2050 in the first place? No-one knows." It feels like a good time to be resharing this @newscientist.com primer, on what net zero actually means. Few years old but the basics stand👇 www.newscientist.com/question/net...

THREAD: How the Sun screwed up its "smoking gun" story on net-zero study The Sun: "As much as 10% wld be wiped off economic growth by end of decade" Source: "At no point does this study suggest there will be a drop in UK GDP. It talks abt a 10% transfer…within GDP" Oops! 1/10

'Anti-poison' ULEZ scheme has lowered air pollution most in London boroughs that opposed it

Big apprenticeship push from Energy UK, as net zero skills crunch continues to loom. www.businessgreen.com/news/4409708...

A pleasure to go for a stroll with CCC CEO @elpinchbeck.bsky.social to talk about the trade offs between nature and climate, what climate action means for the UK and the metropolitan fantasy of an unchanging English countryside. In the Sunday Times @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/b729...

High winds and lack of rain driving California fires, but climate change is increasing likelihood of conflagrations, say experts. Researchers say that warming world increases number of "fire weather" days: by @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9