I am once again begging clean energy advocates to stop talking up Texas' current free-for-all approach to energy development as a model of success. Hasn't lowered emissions. Hasn't displaced fossil fuel use. Hasn't lowered bills. electricity.heatmap.news

FACTCHECK: GB News / Spectator owner Paul Marshall got criticised by Christian leaders for his channel's attacks on climate action, so he made a rare public intervention But in his letter to the Guardian (pic) he makes 25 false, misleading or confused claims (!) Receipts etc in next post 1/2

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Happy "Psalm Sunday" to Robert Jenrick Or maybe instead, let's remember the Palestinian Rabbi Jesus who calls us to welcome the stranger, comes humbly on a donkey, lays down his life for the sake of the world, preaches a radical gospel of economic justice? I know which Jesus I am following

🚨Reform could almost *DOUBLE* oil and gas imports by 2035 🚨 (by my rough estimates) The war in Iran has led to a million folks suggesting that we just need to drill in the North Sea a bit more, and the UK will be all fine again. Notably, that voice of reason, Reform UK, is keen on this

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today I learned about Secunda CTL, a coal-to-liquids plant in South Africa & the largest single emitter in the world. In 2023 it emitted 54 MILLION tonnes of CO2 🤯 The main site alone is ~9 km2, or more than 3x the size of the City of London district 🤯

If anyone had $ to try and tide Sublime over the next few years of utter carnage in the US / could help their work to continue elsewhere, that would be great... Losing momentum in the race of clean cement is such a bummer

And a bitter addendum. The £4 billion per year (0.2% of GDP) cost for the UK reaching Net Zero is about the same as the government currently spends annually to freeze petrol/diesel fuel duty.

Analysis also shows that new fields licensed over the 14 years of Conservative government have produced just over a month’s worth of gas to date and have the potential to produce - in their lifetime - less than 6 months worth of UK gas demand. Not to mention--if you're worried about crises now... /5

It's mad that we'll once again try to tackle inflation (caused by fossil fuels increasing the price of energy) by raising interest rates, which will in turn make the real long-term solution (not fossil energy sources) more expensive in the short term. Monetary policy is homeopathy.

There is no single “correct” path to decarbonise. There are six trillion. Our new paper in Science puts 36 climate solutions into one common unit, so you can build your own pathways. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie... App: climatewedges.com What would your pathway look like?

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

It's fine the pentagon AND an AI company can both be bad

⚡ Not all electrification is equal ⚡ Lots of noise building around electrification, but what strategies give us the biggest impact? 🚗 Increasing elec by 1% of total demand & using this for EVs boosts global electrification rate by 1.2–1.7% 💻 Using that same elec for AI only gives you a 0.8% boost

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills. The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

I see the Allister Heath headline generator has branched out to cover all Telegraph opinion writers.

Rishan from my now cancelled Journeys project. She escaped religious persecution in Eritrea and travelled across the Sahara and through Libya aged only 15, eventually making it to Kent. She has now qualified as an NHS nurse to give something back to the country which gave her sanctuary.

*TAPPING THE SIGN*: People's "concern" over immigration doesn't track actual immigration levels, it tracks the level of media coverage we give to immigration

🚨🚨🚨 NEW REPORT ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 @climateanalytics.org has a new report out today that I’m really excited about. It’s all about 1.5ºC... ▶️ Is overshooting 1.5ºC inevitable? ▶️ Can we still get temperatures back below 1.5ºC? ▶️ If so, how? If you’re interested in our findings, buckle up for a mega thread...

After years of political failure, the world can still rescue 1.5°C – if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition”, starting now. New report from Climate Analytics and @pik-potsdam.bsky.social shows how it’s possible. Read more: climateanalytics.org/publications...

A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives. Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

Yeah I dunno, maybe if I was creating a government document I might hide the fact I’d used ChatGPT to find the information.

WATCH: #ProductionGap launch! Find out if the production gap to 1.5°C has shifted since governments committed to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28. 🎤 Keynote: Mary Robinson 📅 22 Sept | ⌚ 15:30 CEST / 09:30 EDT 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.se/e/production... @neilgrant.bsky.social

When we shift to active travel, we don't just reduce the emissions from our trips: we're more likely to also change the frequency and duration (destination) of the trips...

The Telegraph has become the paper of Correct the Record

I know this looks like climate nerd stuff but the stakes are actually massive for all of us: accountability on fossil fuel elimination is being wrecked by dodgy math that allows the pretence that trees are re-absorbing the carbon we dig up from underground and move to the atmosphere

Maybe there are a million things you can see and do this weekend. Yet there's only one place where you can experience The Museum of English Rural Life: The Museum of English Rural Life.

🌎⚖️🤝 We are thrilled to announce that @rueannahaynes.bsky.social has taken on the role of Head of Diplomacy at Climate Analytics! 🎉 A core part of our diplomacy team, Rueanna has been with us since 2016 as Senior Legal Adviser and Director of the Climate Analytics Caribbean office since 2021.

Anyone know why the UK Clean Power Plan has UK generation estimated at ~270 TWh in 2023 (see image), whereas other sources (e.g. Energy Institute) have it up at ~290 TWh in 2023 (see Ember link). maybe @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social? I find the UK generation in the NESO 2030 scenarios quite low

Today is #WorldBookDay2025 so we've all come to work dressed as library staff while knowing that in 2023/2024 there were 14.5 million physical visits to Scottish libraries - nearly 4 times the number of people who attended Scottish Premiership football matches. #LoveLibraries ❤️

Times: "BP chief's big reset wipes nearly £1bn off the shares"

New from us: clean energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth $1.9tn. Clean energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s GDP growth and have overtaken real estate sales in value.

Last week's IEA Electricity 2025 report confirms we are squarely on pace to conform to the Additive model of energy transition, in which clean energy forms a new layer on top of fossil fuels. Can the trajectory change? Of course. But that would require something close to radical action. 🔌💡

It is really wild how the fossil fuel industry in Aus has managed to spread the false perception that the Aus economy relies on fossil fuel sector jobs + cash www.industry.gov.au/publications... australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...

Wind power is getting a lot of hate Trump vows to ban new farms that "drive the whales crazy" Germany's AFD want to "tear down all these windmills of shame" Misinformation is running wild. So let's cut the crap and review the real barriers facing wind power www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.

Now that more countries have submitted national GHG inventories in the latest format, I'm starting to write a bit of code to compile it all. Initial impressions: these sheets are better organised, but there are still so many quality of life improvements to make... unfccc.int/ghg-inventor...

This was a hard one to read. As a CFA vol, we are often tasked with protecting human assets over natural environments. Personally I find that one hard. 'We found that people valued one human life more than the extinction of an entire non-human species'. theconversation.com/fascinating-...

The IEA is now saying that global coal demand isn't expected to fall in the next three years, after predicting a fall last year. What changed? THREAD

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

At a global GDP of $150 trillion by that time, that'd be a transfer - partly loan - of 0.2% of global GDP by 2035.

Indonesia vows to retire all coal plants within 15 years theprogressplaybook.com/2024/11/21/i...

I go back and forth between "but the model says we can't solve the whole intermittency problem with batteries" and "maybe the intermittency problem just gets solved with capitalism and batteries". This is evidence for the latter.

Softening the definition of Net Zero won’t stop global warming. As authors of the 2009 “Net Zero Papers” we call on countries and companies to recognise the need for Geological Net Zero, balancing flows of carbon into and out of the Earth’s crust. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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