Next time someone says European climate policy just moves pollution abroad - show them this:

🧵Agree great thread, This is really interesting research (and always good to do reruns to track trends). But like Steve i’d also suggest zooming out a little bit before assuming climate scepticism is the new normal. Some additional thoughts… (long thread sorry!)

Somewhat sensationalist headline here obscures some really interesting research - which tallies with other available tracking data - on shifting attitudes to climate in the UK. Below are a few quick thoughts on how to understand this, in my view 👇 t.co/gDqlQgQBHn

One of the best climate science comms jobs around, helping journalists explain how climate change has influenced extreme weather events, working with a top bunch of scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social including @frediotto.bsky.social. London based, closes 5 Sep

Delighted to see my new book Sink or Swim about the hard choices ahead to adapt to the impacts of climate change reviewed in the @financialtimes.com by @pilitaclark.bsky.social along with @billmckibben.bsky.social's brilliant new book on the rise of solar power.

What are we really going to have to do to adapt to climate change? It’s the tricky question that a cracking new book, Sink or Swim, grapples with

I want to come back properly on this Economist piece that questions Britain's approach to net zero. It gets three things wrong imo: 1. Ignoring periods of v cheap renewable energy 2. Misdiagnosing the relative costs of renewables 3. Looking backwards, not forwards.

In last day: Pakistan flood deaths passed 270, Turkey hit 50C & Tampa 100F for first time, study found climate change will increase UK food prices at least 25% in 25 years. Meanwhile, Tories & Reform planning to scrap climate action.

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

In the last 24 hours: - Texas floods death toll passes 100 - Climate change tripled heat deaths in Europe last month, 1500 climate deaths in 12 cities - Wildfire reaches Marseille, closes airport - OBR finds net zero is 1/4 the cost previously thought; much cheaper than inaction

We know heatwaves kill people and climate change makes heatwaves worse, but this rapid calculation really drives home the reality. With recent temperatures of up to 46°C in Europe, 1500 people died who wouldn't have in a world without climate change www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

Climate change supercharged last week’s European heat wave and tripled the death toll, a group of scientists said today.

NEW – OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/OTbsfLG

Today's OBR report goes big on costs & benefits of climate action. Costs of net zero are much less than previous thought; costs of inaction are much greater. Main point: slow action is about 2x as expensive as fast action (2.5% GDP vs 1.2%) obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

A quick🧵about the devastating Texas flooding -- and how it connects to climate change. ⬇️ (Photo cred: @nytimes.com)

Some lovely old school climate denial from Matt Ridley in today's Telegraph "Stop going on about the heatwave, there was a hot day in 1911" *sniff* you don't see this kind of climate science denial* much these days in the UK media, real blast of 2010s nostalgia

I wondered if the plagiarising 15 yr old became famous & asked chatgpt if it knew who he was. Its answer: Johann Hari. Totally wrong (for a start he was 20 then) and amazing that it's just assumed he was the answer to a question about a plagiarising journalist.

Climate change is already as costly as the Great Depression & will soon match the Great Recession in financial impact. Though everybody wants to split the two, climate policy is actually economic policy. My column for @opinion.bloomberg.com Now with 🎁 link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Kid has started reading @rhi.bsky.social’s Fighting Fantasy and, my heart, the dedication

This mad heat is the result of burning fossil fuels. The only way to stop heatwaves getting longer, hotter & more common is net zero. Anyone who says we should scrap net zero needs to answer: how much hotter should we let it get?

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This would be c3 times the death toll of the Valencia floods

The heat above 32°C in southeast England tomorrow will be 100 times more likely due to fossil fuel-driven warming 🌡️📈 Our super rapid study was published this morning. It is just the second time we’ve studied an event in real-time, using forecast data. It's been hot work. 🧵

Feels so much like a tinfoil conspiracy I find it hard to truly absorb but it's a fact: Oil & gas companies knew about climate change since at least the '70s, lied & created fake doubt to stop action. And today people will die in a heatwave that wouldn't have been a heatwave without their products.

Feels so much like a tinfoil conspiracy I find it hard to truly absorb but it's a fact: Oil & gas companies knew about climate change since at least the '70s, lied & created fake doubt to stop action. And today people will die in a heatwave that wouldn't have been a heatwave without their products.

Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, the current heat in London & most of the UK would not have been a heatwave: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Heatwaves are dangerous. Drink water, lots of it, stay cool, even if you feel invincible, you're probably not.

Watch as climate deniers test out a pivot from "why should we cut emissions, China isn't" to "China only wants us to cut emissions because it makes all the renewable tech"

One ensemble member for London is 39.8c: in a month where - per @aidanmcgivern.bsky.social below - the record is 35.6c. Yes it likely won't happen, but ensembles show "the possible". The "we've seen it all before in 1976" cries are looking less and less valid with every passing year.

Models suggest could be 42C in England in late June. Unlikely to happen in practice but wild it’s a possibility - and it’ll be a real thing for our kids if we don’t hit net zero quickly.

This is hair-raising to have a play on. What happens if the Atlantic circulation currents collapse - plausible scenario if carbon emissions continue. A cold snap in Liverpool would be -25C, Arctic sea ice reaches Yarmouth. Brr.

Kid has come home from playgroup with a glitter picture he made to celebrate world ocean’s day 🤦‍♂️

Spotted a fun little thing, with a magic circle law firm publishing then rapidly deleting analysis they hadn't really thought through - short thread

This is the same as hospitals, police, climate change etc. Huge gap between % who say they want more govt spending and % who say they'd pay more themselves. Task for govt is to make the case for why we need to pay more now, to save money later. Chart from @steveakehurst.bsky.social

Coverage of the case here. Might be some Swiss villagers looking this up today.

⚡️ ⚖️ Precedent-setting #climatelitigation victory this morning in #SaulvsRWE 🙌 🎉 A victory for #climatejustice and corporate accountability 🧵🧑‍⚖️ A short thread to unpack the key legal principles reaffirmed by the judges of the Higher Court of Hamm 🇩🇪 ⬇️ 1/8

Summary of the court's decision here. It found the plaintiff's home isn't sufficiently threatened to get damages in this case - but much more importantly, it established that a major polluter like RWE can be held responsible for the damages caused by its carbon emissions.

German court has established that energy companies can be held liable for climate change damages. Given those damages are in the 10s of trillions of USD, this is potentially a massive deal. Huge liabilities for historic polluters as more cases get established.

Big deal in a small German court today. Decision expected in a case where an energy company may be found liable for climate damages. Massive implications if so. Follow thread for updates:

Hadn’t read Pratchett for years, and just started re-reading it - Wee Free Men - with my eldest. It’s extraordinary. Better than I remember. And rewards reading slowly and talking about it as you’re going.

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If you read one thing today, please read this. Heart-breaking but beautifully written, deeply moving and - ultimately - full of hope. ‘The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

So does this just mean the rest of the world will go electric and the US will be this one weird holdout for crappy gas cars that no-one else wants to make? Cuba of the 2040s www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

Winner of the first Climate Fiction Prize! Unhumblebrag: I cofounded the prize and it’s wonderful to see it in the world with such an excellent first winner. As founders we wanted to celebrate and encourage new ways of telling stories about climate. And Abi Daré has absolutely nailed it.

Winner of the first Climate Fiction Prize! Unhumblebrag: I cofounded the prize and it’s wonderful to see it in the world with such an excellent first winner. As founders we wanted to celebrate and encourage new ways of telling stories about climate. And Abi Daré has absolutely nailed it.

Fascinating how many people lambasted Ezra Klein or ridiculed Clooney (he has no theory of change!) and then… just styled it out when Klein/Clooney were proved right

So refreshing to read chill voxpops. Let's hear more from people just getting on with things "We need more energy. I don't think it's harming anyone" "There were no objections" "When they built it we were concerned what it could look like, but it's fine"

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