Geo-engineering seems to be forever an attempt to not do the very doable greenhouse-gas reduction things we can do, know how to do, are doing, but not nearly enough. To reject a proven, viable solution in favor of a wild gamble that could create its own catastrophes.

Electrification is key to UK's economy and security, says new report from Cambridge University. Compared to other energy futures, electrification route drives higher economic growth, productivity and investment. By 2050, that's 1% higher GDP and 250,000 more jobs. www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-res...

Recommended read: A group of economists set out a “roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth” in the Guardian.

"Poverty is manufactured. That is the bad news – and the good news. What has been manufactured can be dismantled and replaced." → www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... — cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy

1/ Yesterday @wmo-global.bsky.social made Earth's Energy Imbalance a headline #climate indicator for the first time. I think this could be a significant reframing of climate discourse, and it's worth paying close attention to why. 🧵

A common sense move steadily spreading: similar restrictions in Edinburgh and other UK counties on public-funded spaces. It's widely acknowledged that SUVs, meat, cruise ships and flying are bad for us, so when will our 'leaders' finally have the courage to say so? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🌍 Feeling paralyzed about climate action? We just published an article in @theconversation.com that talks about how to find your biggest potential climate impact - which may well be greater than you think. 💪 Our framework walks you through the process step-by-step: (1/n)

Feels like we’ve barely begun to understand the full consequences of our warming climate. 🫣 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Nothing to see here.

Our unique, precious home. Time to start treating it as such.

Dear @bbcnews.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social 🔔This is all across local news. The government hasn't yet briefed the public on the severe threats from climate change and nature loss, so civil society is taking matters into its own hands. Articles from just last 10 days👇

We now have over 850 screenings of the People's Emergency Briefing on the map. Can you help us get to 1,000? Here's how to host a screening in your community or workplace. www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film #NationalEmergencyBriefing #PEBuk #TimeToStepUp

Politicians often underestimate the demand for serious action on the climate & nature crisis. With candidates knocking on doors in the coming week, why not do a bit of "reverse canvassing". Our print-at-home leaflet: drive.google.com/file/d/1EIzL... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #ReverseCanvassing

The best leadership reveals where we really want to go anyway. 👏🏻🤩 “Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In a rational world the government would be asking people to respond to the current fossil fuel crisis by car sharing, turning lights off, and generally saving fuel and energy. And yet Ministers can’t even propose better efficiency standards for tumble dryers without the right wing press going mad.

Finally, straight out: «The only effective path to energy and economic security is homegrown clean energy. All political parties should now be uniting around that mission. Their failure to do so tells you a lot about whose interests they truly represent.» www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When we choose to fly off on holiday, we're reinforcing a hugely inefficient system that (quite apart from the environmental impact) benefits dictators and petro-states, and leaves our get-away dependent on foreign whimsy. news.sky.com/story/holida...

📢 Fossil fuel phase out - hope is on the horizon 📢 Today begins the first ever conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels, in Santa Marta, Colombia. It's the first of a ‘series' agreed to by the 18 nation-states participating in the development of a #FossilFuelTreaty. 1/3

What if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here. But the solutions exist. Communities are watching the People’s Emergency Briefing and discussing what to do next with neighbours and MPs #EarthDay Screenings www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

Find a screening near you. Urgent viewing.

This diagram shows the incentive structure of a world built to engineer its own destruction

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Has your MP signed the Parliamentary Call for a government-led televised emergency briefing on the threats from climate change and nature loss? www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar... If not, please ask them to attend a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing. www.nebriefing.org/the-film #PEBuk

Hoping some country would go against the “let’s make everything worse by lowering fuel taxes”-trend and instead *raise* taxes on aviation, and then use funds e.g. for faster decarbonisation of road transport. Double saving of fuel and socially fair too. #dkgreen #dkpol #dktrp

Wouldn’t have expected to be reposting the Pope, but hard to argue: huge inequality is at the heart of the climate crisis as well, where a few hoard gross excess and thereby rob the many of sufficiency. It’s a moral problem that seems to demand over-riding our most primitive instincts.

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

Important piece in the Guardian today about the outsized influence that the UK’s approach to fossil fuels, including approving new oil & gas fields, has on the rest of the world, especially on countries in the global South www.theguardian.com/environment/... (cont'd)

At noon yesterday and on Monday, more than a third of UK electricity was from #solar The future could be bright... HT @solarenergyuk.bsky.social www.neso.energy/data-portal/...

Could there be a better example of the need for climate education and a #frequentflyerlevy?! 🙄 My son is about to take his 40th flight - we are extreme day trippers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Living in a [toxic] sacrifice zone means losing the right to die of old age.” The nauseating reality of global injustice: the poor pay for the excesses of the rich, including with their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇

Important thread below on another suppressed expert report👇 When faced with difficult news, Government’s instinct seems to be to head-in-the-sand. But these aren’t distant threats that can be ignored. It’s time for a televised emergency briefing to the nation. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

🚨Screenings up & down UK from April🚨 The People’s Emergency Briefing. A new film building on last year’s National Emergency Briefing. A friendlier, watch-together version that pulls no punches and inspires action. Learn more here; nebriefing.org/the-film #PEBuk

One flight can wipe out the carbon savings from many everyday changes. For people who fly, it’s often the biggest part of their carbon footprint. Choosing trains, ferries or coaches can make a huge difference. #FlightFree

Time and time again surveys of heat pump owners show that the vast majority of people are happy with their heat pump. Here's data from Canada, a place known for its very warm winters. cleanenergycanada.org/report/heat-...

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war. This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

CO₂ removal should not be used for luxury emissions. Moving a traveling circus around the globe and all the other activities associated with F1 are definitely luxury emissions.

Exactly. And this is why using biofuels for aviation is such dangerous policy. We have limited biofuel capacity. Using it to keep planes flying instead of heating homes is a choice that will look insane when the next energy crisis hits. Fly less. Heat homes. It's not complicated.

This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space. "In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."

40% of US rail freight is also fossil fuels, mostly coal. Wind coal down and you free up a lot of rail resources! Some of which could be converted to fast electric passenger trains, which in countries with modern transport infrastructure are faster than air travel for most trips under 1000 miles.

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A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

This is SUCH a good @climateadam.bsky.social video - the quotes here from tech CEOs are beyond belief. I didn't even know about a bunch of these......go watch:

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

The United States uses about twice as much energy per person as Switzerland or the UK. The US also has worse public health and life expectancy. Few countries use more energy per person than the US. Most of them are, like the US, petrostates.

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse." A chilling assessment FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT. What have we done with our world when choosing not to have kids actually makes sense?

a gentle reminder that wind power is bloody great, contributes bulk energy at a scale that was almost literally unimaginable in the energy discourse of the 2010s, and in conjunction with solar power, storage, transmission and aggressive demand reduction where possible, can eliminate fossil fuels ->

“We have already seen individual years above 1.5 degrees Celsius and they have offered a preview of what is to come, with economic shocks and strains on food, water and insurance systems.” - Dr. Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social #ClimateEmergency

"Climate change is here. We are seeing event classes [today] that were forecast in #climate models for the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s.” - @oceanterra.org #FasterThanExpected #ClimateEmergency