NEW The UK will adopt one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets as Labour takes on Reform opposition to net zero and moves to neuter the Green Party’s rise. Ministers have accepted @thecccuk.bsky.social's recommendation for an 87% cut in emissions by 2040 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

NEW RESEARCH: We modelled three Hormuz closure scenarios. Europe never physically runs out of gas in any of them. But under the worst shock, LNG hits $54.9/MMBtu, above the 2022 peak. Energy security in 2026 isn't empty pipelines. It's empty wallets. Full paper here www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Solar plus storage in India is cheaper than building fossil fuel power plants. So they build the solar.

The big question - when indeed will the Environment Agency do what it exists to do and, you know, er, enforce the law? Great work by @nicolacutcher.bsky.social and @friendsriverwye.bsky.social

This morning Irish climate experts wrote to Minister O'Brien @deptcee.bsky.social to express deep concern that urgent #methane reduction risks being undermined if climate targets are set using a ‘temperature neutrality’ approach. 1/13

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Pakistan: solar just overtook coal as the largest single source of electricity. 21% of power from solar in 2025. Up from 2% in 2019. Coal peaked at 20% in 2020. Want to read more about one of the fastest solar transitions anywhere in the world? Sign up to my Substack janrosenow.substack.com

In a new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we explore how carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – approaches that take CO2 out of the atmosphere – may affect #biodiversity. 🦎🐌 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Four of the region’s largest refineries and petrochemical facilities used an average of 818.6 million gallons combined a month from 2022 through 2024. Residential users, meanwhile, used 374 million gallons in April 2026. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Hot, sweaty, exciting - and increasingly deadly. Climate change will be an unwelcome but very present player in the upcoming FIFA World Cup in North America - especially in the fan zones. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social

Where’s the fury about rightwing antisemitism? The newspapers that call out leftwing antisemitism publish antisemitic cartoons and champion politicians with a record of antisemitic statements. So who is holding *them* to account? This week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Finland opens Europe's first lithium mine - yle.fi/a/74-20209826

Mushrooms still carry traces of Chernobyl disaster - yle.fi/a/74-20220549

“This is the first energy shock with a superior alternative” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Europe's grid operator warns that if data centre growth isn't well regulated, it would result in hard limits to renewable energy output in constrained areas. Now let's take a huge sip of coffee and check whether data centre growth is being well regulated ☕️ www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/09/e...

Status of the most recent monthly-averaged greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Observational data provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Why have SSTs in the Gulf of Mexico been warming over 2x faster than the global oceans since 2012? I cover the mystery in my post today: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/some...

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

This paper addresses the question why some tech learns fast and other tech doesn't. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ht. @dekkerdekker.bsky.social

Interesting new paper documents clearly how the IAEA has been overestimating the growth of nuclear time and time again. It's the inverse of what I've documented for solar and batteries. doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

🍅🧬Great flavor isn't accidental. It's written in the genome. Sweetness. Bitterness. Aroma. Scientists now map the code. AI breeding plus gene editing can now rewrite that code for better taste, nutrition, and sustainability. #Plantscience @jipb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🟡 Naru Research is open for business 🟡 So in some very cool news, my new consultancy is now officially at a stage where I can declare it open for business! 🎉 If you're keen on doing good in the climate and energy transition, but need research and strategy insights to help drive impact, let's chat!

The next week is looking like it might be toasty for global temperatures in the latest model runs. If this holds it would put us well into record territory for this time of year: http://www.karstenha...

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Remember that company that Trump paid a billion dollars so that they *wouldn't* build offshore wind farms in the US? They're doing amazing shit over in Europe. Floating turbines are so cool!

Eleventh (?) retraction of a paper by Domenico Praticò @temple.edu HT: @smutclyde.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... pubpeer.com/publications...

A deep dive into the AMOC and the Antarctic MOC, how they work, how they’re changing, and links to recent melting around Antarctica www.smh.com.au/environment/...

I don't know how to call the point in the transition where ecargo bike is featured on the Price is Right but we are there.

39 countries cut energy taxes after the Iran war. Politically popular but self-defeating: untargeted subsidies blunt the price signals, lead to higher demand, cost the tax payer significantly more and provide less incentive to invest in alternatives.

Earlier this year, Trump released a bizarre executive order touting the controversial herbicide glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup). Why? Our new investigation shines light on that—and a whole lot more.

Quoted in @ketanjoshi.co's piece in @theguardian.com: a year ago Spain's grid collapsed. Solar was blamed, return to fossil predicted. Investigations found voltage failures. Then Hormuz closed. Spain was shielded as renewables cut wholesale prices by 40%. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Potentially hyper-cheap sodium batteries are becoming commercially available and are getting LFP battery specs. This is nuts! This could lead to *incredibly* cheap batteries! electrek.co/2026/04/27/c...

Now is the time for bold fiscal, industrial, and policy action. Those who seize this moment will define the future, those who refuse it either due to pressure from deficit hawks and anti-tax advocates or thanks to the power of oil right now will be left in the past. 23/end

So while oil and gas stand to gain a lot of money from the present boom, they will be operating in an environment where oil and gas are increasingly uncertain, risky investments, renewables remain reliable, cheaper, and more popular than ever, and capital for carbon is even scarcer. 18/x

It's time to talk about that thing I spent most of my PhD studying: OPEC! This is going to be a bit of a messy situation though I think, overall, this is a positive development for energy transition so here goes my take on what to expect. 1/x #EconSky #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Greensky

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

Maybe you still support Israel for defensible reasons, but can we at least stop pretending that this is about terrorism and agree it's about driving people off the occupied territories and adding these territories to the state of Israel?

Pretty clear way to show it and looks about right: internal combustion cars really don't have a snowball's chance in hell agains electric cars.

Renewables plus flexibility dominate least-cost decarbonisation pathways. New nuclear plays only marginal role under realistic system conditions. Empirical data contradicts optimistic nuclear deployment scenarios. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Certezza, incertezza e tirate d’orecchie. Partiamo dalla “certezza”: fino a martedì condizioni di stabilità con temperature massime superiori alle medie. Come già scritto, infatti, a partire da oggi (venerdì) temperature in rialzo con punte di 26-29 gradi nelle zone interne del centro-nord. 1/6

There's a better way to power the world. Nobody ever fought a war over solar panels and wind turbines...

Reposting as today is #EarthDay

Happy #EarthDay! 🌍 Today we are launching a white paper on Barriers to Glaciers-Related Financing. As temperatures continue to rise, finance will be needed to respond to the impact of glacier loss on mountain 🗻 and water 🧊 ecosystems. iccinet.org/glacier-fina...

First they came for evolution Then they came for climate science Then they came for epidemiology Then they came for, like, really really basic math

*How *not* to handle image manipulation*. Editors, please do not address this level of photoshopping with a correction. In 2020, I flagged Figure 3D of this 2017 BBRC paper. Multiple regions appeared reused within or across panels. pubpeer.com/publications... #ImageForensics /

Johan Rockström: “We will do anything we can to be a force of truth in this process” Listen to this very interesting interview with Johan ahead of the world's first Transition Away From Fossil Fuels conference in Colombia. www.wedonthavetime.org/play?ac_vh_s...

The Guardian just published a story on our paper "The Risk of a Hothouse Earth Trajectory" regarding a potential point of no return. You can read it for free here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm co-organizing a free, 2-day Zoom workshop from the NAS & hope you'll consider attending! 📅 April 23-24: Discuss how we can enhance scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences REGISTER: www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DBA... PROGRAM: www.nationalacademies.org/cdn/material...