Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

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. 🧵

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Nice to see the @nytimes.com profiling @alexsteffen.bsky.social's courses in personal climate resilience. With impacts accelerating and our federal govt stuck firmly in denial, more people are looking prepared for future shocks. 1/

The details of the next workshop, in April, if you're thinking about these challenges: The Personal Climate Strategy Workshop April 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30; May 5 and 7. Wrap-Up Discussion Call on May 14. alexsteffen.thinkific.com/courses/pers...

Hey! Our personal climate strategy work is in the New York Times today! Here's a gift link. Would sure appreciate your help spreading the word! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/n...

Please add your signature! I use EM-DAT frequently. "If EM-DAT were to cease operations, the consequences would not be abstract; they would be practical, immediate and damaging. It offers a carefully assembled, globally comparable database of disasters, including their human and economic impacts."

The president’s inconsistencies “pose challenges for america’s allies”. Amusing understatement

The IPCC has compiled and reported on mitigation models that supposedly demonstrate that we can overshoot any temperature target we like but "reverse" that overshoot using carbon dioxide removal. What *kind* of removal is posited in those models? Why BECCS, of course. 2/n

Many thanks George for highlighting our new film presented by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, and due to be released nationwide from 7th April. Over 1,500 people have already registered to host screenings in their communities, inviting their MPs. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

Renewables mean that "Spain looks well placed in two ways. Its speedy rollout of renewables has put a lid on electricity bills — but that should help bolster its political independence too. Good reason for Europe’s green brigade to charge ahead." www.ft.com/content/19f2...

We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Phoenix is one of the most unsustainable cities I have ever been. AC so high you end up taking off jumpers and coats when you go outside. This extreme weather could the point at which the penny drops and people link profligate energy use to climate breakdown. Or they could just turn the AC up.

There are quite a few things I would like to throw over a wall, but academic outputs isn't one of them. Time & care is needed when thinking about how research can produce useful impact, can engage wider society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wCA...

Reporting on #AI and #climate? Want to, but don't know where to begin? Our recent press briefing dives into the climate and community implications of the recent surge in construction of AI data centers: buff.ly/XtlCMnv

More potholes means more people wanting to buy larger SUV-type cars (which they believe will be more resilient to potholes), which means heavier cars on the roads which will create more potholes. What's driving this (pun intended)? A very wet winter. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

That tedious bore who lucked out and won at monopoly and then insists on telling everyone what a masterful strategy they deployed.

The illegal war the US is currently conducting against Iran costs US taxpayers around $890 million a day. The government has already spent more money bombing Iran than it funded US science in 2025. Science funding for 2026 has been slashed. Priorities. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

"Don't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die?" I remember when Tony Benn gave this speech in 1998. It still moves me & it continues to be brutally relevant. "What fools we are to live in a generation... in which war in a computer game". www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ci...

Read the comments. Trump is toast. www.foxnews.com/world/trump-...

Important story by my colleague @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social on the threat caused by mining tailings dams, many of which are ill-equipped to withstand worsening extreme weather from climate crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hybrid roundtable 18th March at @exeter.ac.uk "Economic Policy to Navigate Climate Risks: from Tipping Points to Green Swans . I will be talking about climate & social tipping points (including derailment risks) Register 👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

🌊 3 year postdoc position in our group here at UMD Studying interactions of internal waves and deep boundary currents, cross-scale energy fluxes, and Lagrangian observations of topographic wakes. Full info: wenegrat.github.io/misc/Submeso... Thanks for looking!

"Two new studies conclude that stabilizing long-term climate risks will require sustained net-negative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions for centuries" "Net zero is not enough" phys.org/news/2026-03...

Achieving UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, says CCC: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

finally got the membership plugin working on the blog and will start transferring the restricted content on kofi and substack across - three reasons it's my domain, more control information all in one place not supporting nazis

In London on Tuesday night this week? Join me at Kairos on Tottenham Court Road to talk about how we can maintain our agency to act on climate change even as its impacts escalate Doors and drinks at 1830, talk starts at 1900 Grab a ticket 👇 www.kairos.london/event/derail...

Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦‍♂️ thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...

We're on track to sail past 2C...TPs are very much in the crosshairs. Governments already know this; their own scientists have laid it out for them very clearly. Their short term ism and vested interests propaganda will ensure an unstable world for coming generations. We all must demand change NOW!

If you like this sort of thing, you are going to 😍 this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkh2...

There is a limit on how far we can let climate run away now, if we are to give the next generation an opportunity. See Runaway – mailchi.mp/caa/runaway-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/runaway-cl...

I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

"If you rule out the fast phase out of #fossilfuels, then you have to either remove carbon from the atmosphere, or reflect sunlight. Who decided that #geoengineering was more feasible than rapid fossil fuel phase out?" @jamesgdyke.info

Techno-belief is a millenial gamble on civilization. Our time will be remembered of many gruesome things, but messing up the climate is damning for our posterity.

Realism: "👉Net zero by 2050: increasingly meaningless 👉Overshoot won’t be temporary or even reversible. Large-scale CO2 removal doesn’t exist 👉Solar geoengineering: a bad idea 👉We didn’t confront the deep dysfunctions in our political systems" Yet still we must act: Fast fossil fuel phase out! 👇

As the ‘growth agenda’ is increasingly dominating UK research funding, we scientists also need to push back against this drive to line the pockets of the super rich

I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change. They failed. Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11 www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...

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?

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Please: LLMs do not 'hallucinate'. They provide incorrect information. They produce erroneous outputs. They don't have any intentionality, or consciousness. This metaphor is becoming increasingly unhelpful.

Read more from @acampbellnews.bsky.social's latest on what's going on in the Twin Cities even as Operation Metro Surge is said to be winding down:

"[We've known] for decades that if we continue to pour CO2, methane and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, we risk catastrophe. .. This means the actual solution - fossil fuel phase out - which has been staring us in the face all this time, still represents the surest route to safety."

There is a clear trend that emerges. Countries first tap into the solar market, then a year later they seek to deploy batteries. Europe did that after the gas crisis caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"Yes we can avoid further dangerous climate change, we can stop the destruction of nature, we can begin the transformation of our societies so that they live in balance with the Earth system" Great post as always. That we haven't prevented it doesn't make it unpreventable

I have seen this happening my entire adult life, and so have most of you, even if you didn't know it at the time.

We failed to avert dangerous climate change. That has consequences. Here I discuss three that, alas, no government seems to want to publicly acknowledge. My latest for Technosphere Earth www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...

Was this frigate carrying 'weapons of mass destruction'? Was an attack on the US 'immanent'? Was it within a 'maritime exclusion zone'? What's most depressing is that we don't expect any coherent justification for why a US sub just torpedoed an Iranian ship 4000km away from Iran.