#India recorded its LARGEST ever increase in both #solar and #wind in the first half of 2025 ☀️🌪️🇮🇳 Solar rose 17 TWh (+25%) and wind 11 TWh (+29%) 📈 Solar growth alone was bigger than demand growth, while wind matched it. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

With all the other major news going on at the moment, and with all the negative nonsense spouted about renewables in the USA, Dave Borlace's latest "Just Have a Think" gives another, better perspective. #JustHaveaThink #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition youtu.be/Tix2HMNcy3Q?...

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.” www.ft.com/content/013e...

We are showing the first episode to a special episode of ZapHeap. It is kind of exciting.

A particularly fabulous episode of my current favourite podcast here - as @aiannucci.bsky.social and @nataliehaynes.bsky.social discuss bad rhetoric, the ghost of Goebbels, the persistence of Cicero and chocolate for Britian. Listen, listen, listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

World seeing the first signs of a ‘critical turning point’ in the clean transition ⚡🌏 The Global Solar Council notes solar and wind are no longer marginal, while the Powering Past Coal Alliance points to the strong economic case for replacing coal with renewables. https://loom.ly/cs-EXxY

Another fine article from @hannahritchie.bsky.social and the good folk at @ourworldindata.org "It’s easy to conflate what we see in the news with the reality of our world, and keeping this mismatch in mind can help you avoid falling into this trap." ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Where indeed is the wall-to-wall media coverage of this Reform politician pleading Guilty to Bribery? Angela Rayner was pilloried across TV, radio, print and socials for weeks just for tax avoidance. BBC News - Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is an important report and I think the recommendations need to be implemented now. We cannot let our institutions be victims to the same interference, mismanagement and political pressures facing scientists and scientific organisations in the USA and other authoritarian regimes.

Awesome! We've still got a long way to go, but the momentum is building! #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #EverythingElectric #ElectroTech BBC News - Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Reform Party isn’t just pushing hideous policies on migration. Its anti-abortion wing, shaped by the US Christian right, threatens women’s rights here too. This must be called out and resisted. #ReformParty #WomensRights

This is a great feature on how Community Benefit Societies can advance local renewable energy schemes for the immediate benefit of the people in the vicinity (rather than big multinational corporations). #CleanEnergy #Electrotech #EverythingElectric #RenewableEnergy youtu.be/2KWFsIeVpf4?...

Making topical comedy at bleak news times can be so tough but, in my book, it’s thank heavens for the return of Have I Got News For You, where Ian and Paul work magic to conjure laughs when there are none. Tonight with wonderful Miles Jupp and Sheila Hancock - and me trying to host. 9pm on BBC One.

I listened to all ten episodes of this new history podcast in a couple of days. There's no narrator - the story is told with the accounts of those involved. I couldn't stop listening once I'd started. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.' Great words for today and every day after – from James Baldwin: a humanist, a black American, a gay man, and one of the most incisive moral voices of the 20th century.

The UK government needs to act on their proposals rather than just talking more about them. Get the grid upgraded now. #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #ElectricTech Government sets out reforms to create a fair, secure, affordable and efficient electricity system - GOV.UK share.google/FAky2NqMeDjT...

New "Just Have a Think" episode from Dave Borlace, this time on the madness of "Carbon Capture and Storage" - a colossal waste of money when we should just #StopBurningStuff and leave the fossil fuels in the ground. #RenewableEnergy #JustHaveAThink #EverythingElectric youtu.be/VcNhRqEIrec?...

The notion that we must accept one form of religious extremism in order to guard against another is a false choice. The defence of an open, liberal society should be based on principled secularism and universal human rights, not a cynical, self-defeating bargain.

I'll always remember what Ian McEwan said on the #WhatIBelieve podcast about the power of books to open the universe a little wider & make us more alive to kaleidoscopically tiny things. It's true! Reading helps children (& adults!) foster imagination, understanding, & empathy. This is great news.

Britain dominated the era of coal, the USA won the oil century and the Chinese are looking like the solar hegemons.

Lots of good news from Tim and Kat, whose channel is always a source of inspiration for me. Looking forward to the upcoming videos too. 👍🏻

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Some really powerful speeches in the House of Lords, concluding 2 days of very good debate. I welcome the additional scrutiny of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as it passes through Parliament and we are another step closer to giving dying people the choice and dignity they deserve.

The Electrotech Revolution promises an era of cleaner and much cheaper energy. Will it actually happen? @ember-energy.org are optimistic! ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

Attacks on the judiciary by opposition politicians and others are as misplaced as they are dangerous, the attorney general said last night. Lord Hermer KC made his remarks during a speech on the rule of law delivered in the hall of the Old Bailey. rozenberg.substack.com/p/attacks-on...

Hannah Ritchie's latest article on the The Electrotech Revolution, highlighting the excellent report from Ember Energy on the ongoing transition to #CleanPower and #RenewableEnergy. Love their work @hannahritchie.bsky.social @ember-energy.org www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/the-electr...

Did you know that the majority of British adults are non-religious? Here's how it breaks down (British Social Attitudes Survey).

Cement is responsible for around 7-8% of carbon emissions. How do we decarbonise it? This week on Solving for Climate we talk to Leah Ellis, CEO of Sublime Systems, about how we might solve for low-carbon cement. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3PXb...

Another great video from Dave Borlace on his "Just Have a Think" channel about the shift to clear, and cheap renewable energy. "...the force of economic gravity is finally on the side of clean energy." #renewableenergy #cleanenergy #JustHaveaThink #SunDay youtu.be/FYSUNNGvv48?...

A photon checks into a hotel. "Do you need any help with your luggage, sir?" "No, I'm travelling light"

Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it’s the only power source that won’t fry the planet.

Have you heard the good news? California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient. This article made my day! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

So grateful for people like Tim & Kat for their thoughtful and informative videos. Watching this channel really helped me on my journey to a home powered by renewable energy (ASHP; PV; home batteries; EV and charger). Highly recommended 👍 #solar #renewableenergy

Someone's found the perfect response:

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Word of the Day is ‘copemate’ (16th century): the friend in life who gets you through. It’s one of the 365 entries in Words for Life, an almanac of my favourite words and etymologies to give (I hope) each day a boost.

Save us from all the "ultracrepidarians"!!!

More good news for the team at #EverythingElectric. Looking forward to some sensible, fact-based discussion and knowledge transfer over the coming months! #CheaperBetterBatteryElectric fullycharged.show/blog/electri...

For this Friday's Rare Earth I visited a VERY cold room in Cambridge where they're doing experiments to see whether they can help Arctic sea ice last longer. But should we even be thinking about this, who would pay for it, and what are the wider implications? Do listen in this Friday to find out.

Solar power is taking off quickly in Hungary ☀️⚡️ Our latest data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

"Bluesky: growing status as social media platform of choice for world’s scientists... ...more engagement and original scrutiny than on X" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's not just college students drowning in misinformation. Everyone could benefit from an improvement in their fact-checking and critical thinking skills to spot and discard misinformation (or at least a refresher for those who already think they're doing this.) #fact-checking #critical-thinking

Great question...

Farage is the biggest threat our NHS has ever faced. He wants to replace it with a US-style insurance system. Most bankruptcies in the US are for unpaid medical bills – of people WITH medical insurance. What happens to those without medical insurance? You don't want to know.

"I don't want to talk in sci-fi vignettes about all the ways it could be scary, but that's a potential place you end up." Forget killer robots (for now), is AI set to terminate your job?

They missed the bit where Brexit campaigners talked about reconnecting with the world especially the Commonwealth, and not just 'Little Europe'. It seems some Brexit voters now realise this means more brown-skinned people as opposed to 'people like us'. Call it their 'breaking point'.

Great work from the team at Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism Narrated by Stephen Fry (another hero of mine), this set of videos and informative posters are a perfect introduction to a rational way of living and thinking. Enjoy! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/

We've put all the videos and posters in one place for you to watch and download. If you want to know more about the humanist approach to life, head to the #thatshumanism website today. We hope you enjoy! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/

‘Humanists do not see that there is any obvious purpose to the universe, but that it is a natural phenomenon with no design behind it. Meaning is not something out there waiting to be discovered, but something that we create in our own lives.' Our patron Stephen Fry in #Thatshumanism 👌