Today's attack on climate action from the Daily Mail (whose parent company makes $$$$ running fossil fuel industry conferences) is that clean energy is "making the rich even richer"... 🤔 Never seen this line from them before - has the influence of Gary Stevenson reached the Mail editorial team?!

Some useful fact-checking here from @carbonbrief.org about a trope often pushed by the more fossil-fuel-aligned parts of the UK media... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

This is the problem with the argument ‘we can just adapt’ to climate change. How do you adapt to this without massive health risks, an enormous blow to productivity and food security, and gargantuan adaptation costs? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Perhaps no surprise given the advantages - Chinese solar panels are taking off in Africa🚀☀️

No surprise the Telegraph are using the heatwave to attack net-zero. Selective quotes from a report used to try and discredit net zero tech.

The Telegraph is owned by Redbird Capital - a major investor in fossil fuels. So it's not a surprise that their response to this weekend's heat wave is *not* to focus on the fact that burning fossil fuels is causing increasingly extreme weather, but on more tenuous claims about clean energy...

Today's Daily Express continues the effort by a number of UK media outlets to make climate change - which affects us all - a story about one man... Today's Daily Express advertisers include *TUI *Vitabiotics *Vintage Cash Cow *Iceland & *Yimbly.com

Impossible to overstate how much damage billionaire media owners have done to public understanding of the renewable energy transition. The Daily Mail is a cess pit of disinformation.

Telegraph are at it again today... With advertising from Tesco, Lotto and Sainsburys.

Those lentil-weaving hippies at the London Stock Exchange Group reckon the global green economy is worth $7.9tr, is the fourth largest sector in the world, and has grown faster than every industry barring technology over the past decade. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413438...

This thread by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is essential reading.

'A cemetery of trees': vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco. Jaguars, giant armadillos + ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth. How is this STILL happening?? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate change poses a threat to us all - and the evidence clearly shows the need for action. Yet today's Telegraph continues the effort to make this all about one man - & frame urgently-needed climate action as dangerous & extreme... With advertising from Coop, BMW, Trailfinders, Lotto & B&Q

We're just going to leave this here... www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Spanish authorities are asking the public to refrain from speculation about the cause of the power blackouts. Meanwhile today’s Telegraph has run a big front page story blaming – you guessed it – clean energy policies… With advertising from John Lewis, Honda & the Battersea Decorative Fair

Beyond shameless. Just treating its own readers with absolute contempt.

A thousand more reasons for advertisers to steer clear of GB News... www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...

According to the UN, "methane traps more heat in the atmosphere per molecule than carbon dioxide... making it 80 times more harmful than CO2 for 20 years after it is released": www.unep.org/news-and-sto... Yet this is what appeared in today's Express to justify demands to resume fracking:

Disturbing overtones here from the Mail on Sunday, telling its readers that "Globalism" (along with something it calls "warmism") has "made us a weakling"... Supported by advertising from B & Q, Asda, Waitrose, Ryobi, PaddyPower, Prezzo & Boots

The evidence is clear: We must transition to clean energy if humanity is to have a liveable future. Meanwhile today's Telegraph is pushing the idea that climate policy is bad because it's a threat to (checks notes) rural churches... This is what the Co-op & other advertisers are supporting...

I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/... This is insane. I just interviewed experts on this v issue this week for Climate Insider. They point out that creating H is very energy intensive, and only makes sense for hard-to-abate industries. It absolutely does not make sense for home heating.

One other point about all the various articles attacking net zero - they are advocating for what is essentially a Trumpist strategy. Am not convinced he’s really the best model to follow right now.

Fantastic article on the adoption of solar energy in Pakistan - the mass roll out of panels in the country cuts emissions but also cuts fuel bills and lessens dependence on an unreliable grid

"China confirms that installing solar panels in deserts irreversibly transforms the ecosystem" '...solar panels ... alter soil conditions, encourage vegetation growth, and reshape the local climate...' glassalmanac.com/china-confir...

Stunning growth in solar energy in 2024, driven by Chinese installation and production. Hope this trend can continue into 2025 as key to driving decarbonisation

The Daily Express once claimed to have turned over a new leaf on climate change: www.societyofeditors.org/soe_news/exp... Yet now they're lauding Donald Trump for "calling out the green hoax" and denouncing what they call "net zero madness"... With advertising from Aldi, Tesco & Asda...

"More than three years after Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to stop building new coal projects abroad, the country’s Belt and Road Initiative is increasingly driven by renewables." It's not altruism, y'all. Shit's cheaper.

Terrific chart in this terrific piece by @pilitaclark.bsky.social:

Over the past two decades, the Conservative Party has taken *£7.2 million* from senior figures at the GWPF - the UK's main climate science denial group

Meanwhile the Daily Express was telling its readers earlier this week that "climate change is not an existential threat but one we can adapt to" & that "a little more carbon dioxide makes the world greener". All supported with advertising from Waitrose, Morrisons and Aldi...

A really useful thread showing how media outlets like GB news are spreading misinformation on climate (and other topics). Plus how to combat this, by highlighting to companies who advertise in these media outlets and are associating themselves with damaging misinformation

NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's some food for thought for anyone thinking of increasing oil exports ... The original story is from Bloomberg - a hotbed of rabid radicals. theprogressplaybook.com/2024/11/28/c...

Just found out that M&S are advertising on GB News Radio. M&S talk a lot about their 'green' credentials – so do they really want to be spending money with a channel that spreads climate misinformation?

In the past two years, floods ruined soybeans growing in Brazil, a hurricane destroyed millions of $$ worth of crops in Jamaica and drought hit Sri Lankan rice This new interactive map gives a snapshot of how extreme weather is damaging crops, feat. 100 news stories from 2023-24 buff.ly/42Rqf2D

Yesterday, I returned from 3 weeks in Costa Rica, where I went to find out what can be learned from their spectacular success rewilding a country. I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting *everyone*.

If you advertise on GB News I will not buy your product. Repost if you agree.

Some good news among the awful. #tigers #endangeredspecies #ecology #India #environment #conservation www.sfgate.com/news/world/a...

Boycotts *are* free speech - pass it on...

A massive thanks to @bylinetimes.bsky.social for this write up following the escalation of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric on GB News - and to everyone who's taken action over the past 24 hours: bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...

Baffled and dismayed by the toxic narratives being pumped into the UK by GB News and the like? Here's 6 simple ways you can help it stop: stopfundingheat.info/how-can-i-ge...

Come do a funded PhD with me! Difference and power in the time of responsible AI: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

If you like #StopFundingHate then you'll love our sister campaign #StopFundingHeat - please do show them some love and give them a follow! bsky.app/profile/stop...

My thoughts on the Kamikaze King of Coal ... open.substack.com/pub/fishrise...

Quick reminder that GB News have been giddily pushing Trump's anti-climate lines for ages now 🫥 We'll keep sharing lists of advertisers on the channel so you can let them know what their ££ is going to. Often, they'll pull their ads. ∴ Less money, less megaphone

This is a key trend to watch: if a heavily industrialised country like China can shift away from fossil fuels and electrify successfully it will serve as a role model for the world. Coal/oil remain dominant but renewables installations are surging

For anyone writing Chris Wright stories: his conclusion that climate change is no biggie comes from a common mischaracterization of the economics literature. This could be a good opportunity to explain that to people (1/x)

Reposting this because it cannot be said too often: Dirt-cheap Sodium batteries are an irresistible energy revolution now kicking off. Listen carefully and you can hear the Fossil Fuel death knell tolling. aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-...