www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07... This is just objectively untrue. @countbinface.bsky.social

Whether it’s politics or sides of the Mersey, I’m uniting red and blue.

🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience? 🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺) 🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪 🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺 👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co

PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

I thought “this can’t be real” but sure enough - every link on the “Home Cooling” splash page is broken. www.energy.gov/home-cooling

"Global fossil fuel subsidies are projected to exceed $1 trillion in 2026" I wonder if there's a way to move beyond fossil fuels...

On a night train to Germany & the train through Sweden was delayed twice, so now we have to sleep on an upright chair instead of the bed we booked because our two hour changing window was not enough... It should NOT be this hard or unpleasant to get around Europe by low-CO2-emission transit in 2026

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Whomever is responsible for the EU funding and tenders portal login process, I hope your all your forthcoming train journeys are rail replacement buses… webgate.ec.europa.eu/funding-tend...

Recent French national average temperatures: - impossible in a pre-industrial world, - about 1 year in 40 years in a 1.5C world - 1 in 10 years in a +2 °C world - 3 degree world - happens every other year interactive/method/maps here (également en français): benmsanderson.github.io/futureevent/

Exactly 🎯 14,802 heat-related deaths (mostly among the elderly) in the European heat wave of 2003 What'll the toll be in 2026?

kudos to the @metoffice.gov.uk for this nice piece of climate communication. www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/ins...

Here's the CCC's @elpinchbeck.bsky.social speaking today in front of the Met Office's new "future forecast" for a... ..."plausible 2056 heatwave". Yes, that's showing 45C (113F) in the Bristol area! With exquisite timing, the UK's all-time June temp record is due to be broken this week.

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

Count Binface - Andy Burnham - Protect British Wildlife Makerfield illustrating British politics at it's finest ☺️

I hear it asserted a lot that ESMs ‘must’ be tuned to get historical CO2 right, and I just thought I’d remind everyone that historical, emissions-driven simulations are so expensive they are ~impossible to fine-tune. You get maybe 2 practice runs before show time

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

My prediction is that we will never have enough CO₂ removal (CDR), so overshoot is not a thing. We will hit 1.5°C global warming by 2030, and every tonne of CO₂ we emit will make the world warmer. Where we stop is entirely up to us, but there’s no dialing down the temperature after that.

Come and work on making demographic models of forests better, as part of our #NextGenCarbon EU project with @coxypm.bsky.social in Exeter. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT853/p...

NEW: UK's 7th carbon budget will deliver '£865bn' in economic benefits * Major investments needed to get rewards, inc saving £445bn on oil / gas imports * Pointedly, given current politics, figures are presented relative to "no net-zero" Full analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

The internet of things 😂

Not the end of the story, but this is marvellous news.

More for @elizabethginexi.bsky.social on the proposed OMB rule, addressing the far reaching consequences of the rule including and beyond science: open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

This is dizzying in its awfulness. These people are a cult of destruction.

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Feed the bees! #nomowmay

Lots of low key terrifying stats in the Climate Change Committee's new report on climate adaptation, but this one is particularly eye catching. If you are not worried about food security in an era of spiralling temperatures you are not paying attention. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

It so irritating when one reads about how ‘climate scientists are worried about’ xyz thing that will make climate change worse. Can’t we delegate the extra worrying to some other fellow Earth-dwellers who don’t have code to fix and proposals to write? All my worrying bandwidth is full already…

Now that, that is a good headline…

It’s a good day for Al Kovalevski’s seminar (part of @thissideofthearctic.org’s project SNOWLESS) on plant hardiness and the timing of budburst at #uioslo

Some people continue to advocate for regenerative grazing as a big climate solution. But it's not. The better answer is to cut back on beef consumption, curb food waste, and rethink the food system. drawdown.org/insights/gre...

Just the view from my run round Skjærhalden (🇳🇴) this morning. This really is the best of planets.

"...periods of ultra-cheap—and sometimes effectively free—electricity have become a regular feature of life in parts of the region." Can't do that with fossil fuels.

🚨 It’s official!!! 🚨 The U.K’s National Energy System Operator has just confirmed that on 22 April 2026 Britain set a new record of 98.8% zero carbon electricity…🇬🇧♻️⚡️🔋💡💪🥳

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

If a 600-ton excavator can be converted from diesel to electric, pretty much anything can. And thanks to Dementia Don and the oil crooks pulling his strings, the world is now - finally - scrambling to break decisively with fossil fuels. electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...

Who wants to do a PhD in Venice!? csrcc.it/fileadmin/us...

FFS...

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

There I was thinking it was normal workaday morning in #Oslo, but -here- is the truck delivering the turf to make the new green roof over Majorstuen station, like adding flower meadows to old concrete structures is just a regular bit of construction work now 🤩🇳🇴🌻

If the world had followed ambitious climate scenarios, global oil demand would be at least 20% lower than it is today - about the same volume of oil that flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

Hungary… WOW 🤩🇭🇺

Climate communication without an equal amount of energy literacy is extremely limiting when climate disinformation itself has first morphed into delay-ism, and from there into outright energy disinformation. Same people, different methods.

I, for one, am enormously happy that the ScenarioMIP extensions are finally finished...

This! Given that I can no longer drive a car, living anywhere -without- effective active travel & transit infrastructure is off the table for me (despite how much @benmsanderson.bsky.social would like to go live in the middle of the forest ;) ) Luckily, #oslo is great at this sort of thing.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

The CESM workshop -is- happening in June in Boulder :) Details to be found here: www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/works...

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

I am teaching at the ACDC "Climate and Landscapes" summer school in Abisko in August! Looking forward to visiting the much fabled Abisko field station! Application deadline April 15th... www.atmos.washington.edu/~david/acdc_...