We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...

5,350+ fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP26 to COP29, including representatives from 180 oil and gas corporations. About half of these companies were responsible for nearly 60% of global oil and gas production in 2024

Huge COPs are an equity issue. We don't hear marginalised voices above the din of who can afford the pavilions, flights, comms teams, or hosting. theconversation.com/the-un-clima...

The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country. We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

mainly boggling at the idea that any British media organisation has $1billion to be sued for (did Elon not tell him that we are but a simple land of hobbits, going about our hobbit business in the shires?) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Beyond maddening that the government needs reminding cutting energy efficiency funding in the middle of a climate and fuel poverty crisis is a bad idea. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521576...

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. www.wired.com/story/heres-...

Just trying to sign in to Teams on my phone (because, dear god, these things are sent to try us) and am delighted to have a QR code sent to my phone that requires I use my phone camera to access it, which of course doesn't work because I am *using my phone*

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

A bit long term, but my favourite version of "how poor the past was" is in this chart. Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

Awesome blue plaque for a big loser.

Drax still doing what Drax does: burning old-growth forests in order to be Britain's no. 1 producer of CO2.

Since I haven't seen one yet, here's a starter pack of scientists actively working in the climate adaptation and resilience space, including researchers as well as climate service providers! 🌎🧪

Heat pumps help people stay cool in the summer. In this latest research and video, I discuss how efficient cooling technologies (e.g., heat pumps) can reduce energy insecurity. W/ @lucyqiu-umd.bsky.social #EnergySky #energy #energypolicy youtube.com/watch?v=JfVps3p_EdE&feature=youtu.be

There's also a B2, which is "the world is doomed, but the future will be fine for ME"

This is almost a perfect study in how complicated market rules create opportunities to do things that the rule makers did not expect. Because the incentives to find margin will always beat the incentive on the harassed bureaucrat trying to find edge cases. We should've just banned Russian oil.

I had screenshots from TWO movies in my lecture slides today, and ZERO of my students recognized the movies. Are kids just not watching Mad Max or 2001 A Space Odyssey these days, and what can we do about it?

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

Going to get a sticker made saying this - that I can give to anyone who tells me smart meter data is all you need to make decisions about building retrofit.

Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo - "It's not surprising that people from the computing industry think in binary" says Christiana Figueres #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're pleased to open a bursary scheme for our upcoming #FuelPovertyConf. We want to enable attendance from those organisations which would not usually be able to pay to attend conference.

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Ever wondered how the UK’s energy system came to be? 🎙️ Inside Energy by Ofgem is a new podcast hosted by Clare Nasir exploring Britain's energy transition journey. 📅 First episodes drop this month! #InsideEnergy #OfgemPodcast

Team America was timeless

Boris Johnson issues major warning to Kemi Badenoch over 'bashing green agenda' The former prime minister said he found the "state of the argument" on climate change "depressing" and insisted the public wants "cheap green energy" instead of anti-net zero policies.

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Saying a single year exceeding 1.5°C warming doesn't mean the Paris Agreement has failed provides as much reassurance as the captain of the Titanic telling passengers that there is an important difference between 'sinking' and 'sunk'. www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

Who pays to reset energy debt? Ofgem will write off £500m to help 195k people but fairness in our energy system needs deeper reform. @martiskainen.bsky.social argues that only by putting energy equity at the heart of reform can we build fairer, more resilient systems www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/ho...

Hearing about normal people's renovations is dull at the best of times

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

A reminder that some of the money you spend at Amazon this Christmas will be used to build a tacky ballroom for billionaires.

Developers and policy makers need to recognise + reward the labour that households and communities contribute to Smart Local Energy Systems (SLES), in order to create effective and fair policies. Check out our new briefing on the labour behind SLES 👉 buff.ly/NmKieim #EnergyTransition

🌍No New Coal is now the global norm Planned coal power has fallen by 65% since 2015, a decade of progress driven by the rapid rise of renewables. But a handful of countries still keep new coal on the table. Read our new briefing: www.e3g.org/publications...

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

Is gas still the reason GB energy prices are high? New Nesta blog by me. There's been a lot of talk about non-commodity costs on electricity bills, and how they're now dominating bill rises. My conclusion is: yes, they're a problem and need tackling; but they're not yet as big a problem as gas.

And so it begins, Musk's Grokipedia is scraping Wikipedia and re-writing things in Musk's image. The entry for climate change? Let's just say the Wikipedia entry has neither an "Economic and Policy Critiques" section, nor one on the "Role of Media and Advocacy" that accuses both of bias.

DESNZ have dropped the new Carbon Plan. I have two tests: is this legally robust, and does it have a plausible pathway for heat? /1 www.gov.uk/government/p...

The most baffling Bill Gates intervention since Windows 8.

Lomborg has been absolutely popping the Danish champagne corks in response to Gates' absolutely awful interventions It's 2009 again baby

Unsurprising, yet maddening. Especially given yet another study dropped yesterday connecting one of his obsessions with air pollution, specifically sulfates from fossil fuel combustion and ammonium. Maybe look into that. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

This is just mind-bendingly wrong-headed. ‘Let’s just adapt, tech will save us’ has always been a reckless strategy, but as evidence mounts that natural carbon sinks are failing it really does start to sink into a form of climate denialism. www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...

Striking chart that helps to explain how electricity prices can remain high, despite the increase in renewables. In four European countries including GB, gas was the marginal fuel for more than 80% of the time in 2021, meaning gas price (rather than renewable) set the electricity price.

Interesting study from researchers at UCL on how wind power has held down energy costs in the long term. The key argument is that it has lowered gas prices in Europe by reducing demand for gas. And actually most of the savings are on gas, not electricity bills www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.