This is a glorified panel discussion, not a #ClimateAssembly! #CitizensAssemblies are widely understood to be in-depth processes, descriptively representative of the citizenry. When we co-opt these words for 'in-group' chats, they lose their impact, and with it, people's trust. (1)

Today marks one year since Labour won a landslide majority on just 34% of the vote. No wonder trust in politics is so low when we keep getting governments that most people didn't choose. There is an alternative: a proportional system where Parliament reflects how people voted. #PRnow

Really useful new report from @nestauk.bsky.social on the impacts of rebalancing the costs of Great British Energy Scheme and supplier ECO targets by moving the levies off electricity and onto gas; media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Ho... TLDR: Only well-off households using gas pay more, by £20-£76pa

I dunno, maybe she nicked it off one of the younger kids at lunch break?

Anybody who works on educating the public about climate change, here is a fantastic new resource from @roostweather.bsky.social . @carbonliteracy.bsky.social , this could be a really nice exploratory tool for those training councillors?

'Car Brain' - 1920's style! @ianwalker.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @modacitylife.com

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

I'm seeing the effect of this on my daily commute. The bed of the Wye in Hereford is visible in places, you could walk across it in wellies right now. This time last year, the water level was at least 3 feet higher... #drought

Sadly the Guardian fails to mention (a) Greens threw everything at these 2 seats (b) LD and LAB stood paper candidates (c) Reform cratered the Tory vote. These are only repeatable victories in those circumstances. The RW vote still dominates here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Still astonished that there is not more commentary on how Trump might turn out to be accidentally good for the environment. Can't help but wonder how much of the stuff coming through these ports from China was cheap, pointless household tat that nobody needed. Halloween ornaments for one thing...

Fascinating stuff from ‪@dangrey.bsky.social‬ on Spanish blackouts. I'd been wondering what we might learn from Spain so we can avoid this in UK. Now I think we might learn from Spain that Spain should have learned from UK when something similar happened here a few years back!

Genius.

Well worth a read, though unfortunately the people who most need to read it won't, because the batshit crazy Tony Blair Institute report is manna from heaven for the Torygraph.

“Irrelevant old man says stupid thing”. But, for variety’s sake, it’s not Trump. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What is he even saying here? Vote for me (I'm crazy and I think my name is on your ballot), vote for Poilievre (he's already promised me he's going to hand over Canada immediately?), or vote for Carney (because I'm planning to invade and that will give me an excuse?) truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

This thread sums up my frustration listening to Badenoch on Peston. “UK can’t do #netzero because we utterly failed to support our own #renewables industry over decades, which is obviously China’s fault” www.youtube.com/live/-NuGUb8... from 32 mins

The whole Trump tariffs thing feels a lot like Brexit to me. The 'remain in the EU camp' spent the last weeks of that campaign endlessly warning that Brexit would be hugely economically damaging. Many people who wanted Brexit understood that, & accepted it as a price worth paying. But for what? 🧵

Fantastically helpful explainer and tool for anyone who regularly deals with the 'we need two grids' argument when teaching people about renewables. via @daanwalt3r.bsky.social electrotechrevolution.substack.com/p/renewables... Worth circulating, @carbonliteracy.bsky.social ?

THREAD: How the Sun screwed up its "smoking gun" story on net-zero study The Sun: "As much as 10% wld be wiped off economic growth by end of decade" Source: "At no point does this study suggest there will be a drop in UK GDP. It talks abt a 10% transfer…within GDP" Oops! 1/10

This week, I have been mostly being a lungfish.

I was an undergrad when Cole was doing his PhD at Cardiff. Such a lovely bloke and one hell of an illustrator - if anyone needs anything doing please contact him

I wonder if I just tell HMRC I am not available to pay my taxes right now, then we can just call this whole thing quits? #notaxationwithoutrepresentation (or someone answering the damned phone).

If I had a pound for every time a local authority politician had tried this one on me during a #climatechange training day, I would have quite a lot of money by now. See also "Oh I, remember when they kept telling us the Y2K computer bug would crash all the computers and then nothing happened...."

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

Well played, whoever did this. Well played. Also, would like to make clear that I do not think President Zelenskyy looks like a Hobbit. (Though I do believe he has at least as much courage and heart as the best of them).

Let's keep this simple. The United States of America is withholding intelligence on the aggressor's military that are sending drones and ballistic missiles every night to target homes, hospitals, schools and power plants in Ukraine. The US is aiding the enemy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Great video showing what happened when @thecccuk.bsky.social got a group of B'ham residents together to discuss what policies we need to get to #NetZero. www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u... A workshop is running, 20/03 10-11am, if you want to learn more: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1c21ec...

Article here: www.axios.com/2025/03/05/f...

In this new world order, we see geopolitical alliances primarily emerge around the large power blocs’ preferred energy regimes and view on the climate emergency: EU & China & some Gulf states for new energy vs. US & Russia & some Gulf states for fossils. The cold war of our time is an energy war.

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

The Prime Minister should show British leadership on Ukraine by inviting President Zelenskyy to address Parliament on Monday. I'm proud that the UK has been Ukraine's staunchest ally from the start. We mustn't falter in the face of Trump's bullying now.

The Prime Minister must show Britain’s strength and make it clear to Donald Trump: If he continues down the path of parroting Putin's propaganda and putting America’s enemies over its friends, it will have consequences.

📣 BREAKING: The UK Climate Change Committee now says there’s no role for hydrogen in building heating. That’s study #61 on my list showing little to no role for hydrogen in heating—up from 54 in my meta-review from Dec 2023: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

looking at @thecccuk.bsky.social tweet from this morning, I'm struck by how much the estimates of the costs of #NetZero have reduced by. I have gotten used to quoting around 1% of GDP to get to Net Zero by 2050 (from the 6th budget) so this is huge. Also, let's compare to Brexit...

You have to channel your inner Billy Connolly for this one, but I think it works… gulfof.mapquest.com?name=Yerself...

This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego. Via John Hyland on LI www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...

🧵Thread on the idea of "Climate Boundary Transcendence". Each year, Earth's average temperature oscillates by about 4°C. Usually January (sometimes February) is the coldest month, on average, and July (sometimes August) is the warmest month, in terms of the GLOBAL average.

Words to live by. Paralysing doomerism absolutely infests climate discourse, and it’s all so very tiresome.

Is #DeliberativeDemocracy equally appealing across the political spectrum? As part of my PhD in the @climatecitizens.bsky.social group at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, I've been looking into this in the context of Climate Assemblies. Headline finding: #Conservative voters seem less likely to sign up