Our heatwaves will get hotter and hotter and hotter until we get to global net zero greenhouse gas emissions and so stabilise the climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Provisional Met Office stats for June show: ✅ England’s warmest June on record ✅ UK & Wales - second warmest June since 1884 ✅ 5 of the first 6 months of 2026 at least 1°C above mean average ✅Record-breaking overnight temps for UK, England, Wales & Scotland Details: bit.ly/4bn0b2P

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

Australia (well, three states of it) mandates three free hours of electricity every day from tomorrow, up to 24kWh. This is a pretty good explainer. lenergy.com.au/free-daytime...

Good Monday Morning. *IF things pan out as currently modelled, the 40.3 deg C all-time maximum U.K. temp record set in July 2022 could well be obliterated in a week’s time. Things are escalating much faster than climate scientists predicted. We are very likely in BIG trouble.

Two heatwaves. 50 years apart.

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

HEATWAVE HITS GAS POWER? Amid tight GB supplies, looks like gas plants cutting output due to heat? Carrington – unplanned 16% reduction due to "ambient conditions" Keadby 2 – 34% due to "weather" Staythorpe – 18% due to "ambient conditions" Grain – 12% "environmental" cause 1/2

Piccadilly Circus ground surface temperature is 56 C degrees!

i dunno, maybe temperature records being broken by 1C/ 2C is not great news for anyone hoping to live a decade or so longer on planet Earth

NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Stark. Brutal. Deadly. This is the temp map forecast for France for 5pm this afternoon.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

Climate change is real. Climate change denial makes rich people richer. There's one of your many problems.

Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency.

But please, tell us again how arbitrary and joyless Net Zero is

While London swelters, thanks to the fossil fuelled climate crisis, right wing climate deniers including the US Energy Secretary are conspiring to stall global action to safeguard our climate. #ukpol #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

At a time when trust and truth are under strain, people need clear, honest information from independent experts about the climate and nature crisis. An informed public is the foundation of democracy. Please sign the petition.

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

London is facing 102F / 39C tomorrow.

Grim timing yesterday as news of the Met Office Red alert flashed up on phones right in the middle of a big event about new Met Office forecasts for June 2056, showing potential peak temperatures of 45C in England. Stopping the CO2 emissions driving this is essential, but we also need to prepare.

Let's check on this.

On Wednesday, Parliament will vote on the UK's 7th Carbon Budget, aligned with the scientific advice from the Climate Change Committee. Kemi Badenoch will lead her party in voting against it. The temperature in London on Wednesday:

There is the risk that some events at London Climate Action Week will be cancelled this week because of an extraordinary heatwave. The @metoffice.gov.uk has just upgraded to red alert on Wedneday with London at 40°C. Previous June record was 35.6°C. This is an emergency.

Look after yourselves this week, in our record-breaking heat. And don't let this or any government backtrack on its climate commitments: both to prevent the worst and to help us adapt to the escalating impacts to which - unfortunately and infuriatingly - we are now committed. #35YearsOfFailure

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

Government have tried to bury some bad news - for Rachel Reeves anyway - today as *their own* cost-benefit assessment of Heathrow expansion plan finds it would LOSE between £21 to £121 billion! A climate catastrophic boondoggle clutched for by a chancellor with no real ideas for ‘delivering growth’

This site is a real time-saver.

We’re calling on government to stage a prime-time televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. Introduced by the Prime Minister to signal utmost seriousness, and delivered by independent experts. It’s time for a moonshot-scale mission to protect the public & improve lives. #PEBUK

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Has your MP added their name to the Parliamentary Call for government to lead a televised emergency briefing on the threats to the UK public from the climate and nature crisis. The public deserve to know. Enter your postcode here to find out: #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

Today’s note: on the cuts at the BBC. The problem has a simple cause - in 2010, the licence fee was £220 in today’s money. Now it is £180.

Lodge this in your mind. The reality is diametrically opposed to what most of the media and several political parties are telling us.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

The world's biggest clean air zone. Expanding the ULEZ wasn’t an easy decision, but evidence continues to show it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners 💚 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.

It’s 15C in the Antarctic in winter. 15C.

Reform UK in govt would destroy UK's green economy "On whose behalf do they make this choice? Not their own voters, who strongly support renewables.... But its funders. 2/3 of the money it has received comes from very rich people with interests in oil and gas" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Despite never turning a profit, GB News has been pouring money into the pockets of its politician-presenters... with the channel’s billionaire owners picking up the tab. This isn’t a commercial news outlet – it’s a political influencing operation www.desmog.com/2026/06/04/n...

Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting

A great uplifting read here. As the US climate campaigner Bill McKibben noted recently: “Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz”. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Left: Nigel Farage using the murder of Henry Nowak to sew division in society, "rights of white people matter less than ethnic minorities" Right: Henry Nowak's father, "We do not want his death used to create further division hated or tension"