The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

🚨Last weekend, Reform UK held their party conference in Birmingham, and as expected, it was a magnet to a range of conspiracy theories and wild, fringe ideas. 🧲 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...

Reform says it wants to drill in the North Sea so the UK is not dependent on foreign oil. Is that why its climate panel is sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a U.S. think tank funded by ExxonMobil? 🤔 www.desmog.com/heartland-in...

NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️ We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get. The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

💥NEW: We can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/e...

“Unhinged plastic production is the petrochemical industry’s plan B. They know the world is moving away from fossil fuels” says Panama's Juan Carlos Monterrey-Gomez “They have infiltrated these negotiations, trying to safeguard their profit" #plasticstreaty www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/11/d...

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

🔴 NEW 🔴 How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution A flagship media workshop partnered with an industry group backed by Shell and ExxonMobil. 📝 Raluca Besliu and Aleksandra Pogorzelska

There are so many questions Spurs would like to ask Levy. It's a shame none of them were asked here. youtube.com/watch?v=MVEg...

Nice article; poor headline. It is both too late to save some things and time enough to save others. The Earth System has numerous feedbacks, both positive and negative. Tipping point thresholds are diverse - we've crossed some already but many can be avoided. theconversation.com/only-3-years...

Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time. A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%. https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse

Hurricane forecasting has doubled in accuracy during the past 15 years thanks mostly to NOAA researchers at the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. Guess which scientific lab the new Trump budget is going to zero out entirely. And not just this lab but *all* NOAA labs.

This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated archive.is/8sYNv

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Climate reasons to be fearful: 1. Labour wastes £££ on (oil&gas fave) carbon capture 2. Tories drop net zero 3. Rise of Reform UK (climate deniers) 4. Media outlets bought by fossil fuel investors (Spectator & Telegraph) 5. Trumpland influence on UK Read more 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/07/04/c...

#SaharanDust transport across the Atlantic over the past 10 days as latest plume reaches the Caribbean on 5 July shown in PM10 surface concentration anomalies from #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol alerts aerosol-alerts.atmosphere.copernicus.eu?view=3d&lat=... #airquality @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

🧊 Ice sheets are melting faster A 31-year satellite study shows sharp rises in meltwater from Greenland and East Antarctica, regions once too cold are now hotspots. This could speed up sea-level rise and threaten ice shelf stability. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateChange 🧪

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠 www.carbonbrief.org/...

Thurrock council has debts of close to £1bn, but it has still been able to pay top London law firms to support an injunction stopping climate protests. Turns out the council had help from government to pay their legal bills last year. novaramedia.com/2025/07/03/r...

Honestly, I've been saying it for a while, but Polish solar is one of the most interesting stories in renewables in the world right now. www.thereengineer.pro/p/eastern-eu...

Big milestone in Poland, where renewables overtake coal www.ft.com/content/ae92...

To help understand air pollution health effects, researchers at Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering quantified how the amount of submicron particles in the air has changed over the past 25 years. Read more about their study on PM 1 across the United States: bit.ly/46lFSRE

Thurrock council, despite having debts of close to £1bn, has spent considerable sums to enforce an injunction preventing protests by climate activists. Turns out they had financial help last year from Michael Gove. My story for Novara. novaramedia.com/2025/07/03/r...

Most of the greenhouse gas reductions in the US have been an accidental byproduct of the switch from coal to methane gas, and by the way, new research suggests that methane gas leaks *far* more than the EPA estimates, which means even those reductions may be illusory. Whee!

A really clever tool from @edhawkins.org showing how today's hot weather is far from normal. istheukhotrightnow.com

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news

The UK will hit its target on climate aid, but only because of clever accounting By relabelling existing funding arrangements with development banks and private investment as “climate finance”, the UK has inflated the figures without allocating new funds www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Surprise, surprise: Meta's Manhattan-sized data center is going to be powered by three new gas power plants. Residents of the nearby town have no idea how much their bill will increase: "It’s like building the power impact of a large city overnight” www.404media.co/a-black-hole...

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

Reading this sat on a train with no air conditioning coming out of central London in 31 degrees. The UK is not ready for the temperatures we are going to experience in years to come.

⚠️ Nearly 600 heat-related deaths are expected in England and Wales heatwave as a result of high temperatures from Thursday to Sunday, researchers estimate. It is the first real-time analysis in 2025 on excess heat deaths by ‪@lshtm.bsky.social‬ and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social‬ 🧵

A young boy in Gaza was filmed wailing over the body of his father, who was killed in an Israeli air attack on Jabalia. Israel’s bombing of Gaza has not subsided despite it’s escalating military campaign on Iran.

Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, the current heat in London & most of the UK would not have been a heatwave: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Heatwaves are dangerous. Drink water, lots of it, stay cool, even if you feel invincible, you're probably not.

According to World Weather Attribution, "climate change has made a 32C day in the UK 100 times more likely than in the pre-industrial era. A June heatwave of three consecutive days above 28C was 10 times more likely to occur now." www.ft.com/content/650c...

In order to keep global warming below 1.5C or 2C, we need to move industrial activity to clean energy. This will MORE THAN DOUBLE our global need for electricity. We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting. ⚡🧵

Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn Humans could breach the internationally-agreed target of 1.5C of warming in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. @markpoynting.bsky.social‬

Discarded clothes from the UK are polluting Ghana’s protected wetlands, a new Unearthed investigation shows. Garments from Next, George at Asda, and Marks & Spencer were in sites inside the Densu Delta, a conservation area crucial for local wildlife. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/18/u...

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Light industry uses nearly half of EU industrial gas most of it can be electrified now. Switching to heat pumps and electric boilers cuts emissions and boosts energy security. Great piece by @regassistproj.bsky.social More: www.raponline.org/blog/light-i...

UK has 50/50 chance of seeing temperatures soar to 40C again in next 12 years as risk of extreme heat rises with climate emergency, says Met Office: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

The way water companies use farmland as the dumping ground for sewage sludge is building up massive risks for nature and our food system Neither the industry nor our politicians have wanted to bear the cost of fixing this problem, so they've left it in the long grass But they know that can't last

The Society of Editors is absolutely right to raise concerns about funding cuts for journalism courses, but increasing the diversity in local newsrooms has never been a priority for the industry (and, I'd argue, readership has suffered as a result)

What a (some might say cynical) journey the latest chairman of Reform UK has been on when it comes to his denial of climate change! In 2017, he tweeted a link to this article in Time... time.com/4931586/irma...

Ange took charge of my football club while my Mum was dying of cancer. He helped me escape into something fun at a time when my life was dominated by hospital visits. He made supporting Spurs enjoyable. It's not an exaggeration to say that he improved my life. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This is all quite odd and doesn't account for Girona and Man City being allowed to play in the Champions League last season, despite being owned by the same group.

Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza: "The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."

Many fossil fuel execs like to say they are full of caring for people suffering from energy poverty and just want to help. If this was true, they would support solar. Awesome video about how solar has replaced diesel for Indian salt farmers.

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

Again, dozens & dozens of members of the US elite spent the last 10 years pretending that the left is the real threat to speech on campus. Are any of the revising their priors?