Okay not *only* about oil, also about showing dominance and probably some sort of petty grievance in there too. But definitely ALSO helpful to some US oil majors (notably Exxon and Chevron)

Climate injustice: “…in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve compared with their pre-disaster state…”

🔴"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When it’s withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few." Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...

8,000 illegal waste sites 13 million tons of rubbish No controls on waste dumped sometimes near rivers + in floodplains Burning of waste Little or no policing How criminal dumping of waste became the 'new narcotics' Our latest article, out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there's some evidence to back up this position A lil thread 🧵

🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as #Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff - Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

📉The voluntary carbon market crashed bc credits didn't do what they claimed. Offsets 2.0 is here, with hard, inventive work on the ground. 🌴A look at the race to control carbon, from under the banana and cacao trees. By Fabiano Masisonnave and me: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

There is a lot of talk about data centers taking up gas demand in the US. However, it will be LNG exports that take the big chunk. "Feed gas demand from Plaquemines LNG terminal alone could top 4 Bcf/d this winter, roughly equal to the low end of data center growth estimates through 2030."

The 2-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly is still above 1.55°C. Everything will be fine.

NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳 But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain" Read more 👇:

🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

If asylum seekers were allowed to work legally when they arrive in the UK, the power of these gangs would be greatly diminished. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Global emissions may fall 10% by 2035 — but scientists say a 60% drop is needed to keep 1.5°C alive.

But seriously: I'm prepping for a panel on Abundance and climate and going down the rabbit hole of documenting everything so I can cite it, and I'm finding things are SO much worse than I even thought. Did you know that the Charles Koch Foundation was a sponser of Abundance 2024? No, really.

Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :) Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!! ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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 🧵