Great conversation. What is clear, and hasn't been noted, is that the crowd who listened to Trump's speech, seemed to understand it to mean something along the lines that the clumsy edit conveyed. What a weird coincidence 🤔

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

I love @therestpolitics.bsky.social but have a niggle. It promotes small start up Fuse Energy which is fine, but the impression given is that Fuse Energy is a pioneer in clean energy. Fuse Energy supplies about 50,000 homes vs Octopus Energy's 7 million households. Ditto generating capacity. 1/

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

You know when someone asks “can you keep a secret?” What they mean is “I can’t”

This dictum applies to root canal surgery, insulating your house, laser eye surgery and … surprisingly (to some) … also heat pumps. #Energysky

As #WorldVentil8Day 2025 is only 3 days away here’s a little reminder of some ventilation tips I gave last year 👇

Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10% www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I guess you could summarise Farage's response as 'the Left made us racist'.

All the talk of the ‘spark gap’ – the particularly high ratio of electricity unit prices to gas unit prices in the UK – might deter people from getting a heat pump, because they think it will mean they will pay more for their heating than currently, ...

@octopus.energy I’m a customer of yours and we’ve just finished with gas (having replaced a aging dual fuel cooker with an induction hob range cooker; and having replaced the old gas boiler with a heat pump 4 years ago). Now the hard part is getting fully disconnected, and boy you make it hard! 1/

We have a new cooker with induction hob so can finally completely disconnect from the gas network (having got a heat pump 4 years ago, replacing a creaking 25 year old gas boiler). Our creaking old 27 year old cooker (with a gas hob) was no longer serviceable. 1/2

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.

This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

Q. "In the UK we have two brilliant grassroot initiatives to promote best practice in heat pump installation: 'heat geek' and more recently 'The Guild of Master Heat Engineers'. Are these to be viewed as complementary or competing initiatives?" Here's how OpenAI tabulated a response ... #HeatPump

Jane Goodall 😢 youtu.be/mpi6zAg_OII?...

Ooo, look what’s arrived! #Energysky #Heatpumps

Remember, climate action delay is the new climate science denial. The Conservative Party and GMB Union are both in denial.

Another slide that came to me, for an upcoming talk. Now I could show the refrigeration cycle or I could relate it everyday experiences! We need to draw people in (mostly non geeks), not scare them off. #Energysky

Is the behaviour of the US crowd at the Ryder Cup and their team a metaphor for Trump’s America: loud, loutish, disrespectful … losers!

Near the end of my talk on heat pumps I want to step write back. Looking back in fact from, say, 2500 CE with this graphic I just made ... #Energysky #Climatesky

Just reposting this piece on my personal experience with installation of an Air-Source Heat Pump into an 1805 Grade 2 Listed Georgian house (I have added an update note not on the project but on Catapult Dec '24 study findings) essaysconcerning.com/2023/03/29/h... 1/2 #Energysky #Heatpump

I am working on a talk ('Everything you wanted to know about heat pumps but was afraid to ask') for a local climate group. I though I'd step back early in talk to give a perspective on heating in England since its birth. What do you think? 1/2 #Energysky #Heatpumps

Nick Watts having a bit of a mare on BBC Newsnight, being schooled twice on things he’s miss said.

Late to it (it's a busy "Welcome Week" at @qmul.bsky.social) but, as per, our honorary degree holder @stephenkb.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (Source www.ft.com/content/fbbd...)

I was asked the perennial question 'How can we predict the climate in 25 years when we can't even predict the weather reliably in 4 weeks time?', answered by climate scientists many times. Here is my attempt for a lay audience using loaded dice as an analogy essaysconcerning.com/2025/09/04/l...

To prove it's possible, a region of Germany cut itself off from the national grid & ran its own regional standalone grid purely on renewable energy & batteries. No nuclear, no fossils.

I love the double path on Rodborough Common that sweeps around the curved hill above The Street. A little piece after this morning’s walk. #rodboroughcommon

🚨 After hitting 1000 authoritarian actions last week on the TrumpActionTracker, we are now at almost *1050*. No rest for the wicked it seems. www.trumpactiontracker.info?start=2025-0...

Besides the theatre of live recording of European leaders at the White House, one aspect that may have gone uncommented on is that Trump’s love of bilateral transactional relations has morphed into a multilateral conversation. Loved Finnish PM final remarks on “ending Russia’s war of aggression.”

Bye bye coal

Well, it went so well last time it was tried

I'd strongly recommed 'Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change' by Prof. Friederike Otto that take a fresh look at how we think, talk, and should act - particularly on heat related impacts. guardianbookshop.com/climate-inju... @frediotto.bsky.social

Lovely walk around Uley Bury with Marilyn and Tilly this morning. Really struck by the view of the fields and Stinchcombe Hill towards Severn. Here’s a wee pencil sketch.

Now that's the kind of boldness we need from the UK building sector; none of this pussying around putting up 100 homes with an option for PV but still gas pipes galore. No, 8,500 fully electrified for heating, cooking, driving and everything else.

New all-electric town in Kent strikes deal to supply power back to the grid

Another important note: Trump is directing NASA to prematurely destroy the two satellite missions that are the gold standard of carbon emissions observations and measurements: gizmodo.com/trump-admini...

Polluter and cyber elites - a lethal alignment? Save the date for our next free annual online conference. 📅 Wednesday 15th October, 2025 🕜16:00 -18:00 BST We will be sharing more information on our speaker line up in the coming weeks… www.sgr.org.uk/events/pollu... 🧪

So on FB there is a powerful essay attributed to Lyle Fass entitled ‘Why America Is Like This’ but I can find no source for it or even an identifiable writer of that name. It’s reached meme status. Does it matter if it expresses a truth that people want to share? m.youtube.com/shorts/OtrPk...

BBC Radio 4 Today this morning had an interview with Howard Kakita, a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb, who gave a moving testimony of his and his family’s experiences and his work to stop proliferation and seek denuclearisation globally. 1/

This is such an incredible poster.

The only time that MAGA cheered on a black female, but even then, they contrived to back a loser. Turns out Mother Sun is already a winner.

Deranged dear leader calming things down. Oh this makes me feel so reassured. No parody is off limits in a Trumpian universe. No reality either.

So Shell PR is at it again. Another advert suggesting they are investing in a green future while keeping the lights on today. The latest TV add I saw on 26th July was another masterclass in GASlighting. Wind turbines and text saying "11.37% included low-carbon energy solutions" 1/

So we in the UK are flying in low value non perishable goods from China instead of shipping them, and the Sky news coverage is framing it as a dodging tariffs story. What about a ‘massive increase in carbon footprint of imported goods story’? Maybe European Cargo should be renamed European Carbon!

Well knock me down with a feather. Is the editor on holiday?

By gosh. Israel Government Spokesman David Mencer completely losing it being interviewed by Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today. Unable to answer a question without turning it into an attack, or character assassination. A master class in how to win friends and influence people, not.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.