Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 13/01/2026nytimes.comIs Grass-Fed Beef Really Better for the Climate? 000
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Adverts for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned for making misleading claims about their green credentials: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNike, Superdry and Lacoste ads banned over green claimsThe advertising watchdog said the retailers misled shoppers with their 'sustainability' claims. 010
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (@ipcc.bsky.social) says this is “unequivocally” being caused by human activity — mainly through the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhat is climate change? A really simple guideHuman activities are causing the world to heat up, posing serious threats to people and nature. 010
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025It also says that 2025 is likely to be the second or third warmest year on record, with average temperatures between January and August 1.42C above levels of the late 1800s. 🌡️☀️ wmo.int/media/news/2... 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The World Meteorological Organization (@wmo-global.bsky.social) says that, since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one - a trend that is expected to continue. wmo.int/news/media-c... 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025“Despite the warming climate, extreme cold events still occur in the UK due to natural variability,” says Dr Mark McCarthy, head of climate attribution at the @metoffice.gov.uk. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025But these comments confuse weather with climate. While weather refers to short-term changes in the atmosphere, climate describes long-term weather patterns over extended periods. www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/weather...ncei.noaa.govWhat’s the Difference Between Weather and Climate?Though climate and weather are closely related, they aren't the same thing. The main difference between the two is time. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025In posts seen thousands of times, some users asked “what happened to all that global warming?” with others ironically suggesting it is “hitting England hard”. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Snowfall❄️ in parts of the UK in the last two days has led some social media users to falsely claim that cold weather disproves climate change. 🧵 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025In recent years, Trump has consistently called on the UK and other nations to stop building “ugly“ wind turbines, arguing they are “ruining” Europe's fields and valleys. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHow Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battleThe US president is a vocal critic of wind energy - and it's a loathing which began in Aberdeenshire. 020
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The Chinese Wind Energy Association says that, in 2023, only around 9.5% of the electricity China generated came from wind. www.iea-wind.org/wp-content/u...iea-wind.org 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Despite this progress it is true that China’s energy mix is still dominated by fossil fuels — coal in particular. In fact, according to the IEA, one of every four tonnes of coal used globally is burned to produce electricity in China. www.iea.org/countries/ch... 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025And the International Energy Agency (@iea.org) also says that in 2023 China built about two-thirds of all the new wind power capacity added worldwide. www.iea.org/energy-syste...iea.orgWind - IEAOnshore wind is a proven, mature technology with an extensive global supply chain and offshore wind is also expected to grow rapidly. 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The Global Energy Monitor, a US-based research group, estimates China accounts for about 44% of the world’s operating wind farm capacity. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comGlobal Wind Power Tracker Summary Data - Feb 2025 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025“China is the country with the highest wind power generation and highest growth rate of wind power generation in recent years,” says Dr Biqing Zhu, a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (@iiasa.ac.at). 120
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025But China has actually become a global leader in wind power. 130
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Speaking to GB News, Trump suggested that China - which he called a “very smart” country - has been using fossil fuels while selling wind turbines to “suckers” and “stupid people”. 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025US President Donald Trump has wrongly claimed that, despite selling the most wind turbines, China is not using wind power. 🧵 286
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025In those conditions an ignition source, whether caused naturally like lightning or through human action like arson, can have catastrophic consequences.media.tenor.coma match is burning in the dark with a flame coming out of itALT: a match is burning in the dark with a flame coming out of it 000
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025California experienced very wet years in 2022 and 2023 and a huge growth of vegetation, which dried out in a drought last year to create abundant kindling to burn. 🥵☀️ 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025A study by the @wwattribution.bsky.social group has found that climate change made the “fire weather” conditions which drove the LA fires around 35% more likely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....bbc.co.ukLA fires made worse by climate change, say scientistsScientists say the fires that engulfed Los Angeles were made 35% more likely due to climate warming. 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025“An arsonist is much more likely to be successful in the current climate than they would otherwise be,” says Dr Matthew Jones, senior research fellow at the University of East Anglia (@mattwjones.bsky.social). 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025But extreme wildfires require three things to occur: hot, dry and windy conditions which scientists call “fire weather”, abundant vegetation and an ignition source. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Many of the critical posts attribute the cause of the wildfires to arson - and, indeed, a 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of starting the Pacific Palisades fire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigatorsInvestigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025They were posted in response to Newsom’s remarks at a conference this week in Brazil, where he described California as one of the “most cursed states as it relates to climate”. youtu.be/4cHrl_Stwkg?...youtu.beA Conversation with California Governor Gavin Newsom | Global Investors' Symposium Sao Paulo 2025YouTube video by Milken Institute 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Social media posts criticising California governor Gavin Newsom for linking January’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires to climate change have gathered millions of views. 🧵 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025We have approached Tucker Carlson for comment. 000
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The @usenvironment.bsky.social has said it is “not aware” of contrails ever being intentionally formed over the US for geoengineering. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Geoengineering refers to attempts to manipulate the environment with the goal of changing the climate. It involves a wide range of activities: from cooling the Earth by reflecting solar radiation into space to removing planet-warming gases from the atmosphere by planting trees.media.tenor.coman aerial view of a lush green forest with mountains in the backgroundALT: an aerial view of a lush green forest with mountains in the background 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025They form when water vapour and soot particles, generated by the combustion of fuel when planes fly at high altitudes, freeze and form trails of ice crystals - as explained here by the @metoffice.gov.uk 👇 weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/...weather.metoffice.gov.ukContrails or condensation trailsContrails are frequently seen criss-crossing the sky and are created from water vapour coming out of an aircraft's engines. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Those long, thin lines of cloud in the sky are in fact condensation trails, or contrails. ✈️✈️✈️ 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025“There's clearly something going on”, said Carlson in the episode. He then claimed, without providing any evidence, that intelligence agencies “don't want anyone to talk about this”. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The term “chemtrails” describes a widely debunked conspiracy theory suggesting chemicals are being sprayed onto the atmosphere for shadowy reasons, such as population control. www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-t...bbc.co.ukChemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory?A conspiracy theory about aircraft vapour trails takes hold on clear summer mornings. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The post has been viewed more than five million times but it confuses terms that, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (@usenvironment.bsky.social), are “often inaccurately used as alleged synonyms”. www.epa.gov/regulations-...epa.govInformation on Contrails from Aircraft | US EPAFact sheet on Contrails from Aircraft from EPA and the U.S. Air Force. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025“It’s called geoengineering and it’s far worse than anything you imagined,” wrote the former Fox News host on X to promote an episode of his podcast. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 12/11/2025US conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has wrongly claimed that “the government has finally admitted that chemtrails are real”. 🧵 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025In recent years, smart cities have often been the subject of conspiracy theories, with some often suggesting that they are part of efforts to impose authoritarian rule through technology. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....factcheck.afp.com 010
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025While there are plans to turn New Kingston, a part of the Jamaican capital, into the country’s first smart city, there’s *no* suggestion these would involve major land clearance. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025“To form, hurricanes need a few essential ingredients including a large-scale circulating airmass and a vast energy supply from warm, tropical ocean waters to fuel the storm,” says Dr Michael Byrne, a researcher in climate science at the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025But scientists say it is “impossible” for humans to create or control hurricanes, and that the causes of a storm as dangerous as Hurricane Melissa are complex. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhat makes Hurricane Melissa such a dangerous storm?Melissa's 185 mph winds at landfall means it could eclipse all storms the island has experienced before. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025(If you never heard of "smart cities", this BBC video gives you a good idea of what that term refers to: www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cjl6p...)bbc.co.ukWhat will cities be like in the future?How will artificial intelligence change the cities we live in? Made with the help of Theo Tryfonas from Bristol University. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025In posts seen hundreds of thousands of times, some users wrongly suggested this storm was somehow triggered to “erase” parts of Jamaica, making way for so-called “smart cities”. 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Baseless claims that Hurricane Melissa was “engineered” as part of supposed “land clearing operations” have been spreading online. 🧵 130
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025And he added: “The scientific literature unequivocally finds a strong increase in the frequency of extreme fire weather in the western US as a result of climate change." 020
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025“This is not a case of either/or,” says Dr Theodore Keeping, a wildfire and climate scientist with the @wwattribution.bsky.social research group. 120
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025In the weeks that followed the blaze, scientists confirmed climate change was a major factor behind the weather that led to the fires, making such conditions about 35% more likely. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...worldweatherattribution.orgClimate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area – World Weather Attribution 110
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Extreme wildfires like these require three things to occur: hot, dry and windy weather conditions, abundant vegetation, and an ignition source — such as arson or lightning. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The Pacific Palisades fire, which started on 7 January, killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes. The blaze was one of the most destructive in LA history. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.ukWatch: Before and after Pacific Palisades wildfiresFrom luxury villas to burnt out buildings - contrasting images show the destruction caused by the fires which raged across Los Angeles. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025In posts viewed hundreds of thousands of times, some social media users claimed the announcement was proof that arson caused the LA fires and ridiculed politicians who linked them to climate change. 100
Marco Silva @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The arrest on Wednesday of a 29-year-old man on suspicion of starting the Pacific Palisades fire that swept through part of Los Angeles in January has been wrongly hailed online as proof “conspiracy theorists were right”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigatorsInvestigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city. 100