A creeping scepticism about the future impact of climate change has encouraged newspapers and magazines to publish opinions from journalists opposed to resolute action - or indeed any action at all - ...

Guest blog: Chris Goodall took a complaint to IPSO over fifteen factual errors in a Daily Mail article on wind power. Almost a year later, the regulator ordered a single sentence to be amended.

I’ve found a new use for AI. It can list all the inaccuracies in Daily Mail articles quickly and comprehensively. To test it out, I gave Claude a copy of an Andrew Neil article on onshore wind from la...

As of June 2026, Great Britain has about 10 gigawatts of grid battery capacity, capable of delivering about 18 gigawatt hours of power. [1] In addition, four pumped hydro sites offer storage around 2...

Enhanced rock weathering increased tree growth and aboveground carbon stocks while microbiome enrichment showed variable and transient effects, according to a replicated four-year field experiment in ...

Several European news outlets carried an article last week by a Belgian journalist about the poor performance of the world’s most important carbon capture site at Brevik in Norway, where Heidelberg Ma...

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The UK government’s intentions for plug-in solar PV: https://lnkd.in/eZ57pK2G It is a great idea but, having been in the thick of it for quite a few years, I still have many questions from a UK pe...

UK electricity bill split between wholesale generation, network charges, subsidies and policy costs. Includes historical data on BSUoS, DUoS, TNUoS, CfDs, FiTs, Renewables Obligation and more.

An analysis of ten news stories from the past week on the energy transition. Click to read Carbon Commentary newsletter, by Chris Goodall, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

The first winter storm of 2025 has just passed over the UK, providing huge amounts of wind-generated electricity. This wasn’t the first time in recent weeks. From late July to late August 2025 we saw ...

We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs. I looked at two sources of data and plotted one against the other to test whether there’s any trut...

The journalist Andrew Neil published an article on 27th August about offshore wind in the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper. The article contains a large number of factual inaccuracies. I have commented on t...

A gripping chronicle of the west’s interest in emerging markets; a reminder of the importance of human capital; a degrowth polemic; and a debunking of Trump’s economic agenda

If the government achieves its targets for renewable electricity capacity for 2030, will it meet its objective for virtually decarbonising the GB grid by that date? Several analysts have given optimis...

Working with UNDO, new research shows spreading finely crushed silicate rock on agricultural land enhances yields as well as sequestering carbon dioxide.

Abstract This article takes data surrounding last week’s announcement of the first SMR farm in Ontario, Canada to assess whether this new approach to nuclear shows any signs of reducing costs below ...