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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Japanese officials have coined an entirely new word to signify the dangerous heat of #ClimateChange. It's "kokushobi," which means "cruel heat day." This coinage is but a drop of the coming shower of cultural changes that climate change will force upon us. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...

The term got its first use on Tuesday, when three cities in central Japan recorded 40-degree temperatures, a first for the country this year. Officials urged people to stay indoors, use air-conditioning
and drink water. There were signs that many people had heeded the warnings, as popular sites such as Osaka Castle and Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple
saw smaller crowds than usual on Tuesday. "Numbers are difficult to understand because people perceive them differently. By giving it the name 'cruel heat day,' people will understand it better just by hearing it, and they'll feel that today is dangerous," said Taro Kawasato, the assistant director of the Japan
Meteorological Agency's climate prediction division.

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Dr JJ González Alemán @glezjuanje.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

El verano que se salió de la campana de Gauss. Es una locura lo que estamos viendo este año comparado con años anteriores… Ya no hablamos de un año más cálido de lo normal. El clima se ha movido a un rango que la vieja estadística decía que no debía ocurrir.

El verano que se salió de la campana de Gauss: la estadística del clima antiguo decía que era imposible.

Es una locura lo que estamos viendo este año comparado con años anteriores…

Anomalías de temperatura (en 850 hPa; 1500 m.) estandarizadas en Europa Occidental (15 may – 15 jul), en desviaciones típicas (σ):

🟢 1951–1980: la vieja normalidad, centrada en 0 🟡 1991–2020: ya desplazada a la derecha 🔴 2026: la distribución ENTERA se ha marchado a +3sigmas, con cola más allá de +6sigmas.

Y lo más fuerte: el panel inferior mide cuánto de cada año supera los +4sigmas, un umbral que en un clima estable tiene una probabilidad de 0,0032% (≈1 entre 30.000, solo por el lado cálido).

Durante 70 años: prácticamente 0. En 2026: ~15%. 🤯

Ya no hablamos de un año más cálido de lo normal. El clima se ha movido a un rango que la vieja estadística decía que no debía ocurrir.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 24/07/2026

2026 is on track to be the warmest (~35% chance) or second warmest (~63%) year on record, while 2027 is very likely (92% chance) to be the warmest on record on the back of a growing super El Niño event. For more, check out my new Carbon Brief State of the Climate Q2 update: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Bad energy week for a new UK prime minister who (rightly) wants to cut electricity bills. If the conflict with Iran continues, mooted bill rises for the October-December price cap will be rather higher than hoped. Ofgem's observation window ends in mid August...

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The interconnection issue (created by Brexit) was widely predicted to be a security of supply risk last decade. Still makes no sense to have left the internal electricity market. Hopefully DESNZ will get to fix this later this year.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Nice charts. I continue to be frustrated that coverage of the relatively minor grid issues in Europe during the heatwave rather miss the point that solar and batteries were *helping*.

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

An ex-general Richard Nugee and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social on why the people who assess threats for a living now count ecosystem collapse as one of them. Ep 1 of @carolinelucas.bsky.social new 4-part series on The Rest Is Politics I'm in ep 2 out Fri www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJUK...

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The Secret Security Threat The Government Don’t Want Us To Know. | FIRST LOOK

YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

EU ETS pricing on aviation proposed to be extended to everywhere in blue - deftly this avoids a fight with China and the USA

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Or much of a drop in public support. Fascinating example of elite consensus switching despite popular opinion.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 02/07/2026

Train-commuting home in New York today under the heat dome, let me just say for the record: our infrastructure isn't ready for what's to come. Not even close.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

yes because they are only spending about 30p a day on fresh vegetables this framing is designed to turn people against green levies, obviously and forget the horrific heatwave we’ve been living through

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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

18 hours of battery storage! Germany's 22h storage requirement for its capacitymarket (imposed to make sure CCGTs win) might be delivered by batteries if they don't move fast...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today was the hottest day ever recorded in France, breaking the record set just yesterday.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17/06/2026

The govt handing over another $765 million in taxpayer dollars to companies to NOT build wind turbines, during an energy crisis, is bonkers. The total amount paid to cancel wind is now $2.5 billion dollars. About the same as DOE spends on all clean energy, transportation, & energy efficiency R&D.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is a perfect epitaph for Lee Raymond from @heatmap.news

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The @foodfoundation.bsky.social's latest Broken Plate report launch: the cost of a healthy diet for the poorest 20% of the population would take up 80% of their disposable income, up from 70% last year. That's how bad food price inflation, partly driven by climate disruption, has become.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊

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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change

International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

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Liebreich: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 | BloombergNEF

In September 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine and with oil and gas prices around the world soaring, I wrote a piece entitled After Ukraine - the Great Clean Energy Acceleration, predictin...

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Wondering what percentage of people reading this article are doing so in homes that are currently overheating.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The July energy price cap is a headlines problem, not an economic one. 80% of the nominal £208 price rise is in gas (not elec). Only 8% of domestic gas use happens between July and Sept. Most people won't see a significant rise in bills until the autumn. HT @regeninsight.bsky.social

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 20/05/2026

An estimated 92 per cent of UK homes will be at risk of overheating by 2050, without so-called adaptation measures, up from just over half today www.ft.com/content/ec4d...

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Nearly all UK homes will overheat by 2050 without ‘critical action’

Climate Change Committee calls for urgent measures to prepare for intense heatwaves and drought

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

£260bn/y of climate damage is ~2x the cost of the state pension. That's the high estimate but even at half the price unconstrained climate damage undermines a small state (or a generous state pension.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

AFRICA HISTORIC HEAT The worst ever in history of Sahel Weeks with 46/48C and Nights >35C. Today crazy MINIMUM of 36.0C Nioro du Sahel ,MALI HOTTEST NIGHT EVER Yesterday 47.0C Aioun Al Atrouss MAURITANIA All time high tied On the weekend world history will be rewritten anew.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

More confirmation that China is the big winner from the attacks on Iran.

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Elisabetta Cornago @elisabettaco.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

To make better use of public money and support Europeans out of this fossil fuels shock -- governments should direct the funds to support measures that can DURABLY curb consumption of oil and gas. In this sense, France's approach seems much more forward-looking.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It's not hard to catch fish sustainably - if you don't catch them all, and don't destroy their habitat, they reproduce Yet industrial fisheries seem determined to destroy themselves, and governments keen to let them This shouldn't be left to consumers

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Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges

Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Greece and Italy - both nearly as sunny as Spain - what are you waiting for?

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

For the UK, the averages hide the effect of renewables: compare windy Sat night and sunny Sun where negative prices are predicted to windless Tues when gas is due to set the price.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Wild response to high fuel prices in Ireland. There's a scarcity of oil because the Strait of Hormuz is blocked so Irish hauliers and farmers are blocking an oil refinery in the hope that this somehow brings down prices.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The EU has spent about the same amount (€13bn) on costlier fossil fuel imports since the attacks on Iran as its expects to save from the whole EU simplification programme.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Lowest share of gas on the UK grid I have seen. Nice weather for renewables!

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 20/03/2026

The final report on last April's Spain/Portugal blackout is out. A few takeaways: - Lack of "inertia" due to too few fossil/nuclear generators - the thing anti-renewable pundits immediately blamed without evidence, then reporters breathlessly endlessly repeated - played essentially no role.

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Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Great to see our @ippr.org report on climate backlash in the FT this morning. Anyone saying there is a breakdown in public support for climate policies is wrong. It’s entirely an elite confection, driven by people who don’t want to change. The strategy should be take them on not accommodate

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Let’s imagine an alternative energy crisis, in a world where our energy was mostly from renewables.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is the oh shit moment for Europe

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A good day to be inspired by Pakistan, which responded to the 2022 gas price spike by deploying ~50GW of solar, approx 18GW of which happened in 2024 alone.

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Great to be on Radio 4's Farming Today early this morning to talk about the Land Use Framework: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (from 10:30m in). It's only a first step, but signficant land use change for nature and climate can have big upsides, including for upland communities.

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Farming Today - 19/03/26 Land Use Framework, oat drink production - BBC Sounds

What difference will England's Land Use Framework make?

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Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A good day to be inspired by Pakistan, which responded to the 2022 gas price spike by deploying ~50GW of solar, approx 18GW of which happened in 2024 alone.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

These projections are for 2.4C temp rise, slightly less than what we're currently heading for And assumes response from govt/local authorities in increasing flood defence spend But even so, number of homes at high risk of flooding triples to 800k from now www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Warning as study finds 800,000 more UK homes at high risk of flooding

Stark findings expose impact of global warming on British households

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