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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How times change (or don’t), arriving at Imperial College to present paper on how oil and gas has poisoned communities and devastated coastal Louisiana locally and then returned as climate change with heat, hurricanes and extreme sea level rise @rgs.org #RGSIGB26

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My review of Noah Walker-Crawford's brilliant book, The Climate Trial, published by @dukepress.bsky.social on the ground-breaking case brought by Saúl Luciano Lliuya supported by @germanwatch.bsky.social has come out with @europeanreview.bsky.social here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/whos-your-ne...

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Who's your neighbor now? - The European Review of Books

A Peruvian farmer sued German energy company RWE claiming damages for flood risk to his home in the Andes.

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Government’s public consultation on #Jackdaw drilling consent open till 10 August. Email comments to OPRED@Energysecurity.gov.uk. #StopJackdaw

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Rob Carlson @robcarlson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

By @davidfickling.bsky.social "If you combine the value of public investment and public subsidies, about 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that had climbed to 68% and spiked as high as 78% in 2022." Good chart. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A chart from Bloomberg showing that the private sector has been driving the energy transition, not the state.

And "If you combine the value of public investment and public subsidies, about 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that had climbed to 68% and spiked as high as 78% in 2022."

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-07-05/who-s-really-keeping-fossil-fuels-alive-taxpayers

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hey @pippacrerar.bsky.social this isn’t an ad hominem attack but responsible newspapers like @theguardian.com need to explain - show leadership on - why a “relentless focus on the net zero agenda” isn’t a debating point about who the next chancellor might be but necessary to prevent #climatechaos

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sitting on a ferry stalled in the English Channel waiting to join the infernal London heat while finishing @jessemkeenan.com’s excellent book about climigrants going north. Only thing is right now London is hotter than southern Spain where l’ve just come from #ClimateImpacts #Weird

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hey @theguardian.com where’s your climate “leadership” gone? You can’t just trot out this “reassure … the fossil fuel industry” line without comment, can you?

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The King of the North travels south to claim his throne, imagined with the phrase “… has been getting on his train”

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Burning Mao | Fernanda Eberstadt | Granta granta.com/burning-mao/, best American essay of 2026, awesome revelatory writing, full of verve and swerve

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Burning Mao

‘The summer of 1977, when I was sixteen years old, I started work at Andy Warhol’s Factory.’ Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol.

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Insightful and neat from @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social If you won’t have an argument, you’ll struggle to make one. That’s been missing and is much needed

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

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Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how.

How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.

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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Hey @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, @latimes.com, @sfchronicle.com why is this not front page news? This is a really big deal, with devastating impacts. If you all would report on the science, it would be harder for electeds to dismiss it so recklessly. Please step it up!

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/03/2026

I worry that "Trump can't simply cancel the midterms" -- which is true! -- has somewhat dulled people to the many many smaller things that the Trumpies can do, and are doing, to *distort* the midterms.

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This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms

WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

For #AAG2026 geographers visiting #SanFrancisco who are done with travelling along corridors indoors I can recommend outdoors with #sealions at North Point, setting sun over the #GoldenGateBridge up #TelegraphHill and ditto from the Pacific side at #SutroBaths and #LandsEnd. Fabulous geography city

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social says at #AAG2026 that fossil fuel interests resist climate science showing that everything is connected because it brings with it #responsiblity which challenges their unfettered right to do anything they want

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Terrific points on effect of repeal of the EPA's endangerment finding from @jamilsmith.bsky.social in @us.theguardian.com including the often overlooked argument that climate responsibility is the job of the state. Love this too: "The climate crisis is not a forecast. It is an incident report."

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Delivered a lecture on the #environmentalstate to masters’ students @uclgeography.bsky.social, with the provocation: is the ‘environmental state’ incoherent, useless, possible or needed, as a concept and a practice? Or, as @replacethestate.bsky.social argues, should the state be replaced altogether?

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Great to be in the first lecture of term on #EnvironmentalGeopolitics from @andrew-barry.bsky.social on how the earth and environment affect global politics @uclgeography.bsky.social

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Towards the end of his wonderful book, Here comes the Sun, @billmckibben.bsky.social lists songs about the sun. I’d add The Stranglers’ There’s Always the Sun with its line about politicians and leaders “doing things by half” but as his book shows, it doesn’t matter. There’s always the sun.

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Making it easy to choose #Calibri typeface: At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My first lesson in #thesisintobook project. Don’t work from the thesis because you get stuck wondering, with apologies to The Clash, should it stay or should it go. Instead I’ve found it liberating to write a summary of the book I want to write. Thanks for the support @catherinejampel.bsky.social

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Deeply shocked to learn of the sudden passing of brilliant human rights academic and champion @conorgearty.bsky.social I only bumped into him on Monday striding up Kentish Town Road with his lovely young daughters. As we walked together he exuded his trademark wit, warmth and charm. Such a loss

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🗣️ ISSUE NINE IS OUT! Alongside Patrick Doan’s vignettes, the heart of the ERB: stories, essays, and reviews — in our peculiar design with vivid images and un-killed darlings on 'level 2'. Take a look: europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue...

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Juliet de Little points out that with recognition justice, people are only recognised when they are being recognised by gatekeepers and their knowledge and expertise is not included outside that process @rgsibg.bsky.social conference

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

To achieve energy justice you have to be willing to engage in lengthy governance processes among other tactics argues @vanesilla.bsky.social at @rgsibg.bsky.social conference

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Super useful (free) session from @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on how to edit your own scholarly book with clear steps to take, details available in #MakeYourManuscriptWork published yesterday from @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Getting a lot out of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s excellent Reconsidering Reparations on the train from London to Inverness. But no tea or coffee for 8 hours as the water heater has broken down

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

My thesis to book journey starts with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social at Manuscript Works who provide materials, courses & supportive yet robust advice on how to get going. I have found this incredibly useful. ‘Developmental editing’ involves review & advice on thesis shakedown & reconstruction.

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Post PhD you’ll have between 80,000 - 100,000 words closely and critically read by perhaps only four people (your supervisors and examiners). You want to get your argument out in the world knowing that publishers need a text which will attract more readers than that. Where to start?

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