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Kevin Anderson

@kevinclimate.bsky.social
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Professor of Energy & Climate Change at Universities of Manchester & Uppsala. Translating climate science, through carbon budgets, into policy goals & mitigation options. Co-founder climateuncensored.com

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thanks for the thread.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not sure - but I’d be surprised if New Scientist don’t record it, but whether it’ll be behind a paywall I don’t know? Sorry not to be more helpful.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Net zero 2050 is a political anchor increasingly distant from the science aligned with our UNFCCC, Paris &ICJ commitments. Simple Q. As we face a cumulative emission challenge & global emissions are still rising, how can we still have the same end date. Each year we fail so the date moves closer.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tomorrow at New Scientist Live: an emergency briefing on nature and climate with @kevinclimate.bsky.social, Nathalie Seddon (@naturebasedsols.bsky.social), and @rowhoop.bsky.social. I'll talk about how unprepared we are for food system risks. Sunday 14:40, Future Stage, ExCeL #NewScientistLive
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Speaking tomorrow at New Scientist Live with Profs Behrens & Seddon. The Paris climate challenge is no longer a matter of urgency, but of emergency. Urgency seeks to accelerate change; emergency demands & fundamentally different policy & technology agenda. live.newscientist.com/speakers/kev...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My comment was specifically aimed at those on “high incomes … accompanied by prestige, status and glittering honours”. My experience is that early-career researchers (ECRs), and many others, typically remain more committed to integrity and to careful, considered interpretations of their work.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Perhaps, but I also think we hugely underestimate the allure of prestige and high income. I suspect we all like to think we're immune to such temptations, but in our quieter, more reflective moments, I think we're aware of our own more ephemeral foibles.
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RadReduction (Larry Edwards) @radreduction.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A perceptive, short article (including some statements by @kevinclimate.bsky.social ), on a newly published study by others. www.theguardian.com/environment/... A key point here:
“Yet strikingly often, the evidential basis for these [techno-optimistic] promises falls far short of the standards of scrutiny [these scientists] would demand of research conducted by others. 
“The result is a remarkable inversion of scientific practice: the more uncomfortable the implications of the evidence, the greater the enthusiasm for believing in a future that the evidence does not support.”
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Simon Pirani @simonpirani.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well said - once again - @kevinclimate.bsky.social. Climate science really is constrained by social hierarchies
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks for you ongoing moral clarity! To add to your point, I think we need to stop letting people call the more delusional proposals like planetary scale CDR or solar geoengineering techno-optimism. A more accurate term is techno-salvationism because these claims are more ideology than science.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lots of Linkedin academics are less appreciative of my intervention … only to be expected really.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@kevinclimate.bsky.social on techno-optimism and fellow scientists "who have swallowed the blue pill" and "maintain the comforting fiction that they are deeply concerned about the world their children will inherit while continuing to live lives that contribute disproportionately to the problem."
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Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Guardian also covered the study today: www.theguardian.com/environment/... with comments from @kevinclimate.bsky.social
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Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's much less "they" and much more "we" who have to reduce. We're not all in this together, in terms of responsibility, capacity, wherewithal and even influence.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Both are at play - but I think we hugely underestimate the allure of prestige and high incomes ...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks Barry for reminding of this - I completely forgot that I'd previously penned something explicit on individual and collective action as two sides of the same coin.
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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Worth looking at @kevinclimate.bsky.social's "succinct account of my view on individual and collective action": kevinanderson.info/blog/a-succi... (though a lot has also changed since 2016: inc. UK retreat from open society principles...)
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A succinct account of my view on individual and collective action – kevinanderson.info
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
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CEMUS Uppsala University @cemusuppsala.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’re happy to announce that @kevinclimate.bsky.social Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester, will join us for the ClimateExistence conference 2026! Read more and register here: www.cemus.uu.se/ce-2026-ka/
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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Jane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AUSTRALIA: Keeping fossil fuels in the ground? 👎 Climate responsibility? 👎 Human rights? 👎 Truth telling: @kevinclimate.bsky.social + @dancalverley.bsky.social 💚 Landmark case: earthjustice.org/hardtruthscase #hardtruthscase
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Hard Truths: The Australian Coal and Gas Exports Case
We are 10 Australians who argue the Australian Government is failing to meet its obligations under international human rights law.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dr @dancalverley.bsky.social & I provided an expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians challenging their Govt's support for Australia's coal & gas exports & their associated climate& human rights impacts. The report & associated links are here: climateuncensored.com/australias-f...
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Australia’s Fossil Fuel Exports: Climate Responsibility and Human Rights - Climate Uncensored
My colleague Dr Dan Calverley and I recently provided a detailed expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians before the UN Human Rights
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For those of you on LinkedIn, I’ve just opened an account and shared my first post! It’s about Heathrow expansion, rising emissions and the uncomfortable realities of reconciling the two. www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-and...
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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well worth reading. It's clear Burnham should not be granting and new extraction licences, and why.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is the sophisticated answer to the ‘British oil and gas makes sense’ question that I’ve been looking for.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Net zero 2050 is a political anchor increasingly distant from the science aligned with our UNFCCC, Paris &ICJ commitments. Simple Q. As we face a cumulative emission challenge & global emissions are still rising, how can we still have the same end date. Each year we fail so the date moves closer.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes - it’s on climate uncensored now: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
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Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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Mark Norman @mark60.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stinging rebuke for the Climate Change Committee from @kevinclimate.bsky.social: ‘A credible climate advisory body must be willing to say when a politically attractive policy is incompatible with the UK’s climate commitments.’
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For those of you on LinkedIn, I’ve just opened an account and shared my first post! It’s about Heathrow expansion, rising emissions and the uncomfortable realities of reconciling the two. www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-and...
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sept 16, 1969 – Nobel-prize winning Australian scientist warns about CO2 build-up "Sir Macfarlane said the other requirements included a stabilisation of the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to avoid the possibility of disastrous climatic change." allouryesterdays.info/2022/09/15/s...
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September 16, 1969 - Nobel-prize winning Australian scientist warns about carbon dioxide build-up. Yes, 1969 - All Our Yesterdays
On this day September 16 1969, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, an extremely eminent Australian scientist pointed to carbon dioxide as a serious potential problem. Yes, 1969. Call to keep world at 2,000m MELBOU...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They begin to stabilise ... this could take a while. Chase up "zero emission commitment" (ZEC) for more detail.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
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Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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anlomedad @anlomedad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Had to look up supine. "er lag auf dem Rücken" = he lay on his back. The translation invokes an image of a lap dog exposing its throat in submission to a direwolf. While not intended, it perfectly matches how your CCC behaves. Our German one too, by the way. Lap dogs, supine before a dire BAU wolf.
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Expertenrat für Klimafragen | Ratsmitglieder
Die Ratsmitglieder des Expertenrats für Klimafragen sind Experten in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen
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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Every aviation scenario the UK Government has published overshoots the carbon budget Parliament has legislated, before a third runway at Heathrow is even taken into account.” (And even that budget is wildly out of line with 1.5 or 2C)
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@loispennington.bsky.social @aliceclimate.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
climateuncensored.com
Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
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anlomedad @anlomedad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your CCC goes with it and the good laugh comes from aviation industry no doubt. But. There are actual experts who a) know the stakes and b) therefor strongly disagree: bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This would be less of an issue if the academic & expert community were, collectively, not so supine. We & our funders (UKRI), have swallowed the blue pill issued by the CCC; what we hear now, with important exceptions, is little more than murmurings, acquiescence &, most dangerously of all, silence.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This would be less of an issue if the academic & expert community were, collectively, not so supine. We & our funders (UKRI), have swallowed the blue pill issued by the CCC; what we hear now, with important exceptions, is little more than murmurings, acquiescence &, most dangerously of all, silence.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
climateuncensored.com
Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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Andrew Simms @andrewsimms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s not normal in a health & climate crisis to actively promote highly polluting products that make things worse. Congrats to Bristol - the latest city to end ads for things like fossil fuels, flights and SUVs. @badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bristol becomes first city to ban fast fashion adverts
New rules prohibits the promotion of flights, cars and travel agents on council-owned billboards.
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Esben Dalsgaard @esbendalsgaard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I lyset af den danske diskussion om fornyelse af licenser i Nordsøen til den fossile industri er det værd at læse denne tråd fra David Ho (professor fra Hawaii), om hans erfaringer med at samarbejde med olieindustrien #dkpol #dkklima
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Frederik Hoedeman @fredhoedeman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Også relevant fra den britiske diskussion om det samme her fra @kevinclimate.bsky.social
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Holger Binding @hermgamma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ireland is an extremely windy place and could help heat Europe in the winter. An Irish long dated LNG commitment is about as intuitive as Qatar importing whale oil for its energy needs. LNG is structurally expensive, always geopolitically at risk and it does point the economy in the wrong direction
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Knut Einar Rosendahl @rosendahlke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This question and good reply from @kevinclimate.bsky.social is also highly relevant wrt Norwegian oil and gas extraction ⬇️
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Tim Green @otherprofgreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think this full answer in the article is excellent and will help me be clearly when I try to tackle people who argue for new UK gas.
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