Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Not 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. 020
Reposted by Kevin AndersonKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Net 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. 12213
Reposted by Kevin AndersonPaul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Tomorrow 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 379
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Speaking 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...live.newscientist.comKevin Anderson 13621
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My 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. 0161
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Perhaps, 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. 1162
Reposted by Kevin AndersonRadReduction (Larry Edwards) @radreduction.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A 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: 043
Reposted by Kevin AndersonSimon Pirani @simonpirani.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well said - once again - @kevinclimate.bsky.social. Climate science really is constrained by social hierarchies 0114
Reposted by Kevin AndersonPatrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thanks 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. 2254
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lots of Linkedin academics are less appreciative of my intervention … only to be expected really. 1121
Reposted by Kevin AndersonAnnie 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."theguardian.comScientists 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 22115
Reposted by Kevin AndersonFabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Guardian also covered the study today: www.theguardian.com/environment/... with comments from @kevinclimate.bsky.socialtheguardian.comScientists 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 043
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It'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. 0121
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Both are at play - but I think we hugely underestimate the allure of prestige and high incomes ... 110
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thanks 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. 2196
Reposted by Kevin AndersonBarry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Worth 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...)kevinanderson.infoA succinct account of my view on individual and collective action – kevinanderson.info 052
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Quoted 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/... 25027
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Quoted 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/...theguardian.comScientists 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 1016866
Reposted by Kevin AndersonCEMUS Uppsala University @cemusuppsala.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We’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/ 0125
Reposted by Kevin AndersonColin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026bsky.app/profile/kevi... 141
Reposted by Kevin AndersonJane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026AUSTRALIA: Keeping fossil fuels in the ground? 👎 Climate responsibility? 👎 Human rights? 👎 Truth telling: @kevinclimate.bsky.social + @dancalverley.bsky.social 💚 Landmark case: earthjustice.org/hardtruthscase #hardtruthscaseearthjustice.orgHard Truths: The Australian Coal and Gas Exports CaseWe are 10 Australians who argue the Australian Government is failing to meet its obligations under international human rights law. 087
Reposted by Kevin AndersonDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This 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... 23566262
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dr @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...climateuncensored.comAustralia’s Fossil Fuel Exports: Climate Responsibility and Human Rights - Climate UncensoredMy 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 23420
Reposted by Kevin AndersonKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For 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...linkedin.com 42712
Reposted by Kevin AndersonDr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Well worth reading. It's clear Burnham should not be granting and new extraction licences, and why. 093
Reposted by Kevin AndersonGwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is the sophisticated answer to the ‘British oil and gas makes sense’ question that I’ve been looking for. 012
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Net 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. 12213
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yes - it’s on climate uncensored now: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...climateuncensored.comHeathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate UncensoredBelow is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with 020
Reposted by Kevin AndersonMark Norman @mark60.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Stinging 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.’ 0136
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For 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...linkedin.com 42712
Reposted by Kevin AndersonAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sept 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...allouryesterdays.infoSeptember 16, 1969 - Nobel-prize winning Australian scientist warns about carbon dioxide build-up. Yes, 1969 - All Our YesterdaysOn 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... 12617
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026They begin to stabilise ... this could take a while. Chase up "zero emission commitment" (ZEC) for more detail. 141
Reposted by Kevin AndersonKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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.comHeathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate UncensoredBelow is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with 39943
Reposted by Kevin Andersonanlomedad @anlomedad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Had 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.expertenrat-klima.deExpertenrat für Klimafragen | RatsmitgliederDie Ratsmitglieder des Expertenrats für Klimafragen sind Experten in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen 041
Reposted by Kevin AndersonSam 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) 01414
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@loispennington.bsky.social @aliceclimate.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social 1102
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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.comHeathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate UncensoredBelow is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with 39943
Reposted by Kevin AndersonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For 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...carbonbrief.orgCCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon BriefAviation 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). 54849393
Reposted by Kevin Andersonanlomedad @anlomedad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Your 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... 111
Reposted by Kevin AndersonKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This 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. 2217
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This 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. 2217
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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.comHeathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate UncensoredBelow is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with 14329
Reposted by Kevin AndersonAndrew Simms @andrewsimms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’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...bbc.co.ukBristol becomes first city to ban fast fashion advertsNew rules prohibits the promotion of flights, cars and travel agents on council-owned billboards. 412554
Reposted by Kevin AndersonEsben Dalsgaard @esbendalsgaard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I 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 262
Reposted by Kevin AndersonFrederik Hoedeman @fredhoedeman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Også relevant fra den britiske diskussion om det samme her fra @kevinclimate.bsky.socialclimateuncensored.comThere Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate UncensoredI 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 121
Reposted by Kevin AndersonHolger Binding @hermgamma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ireland 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 3154
Reposted by Kevin AndersonKnut Einar Rosendahl @rosendahlke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This question and good reply from @kevinclimate.bsky.social is also highly relevant wrt Norwegian oil and gas extraction ⬇️ 1157
Reposted by Kevin AndersonTim 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. 161