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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's the energy bill up by 30% Thanks Trump, Putin etc etc.

Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well worth a read. The toll of Chinese exports, slow transition to EVs etc. on Euro manufacturing plus the counter effect of needing to retain key industrial skills, supply chain sovereignty etc to protect national security.

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Europe's car makers are in crisis. Will the threat of war rescue them?

Auto executives across Europe hope rearmament can help them flex their industrial muscles once more.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The latest UK Hydrological Summary reports an exceptionally hot, dry August, with rainfall at 81% of average. River flows and reservoir stocks remained low, while groundwater declined more slowly and soil moisture showed some recovery. nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/…

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is excellent. Worth 12 mins of anyone's time.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've just come across @manchestermill.bsky.social. The model sounds great "The Mill is for people who want local news without endless pop-up ads or misleading “clickbait” headlines. We produce local journalism that is both informative & enjoyable to read" An antidote to the decline of local paper

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes we forget just how much industry is the beating heart of the community and vice versa.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You really get the scale & breadth of the grid expansion As I read, I'm reminded how little emphasis politicians put on national security when discussing grid upgrades. We hear of energy security but less so national security In such a polarised world, this would help legitimise the grid overhaul

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 14/09/2026

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has been telling Brits to chill out and enjoy climate-driven heat waves. Most voters, including Reform’s own supporters, aren't buying it.

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POLITICO Poll: Reform’s upbeat take on extreme heat falls flat with voters

The populist party wants voters to embrace the upside of baking hot summers. Even Reform supporters are unpersuaded.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Does extreme heat & the climate adaptation agenda begin to drive a new insulation drive (and maybe reversible heat pumps too) in homes that need both heating and cooling? Lord knows climate mitigation wasn't enough on its own to push this at scale, nationwide; in the UK at least.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's amazing how AI is creeping in to every day teaching/research/policy/consultancy tasks at uni now. If we lean on these tools hard enough, we'll forget how to do many of things that make a university education truly worthwhile like synthesizing, interpreting, critical thinking etc.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dear Mr Tice, How do we adapt to [checks notes] climate change induced subsidence? Many thanks The South of England www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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UK subsidence claims surge after hottest summer on record

Insurers in England and Wales tell of busy August with one reporting near-140% jump in claims

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Waiting for the point in time where an investigative video, like Channel 4's expose of Reform yesterday, is just palmed off a AI generated fake news. I'd be amazed if they haven't done this already tbh. Such a easy doubt to plant in the mind of the public. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...

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Going undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plot

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

BREAKING: Summer 2026 hottest ever for UK 5 warmest UK summers on record are:   2026: 16.5°C 2025: 16.1°C  2018: 15.7°C  2006: 15.7°C  2003: 15.7°C 1976 summer relegated to 7th on list as climate change makes previously unthinkably hot summers the norm www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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Summer 2026 provisionally hottest on record for the UK

The season’s mean temperature was made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The devastation takes your breath away. It's tragic. And what's so sad, is that this kind of event will only become more common with climate change. The threats of #climatechange are no longer theoretical or abstract, they're plastered across the news and are costing lives week-in-week-out.

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Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities @uos-sisc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

SISC's pod Local Zero has dropped another episode 🎤How is community-centred climate adaptation being nurtured and delivered?🎤 We explore what it takes to drive adaptation action to ensure climate resilient communities with @verture.bsky.social CEO Jo Kerr www.localzeropod.com/episodes/117

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117: How is community-centred climate adaptation being nurtured and delivered? — Local Zero

Climate change adaptation is often discussed in terms of plans, policies and infrastructure, but what does it actually take to build climate-resilient communities? In this episode, Jen Roberts and Ma...

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Quite excited about what an Environment Minister like @angelaeagle1.bsky.social, who clearly 'gets it', could potentially achieve during their tenure. Society and our economy both depend upon a healthy, and fully functioning environment. Reform and the Convervatives would do well to remember that.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wow. This is excellent news on a number of fronts, not just carbon (energy access, air quality). China's supply of this fast growing market, is another major missed opportunity for countries like the US, who seem unable to fathom the scale of the export potential here.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

OUT TODAY: The take-off in African solar that official statistics can’t yet see 2026 is on track for +45% in solar installations, setting new records in 36 countries. New methodology reveals 3/4 of growth is distributed solar, much of which is missing from official data..🧵

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Fires still burn in charred landscape as focus turns to wildfire prevention.” A very thoughtful piece that presents solutions that both mitigate climate change and help us adapt to it, like peatland restoration and re-wetting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fires still burn in charred landscape as focus turns to wildfire prevention

The RSPB is considering measures it can take to improve resilience in the wake of a five-week long fire in the Cairngorms.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You can deny climate change all you like but reality and indeed science will have the final word. I'd be fascinated to learn of research that has spoken to climate deniers who have faced such horrible impacts as this 👇 & to hear if/how this has altered their perspective on climate change.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interesting to see France here as most concerned about the health impacts of climate change driven heat waves but also least willing to adopt air con. Something of an outlier in the survey, as reported by the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in six European nations, survey finds

Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Watching and waiting for the right and hard-right to claim the term 'climate adaptation' and to weaponise this against 'climate mitigation', as a reason to put less effort into it. Every sensible soul knows we need both, and one without the other constitutes a very weak climate strategy indeed.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It may be a function of when (and to a lesser extent how) excess deaths from heat are recorded in the UK but why is this not front page news? Why are we not hearing more about people losing loved ones to climate change, in the UK? There seems a log jam on this kind of news & it needs to be heard.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

First Dagenham, now Stourbridge. I sincerely hope everyone was evacuated safely. These images are far from normal. Our climate is already changed. How many more of these life-threatening incidents must we endure before we take the action climate change deserves? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

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Firefighters tackle blazes in West Midlands for second day as crews say 'progress being made'

In Stourbridge, the fire service says it has crews "tactically working" on several sites.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On the day England records its warmest ever August day, we vote in (again) the man most responsible for derailing the UK's political consensus on tackling climate change As reservoirs run dry, crops fail & people die from the heat, the ballot box tells a very different story Something is wrong

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Unprecedented. This is not a drill.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

From @stuartthompson.bsky.social that elegantly captures the bind we find ourselves in, when adapting for climate change. "July 2026 in Britain was exceptionally dry, as it was in 2022, but rainfall was 70% above average in July 2023. Which do we plan for?" theconversation.com/why-has-brit...

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Why has Britain’s grass turned yellow? A plant scientist explains what happens next

As summers get hotter and drier, it’s time to rethink what parks and gardens should look like.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just 20 of 6,600 staff at England's environment department working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires - Nation ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of #climatecrisis including water shortages and heatwaves @guyshrubsole.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The parallels with 1936 are frightening. "Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air: a walking man lifted a thin layer as high as his waist, and a wagon lifted the dust as high as the fence tops, and an automobile boiled a cloud behind it" (Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

July was one of the hottest months in the U.S. on record — even hotter than July during the 1936 Dust Bowl. Meanwhile, Trump is gutting renewable energy projects and fast-tracking dirty fossil fuel production that causes climate change. He’s selling out the future of our planet.

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It's Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been

The contiguous US averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit in July, even hotter than the July 1936 Dust Bowl.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Another climate change dividend: “Verdant relies on cross-European estimates by the insurer Allianz, that suggest for every degree above 30C that temperatures rise, workers’ output an hour declines by 3%.”

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UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds

Verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I was on BBC Business Today yesterday on what's happened and what's coming for UK food. 34 million litres less milk this June. Around 60 million pints. Wheat is down 13%. Wholesale potato prices +40%, lettuce +90% We covered a Great Food Transformation: diet, waste, production, communities.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Back from a couple of weeks in Italy during what has been an unprecedented and extremely long heatwave. Everyday we were there the temperature was somewhere between 34-39oC.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If the climate deniers win, we bypass climate mitigation & go directly to adaptation Why? Because we have no other option in the face of climate breakdown like 👇 If you also accept that adaptation costs MUCH more vs mitigation, then logically there's no other option than investing in net-zero NOW

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's finally raining in Glasgow, thank goodness. It's not often I say that. #climatechange

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... It will be interesting to see how the following shakes out: 1. Will the repowering of Whitelee include a new Community Benefit Fund? 2. What will the £ per MW pa value be? 3. How will this compare (in real terms) to when it was first commissioned in 2009.

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Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow to be rebuilt with fewer, larger turbines

Whitelee Windfarm has been producing electricity for about 20 years on a stretch of moorland near Eaglesham but is reaching the end of its life.

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'd like to see other governments make the connection between climate change and its tangible impacts so clear and obvious. Europe is on fire, not just figuratively but literally. It's high time we call it out and take action.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 21/07/2026

Western Europe had its hottest June on record.🔥 Intense heatwaves broke temperature records, with peaks up to 9°C above average in France and Germany, according to Copernicus data. Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures. Climate change is here and we are feeling its effects

Map of Europe showing average surface air temperature anomalies for 18–30 June 2026 compared with the 1991–2020 average. Large areas of Western and Central Europe, particularly France, Germany, Benelux, northern Italy and surrounding regions, are shaded dark red, indicating temperatures up to 9°C above average. Lighter orange and yellow shades show smaller positive anomalies across much of the rest of Europe. A colour scale at the bottom ranges from -9°C (dark blue) to +9°C (dark red). The map includes Copernicus Climate Change Service and European Union logos.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Woken at 4am by wildfire smoke filling the house. Southeast Wales, one of the UK's wettest regions, is shrouded in smoke today. You can feel it in your lungs. The climate crisis is now.

A map of the UK from firemap.live shows out-of-control fires burning in Northwest and Southeast Wales.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This graphic showing the extraordinary increase in the UK average temperature over the last 65 years tells its own story

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Eyes on whether Burnham sticks to Clean Power 2030. The more I think on the next few years leading up to the next election, the more I consider Labour's push on electrification to be critical. If done right, it will already be in train & won't even be up for debate, regardless of who is in power

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