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Noel Longhurst

@noellonghurst.bsky.social
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Teaching and research on energy, system change, critical climate education and (un)sustainable futures. Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia in the School of Environmental Sciences. Views are mine, not employer.

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
China move to “mass production” of sodium batteries for both transport and large-scale energy storage as alternative to lithium. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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In China, battery makers bet big on sodium in move away from critical minerals
As the rest of the world tries to catch up with China in making lithium-ion batteries, Chinese manufacturers have already moved into a new battleground: sodium-ion, a technology that is set to revolut...
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The BBC needs proper funding (probs universal) and robust independence if it is to thrive, which is essential for our democracy. That’s my opinion, what’s yours? 👇
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Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation
The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 09/03/2026
The decision by @ukri.org to scrap the UK's flying atmospheric laboratory (FAAM) after spending >£40M on an upgrade & with zero consultation, is short sighted. FAAM has saved the UK economy more than it costs through responding to disasters. 400 scientists respond: www.thetimes.com/article/406e...
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Scientists up in arms as flying lab has its wings clipped
Faam, the airborne laboratory deployed after the eruption of an Icelandic volcano shut airspace in 2010, will be grounded after government funding was cut
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 04/03/2026
Please don't make me tap the sign
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
omg
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is the point.
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Feels like an episode of The Thick of It. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Lost species to be released as Labour seeks to stave off Greens’ election threat
Push for good nature news before polls with reintroduction of white-tailed eagles, pine martens and beavers in England
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Giving humans in Wall-E vibes
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Trump's lies vs. the last four weeks of extreme weather reality:
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Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
To have a solid, strong, future-oriented #BBC, we need to guarantee its long-term existence, remove political interference, give it adequate funding, & ensure citizens have a real voice in its *governance* (not in editorial, creative or operational decisions). More here: demos.co.uk/research/our...
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Our BBC: A blueprint for a more independent and future-proofed BBC
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse. A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!” A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
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Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
So it's now news Hinkley Point C will be really expensive? FFS, I & others were trying to tell people this over a decade ago, before contracts were signed But the nuclear-political establishment thought they knew better They didn't. Not for the first time www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Dr Pete Knapp @peteknapp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Fires & Fascism showing at: Norwich, Cinema City Wed 19 Nov, 6pm www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail... @rupertread.bsky.social @helenb92.bsky.social @norwichgreenparty.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @noellonghurst.bsky.social @norwichfoe.bsky.social @timosbornclim.bsky.social
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Green Screen: Fires and Fascism + Director Q&A | Showtimes and Tickets
Green Screen Presents... Fires & Fascism followed by Q&A with Director Dr Pete Knapp    Norwich - Wednesday 19th Nov Brighton - Tuesday 9th Dec   Fires and Fascism shows the cau...
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This looks great!
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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year. #Melissa
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Melissa becomes third Category 5 hurricane of the extraordinary 2025 season
Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.
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Martin Scott @martinscott2010.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Its out! Our new Index on International Media Freedom Support (IMFS) - which ranks 30 countries on how actively they support #mediafreedom beyond their borders through diplomatic, funding and safety initiatives. Key findings here: jdem.org/the-imfs-ind... Full report here: jdem.org/wp-content/u...
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Great piece by Kitty Cresswell Riol on the feminst power of the bicycle. If you are in Norwich then join us tomorrow (Weds 22nd Oct) on the Norwich Glow Ride at 630pm tomorrow outside City Hall.
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
10 days left to apply for this course! Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social! #envhist #energyhistory #envhum
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 14/10/2025
It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It's the 'Scientists Responsibility Summit' today. Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CHINA Almost 40C Up to at 39.3C Jiannang,39.0 Jiangde,38.7 Quzhou,38.6 Chagshan,38.5 Jiangshan and Shangrao,48.4 Yunhe,38.3 Lanzi and Yushan,38.2 Nanfeng etc 83 new records of October highest temperature (36 Maxes+47 Mins) Almost 1000 in East Asia already!
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
As the government panics about bond market gyrations, its always useful to understand how the UK government actually finances itself: by creating new money, just like a bank. New paper with @AskerVoldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Self-Financing State: An Institutional Analysis of Government Expenditure, Revenue Collection and Debt Issuance Operations in the United Kingdom
This article provides the first detailed institutional analysis of the UK government’s expenditure, revenue collection, and debt issuance processes. We show that public expenditure is always financ...
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage Sign & share ⏬️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown. 🧵1/10
From the action. Photo credit Denise Laura Baker
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great 'streamgraph' on the rise, fall and rise of nuclear in the UK.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Absolute must-read here from @amywestervelt.bsky.social “The question is not: who is the Joe Rogan of the left? But rather … who is the Rupert Murdoch of the left?
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Forget the "Joe Rogan of the Left," Where's the Rupert Murdoch?
Something can be repeated over and over, a story told ten different ways, and then one particular frame or graphic or turn of phrase makes it take hold. There are plenty of people who claim to know ex...
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Alex Edwards 🇵🇸 @climatealex.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thrilled to share my first PhD paper, Towards Modelling Post-Growth Climate Futures, out today in Environmental Research Letters. Grateful to my brilliant co-authors and supervisors @femkenijsse.bsky.social, Paul Brockway & Karen Bickerstaff. tinyurl.com/3xatxfkh
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Towards modelling post-growth climate futures: a review of current modelling practices and next steps - IOPscienceSearch
Towards modelling post-growth climate futures: a review of current modelling practices and next steps, Edwards, Alex, Brockway, Paul E, Bickerstaff, Karen, Nijsse, Femke J M M
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"Scientists and scientific institutions must defend academic freedom, and that must include the right for scientists to participate in legitimate peaceful protest" #StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Actions speak louder than words: the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency | Royal Society Open Science
The world's understanding of the climate and ecological crises rests on science. However, scientists' conventional methods of engagement, such as producing ever more data and findings, writing papers ...
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What this makes clear is that the US tariff strategy is not just the lashing out of a capricious Trump. There is serious thinking behind it with the aim of rebuilding US manufacturing in the medium term. Whether it will work is another matter. Hope these are useful (8/8)
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Tett’s piece links to this essay by Stephen Miran who is Trump’s Chair of Economic Advisors: www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG....
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Finally, Gillian Tett wrote recently in the @financialtimes.com about plans to potentially devalue the US dolar to increase US competitiveness (www.ft.com/content/fba8... paywalled). (7/8)
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What a Mar-a-Lago accord could look like
Trump’s team consider financial policy interventions to be crucial in a grand reordering of global finance and trade
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This podcast gives a lot more background on NRx and its relationship to climate denial, amongst other things. theinternationalriskpodcast.com/the-rise-of-... It seems unlikely that Trump is particularly interested in NRx philosophy himself, but a lot of people around him are. (6/8)
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The Rise of the ALT-Right, NRx, and its Relation to Climate Change Denial – The International Risk PodcastToggle MenuPreviousContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinueContinue
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NRx thinking is popular amongst Silicon Valley tech-bros such as Peter Thiel and also influential on JD Vance. Attacks on government departments, universities, DEI and the media make much more sense in the context of a political project driven by NRx ideology (5/8).
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
There is a brief introduction to some of the main people, such as Curtis Yarvin, and ideas here (4/8): www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration
Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who’s pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A strong dislike of bureaucracy is also central to the ideas of Dark Enlightenment or Neo-Reactionary movement (NRx). NRx is an anti-democratic philosophy which wants to replace democracy with an authoritarian / monarchical system. (3/8)
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It does a great job of arguing that Trump’s regime is underpinned by patrimonialism, rather than classic authoritarianism. Patrimonialism rewards loyalty, bypasses formal administrative structures and punishes enemies. It also has a strong suspicion of bureaucracy (2/2)
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
With the arrival of ‘Liberation Day’ I thought it might be useful to share a short thread of resources that have helped me to make sense of the MAGA / Trump / Musk project. The first is this piece in @theatlantic.com by Jonathan Rauch (1/8). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
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Noel Longhurst @noellonghurst.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Really good piece on the complexity of the worklessness problem in Britain
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I'm with Danya outlining why she moved to Ghost, and I launched my newsletter Meditationsinanemergency.com with Ghost, because I knew Substack had a lot of ethical issues--bullshit rhetoric to justify platforming hate speech & racism plus the backing of some of the worst people in Silicon Valley.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
2024 was the hottest year on record 📈 TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉 #EndClimateSilence
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Ontario is issuing a 25% export tax on electricity to the US, WSJ is reporting, in response to President Tariff there in D.C. This impacts millions in Minnesota, Michigan and New York, prices in New England are doubling Definitely making america great again!
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21/02/2025
Hear from experts on the challenges of climate communication in a polarised media landscape. Prof Saffron O'Neill @richardabetts.bsky.social @leohickman.carbonbrief.org 📅 Wed 12 March 2025 ⏰ 14:00-15:00 BST 📍University of Exeter (online attendance option) Register ➡️ buff.ly/3X4fPJe
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
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Rebecca Willis @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you know a woman starting out in sustainability, please do let them know about this event we're putting on - great chance to build confidence and contacts.
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Harry Stevens @harrystevens.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
NEW: Trump is freezing money for clean energy — batteries, EVs, renewables, heat pumps, and more. Nearly 80% of manufacturing investments spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act have flowed to Republican congressional districts. w/ Lisa Friedman & @bradplumer.bsky.social 👇 Gift link in reply
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵
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