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Pancho Lewis

@pancholewis.bsky.social
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Climate politics at Durham Uni. Researching low-carbon and just energy transitions. Everyday experience, affect, and attachment. Also w @energygeography.bsky.social

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 16/09/2026
Debate about the need for North Sea drilling risks distracting us from asking how the UK can build a low-carbon economy now and in the future, according to Dr @pancholewis.bsky.social, @geogdurham.bsky.social, and Dr Ewan Gibbs, of the University Glasgow. Discover more 👉 tinyurl.com/5pza7en2
Wind turbines in a field with the Sun setting on the horizon behind them.
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The loud debate over North Sea drilling is a convenient distraction which obscures the real problems of Britain's ongoing failure to create many good jobs in renewables or deliver energy security. @pancholewis.bsky.social and I writing for @uk.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/north-sea-dr...
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North Sea drilling is a distraction: low-carbon transition hinges on prioritising people and jobs
Industrial renewal coupled with social reforms could support a green transition away from carbon-intensive industries while narrowing social inequalities.
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🚨 Grassroots football league forced to delay the start of its season due to heat wave. While elite teams and Fifa promote fossil fuel interests, the climate crisis is having significant consequences for grassroots football. Here's the state of play. 🧵 1/7
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Scratch of the day: local football season postponed due to ‘rock hard’ pitches
Drought and record heat have forced the Norfolk and Suffolk league to move kick-off to the end of August as the ground is deemed too dangerous to play on
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 27/05/2026
Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thrilled for Tony Blair that he gets to operate in a world where climate change is just not that big a problem and we can therefore keep putting off tackling it until some indeterminate point in the future. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump
In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Labour must remember and reassert what it is we are here to do: address inequality – economic and political... political equality at the ballot box is fundamental to delivering equality everywhere else in society." ✍️ @alexsobel.co.uk in @labourlist.bsky.social labourlist.org/2026/05/labo...
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' After these Local Elections there can be no doubt: Labour’s future lies in electoral reform' - LabourList
First Past the Post is the biggest example of the Status Quo in UK politics.
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rmcl82.bsky.social @rmcl82.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Actual headline: The Daily Telegraph loves Reform - especially the pro-wealthy, anti-migrant, pro-privatisation stuff.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Just heard self-centred hypocrite Nigel Farage on BBC News say that no British politician has been physically attacked more than him. An insult to the memory of Jo Cox and David Amess, both murdered.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 17/04/2026
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Times: "Tony Blair urges Ed Miliband: Don’t be ideological on net zero" "Britain should produce more clean energy while accelerating domestic oil & gas production" - TBI This would be a tad more credible if the Tony Blair Institute's clients weren't despotic petro-states like UAE & Saudi Arabia.
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Pancho Lewis @pancholewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A short piece we wrote about fantasies of oil power in the US! TLDR: Oil saturates US cultural imaginations, and US elites (& others) are deeply attached to oil. But fantasies of oil power exhibit insecurities in a context where the green transition is beginning to happen (albeit far too slowly).
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New in The GJ: 'Petropower in law-enforcement advertising at Super Bowl LIX' by Daniel Finch-Race & @pancholewis.bsky.social This commentary examines a recruitment ad from the 2025 Super Bowl in the context of contemporary geopolitics & low-carbon energy transitions. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute-long piece on behalf o....
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.
NASA's Blue Marble picture of Earth, from 1972
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Pancho Lewis @pancholewis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is proper verging on the climate denialism (rather than delay) end of the spectrum. Laughable that the telegraph considers itself a serious conservative voice.
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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Good www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive
Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.
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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hope springs eternal. It just might not look like you want it to. See my latest Your Brain On Climate with @pancholewis.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵
This is utter garbage. I believe in net zero. We need to get there. But renewables are not competitive. That's why they are subsidised. Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive. It shouldn't be hard to hold these two thoughts at the same time.
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Pancho Lewis @pancholewis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Really enjoyed this - thanks for having me on Dave! If you listen to the episode and others on the podcast and like them, please consider chucking in a couple of quid to support Your Brain on Climate.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
this billionaire is literally a tax migrant in Monaco. 70% of players of the football team he owns, Manchester United, are migrants. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants
PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’
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Pancho Lewis @pancholewis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I just signed a @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition - Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/gu...
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Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election
Labour can win in the Gorton and Denton by-election if we lead with our values and allow a fair, democratic and open selection for our candidate. Sign the petition below calling on the Chair of Lab...
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Mainstream @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🌹📢 Introducing your 2026 Mainstream candidates for the NEC! Thank you to our members for participating in our ballot and voting to endorse a strong team of determined, progressive candidates for Labour's NEC. This year, let's reconnect Labour with its mainstream.
A purple and red graphic with a white Mainstream logo. The graphic reads: 'Your candidates for the NEC. Cat Arnold, CLP section, L1452611. Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, CLP section, L1232610. Kerry Postlewhite, CLP section, L1212372. Elizabeth Dennis, Local Government section, L0145211. This year, vote to reconnect Labour with its mainstream.'
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/01/2026
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Sure London has its problems, but I’m not even rly willing to entertain that conversation since it’s in the face of such an onslaught of racist lies about the place. London is the proof that integrated, diverse communities thrive living side by side. They HATE that. #r4today
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🌹 The Deputy Leadership candidates on electoral reform We've contacted both of the two remaining candidates - @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social & @lucympowell.bsky.social - asking them to confirm or update their positions In the meantime, here's what we know so far... 🧵 1/3
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The candidates on PR: what we know so far — Labour For A New Democracy
Deputy Leadership candidates on electoral reform: what we know so far
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Much more of this kind of message, please!
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 11/09/2025
Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time #Climate
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Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time
Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is a strange way to headline a story showing only 17% of people agree with Nigel Farage’s scientifically illiterate belief that climate change is nothing to worry about. Almost as if The Times has an agenda. www.thetimes.com/article/d92d...
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Farage nearly as trusted as Labour on climate change, poll shows
Times research finds that the Reform UK leader seen as having the right policies on global warming by 22 per cent of voters, barely less than Starmer and Miliband
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🚨 This is a crisis for Labour, but the real crisis is the one engulfing our politics The Deputy Leadership Election is a chance to push for action on the voting system that is destroying trust in politics & threatens to hand a majority to the far right Find out more 👇
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Get ready to elect a pro-PR Deputy Leader — Labour For A New Democracy
We need to use this Deputy Leadership Election to push for action on the voting system
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper. 1/
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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Pancho Lewis @pancholewis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Excited my paper on 'fluid hope' has been published 🙂 Tldr: There are different forms of hope in a climate emergency -- including urgent, slow, and radical hope. They often support one another, rather than being at odds. @lydiamessling.bsky.social @climatecitizens.bsky.social
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Lydia Messling @lydiamessling.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Look! Hope! The public *actually want and support* climate policies - contrary to whatever apathy may be rumoured. Stellar analysis of the outputs from citizen assemblies and juries - literally the policies the public have designed themselves and would green light tomorrow.
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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"What we are calling for is a modest, first step towards addressing what everyone can see is an indefensibly broken voting system. We believe the government needs to set up a National Commission for Electoral Reform" ✍️ @alexsobel.co.uk & @lizzicollinge.bsky.social
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Why Westminster’s biggest parliamentary group is calling for a commission on electoral reform
Last week’s elections were a wake-up call for more reasons than one.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/04/2025
100 years of average January-March temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... This data offers a window of our changing climate. Data available from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 at www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
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Pancho Lewis @pancholewis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We're excited to announce this prize -- please do consider applying, or nominating someone (!)
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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
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Activisim Award | EnGRG
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My take on Dublin Airport, the push to lift the passenger cap, and why adding solar panels doesn’t cancel out the environmental harm of aviation. It’s not sustainability. It’s greenwashing!
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Passenger cap lift: Solar panels at Dublin Airport will not compensate for more people flying
Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum says Dublin Airport’s greening of its site while pushing for a lift of the passenger cap will not wash environmentally.
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Pancho Lewis @pancholewis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Very excited that the Activism Award is now live. Please share widely -- all about finding and celebrating ways of bridging critical research with political practice. If you know anyone who could apply please ask them to, or you could nominate them too.
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Dr Llinos Brown @llinosbrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Looking for something to do at lunchtime? Have a look at the first 'In a spotlight' video with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from the @energygeography.bsky.social . It's an excellent listen - 18 mins long #IWD2025 #IWD #AccelerateAction #Energygeography #EDRC
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Sun here literally using warnings of stranded fossil fuel asset risks to imply net zero is unaffordable and we should stop trying to decarbonise. And, no, it does not acknowledge the costs and risks of failing to decarbonise. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3393605...
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Dash to Net Zero risks CRASHING UK economy, leaked govt document admits
THE rush to Net Zero risks wiping ten per cent off economic growth by the end the decade and triggering a financial crash, the Government has privately admitted. The UK’s national debt would rocket…
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Climate Citizens @climatecitizens.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📣NEW RESEARCH SUMMARY “What the public think about advertising high-carbon products and services: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK.” climatecitizens.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Astonishing! And yet ... global electricity generation from fossil fuels continues to increase every single year. It's amazing how a story of ongoing global failure to even *begin* the "energy transition" gets twisted into a narrative of "astonishing" success.
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 20/02/2025
Is Trump the end of the green transition or the start of America’s decline? A timely and provocative essay from @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/feb/20/...
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Trump's quixotic fossil fuel agenda
Is Trump the end of the green transition or the start of America’s decline?
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
In light of Kemi Badenoch’s speech, here’s a quick reminder that climate change is not ‘woke’. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/43...
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Climate change isn't 'woke'
Donald Trump's victory has triggered fresh calls for a rolling back of climate action, but such arguments are based on lazy and dangerously flawed assumptions - in an end of year essay BusinessGreen e...
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