Reposted by Phil CopeKate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them 1343392
Reposted by Phil CopeKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...climateuncensored.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 1517190
Reposted by Phil CopeEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/20262026 really was a fundamentally different summer to 1976 in terms of temperature across the UK and Europe Data: ERA5 3401178
Reposted by Phil CopeCat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange 221141953806
Reposted by Phil CopeProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A direct line can be drawn from the fossil fuel corporation CEOs in their smart suits and swanky offices, to the brutal deaths of the terrified people you can see in these films Himalayan glaciers are collapsing, and meltwater lakes breaching, due to global heating www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...bbc.co.ukHundreds missing, including 291 foreign tourists, after deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet borderIn Tibet, CCTV captured a wall of mud and water hitting a border crossing. The missing in Nepal include more than 100 from India and 12 from the UK. 16434232
Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Pleased to have two pieces in this exhibition at @fronteer.bsky.social 022
Reposted by Phil CopeFronteer @fronteer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026On Saturday we are opening our doors to 'Small Works', a lively and eclectic mix of small scale beauties from artists across the UK, working across a variety of artistic styles and disciplines. Here are all the artists involved 👀 011
Reposted by Phil Copestockfttp.bsky.social @stockfttp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Felt v much the same. Emergency alerts are that; this looks too close to PR by a gov under pressure thats been largely AWOL through 5 heatwaves & many wildfires. Alerts as temps are widely due to fall 10-15 degrees & many will see some (if wholly insufficient) rain rather ironicbbc.co.ukUK weather: Significant drop in temperatures this weekend as heatwave endsTemperatures will tumble this weekend with the weather feeling noticeably cooler as the fifth widespread heatwave of the year comes to an end. 082
Reposted by Phil Cope👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026The alert system is for when immediate action is needed in response to a very specific threat. It’s not a watch, it’s a warning. It is for when the wildfire is two miles from your house and not controlled and you need to RUN. It is not for the message the govt should have been running all summer. 119220
Reposted by Phil CopeKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Long form interview on @novaramedia.com - covering a wide range of climate issues: from the science to the politics, the climate leadership prospects of the new PM and the dangerous soft-pedalling by many climate academics/experts & much of the mainstream media. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFo...m.youtube.comEx-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin AndersonYouTube video by Novara Media 411747
Reposted by Phil Copepetercracknell.bsky.social @petercracknell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If you're a #British citizen, or a #UK resident, consider signing & sharing this UK Parliament petition, created by Chris Packham, which calls for the UK Government to hold a UK-wide briefing on climate & nature risks. #climate & #nature petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risksThe UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ... 02120
Reposted by Phil CopeDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.theguardian.com‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report saysAnnual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record 14507250
Reposted by Phil CopeEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 05/07/2026Our heatwaves will get hotter and hotter and hotter until we get to global net zero greenhouse gas emissions and so stabilise the climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 514459
Reposted by Phil Copestranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 02/07/2026David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally? 32662338
Reposted by Phil CopePhil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Some thoughts: Many of the mooted big solar farm projects are located in places close to existing grid connections from old coal fired power plants. www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/on-g...lincsonline.co.ukOn grid! The reason why Lincolnshire is attracting so many solar projectsLincolnshire is becoming a hotspot for solar farms. 293
Reposted by Phil CopeDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both." 9340178
Reposted by Phil CopePhil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Is this current trajectory of having solar panels installed on all 🇬🇧schools in about 100 years time an example of what Tony Blair describes as “Net Zero zealotry”? 001
Reposted by Phil CopeEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 23/06/2026Happy birthday to the heatwave of 1976 which began today 50 years ago, peaking at 35.9°C. If a comparable heatwave happened in the current climate it would be 3-4°C hotter, peaking at 38-39°C. And the actual forecast is for temperatures of 38-39°C in the next few days with a red heatwave warning. 17378175
Reposted by Phil CopeOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years. 1552045640
Reposted by Phil CopeMarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 14/06/20261/3 Fishing gear kills more marine life than any other form of ocean plastic. Lost nets alone threaten 66% of marine species, every sea turtle species, 50% of seabirds, whales, sharks, dolphins. The fishing industry’s deadliest hidden legacy. 🌊 692143939
Reposted by Phil CopePellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This hit me so hard this week. 261568563
Reposted by Phil CopeRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...forbes.comAI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured ItA top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors. 14751405
Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The electricity grid in Great Britain is currently producing more than 100% of our demand from low carbon sources. Sadly we’re not quite running the grid entirely without fossil fuels, I think this due to regional shortfalls, and the need to keep the grid frequency stable at 50Hz 110
Reposted by Phil CopeFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Left: Kemi Badenoch says if we drill today that money could be used to subsidise energy bills Right: Kemi Badenoch says no one is suggesting that if we drill today the money would subsidise energy bills 63629244
Reposted by Phil CopeRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026He makes a persuasive case. 863183595625
Reposted by Phil CopeKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 24/03/20261of2: Some acceleration is captured in the shrinking budgets; ie. 1.5°C nothing meaningful left & for 2°C ~12ys of current emissions &🤞on some feedbacks. So Paris 2°C still valid, but requires ~8% per year cuts in global CO2, ie. ‘emergency’ level reductions for which there’s no political appetite … 1125
Reposted by Phil CopeCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Monday - Send more troops Tuesday - Say we’re ending war Wednesday - Send more troops Thursday - Say ending war Friday - Send more troops Saturday - Golf Sunday - Golf 376151574669
Reposted by Phil CopeAntonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Iran War Shows That Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels Is ‘Delusional,’ UN Climate Chief Says. The Iran war’s disruption to the global energy market should be a wake-up call for countries that continue to rely on fossil fuels. @keertigopal.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1603202...insideclimatenews.orgIran War Shows That Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels Is ‘Delusional,’ UN Climate Chief Says - Inside Climate NewsPrice spikes from the war highlight the necessity of the renewable energy transition for stability and national security, the U.N. official says. 24121
Reposted by Phil CopeMemnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026It’s almost as if insulting your allies, imposing tariffs on them, threatening to annex their territories, was a really stupid idea. 09321
Reposted by Phil CopeDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 2447591409
Reposted by Phil CopeAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The “special relationship” always been imbalanced.Trump’s merely ripped the tactful veneer off it. IMO, Starmer was right not to join the Iran offensive; but also right to adapt to changing circs by committing defensive resources now. We didn’t want this war, but must now try to limit its impacts. 1122345
Reposted by Phil CopeThe News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 03/03/2026“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”. Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US... But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage? 59664176
Reposted by Phil CopeCaroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’ It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out. 11342121
Reposted by Phil CopeLeo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 14/02/2026China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony 251250515
Reposted by Phil CopeRichard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Estimates of the economic costs of Brexit continue to grow. Now showing UK economy between 6 and 8 percent smaller than it would have been. That in turn means £60bn lost tax revenue every year. Think what a difference that would have made to tax & spend decisions … 05430
Reposted by Phil CopeDr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/01/2026From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector. Still looking. 9590186
Reposted by Phil CopeZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026A real shame if this photo went viral again today. 8226511411
Reposted by Phil CopeRichard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Trump (and right wingers in Britain & EU) often claim that the USA economy outperforms “sclerotic” Europe. A more comprehensive comparison gives a different perspective about the quality of life in each: 919093
Reposted by Phil CopeRachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Cannot stop thinking about the people I met in Calais. They deserve so much better. @greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social 1124078
Phil Cope @phil-cope.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Framing the woods no. 1. This is the first in a series of framing devices make for a local private woodland using material from that wood. It is designed as a trail for the Forest School groups that use the site. 141
Reposted by Phil CopeYorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 20/11/2025Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks By Nafeez Ahmedyorkshirebylines.co.ukDrowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 yearsEven as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks 511358
Reposted by Phil CopeFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool" "This is sociopathic behaviour" "He is toxic, misogynistic, racist" "I'm not a fan of Trump" Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear" 501349368