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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Got notified yesterday that my PhD on right-leaning attitudes to rural climate policy in England has been awarded. Actual thesis is here. doi.org/10.17635/lan.... But the kids version is way more interesting! - linkedin has the PDF (can't attach here) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #climate

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I just got notification from Lancaster University that my PhD has been officially awarded and realised I didn't do the 'so thrilled and pleased etc' post when I did my viva a few months ago. Anyway, ...

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

After extensive research, I can confirm that if you have 2 Velux windows but cannot afford to remortgage your house for bespoke Velux screens, you can spend £10 each on 3 insulated car windscreen covers, sew them together, attach some velcro straps, and MASSIVELY reduce how hot your attic rooms are.

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This is a glorified panel discussion, not a #ClimateAssembly! #CitizensAssemblies are widely understood to be in-depth processes, descriptively representative of the citizenry. When we co-opt these words for 'in-group' chats, they lose their impact, and with it, people's trust. (1)

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Today marks one year since Labour won a landslide majority on just 34% of the vote. No wonder trust in politics is so low when we keep getting governments that most people didn't choose. There is an alternative: a proportional system where Parliament reflects how people voted. #PRnow

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Really useful new report from @nestauk.bsky.social on the impacts of rebalancing the costs of Great British Energy Scheme and supplier ECO targets by moving the levies off electricity and onto gas; media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Ho... TLDR: Only well-off households using gas pay more, by £20-£76pa

Figure 1 of Nesta report on rebalancing levies on UK gas bills. Shows that households using gas heating who are NOT eligible for bill support could pay between £20 and £76 per year more on energy bills as a result of rebalancing. Households using non-gas heating will be £215 to £304 a year better off, depending on whether they are also eligible for bill support. Households heated by gas, but where the householder is eligible for bill support, will also be better off, from £29 to £83 per year.

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I dunno, maybe she nicked it off one of the younger kids at lunch break?

Sky News headline with a picture of the UK Chancellor and the headline ‘Where is Rachel Reeves getting her bus money’?

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Anybody who works on educating the public about climate change, here is a fantastic new resource from @roostweather.bsky.social . @carbonliteracy.bsky.social , this could be a really nice exploratory tool for those training councillors?

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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I'm seeing the effect of this on my daily commute. The bed of the Wye in Hereford is visible in places, you could walk across it in wellies right now. This time last year, the water level was at least 3 feet higher... #drought

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Sadly the Guardian fails to mention (a) Greens threw everything at these 2 seats (b) LD and LAB stood paper candidates (c) Reform cratered the Tory vote. These are only repeatable victories in those circumstances. The RW vote still dominates here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Waveney valley 2024 election result Green 41.7%, Conservative 30.3%, Reform 15.9%, Labour 9.4%, Lib Dem 2.5% SDP 0.2%

Herefordshire North election results 2024 Green 43.2%, Conservative 31.5%, Reform 16%, Labour 9.4%, Lib Dem 2.9% SDP 0.2%

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Still astonished that there is not more commentary on how Trump might turn out to be accidentally good for the environment. Can't help but wonder how much of the stuff coming through these ports from China was cheap, pointless household tat that nobody needed. Halloween ornaments for one thing...

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Fascinating stuff from ‪@dangrey.bsky.social‬ on Spanish blackouts. I'd been wondering what we might learn from Spain so we can avoid this in UK. Now I think we might learn from Spain that Spain should have learned from UK when something similar happened here a few years back!

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Well worth a read, though unfortunately the people who most need to read it won't, because the batshit crazy Tony Blair Institute report is manna from heaven for the Torygraph.

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

What is he even saying here? Vote for me (I'm crazy and I think my name is on your ballot), vote for Poilievre (he's already promised me he's going to hand over Canada immediately?), or vote for Carney (because I'm planning to invade and that will give me an excuse?) truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your C...

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This thread sums up my frustration listening to Badenoch on Peston. “UK can’t do #netzero because we utterly failed to support our own #renewables industry over decades, which is obviously China’s fault” www.youtube.com/live/-NuGUb8... from 32 mins

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PESTON LIVE - 23/04/2025

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The whole Trump tariffs thing feels a lot like Brexit to me. The 'remain in the EU camp' spent the last weeks of that campaign endlessly warning that Brexit would be hugely economically damaging. Many people who wanted Brexit understood that, & accepted it as a price worth paying. But for what? 🧵

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Fantastically helpful explainer and tool for anyone who regularly deals with the 'we need two grids' argument when teaching people about renewables. via @daanwalt3r.bsky.social electrotechrevolution.substack.com/p/renewables... Worth circulating, @carbonliteracy.bsky.social ?

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Renewables allow us to pay less, not twice

What Kemi Badenoch, and many others, get wrong about renewables.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 20/03/2025

THREAD: How the Sun screwed up its "smoking gun" story on net-zero study The Sun: "As much as 10% wld be wiped off economic growth by end of decade" Source: "At no point does this study suggest there will be a drop in UK GDP. It talks abt a 10% transfer…within GDP" Oops! 1/10

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This week, I have been mostly being a lungfish.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I was an undergrad when Cole was doing his PhD at Cardiff. Such a lovely bloke and one hell of an illustrator - if anyone needs anything doing please contact him

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I wonder if I just tell HMRC I am not available to pay my taxes right now, then we can just call this whole thing quits? #notaxationwithoutrepresentation (or someone answering the damned phone).

Screenshot of the end of a lengthy online exchange with UK tax office bot. The user asks "What telephone number can I call to speak to someone at HMRC, since your online chatbot service is unutterably shit?" Response from chatbot is "Our advisors are not available to discuss your query at the moment."

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If I had a pound for every time a local authority politician had tried this one on me during a #climatechange training day, I would have quite a lot of money by now. See also "Oh I, remember when they kept telling us the Y2K computer bug would crash all the computers and then nothing happened...."

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/03/2025

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Well played, whoever did this. Well played. Also, would like to make clear that I do not think President Zelenskyy looks like a Hobbit. (Though I do believe he has at least as much courage and heart as the best of them).

Screenshot from the Lord of the Rings showing Gandalf and Saruman talking. The quote says "Elves and men started this war, we will sit down with Sauron and discuss which rare earth metal reserves and pieces of The Shire he would like in return for peace."

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Let's keep this simple. The United States of America is withholding intelligence on the aggressor's military that are sending drones and ballistic missiles every night to target homes, hospitals, schools and power plants in Ukraine. The US is aiding the enemy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine

US no longer providing information about targets in Russia, in latest blow after halting military aid

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Great video showing what happened when @thecccuk.bsky.social got a group of B'ham residents together to discuss what policies we need to get to #NetZero. www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u... A workshop is running, 20/03 10-11am, if you want to learn more: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1c21ec...

A still image from the Climate Change Committee video on the citizens panel on net zero policy, showing a resident of Birmingham, UK, talking about how taking part in the citizens panel process had enlightened, educated him, and given him knowledge he needed to think about UK Net Zero policy.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In this new world order, we see geopolitical alliances primarily emerge around the large power blocs’ preferred energy regimes and view on the climate emergency: EU & China & some Gulf states for new energy vs. US & Russia & some Gulf states for fossils. The cold war of our time is an energy war.

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 01/03/2025

The Prime Minister should show British leadership on Ukraine by inviting President Zelenskyy to address Parliament on Monday. I'm proud that the UK has been Ukraine's staunchest ally from the start. We mustn't falter in the face of Trump's bullying now.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 26/02/2025

The Prime Minister must show Britain’s strength and make it clear to Donald Trump: If he continues down the path of parroting Putin's propaganda and putting America’s enemies over its friends, it will have consequences.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📣 BREAKING: The UK Climate Change Committee now says there’s no role for hydrogen in building heating. That’s study #61 on my list showing little to no role for hydrogen in heating—up from 54 in my meta-review from Dec 2023: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

looking at @thecccuk.bsky.social tweet from this morning, I'm struck by how much the estimates of the costs of #NetZero have reduced by. I have gotten used to quoting around 1% of GDP to get to Net Zero by 2050 (from the 6th budget) so this is huge. Also, let's compare to Brexit...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/02/2025

This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego. Via John Hyland on LI www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...

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Amazing demonstration of data centre electricity use in Ireland - RTE, 2001

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

🧵Thread on the idea of "Climate Boundary Transcendence". Each year, Earth's average temperature oscillates by about 4°C. Usually January (sometimes February) is the coldest month, on average, and July (sometimes August) is the warmest month, in terms of the GLOBAL average.

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Words to live by. Paralysing doomerism absolutely infests climate discourse, and it’s all so very tiresome.

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Rachel Coxcoon @rachelcoxcoon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Is #DeliberativeDemocracy equally appealing across the political spectrum? As part of my PhD in the @climatecitizens.bsky.social group at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, I've been looking into this in the context of Climate Assemblies. Headline finding: #Conservative voters seem less likely to sign up

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