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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This summer was the hottest on record in the UK The summer of 1976 that some folks my age keep banging on about is now only the SEVENTH hottest on record The top five hottest summers all happened since 2003 We're heating the planet by burning fossil fuels 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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Climate Centre @climatecentreuk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

UK transport is buckling under the effects of climate change says @sophievipond.bsky.social , from the Climate Change Committee. Talking on the BBC Today Programme, Sophie warned that the country needs to think long-term, investing in "drainage, slope stabilization, and flood defenses."

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 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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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/08/2026

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

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London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/07/2026

830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.

A NASA map of the wildfires burning across Canada right now.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/07/2026

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea... "Experts say trying to extract the last barrels of domestic oil and gas would have no impact on people’s energy bills and very little effect on energy security"

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Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling - Carbon Brief

UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The absolute dead giveaway that you're dealing with a third rate economic mind is if they elevate policy towards North Sea licences towards the top of their agenda. On either side of the question. It shows they're incapable of doing basic calculations of significance.

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is a very good overview by @fionaharvey.bsky.social, but this whole campaign against Net Zero, on the basis of economics and jobs, demonstrates just how confused the thinking has become over climate change. There is a complete lack of joined up thinking necessary for us to understand it. 1/🧵

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵

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Ed Miliband would be ‘noose around neck’ of job creation as chancellor, union boss warns

Comments by Sharon Graham come as Burnham team explores key government appointments

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The most startling thing I experienced at Hay Festival was this. Incredibly sobering - I’ll now be buying books by all panelists to educate myself further.

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The @thecccuk.bsky.social’s report is on the front page of @theguardian.com tomorrow. See the details in the report from 00:01…

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/05/2026

Pretty much an instant downgrade to a some-of-society approach, then

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Amazing news today, as EVs now cheaper to buy as well as cheaper to run in the UK. This is what a transition feels like. Shout out to all the campaigners who have put their shoulder to the wheel to make our air cleaner and our travel cheaper. plc.autotrader.co.uk/news-views/p...

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New electric cars now cheaper than petrol on average for the first time says Autotrader

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 31/03/2026

FACTCHECK: GB News / Spectator owner Paul Marshall got criticised by Christian leaders for his channel's attacks on climate action, so he made a rare public intervention But in his letter to the Guardian (pic) he makes 25 false, misleading or confused claims (!) Receipts etc in next post 1/2

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Searches for used BYD electric vehicles were up over 375% year-on-year Renault EV enquiries up 24% since Feb 28 “we're starting to see ‘pump anxiety’ over cost of petrol replace ‘range anxiety’ about whether batteries will run out of power” say EV producer Polestar www.ft.com/content/870f...

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‘Pump anxiety’ from soaring fuel prices prompts surge in interest in EVs

Increased costs since outbreak of Middle East conflict prompt more test drives and advert views

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#energycrisis UK's political right bang out about North Sea oil and gas (red herring, see next post) 😎 Real people just do smart stuff 😎 - solar sales up 50% - heat pump sales up 30% - EV enquires up 30% says Octopus boss (UK's biggest supplier) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Octopus Energy boss: We've seen a 50% rise in solar panel sales since start of war in Iran

The UK giant is optimistic but chief executive Greg Jackson tells the BBC he is making contingency plans.

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Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Great to see our @ippr.org report on climate backlash in the FT this morning. Anyone saying there is a breakdown in public support for climate policies is wrong. It’s entirely an elite confection, driven by people who don’t want to change. The strategy should be take them on not accommodate

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/03/2026

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Harriet Burbeck. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Good news. We’ve run some more numbers. - one fossil fuel price shock could cost more than the entire cost of Net Zero (and how many do you think we’ll get in the next 25 years?) - energy losses will HALVE (who doesn’t love efficiencies?) - benefits outweigh costs of Net Zero by 2.2 to 4.1x

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 10/03/2026

What does the ongoing rupture in the world order that Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney referred to at Davos earlier this year mean for #ClimateChange?

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 05/03/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Tomorrow has arrived but there are things we - as individuals, business owners and government - can do about it. The CCC will be publishing a report in May about how the UK can adapt to the changing climate we’re experiencing. Stay tuned…

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

BBC 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.

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Headline: “the saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos”

With image of waves smashing into the rail line running along the shoreline at Dawlish Warren.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 20/01/2026

going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines

Screenshot from BBC News live text coverage of Trump press conference:
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This news conference could go on for a very long time

(byline: Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America correspondent at the White House)

This is the president in his most enigmatic and expansive mood. During the campaign this used to be called "the weave" – meandering from subject to subject, often the connections not immediately obvious.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Worth remembering: The world has been spending more on solar than oil for the last two years.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/11/2025

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

You can argue a bit about correlation and causation with the Paris Agreement. It only got reached because governments could see a global clean tech boom was coming. But equally, it’s self evident that having an overarching global goal and system of national plans has helped drive progress.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is a crucial point And why the ‘stay on X/Twitter so you don’t cede the public square’ is such a nonsense argument It isn’t Hyde Park, it’s a billionaire controlled algorithm *designed* to spread far right ideologies

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 01/10/2025

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The UK Climate Change Commission has rejected claims by opposition politicians that it is giving a misleadingly low estimate of the cost of offshore wind power, which is expected to become the backbone of Britain's electricity system www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u... x.com/ClaireCoutin...

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is a great cartoon of the illogical narratives I hear refuting climate warming. As I have said many times, it's not "either/or" when it comes to natural variability and human contributions, it's "both/and." Grass grows naturally and it grows differently when you fertilize the lawn....

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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious: yet again, the Tories are claiming that we can get "all our oil and gas" from the North Sea and that we should be doing even more to support the industry to extract. There are several reasons why we should treat this with maximum scepticism:

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

10 years ago, my dad was 2+ years into his diagnosis of a glioblastoma. By this point, he’d lost the ability to walk, talk, and read. Progress is possible. God bless Dr M, who perseveres on this horrid disease. For baby Mabel and the family in this story, I wish many happy, healthy years together.

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Met Office-branded bar chart showing the top 10 warmest UK summers (average temperature for June, July and August)
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2025: 16.13 (average to 25th August)
2018: 15.76
2006: 15.75
2003: 15.74
2022: 15.71
1976: 15.70
1995: 15.62
1933: 15.38
2023: 15.36
1899: 15.29

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

NEW Nigel Topping chosen as new chair of @thecccuk.bsky.social, pending formalities Will bring experience from business world & UN climate talks to the role Follows years-long delay after former Tory minister Lord Deben quit as chair and @piersforster.bsky.social steered ship in interim capacity

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Matt Walsh @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is a pretty damning thread. The Telegraph opposes net zero, and that's its right. It can make the argument on comment pages and in leaders. But for the sake of its reputation, it needs to tighten up fact-checking in its reporting and stop eliding it with commentary.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Kyoto play is a reminder of how far we’ve come on climate politics. We should bank the wins. The play was also a great lesson in the forces that influenced the set up of the COP process - not all of who were acting in good faith. Educational, funny, sad, wildly engaging.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 31/03/2025

All of these “Can Trump run again” pieces, treating it as if there’s some legitimate way he could get around the 22nd amendment, are bizarre and misleading. There is no legitimate way around it.

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Sophie Vipond @sophievipond.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

On Friday, I went to the 80th birthday of the teacher who taught me history and drama at primary school, and ran the local youth theatre I went to till I was ~17. He was surrounded by the ‘children’ he had taught and our parents. A community he built over decades.

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This week, someone said of the UK's net zero target: "Why is it 2050 in the first place? No-one knows." It feels like a good time to be resharing this @newscientist.com primer, on what net zero actually means. Few years old but the basics stand👇 www.newscientist.com/question/net...

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What does 'net zero emissions' mean?

An ambitious target to reduce emissions, but can it slow global warming?

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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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