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Will Vowell

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Programme lead, Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit @eciu.net | previously: comms for Caroline Lucas | views my own | he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 20/08/2026
A Welsh firefighter has warned that media coverage risks normalising the growing threat of wildfires after an analysis found almost two-thirds of articles about this summer’s fires failed to mention climate change ✍️Abby Neve wp.me/p8Mk4U-1rw7
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change - but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, it just makes averting the worst of it even harder @eciu.net
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Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The vast majority of UK media reporting on wildfires made no mention of climate change 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two thirds of articles about the wildfires didn't mention climate change. Once again parts of our media are failing at the most basic part of their job - reporting the truth. uk.themedialeader.com/two-thirds-o...
uk.themedialeader.com
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🔥 📰 From the start of the first heatwave in late May until the end of July, only 1 in 3 articles in UK national newspapers which referred to wildfires also mentioned climate change. New analysis by me for @eciu.net out today in @themedialeader.bsky.social 👇🧵 uk.themedialeader.com/two-thirds-o...
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Dr Chloe Brimicombe @chlobrim.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Letter @thetimes.com from me based upon @willvowell.bsky.social and @eciu.net research in response to an editorial that was sceptical of mitigating fossil fuel emissions to tackle climate change. I also added about heat-related deaths, a pet peeve is when they are compared to cold!
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 15/08/2026
The Times has just published these two reader letters in response to a column by @hugorifkind.bsky.social headlined: "Where are all those climate deniers now?" I just googled them. The first is a "retired consultant in rheumatology" The second is "UK former chief geologist, BP North Sea"
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
IPCC Chair Sir Jim Skea is crystal clear: “If you want to stop global warming, you must get to net zero carbon emissions." The problem is, with some honourable exceptions as per this @pilitaclark.bsky.social column, most of the UK media isn't being this clear 🧵 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How to stop global warming
The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement
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ECIU @eciu.net · 30/07/2026
"But we're only 1% of emissions": media in countries collectively emitting 20% of global CO₂ In 200+ national newspapers in 27 countries made claims that because that country accounts for only approx 1% of global emissions, progress in cutting that country’s emissions should be slowed
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Two Telegraph op-eds this week have stated the same fact: the UK accounts for "0.8% of global CO2 emissions"; we can't stop climate change, and others are more responsible. telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026... telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07... Technically true - but here's what this claim misses out 🧵
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Climate change was "unequivocally to blame" for last month's record-breaking heatwave, say scientists - yet that's perhaps not what you'd think from recent media coverage. New @eciu.net analysis in @theguardian.com today looks into media coverage of last month's heatwave 👇 🧵
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Claims that because a country accounts for only around 1% of global emissions, progress in cutting that country’s emissions should be slowed have been found to appear in more than 200 articles across national newspapers in 27 countries." eciu.net/media/press-...
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'We're only 1% of emissions' – analysis finds claims in countries…
Poll: majority of Brits say countries under 1% of emissions should still take action.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Brutal demolition from @eciu.net of the 'we're just one per cent of global emissions - what difference can we make' bullshit. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
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Gareth Redmond-King @gredmondking.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Plus some more here from me on why we're not 'JUST' 1%. eciu.net/insights/the...
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The 1% fallacy: how collective inaction adds up
Net zero emissions is the only scientifically-backed solution the world has to halt climate change, yet one flawed argument against net zero just refuses to die: ‘but we’re only 1% of emissions’.
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“The UK only counts for 1% of global emissions, so why should we bother trying to stop climate change?” You hear this a lot from UK media and politicians. But many countries around the world also account for around 1% of emissions. And guess what – they’re all saying exactly the same thing. 🧵
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Leading climate scientists have written to broadcast editors to express concern about recent UK heatwave coverage "The letter urges news organisations to better inform the public [about the climate crisis]...It argues that news coverage “increasingly overlooks the fundamental ‘why'' of heatwaves
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Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave
Connection between greenhouse emmissions and extreme heat in UK 'indisputable'.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Glad to see the BBC correcting errors in its reporting yesterday about a potential weakening of the ZEV mandate - following a pattern of substantial media misreporting on this issue since its introduction in 2024. Here's what's right - and what's wrong 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK electric car sales target set to be weakened
The new target hasn't yet been decided, with different numbers under consideration, the BBC understands.
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Back in November 2025, an editorial in the Times claimed that: “There was no coverage [on the BBC] of Bill Gates’s rethink on climate change last week”. Except it did. It appeared on BBC R4’s Today programme; BBC Radio Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire; and Newshour on the BBC World Service.
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚨 ‘Independent energy consultant’ Kathryn Porter - who claimed the Met Office had produced “junk” data - has featured in national UK newspapers 191 times since 2025, and at least 7 interviews on BBC TV & radio. This Ofcom ruling raises serious questions over her credibility as a media commentator.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The online TV channel has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting claims the meteorologist simply makes up weather reports ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
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Rupert Murdoch's Talk rapped for misleading Met Office claims
The online TV channel has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting claims the meteorologist simply makes up weather reports
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/04/2026
The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the FOURTEENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 17 separate articles). I have now added latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017 - UK regulator makes U-turn over TalkTV complaints after claims it let some broadcasters ‘spout dangerous climate lies’ @stopfundingheat.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org By me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017
Exclusive: UK regulator makes U-turn over TalkTV and TalkRadio complaints after claims it let some broadcasters ‘spout dangerous climate lies’
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🔴Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/d...
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Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers
Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🔴 Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/d...
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Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers
Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Amusing and enraging story of IPSO somehow concluding clearly misleading comparisons were not misleading, only for polling from @eciu.net to show readers were indeed misled. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
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Daily Mail amends electric car story after Yougov poll showed public could have been misled
Polling on whether the public had been misled by a Daily Mail story forced press regulator IPSO to rethink rejection of electric car complaint
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🚨Quite an embarrassment for IPSO here. IPSO rejected our complaint about a Daily Mail article with misleading claims about the cost of petrol cars & EVs, ruling that the article was fine as the public “would not be misled” by it. So we asked the public - and they were misled by a margin of 4 to 1…
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/01/2026
Wow?! BBC News homepage has just significantly downgraded the placing of its "Climate" section on its menu bar Climate is now ranked last, lower than Tech. Earlier this month "Climate" was ranked above World, UK, US&Canada, Business and Tech
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 13/01/2026
🔴 NEW - ‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports The people behind the reports are tied to the fossil fuel industry and climate science denial groups. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports
Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by en...
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
NEW: joint @eciu.net & @reutersinstitute.bsky.social research finds the link between the problem of climate change, and its solution of net zero, is quietly being severed. While support for tackling climate change remains popular, the necessary response gets demonised. 🧵
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Euronews @euronews.com · 23/12/2025
Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy. ➡️ l.euronews.com/mzwr
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 17/12/2025
The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the THIRTEENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 16 separate articles). I have now added latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@eciu.net has kept the receipts on some very dubious media claims about EV adoption. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522703...
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'Double standards': Media accused of routinely mispresenting pace of EV roll out
More than 40 UK national media articles have incorrectly reported companies are missing their Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate targets, according to ECIU
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 27/11/2025
The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the TWELFTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 15 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The Telegraph has published a list of some of the BBC’s “errors” in its climate change coverage www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11... Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨Rare defeat for climate misinformation🚨 Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers. After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 14/10/2025
The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Why are bills going up by £100 in April? R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*" With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
💵 ENERGY BILLS & RENEWABLES How much are they going up by? Why are they going up? What are the long-term causes of high bills? A short 🧵 on why the answer isn't all blowing in the wind...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 07/08/2025
Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳 ❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr ✅They actually GREW…by 62% Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔 1/7
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 22/07/2025
It seems to be contagious. Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...
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Gareth Redmond-King @gredmondking.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Nice to see @theguardian.com print my letter in response to Simon Jenkins’ ill-informed article about wind farms and net zero. Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 10/07/2025
MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…" In fact, the OBR had said the opposite! 1/6
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Embarrassing error from Juliet Samuel in the Times, writing: "gas heating bans will destroy boiler manufacturing". Except there is no gas heating ban of any kind, nor plans for any. Glad the inaccuracy has now been corrected - shame it happened in the first place. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Well this is strange 🧐 Yesterday the @telegraphnews.bsky.social had an article about Ofgem's much-needed £24bn investment in upgrading the gas and electricity networks. The author correctly stated that the *net increase* on an energy bill would be £24/yr by 2031 (£104/yr added, £80 saving):
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Kemi Badenoch's oil & gas speech: "When the oil and gas windfall tax was brought in, the oil price was near a historic high...but for months there has not been a windfall to tax" The global oil price today, after conflict in Israel / Iran overnight📈 tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cr...
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 10/06/2025
The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 02/06/2025
The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Melanie Phillips had a misleading column in @thetimes.com yesterday Claiming "net zero targets" have driven up energy prices, when actually it's the cost of gas Here's a letter in this morning's paper challenging it.
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Will Vowell @willvowell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Here’s the BBC being forced to correct its article about pylons, for including a figure which in reality was *600 times smaller* than it originally (and erroneously) stated. Media misinformation on this topic is something to behold.
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