Electric truck sales are "soaring" in China, says Nikkei Asia More were sold in H1 of this year than in the whole of 2024 (!) asia.nikkei.com/spot...
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Electric truck sales are "soaring" in China, says Nikkei Asia More were sold in H1 of this year than in the whole of 2024 (!) asia.nikkei.com/spot...
"unless those parties on the left and in the centre are prepared to at least explore areas of common interest, there are real risks that Reform UK unites the right, resulting in the gut-wrenching prospect of Nigel Farage as the next prime minister"
Carbon Brief made a similar point in a recent factcheck by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
This isn't online, but BBC News's climate editor Justin Rowlatt has just sent this to subscribers of his 'Future Earth' newsletter: "The bottom line: wind has played a small role in this latest [energy bill] price increase, but other factors - especially global gas prices - matter more."
Absolutely blistering takedown of the US government's mad climate report that rehashes the worst denier tropes of the past decade. US gov't took on a handful of self-serious denier micro-celebs, and in doing so, basically just hugely owned themselves in public sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...
Misleading, imo, not to put that this image was taken on St George's Day in April. This implies these are the flags he's talking about in his flat.
This past weekend, the Dutch Grand Prix took place in Zandvoort. Once again, NS and ProRail (#DCEnetwork) rose to the challenge of transporting tens of thousands of racegoers to the circuit, with trains running every five minutes to Zandvoort station. 📸 via Tijmen Voet on LinkedIn
A “subtle” reminder for everyone…
Can we not use the backup from summer 2012?
Fascinating how it was drivers' views that were solicited rather than, say, the people trying to use the pavements
You saw this, right? nation.cymru/news/f-the-e...
Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland! Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...
The irritating policy of BBC News editors to turn on/off comments under certain articles is a pretty clear example of editorialising, imo. There is no clear logic to the policy, other than to encouraging trolling under certain topics. BBC really should be avoiding perception it is doing this
Damn, this is the week where friends of mine are messaging me with their SNCF problems! A SNCF train manager is insisting a telephone number MUST be displayed on bags Have just checked - it is *still* only name, surname Update note and link to the law added to my post: jonworth.eu/how-to-not-f...
The solar arrays double as windbreaks, slowing sandstorms and giving vegetation a foothold. Grass sprouts under the steel frames. Herds of sheep weave between rows, grazing on greenery that wouldn’t exist without the solar arrays. 🔌💡
Hope it was a good funeral and that it did your father in law proud.
Brb. Just need to add that to the spreadsheet…
We are watching resegregation happen in real time. It's neo Jim Crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Yup. Absolutely. It meant such a lot.
It’s pointless. There’s barely any oil and gas left in the North Sea. The UK's North Sea gas production is set to drop 97% by 2050 - and even with new licensing rounds it would fall by 95%. (Graphs by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org)
New record: The world’s most powerful wind turbine prototype has been installed. The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology. electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
If you want me to be able to focus on what’s being said, you’d better let me take notes. I’d you want me to drift off with my own thoughts, then feel free to discourage me from taking notes.
I've never said that I'm trying to speak for ALL neurodivergent people. My original reply didn’t say that.
Ok. I should’ve said some / many of us with ADHD. Look, I’m sorry for upsetting you. But as I say, I really don’t think your father’s attitude discouraging students from taking notes would have been helpful to a number of his students.
Yup. UK's North Sea gas output is going to fall by 95%, even if the govt issues new licenses. (H/t @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for the graphs)
North Sea liabilities may already be larger than future sales revenues implying this may have significant costs. But more fundamentally, the quicker you deplete an already declining basin, the more rapidly you become exposed to more imports. Proper energy strategy needed.
Absolutely. Stopping people from taking notes obviously wouldn’t have affected ALL neurodivergent students, but it definitely would’ve affected some.
Because different people have different learning styles. And different neurodiverse people have different needs. Taking notes may have stopped you and your father from absorbing what the speaker is saying, BUT it helps people with ADHD focus on the words, and prevents our mind drifting.
So we’re different. You and your father aren’t representative of all neurodiverse people. Those of us with ADHD tendencies need to write to be able to focus on what we’re hearing. Preventing people from writing *to help them listen* would likely have had the opposite effect on many.
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I’m sorry, but your father had no understanding / appreciation of neurodiversity and what some people need to do to be able to focus on the spoken word. I come from a family of academics. They’re by no means perfect, but I’ve never heard of any of them adopt this unsupportive attitude.
If someone said that to me now, I’d walk out. It’s a totally unsupportive attitude to neurodiverse students.
Taking notes enables me to focus on what I’m listening to. I would absolutely hate it if someone told me to stop taking notes.
The low population makes this comparison extra eye-popping, but still. Wyoming has excellent solar and wind resources, but will most certainly be resorting to coal for this power given the state’s politics.
This is what I mean when I talk about how Google is actively deciding to bake energy-intensive text generation into the basic infrastructure of the internet. They are *choosing* to make the digital world absurdly, eye-wateringly more energy hungry whether you request it or not. And it'll get worse
American *English* vs UK English surveys… I blame autoincorrect, though tbh it could’ve been my mistake… 😱
And random American England vs UK English surveys…
Did you know that the most heat pumps per capita are installed in the coldest countries in Europe? In Sweden, Finland and Norway there are now more than 40 heat pumps per 100 households, more than in any other country in the world. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
Extreme heat specialist @chlobrim.bsky.social from the @metoffice.gov.uk Office explains on BBC Breakfast how four heatwaves this summer have caused “compound and cascading hazards” to the UK.
An "energy superpower" is a country that can move markets (eg the Saudis with oil, USA with LNG). Canada is NEVER going to be an "energy superpower." Minister Tim Hodgson is a Canadian oil/gas insider, industry cheerleader. Wrong person to be federal energy minister during the energy transition.
Unfortunately, their opponents almost completely control the information environment and are very deliberately working to spread the mistaken impression cited here, so exactly how are they supposed to confront it?
Right now, climate world is playing defense. But in the long run, the energy transition likely rests on policymakers and advocates confronting this... heatmap.news/politics/ele...
SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇
It’s such a fucker. I remember a consultant saying that to me when I was in hospital. I wanted to scream - but obviously didn’t have the strength.
Paging @coppicejt.bsky.social
What? My house was build in 1903 and that’s fairly recent for Brighton!
so my PERSONAL favourite way to fuck with Americans is to be like “this building is from 1520!” Or whatever and they’ll go “wow we don’t have anything that old!” And I’ll go “yes you do” and just stare at them
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I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
Have you seen this, @oldenoughtosay.com @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social?
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Yes please!
OMFG. That’s just vile.
OMG - I’ve been through St Pancras far too many times to count over the past18 months and I’ve never noticed these tables!
Brighton, England. English Miaou! 😺
OMG @garius.bsky.social - have you seen this!
“Immigrants have mobile phones” is the current made up moral panic equivalent to “poor people have TVs in council flats”
We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙 Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇 #refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily. Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts ‘more substantial than we realize’. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost every newspaper & broadcaster in England and Wales…. bsky.app/profile/scot...
This is deeply serious. 'Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds'. Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost every newspaper and broadcaster in Britain is now waging a racist 24/7 campaign of hatred against migrants on behalf of the ultra rich. In response to this, one small thing you can do is donate to the NGOs supporting refugees.
"Registrations for BYDs, more than tripled to 9,698 vehicles across EU (July), according to ACEA, an industry body. including the U.K., Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, sales more than tripled to 13,503 🚗 registrations for Tesla's (🇪🇺) contracted >42%: 6,600" #alwaysbecharging
please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
If I had said, in 2005, that 20 years later the Republican Party would be even *more* systematically opposed, not only to domestic action on climate change, but to action on climate change anywhere in the world, I would have been dismissed as a hysterical partisan.
To me this raises the single most important media question facing the left: Does it want to restore good, fair, factual journalism with standards, trusting that, in the long haul, truth serves the left? Or does it want to build its own Fox-style hack factory to win by hook or crook?
first interview I did as a baby journo was w/RFK Jr. about why he opposed Cape Wind (it was because it messed with the views from his family's compound, but he mumbled something about local fishermen). Brown University has done excellent research on this www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/against...
Daily Mail headline: Wind farms hike your energy bills Reality: Bills are rising by less than £3 a month, which is lower than the rate of inflation, and most of the rise is due to expanding fuel poverty schemes, not renewables-related grid costs.
Thank you @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for the reminder that golf courses should be forcibly seized by the government and converted to solar farms interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
There is some good news and some bad news for Mr Osman at Oxfam Ealing.
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We really should never have sold off a single mile of railway land, even if we removed all of running infrastructure. Each line a lost opportunity of greenway that could have been upgraded for mass transit as required.
Heat pumps could halve heating bills with energy system reform www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I saw today the dramatic effects of global heating up close. This is the Bonhus glacier in SW Norway, the photo on the left is from 1890. Like all glaciers in Norway it is shrinking rapidly.
Here's a table multiplying the per capita rate by the actual population size just to show how comically stupid this is.
BREAKING: UK markets regulators have opened an investigation into Drax over the sustainability of its sourcing of wood for biomass pellets from 2022-24 This is potentially a much more serious investigation than ones conducted previously by MPs or by the energy regulator www.ft.com/content/368c...
What a shitshow
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..." If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.
Great @desmog.com article by @joeygrostern.bsky.social on this incredible network of slopaganda, primarily used to publicise climate denial. How cool that we are still only in the early days of this type of stuff :) :) :) :) www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
Data centre growth in Ireland continues - but the rate of growth is slowing. In 2024, they were 22% of total electricity demand on the grid (!!) data.cso.ie/table/MEC02
NEW Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Three years to the day since the last government promised to ban the sale of peat-based compost. And yet, still no sign of the required legislation. www.businessgreen.com/news/4518121...
If this is not deliberately racialised imagery, it is at best fantastically naive to not understand that it looks & feels like racialised dog whistling to single out this man in such a way.
No 10's use of Keir Starmer’s Twitter feed is not something Keir Starmer could credibly defend. What is he doing with the imagery here & why? x.com/Keir_Starmer...
100% this. also the next sentence "Sometimes, these things are not complicated. Paying despots to take a bunch of refugees who fled them in the first place is wrong. And the refusal of my government – or much of the media – to say so disgusts me."
"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."
Profoundly important from @davidallengreen.bsky.social. The lack of meaningful restraints against executing power in our system leaves us utterly exposed in the face of a Reform government. They could do whatever they want. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
Once hundreds of schools start closing across the country and the retirement age rises to 75, the current period of moral panic over immigration is going to look utterly ridiculous
But the failure of the government to make this argument (or get a fair hearing on the all too rare occasions when it tries), means it gets zero credit for the plan it is pursuing.
The energy price cap rise is a near perfect little case study of Labour's wider predicament. Short thread on the government's continued failure to explain/get a hearing for the mess it inherited and how it is trying to fix it. www.businessgreen.com/news/4518148...
employ the whole of London as TfL staff so that travel becomes free for everyone anyway
**Probs** for the best… 🤣
Beware of any politician doing this. It’s a major red flag of the most cynical political opportunism, weaponization of lies & misinformation, and manipulation of some consultant’s idea of a “wedge issue.” It would waste public money, risk or even cost lives, weaken the city, make traffic worse, etc.
Data from BNEF on Sizewell C shows electricity costs could hit £286/MWh, making it much more expensive than other technologies. While it helps decarbonise, this price tag raises major questions about cost-effectiveness. Is nuclear too expensive to be a key part of the UK's energy solution?
Blow your mind with fresh solar stats and facts from @davidtoke.bsky.social ‘s always enlightening newsletter this morning 🌅