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UK-based, interested in decarbonisation, nature, and sports.
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We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

CARTOON OF THE DAY

This is what I was writing about 20 years ago as a terrifying but far off prospect, a key tipping point in the climate crisis. Now it’s here. Report by my colleague @patrickgreenfield A third of Arctic’s vast carbon sink now source of emissions, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World hits 1.5C warming Or to put it another way: The people who questioned climate science and emissions cuts were wrong then, are wrong now, and we will all pay a huge price if we listen to them. www.ft.com/content/fd91...

class A trolling

Don't make a drama out of a bond market crisis: me in @theguardian.com on why Reeves should stick to her plan. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nick Robinson is doing a great job actually, just pointing out to Robert Jenrick how sudden his interest in the sex abuse scandal is on the Today Programme. It's crazy watching these GB News blowhards and Tory also-rans suddenly so interested in this scandal. There was absolutely no sign >>

Jealous of how good this is.

Of all the concepts that humankind needs to absorb + act on with extreme urgency, this tops the list.

🚗What's happening to Europe's car industry is one of the biggest stories in the world right now, & prob the biggest story of next year too. A slow motion implosion driven by multiple factors (esp Chinese competition). Watch my primer on what's going on👇 youtu.be/oW_SXIVQT5I?...

The headline: “Whitehall reverts to working from home” The reality: “The average attendance rate across departments from the period last year was 57 per cent, while this year it is 69 per cent.”

it’s not “retreating into a bubble” to want to see posts by people you like and want them to see yours

Now this place is cooking, maybe worth doing a big old energy thread. Let’s talk about how electricity prices are set, why they’re so high in Britain, and how we could reduce them… 🧵

Used electric cars are now cheaper than their petrol equivalents in the UK. That feels significant? Especially since the running costs are so much lower (if you are home charging) www.carwow.co.uk/news/7858/us...

Must read thread about how sanctions against Russia are *really* working

What year will this finally peak? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If this chart says to you "the climate/1.5C was screwed either way", then you've missed a fundamental truth about global warming: –every fraction of a degree matters –every tonne of CO2 counts –every delay makes escalating climate impacts on people + planet harder to avoid www.carbonbrief.org/...

And with that have finally deleted my twitter account

“Why should small countries that emit <1% of global emissions pursue a net zero agenda when there are much larger emitters like China?” 5 compelling reasons for why small and wealthy countries in Europe and elsewhere should reduce their emissions. www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/small-emit...