NEW: Satellites are exposing the world's top methane plume sites in the waste sector in 2025. We reviewed public satellite data from Carbon Mapper showing 3,000 methane plumes from 700 waste sites worldwide to ID the highest methane emission rates detected in 2025. law.ucla.edu/news/spotlig...
Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? writes George Monbiot
The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable. Environmentalists are now being seen for the pragmatists that they are
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock
- 50+ nations inc 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇹🇷 🇳🇬 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇳🇴
- Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at UN Cop summits, where progress has been stalled by major polluters
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For context, from .... 2017
"Electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan, new research [based on 2015 data] shows"
#EVs
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market
New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader
Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here
And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project
- Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
- Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
Story by me
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
$1.7 trillion - the explicit fossil fuel subsidies in 2022 when Russia's war in Ukraine spiked prices
Expect a bumper year in 2026 due to the US-Israel war in Iran
And all the while Big Oil makes colossal windfall profits (next post)
#energycrisis #climatecrisis
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fossilfuelsubsidytracker.org
re-upping this following yet more fossil-fuel-friendly comments from the Tony Blair Institute
- How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action
- ex-PM’s lucrative links with fossil fuel nations criticised
#cllimatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
- Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
Story by me @globalwitness.org
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Americans have spent an estimated $20.5 billion more on gas and diesel since Trump attacked Iran ...
... funding colossal war profits for Big Oil from Riyadh to Moscow to Houston (next post)
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Santa Marta Climate Conference is the first international summit on transitioning away from fossil fuels
- after decades of gridlock, it could be a game changer for climate diplomacy and action
@ninalakhani.bsky.social sets out what to expect
#climatecrisis
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Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
- Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels [maybe]
#nuclearfusion
HT @carbonbrief.org
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#Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says
- UK company has received about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite claims wood pellets are not sourced sustainably
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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T&E is joining 30 European NGOs, including Oxfam, WWF and CAN Europe, in calling on the EU to tax excess oil profits.
Once again, drivers’ pain is Big Oil’s gain. Instead of governments putting the burden on taxpayers, it’s time that oil companies pay up.
Read the full letter here ➡️ bit.ly/483cz6y
My report, from 2017
The world's most toxic town: the terrible legacy of Zambia's lead mines
- Almost a century of lead mining and smelting has poisoned generations of children in Kabwe
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The mass lead poisoning of children in Kabwe, Zambia, over decades is a catastrophe I saw with my own eyes
- Families and NGOs are now asking the African Union to demand a clean-up
@hrw.org
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Thursday's GUARDIAN: War windfall: big oil makes extra $30m every hour during conflict
#TomorrowsPapersToday
Big Oil is raking in $30 million AN HOUR as the public struggles to afford rising costs.
It didn't have to be this way.
The fossil fuel industry conspired for decades to keep us hooked on oil and gas, blocking cleaner and cheaper alternatives and driving up costs.
It's time for accountability.
Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Headline at The Guardian illustrated with an ominous looking photo of a roiling stormy seascape: "Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought" Subheadline reads: "Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas"
Turns out, we *really* needed that last decade of lost climate action that Trump has wasted.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
- Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
#AMOC #climatecrisis
Story by me
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How big oil is cashing in from consumers thanks to the Iran war
Video, with me
#energycrisis #climatecrisis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYG4...
WORLD VIEW 15 April 2026 Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis Climate-friendly technologies are the best way to stymie rising inflation — and will get better and cheaper over time. By Gernot Wagner Spend any time discussing solar and wind power as a solution to climate change, and you are sure to encounter someone who asks about reliability. The Sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow, so fossil fuels will be needed forever as a back-up, they argue. But how reliable are fossil fuels? In the past two months, conflict in Iran has created an energy crisis — the latest in a series. Oil prices spiked within days of the start of US, Israeli and Iranian bombing in the Gulf region on 28 February. Fuel prices remain high and volatile, and the ripple effects are set to increase inflation in the coming months. Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, memorably named this effect fossilflation in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There was, and is, one clear winner: renewables and other low-carbon technologies, from batteries to electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps. That is what distinguishes this Middle East oil and gas crisis from the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s. Then, renewables were mostly unavailable, and industrial decarbonization was on few people’s radars. Solar power cost at least 500 times more than it does today, and EVs, heat pumps and induction stoves were a pipe dream. Ditching fossil fuels is not all smooth sailing. In 2022, European natural-gas prices spiked to ten times their levels before the Ukraine invasion, resulting in long waiting times for solar panels and heat pumps. Prices for these rose as demand outpaced supply, an effect Schnabel dubbed greenflation. She used a third term, climateflation, to describe the economic effects of climate-induced weather extremes, such as food-price rises from crop failures (M. Kotz et al. Commun. Earth Environ. 5; 2024).
The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.
It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.
My latest just out @nature.com
rdcu.be/fdxig
The same people who are screwing the planet and your children's futures, are also screwing you
Don't give them the opportunity - switch to heat pumps, solar panels and EVs now
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge Iran war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
@globalwitness.org #rystadenergy
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death
- Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
A disturbing lack of integrity’: Students file complaint against @columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s Center on Global Energy Policy for taking big oil money
#climatecrisis
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Air pollution from global transport currently has a net cooling effect that offsets 80% of the warming impact of the sector’s CO2 emissions, modelling indictates
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonateforum.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...