Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
UK government to increase heat pump grants to £9000 for those with oil and LPG heating. Generous for sure but fully closes the risk of a cost gap and may even provide a small excess for those with small homes (typically the least well off). (1/2)
This video, and 2 copies of the matching book, have been sent to **every primary school in Ireland**.
It's possibly THE most outrageous industry propaganda I've ever seen. The descriptions of Sitka deadzones are so totally false, it's hard to know where to even start.
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“The BBC… found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a [market-moving Trump] social media post or media interview was made public.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Took some finding but I eventually came across the right one. You'd think it wasn't beyond the wit of man to default your preferred spelling to the the country the operating system knows you've entered—rather than having to dig around and change the language in half a dozen different settings :-)
Thx!
Can anyone advise me what setting to change to stop Bluesky constantly reminding me—by underlining words—my spelling is not American English?
NEW PODCAST: Electricity is just 20% of global energy. The other 80% (heating, transport, industry) still runs on fossil fuels. Full electrification could cut total energy demand in half. More in my conversation with @bobbyllew.bsky.social of Everything Electric Show
youtube.com/watch?v=-jSqcwxpd14
Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol
Nick Robinson on the Today programme this morning was quick to repeat a misleading line about why we should support new North Sea oil & gas extraction in the UK on the grounds that it's MUCH (4x) cleaner than importing LNG. It's incorrect on several grounds: 🧵
Happily, the government has been listening to Sam.
Ed Miliband will be doubling down on clean energy today (giving a speech at 11) announcing moves to shift more legacy renewables on to Contracts for Difference…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The BBC, like most broadcasters, does not have a dedicated energy editor, which is a glaring omission given that almost everything revolves around energy
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.
And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.
Reform are going to tank the UK economy if they win the next election. Just their pledge on migration - to deport "at least 200,000 refugees" will massively reduce economic growth.
We don't have to guess to know this - Trump's giving us real-time proof
According to what I heard on the radio it stops before the 'revelations' appeared, so how can it change anything? It would appear it's aimed at his fans.
900 battery-powered ships and counting: It isn't a test case anymore, it’s a declaration of independence from being fossil fuel hostages: With battery costs down 99% since 1991, the "too expensive" excuse is officially dead for shipping
Sovereignty is renewables
www.ft.com/content/0656...
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
There is no politician - and I mean none - who is better-placed than Ed Miliband to get us through this fossil fuel-driven energy crisis.
No-one in politics understands the energy system better. That’s why the billionaire fossil press hate him
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/trum...
The M51 Whirlpool galaxy taken with my Seestar 30 from St Agnes #islesofscilly last night
A stupid point from Reid. By definition those accused of serious crimes are treated with suspicion. And, also by definition, senior civil servants are screened and vetted by strict systems and need to be trusted by politicians to be straight and honest. Otherwise what's the point of anything?
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
Most people have heard of the 'Gulf Stream', and the warm sea water and resultant air it brings us from the SW, which is a small element of the AMOC.
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.
In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.
Most people have no idea. 🧵
David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS!
“Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.”
Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry
#SecretGarden
1/ I find the attacks on Starmer re Mandelson excessive. As Steve Richards has pointed out, he isn't going to lie about when he knew about the failed vetting because it would be easy to call him out (I also think he is a man of integrity). I didn't like the original appointment bc I'm not a...
