Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Well, that’s a wrap after more than six years at Climate Change Committee. It has been a wonderful privilege.

The handle of this account will change shortly, but please continue to follow. I’ll keep tweeting on climate when I move across to The Carbon Trust from next week.

🙏

Yeah, hilarious

theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

🌎📜 This week the #COP3Escazú delivered a new action plan to protect environmental and land defenders in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Carbon Brief spoke to defenders and young activists at COP, who explained why this plan is crucial to implement the #EscazúAgreement . ⬇️

This is next level...

Newsweek is reporting that Hillary Clinton tweeted Carbon Brief analysis

'As of press time, Clinton's Trump post has garnered more than 14m views. Newsweek has contacted representatives of Biden and Clinton via email for comment.'

newsweek.com/donald-trump-h…

Pope on those who deny human-caused climate change:

'There are people who are foolish, and even foolish if they show you them research. They don't believe it…They don't understand the situation or because of their interest, but climate change exists.'

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

'2024 is virtually certain to be either the warmest or second-warmest year on record,' at 1.5C above preindustrial level, writes Zeke Hausfather on Carbon Brief

He says if 2024 heat ends like 2023, we might be entering 'unchartered territory' for the climate

carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-c…

Imagine thinking that a 'focus group' was the way to inform this decision. What a cop-out.

OFCOM and IPSO are both joke organisations that are clearly not fit for purpose.

Dangerously weak in a key election year

theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

NEW: I covered research finding that fossil-fuel drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would leave polar bears at risk of lethal oil spills

Republicans and Democrats have fought over whether to drill in the refuge since the 1970s... (1/7)

carbonbrief.org/alaska-refuge-…

The first quarter of the year is off to an exceptionally warm start, as I discuss in a new Q1 State of the Climate Report over at Carbon Brief: carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-c…
⬆️ Warmest Jan, Feb, March, and April (to date) by ~0.1C
⬆️ 2024 on track to be warmest or second warmest year

NEW – State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start | Zeke Hausfather

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/4ddZrfZ

Nothing quite prepares you for the moment

when you realise that your analysis

has been tweeted out

to 31.1 million people...🤯

NEW – Q&A: Climate finance at World Bank and IMF spring meetings 2024 | Josh Gabbatiss

Read here: buff.ly/49UkKAa

Electric car sales in Europe will surge to record levels this year, according to the International Energy Agency

That's despite the many, many column inches in recent weeks dedicated to the 'slump' in electric car sales across the continent...

Proponents of unchecked global warming seem unable to grasp that the UK's net gas imports would have been 20% higher in 2023 without onshore wind (and 50% higher without wind power overall)

Telegraph's AI-bot columnist has glitched again and suffering yet more problems w/ hallucinations...

'destruction of driving'

Shame because if u prompt ChatGPT to 'write a column in style of Ross Clark' it actually does a decent job of mimicking such copy'n'paste 'journalism'

No biggie. Just Hillary Clinton tweeting our 'Trump vs Biden' analysis to her....

31m followers.

Carbon Brief

Doordarshan Anchor Faints During Live News Reading Of Heatwave Updates
ndtv.com/india-news/doo…

Must be why she told MPs during leadership hustings she believed in net zero, signed the Conservative Environment Pledge and asked me to deliver the #MissionZero report… lizards of the world unite!
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

His (wilful and calculated) denial and arrogance on this issue is something to behold - but refreshing to see the audience clearly seeing through it and mocking him...