Will Vowell

Wow?!

BBC News homepage has just significantly downgraded the placing of its "Climate" section on its menu bar

Climate is now ranked last, lower than Tech.

Earlier this month "Climate" was ranked above World, UK, US&Canada, Business and Tech

‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by en...

🔴 NEW - ‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports

The people behind the reports are tied to the fossil fuel industry and climate science denial groups.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

British media ‘divorcing’ net zero from climate change, finds analysis Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy.

Full coverage of our report here in @euronews.com:

www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Fair & accurate media reporting is vital if we are to ensure the public understands why net zero exists.

At the very least, articles covering net zero could briefly explain that scientists say net zero is essential for stopping climate change.

Hopefully newspapers can step up to the plate in 2026…

You might expect public understanding of net zero to have improved since it became law - but widespread confusion remains.

A recent @climatebarometer.bsky.social survey found 22% wrongly thought net zero meant ‘producing no carbon emissions at all’ - rising to 41% amongst Reform UK supporters.

Back in 2018, 90% of UK national newspaper articles referring to net zero also mentioned climate change. By 2024, that number had fallen to 42%.

Four articles last year (in the Express & Telegraph) referred to net zero a total of eight times - but included no mention of climate change at all.

NEW: joint @eciu.net & @reutersinstitute.bsky.social research finds the link between the problem of climate change, and its solution of net zero, is quietly being severed.

While support for tackling climate change remains popular, the necessary response gets demonised. 🧵

Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/mzwr

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.

By my count, that is now the THIRTEENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 16 separate articles).

I have now added latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

'Double standards': Media accused of routinely mispresenting pace of EV roll out More than 40 UK national media articles have incorrectly reported companies are missing their Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate targets, according to ECIU

@eciu.net has kept the receipts on some very dubious media claims about EV adoption. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522703...

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.

By my count, that is now the TWELFTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 15 separate articles).

I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

The Telegraph has published a list of some of the BBC’s “errors” in its climate change coverage

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:

After successful complaints via IPSO, the Express has been forced to provide correction notices on three articles.

No comment from the Daily Express or Lois Perry herself, but there have been no columns since late August…

Piece by @josiah.writes.news in this month’s @bylinetimes.bsky.social 👇

Errors include:

- “green jobs are down by 28,000 since 2014” (green jobs have risen every year since 2020)
- Miliband wishes to ban all new oil & gas boilers within a decade” (he’s on the record saying he won’t)
- saying heat pumps are 2x as likely to break down as gas boilers (stat is invented)

🚨Rare defeat for climate misinformation🚨

Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers.

After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.

By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles).

I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

Why are bills going up by £100 in April?

R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*"

With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...

💵 ENERGY BILLS & RENEWABLES

How much are they going up by?
Why are they going up?
What are the long-term causes of high bills?

A short 🧵 on why the answer isn't all blowing in the wind...

Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳

❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr
✅They actually GREW…by 62%

Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔
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It seems to be contagious.

Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...

Nice to see @theguardian.com print my letter in response to Simon Jenkins’ ill-informed article about wind farms and net zero.

Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt

Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…"

In fact, the OBR had said the opposite!
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Clean Heat Market Mechanism: who it applies to, annual tasks Check if you're affected by the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM). See what actions you must take each scheme year.

There is a Clean Heat Market Mechanism, which places an obligation on manufacturers of gas boilers to meet targets for the installation of heat pumps in proportion to their sales of gas boilers. This scheme *does not ban gas heating systems*.

www.gov.uk/guidance/cle...

The evidence:

In January 2025, giving evidence to the ESNZ Select Committee, when asked if “there will be a ban on installing new gas boilers in existing homes from 2035”, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said: “There will not be a ban.”

committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...

Embarrassing error from Juliet Samuel in the Times, writing: "gas heating bans will destroy boiler manufacturing".

Except there is no gas heating ban of any kind, nor plans for any.

Glad the inaccuracy has now been corrected - shame it happened in the first place.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Well this is strange 🧐

Yesterday the @telegraphnews.bsky.social had an article about Ofgem's much-needed £24bn investment in upgrading the gas and electricity networks.

The author correctly stated that the *net increase* on an energy bill would be £24/yr by 2031

(£104/yr added, £80 saving):

Kemi Badenoch's oil & gas speech: "When the oil and gas windfall tax was brought in, the oil price was near a historic high...but for months there has not been a windfall to tax"

The global oil price today, after conflict in Israel / Iran overnight📈

tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cr...

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.

By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles).

I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

Melanie Phillips had a misleading column in
@thetimes.com yesterday

Claiming "net zero targets" have driven up energy prices, when actually it's the cost of gas

Here's a letter in this morning's paper challenging it.