Richard Dixon

Environmental Standards Scotland Board Recruitment Event Hosted by CtC Environmental Standards Scotland is recruiting for its Board. Join us to find out more and if it may be right for you.

Come and hear from me, Vice Chair Marie Fallon and CEO Mark Roberts about what it's like to be on the Board of @EnvStanScot and the kind of skills we are looking for a new Board member ... Online chat, Monday at 5:30.

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Come & join me on the Board of @envstanscot.bsky.social and make sure environmental law works! If you have great skills in communications or law we'd particularly love to hear from you. Closing date 17th November. Here's me talking about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrGX...

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Broken equipment at Sullom Voe caused decade-long peak in emissions Shetland's methane emissions reached their highest level in a decade last year, driven by broken kit at EnQuest’s Sullom Voe terminal.

A compressor at Shetland's oil terminal broke for *nine* straight months last year, pushing the isles' entire methane emissions to a near decade high.

"It's an embarrassment for the whole community."

@alexjarmitage.bsky.social @r-dixon.bsky.social

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Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh look, more than 80% of protected habitats in the EU are in a poor or bad state, according to a report by the EPA.

#collapse

Protect Arctic from 'dangerous' climate engineering, scientists warn Controversial approaches to cooling the planet are unlikely to work, according to dozens of polar scientists.

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Report: Most 2026 World Cup stadiums ‘unsafe for play’ due to climate crisis - edie Most of 16 stadiums hosting 2026’s FIFA World Cup will likely breach temperature safe-play limits as climate change progresses, sustainable sport researchers have warned. They believe the forthcoming ...

At last, something to make people take climate change seriously …

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5th warmest August ever 4 Scotland; 2nd warmest summer; still on track 4 warmest year ever

5th warmest August ever recorded, ave temperature 14.6ºC - 1.4ºC warmer than average. Summer 2025 was the second warmest summer ever, very narrowly beaten by 2004.

www.rdixon.scot/2025/09/02/a...

@LePapillonBlu2 Maya
We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳

"It's grossly financially negligent to a criminal degree to leave that value underground and not to extract it."
What????
“It’s grossly negligent to a criminal degree to frack for #FossilFuel when there’s a #ClimateEmergency.”
There. Fixed it.

Not again, ⁦‪⁦‪@Telegraph‬⁩ ! Please stop announcing #ClimateChange with photos of folk having fun. What about the crop losses, the Scottish wildfires, the hosepipe bans etc etc
Not a funfair. Please.

Another ‘surprise’ effect of #ClimateChange.
It will touch every aspect of our life.

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

“AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial" | Article by @joeygrostern.bsky.social for @desmog.com:

www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...

New research shows climate change has already reshaped biodiversity: tropical bird populations declined by 25–38% (1950–2020) due to heat extremes. Even in ‘undisturbed’ habitats, human-driven warming is driving losses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by The Eco Experts The renewable energy revolution | Positive Energy with Jan Rosenow

NEW PODCAST: How to stay optimistic when fossil fuels still dominate

Why I’m hopeful:

Momentum: clean energy keeps breaking records
Diffusion: slow… then everywhere
Pragmatism: make clean the default
People power: cities/companies act even when policy stalls

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmI...

The climate crisis is real and worsening. Cycled up to Loch Lednock yesterday nr. Comrie, water levels down so far the old shielings make an appearance.

Global Renewable Energy Investment Still Reaches New Record as Investors Reassess Risks | BloombergNEF BloombergNEF’s annual Electric Vehicle Outlook (EVO) expects nearly 22 million battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales this year, up 25% from 2024, as the cost of lithium-ion batteries falls...

ICYMI: Global renewable energy investment has hit another record high, up 10% over last year. But in the US, large-scale wind and solar investment has plummeted to levels last seen in 2006.

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw

Scotland is on high risk alert for wildfires for the tenth time this year, and last month saw the largest ever wildfires in Scotland. We looked at the future prospects for wildfires for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's report 'Into the Red' this spring.

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UK nuclear safety rules to be relaxed to speed up new power plants Ministers will pledge to cut ‘needless bureaucracy’ after a review found excessive caution and inconsistent regulation were delaying nuclear energy projects

UK govt wants to deregulate nuclear safety rules

The complaint is regulators have a “culture of risk aversion”

Personally, I like my nuclear regulators to be risk averse. "Economic growth" shouldn't be their job

Nuclear accidents damage land & sea for generations

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s - Carbon Brief An uptick in heat extremes has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to new analysis.

NEW – Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @alexpigot.bsky.social

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Pleased to be featured in this @ScotNational story on Scotland's extreme weather with @Richard_Dixon.

With record breaking temperatures and increasingly intense storms and wildfires, urgent action is needed both to reduce emissions and protect communities.

www.thenational.scot/news/2537830...

Ruth Wishart: The world won't be ‘safer and stronger’ for those who need help From my kitchen window, you can see the sleek black shape of a Vanguard submarine passing before going off on patrol ...

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Exposing a week of Daily Telegraph distortions about green energy!
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Climate change fuelled migration poses “growing threat” to UK food… New analysis finds £3 billion worth of UK food, including rice, tea and mangos, comes from countries experiencing high levels of displacement fuelled by climate change.

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Glasgow's LEZ has led to improved air quality, report finds

Air quality in Glasgow City centre has improved significantly since the Low Emission Zone was enforced, according to the latest monitoring report.

And this is the alarming extent of the wildfires.

Much of Canada is burning.

The images of the impact of 2025’s climate on Canadian forests are horrific.

The fires of 2026-2029 will be far worse.

The fires of the 2030s will be apocalyptic.