@jsandlerclarke.bsky.social
Journalist. Focus on climate change and human rights. https://projects.unearthed.greenpeace.org/big-oil-iraq/
NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL
How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’
Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.
The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it
🚨Last weekend, Reform UK held their party conference in Birmingham, and as expected, it was a magnet to a range of conspiracy theories and wild, fringe ideas. 🧲
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...
Reform says it wants to drill in the North Sea so the UK is not dependent on foreign oil.
Is that why its climate panel is sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a U.S. think tank funded by ExxonMobil? 🤔
www.desmog.com/heartland-in...
NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️
We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.
The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵
💥NEW: We can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/e...
“Unhinged plastic production is the petrochemical industry’s plan B. They know the world is moving away from fossil fuels” says Panama's Juan Carlos Monterrey-Gomez “They have infiltrated these negotiations, trying to safeguard their profit"
#plasticstreaty
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/11/d...
Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them
11.08.2025 04:50 — 👍 353 🔁 152 💬 8 📌 10
🔴 NEW 🔴
How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution
A flagship media workshop partnered with an industry group backed by Shell and ExxonMobil.
📝 Raluca Besliu and Aleksandra Pogorzelska
How can you square an ambition to win the league with having lowest wages to revenue ratio in the league?
How do you justify constant ticket price rises and removing senior concessions?
Instead you have a tedious and hard to follow abstract conversation about football governance.
There are so many questions Spurs would like to ask Levy.
It's a shame none of them were asked here.
youtube.com/watch?v=MVEg...
Nice article; poor headline.
It is both too late to save some things and time enough to save others. The Earth System has numerous feedbacks, both positive and negative. Tipping point thresholds are diverse - we've crossed some already but many can be avoided.
theconversation.com/only-3-years...
Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
Hurricane forecasting has doubled in accuracy during the past 15 years thanks mostly to NOAA researchers at the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami.
Guess which scientific lab the new Trump budget is going to zero out entirely.
And not just this lab but *all* NOAA labs.
Meta has been accused of using faulty data to train an artificial intelligence climate tool, with scientists claiming the Big Tech group raised false hopes about the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale. The tech company said last year that it had helped researchers with the elusive problem of identifying materials to efficiently remove carbon dioxide from air, by publishing a “groundbreaking” data set on which it also trained free-to-use machine learning models. But none of the 135 materials that Meta’s research said could bind CO₂ “strongly” had that characteristic, while some did not exist, according to researchers from Heriot-Watt University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). “I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more,” said Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering at EPFL, describing some of Meta’s results as “nonsense”. “You get the impression that the Big Tech mentality is do first, think later.”
This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated
archive.is/8sYNv
a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site
Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre
“appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight"
@selc.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Climate reasons to be fearful:
1. Labour wastes £££ on (oil&gas fave) carbon capture
2. Tories drop net zero
3. Rise of Reform UK (climate deniers)
4. Media outlets bought by fossil fuel investors (Spectator & Telegraph)
5. Trumpland influence on UK
Read more 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/07/04/c...
#SaharanDust transport across the Atlantic over the past 10 days as latest plume reaches the Caribbean on 5 July shown in PM10 surface concentration anomalies from #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol alerts aerosol-alerts.atmosphere.copernicus.eu?view=3d&lat=... #airquality @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
05.07.2025 20:06 — 👍 83 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 4
🧊 Ice sheets are melting faster
A 31-year satellite study shows sharp rises in meltwater from Greenland and East Antarctica, regions once too cold are now hotspots.
This could speed up sea-level rise and threaten ice shelf stability.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #ClimateChange 🧪
NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Thurrock council has debts of close to £1bn, but it has still been able to pay top London law firms to support an injunction stopping climate protests.
Turns out the council had help from government to pay their legal bills last year.
novaramedia.com/2025/07/03/r...
Honestly, I've been saying it for a while, but Polish solar is one of the most interesting stories in renewables in the world right now.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/eastern-eu...
Renewable energy reached 44% of Poland's electricity production in June
Big milestone in Poland, where renewables overtake coal
www.ft.com/content/ae92...
To help understand air pollution health effects, researchers at Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering quantified how the amount of submicron particles in the air has changed over the past 25 years.
Read more about their study on PM 1 across the United States: bit.ly/46lFSRE
Thurrock council, despite having debts of close to £1bn, has spent considerable sums to enforce an injunction preventing protests by climate activists.
Turns out they had financial help last year from Michael Gove.
My story for Novara.
novaramedia.com/2025/07/03/r...
Most of the greenhouse gas reductions in the US have been an accidental byproduct of the switch from coal to methane gas, and by the way, new research suggests that methane gas leaks *far* more than the EPA estimates, which means even those reductions may be illusory. Whee!
30.06.2025 20:09 — 👍 172 🔁 40 💬 6 📌 5
A really clever tool from @edhawkins.org showing how today's hot weather is far from normal.
istheukhotrightnow.com
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
Clever FOI work and analysis by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for @carbonbrief.org
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