Tom Brookes

Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis Building rules have been focused on keeping warm in winter and saving on energy bills, not cooling down

Brutality of climate harm and dangerous heat. Especially harmful to the poorest & most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes - Carbon Brief Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030.

Read @carbonbrief.org's article by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and Ho Woo Nam here...

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Trump’s dismantling of 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 Paris Agreement.

Yes, SEVEN billion

Basically, equal to Indonesia's emissions over that period

Trump backs deep-sea mining hopefuls, risking international clash An executive order from Trump backing deep sea mining faces fierce environmental and international opposition.

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

“Authorizing deep-sea mining outside international law is like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite-it threatens ecosystems, global cooperation and US credibility all at once.”

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/25/t...

RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons WASHINGTON—Claiming the fantastical creatures were “way too cool” to leave their investigation to a handful of so-called experts, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a sta...

RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons

Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels - Carbon Brief UK newspapers have already launched more editorials attacking Ed Miliband in the first four months of 2025 than they did during the whole of 2024.

Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-att...

In a screeching u-turn, it emerges that Tony Blair does have a reverse gear after all

Extraordinary error of political judgement for him to make his initial attack on net zero policies a week after Starmer’s clean energy speech & days before local elections

5 reasons I (mostly) agree with Tony Blair on Net Zero It was just a few months ago when Tony Blair issued a paper hailing the Conservatives’ decision to put the Net Zero target into law as "a significant moment of statecraft and global leadership that he...

Interesting take from Joss Garman on Tony Blair’s intervention on Net Zero.

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Heartland Institute Reacts To Petro-Masculinity Concept With Pathetic Display Of Petro-Masculinity In March, we wrote about the misogynistic harassment that women climate activists like Sophia Kianni and Greta Thunberg face online. In April, Kianni tweeted out quotes from the syndicated Red, Green,...

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We must rethink energy security for today’s complex world Governments and businesses need to work together in realising a secure and sustainable vision of energy abundance

www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment Move could open the door to using high-profile report to attack climate science

@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.

@rparloff.bsky.social love your work sir.

Daniele Artico, physicist, will go on trial in Berlin, Germany, for acts of civil disobedience in resistance against governments' complicity in the suffering of peoples during the ongoing climate emergency. #ScientistsOnTrial

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

Anyone starting to see a pattern here at all?

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
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Capitalism Will Ruin the Earth By 2050, Scientists Say
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Some awfully good signs yesterday.

Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️

@wsj.com

Signalgate: the investigations begin DOD Inspector General launches investigation into Signalgate. Here's why this is potentially a VERY big deal.

Signalgate: the investigations begin
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Delhi-ghtful! India mulls 2035 ICE ban, blocks fuel sales to older vehicles Lawmakers in India have begun high-level discussions about a plan to phase out gas and diesel combustion vehicles by 2035.

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Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

[Statement] South Korea’s impeachment and what it means for the nation’s climate

forourclimate.org/newsroom/1049

Brussels municipality advocates regional ban on fossil fuel advertising Saint-Gilles hopes other municipalities will follow its lead, aiming to follow the example of cities like The Hague, Edinburgh, and Sydney.

www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/150...

Food systems are the missing ingredient from the COP30 menu Despite COP30 being held in the Amazon, Brazil has stayed silent on the food systems crisis, the top driver of its deforestation

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/03/20/f...

The American and European Publics Still Stand With Ukraine | by Mathieu Lefèvre & Tim Dixon - Project Syndicate Mathieu Lefèvre & Tim Dixon share survey findings that show strong majority support for Ukraine’s defense against foreign aggression.

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Watching the variability and long-term decline of February #Arctic sea-ice thickness and sea-ice volume...

+ Data information: climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...

More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut (Gift Article) Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.

Americans might want to move from anywhere that experience extreme weather and ocean conditions. Not having accurate forecasts will kill lots of people.

Shocking, I know, but there's a fatal flaw behind this week's anti-net-zero frontpage in the Daily Telegraph

@adambell.bsky.social digs into its "baffling" confusion of electricity *generation* (which fell from 2005) & *capacity* (which did not)

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"If there is a silver lining in all this, it’s the casting off of the illusion that private finance would ever prioritize climate goals over profit . . . this might mean wider opportunity to refocus on fundamental financial reforms. These include the high cost of capital for global South countries."

a chart showing the warming 'pause'

It's so weird that we've sort of forgotten this but there was like, maybe a 3-4 year period where climate deniers and 'lukewarmists' insisted that warming had 'paused', ended up just being flat-out and incredibly wrong about it, and then just go to move on

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