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Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says

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NEW – Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change?

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😬I'm sure this will be fine😬 "Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study"


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urgh the absolute worst

er…what DOES "PMC" mean?

Gas demand overall was at its lowest since 1992.

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

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Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters.

They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close.

Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.

One thing that is not discussed enough with the Tory and Reform stance on net zero and the North Sea is that it has massive 'dog that caught the car' Brexit redux vibes. Imagine what would happen if they won and enacted this policy...

Production peaked in 2000 and has fallen consistently even through periods when the government was issuing new licenses and had an official policy of maximising output. You could marginally slow the decline with new licenses, but the idea it will suddenly ensure UK energy security is absurd.

Apropos of nothing in particular, just resharing this chart showing why North Sea gas is drying up (we burned it all already)

Please don't make me tap the sign

Yup
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Bit old but don't think anything has changed
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It's crazy how reliant the world's entire energy system is on one body of water, the Strait of Hormuz, just 20 nautical miles across at its narrowest, and situated in one of the most volatile regions on Earth. Here are the countries most dependent on oil&gas through the strait.

This seems unnecessarily contrarian. Sure the cost of capital for renewables rises a bit, but the cost of 1-month gas futures just rose *50%*. Of course people will build more renewables, and more batteries.

UK & European gas price benchmarks have both hit 12-month highs, jumping ~50% today after Qatar paused production in the face of Iranian attacks

But it's worth putting this in perspective – we're a long way off the insane spikes we saw after Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Via @steveforden.bsky.social, this is a spicy take by traders on LNG risk following the weekend. If sustained, the political impact will be considerable.

The great British electricity puzzle It turns out that making the transition to clean energy while keeping the price down is hard

This is a frustrating column by Martin Wolf - which is sadly typical of a lot of economics commentary on GB energy.

It does identify some of the key causes of high electricity prices - including Britain’s high exposure to gas prices and rising network costs. But there’s a lot it leaves out…

FT's Gillian Tett on Trump's "mad" energy policy

"[His] 'drill, baby, drill' mantra makes him reluctant to embrace renewables…Last [yr] energy dept terminated a $4.9bn loan guarantee for an 800-mile…power line to take wind power from Kansas to Illinois & Indiana. This is mad."

Breaking: China's official statistics report a 0.3% drop in CO2 emissions from energy&industry in 2025, the third time that annual emissions have fallen this century and the first fall predominantly driven by clean energy growth. 🧵

FUN FACT: The UK has nearly twice as many public EV chargers as fuel pumps

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Brazil cracking on with developing a global 'roadmap' off fossil fuels... letter to 190+ countries today asks for input by March 31 on what it should include.

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And guess what's going to happen this year?

Aberdeen Hydrogen bus fleet to be sold off - Aberdeen Business News Aberdeen City Council is set to sell its entire fleet of 25 hydrogen double-decker buses and exit a £20 million joint venture with oil giant BP, marking the

I've largely stopped posting #HydrogenSoufflé because it seems distasteful to dance on the graves of so many dreams. But... Aberdeen is flogging its hydrogen bus fleet for scrap.

How much money was wasted on this 100% predicable outcome? Will heads roll?
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I don't know about "awful", but yes, it's a stock non-answer that fails to engage with the premise of the question

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet....

and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues....

this is the pivot that scares Labour the most