Great to talk to Carbon Brief’s Ayesha Tandon for this fab wide-raging look at climate migration #NomadCentury

NEW: Climate-driven migration mini-series 👣

After 2+ years of research and writing, I am SO excited to share this work!

1️⃣In-depth Q&A:
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2️⃣Climate-driven migration in rural Thailand:

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Video youtu.be/SQ2NytrueUQ?si…

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We may never solve the mystery of why these people think Reform is the party for them.

Radical right-wing charities on Tufton Street, like the Global Warming Policy Foundation, are constantly spreading harmful climate change disinformation & denial. What does the Charity Commission do to stop them? Nothing. So we're taking them to court 👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Rob is being very diplomatic

This Daily Telegraph headline is FALSE – as indeed is the entire premise of the article, which looks to have been placed by Tufton Street lobbyists

Publicly available data shows weather-related rail delays have not, in fact, fallen in recent years

The rate of warming has increased notably over the past 15 years. This is not just natural variability – there is increasing evidence that the world is now warming faster than it has since 1970.

However, this should not come as a surprise; acceleration is exactly what our models…

FACTCHECK

The The Telegraph reported today that Network Rail’s £2.8bn plan to cope with extreme weather has been “undermine[d]” because “weather-related train disruption has decreased over the past few years”.

Let’s have a look at that claim:

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NEW – Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect | Zeke Hausfather

Read here: buff.ly/3U4HvN6

China Briefing | Heat-driven impact on economy; Coal capacity ‘pushed down’; China’s WTO complaint

✍️ Anika Patel

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3VPbSZd

NEW: You've heard the controversies around net-zero, but what about net-negative?

I explore the moral & scientific arguments for countries turning into net-hoovers of CO2, as Germany becomes 1st major econ to consider it

Ft Joeri Rogelj & David Reiner
carbonbrief.org/explainer-why-…

World Tackles Climate Change (2024 edition)...

'China ships Tibetan glacier water to climate-threatened Maldives'

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-…

The comment section of the Telegraph is already one of the most bonkers, fact-free areas of the internet. And now this.

It is honestly hard to tell whether some of the opinions being spouted there are comedic trolling or deadly serious.

OFFICIAL: UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% to 384MtCO2e in 2023, according to govt figures

This confirms Carbon Brief analysis, published earlier this month, of a 5.7% reduction to 383MtCO2e

carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-em…

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽

Cropped | Bankrolling meat and dairy; EU nature restoration pushback; Missing cherry blossoms

✍️ Aruna Chandrasekhar Orla Dwyer

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3TylODS

NEW – Antarctic sea ice ‘behaving strangely’ as Arctic reaches ‘below-average’ winter peak | Ayesha Tandon w/comment from Mark C. Serreze Zack Labe

Read here: buff.ly/3TRkahR

Hugely important findings for heat electrification: Hourly gas data proves peak heat demand is far lower than previously thought

'domestic peak heat demand in GB can be up to 149GW, which is up to 53% less than previously widely cited values'

cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Article in Mail+ about an 'electric' Jaguar E-pace going 'rogue' and smashing up other cars

But as others have pointed out, the E-Pace isn't electric

This is very worrying - basic research is being deprioritised in rush to produce anti-EV clickbait

Editorial in Financial Times:

'The world is warming faster than scientists expected'

ft.com/content/6f8581…

Remember the fire at Luton Airport? All those people claiming it was started by an EV...

Well, Beds Fire Service have completed their investigation:

'The vehicle involved was diesel-powered – it was not a mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle'

bedsfire.gov.uk/news/fire-airp…

MEGA FACTCHECK

18 persistent myths about heat pumps, busted

TL;DR heat pumps cut CO2 by 77+% vs gas; they're the key tech for net-zero heat; and if you think they won't keep you warm, just ask the Norwegians

Many thanks to Jan Rosenow for writing this

carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-m…