Daisy Dunne
@daisydunnesci
Special Correspondent @CarbonBrief Previously climate for @Independent 🌍🇵🇸 Sign up to our free weekly climate newsletter: https://t.co/f9auP684k8
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21-07-2009 18:02:40
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Carbon Brief's Solomon Elusoji speaks to doctors, a meteorologist and farmers about how ongoing extreme heat is affecting Nigeria
It comes amid a lack of comprehensive record-keeping about the impacts of extreme heat on African nations, both on a national and international level
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-…
MEGA FACTCHECK
Heat pumps are the “central technology in the global transition to secure and sustainable heating” says International Energy Agency.
But heat pumps still face relentless hostile media coverage.
I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief👇
carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-m…
NEW – ‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan | Josh Gabbatiss w/comment from Michael Steele
Read here: buff.ly/3TEO20R
🚨BREAKING🚨
Election victory for Trump could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030 – new Carbon Brief analysis
🎯US would blow past climate goals
😳would wipe out impact – twice over – from 5yrs of global clean energy growth
🥵would likely end 1.5C hopes
1/…
Really enjoyed writing DeBriefed, Carbon Brief's weekly newsletter on all things climate
Click for summary of key events + interview w/ authors of paper showing global support for climate action is 'systematically underestimated'
Edits by Daisy Dunne
carbonbrief.org/debriefed-16-f…
Our new study in NatureEcoEvo looks at how assemblages of birds, butterflies and plants have changed across Great Britain in the last 50 or so years.
🔗nature.com/articles/s4155…
🧵Some key results
NEW: Ever wondered what life is like for UK scientists doing fieldwork in the Arctic?
I went to British Antarctic Survey 🐧 on Wednesday to find out
Was also v cool to hear from a diverse range of scientists about their research, from algae to AI to invisible ecosystems!
carbonbrief.org/ny-alesund-how…
NEW – Q&A: What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15? | Aruna Chandrasekhar Daisy Dunne Orla Dwyer Yanine Quiroz Giuliana A. Viglione, PhD
Read here ➡️bit.ly/3vRs4hA
Biden has announced a surprise “pause” on new LNG export terminals
Josh Gabbatiss and I explore what it could mean for
🔥global emissions
🔥global LNG supplies and use
🔥Biden’s climate credibility in the run up to the election and on the global stage
carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does-b…
NEW: I interviewed Chris Skidmore for Carbon Brief
We cover
🔥his resignation
🔥PM’s “pivot towards trying to create a culture war on the back of net-zero”
🔥Govt’s “consistent pattern of favouritism” for oil and gas sector
& much more!
carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-bri…
It's astonishing how many editorials the likes of the Sun & Daily Mail printed last year attacking climate activists from Just Stop Oil etc.
Far more than at the height of XR actions in London.
All referring to them as a “criminal cult”, “deranged”...
➡️bit.ly/3H9PKAb