Fossil-fueled chemicals boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe has an anti-EV tirade in today’s Daily Telegraph, littered with outright falsehoods, half-truths and selective facts Exhibit 1: Far from "coming to a halt", EV demand grew by 25% in Q1 of this year Let’s take a look shall we? 1/

V interesting new analysis out today from the IPPR. There have been plenty of reports saying we need to do what we can to rebuild manufacturing & grow green tech. But WHICH SECTORS could the UK actually compete in? This report provides some of the answers news.sky.com/story/rapid-st…

Your regular reminder that solar farms take up (a lot) less of the UK than golf courses carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is-s…

Wind turbines just casually out there, quietly doing their thing, providing more electricity than gas power plants. businessgreen.com/news/4213222/w…

Brilliant series of talks today in our FRESH symposium, this year focussing on EDI in geosciences including colonial legacies, open access, indigenous knowledge, & building more inclusive equitable geoscience. Talks from Sam Giles @TheDroneLady @jackieproven and others!

Energised by the Climate Conference this week at St Andrews run by James Rae & others. Science & arts folk sharing research, ideas, passion. I hope it will lead to a Research Centre at St Andrews that includes climate communication. Despair is quiet; Action is loud.

This is pretty remarkable. This modelling suggests energy costs would be lower if we decarbonise faster. H/t Adam Bell

Very eye-opening to see who's leading the way on clean energy investment – and who's leading on fossil fuels China: Clean energy investment 3.7x fossil fuels Europe: 5.5x more in clean energy N America: Biggest investor in fossil fuels Middle East: 5.4x more on fossil fuels

Big news! The University of St Andrews is teaming up with us to tackle climate and weather science challenges head-on with AI and advanced computing. ncas.ac.uk/new-university…

Come and join our friendly school! Great research, great students to teach, and a great part of the world to live and work in. Broad areas of interest across Earth’s surface environment: sediments, CCS, hydrogeology, geomorphology, carbon cycling, hazards… and many more!

Contender for favorite chart of all time: Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy.

🚨3 yr Postdoc in St Andrews🚨 Come join our lovely lab group and fill in a key gap in reconstructions of Cenozoic CO2! Part of exciting TONIC project on Oligocene carbon, climate, ice w great collabs. Looking 4 experience w isotopes / paleoclimate ⚒️🧪 vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/51…

Excited to be speaking Royal Society of Edinburgh this Wednesday eve on the 3 S’s of climate change: Simple, Serious, and Solvable. We’ll explore the climates of the distant past to understand the climate of the future. Free to attend and open to all! rse.org.uk/event/climate-…

Recording of my #climate talk below, using Scott Denning 3 S’s framing - Simple, Serious, Solvable - to discuss climate science, impacts, solutions. To see the GHG dance, VR Glasgow under Pliocene sea level, or a spectacular experiment fail check it out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPRpP…

"The urgency of mitigating climate change cannot change financial facts" - The Times and The Sunday Times Oh and which financial facts are those?!😠 (Time for an angry thread🧵) 1/n

Wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% since 1970. An update to the biodiversity stripes by Miles Richardson. findingnature.org.uk/2024/10/10/vis…

Absolute scenes in Cellardyke!