While tracking mining on land has been my main jam, the deep sea has emerged as the new mining frontier in the global critical minerals race. As #ISA29 seabed mining talks heat up and more countries call for pause in face of new 🫧 science, here's our Carbon Brief deep sea dive.

NEW – ‘Every 0.1C’ of overshoot above 1.5C increases risk of crossing tipping points | Ayesha Tandon w/ comment from Annika Högner Tessa Möller David A. McKay (@[email protected]) Read here: buff.ly/3WrtNnx

NEW – Rural ‘buffer ring’ can reduce urban heat island effect by more than 0.5C | Ada Carpenter w/ comment from Shi-Jie Cao Dr Chloe Brimicombe Read here: buff.ly/4c50flj

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NEW – IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report | Ayesha Tandon Robert McSweeney w/ comment from Dr Friederike Otto David Lapola Hannah Hughes Aromar Revi Prof Lisa Schipper 🌎 ✊ Zack Labe Read here: buff.ly/46ymPlp

Really excited to announce that my brilliant colleague Daisy Dunne has been promoted from being Carbon Brief's Special Correspondent to Associate Editor. In addition to all her amazing articles, Daisy edits our weekly newsletter DeBriefed and oversees our intern scheme.

The section on climate change in the Musk/Trump "interview" is just *wild* It really is worth reading in full to get a sense of the two men. Just off-the-scale levels of ignorance, denial, misinformation and half-truths. I've put the transcript here docs.google.com/document/d/1OS…

Climate change made the “extreme burst” of rain that triggered the Wayanad landslides 10% heavier, per a new World Weather Attribution attribution study. It surpassed even the torrential rain that contributed to the 2018 floods. Like then, there’s more than rain at play. w/ Ayesha Tandon

NEW: More than 3/4 of prisons in England & Wales face a “high risk” of overheating in the next 15 years, according to government data obtained by FOI This interactive shows how prisoners will bear the brunt of heatwaves & floods as the world gets hotter➡️ buff.ly/3SQj84K

What’s happened this week in climate change? DeBriefed | ‘Fire weather’ on the rise; Trump and Musk have ‘dumbest climate conversation of all time’; Hurricane hunting ✍️ Written by Robert McSweeney 💻 Edited by Daisy Dunne ➡️ buff.ly/3YN2SoZ

NEW – Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world | Orla Dwyer Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3YXqY0d

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New study: Thanks to advances such as solar, wind or electric vehicles, the technological feasibility of climate-neutrality is no longer the most crucial issue. It is much more about how fast climate policy ambition can be ramped up by governments. carbonbrief.org/meeting-1-5c-w…

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NEW – Q&A: The global ‘trade war’ over China’s booming EV industry | Song_W Dr Verner Viisainen - vernerviisas.bsky.social Anika Patel w/ comment from Yao Zhe Jacob Gunter Gregor Sebastian Belinda Schäpe 林孝蓓 Joe Webster Read here: buff.ly/4cIljP0

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Oh dear, some pretty major mistakes made in this The Telegraph article on the Government renewables auction results today. Some mistakes have been spotted and it's already undergone hefty revisions (see below) - but it remains fundamentally misleading. Here's what it got wrong 🧵

NEW: UK battery EV sales climbed 11% in August claiming 22.6% market share – above the mandated level for this year under ZEV Meanwhile, petrol dropped 10% and diesel another 7% Year-to-date, BEV sales are UP by 10.5%, petrol flat and diesel down 13% File under: "EV sales are

NEW – Reducing ‘overconsumption’ of meat and dairy could cut one-sixth of food emissions | Yanine Quiroz w/ comment from Yanxian Li Klaus Hubacek Andrêa Ferreira, PhD. #zer0inequalities Read here: buff.ly/47hhOxP