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ECIU @eciu.net · 2h

Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather bites

New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests.
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Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather…

New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 3d

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For the first time in history, renewable energy has produced more of the world's electricity than coal, finds new @ember-energy.org analysis

Renewables outstripped coal in China & India in H1 2025, but reverse was true in US & Europe

✍️ @t0mclark3.bsky.social

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Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say

Solar and wind are now growing fast enough to not only meet the world's growing appetite for electricity, but to outstrip it.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 8d

Business and energy groups alarmed by Kemi Badenoch plan to scrap the Climate Change Act

It's the UK's landmark climate law that caps pollution, but which she blames for pushing up energy bills and delaying developments

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Business and green groups alarmed by Tory plan to scrap climate pollution rules

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch vowed to scrap the Climate Change Act to boost cheap energy and economic growth. While certain impacts of the act have worried all political parties, many warned scra...

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 9d

Labour pledges permanent ban on fracking

Ed Miliband has vowed to "ban fracking" for good, as he drew yet another dividing line with Reform during his speech at the Labour Party conference.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 15d

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China has made a landmark climate pledge... that is 'critically short' of what some analysts say is needed.

But it may well be better than it seems...

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China does targets differently to the West - and it may be just what the world needs

China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, but is also a clean energy superpower. The regime there will be key to any global effort to tackle climate change.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 16d

Super typhoon in China forces nearly 2m people to evacuate their homes, with flights cancelled and schools and businesses shuttered

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China and Hong Kong brace for super typhoon after 15 killed in Taiwan - with 17 missing

Super Typhoon Ragasa is set to hit China's Guangdong province, where nearly 1.9 million people were relocated, while Hong Kong's storm level is at its highest level of 10.

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 17d

Proposals to flush your loo with rainwater to battle England's drought - and unblock new homes

New homes in England could be fitted with mandatory water-saving showers and toilets under government proposals to save water.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 17d

Bill payers to back 'super-battery' projects

Long-duration energy storage (LDES) is hoped to address the problem of intermittent supply from wind & solar, which often produce excess power that can't be used at the time nor stored for later

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Energy bill payers to back 'super-battery' projects

Regulator Ofgem has announced a shortlist of schemes intended to store renewable power - and stop wind farms being paid to switch off.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 22d

37% of FTSE100 chief execs went to private school
62% senior judges,
52% House of Lords (95% hereditary peers, half of whom went to Eton)
50% newspaper columnists
45% podcasters
47% political commentators

About 6% of UK is privately educated
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Privately educated Britons much more likely to hold top jobs

The most influential people in the UK are five times more likely to have gone to private school, according to a report by the Sutton Trust

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 24d

Now that GB Energy is set up in law, has a permanent CEO and Board and has started funding it's first projects, the government have today set out it's priorities for the years ahead.

Aiming for it to be financially self-sufficient from 2030 (with any profits reinvested), 3 key areas to...

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Clean energy and jobs from publicly-owned Great British Energy

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has set out his vision for Great British Energy, the UK’s publicly-owned clean power company.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 24d

NEW stats on drought in England from EA:

- More areas likely to declare drought in next few weeks
- Reservoirs fell further last week. Now 56.1% full on average v 82.8% average for time of year
- Lowest are Pennines group @29%, Yorkshire stocks 30.3%
- Some Atlantic salmon streams have dried up

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 25d

US & UK firms announce new nuclear energy deals ahead of Trump visit

He's expected to sign an agreement with UK to speed up building process and generate thousands of jobs

Industry says notoriously slow and ££ nuclear is now finally getting quicker and cheaper
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UK and US firms announce deals in new 'golden age' of nuclear power ahead of Trump visit

UK and US firms announce five new commercial deals, including for a new nuclear power plant in Hartlepool, before President Trump arrives in the UK on Tuesday. They will be underpinned by a refreshed ...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is pretty funny from Miliband. "I'll give you the energy and climate brief when you pry it from my cold, dead hands".

The prime minister’s first choice to take over Angela Rayner’s housing and local government responsibilities was Ed Miliband, but he refused to leave energy and climate change. This appears to have been the one part of the reshuffle that didn’t quite go Starmer’s way.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Sep 8

First came global warming, now there's talk of 'global weirding' because of just how strange our weather is becoming.

Good chance of wetter and windier autumn in UK, but it may not clear the drought; in fact we could see drought and flooding in same place. Weird.

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UK weather: Rain likely above average this autumn – but why it might not clear the drought

The Met Office detects chances of above-average rain and wind for autumn - but some areas would be worse affected, and drought may persist.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Sep 8

If Badenoch is ousted and Jenrick succeeds her, Tories will move closer to Reform.
But if Cleverly became Tory leader, it's likely he will reinstate net zero policies, creating more distance with Reform

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Tory Net Zero push undermines Kemi Badenoch

Earlier this week, the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch pledged to make drilling for North Sea gas and oil a “cornerstone of Britain’s future”, claiming this was being “strangled” by Energy Secretary Ed Mili...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Ms Badenoch is right that the North Sea will be the cornerstone of UK's energy future, but what happens above the surface will be more consequential than what lies beneath

"Wind power is already the engine room of the grid, providing 30% of UK's electricity last year"

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Drill, maybe, drill: Why North Sea oil and gas will not meet UK energy needs

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wants to maximise North Sea extraction but reserves are in decline and will not cut the cost of the energy transition.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Brazil implores businesses to attend COP30 climate talks, despite 'second thoughts' amid Trump backlash

Wording is v. diplomatic, but reading between the lines...

There's clearly a worry about biz ditching climate initiatives, banking alliances and COP itself
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Brazil implores businesses to attend major climate summit, despite 'second thoughts' amid Trump backlash

November's COP30 summit comes at a precarious time for climate action, as companies back away from environmental initiatives, and attacks on green energy by President Trump.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Calls to charge SUV drivers more for parking amid anger at 'carspreading'

"only fair that those vehicles that do more damage pay a fair share of the cost that society has to pick up" @cleancitiescampaign.org

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Calls to charge SUV drivers more for parking amid 'carspreading'

Campaigners want higher parking charges for SUVs, which they say are driving up emissions, congestion and road danger. But not everyone is on board.

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Fresh probe intensifies scrutiny of Drax, which is subsidised by bill payers to burn wood to create electricity - an energy source deemed "important" but whose environmental benefits are disputed

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Aug 20

Great chart from the FT showing the French nuclear fleet is now routinely flexing down, to accommodate rising solar generation

(People often talk about how some reactors CAN flex; but it's often assumed that they WON'T, due to economic incentives)

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Aug 11

'Shocked and amazed': remains of British researcher found scattered in a glacier, 60 years after he died and was almost rescued

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'Shocked and amazed': remains of British researcher found in a glacier, 60 years after he died

Dennis "Tink" Bell was almost rescued after he fell down a crack in a glacier in 1959, before falling a second, deadly, time. His brother said the findings had helped the family "come to terms with th...

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's controversial, and relates to science, so yes that counts! Keep 'em coming...

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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · Aug 7

Question for energy/climate/science sky:

What's the most controversial thing in science right now?

Geoengineering?
De-extinction?
"Why can't we just adapt"?
Something AI?

Something else?

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Sky News @news.sky.com · Aug 5

Mystery of what killed billions of starfish solved, say scientists

More than a decade after a mysterious killer devastated sea star populations along the Pacific coast of North America, scientists believe they have finally found the culprit.

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