Simon Evans
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
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Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
Press Awards 2025
Press Gazette 2025
AOP 2025
Deputy Ed + Snr Policy Ed, Carbon Brief
[email protected]
No it's fine! Just so very tired of it all 😜 Very good thread, should be compulsory reading for all politicos. Inability to understand counterfactuals should be disqualifying.
February 8, 2026 at 10:21 PM
No it's fine! Just so very tired of it all 😜 Very good thread, should be compulsory reading for all politicos. Inability to understand counterfactuals should be disqualifying.
Is this frustration in relation to something general, specific, or both…? (He asks with trepidation)
February 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Is this frustration in relation to something general, specific, or both…? (He asks with trepidation)
Yes that too, but let's not jump the gun Adam, please
February 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Yes that too, but let's not jump the gun Adam, please
Replace "they were"with "McSweeney was" and you'd be on to something
February 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Replace "they were"with "McSweeney was" and you'd be on to something
I don't think the oil and gas industry were the ones lobbying for nuclear TBF. And as to whether they've shafted long term storage, we should maybe wait to see results of first Ofgem tender, no?
February 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I don't think the oil and gas industry were the ones lobbying for nuclear TBF. And as to whether they've shafted long term storage, we should maybe wait to see results of first Ofgem tender, no?
…as well as being supported by the vast majority of Lab/Lib/Gn voters, almost all Labour MPs, a 2-1 majority of voters overall and – even now – a healthy majority of Con voters
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
…as well as being supported by the vast majority of Lab/Lib/Gn voters, almost all Labour MPs, a 2-1 majority of voters overall and – even now – a healthy majority of Con voters
They say it'd be +1% out to 2050 and I think from a quick read that's in total rather than annually, tho would need to double check
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
They say it'd be +1% out to 2050 and I think from a quick read that's in total rather than annually, tho would need to double check
Overall, UK solar growth in 2025 reached the highest level in a decade, but is yet to recover from the crash that followed the then-Conservative "cutting the green crap" in the 2010s
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January 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Overall, UK solar growth in 2025 reached the highest level in a decade, but is yet to recover from the crash that followed the then-Conservative "cutting the green crap" in the 2010s
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As in you once thought that offshore wind could be super cheap too?
January 28, 2026 at 1:14 PM
As in you once thought that offshore wind could be super cheap too?
Maddening isn't it
January 28, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Maddening isn't it
it was not speculation
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Explainer: How China’s renewable pricing reforms will affect its climate goals - Carbon Brief
China’s solar and windfarms would no longer be guaranteed sales at a fixed price linked...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:57 AM
it was not speculation
www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-ho...
see also
www.carbonbrief.org/qa-five-key-...
www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-ho...
see also
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the article does explain this
January 27, 2026 at 7:58 PM
the article does explain this
should have remembered that you already scrape this data!
January 27, 2026 at 4:42 PM
should have remembered that you already scrape this data!