Leo Hickman
@leohickman
Editor and director, Carbon Brief
This is a really smart way to make sure Reform's climate deniers are named and their views are firmly on the record: "Below is a list of all 30 councillors in Walsall who voted against the amendment to accepting the existence of man-made climate change" www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...
++WOW++ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph: "Badenoch has chosen an abominable political moment to flirt with climate nihilism…The political Right needs to rediscover its philosophical compass…you have to conclude that the Tories have gone Trumpian on the existential issue of our time"
Another another climate-sceptic lobbyist has popped up in the Telegraph. This time John Constable which the article does not declare to its readers is on GWPF's "advisory council" and its "former energy editor". Frost was a GWPF trustee. Cosy. GWPF is a notorious dark-money lobby group
Here's Nick Bridge – the UK's former special representative on climate change under last Tory govt – on Channel 4 News citing @carbonbrief.org analysis about the extreme and relentless anti-climate action campaigning by some UK newspapers "Some of the media is shocking on this..."
In the UK it is also called the Daily Telegraph (and has a weekly sister paper called the Sunday Telegraph)
Here are some of the responses he left in the short time he hung around...
Aaaaaaannnd, 24 hours later, normal service is resumed... The Daily Telegraph has published a response column by a politician with, yes, *extremely* close links to climate-sceptic lobbyists and who recently said in parliament that climate change was *checks notes* “likely to be beneficial”
Welcome to the frontpage of the Daily Telegraph* website... * The newspaper that has relentlessly spent the past three decades seeking to belittle climate science and undermine climate action at every turn
It seems Tim Stanley's article is pushing all the right buttons over on Twitter...
Now approaching 6,000 comments under the article - and they are the predictable bin-fire of crazy that you would expect...
Let's just say that the readers are losing their minds in the comments under the article. More than 4,000 comments so far. A tiny sample...
Given this newspaper's long, long history of promoting and enabling climate denial, this article in the Mail on Sunday is fascinating on several levels...
The Telegraph even trails Stanley's column at the bottom of its frontpage - which is dominated by a picture of the fires in south-west France
++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."
This is a former editor of the Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper commenting over on Twitter...
You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...
I'm about to take part in an interview with an academic as part of their research project and, as is very typical, I've been sent a consent form to fill out. But I've never seen this type of question before...
Been a while since I checked Facebook for these AI-slop videos but I just popped over the there and, yes, they are still being posted at a fair pace - and getting a LOT of engagement
"Sunny Jim" in Private Eye nails the Tories' new approach to climate change...
The final page of a book published... ...56 years ago "In future, man will have to decide how hot or cold he wants the climate to be...It is far from clear than man has either the knowledge or the political good sense to exercise this power suitably"
Miatta Fahnbulleh – the UK's new climate and energy secretary of state – writing in the Guardian seven years ago... "Why not invest in taking carbon out of our economy in a way that creates millions of good jobs and lifts living standards?" @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social
Amusing to see that Miliband continuing to live rent-free in minds of UK's right-wing media...
"Your parcel was delivered at 11.37. There was no answer upon arrival, so it has been left safely and securely behind the bins in your side alley."
As ever with these breathless headlines, best to check what was *actually* said... Badenoch writes: "If someone still believes in net-zero targets that make energy more expensive and are destroying industry, they are not coming back" That's not the same as purging anyone who "backs net-zero"
Today's Times: "A new Spring can be purchased for £11,990 — making it not just Britain’s cheapest electric car, but the cheapest new car, bar none" www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...